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outlaw cowboy tamlin for the deranged and unhinged (me and you 🤝)

i had a saddle on the horse but the ppl have spoken and claim tamin rides te horse bareback, and so i follow the ppl....

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yknow what they say abt saving horses....

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An update on this comment - he now plays co-op games with his twin boys. We finally getting Dad Sylus.

what i find adorable is that luke and keiran have no idea when in april sylus' birthday is so they just keep wishing him until they hit the right date. if that isn't the cutest thing i've seen sy's adopted twins do, i don't know what is

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I need Cowboy Lucien.

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a little suprise for my spring court girlies and those who liked my post about the fanfic i'm writing - i made picrews of my character (Tamlin's mate) and Tamlin together. Thank you @copypastus for the amazing opportunity and art once again!!

(the one on the right is when she is in her humanoid dryad form)

(her name is Elara if anyone was wondering lol)

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what i find adorable is that luke and keiran have no idea when in april sylus' birthday is so they just keep wishing him until they hit the right date. if that isn't the cutest thing i've seen sy's adopted twins do, i don't know what is

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I wanted to make a few dividers for my @elainweekofficial submissions but I ended up making 14 lmao. Feel free to use for Elain Week or just in general! Credit is appreciated but not necessary.

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Okayyyy making dividers is my new obsession...so here's one's for @tamlinweek 🫣 Celtic vibes, Spring, some are a little dark and moody and some are rustic. Hell yeah.

Credit is appreciated but not required!

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I know Lucien is our resident fox boy but imagine him as a red panda - the chaos.

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ACOTAR Highschool AU!:

Feyre: The Popular Girl (Whose secretly a huge nerd and loves to help people Rhysand)

Rhysand: The suave bad boy (whose hopelessly in love with the popular girl and they are probably the nicest couple to exist in the school)

Cassian: Jock, Plays For The Schools Football Team (English Football Not American) - (has a crush on the quiet reader in the library who tells him to fuck off half the time)

Azriel: Also A Jock, But The Silent More Calculating Type (Is absolutely a sweetheart to everyone, but will put people in their place if they are bullies)

Elain: The Schools Resident Gardening Student (Seems ditzy, but is very sweet and loving and if you talk to her about flowers because be prepared to be there for hours learning about it's symbolism and growth patterns)

Nesta: The Quiet Reader, Always In The Library With Her Friends Discussing New Books (Is in love with the jock, but likes to see him pine for her affections)

Tamlin: Also Plays For The Football Team, But Is The Top Of His Class In Music And Has Won A Highschool Competition For His Skill (Very shy and not usually able to express his feelings properly, leans on his best friend for help when his in a bad state)

Lucien: The Cocky Nerd (Is absolutely smart, pines for the gardener student, and is the one who pats Tamlin on the head when he is sad, this happens on a regular basis)

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@feylinweek Day 3 - Alternate Universe

Acomaf AU where everything is the same but Feyre and Tamlin are a little better at communication and compromise.

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I'm writing an acotar fanfic that's gonna be pretty long but would you guys be willing to read it if the message is "Nobody is perfect" with the main character (an oc) also having this quirk. It's a Tamlin redemption fic btw.

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IT'S BEEN 84 YEARS IM SO LATE BUT I FINALLY DO ARTFIGHT 😖😖

me vs @highlordofkrypton round 3!! - beast tamlin/tamlin with pets, i draw him w animals while they take naps

if u squint, we can pretend the fox is lucien and the wolf is andras 🙇🏻‍♀️

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Dragon…dragon

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sylus and my mc's kid, watching their partner/mother look like a badass for her new job.

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Sylus and Sorceress! MC with their child.

(If anyone could name them, what would her name be?)

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The way people switched on Tamlin the moment Rhys was introduced is diabolical.

“Tamlin never really loved Feyre, it was all a trick from the start”: It is stated that Tamlin was disgusted by the idea of forcing someone to fall in love with him and considered it slavery, but ended up being so in love with her that he ultimately lets her go and choses her freedom and safety over that of his own people. Rhys confirms that Tamlin loved Feyre too much. And he loved her truly. Not because he had to. Tamlin treated Feyre with dignity when she was engaged to him. He introduced her as his lady, to be respected and cherished by all. And she really was loved by his people, too. Rhysand uses her as his lap dog to scare Hewn City and parades her as his whore.

“Tamlin never did anything for Feyre, he just used her”: He improved her and her family’s life in every aspect and offered her everything he had.

“Tamlin had sex with someone else in Calanmai”: Out of duty and responsibility because he didn’t want to force Feyre, who still wasn’t sure about her feelings, into it. All of the High Lords perform the Calanmai. Lucien says so. How convenient that this is never brought up with Rhysand. He surely does perform it as well. All the theories in here, “Lucien doesn’t know what he’s talking about/ This is a SC ritual only/ He probably just passes the duty on to someone else” are just a way for people to villainise Tam and glorify Rhys again. All of them inaccurate. The Calanmai is canonically performed by every High Lord. There’s no evidence that proves otherwise. As the son of one High Lord and the ambassador of another, Lucien would know. He is 500 years old. It’s just more convenient for SJM to never bring this up again because it raises the question of “Who was Rhysand fucking all these years?” and it makes her favourite character look bad. And once he is engaged to her, Tamlin flat out refuses to do it. Let’s be real for a second.

“Tamlin didn’t help Feyre under the mountain”: He literally could not. He was bound by a curse. He was forced to be Amarantha’s consort and a consort cannot oppose you. His powers were bound. Alis warns Feyre that Tamlin will not be able to help her. Stop acting as if he didn’t want to help her. He decapitated Amarantha the moment he got his autonomy back. Claiming that there’s no proof that Tamlin was under the influence of a spell when he literally didn’t break the curse and Amarantha’s magic didn’t allow him to use his powers is crazy. And even if he tried, he could never provide actual help. We see this when he begs Amarantha for Feyre’s life. Him showing he cares about her would only make Amarantha more jealous and vicious towards Feyre.

“Tamlin made out with Feyre instead of helping her”: He couldn’t help her run away. No one could do that. She would never make it, Amarantha would find her. In fact, Tamlin specifically could not help her in any way. He could only assure her he still wants and loves her. And she wanted that just as much. Rhys abused her physically, mentally, verbally, drugged her and much worse. And he enjoyed all of it. If he didn’t want to raise suspicions, he wouldn’t have placed a bet in her favour. Rhys is a sadist, SJM just decided to mellow him down in the next book so that we’d all like him over Tamlin.

“Tamlin ignored Feyre’s wishes and only wanted her to be his bride, he didn’t let her be High Lady”: Both Tamlin and Feyre were bad communicators going though trauma and Tam had a whole court to care for. Tamlin was unaware of how Feyre felt because she barely spoke up once. Rhys knew because he literally lived inside her head and had all the time in the world to focus his attention on her since his court suffered zero consequences during Amarantha’s reign. And Tamlin simply told her the truth: there’s no such thing as High Lady. Even her current title is given to her by Rhys, the magic of Prythian has not actually chosen her to be High Lady. The title and its power are decorative. And she said she didn’t want that anyway.

“Tamlin locks Feyre up and uses his magic to harm her”: He locks her in his humongous palace to keep her safe, after she just came back from the dead and his worst enemy is kidnapping her every month, while he runs off to protect his borders. Rhysand locks Feyre in a fucking bubble. Tamlin loses control of his magic. He doesn’t want to harm her. That’s not abuse. Abuse is intentional. Feyre and Rhysand lock Lucien and Nesta up. They lock the people of the Hewn City up in a cave. Feyre loses control of her magic and harms Lucien’s mother. Double standards I guess.

“Tamlin is a bad and conservative ruler”: Tamlin is such a beloved ruler that his sentries literally begged to die for him. Feyre had to fuck with their minds to finally turn them against him. They were his friends. He was so progressive that the lords fled his court once he became their ruler because he wouldn’t put up with their bullshit like his father did. He loved all of his people. He is against slavery. The Tithe was just tax collection. Rhysand practically rules over just one city, while ignoring Hewn City and Illyria. He treats 2/3 of his realm like shit and everyone except the residents of Velaris hates him. He collects tax, too, but we conveniently never see this. He ranks the members of his inner circle (my 1st, my 2nd etc.) and reminds them every moment that they are his slaves first and anything else second, while Tamlin treats them equally and even gives Lucien an official title by naming him Ambassador.

“Tamlin conspired with Hybern”: He was a double agent and his short lived alliance, two weeks all in all, not only didn’t harm a single soul, but ultimately saved all of Prythian as he was the only one who brought valuable information to that meeting. He dragged Beron to battle. Rhysand’s alliance with Amarantha harmed thousands and only helped save one city, Velaris.

“Tamlin is responsible for turning Nesta and Elain into Fae”: No, that was Ianthe, who got the info from Feyre. Tamlin was fooled by her, just as Feyre obviously was, or she wouldn’t have trusted her. Tamlin was disgusted by that act.

“Tamlin is less powerful than Rhysand”: Rhysand himself says that a battle between them would turn mountains to dust. Tamlin killed Rhysand’s dad, the previous High Lord of the Night Court, in one blow. He is just as powerful as Rhysand. SJM again just wants us to believe otherwise. And he is smarter, too. He was the only one not to trust Amarantha. And he was a good spy for Prythian against Hybern.

All of these takes are cold as fuck. SJM was testing the waters with ACOTAR and she made sure the main love interest, Tamlin, was insanely likeable, so that the book could be a satisfactory standalone story in case she couldn’t land a trilogy deal. She didn’t know it would be such a big hit. But once she realised she could turn this into a franchise, she had to figure out a new story to tell. She may claim otherwise, but there’s just too many plothotes to convince me. And in order to make her new main love interest seem like the best choice, she had to character assassinate the old one. There was no other way. ACOTAR Rhys was too much of an evil monster to be loved by the majority of the audience. But Tamlin was introduced to us as such a heroic and passionate man that is literally impossible to turn him into someone despised by all. Feyre’s relationship with Rhysand reads too much like cheating on Tamlin. That’s why anyone with basic analytical skills is able to realise the flaws of the narration.