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“Lucien did nothing as Feyre was abuse”

Tamlin never abused Feyre. And if you’re referring to the one time he blew up the room with Feyre in it that is not abuse. It’s confirmed canon lore with high fae magic that they can have magical outbursts when emotionally unstable either with a panic attack or with anger. We see both Rhys do this and we see Feyre do this with her attack on Beron at the high lord meeting which she did hurt an innocent person, LoA. Tamlin is suffering from ptsd just like Feyre is, they are just displaying it differently. Feyre is shutting down while Tamlin is going overprotective. And it’s understandable that he is being overprotective. He had to sit for 3 months and watch the woman he loves be tortured and sexually abused and sexually exploited to save him. SAVE HIM. He was powerless for 3 months to help her. THAT’S GONNA EFFECT ANYONE MENTALLY and EMOTIONALLY FOR A WHILE AFTERWARDS.

And now she has what is essentially a slave tattoo on her arm that allows Rhys to own her for 1 week a month. Rhys a known Daemati. Rhys a man who offered his services to Amarantha. Rhys the person who killed multiple people UtM for Amarantha. Rhys who harassed Tamlin and Lucien every chance he got. Rhys who called Feyre human trash and revealed her sexual desires out loud. Rhys who made Feyre sick to her stomach when he raked his nails inside her brain. Rhys who threatened Lucien’s mother and then almost melted Lucien brain when he wouldn’t reveal Feyre’s name to Amarantha. That’s the Rhys Tamlin is trying to protect Feyre from. Let also take into account that Tamlin is the lord of spring court where the wall is located and Amarantha’s boss, the king of Hybern, wants access to that wall to reinstate human slaves. So Tamlin has Rhys, a known to Prythian sadist owning Feyre and King of Hybern wanting to invade his lands, on his enemy list. And Feyre a newly born MADE fae is with him and needs his protection. And now that he has his high lord powers back he can ACTUALLY protect her unlike UtM.

And you’re acting like Lucien locked Feyre in a room and let Tamlin beat the shit out of her as he stood outside it. Lucien who helped Feyre UtM every friggen chance he got even knowing the punishment for doing so. Lucien who argued against both Tamlin and Ianthe to let Feyre train. Lucien who went against orders and took Feyre outside of the manor grounds to the nearest village. Lucien who was the recipient of one of Tamlin’s magical outbursts. Lucien who was running himself ragged trying to help Tamlin against Amarantha remaining beasts roaming spring court lands, rebuilding, evading Ianthe, advocating for Feyre, going to day court to study breaking bargain spells, and reorganizing springs courts army. That’s the Lucien who did nothing for Feyre 🙄🤦‍♀️

And yes Lucien did try to grab Feyre in the night court forest because she was KIDNAPPED. She had not sent any letter or came back to talk to Tamlin, her fiancé. She was with a man (who the readers now know is a “good” person) that has spent 300-500yrs cultivating a sadistic, evil, torturous high lord persona of himself to the other fae of Prythian. Lucien SPENT 3 MONTHS WATCHING THIS MAN DRUG FEYRE AND SEXUALLY EXPLOIT HER!!!! Lucien knows the powers of a Daemati and how they can brainwash and manipulate your thoughts. He has no clue Feyre has fallen in love with Rhys voluntarily. Because Feyre hasn’t reached out to either him or Tamlin in all these months to reassure them of her safety or new growth in her soul as a person. She got better with Rhys but that does not mean Tamlin knew that or Lucien knew that. The readers know that but we need to remove ourselves from the inside knowledge and look at the situation from outsider perspective. And also Feyre saw how desperate Lucien was in this forest. She heard his words and how he stumbled over himself in what he wanted to say. And she thought nothing of his state of mind. Never once thought this is not how my friend acts. Something is wrong. Nope she wanted to scare him and threaten him and gaslight herself into truly believing that he abandoned her. When that was the farthest from the truth.

Acotar book 1-3 is a first person PoV. And when we only get the narrative from one person we have to declare the narrative unreliable. Feyre’s feelings are justified and true, but the actions of everyone around her and what she thinks the people around her are thinking is unreliable. We have to step away from Feyre and see each character from their perspective, from their mental space, and from their trauma induced psychosis.

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Beco+81 aka Beco Plus81 (Japanese, based Japan) - 星屑まみれ (I am surrounded by Stars), 2023, Drawings: Digital Art

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Daily reminder that Rhysand is a pimp. He pimped Feyre in the Summer Court and had her act the part of a whore in Hewn City. Nesta was asked to seduce Eris and before the series is over I'm sure he's going to attempt to do the same to Elain. Also telling Nesta that it'll be either her or Elain who will dance with Eris isn't a choice. Once again, Rhysand gets people to do what he wants by offering up a lesser of two evils. Forcing them into choosing the choice he wanted them to pick all along.

Is the feminist choice king in the room with us?

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Tamlin was absolutely justified in thinking that Rhysand fucked with Feyre's mind, and not because of the disappearance or the letter.

What should have finally convinced him was Lucien's encounter with Feyre in the woods.

If you remove Feyre's inner monologue which, contrary to her expectations, is not projected above her head in big shiny letters, the scene reads just like every anime episode where the villain turns the main love interest evil. I half expected Lucien to get his henshin brouch out and say something like "this isn't you, Sailor Feyre, this is Queen Metalia talking".

No wonder Tamlin, who heard about this interaction from Lucien, who never misses a chance to put a little spin on a story, was 1000% convinced that Feyre had Rhysand's fingers stuck right in her brain.

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see, I will never dislike Feyre more than I dislike Rhysand. at the end of the day Feyre is a 21 year old who has been in only abusive relationships, has been neglected her entire life and has no idea what a healthy relationship, platonic or otherwise, is. Most of her issues stem from the fact she's young and no one has bothered to actually educate her. MEANWHILE rhysand is over 500 years old. he has lied, humiliated and, most importantly, groomed her into behaving like she does

I think its weird to hate Feyre when the men in her life have failed her in every way possible. like yeah she is a PAIN but let's be for real now

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I wholeheartedly believe that Tamlin is a better male, nay a better MAN, than Rhysand in any book.

People treat Rhysand like a pretty prince that does no wrong which doesn’t work if you also want him to be the bad boy love interest. I can’t stand him and don’t trust him alone with my drink at a party. He doesn’t respect his wife (and that is a FACT: you don’t withhold someone medical information if you respect them, you don’t withhold all plans from someone you respect, you don’t sideline a “co ruler” in every political discussion, you don’t just not educate her on the way the world works, I don’t wanna hear it) or his subjects, or his employees. He does not value Feyre and in fact cut her out of everything politically, she is an accessory to his ruling and nothing more. Feyre wants Rhys and I’m glad she has him, I just wish he loved and respected her. He doesn’t respect his family. He carries himself as so much better and pulls rank every conversation. All his actions have “reasons” while everyone else has “excuses”. Why do slums exist in your segregated utopian paradise? Why did you abandon the women and children Illyria? The Hewn City? Oh wait no, you do care if they can serve you in the military but you don’t want to do anything about mistreatment. “Change takes time” bullshit, you had hundreds of years and just don’t care enough.

Tamlin at least acknowledges that he has done something wrong and takes actions to change. Locking the woman that couldn’t function in public yet without breaking down because he couldn’t trust she wouldn’t try and follow was wrong and he agrees with you. He has a magical outburst (morally neutral action in all other books by the way) from a panic attack and was fucking distraught over the idea he could’ve hurt the woman he loved. Tamlin cares about his people. He didn’t want this job and he is trying his hardest, almost singlehandedly to protect everyone. Tamlin never tried to kill someone for being inconvenient. Tamlin never forced himself on someone. Tamlin is against slavery. Tamlin actually played spy instead of just offering himself to evil to save his own skin. Tamlin can play an instrument.

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Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur; France, 15th century; Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, f. 49v

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moon and rainbow at sunrise by mark ham

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I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work.

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color study: lavender blue by Ezra Leary

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Above the Clouds at Sunrise, Frederic Edwin Church, 1849

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by yasminemei

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The leading cause of workplace deaths for women is homicide.

A fact I love to remind my shop, that is, aside from me, all male.

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Koyaanisqatsi 1982 · dir. Godfrey Reggio