#Feyre is the artist rhys is the art😭

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Rhys is Feyre’s Muse💙💙💙

[theshadowsingersraven]

this nyxlin drama lowkey reminds me of the time a zutara artist was run off tumblr because they drew aged up katara/zuko romantically, but I think it was actually angry kataang’s or e/riel’s -because they also drew gwynriel and e/riel’s were jealous- who were stirring up shit 😭

That would honestly make a lot of sense for how/why I didn't see many posts from them or overall in the Nyxlin tag when I was catching up on what happened. Pretty much every person (notably largely Elriels) who supported Elain Week's censorship got an insta-block from me if they weren't already. And I'm sure a decent amount of people blocked me from my stance on Elaingate, Rhys Week, and Nyxlin Week.

And good! You should block me. Seriously. Art has the right to be celebrated and appreciated, especially in the circumstances designed to do that for a specific character and dynamic! Character appreciation and celebration will never look the same to everyone, and just because it's not what you enjoy doesn't mean it stops being appreciative or celebratory. If you can't grasp that, you don't deserve access to my art anyway. You certainly don't deserve to be in my space, that's for damn sure. Kindly, get out.

Honestly, it kind of makes sense considering the overlap of canon rigidity, purity culture, and morality policing of fiction coming from sides of the fandom that generally can't accept criticism about their faves, or even things that go against what they want for their faves. They are terrified of creativity that doesn't give them what they want and it shows. It's the most Evangelical-ass shit ever, and it's fucking weird.

Like...for all intents and purposes, Nyx is an OC in any works that feature him. And I'd know, because I wrote an adult Nyx for my ongoing ACOTAR D&D campaign set 20 years after ACOSF. So yes, Nyx is twenty in my timeline, because it's writing and I can do what I want lol. I have no basis to write Nyx off of other than Rhys and Feyre. Which means...I'm still doing my own character-building to only less than I would for a completely new OC.

Let's compare, shall we?

Writing my OC Solara's backstory: Writing her parents from scratch ✔️ Writing her early childhood ✔️ Writing her trauma ✔️ Writing her adolescence and relationships ✔️ Writing her interests and adventures as she became an adult✔️ Writing her dynamic with her love interest and how she interacts with Prythian as a whole ✔️

Now obviously these are all at minimum influenced by/will be derivative of aspects of ACOTAR because, y'know, transformative works. But still, I made her.

Writing Nyx's backstory and how he is as a twenty-year-old adult: Writing his parents from scratch ❌ Writing his early childhood ✔️ Writing any trauma he might have ✔️ Writing his adolescence and relationships ✔️ Writing his interests and adventures as he became an adult ✔️ Writing his dynamic (collaboratively) with his love interest and how he interacts with Prythian as a whole ✔️

And this is a version of Nyx that I made. Yes, it's still influenced by canon, but if I put in 90% of the same effort to write him as an adult as I did a complete OC, we can acknowledge they're functionally the same.

It's not that people look at Baby!Nyx and instantly think he's perfect to be shipped with someone and there's something to be gleaned from canon about him in particular. We know nothing about Nyx as an individual. That applies to any Nyx ship.

The appeal, at least in my experience, to Nyx ships, including Nyxlin, is the dynamics at play around Nyx, i.e., his role as an eventual leader and powerful figure in the Night Court, the dynamics that affect Rhys and Feyre also extending to him, how the rest of Prythian/Illyria might view the first offspring of High Fae, Illyrian, and Made parents. It's about his circumstances, not him as a character because he is not a "character yet", he just exists!

People are just creative enough to consider those long-term effects on who he could become and how that interplays with other characters. I don't mean to be cruel, but genuinely, have these people never created an OC before? Have they never shipped anything outside of canon? Have they never read any fics featuring time travel, for example, as a plot point to get characters in the same era at the same time when otherwise the ship would not be able to happen? Are they that unfamiliar with making circumstances outside of SJM's canon to allow things to happen for fun?

Genuinely, the lack of creativity for all of us being in this for reading and writing is concerning.

Even just saying this and advocating for Nyxlin's right to be celebrated as well as Tamlin as a whole pretty much puts me in the position of having to tag this as pro-Tamlin. And I wouldn't even describe myself as anything other than Pro-Azriel and probably Pro-Nesta and Pro-Elain because I don't really dislike any characters. I'm equally as critical to all of them and if their good parts just sort of cancel out the bad or are only a bit outweighing one or the other...I don't actively dislike them, I'm just neutral about them.

But this fandom is so fucking polarized because of the toxicity and the Us v.s. Them, Morality Policing culture that's been festering, people can't even neutrally address something. People are harassed so quickly just for not understanding or being familiar with something, and then in the other court people do the harassing because they don't understand or aren't familiar with something the other party likes/dislikes. If don't utterly despise Tamlin, it's somehow considered supportive enough to qualify as "pro" to antis.

Too many people in this fanbase create this parasocial-adjacent attachment to these characters like they're real and have real feelings/boundaries that need to be protected. They are not! Characters can't be hurt by anything happening outside the narrative. Just because you personally do not like something/don't find it appealing or even find it discomforting does not mean it's morally objectionable. It's just not for you, and understanding that experiencing content not made for you is not an attack on you is kind of a necessary life skill.

This rant ended up way longer than I expected it to be, but anyway...y'all stay safe out there.

[360iris]

someone’s ACOTAR hot take was that Feyre’s title as High Lady was only given to her like one would give a turned off game controller to a toddler so that they feel included, as though they’re doing something when it ultimately serves as a illusion to keep her complacent and generally happy—

one of their examples being how the healer decided to tell Rhysand over Feyre when disclosing the information about the fact that her pregnancy was going to kill her if she tried to give birth in her High Fae body

If her bodily autonomy was truly respected. If her choices always mattered… and if she was truly respected as High Lady, she would’ve gotten that information immediately, which she was wholly and non-negotiably entitled to.

Seeing as their bargain was going to take Rhys’ ass out too, he had ample time to, at the very least, prepare to die.

He had the time to settle his affairs between himself and others. He had a choice on how he’d go out.

And yet he robbed Feyre of that and fully intended to what? let her die unaware as to why her pregnancy magically became complicated and she was in searing pain?

But putting that dumpster fire of an arc aside…

I think Feyre’s inexperience and lack of proper preparation leading up to/and after she was given the title of High Lady of the Night Court is why she isn’t actually viewed as true equals in POWER/OVERALL AUTHORITY to Rhysand.

SJM fully keeps Feyre’s mind and plans purposefully underdeveloped.

When in actuality, what 19-22 year olds do any of us know that don’t have a literal list of 1,000,000 ways they’d better and change the world they live in?

So many of us would be visionaries, artists, and groundbreaking activists if we had even an ounce of the physical, magical and POLITICAL POWER that Feyre is given.

Hell… give me three months, all the power at Feyre’s disposal ALONG WITH the devoted magic tank that is Rhysand and I’d be ushering in a new world order within the next year and six months. LIKE COME ON.

You’re telling me that her grand ideas are:

1. rebuilding Velaris after the one singular attack,

2. rehoming civilians,

3. buying an art studio and giving free painting lessons to the survivors as therapy…

which are all fine but WE NEED TO BE REWRITING LAWS!? Actively! Even if Prythian is still at large, there’s plenty of work to be done within the Night Court.

And I know at it’s core, it’s just a faerie smut book but if SJM wants to really talk politics,

then I personally need Feyre to turn into Malcolm X and start commanding the fucking room.

Bitch, unite the people. Have your main character build better, genuine relations with the other Fae courts.

Get to work in Parliament, make that mfing quill and ink SING !!! lmao

She and Rhys said no more masks, and yet Keir and The Court of Nightmares are still allowed to be in power?

There are still women being trapped and used as pawns for their breeding potential.

The Hewn City is still a den of hedonism, debauchery and cruelty.

There are still children being abused the same way Mor was, and yet they’re still doing nothing about it ultimately. Like… free them !?? 😭🤚

Do something other than yapping and thinking about fucking for FIVE MINUTES !! ​

We’re five or six books in at this point and all these motherfuckers do is

1. fuck/

2. think about when they’re gonna fuck next/

3. be sad bc they can’t fuck/

and 4. fight amongst themselves

like…

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

I think the biggest/ most common difference I've see so far between elriel and gwynriel shippers is the interpretation of Azriel's POV chapter.

In particular:

the fact that Azriel's shadows dance with Gwyn & the quote:

"but azriel tucked away the thought, consciously erasing the slight smile it brought to his face. Buried the image down deep, where it glowed quietly. A thing of secret lovely beauty"

Feel free to add your own thoughts an opinions :) from what's I've seen so far, Elriels interpret these events as simply foreshadowing that Gwyn is a light singer. While Gwynriel shippers interpret this as possible foreshadowing that Azriel and Gwyn are mates.

Feel free to comment your thoughts! I absolutely love to hear all the theories

55 notes • Posted 2021-04-06 00:45:59 GMT

#4

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This fanart of Feyre and Rhys 😳🥵

60 notes • Posted 2021-09-18 08:19:36 GMT

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They got me absolutely whipped 😭❤

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Gwynriel art by @lamila.lara on instagram!

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I don't believe I've seen this artwork posted to tumblr yet so I thought I'd share this super cute gwynriel piece!

Artist: shadow.simper on Instagram

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