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it's kind of funny how tamlin stated there was no such thing as a high lady (because there still isn't; the magic has never chosen a woman and it is just a title) but as his wife, feyre would have been doing more for the spring court as its lady than she currently does as High Lady of the night court

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ACOSF, except that Nesta refuses to move to the House of Wind and packs her bags to leave to the "human lands", but instead of actually going there, she stops at the Spring Court and kinda forces Tamlin to take her in. After all, Spring is close enough to the human lands and she's sure none of the IC would look for her Spring.

She and Tamlin clash at first, but then Nesta tells him that Feyre wanted to lock her in the House of Wind for "her own good" and Tamlin has to take a walk outside the house to not break anything because what the fuck? Those people haven't forgiven him for locking Feyre up to protect her and make him miserable because of it, but suddenly it's okay when they do it? Unbelievable.

They drink together and bond over the Night Court's hypocrisy, how they were treated by them, and Feyre. They start living together. Tamlin plays the music and Nesta dances to it. They spend time in silence in his library or taking relaxing strolls around the garden. Nesta does more healing there that she could've done in the House of Wind. Eventually, she and Tamlin become good friends.

Oh, and she meets Eris again and they actually get to know each other outside the Night Court's machinations. They have a slowburn romance and get married eventually, turning Nesta into the High Lady of Autumn. She helps Tamlin rebuild his court and strikes an alliance between both courts, and she thrives with positive relationships and a man that genuinely loves her and doesn't try to change her.

Also Lucien makes up with Tamlin and returns to Spring, adding him to Nesta's friendship circle.

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Nesta with the Inner Circle

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I relate to Lucien in the sense that nobody neither knows, nor cares what the fuck I'm even doing while I have to constantly manage shit and get over challenge after challenge while keeping a cool facade

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You're wasted at the Night Court.

So you're going to acknowledge and introduce this concept but then drop it???

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Lucien is sweet and kind in a way that none of the other male characters of Acotar are. All of these horrible things have happened to him, his friends and family have betrayed and thrown him aside multiple times, and he still wants to help. He still wants to fight for those who are even weaker then him, and just be a good person regardless of how it could benefit him.

He has nothing and no one and he still tries.

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For me, the thing that hit closest to home with Nesta was the idea that she was being deliberately, but passively excluded from the Inner Circle.

When I was growing up - before I started striking out and having my own friends - I got a lot of "jokes" about how I ought to work for the CIA and become a spy, because I was so forgettable and unobtrusive. People said I was mysterious. But I dont really think I was - I think I was just shy and a little anxious. I was never outright bullied but I was also the kid that sat in the group, when plans were being made, and I was just - not invited.

So that scene - right at the beginning of Silver Flames - when Nesta walks into her sister's FIFTH palace, and sees that everyone she cares about has a portrait on the walls, except for her?? That type of exclusion was so so so sooooo specific that it almost gave me hope: Like there is no WAY someone would include that feeling in their book about mental health and not address it. If this book is about healing and self acceptance than it HAS to be addressed.

Except it was addressed by Nesta being terrorized and assaulted until she finally got on her knees and apologized to the people who'd threatened and literally beaten her to a shell of herself - because she wasn't good or nice enough to them in the first place.

Instead of accepting herself, and learning to love herself, Nesta accepts every single bit of abuse that's thrown at her and finally changes to fit the mold. Everyone is so happy and relieved at the end - Nesta is BETTER now! Now we can include her in our life because she has become what we wanted her to be in the first place.

It's disgusting. This is an ABHORRENT message to send about mental health and self love. This is legitimately hateful and feels like an attack. Like just a complete slap to my face. I spent my entire childhood questioning why I wasn't good enough to be loved or wanted by my peers - and I guess if I asked Miss Sarah she'd just shrug and say, "Maybe you were just too awkward and weird. Have you tried doing yoga or meditating to help yourself relax more?"

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I feel the need to further promote this absolute gem of polish fantasy sapphic villain rom-com

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I’m a bit lost on why Tamlin, Lucien, or literally anyone else is remotely at all blamed for Feyre’s time UTM. Feyre brought that on herself. She went there herself. She knew the consequences and the risks.

Tamlin already did his part in trying to protect her, and now she wants him to take risks that could put himself and others in danger to save her ass all over again? Does it genuinely matter why she went down there at that point? However noble it is to go down there, it’s on her to take responsibility for what happened to her UTM. It never would’ve happened if she’d listened to Tamlin, and yeah there’d be no plot without it but that doesn’t justify Feyre making herself out to be the victim when she played willing hero for these people. She’s their savior, the human who saved the Fae despite their history, and she became that of her own accord when she had full power not to — something that’s actually pretty profound and a testament to the best parts of Feyre’s OG character. At the very least, she could blame the right people instead of blaming Tamlin for not “doing enough” to save her when he already tried.

This series really did remove all agency from Feyre as a character. She’s not allowed to face responsibility for her actions. She’s not allowed to have an emotional maturity higher than a teenager. All because of how her character had to bend and twist to fit in with the Inner Circle and Rhysand as her endgame love interest. It’s honestly sad because Feyre, as a character, was smart (sometimes), scrappy, and unafraid of toil in the first book. She was genuinely flawed and even a pretty decent character, despite SJM’s flaws in her writing.

There’s something so inherently self-centered about her POV and her refusal to think about anyone but herself and how everyone affects her. It was kinda there in the first book, but it becomes way more pronounced when she’s Fae. Idk ig that’s a side effect? Maybe part of the reason that Fae seem so cold hearted. Their flaws are so pronounced that they legit just dgaf.

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Feyre Archeron 

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Nesta Archeron 

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So I read this german book which is basically a Aelin x Chaol gladiator AU romantic fantasy novel and this published fanfiction was ten times more satisfying than whatever Mess has written

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Reblog if you think Nesta Archeron is bisexual

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I love drawing blood and dark stuff in general… But i usually don’t have that much chance to draw that kind of characters/illustrations. I’m sure everyone knows who she is. 😁 Been ages since I drew Manon Blackbeak. This illustration was commissioned by @ellyspopsparadies character is from Throne of glass series by @sjmaas Hope you guys will like it xoxo

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My most awkward sex scene in Ac0fs

(besides the constant rape threats which Mess seems to enjoy to write as if they were an aesthetic)

is when Nesta needs to angle her hips a certain way to make sure she really, totally, absolutely takes in every millimeter of Cass’s enormous dick because only that makes the sex perfect, apparently.

The whole book is so penetration-obsessed, there’s no way she’s able to write a sapphic ship

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When I read Ac0fs, I could understand everything Nesta did and she did nothing wrong by which I mean, I reveled each time she called out Sandy and his friends and believe she was 100 % justified and is still justified with her criticisms at the end of the book and she only makes peace with Sandy to do her sister a favour.

Though in turn this means the inner circle all read like total jerks to me, including Mor. Now, Mess probably didn’t intend it this way but by making me feel and side with Nesta, she destroyed her other characters for it. She can’t organically write characters with differing opinions and goals but by showing the perspective of one character, she always automatically implies them to be right while anyone disagreeing comes off as a villain.

It’d be one thing though if it was just Nesta’s negative opinions but the inner circle genuinely behave atrociously, most of all Sandy’s controlling fake pro-life bullshit while I still have no idea what terrible thing Nesta supposedly said to Am/ren because honestly, Am/ren is horribly mean to everyone as well, she has little right to judge Nesta for her sharp tongue.

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And it isn’t even remotely true, it was even some kind of negative running gag among antis that Ählin is the assassin who doesn’t even kill people on page in the regular novels. Inej is a regular human persisting among people with superpowers as she trains to develop spying skills like no one else and wins fights against several opponents as well as finding ways out of impossible situations with craft and cleverness. And we see this happening many times over in the books. The most demanding thing Ählin does (as an assassin in human form) is trying to break out of Endovier, I guess, and that’s still off-page. Anything else she only manages with fae superpowers and magic to burn everything down, little skills required.

Okay, I might count her making secret plans in Q0S which are never explained but that’s Kaz territory if at all but honestly, off-page badassery isn’t a recommendation that lifts anyone over Inej Ghafa.

[ID: a screenshot from an article titled 'The Best Fantasy Novels to Read After Shadow and Bone'. The screenshot explains the summary of the screen adaptation of Sarah J Maas' book series 'Throne of Glass'. "Celaena Sardothien is a convicted teenage assassin whose deadly knife skills could give Inej (Amita Suman) a run for her money" is written in black text against a white background. End ID.]

This irritates me so much because I know Celaena is white whilst Inej is brown.

At the same time it's like...have you not heard of Dunyasha Lazareva? The white 'chosen one' assassin that Inej kills in Crooked Kingdom? Because if she appears in the Shadow and Bone Netflix show, the creators of this show are gonna be surprised.