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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

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After like, waaay too long, i finally finished prythian fashion the second 🤭

Hope ya'll like them

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Rhysand SA’ing Feyre isn’t really up for debate. It’s in the book. The FMC legit says it. It’s canon.

Idk how people can “interpret it” some other way or any of that bs. And before anyone says crap like “it’s fiction, it ain’t that serious, it’s just a book, just enjoy the book”-it is actually very serious considering the lot of you are making up countless of excuses for SA and that’s alarming.

I posted this in a reblog already but I feel like it needs its own post

The original post was about how people say that "Rhys didn't touch her below the waist" isn't a sound argument that he didn't SA Feyre because he showed he can manipulate the paint so that isn't proof that he didn't touch her.

I agree and my thoughts on it are also, even if he truly didn't go below her hips he still

• forced her to drink fairy wine (essentially drugging her due to the effects it has on humans) when she explicitly said no and pushed him away multiple times

• dressed her in pretty much nothing and paraded her around naked in front of everyone for absolutely no reason

– Please keep in mind when people make pretty fanart of this scene, they have to censor it for social media and they're romanticizing it. It isn't accurate. This was not romantic or girl boss, Feyre was essentially naked and it traumatized her

• had her dance naked on him in front of everyone for absolutely no reason—to the point that she vomited and he *checks notes* made her keep going

• forcibly kissed her

• spied on her through the tattoo he forced on her

And he still touched her. There are a lot of places you can touch someone above their hips/waist and if they don't want it, it's assault. And in this specific scenario, with these other instances of assault/abuse, it was sexual assault. It's not a debate.

Feyre had immense trauma from what he did to her and she even tries to bring it up but he makes it all about him (ironic that his fans do the same).

You Rhysand stans have a freak attack when someone tries to debate or invalidate Rhysand's SA (which is valid, so why is it okay to debate Feyre's when it is written right there on the page for you? If you genuinely and truly believe that Rhysand did not SA Feyre then I beg of you to check your internalized misogyny (and your literacy) because the "logic" you're using is the exact same logic that people who say Amarantha didn't SA Rhysand are using.

And if you can't even handle comprehending what happened UTM when it's spelled out for you then prepare yourself for this one:

Rhysand SA'd Feyre when they had unprotected sex because he knew the risks and she didn't

Oh and every time he has sex with her to shut her up/get his way is manipulation and is absolutely in the SA grey area because it's part of his emotional abuse towards her

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everytime someone calls rhys a feminist king an illyrian woman loses her wings 😔