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Feyre Archeron, but as Feyre Cursebreaker instead of the High Lady. What if she had to visit the courts to understand and master her powers? Since the whole High King crap didn’t work the first time, Feyre could instead take on the role of keeping peace and balance between the courts, as well as saving and protecting Prythian’s magic (Atla reference). Have Tamlin’s paranoia come true about people coming after her because she possesses the High Lords’ magic. It would add layers of tension and danger to her journey.

It would also be interesting to see each court as equally powerful and none can survive without the others. Imagine the dynamic between Rhysand vs Tamlin, with the Spring Court being such a vital core of Prythian- interconnected with and as necessary as the Night Court.

Feysand, but with Rhys as a morally gray character who cares only about his own gain. The sole reason he kept Feyre alive Under the Mountain was because she was the key to his freedom and nothing more. After Feyre gains power from each High Lord and becomes a symbol of freedom and peace (something similar), Rhys begins to see her as a weapon- a means to make his court the most powerful of them all (he lies to her that he needs her to win the war and save Prythian). But will he stay true to his ambitions when he finds himself falling in love with her? 😏 (They both aren’t aware of the mating bond)

Idk, this is just a fun concept. Let me know what you think.

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watching kiki's delivery service for the first time and only 30 mins in. i am already crying because i don't live inside this😭

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Not to come off as Azriel apologist, but I don’t understand the outrage over the ‘Three sisters’ logic. As disgusting as it is, it is the only thing consistent with his past and character.

Did we really expect this guy to treat women right when one of his brothers is a sexual assaulter and the other is. . .Cassian? Not to mention the weird sex dynamic among the three. Did we all really expect healthy boundaries and concepts from the guy who was kept captive for first 11 years of his life, adopted by demonic spawns who abused him first and then helped him, spent the next 500 years pining over the woman who rejected him?

Sure, he had time to deal with his trauma and get over it like the others, but (imo) he didn’t have a chance. Rhysand made him a torturer when he is a fucking daemati who doesn’t need one, forcing Azriel to relive and inflict what was done to him. Cassian and Morrigan don’t let him forget what those two did with their constant whatever that is in front of him. Morrigan flirts with him enough to string him along. And if he wanted to leave them, that’s tough because try asking an abuse victim to turn their back on their saviour, and that’s who Rhysand and Cassian are for him. While the rest of the IC choose not to deal with their drama, this guy doesn’t have a chance with everyone rubbing his issues in his face whenever they can.

I find it funny that this guy is being blamed for the one thing SJM was on point about his behaviour.

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Can someone tell me who the oldest of the Vanserra brothers is? And who hunted Lucien across borders and got killed? Ykw explain the whole Vanserra drama to me. With all the retcons I can't find any reliable info on this.

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HOFAS winning the goodreads romantasy with twice the votes of the runner-up is all the proof I need that no one is even reading her books for plot.

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It makes perfect sense why faeries can lie in these books. Imagine fae Feyre not lying to herself or anyone else for two books straight.

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I’m prone to ignore world-building issues in a romantasy, but my god, is ACOTAR a lost potential. Night could be so much cooler if SJM didn’t go for the urban aesthetics. Different levels of darkness depending on the different phases of the moon. Eerie silence at all times except for where the civilisation exists. Creatures are light and sound sensitive. Most of them should be dark skinned because camouflage. But then again no sun, no melanin, so pale skin. They all would have this thin, fragile voice that is creepy and mysterious. Night vision but levels of efficiency depending on their species, but definitely better than other courts. Can’t deal with normal heat from daylight. Also, they would be the epitome of fae stillness, so much so it’s unsettling for other courts. Most of the infrastructure would be with open spaces. They might prefer camps like in Illyria, but better of course. Or reinforced buildings to protect themselves from creatures on the prowl all the time. Rhysand should be making mini suns or glowing clouds or whatever with that “star-speckled darkness”. Put that “most powerful High Lord to ever exist” powers to use. The only thing that makes sense to me is the dangerous creatures under the dungeons.

And “under the mountain city” is so Day coded. Perpetual daylight everywhere, so it’s pointless to have a city on ground. Maybe they have a few buildings for occasional use. But imagine, barren fields above and an entire court exists under. Holes would be drilled into the ground to allow natural sunlight, you know like street lamps. They rarely need faelight. Everyone would be blind af in real darkness. They hate silences. Helion should be able to adjust the intensity of sunlight at will, not to complete dark though.

I have no idea what Dawn or Dusk would be like. But yeah, it would have been interesting.

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Feyre watches Cassian and her sister share a kiss on the verge of death. Then, she sees him gifting lingerie to Morrigan and expects Nesta to be lovey-dovey to this guy..?

IDK man I'd be skinning a guy alive if he did this to my sister.

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i fulfill promise and provide food for the tamcien girlies this month and for u @achaotichuman 🧎🏻‍♀️🤲 today is hanahaki i love me som angmst

(SRRY I'M LATE 💥 it will happen again but there will be more..)

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You wrote a fic for me. . . ?🥺 That's the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me.

I don't care who y'all love or ship. Go and read this! N O W!!

A Court of Zero Flying Fucks

Following @extremely-judgemental desire to make it happen, I present to you the first 2 chapters of the Tamlin x Eris fanfiction based on this post.

Status: ongoing.

This story has/will have everything:

fem Eris

Tamlin and Eris as mates bickering and using each other for their purposes

steamy tough love

babbling baby-Lucien

The Lady of Autumn and Lucien's beautiful, but idiot brothers with regal names inspired by Greek mythology

unbothered queen-Eris sassing Amarantha

Mor's story re-written (obvi)

cocky and lovable Nesta

weird matches that make perfect sense

drinking games and dance-offs

angst, drama, longing, fuming, laughing, and - as a bonus - fluffy hounds..?

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Fools. Absolute fools. Azriel represents Elain's hoe phase.

This is SJM's formula for romance.

Casual sex/abusive exes. Seduction of second LI. Realisation of true love.

Feyre uses Isaac. Dumps Tamlin. Seduces Tarquin. Ends up with Rhysand.

Nesta dumps Tomas. Has multiple sex partners. Seduces Eris. Ends up with Cassian.

Bryce strings Connor along. Has multiple sex partners. Fake dates Cormac. Ends up with Hunt.

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I- You- This- How?!!

i became possessed and drew too hard to the sun, so much so i started painting backgrounds (it was not fun). for u @achaotichuman and all the tamcien stans 🫶 day 5, first time. i drew their first meeting the idea came to me while maladaptive daydreaming

"Lucien left and without his title protecting him, three brothers went out to kill him. Only one came back alive. He killed one. I killed the other."

"Then I claimed Lucien as my own—named him emissary."

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i channeled recently exiled, loverless, hunted by his brothers/brother killer lucien's inner anguish and depicted it too well im sorry i will never draw him this sad again :( i imagine him very angry for what happened to jesminda but i like to think he regrets killing his brother sometimes. mayhaps. if not then maybe a little sorry for his mom. do u think he thinks she's disappointed in hiiiim, oh look at my youngest he's just like his father kind of thoughts, do u thiiiink—

'claimed him as my own' ⁉️⁉️⁉️ eating my hands. i know tamlin, i know. spring was lucien's home and that is hiiis high loooord 💥💥💥 hate it when someone comes along and tells him 'spring was never a home to you, you just liked it for its revelries you know you wanna do something else' I DON'T WANNA HEAR IIIIIT. U DON'T EVEN KNOW HIIIIM. SHE KNOWS WHO SHE IIIIIS 🫵

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ACOTAR Rant

If you like Elain, don't read.

ACTUALLY, CAN WE START TALKING ABOUT HOW ELAIN HAS ALL THE FUCKING CHOICE, WHY ARE WE MAKING OUT LIKE SHES SOME HELPLESS LAMB??

I'm not gonna sit here and repeat the same tired lines of "I know she was traumatised from the Cauldron blah blah blah" You all know that, you know I know she's traumatised, I talk about this shit like every other day.

Lets talk mating bonds (again)

Elain and Lucien are equal in that they are entirely tied together. In fact, it hurts Lucien *more*. If anything, Elain has the most power in this situation compared to Lucien, she has the most autonomy, she is at risk of having the ghost of mating bond past™ haunt her if she rejects it. Lucien is at risk of actually losing his entire fucking mind.

And you people want to call that fair?????? People genuinely think that Elain is some victim of Lucien in this????

Everyone is so fucking obsessed with 'Elain having choice' ELAIN HAS ALL THE CHOICE, LUCIEN IS ENTIRELY AT HER MERCY

Let's compare Elain and Nesta's situations (AGAIN)

They both suffered the exact same terrifyingly, horrible physical, sexual, emotional and mental torture that the Cauldron inflicted on them. Morphing them against their will.

Now, Nesta immediately went to protect Elain. Her trauma response was to prioritise Elain (probably had to do with that being her ingrained instinct from their years in poverty, but that's another analysis for another day)

What was also Nesta's response? To bring up her walls and shut everyone out. She wanted to handle this on her own. She wanted space and time.

Elain softened. After months of being catatonic, she began a routine and made the best of her situation. Most importantly, her healing did not threaten anyone's egos, so the IC gave her the time, space and place to heal that she needed. They provided that for her.

Not to mention, Lucien is a person that the IC collectively hates, so combined with the fact that Elain is a walking housewife stereotype who doesn't threaten anyone's egos, and that her mate is someone her 'found family' doesn't like. She gets all the protection in the world.

Compare that to Nesta, who does threaten the IC's egos, and does bend their social rules, and doesn't bow down to them, they don't give her space, time or a place to heal. They threaten her, and lock her up. And combine that with the fact that her mate is Cassian, a member of the IC, they disrespect her wishes, and her bodily autonomy.

AND SO MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT ELAIN'S CHOICE. OH MY LORD, "ELAIN DESERVES CHOICE" SHE HAS ALL THE CHOICE

She has so much power over Lucien, who is quite literally in exile from every home he has ever known, handling more work than most people could ever deal with. Dealing with indescribable trauma of his own, and on top of it, he is receiving no help for it. Sure, he has the band of exiles, wanna guess what? THEYRE HUMANS, HE IS A FAERY, THEY CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH FOR HIM

Elain has ignored Lucien, and actively pursued relationships with others (Azriel), she shits all over Nesta, slut shames and guilt trips her.

But she's the soft one™ so no one is allowed to give her a single consequence to her actions.

I see so many posts of people praising Elain because she's #notawarriorgirly and she's #feminine and she #doesn'twannacarryasword

I hate to break it to you, but SJM hasn't written the feminine rep you've been craving.

Elain is actively putting Lucien in pain, for no reason at all. She is actively hateful towards Nesta who has only ever helped her. She victimises herself if she doesn't get her way.

It's not Elain's story that should be about choice, because she has ALL OF THE FUCKING CHOICE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. FEYRE HAS LESS CHOICE THAN HER

If you think for even two fucking seconds about this, it's pretty damn obvious that Lucien is the one who doesn't have choice in the mating bond. What if he had a romantic relationship with someone? Now, he *has* to give it up, because his 'choices' are:

1- Reject the bond and lose his mind and go mad

2- Don't accept or reject and spend the rest of his life pinning after a woman against his will.

3- Accept the bond and be chained to someone he doesn't want against his will

And on top of the creepy mating bond, this is a man who was being sexually abused by both Ianthe and Feyre! What a combo!

If I see one more 'Elain Deserves Choice' post, I am actually gonna implode I fear...

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The sad part of dismissal of Nesta's contribution to the war is that she didn't have any obligation to do anything in that situation like the others.

Rhys was a High Lord. Feyre was a High Lady. Mor was Rhys's third-in-command. Cassian was Rhys's war general. Azriel was Rhys's spy and soldier. It was their duty to their court to act and fight.

Nesta was just a commoner who was thrusted into the situation and felt the need to help because it was the right thing to do and lives were at stake.

IC dismissing her spiralling and sabotaging behaviour as Nesta's inherent personality trait is downplaying everything she did for their court.

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the whole healing drama in SF is so stupid. the sisters should have gone at each others' throats for a day and bitched about their parents over dinner.

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I absolutely hate first person narrative in fantasy.

What happened to Lucien UtM in those three months? Was he locked up somewhere too? Now that Tamlin couldn't protect him, did his brothers bully him? Did they bring up Jesminda to get a rise out of him? Beron would have definitely tired to. If they had, was there anyone to stop them? When Lucien was threatened with death, did Helion sense anything, like parental instinct? Did his Day magic act out then or during the second task since an extension of it was in danger? Did LoA get to meet her son often in those three months?

I have so, so many questions.

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I'm watching Scarlet Heart : Ryeo and I can't!! @wondercloudsme what have you got me hooked on?

The political drama. The emotional stakes.

Oh, love the bitch queen Yoo.

I'm only at E6 but I'd highly recommend it to anyone who loves period dramas and swooning over other cultures.