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Is it controversial in the ACOTAR fanbase to say I need Lucien and Azriel to make out??

Because controversial take: I need Lucien and Azriel to make out

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Sleeptoken and booktok

I’ve only recently gotten into sleeptoken, it’s actually one of the only bands that I’ve taken a genuine interest in after Aurora. I’m still not entirely caught up with all the lore but I’ve seen such a huge rift between the booktok side of their fandom and the rest of the fandom, it’s lowkey funny- because I get why but at the same time it’s not that deep.

Provider is currently very popular amongst booktok, and before that it was the summoning (I’ve not heard it yet but saw the lyrics). So many posts and arguments about it, using lyrics as points to justify their interpretation. Both songs have the use of good girl/bad girl in their lyrics. Most of booktok is very into the whole ‘older/rich/shadowdaddy/good girl/bad girl/spice with typical power dynamics’ thing, so it’s not a surprise that part of the lyrics is what got them hooked.

Also makes you wonder why sugar and or dangerous don’t get the same hype on booktok, when their lyrics can so easily be interpreted as sensual as well. It’s because they don’t have ‘good girl/bad girl’ in them. That is literally the only possible difference I could find.

I’ve also seen so many wild videos talking about ‘oh I KNOW vessel wrote it (provider) for the booktok girlies as a thank you for blowing up their band’ or ‘booktok helped sleeptoken sell out shows/become popular’, no wonder why non booktok fans would get pissed off with that sort of narrative 😭

Also my favourite songs are: missing limbs (ugly crying every time and what got me into sleep token), take aim, levitate, drag me under, even in Arcadia, look to windward and fields of elation

Pls give recs so I can get out of this loop lol

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acotar fandom really is just full of normal people because someone in the subreddit today said tamsand would be the most popular ship in literally any other fandom and ykw... they're right. 10000% correct.

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The ACOTAR fandom is so weird because what do you mean Tamsand isn’t one of the most popular ships 🤨 Tamlin is literally on Rhysand’s mind 24/7, either this man is massively insecure, gay as fuck for Tamlin or massively insecure about the fact that Tamlin ain’t fuckin him right now and could be with someone else so he has the uncontrollable urge to tell his ex-boyfriend to kill himself. How are people not saying this is gay????

And then there’s whatever the hell is going on with the bat boys. Fucking in the same room? What you just gonna stare at each other? go one step further and just do it with each other. Stop being a coward bro 😤✋

And Azriel choking Eris, uh it’s just floor play. Don’t worry it’s cool, they have a list of dos and don’t that they made when they got married.

How can you look at Lucien ‘fire in his blood’ Vanserra and Tamlin ‘literally a big ass beast’ and go no I don’t think they have had nasty passionate sex under under a cherry blossom tree 🤓 like huh????? They’re literally roommates. Lucien lost an eye for Tamlin. Tamlin felt more betrayal over loosing Lucien than Feyre. YOUR HONOUR THEY ARE IN LOVE

Then the Valkyries…um gay too. Lesbian throuple. Come on people get creative. The girls are kissing and cuddling and having beautiful sex and you are all boring.

I have never seen a fandom go so feral for dry ass ships in my life. Literally no other fandom would ignore the plethora of gay ships.

This is your sign to stop caring about what is canon and start being fun, cool and interesting xxx

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Infinite baths

Washing over me at last

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All I’m saying is, if Elain’s story ends up being all about choice, it’s going to feel incredibly tone-deaf after how little Nesta had in hers.

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The more I think about the mating bond, the more I dread about Elucien. Lucien is just as much stuck in this bond that was sprung upon him as Elain is. Lucien has been fae his entire life, the mating bond is a normal concept he’s grown up hearing and seeing, of course he wouldn’t have the same reaction to it as Elain did, and that makes it even sadder honestly. Ain’t no way I’d want Lucien to be stuck with a family that hates his guts to the core. Although if I ignore the fact that once a mating bond snaps into place, none of the people in the bond actually have any choice left even if the bond is rejected, then elucien is the way to go considering how all the other couples in acotar ended up. But the concept of mating bond in acotar is generally not romantic at all

Previous theories for context:

1. Mating bond

2. Mating Bond

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Literally anyone after today: "Are you okay?"

Me: "No. Turns out the gods we thought were dying were just sharpening their blades."

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Reposting because I’m in my Tamlin Feels..

Tamlin has a good heart and I will die on that hill. This moment solidified that and I cry everytime i read it. No he’s not perfect and he has done some inexcusable things but they ALL HAVE. Sarah let this man heal and get some sort of happy ending I beg of you!!!

Love this art I commissioned by artist chelzd_art.

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Mating bond in ACOTARverse

It’s more like a torture method. Why does it exist? What purpose does it serve?

Does it ensure that the couple would be happy together? No.

Is it about equal powered mates making powerful babies? Also no, because why would a bond form between an Illyrian fae and high fae considering pregnancy would be risky.

Is it because they can share powers? No

Literally anything? No

Edit: previous mating bond theory

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I get why SJM’s fae are basically just humans with pointy ears and magic. Because if SJM had chosen to give them even the "basic fae traits" like being unable to lie, Rhysand would have been dead immediately or during that High Lord meeting when Kallias asked about those children. Viviane would have ripped Rhysand’s heart out with her bare hands.

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Rhysands strategies to win the war: first we dress up as a distraction to steal the orb, then! We get invited to another court under false pretenses and steal a powerful book, then we beg human queens and our allies to please please like us while also being incredibly embarrassing.

Tamlin: here is intel I got. There are no strings attached to getting this information. I have forced Beron to join the war via a means that was probably very attractive.

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Howl’s Moving Castle and The Folk of the Air may seem to be very different stories, and tonally they are.

BUT at their CORE is a self conscious woman falling in love with a very silly magic man and she is SO mad about it, and the magic man has known they are in love all along and is playing house with her contentedly and when she realizes all this magic man is like “yea duh, idiot. We are in love, catch up. Let’s get married, dummy” but he almost dies first and she has to save his beloved ass.

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ok so in spring court feyre gives away tamlin’s family jewels to a fae who can’t afford to pay for tithe but does nothing for illyrians children and women living in fucking tents in middle of cold mountains with harsh conditions that she knows about😐

like mind u when she first goes to illyria she sees the conditions and very typical, thinks of how hard must it had been for cassian to like here, which is fine, but no other thoughts for children that are living like cassian did. she doesn’t even raise that question to do something for them to rhysand

“but feyre cares for the less privileged” right? lol

maybe if she imagined this was spring court and the high lord was tamlin, then she’d feel something for illyrians and do something since only when its tamlin whos doing it she decides to have good morals🤷‍♀️

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Rhysand didn’t even think twice before pulling ranks and shi to use Elain in order to string Lucien along for his connection to Tamlin and the spring court (and other stuff too but that’s not the point rn), he’d literally scheme amongst his own “family” (Azriel) to make sure Gwyn stays tangled within their mess for easier access to Tamlin

no one gives a single care about Gwyn , if they find out Gwyn is Tamlins daughter they'd be fine if she went to live with him

nesta does??????

cassian does, azriel does, rhysand does & enough to warn/lowkey threaten nesta in her mind to treat gwyn nicely -not mentioning emerie who was also right there- lot of ppl from inner circle do. she is a valkyrie, she completed blood rite ffs

if rhysand can use his high lord command and pull rank on azriel to keep him away from elain who mine u equally wanted azriel all so night court doesn’t have an enemy in day and autumn, then trust me rhysand will use gwyn against his no. 1 enemy aka tamlin for his own gain

like this is rhysand we are talking about he will use everyone and everything to have gain in his favor or get one over ppl

and nesta hates tamlin btw she won’t be ok with her best friend wanting to live with tamlin

again gwyn is important to ppl like literally the main politicians, ruling authority of night court to care

and i don’t want gywn to be tamlin’s daughter anyway bc too much bad stuff there for both of them

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Amarantha’s obsession with Tamlin

Amarantha knew of tamlin since he was pretty young (not sure if he was a child, I’m too tired to estimate a timeline), and always wanted him to be her ‘lover’ (more like a pet). She did go to unimaginable lengths for him to be her ‘lover/consort’ with or without his consent. What exactly made her so obsessed with him? I mean, he’s fine asf and all that for sure, who wouldn’t like that but she really bent backwards to convince and coerce him. Surely it couldn’t just be for something as simple as his looks and personality?