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Okay idea time: I make the acotar characters in the sims 4, give them free reign and see who ends up with who

and who dies

and who is personally victimized by Rhysand

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Hate train vs people who look into her character, because once you actually look at her without Feyre tinted glasses, its hard to hate her (coming from someone who used to hate her own older sister)

Smth that makes me laugh is that you either hate nesta archeron's guts with your whole being, I mean hate posts, death threats and all that jazz, or you worship the ground she walks on, I mean demigod type shit. There's no in-between.

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Realest man on Prythian

“Tell me when you knew,” (Lucien) demanded, his knee pressing into mine. “That Rhysand was your mate. Tell me when you stopped loving Tamlin and started loving him instead.” I chose not to answer. “Was it going on before you even left?” I whipped my head to him, even if I could barely make out his features in the dark. “I never touched Rhysand like that until months later.” “You kissed Under the Mountain.” “I had as little choice in that as I did in the dancing.” “And yet this is the male you now love.”

And yet this is the male you now love.

And yet this is the male you now love.

And yet this is the male you now love.

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one of the most depressing things I see nowadays is the need readers have for the narrative to dictate how to feel about something happening in the book. pls do better

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Lucien how did you get in Stardew Valley?

Yet again I promote my Lucien = Elliot agenda

My little poets 💕

everything this pixel man says makes me blush and kick my feet tbh

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so glad I keep this on me at all times. the strength it gives is immeasurable

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okay so Cassian sucks at shaving, he perpetually has ingrown hairs and itchy stubble. I will not be taking any criticism on this, it is a fact.

Rhysand sucks at brushing and oral hygiene in general, and thank you @chia--roscuro for putting the image of him with veneers in my mind, this is also now canon.

Now what mundane activity does Azriel suck at?

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What’s even worse is that this art is ai

So many Instagram accounts post ai art without disclosing it as ai or say shit like “making art with midjourney and procreate”

no tf ur not, it’s ai art stealing from actual artists with you editing purple eyes on top, then they have the audacity to put a giant ass watermark on it

Also Rhysand is good looking in the same way Matt Rife is, conventionally attractive but offputting and eerie

people find rhysand attractive? he isn't even cute in any of his fanart

and the official art is just bad

yeah i think it’s more cuz people are imagining him based on whatever they think impeccable beauty looks like and as for art he just looks so…. unnerving?? and it’s not the art itself but like him specifically, he’s like the evil male version of zendaya. even when i find art that doesn’t give me goosebumps this mfer always comes in my mind when i think of rhysand art

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i CANNOT imagine cassian's hair as anything else other than a musty unwashed since 402 BC dandruff and lice infested greasy thin stringy musty LA fuckboy dudebro man bun

THANK YOU

i know his ass only bathed once a week before Nesta

The real reason he was banned from the summer court was cause of his must

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HELP

i read HOTD discourse and kept reading TG as Targaryen 😭😭

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I need Doofenshmirtz to make a media literacy-anator because what is going on

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i often think that a lot of people facillitating the discussion about the 'necessity' of nesta's intervention always seem to fundamentally misunderstand what exactly is wrong with it

anytime someone shifts the conversation to the 'ends justify the means' ideology- a red flag goes off in my head; anytime someone makes any of these statements...red flag:

"the intervention might have been harsh but.."

"even though the inner circle could have done things better...

"the ic don't owe nesta anything..."

"nesta treated feyre badly so she deserves...."

"feyre cares about nesta and her intentions were good..."

"nesta did xyz to feyre, so its only right..."

because...these statements (and those adjacent to them), always seem to misrepresent what the problem is. its one thing for the inner circle to cut nesta off, for mor and rhys to hate rhys, for feyre to want to get revenge; its an entirely different scenario for the inner circle to put themselves personally in charge of nesta's wellbeing. like....they staged an intervention, they locked her in a house and did not allow to leave without an escort, the tore down her home, they locked in a home with a man she verbally and consistently reiterated she wanted nothing with.

one thing people consistently refuse to acknowledge is the fact that there is quite literally a tangible power imbalance between feyre and her sisters. feyre is literally the governing body of the entirety of the night court; her sisters....are her sisters. silver flames confirmed (and proved to me) that feyre does have tangible, official power over sisters. if feyre says, "you have to be locked in this house with this man," her sisters have no choice but to comply. if feyre says "you're banished," then elain would just be banished. nesta would be banished. and this why i've always said that feyre's function as an eternal victim is undermined by her position in the story.

and this is the kind of power imbalance i have often cited between feyre and rhys and feyre/tamlin. its the natural deference that forms between a subordinate and their superior. its not inherently negative (see: mentor/mentee; teacher/student; manager/employee) but it does mean that people in power have to be cognizant because it is often easy to fall into abusive/imbalanced roles. feyre cannot be nesta's sister and high lady through the intervention; she's either a concerned sister, or the high lady. ordering nesta as her high lady and as her sister mean two different things. feyre establishes herself as high lady in that meeting; she establishes to nesta that the intention of the invention was political in nature.

feyre isn't deferring to an professional who can properly help nesta; she (and the ic) are quite literally assuming the role of the professional. even if we did argue for the necessity of an intervention, that entails consulting and deferring to what they (the professional) outline is the best measure. its still facillitated...through the professional. and by doing that they are inherently consenting to the fact that that person is (1) a subordinate (2) their responsibility. we can't argue for the necessity of a extreme measure - and then in the same breath deny the resposiblities that entails. we can't justify the intervention by saying its the equivalent of a mental health facility and then say the people responsible somehow don't have a responsibility to the person who is essentially forced into being a patient by their standards. and then also claim they owe that person nothing.

and even then - then we have to think about the validity of the house of wind's equivalecy to a mental health facility. because (1) it's nesta that empowers the home, not feyre. its only welcoming because nesta...made it welcoming. its only caring because nesta made it caring. (2) feyre still makes nesta go on missions in her stead. nesta is sexually assaulted twice on said missions. she literally pimps nesta out to eris during her imprisionment. nesta is not getting paid, and she's only allowed to leave the house of wind during these moments. so even that comparison doesn't justify what feyre makes nesta do. she can't be in the equivalent of psychiatric facility and then be coerced into situations she has verbally expressed she does not want to do and that terrify her. we also have to think about the fact that feyre was absolutely down and allowed her sister to be locked up with another male who everyone knew was her mate; who nesta verbally rejected multiple times.

feyre is making the sister that she deemed was so mentally ill that she could not support herself then complete the tasks of a high lady? like how are justifying that? you can't say "this person has a debilitating addiction, therefore, she needs to be locked into a home, escorted, and policed" and then argue that this is the same person who should complete tasks that should be the high lady's job.

like what made tamlin abusive?

it wasn't being a concerned lover. it was that he assumes (and takes advantage of) the position of a high lord over feyre. we know whar tamlin's "intentions" were; he wanted to protect feyre. but how does he protect feyre....by presiding over her as her high lord not consulting her as her lover. a high lord can lock her in the house, restrict her access to his state, refuse to pay her. and again - the concerned lover and the abuser can absolutely co-exist. the 'good intentioned' sister or lover can still be an abuser.

we can acknowledge feyre's position as high lady, but that also comes with the responsibility of managing how you represent your power. the intervention is abusive. and illegal. and impractical. like even if you argue that "nesta heal" that doesn't change the fact that (1) nesta is fictional - of course she "benefits." writing that a character 'heals' from abuse doesn't negate that it is abuse. (2) if feyre had 'healed' under tamlin...he would have still been abusive.

its just very tiring when these conversation focus on the characters and not the frameworks behind them. nesta could have been the nastiest person to ever walk the earth and the intervention and the the behaviors thereafter are still indicative of abuse. and if the ic did not like nesta or could not tolerate for her she treated then they should have not have the power to enact extreme measures like an intervention and lock up.

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As I've said, the comment I made in the past relating the current Israel-Palestine conflict in relation to fictional characters was grossly insensitive.

I'm never to going to lie and claim that I didn't say that, because I did. I should not have said it, but I did. I did not make excuses and I don't plan to.

However, the people constantly bringing it up are helping literally no one? It's so odd to see it be brought up and made it anything more than me saying something that was harmful. It had nothing to do with characters, it was solely a statement that shouldn't be made.

Y'all only continue to give what I said a place on the internet, when it shouldn't. I'm not going to continue to say anything on this because I don't find it constructive.

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I think i aired most of my ACOTAR grievances out with the 200 posts I’ve made within like 2 months

So I think I’m gonna start HOTD and chronicle how I feel with the episodes/characters (show only)

So there’s def gonna be less sjm on my blog (which is 100% a good thing because fuck her)

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the Fandoms relationship with Feyre and the Race to Innocence to defend her poor actions and war crimes across the series whether that be to the innocent spring court and summer court citizens or the poor and authoritative actions torwards her sister and their strained relationship

this Fandom has decided Feyre is an eternal victim, she's selfless, she's kind, she's a feminist, shes-

Feyre has committed war crimes that have gotten countless people killed due to a personal vendetta. She has made fun of Lucien and the Band of Exiles and have undermined what they wanted to do. She has locked up her sister and taken away her freedom in the name of "her learning how to control herself" and to "help her" in a very similar way that was done to her- to which she justified the destruction of thr Spring Court in order to further Spurn tamlin

and quite frankly you can also see it when Feyre does not do anything about helping the Illyrian Women, despite donning their wings and using them in a way they are prohibited from using

you can also see this in her not doing anything to help anyone, especially the women and children, in the CoN. Keir asks for freedom for his people and she responds with questions about his comfort level. And when he, rightfully imo, ignores her, she blames it on being a woman

Events from the first book, especially around her and her sisters and their father, are often used as a way to undermine the impact and destruction Feyre has brought on people around her

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joja corp will not have me

its like you dont even want to sell your life to a corporation

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"The General and Lady Death" is such a badass title, and then it turns out it's Cassian...