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MEOW 🔥🔥🔥🔥

friendly reminder

chaol westfall is canonically loud in bed

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Quite the contrary, it’s me @u all the time @lucien-calore 🫶🏼😭

i have some fandom legends following me and it still leaves me shook every time i get a notification from them… hello royalty… it is i…. just a clown……..

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if you receive this, you make somebody happy! go on anon and send this to ten of your followers who make you happy or somebody you think needs a cheering up. if you get one back, even better! 🤍

🥰❤️ Thank you so much cutie, lots of love

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hey! Aelin stan here, I just wanted to say that i've seen your anti Aelin posts and you make really good points! You're completely correct in pointing out that Aelin should in no way have all the "life experience" SJM throws at her or be able to play the queen card all the time. In my opinion, the root issue is bad writing and SJM's apparent inability to write MCs who aren't some glorified, deified "perfect" being who checks all the boxes ever imagined.

I honestly wish that we saw more of Aelin making her mistakes and having to deal with the consequences. Like yeah, we sort of do, but not in any real way, and I think that's one of the things we as readers in general but also as Aelin stans tend to gloss over. She was rash and impetuous and never seemed to suffer the consequences, and everyone around her backed her up even when they "were mad that she didn't tell anyone her plans." Again, i think a decent part of this is bad writing and a too-heavy relance on the fantasy as opposed to making characters believable, but Aelin was the main main character, she deserved more than being exalted to god status.

thank you for being a voice of critique :) feel free to respond however you think this giant rambling braindump deserves :)

Hi Aelin Stan! I hope you’re doing awesome.

First of all I’m so sorry for taking centuries in replying to this 😭 Thank you very much for taking the time to drop by and leave your question.

Thank you so much for reading my posts! I wouldn’t consider myself fully anti-Aelin, but I include the tag so people can navigate through the content easier and well, because that post, as you remember, wasn’t precisely hyping her up hahah 😅. I do, however, see she has lots of positive traits to her and actually like her, she has a special place in my reader heart.

I agree with you completely! It was most likely because lots of things were going on throughout the series. First, it heavily relied on fantasy, as you say (which is not bad and it’s part of why I loved it) but soon SJM was tasked with

-Generating lore for this fantasy world

-Explain fantastic elements as more characters were added (For example: Introduce Manon= Explain the whole dynamics about witches. Introduce Rowan= Explain the whole dynamics about fae and demi-fae)

- Weaving the characters and making them interact so we had a story

-Developing each character’s arc

- Bringing the story forward making it make sense

-Write romance for all these characters ending with more than 6 pairings

SO IT WAS A LOT GOING ON! And I do admire as a reader the amount of work this represented and how she brought it forward. in the end, the series counts with 8 books and it still left us wanting for more!

At the same time, maybe this was the reason there wasn’t enough space for development, introspection, accountability for Aelin. There simply was no space for this to happen! If Aelin suffered the consequences, as you very smartly mention, it would have required to edit the text and narrow certain elements to have space, or add 2 more books to the series and make it 10 (which I’m personally not opposed to hahah, but we know how editorial publications work and it’s already hard as it is to publish 8 books in a row!)

Perhaps the work got so big no amount of words did it justice. Maybe we wouldn’t have gotten Elide or Aedion. Who knows how it would’ve gone.

Many readers mention in their critiques of TOG the space management (aka: reading and editing to cut out irrelevant parts and make reading more efficient and straightforward) What I can say about it is: I agree, however, SJM is the writer. We must respect as readers that maybe these parts in her mind were specifically relevant to her and helped her build this big fantasy world in her head. Many parts could be left out to make it “neater” but it’s easy to critique when you’re not the one who’s writing.

Throughout the 8 books, I felt SJM’s necessity to transmit. She wanted to take us into the narrative, clarify all of the reader’s questions and she did a commendable job in doing so. However, she did drown in words in some parts. Sometimes you were reading and the narrator was talking and talking and you couldn’t help but think: ???? Why is this relevant? Hahaha

Maybe these parts could be used for the character development we were seeking at the expense of cutting out certain details from the books.

Well, you have no idea how much I love engaging in these types of conversation so I really have to thank you 🥹❤️ I send you a hug wherever you are and you’re not rambling! It makes so much sense! I can see you’re an avid reader 💕

Lots of love and if you ever want to discuss books again I’m here! Promise to take much less in replying.

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Weighted blanket is not enough I need someone to do this to me

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Oh my lord I just love you so much @lucien-calore 😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️

Reblog to put one of these in your mutuals’ pocket when they’re not looking

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LITERALLY

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Just my opinion

Celaena way better and interesting character than Aelin. After Queen of Shadows I really started to hate her

Bring Celaena Back 2024 will be my political campaign

Hi ❤️ I’m so sorry I took so long in answering this.

Celaena >>> Aelin 🤝 Agreed. Add me as a supporter in your political campaign

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

Even if they’re the same person 😂 I like Aelin and was happy she was happy and ended with her true love, but idk why I found Celaena so compelling

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Let theeeeem

let them they would enjoy it

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Lmao

Someone posted it on instagram n I love it !!

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chaol, taking the lead on a mission: okay, we need to move quickly. i’ll take dorian and search from the ground. manon, you take elide and abraxos and scout through the sky. and hurry!!

dorian, grinning: oh wow, look at my husband taking charge. i don’t know wether to be intimidated or turned on.

chaol, commandingly: i said HURRY!

dorian, excitedly, hurrying to comply: oh my gods, it’s both!!

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The TOG series was amazing aside from the dumb feminist stuff. You’re just a salty critical loser.

The TOG series was AWESOME, can’t you see I’m obsessed? I have a whole blog here loving a character from the series. I only post TOG content.

The “dumb feminist stuff” can’t be put aside, it must be at least pointed out in discussion spaces (like Tumblr). If we don’t, young adult literature doesn’t evolve and harmful stereotypes keep being repeated. Also a character doesn’t have to be perfect, you can say “oh I loved this character, they have some behavioural traits that aren’t the best but I still love them”.

Meh, guess you’re right about me being a salty critical loser but at least I’m not a sad punk-ass bitch who goes at people anonymously just because their opinion about a book is not the same as yours.

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huge shoutout to everyone who started their blog when they were teenagers and now they are in their 20s and 30s

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LMAO

"Shadow and Bone rating increased to 16+"

S&B fandom: ahh yeahh, spicy scenes 🔥🔥

SOC fandom: ahh yeahh, violence

Me: let inej say fuck!

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A fictional man: *is dark haired, morally grey, has a traumatic past and a teasing grin*

Me: