#SHE WAS A CHILD

[the-ratallion]

once again feeling so incredibly normal and not at all emotional and violent about the fact rhat according to the website nastya was only 17 when she was mechanised. what the fuck hahaha

[dippedinmelancholy]

Nesta’s been on my mind a lot lately, which is unsurprising. But specifically the train of thought that sexual assault is a theme so deeply tied to her character, to her life, and even to her “connection” with Cassian.

I’ve reread the scene where the IC and Elain are gossiping about Nesta, about what she’s doing in the HoW and how she used to dance about three times this week. Read and listened to the audio of Amren being impressed at a child seducing a man two times her age. Read how Cassian makes it about him, and not a single person at the table recognizes she’s been abused and everything that brought her joy stripped away from her. How even Feyre makes some weird comment about how “Nesta has made her own choices, but mother shaped her”

Nesta hasn’t made a single choice of her own that had anything to do with her own happiness or selfishness. No one in this scene, or in the fandom honestly, is looking at what isn’t being directly spelled out for you.

By a VERY young teenager, Nesta had enough skill to perfectly seduce full grown men who would give anything for the permission to fuck her. Let’s say what it is. In an aristocratic society where women trade themselves in marriage, men are trading for the promise of a virgin to defile, women are trading for security and power for their family.

It would have taken years to train that amount of skill into Nesta. Nesta learned about seduction at such a young age, more than likely starting when she was pre-pubescent. Her father LET her mother do this to her, not a single adult in her life protected her. This is themed in SA and if you don’t think so, you don’t understand SA. She was the only Archeron who was still a virgin when she entered Prythian, because sex was always something to be wielded as a weapon, a shield, the only power someone like her had. Love was not for Nesta, her mother repeatedly tells her this from a very young age. She has been SA’d all of her life in some capacity, and not a single person who claims to care about her recognizes it. Nesta herself doesn’t recognize it, because for her, that’s what women do, what they are expected to do. Feel nothing, manipulate those around them for a better future for your family - or starve.

Nesta deserves better. She still doesn’t recognize the things of her childhood as abuse, she doesn’t even speak them to a single person because everyone has made it clear how privileged she was to have her mother’s attention - and no one wants the complaints or tears of such a privileged person. She can’t even recognize that she’s been abused.

[thereisacatinmybankaccount]

"Perhaps I made those researches, who saw me as an otherworldly specimen, believe I was just a normal child for a moment."

after all of this I dont want to hear any slander towards MC

[monsterfuckerpavetta]

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Ellen walks past a doll house in her room on the night that Orlok first comes to her.

[hapalopus]

It's Crying About Chenelo Hours again lads

[evrywhre-evrythng]

you’re daily reminder that alina starkov was 17 years old when the darkling, a several hundred year old man, was romantically persuing her.

she was 17.years.old.

she was a child.

[endlessnightarts]

Sometimes when you watch ATLA you just gotta get real emotional bc Azula was only 15 and being Ozai's favorite instead of the scapegoat was just as bad

[awweshuucks]

Quick reminder cherry had EVERY RIGHT to not wanna go see Johnny in the hospital, as if he even wanted to see her. She wasnt the reason he was in there. Even if he did kind of defend her from dally it's still stupid.

He quite literally KILLED HER BOYFRIEND. Mf I would not want to see my boyfriends killer either 😭😭🙏

Oh and if you think bob deserved death u clearly have never read to book and need to open up the pages 🙏🙏

[definitely-not-iorveth]

tbh i don't think eleanor ever truly loved vane, and i don't think she respected him much as a person, either. she was undoubtedly very attracted to him. maybe infatuated. but i don't think she was in love with him at any point in their relationship.

she only ever came to him when he could offer her something.

to be clear, i don't think she was using him maliciously. people are complicated. feelings are complicated. but the way she repeatedly discarded him when something better came along... they way she spoke of him to other characters... the way she spoke TO him.

i just don't think that's what love looks like.

[evermoredeluxe]

“she won’t lose herself in love the way i did cause she’ll call you out, she’ll put you in your place, when emma falls in love, im learning” the way taylor has always been so self-critical, you can notice it everywhere. even a song that’s technically not about her, it’s all about her not being Good like others

[wonderneverlandsystem]

Day 7 of saying this until you all fuckin get it:

"VILLAINS ARE NOT BORN THEY ARE MADE!"

Today's post is dedicated to Eurus Holmes.

[destroya1441]

God, this makes me sick. Everyone, do you have a child, a younger sibling, anyone that young? Okay, now imagine they were murdered like this, and the news tried to downplay it, claiming she was an adult who had died and wasn't murdered. Fucking horrible, right? THIS is what Israel is doing. This is what Zionists are doing.

Remember Hind Rajab.

From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free!!!

On April 30th while reporting on the Students Revolution at Columbia University, CNN anchor Kasie Hunt made reference to Hind Rajab as 'A Woman Who Was Killed in Gaza." Hind Rajab was six years old.

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[sycamorality]

a lonesome grieving mother is asking you to leave.

if u see this randomly, go check out this reblog chain :) it explains the piece a little and has a ton of people's tags pointing out details in the piece!

[glowcowboy]

i love re-consuming media i used to love when i was younger. like wow! child me still is in me i am holding her hand and keeping her safe and doing her favorite things with her!!!!

[kasstanie]

Saw a take the other day about how Alicent raised rapists and that's why she's bad. Genuinely insane what some people think.

it makes me literally sick to think about alicent's relationship to her children. like. they are all she has. she loves them more than anything and hates them just as much. each of them is a shackle around her neck. they are her babies even though she was a baby herself, forced to be their mother. she'll pick up a knife for them. they are her living prison. everything she ever does is for them. their very existence makes her sick. she understands them and yet doesn't know them at all. they are her future. they stole her past.

she was 15 years old tethered to a rotting body of a man entirely against her will, watching each of her children invade her body as a result of martial rape. how were they ever supposed to have a normal relationship!!!!!!!