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Trauma does not justify being shitty with those around you, but it explains lashing out.

Being at your lowest, most self-destructive version, can make you push people away as hard as you can, isolate, self-harm, take your anger on your loved ones, and say the most foul things, because your own head makes you believe you are that cruel, disgusting being that deserves nothing, so that's the mask you show people to prevent them from wasting their time on you.

Now imagine going through such deep pain and being sexually harassed, locked into a house with a man that disregards your every need, and confirms every bad thought about yourself crossing your mind, even telling you he does not understand how your own family can love you.

If you cannot or have no idea how to help someone going through that, that's completely valid, but it does not give you the right to break them further until they fit that neat little mold of the person you think they should be.

You find them help if you can, and then remove yourself from the situation if you need. You don't send them to a fucking hike as a punishment to further confirm in their head that they deserve nothing but pain.

So yes, Nesta's trauma does not justify her being mean, but explains why she is mean, and of course she is going to be even meaner when everyone around her confirms every depressive, self-loathing thought in her head.

And honestly, she isn't even that much of a bitch for the amount of shit those self-righteous assholes of the IC give her.

Considering throwing her into the hewn city to be further traumatized for being a little mean? Didn't her "mate" kill an entire fucking village? Oh wait! Sorry! Forgot he is a man, therefore his trauma does justify him lashing out~

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Elucien Murder Mystery

Summary: Detective Lucien Vanserra has been sent to Sunset Hollow to solve a grisly murder. Cunning and skeptical, he is determined to not allow superstition and hearsay divert him from the truth. However, the town is whispering of witches, and one suspected witch by the name of Elain Archeron haunts his dreams and his heart.

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Tag List: @crazy-ache, @works-of-heart, @bonecarversbestie, @little-fierling, @huntquinlan, @yennas-stuff, @sapphiresandgold , @olenvasynyt , @fortheloveofbanksy , @what-about-elvenis , @the-darkestminds , @teddyhoneybear

Snippet:

Lucien squatted down in front of the corpse, jotting notes in his pocket notebook as he examined the corpse nailed to the tree. His arms were crossed above him, a large rusty nail hammered through both his wrists. With his neck craned to the side and his head slung over his shoulder, he couldn’t help drawing parallels with specific iconography of The Church. From the shoulders down, his body was skinless and full of holes. The arrows were left behind. Whoever killed him hunted him down in these woods, shooting arrow after arrow into him until he collapsed to the ground. They then ripped the arrows out and skinned him like an animal. Like he was game and all they wanted was his pelt. “Poor bastard,” Tamlin’s deputy, Andras, said as he covered his mouth with a handkerchief.  

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Nine (7/9)

Summary: Eight times Elain and Lucien spoke, and one time they didn't.

He stared at her, amusement and heat dancing across his face as he took another small step towards her. ‘Oh, I like you like this.’

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ACOTAR Rant

Have y'all missed these? I have. The rambling juice machine is running again apparently.

Okay, so I just saw a post @an6elic-d3vil made about the scene in Frozen where Elsa freezes Anna's heart reminding them of Tamlin's outburst in the study in ACOMAF, and it triggered a very very long rant about this. You can find the original post here, I didn't want to hijack it with my senseless rambling.

Also, side note, I think I've gone into some detail about what I'm going on about here before. I don't think I've ever made a full explanation of my line of thinking. But just to preface, if I get a singular comment or reblog calling me an abuse apologist, a victim blamer or a misogynist, you will not be acknowledged and you will be blocked.

Anyway, onto the rant.

Honestly, this is the best example of what happened between Tamlin and Feyre. No one blames Elsa for harming Anna, despite her finally accessing full power, no one would expect her to have full control over them, she had lived in fear of them her entire life. She saw herself as a monster who could hurt or potentially kill Anna, and when eventually pushed to her absolute breaking point, she exploded. Anna wasn't at fault either, but later on, it's clear she recognized that Elsa wasn't in full control, and that what she had done was not an example of her true character but a reaction she had no control over.

It's the same situation with Feyre, minus how Anna handled the situation, Tamlin had just gotten back the full extent of his powers, whilst still under immense stress. He canonically did not want the High lord's magic, and viewed himself as a monster who could hurt or potentially kill those around him. He lived in fear of himself, and when eventually pushed to his absolute breaking point, he exploded. It was a natural reaction that he had no control over whatsoever. Feyre was not at fault for it either, but unlike Anna, Feyre actively went out of her way to attribute this outburst to Tamlin's true character, when it was obviously a reaction that he actively regretted.

Tamlin then tried to reign in his magic, despite still being under immense stress, and having to deal with power that was out of control. He tried to be better, but unlike Anna with Elsa, who tried to help Elsa, Feyre sabotaged his attempts and purposefully pushed him to the point that he would lose control of his magic, and then put herself in harms way so that she could ruin his reputation.

When you look at it how it is and not through the eyes of Feyre's biased POV, what Feyre did to Tamlin when she returned to the Spring Court, is far more sinister.

Was Feyre being harmed by Tamlin's outburst of magic the first time her fault? No, of course not.

Was Feyre being harmed by Tamlin's outburst of magic the second time, when she manipulated him into having an attack, and then went out of her way to ensure he harmed her so that she could ruin his reputation and therefore destabilize the Court, her fault? HMMMMM....

Not to mention that throughout that scene, at least from my shitty memory, Tamlin was aware that he was slowly reaching his breaking point, and telling, practically pleading with Feyre, to stop, so that he didn't hurt her by accident.

Hmm, an orchestrated pattern of behavior, in this case preying on your partner's fear and high-functioning anxiety that is driven by their intense trauma, that centers around forcing a reaction out of them so that you can maintain power and control over how other people perceive them for your own personal gain? Sounds a lot like...

On a side note, I'm also kind of done with the continued rhetoric that Feyre should have 'just gone after Tamlin' and left the rest of the Spring Court alone. Because, honest to God, explain to me why she is justified in abusing Tamlin.

"He locked her up." She was attempting to follow him onto dangerous territory, despite being untrained, in a new body, and having a history of running into dangerous situations and winding up needing to saved. Even when it came to Amarantha, Feyre DIED. She has never succeeded once in protecting herself on her own when in a highly dangerous situation, she always ended up needing someone beside her or to rescue her.

"He was controlling her." He had a few sentries ensure that she would not be in harm's way. They had Amarantha's big boss coming at them and Feyre just killed one of his biggest assets, you don't think that Tamlin wouldn't be smart enough to know that Hybern would have his eyes set on Feyre?

Should Tamlin have helped Feyre in training her new powers? Yes. Did his fear of losing Feyre again blind him to what she actually needed? Also yes. But I implore you to refer to the Elsa and Anna example above. Now, that's a little bit different, Elsa was the one locking herself away, but the principle remains. Elsa controlled Anna in not allowing her to marry Hans, hiding information that caused the entire plot of the movie, and wound up harming Anna significantly because of this. But the important thing to note is that, Elsa didn't know any better. How could she have known that Anna would be able to handle this information when it literally almost killed them as kids? Plus, no one would ever say Elsa wasn't entirely correct in telling Anna she could not marry Hans, she did know better in that regard. Why would Tamlin want to involve Feyre in more magic, when she literally died a few months ago after getting too involved with Fae? And why would Tamlin not know better than Feyre when it came to her following him on a dangerous mission, he has been in these situations before, and knows more about them.

Feyre was traumatized and needed a space that Tamlin could not give her, but Tamlin needed a space that Feyre couldn't give him either. They didn't help each other, they weren't physically able to, and neither were in a mental state in which they could successfully care for the other. And that is neither of their fault. But I again ask you, why is that a reason that Feyre should be allowed to abuse Tamlin as 'punishment'?

I have absolutely strayed from the original point I wanted to make, but I'm sort of glad I did. I've never considered Elsa and Anna as a possible example of Feyre and Tamlin's relationship and yet, it's almost a perfect reflection. Trauma will change the way people think, and when panicked people lose their rationale. Tamlin should have done things differently, and later on, when he saw how his actions led to Feyre ending up in the Night Court, he actively tried to be better.

If any of you have anything to add, please do. I think there is also something to be said about the power imbalance between Feyre and Tamlin, but I think it's also similar to that of Elsa and Anna, where Elsa is Queen and Anna is the Princess.

Also, obviously, Feyre's fucked up perception of Tamlin is driven by SJM trying to break up Feylin to make Feysand happen, so a lot of things that Tamlin does are just... very random? They happen not because, Tamlin as a character would do that, but because SJM is trying to make Tamlin a horrible person. Which she is failing to do, because all of these things happen off screen, e.i killing the sentries who were on duty when Morrigan kidnapped Feyre, giving Lucien a black eyes and a split lip, etc. We don't see the very random acts of cruelty on screen, and if we do see acts of cruelty, they tend to be for a good reason. For example, the wraiths that had nothing to give for the Tithe, and Tamlin being like "Well you give something, or you're gonna be hunted down." This happens because, one- everyone has to do it, no exceptions are ever made, and two- what each person has is calculated and their taxes are all equal to the amount they have, which is extremely fair tbh.

So, yeah, this is my very long post of why Feyre is actually a really shitty character and what she did to Tamlin and the Spring Court was not a #girlyboss move, but actually a "You abused your ex for funzies" move.

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I think we all need some soup right now. Reblog to give prev a bowl of their favourite soup.

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Don't Fall for this scam.

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Please reblog and spread the word

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and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

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I’m so sorry we didn’t learn, George.

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Yet again e/riels prove they don't understand what and how fandom events are conducted and done in a fandom, like they don't understand the whole point and then whine about "we are being tortured, sent valid criticism oh how will I survive, oh help me god in this difficult time, I am the utmost victim"

Like my sweet baby honey if you are conducting an event for the ENTIRE fandom then you CANNOT exclude some parts of the fandom,

If you are doing some event just for your OWN community then that is a private event just for your community,

you can't be like hey I'm holding the so character week for the fandom but these things? yeah not allowed? any valid criticism you give me? I will play victim, my honey just say you are hosting so character week for the so community only because you guys want to privately enjoy it, but no they want the engagement of the whole fandom but do not want to include the entire fandom.

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help me manifest blue pennsylvania

like to charge reblog to cast

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Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight

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trying to explain the unexplainable

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I can't wait to see what people have made for Lucienweek's Lover prompt. 🦊❤️

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The person behind the new anti Elucien Lucien week:

This you?

Girl, just post non shippy Lucien stuff. Post a cute moodboard. Post your appreciation for Lucien. You can make content that you enjoy. Dont get mad people post content THEY enjoy.

So make a cute little Lucien post, tag the official Lucien week, and be done with this crusade.