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It amazes every day that Nesta didn’t reject the mating bond to Cassian when he said

“Your sisters love you. I can’t for the life of me understand why”

& then when he said

“Well I didn’t ask to be shackled to you either”

this is one prime example of what I mean when I say Nesta’s character was truly assassinated, because the Nesta we first got would have NEVER stood for someone saying that to her, she would have sent that bond up in glorious flames!

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Anna Akhmatova, tr. by D. M. Thomas, from “The Guest.” [ID in alt text]

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My favorite thing about Booktok was SJM fans constantly giving us examples of their poor reading comprehension. Here's an example:

A young lady posts a sideshow that says, verbatim, "I don't want your book recs if you enjoy Sarah J Maas or Colleen Hoover"

Multiple SJM profile pics in the comments: "Or you can just let people read whatever they want. 🙄"

She didn't tell you what you could read it's just that she doesn't trust your recommendations!!!!

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labour - pamola

What if Nessian had a daughter and said daughter got mad at Rhysand one day for whatever reason and let's out an "I hate uncle Rhys". Is Cassian going to scream at his own child and tell her everyone hates her the way he did with his mate? Or punish her with a grueling hike? Or give her the silent treatment like the child he is? Or would he just take it out on her mother because that's clearly learned behavior from his "ungrateful " mate.

I don't want to hear any of this "Cassian would be a girl dad" nonsense. He wouldn't know the first thing about how to treat a girl respectfully.

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giggling at the idea of rhyand calling her a free-loader and nesta saying he's literally a bum living in her sister's house??

what would have been funny is via Rhys dying and coming back he lost 90% of his magic, including the magic and title of HL and had all of it get transferred to Feyre making her a REAL High Lady, and Rhys getting stuck with a hollow title bec the land no longer chose him

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I laughed out loud, stop

Found this on my phone. Dont remember why I made it. 😭😭😭😭😭

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she'll be able to winnow if it ever suits the narrative

SJM really gave Nesta this insane, god-tier power… but conveniently made her unable to winnow so she could be trapped in the House of Wind and the Night Court.

And yet, somehow, she never acknowledges how similar this situation is to Feyre in the Spring Manor—both isolated and held somewhere they did not choose to be.

The difference? One was framed as abuse. The other was framed as tough love. 🤔

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you better be careful or the next book will have sjm gaslighting us and saying there was a 10 year gap all along

Reasons there should have been a minimum 10 year gap between ACOFAS and ACOSF;

Makes way more sense if everyone is done with Nesta’s spiralling and the intervention would seem more genuinely concerned for her if it had been a damn DECADE like yeah ok baby girl time to get it together

Cassian would not be a hypocrite for telling Nesta she can have time to spiral if she needs it

Pregnancy storyline is better both in terms of Feyre being ready and maintaining the plot point that fae fertility is challenging

Elain and Nesta’s frayed relationship and Elain’s frustration with her sister makes way more sense

It actually makes sense that the Illyrian rebellion has been dealt with - Cassian could have a whole backstory and character development here and we could actually learn something about his as a character

Give everyone some time to cool down after the war before throwing them back into chaos - for character development and juxtaposition

Reasonable that Nesta could have run through her own money from the war by then so fair’s fair on the being cut off point

Is Cassian going a bit insane from the mate bond not being accepted? Maybe and that’s FUN and would excuse some of his unhinged behaviour

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nesta especially is not adapting well to being fae and losing her humanity that's a whole plot point, this has bothered me too

And another thing

The Archeron sisters were human like three seconds ago, and yet they've already fully embraced and adapted to the vocabulary of the fae?

Nesta should be going around saying 'Emerie and Gwyn are the two greatest friends a woman could have 😇,' and then Cassian would pipe up like 'You mean FeMaLe?'

Nesta: 🙂...........🔥💀🔥💀🔥

(This happens every time Nesta mentions them, which is a lot. Cassian is on his last strike)

Feyre should be stubbing her toe and going 'JESUS MOTHER FUCJKING CHRIST ON A GODDAMN STICK, MOTHER FUCKER-'

and Rhysand should be clutching his pearls trying to get Feyre to shut up because 'Feyre, darling, The Mother is going to BEAT YOU OVER THE HEAD WITH HER CAULDRON if you keep using her name in vain like that.'

It takes Nesta a whole year to get used to using 'female' instead of 'woman', and now Feyre always goes 'MOTHER- be blessed 🙃' with a tear in the corner of her eye whenever she accidently hurts herself.

I'm just saying, ✨cultural differences✨

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nesta x jurian

nesta x eris

nesta x clare

nesta x lucien

nesta x freedom

all good, solid choices. devastated by what we got instead

jurian x nesta are untapped pairing

human man trapped and forced to live beyond his time and human turned fae woman trapped in nc and forced to live a life she never wanted

jurian who fought for his people’s freedom at all costs, nesta who fought for humans after being made and other worlds

jurian with his humour but not at the expense of nesta or punishing her for things she did or didn’t go bc he understands it more than anyone else

jurian and his guilt for nesta and elain getting involved in king hybern’s plans

nesta seeking for or holding onto her human life that was ripped away from her and finding love with jurian, a human

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are we really gonna sit here and act like forcing oneself into someone else's mind isn't supernatural r*pe?

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feyre asking nesta why she'd wanna be in such a nasty shady place isn't even shocking with the way they talk about illyria and the court of nightmares, everyone in the ic hates their own court more than nesta lol

I can't decide if we're looking at an oligarchy or a tyranny, on one hand those in the highest position of power over the people do nothing for them (mor with CON and cassian with illyria and then the others broadly speaking) but on the other they're all just extensions of rhysand's will

the ic demolishing an entire apartment building displacing people for "war refugees" so Nesta couldn't go home and SJM painting it as the morally right thing to do was just downright diabolical

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people defend rhysand like he isn't the heathcliff to Tamlin's Linton

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I think I got whiplash from acosf when sjm decided nesta was only mean because she hated herself... lmao I thought she was mean because she had right to be

I thought she'd get a found family who had similar values to her own or maybe seek independence and be free from her past that she cannot change. instead that girl was straight-up taming-of-the-shrew-ed

One of the things I love most about Nesta is that she chose to live in a run-down apartment in the slums of Velaris while her sisters were living in absolute luxury in Feysand's fifth mansion on the ritzy side of town.

I love that Nesta was frequenting seedy taverns rather than lavish places like Rita's.

And I love that she was hanging out with the citizens of the Night Court that the IC deemed beneath them.

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people focus too much on whether there's more smut or plot in ACOSF and not enough on the fact that any and all smut in that book was assault

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eris knows lucien is helion's son, that the lady of autumn is helion's mate, and when he sought an alliance to kill his father he naturally went to... rhysand?

one high lord is jonesing for a chance and the other hates his guts

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you'll never convince me that Nesta isn't the best morally-upstanding character of the entire series, with Tamlin being next in line