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More thoughts and headcanon on the hewn city and their darkbringers. It fascinated me how complicated their governing are between two sub courts within night. Also wanted to explore how with Night not uniting and remaining sepreated also affects how their territory is protected.

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Elite darkbringers are the ones blessed with darkness by the granting of their high lord to protect Night. During the times when Velaris remain as a secret, they are sort of the nightmares that protected the secret dream.

Since the night court ruling is split between two cities, their powers were also weakened and not at full capacity due the lack of presence of the high lord. This weaken Night’s arsenals, but Rhys having the ability to cut off darkness from them also sorta ensure the low possibly of the darkbringers turning on the court of dreams. They can still access a small fraction of Darkness through the ruling authority of the Stewart , Keir ( Who shares blood and is a distant family ) thus the darkbringers are more loyal to him and with that comes the whole politic and exchange when their army is needed.

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Feyre's stans get so angry and say, "People are such misogynists that they think Feyre becoming a mom made her useless." Well, what exactly makes them think she hasn't been useless ever since ACOFAS? No one actually cares about what she wants or tells them to do unless Rhys gives his approval too.

What exactly did she do in HOFAS that made her seem "not useless"? She stood there and delivered one or two lines that could have been said by anyone without changing the impact. When people said it was a mistake to make Feyre pregnant so quickly, it was because we already knew SJM wouldn't be capable of doing justice to a pregnant woman or a mother, whether as a main character or even as an important side character (except Yrene).

And you want to know why I at least, thought that? Because both SJM and the fandom have cared more about the Batboys ever since ACOMAF. Feyre is largely known for being Rhysand's mate or for being a painter. Not a warrior or a leader, except for her decorative "High Lady" title. I know this because I (and I'm sure many others) heard about Rhys and those bats before I even read ACOTAR. I only learned Feyre's name when I actually read the book.

What exactly did they think would happen to Feyre, who has contributed less and less ever since the war, when she's no longer the FMC? They want to cry "misogynist"? Direct that to SJM. We're not the misogynists. I and so many others said that it was a mistake to make Feyre pregnant this early.

She is a GODDAMN immortal, and she got pregnant at 22! Think about that. That's SJM's internalized misogyny showing. SJM could have made her an actual feminist icon. A person hungry to learn because now she has the money and resources to get smarter. She could have been a great and compassionate leader or an advocate for the oppressed females in her court. There were so many things she could have done. Instead, SJM made her open a painting studio in her elitist utopia and get pregnant as her "happy ending"? That's SJM's misogyny, not ours.

SJM made Feyre pregnant and focused on taking care of Nyx, causing her to miss out on so much in ACOSF and HOFAS. SJM made Feyre a mother and then made her invisible. That’s SJM's misogyny. Why blame the readers for pointing it out?

And they hate that Nesta became the "cool one" with a healthier, actual friendship with the Valkyries. They're jealous that Nesta has a friendship where they all genuinely respect one another, where Gwyn and Emerie would never let Cassian hide important health information about Nesta from her, unlike the IC with Feyre in that ridiculous pregnancy plot.

Oh, I know how jealous her "stans" and Nesta ant!s are. They're angry that Nesta is still integral even after her book and in another series. And yet somehow we’re the misogynists?

Lol cry harder. Hate on SJM for her inability to write a story where a woman can be a mother and still be a badass instead of sidelining her entirely. Hate her misogyny.

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While eluciens/gwynriels and e/riels making up theories and beefing with each other over ring colors

I'm still out here making up theories where rhysand in the whole series has gay sex with tamlin and in acosf he has an affair with Cassian which means he never actually has sex with feyre so that she and nyx are the acotar equivalent of virgin Mary and Jesus

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Deleted Small talk scene between Jurian & Tamlin during acowar

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Instead of rhysand having a stick up his own ass he should have had Tamlin's huge cock in it 🥰💖

Tamsand art by @lucychanart

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The Warrior and the Princess

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Happy Day 2 of @emerieweekofficial! You know our favorite Illyrian Warrior would be perfect to help with relations with the Summer Court and maybe steal a certain princess's heart along the way 😉 Big thanks to @sassyhobbits (j.sgrey on IG) for working with me again and bringing this GORGEOUS art to life! 🩵

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I hope we get the acotar TV series one day so we can all witness the punishment trials that Nesta must face so she can atone for her crimes of being a mean bitch amongst our hero characters that are an absolutist governmental body who are murdering and torturering people for living 🤗💞

Imagine the nessian stair scene where Nesta falls down the stairs, cassian laughs and Azriel asks cassian if he pushed Nesta, the chemistry & the banter would be amazing 😍

Or the hike with Nesta & cassian where she eventually will faint from dehydration, so healing & so inspiring 😌☝️

And we should not forget the pregnancy plot where Rhysand is being so considerate & protective of feyre with how he has her in a magical bubbly 24/7 so no one besides himself can touch her and how he will protect her from her own body by not telling her that the baby will kill her, so cute 🥺👉👈

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What is your favorite couple dynamic?

Mine is the gay platonic soulmates in which one is the hunk who seems to fail at everything and the other one his twink husband who turns evil but not really

jayvik from s2 ep9 | tamsand art by @copypastus

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you know, you say we should feel like we're all one people, but whenever it rains, we're the ones that get wet. - Ekko from Arcane season 2 episode 3

A perfect summary of Rhysand's performative progressive reign over the Night Court, where he talks about unity and whatnot, but in the end, the Illyrians and Hewn City citizens are always the ones who have to sacrifice themselves for his utopian city 

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Finished Arcane today and was motivated to make a quick sketch of my favorite freedom fighter Jurian (who I know would be a zaun resident & would cause chaos to the piltover enforcers)

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Links for why SJM is a problematic author

Good Summaries

Video: Sarah J Maas | AUTHORS BEHAVING BADLY

Tiktok Slideshow: Why I know longer support SJM

Zionism:

TikTok Video: Zionism in Acotar

TikTok Video Zionism in Crescent CIty

Post: SJM's husband's ties to a zionist organization by @ladydeath-vanserra

TikTok Analysis of SJM mentioning Breonne Taylor in her Instagram Post about Acosf

POC Characters existing for the superior white main characters: Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 by @ofbreathandflame-archive & @feyres-divorce-lawyer

Anti Irish sentiment in Acotar: tiktok Blogpost

The cultural Appropiation of mehendi in acotar

Sarah J Maas: plagiarism or inspiration by @alexcollix7

Sexism, misogyny, romaticism of abuse & SA in Acotar

Before you read/ watch any of the links under this topic here are SJM own words of what Rhysand (& Tamlin) represent in this cosmopolitan interview (so I don't want to hear the morally grey/dark romance argument anymore)

Video: The Villain in the Story: Abuse, Feminism and Choice in SJM's ACOTAR Series

Post: The relationship between misogyny and romance: a SJM study by @howlsmovinglibrary

Post: What Makes Feyre’s Pregnancy Plotline in A Court of Silver Flames so Upsetting? by @theweeklydiscourse

Article: SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN TEEN FICTION: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF ACOTAR

Post: Rhysand and Tamlin's abusive behaviours in contrast by @bookishfeylin

Post: Don’t Worry Feyre, Darling: the relationship anxiety to coersive control pipeline by @wishcamper

The Nesta Problem: Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 by @wishcamper & @ofbreathandflame-archive

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"I once told you I would fight against tyranny, against that sort of evil. Did you think you were enough to turn me from that?" - Tamlin (acowar p.605)

A while back I made a post about Tamlin wearing a military uniform and having short hair and how the fandom would have loved him instead of the excessive hate he receives

so I tried to make a digital sketch for my vision (and yes the uniform is inspired to be looking like the one in fullmetal alchemist)

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if you drew a venn diagram of how many women intensely hate the female se*ual assaulters in the series like Ianthe & Amarantha and how many women post/like/comment/share the hundreds utm post about how funny/sexy it was that rhysand drugged feyre, touched her non consensually and made her lapdance on him in the first book it would be a circle

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A little sketch of depressive Tamlin tying up his hair 🤪✌

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For @lucienweekofficial Day 5 - Home

Featuring our fox and his Band of Exiles. Because Lucien can always come home to his friends who understand what it’s like to have no one and nowhere to turn to. And they will always make sure to make him feel a little less alone 💗

Art by: @pist4chi0

Commissioned by me (@littlefireling)

Tysm for this artwork! They are so adorable!! 😭💗

**Reposts are okay with proper credit**

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day 5 - home for @lucienweekofficial

i don't care what anyone says autumn is his home. he will always be an autumn boy. and i will ready the tissues when he reunites with LoA ♡

"mom, am i still young?

can i dream for a few months more?"

was listening to an hour loop of this song while drawing :D👍: