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High King and High Queen…

I don’t understand why people think this is a good idea no matter who you want in the throne… You will not get all 7 Court to agree to give up all their power to one ruler. You’re asking for war. You’re asking for most likely genocide. You’re asking for tyranny cause that��s the only way a High King and High Queen can come into power again. Also, for those who want Rhys and Feyre on the throne… one good city inherited by generations before who built it in a giant court that is double the size of most other courts is not enough to prove you’re good rulers. Seriously, ONE. SINGLE. CITY.

The road to High King and High Queen is paved in blood. You know who also wanted to take all of Prythian? Amarantha. And look what happened there. No one. Not a single court will ever want to live remotely like that again. Especially not under the rule of the court that has a city Amarantha’s court under the mountain was modeled after.

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HOFAS spoilers ahead

Have the Rhysand lovers forgot how he literally exploded the windows in the HOW after Nesta gave the mask to Bryce to the point that Azriel HAD TO SHIELD BRYCES PARENTS WITH HIS WINGS TO PROTECT THEM!! or do they just not care that these 2 innocent humans could have been extremely hurt if not killed? TAMLIN is a villain for having a ptsd episode and accidently exploding a room with Feyre in it (a fae) but Rhysand is still a sweet boy who can do no wrong after almost killing 2 humans? There's a reason Rhysand reminded Ember of the autumn king (her abusive ex), there's a reason sjm chose to add that to the book. He definitely doesn't just suck in Nestas pov (considering half of sf was in Cassians pov and he sucked there too.)

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I was overtaken by yearly baking madness and made some acotar (and cc) themed Christmas cookies this year!

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Crazy

Genuine question because I truly can't remember: Have Feysand ever said a good thing about the Hewn City or Illyria, that does not include their armies being good for war?

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Just a fleeting thought but: if Rhysand was able to promote Feyre (a former woman, with little to no combat experience, reading and political experience, etc.,) with little to no push back from the CoN, Illyrians, or Velaris citizens — why aren’t there more Illyrian women in positions of power?

Why couldn’t Rhysand just immediately appoint Illyrian women to high levels of political prestige in order to combat the perception of them? Why aren’t there any named, Illyrian women in established positions of power if Rhysand has earnestly tried to amend the situation? Why not appoint a female leader of a camp? Or a female Illyrian as a courier to the CoN? Why do the Illyrian women have to train for futile reasons? Why not have that training connect to actual opportunities to leave the Illyrian Steppes? Just food for thought, but I always am reminded at how sinister a set up the Illyrians are and the implications throughout these books. Like Rhys has been high lord for at least three hundred years (not accounting for UTM) and he’s made no tangible changes to the environment. Interesting.

Als: why aren’t there any female Illyrians members of the Inner Circle? Why not elevate a female to that position? Or build meaningful relationship with female population? Why don’t the women seem to actually have a relationship with these people? Why aren’t there established female havens within Illyrian?

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Always felt like the impact of her high lady arc was underwhelming and lowkey silly

Originally, there has never been a high lady which would make Feyre the first high lady to ever exist.

But Sjm changed it in hofas. Apparently, high lords would make their wives high ladies. I don’t know who exactly it was, I think it was one of the high queen‘s daughter that rejected the title or whatever.

Does Sjm hate Feyre? Does she even care about her at all anymore? Because now Feyre‘s title is even less special than it was before. Like, it only diminishes her role even further.

Allthough Feyre should be a ruler due to her lack of education and experience, AT LEAST she was the first to be a high lady.

I heard about the High Lady retcon from one of my mutuals who loves CC. I thought it was just that there was once a High Queen and High King, and there some kind of betrayal that happened and now there are only High Lords?

But I would not in the slightest be surprised if this is the case. Feyre is no one special even in her own books. Her character is merely a vessel for SJM to use as a self-insert, which has unfortunately inspired a lot of wannabes who want to piggyback off SJM's audience. So many new fantasy book love to include a female lead that gets tremendously undermined her in order to prop up a half-assed love interest with black hair.

I don't think the question is "Does SJM care about Feyre anymore?" its "Did SJM ever care about Feyre to begin with?" And the answer is, she may have in the first book, but by the climax of the book, she had stopped caring altogether and focused way in on Rhysand.

I have said this before and I will say it again. The people overly obsessed with Feyre being High lady, don't care about the societal impact in Prythian, or Feyre's automny as a person and what this kind of position meant for her character arc, they only care about the Princess Aesthetic.

It's aesthetic, thats all it is. That is all it ever will be.

If Elain becomes a High lady, she won't do any good, she won't be fit for it. She'll probably be just as much as selfish entitled person as Feyre. It's an aesthetic.

I don't want Nesta to be a High lady either. It's just an aesthetic. And she will be reduced to a breeding prize to make way for Cassian as the High Lord.

The whole High lady arc sucks. It's poorly written and over all has no massive impact on the plot except for it giving Feyre a superiority complex.

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i miss hunt athalar so bad.... he's my baby girl

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I finished jjk (watching the anime I mean, it’s the first ever one I watched) and then going straight into aot. Am I setting myself up to lose my sanity or what.

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Character deaths in ACOTAR

None. Not a single major character death. AND IT IS PUTTING ME ON EDGE. We’re like 5 books through and not a single major character has died.

What if, instead of Cassian dying according to all the theories, it’s Azriel that dies? Or what if Elain does?

What if Eris dies, leaving some sort of meaningful gesture for Lucien and then Lucien goes nuts and kills Beron and becomes HL of AC himself?

What if Mor dies?

What if Tamlin dies as like some sort of final “sacrifice” for IC? (HE BETTER FUCKING NOT)

There’s so many possibilities since we haven’t had many major character deaths yet

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Elucien and Elriel

People swear up and down that Elain hates Lucien and don’t want nothing to do with him but

a) We aren’t mind readers. We don’t know what’s going on in her head.

b) She has not rejected the bond yet.

And she hasn’t really rejected Azriel either. I mean yeah she gave the necklace back but I don’t really feel like that counts as rejection and of course the whole second bond/true/fake bond theory

Edited the previous part out cz it’s confusing, but I mean to say that I think she’s confused about who or what she wants and until we get to her book, it’s pretty unclear.

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Stop giving fathers redemption arcs. That old man sucks and you know it

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"Fish?"

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I wish Sjm retconned the entire part of utm where rhysand did all that to Feyre, if she really wanted to make Rhysand the mmc. She’s the queen of retcon, I pretty sure she could’ve found some way to turn it around. But no, she went ahead and completed the entire SA arc with Lucien confronting Feyre about the entire situation

ACOWAR (idk the chapter or page)

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Mating bonds in ACOTAR

I was just thinking about the whole “soul bond”/“true bond” theory stuff that has been circling around elriel, I’ve previously said that it just seems null to me BUT:

Maybe it’s not “true bond” or “soul bond” but rather a “corrupted bond” and a “non-corrupted bond”

The daglan fed on magic (or first light or something? Idk) of the land and the fae. They corrupted the cauldron to their own liking which now creates bonds based off equal matches in power and the potentiality of a strong offspring for the daglan to feed on.

But what about the same-sex mating bonds? What is that based off of considering offspring is off the list?

I think, most (not all) of the heterosexual mating bonds are corrupted bonds and all the same-sex bonds are non-corrupted bonds that are still created by some small sentient part of the cauldron that isn’t entirely corrupted.

Either way, if anything related to a second sort of mating bond becomes canon, it will bring all the established mates and mating bonds into question.

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People are all "#feminine rage!! [Tiktok audio of female characters screaming angrily]" but can't even tolerate female characters saying something mean or even slightly cutting when they're upset

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I keep asking. I keep saying.

I understand that Mor was in pain and was injured because of her fucked up family but what, exactly, was Eris supposed to do without endangering himself and further harming her?

Beron is high key abusive and will harm Eris if he tried to help Mor after she disgraced Beron like she did. He'd also harm Mor even more for the disgrace and make an example out of her and that's not even including the part where she would now be Autumn Court property

Mor slept with Cassian, ruining her proposal with Eris, with the intention of ruining that proposal, and endangered her life and Cassians life in the process. What, exactly, did she think would be the consequences of ruining her proposal? everyone being like welp! guess there's no wedding also btw the bastard should probably be beaten for this

like i don't get it. Eris gave her exactly what she wanted and everyone is still mad at him