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[maybeiwasjustjade]

Are you f*cking serious? 🤡

You're so stupid! lmfao

Knowing this, these idiots attacked Aemond in a crowd, beat him, cut out his eye and made him disabled. You are such clowns!

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Alyssa died when Daemon was 3 years old. So shut up with your argument that Rhaenys gave Daemon a chance to claim Meleys. TB does not recognize the OPINION AND CHOICE OF THE DRAGON HIMSELF. DRAGON CHOOSE Rider! VHAGAR WANTED AEMOND!

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Tarquin offers friendship and peace and Rhysand steals from him.

Helion treats him as a friend and helps him with concealing the trove and Rhysand keeps the truth about his son (with the woman he loves) from him.

Lucien works for him without expecting anything in return and Rhysand baits him with his mate and exploits him against Tamlin and Band of Exiles.

Eris spies on his father risking his life and Rhysand betrays him after promising a marriage alliance and throne and help to find his soldiers.

Tamlin helps bring him back to life and Rhysand repays it by telling him to kill himself.

Nesta sacrifices her powers to save him, his mate and his child, and Rhysand wants to kill her for using the trove (that belongs to her) the way she sees fit.

What an ungrateful fuck.

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The difference between Steve and Tony in CA:CW will always boil down to this:

Tony stands up to authority because he was born into immense wealth and privilege and has never had to answer to anyone. He defies authority because he knows he'll never have to face actual consequences for doing so.

Steve stands up to authority because he was born into poverty and grew up a poor, disabled Irish-American during the Great Depression. He defies authority because he knows what it's like to be dismissed, undervalued, and disenfranchised and never wants anyone to face that.

Tony pushed for the accords because he knew he could just break them and nothing would happen to him (which is exactly how it went down).

Steve refused to sign the accords because he would never sign away his human rights and the rights of other people to an authority he knew would abuse them (which, again, is exactly what happened).

So in a way, they were both right about the accords. Tony was just also infinitely more wrong.

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Do you think the IC ever considers that they play a big part of why the cycle of abuse and crime continues to flourish within Illyria and the Hewn City? They are the literal rulers of the NC. No one but themselves have the power to make a change. Bragging they have "the most powerful HL" means absolutely nothing if he does not put that power to use.

Children grow in the HC probably without ever seeing the sun, in the perfect environment to desensitize them to violence and gore. Their own HL parades his mate as an object. They become abusers as a means of survival, the only example of living they ever get under that mountain, yet no one cares enough to put a stop to the cycle.

Boys in Illyria are thrown into an incredibly ruthless training system, where you need to be "man enough" to bully and kill others in order to have a spot in their ranks, and let's not get into the rampant misogyny they learn from a very young age, watching as females are thrown into housework while they train.

Girls in Illyria watch as their purpose is reduced to childbearers and housemakers, wings clipped and dreams destroyed. Their destiny sketched our for them by a misogynistic system that no one cares enough to stop.

The true dreamers are the countless children in the Hewn City with good intentions and desire for more than what that wretched place offers, but none of the tools, connections and highly regarded family name that Morrigan had to do anything about it, or even attempt to change their destiny. And I'm sure Illyria has their own group of dreamers, children with desire for more in their lives than what outdated tradition appoints for them, but don't happen to have any connections to the High Lord for their lives to improve in any significant way.

What do they have in common? Extremely weak attempts of change and a plethora of excuses from their ruler.

There happens to be a library for priestesses that experienced horrific events, so they CAN help, but what about those still living with their abusers on the Hewn City?

What about those Illyrian children born out of rape and thrown in the wilderness to fend for themselves like Cassian?

What about the little Illyrian girls trying to enjoy their wings as much as possible before their ability to fly is taken away?

Seems like not everyone is "deserving" of their help, unless their problems directly affect the IC.

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Rhys being the 'most powerful hl' ultimately hinders the story. If SJM wanted the nc to be underdogs, it should've been the smallest, most unstable court.

Historically, objectively bad or unmoral people can sometimes be the best rulers while objectively good or moral people can be terrible rulers. Take advantage of this.

Make Rhysand need to wear the mask of the cruel, ruthless high lord in order to prevent the CON and Illyria from rebelling. Make both of those places have a certain amount of political and militaristic power over him that would explain why he can't just force them to do as he pleases.

Have the NC be the court with the highest crime rates, and poverty rates and Rhysand be considered a ruthless ruler. One who 'lets' amren out on the prowl to steal wealth (preferably from greedy rich nobles) but they don't know that it's redistributed into running the NC, and looking after the people.

Have Mor actually help woman but drinking and visiting the con or other cities under the guise going there to flex her power and act tyranicle, but secretly leave money, medical supplies, tickets to boats/carriages, etc. Or even instructions to their library where sa survivors heal (maybe not in the how, but somewhere else, hidden or warded).

Have Azriel and Cassian push the limits of the Illyrians, not enough to incite war, but to keep them in line. If men clip wings, have Azriel either assassinate them or Cassian publicly punish or beat them but not reveal the reason why, so it comes off as tyranny.

Make them act like villains for a damn reason, and actually accomplish things in the process, even if it's small. Perhaps even have the land itself be dying (like the dusk court centuries ago), making food harder to come by too.

Maybe even have the concept of Velaris be a legend, of the Night Court's former glory, but in the current story, be a shell of itself. This would give the so-called court of dreams something to dream about and work towards.

Have the previous rulers of the nc be objectively moral people, that were bad at ruling and created the unstable political climate Rhysand needs to navigate, while Feyre gives him new perspective. Have Elain and Nesta come in later, and help teach Feyre about politics based on what they knew from their mortal lives. Give them dreams and aspirations of their own.

Give each of the Archeron Sisters something in the NC that would cement it as their home, if that's what you want to do. Have Feyre speak with the Illyrian women, teach them to hunt, learn of their issues, etc. Have her repair her relationship with Nesta over helping them, with Nesta using the training of her childhood to help the Illyrian women overthrow the corrupt lords that insist on treating them as lesser than.

Give Feyre and Nesta a chance to learn about each other, their childhood, how neglected Feyre felt and how abused Nesta was, before coming together to reach a common goal. Then, Nesta could become a diplomat that helped the nc repair their foreign relations, giving her the chance to travel that she always wanted.

Make the humans have innovative methods of agriculture, given they don't have magic. Have Elain want to help the people of downtrodden villages and towns, teaching them about those innovative methods, to help rejuvenate the land. Still let her have trauma, but let them have their own reasons to want to stay in the nc or not stay in the nc.

Making Rhysand 'the most powerful hl' doesn't make him unique or interesting. It makes it too easy to wonder why he won't do something when he sits in a seat of power and privilege, to do it. So, take away that power. Give him something to earn. Give the entire IC a dream/vision for what the NC could be and work to it, throughout the books, instead of handing it to them on a silver platter. Make them work for it.

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Let's talk about it

Realy?

"I’d planted images in his head of my brutalized body, the markings consistent with what Dagdan and Brannagh had already revealed to be their style. He’d describe them in detail—describe how he helped me get away before it was too late. How I ran for my life when Tamlin and Ianthe refused to intervene, to risk their alliance with Hybern. And when the sentry revealed the truth, no longer able to stomach keeping quiet when he saw how my sorry fate was concealed by Tamlin and Ianthe, just as Tamlin had sided with Ianthe the day he’d flogged that sentry …"

"For Hybern was coming—already here. I had debated it for weeks: whether it was better to claim the Spring Court for ourselves, or to let it fall to our enemies.

 It would have been easy to call in Rhys and Cassian, to have the latter bring in an Illyrian legion to claim the territory when it was weakest after my own maneuverings. Depending on how much mobility Cassian had retained—if he was still healing."

"But more than that, I had a people who had lost faith in their High Priestess. I had sentries who were beginning to rebel against their High Lord. And as a result of those things, I had Hybern royals doubting the strength of their allies here. I’d primed this court to fall. Not from outside forces—but its own internal warring."

I swallowed. “Has Hybern sacked the Spring Court?”

“Not yet. Whatever you did … it worked."

Feyre didn't show anyone the "truth about Tamlin." She lied. She altered people's memories. She's the villain in this story. Stop making excuses for her.

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I always did wonder what Mor thought was going to happen when she did what she did.

I get it; desperation breeds stupidity, and more so in teenagers being essentially sold off to be married to a stranger. But actions do have consequences, and while I can empathize with the pain she must’ve been in during those few hours at the border before Azriel found her, it does begs the question:

What did she think was going to happen?

The daughter of the steward of CoN, niece to the then HL of Night, breaks her betrothal to the eldest son and heir of the HL of Autumn by sleeping with an Illyrian bastard. And Mor just thought that she could’ve gotten away with it? In the Hewn City, notorious for its abuse and cruelty of its women and children? With Beron—the infamously cruel and murderous HL—as the FIL she humiliated by sleeping with Cassian?

What did she think was going to happen to her? To Cassian?

That Keir would break the betrothal without issue, or that Beron wouldn’t seek vengeance for humiliating him and his heir? That everyone was going to walk away unscathed after doing what she did? It’s a wonder that Cassian wasn’t executed for the part he played in Mor’s broken betrothal, be it by Night or Beron. Had Beron wanted Mor anyway to be broken and humiliated as she humiliated the Vanserras, I can guarantee Cassian’s head would have rolled 500 years ago.

Mor’s plan was brainless and thoughtless and fucked over all three parties involved. Eris didn’t even need to be eleven or nine to be fucked over immensely by her actions. Because despite her insistence, there was nothing Eris could have done. He couldn’t have saved her without signing her death warrant; she’d be brutalized for her decisions till death by Beron. Leaving Mor at the border was the best case scenario, especially if Eris had even an inkling that Azriel would come look. Given that Azriel keeps getting caught, I wouldn’t be surprised if Eris was counting on it.

Mor was the one to put Eris in the boat of shitty decisions in the first place. She doesn’t get to hold it over him for choosing when she forced him into that choice. Lording what happened over 500 years later without even once considering that it was her decisions that led to her abuse at her family’s hand is actually insane. No growth, no realization, no understanding; nothing. And I’m not saying forgive Keir or Beron because fuck that. But blaming Eris—who was also forced into that betrothal (because why is her being a child bride an issue for the IC but not that he was a child groom one)—most for making what he believed to be the best choice for her that day is actually insane.

Mor made the choices. She set the marionettes in place. She got what she wanted: her freedom. She doesn’t get to be angry at Eris for dancing on her puppet strings; eleven or nine or seventeen matters little when he had even less choices than her.

All i’m saying is

Morrigan slept with Cassian to break her bethrothal to Eris. She knew that by sleeping with Cassian, she was proving that she could not be trusted to be married to the heir of Autumn.

When Eris rightfully so, broke their engagement, any fallout rightfully fell on Morrigan, as he did EXACTLY what she wanted him to do. He absolved himself of any further relations with the NC.

Mor is mad because he left her at the Autumn border, completely disregarding the fact that her actions alone prohibited her from seeking solace in the Autumn court And yes, Eris found her (along with his fellow soldiers btw) and left her there because touching her meant condemnation for her to the Autumn court, guess who didn’t want to be there, oh yeah the dying fae with a nail through her “womb”????

these were choices she made. so no i don’t hold 11 year old eris accountable for his actions the same way i dont hold 14 year old sansa stark to her actions. but i do hold 19/20 year old Morrigan to hers.

And fucking hell, maybe start blaming her family first?? they’re the ones that hammered those nails in and left her there!!

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They erased Helaena’s gentleness, her belovednesd and her life-ending despair to give to Rhaenyra, they aged down Alicent and made her betray everything she loved for Rhaenyra, they made Cole sleep with Rhaenyra when he never did in the books because he held to his vows, they erased Mysaria’s flaws to make her a side piece for Rhaenyra, they erased Baela’s wildness and tomboyishness to have her be subservient to Rhaenyra, they erased Nettles to make sure Daemon never had a serious committment with anyone but Rhaenyra, they had the Velaryons ignore that Rhaenyra had caused the deaths of two of their members to be subservient to Rhaenyra, they had Laenor just fuck off and abandon everything so Rhaenyra wouldn’t get her hands dirty, they erased the Silent Five so Rhaenyra wouldn’t get her hands dirty, they made Vaemond’s death completely different so Rhaenyra wouldn’t get her hands dirty, they erased Rhaenyra’s racism and calling for a child’s death so Rhaenyra wouldn’t get her hands dirty, they erased Rhaenyra’s own opulence because sTrong InDePeNdAnT wOmEn cAnNot bE gIrLy, they erased Rhaenyra’s own desire for the throne

And I’m expected to believe this show favours Team Green.

Interesting.

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"Most of JC's suffering was created by him"

In what way was the Wen's invading his homeland, massacring his family and stealing his core HIS fault???? 🤨🤨🤨🤨

And don't get me started on the death of his sister and brother in law.

Literally, none of that had anything to do with his actions. Nobody deserves to have their family massacred and murdered like that and their nephew orphaned on top of everything. Tf is wrong with y'all??

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Sometimes I wonder what Jiang Cheng could've become if his parents didn't instill a mix of "crippling fear of failure" and "impossibly high standards" in him. Cuz like, his dad was holding him to the vague standard of being as good as wwx, his mom yelling at him whenever he goofed around like wwx, and then both of them expressed disappointment when he's less successful than wwx. The thing both of them seem to ignore though is that wwx got where he is entirely because he had the freedom to fuck around and find out- he trained tirelessly because he made training fun for himself, he was innovative as a cultivators because he experimented and persisted through failures, and he was able to act in line with the Jiang clan moto because his actions had less political pull than members of the main family. Jiang Cheng on the other hand- if he fucked around he got told to "stop stooping to the level of servants." If his achievements were lesser than wwx's, he got either dismissed by his dad or yelled at by his mom to try harder. And if he picked fights with the Wens, they'd have an excuse to destroy his clan. Like ya- no shit that'd create an adult who's terrified of failure.

The kite game serves as such a good metaphor/embodiment of this set back- with Jiang Cheng never being able to shoot as far as Wei Wuxian because he pulls back and shoots closer the second he misses.

And its sad too because he's shown to be pretty brilliant when he's in "fuck it, we ball" mode. Like, when he's not freezing up, he manages to pull off things like rebuilding his entire clan from the ground up, leading armies and taking back territories from the Wens, and I'm fairly sure he's the only character we see counter the Lan music cultivation techniques (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that last one. Also feel free to add any of the other cool shit he did that I'm blanking on at the moment, cuz I know I'm forgetting something).

That being said- even with his anxiety, he's still one of the top cultivators. Imagine what a force of nature he'd be if he could sustain "fuck it we ball" mode

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I’ve said it a hundred times, and I’ll say it again:

There is no version of reality where Viserys remarries and Rhaenyra keeps her throne. It never mattered who the bride was, only that she had sons. As long as a son exists, Rhaenyra would never ascend unencumbered. This is how you know Viserys though with his d*ck and not his brain, because the man went on to have not one son, but three.

The only way to avoid the Dance was for:

Viserys to remain widowed. Rhaenyra remains heir, and either marry her off to Daemon to secure both claims (unlikely) or have her marry Laenor/Harwin/etc, and have their children marry Daemon’s.

Viserys’ other children were born girls. They would all fall behind Rhaenyra in the line of succession automatically. Maybe arrange for Daemon to marry one of them to keep him in line. Marry another to Rhaenyra’s heir.

Stop having more children after Aegon and Helaena. Literally, the spare and the bride. At this point, Viserys already knew he was never going to make Aegon heir. Marrying him to Helaena ensured that no alliances could be made through marriage. Having Aemond and Daeron was about lust, not necessity. Hell, he could’ve easily gotten rid of Aegon to the Citadel or the Faith, had he wanted to.

It never mattered who Viserys married. As long as a son is born from that union, the die was cast. And Laena—a humiliated Velaryon Queen would have courted war in ways Otto could not. Otto was only a second son; Laena was Corlys’ only daughter. Rider of the largest dragon in the world. Had Viserys married Laena, and a son born but shunned from his birthright, the Velaryons would have waged a war Viserys couldn’t risk. They had three grown dragons vs the Targaryen’s two, two of which were larger than both Caraxes and Syrax. Not to mention the greatest naval power in Westeros at the time.

No, had it been Laena and not Alicent, Viserys would have seceded and named his son heir. Keeping Rhaenyra as heir would trigger a Dance basically as soon as Laena gives birth because Corlys wouldn’t wait. Laena being Queen would also guarantee that Laenor never married Rhaenyra, as that match only happened because Viserys chose Alicent. It would’ve been war or change the succession, and unless Viserys was very, very, very stupid (even more so than canon) he would bend.

i can't read hotd fics that act like laena marrying viserys instead of alicent fixes anything because first of all, laena's going to end up in the exact same position as alicent no matter if viserys waits for her to grow up or not, and second of all, like hell the velaryons would side with rhaenyra over their own daughter with her own kids in line for the throne

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“why would aegon want to marry the daughter of the man who killed his mother” why would jaehaera want to marry the son of the man who organised the beheading of her twin brother whilst her and her mother were watching like we can do this all day

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TAMLIN killed Amarantha. Yes, Feyre eventually broke the curse that allowed him to get his powers back but Tamlin is the one who actually killed her.

I don't know what nonsense Feyre is spewing in FAS about her and Rhysand killing her. Miss thing, you did NOT survive Amarantha. She killed you. Rhysand attempted to attack her and was thrown against a wall. Yall didn't do shit to Amarantha except piss her off. Tamlin was pissed and going to kill her anyways, Rhysand did not have to parade Feyre around practically naked, make her drink and dance til she threw up and sa her to make Tamlin mad enough to kill her.

I feel like everyone forgets this (including the high lords who are "oh so powerful blah blah blah" but believe the lies of a 20 yr old and her mate who was evil for the last 50 yrs over the high lord who saved them).

Give the male his flowers.

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“Nesta hates Rhysand, so of course he looks godawful in her POV. She’s unreliable and villainizes him!!!!”

Y’all sound ridiculous.

The fact that ACOSF was written in 3rd person pov with DUAL MCs (one of which was a member of the IC) already proves that it’s a significantly more ubiased perspective than Feyre’s rose tinted glasses and lobotomy. Y’all just don’t like that your faves are unapologetic assholes whose actions actually can’t be redeemed this time without Feyre spinning in her own web of delusions.

Most of the scenes involving Rhysand the King Prick were from Cassian’s perspective. Given that Cassian is so far up Rhysand’s ass that he’s essentially a second mouthpiece, if Rhysand comes off impeccably dick-ish just accept that it’s more than likely the reality.

Nesta wasn’t the one that painted Rhysand as the insufferable villain; that was Cassian. Quit blaming Nesta for it. Accept that the IC are in fact the villains in a LOT of the characters’ stories. Literally barely anyone likes or even tolerates the NC. Nesta didn’t need to do squat for characters AND readers to dislike the Mayor of Velaris and his equally useless entourage.

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I’m back on my bullshit thinking about ACOSF again.

Comparing Nesta and Feyre’s journeys is just so . . .wrong. Regardless of who you like more, when you take the time to reflect on how both of their love stories “end”, objectively, one is at best an abuse victim, at worst a horror story.

Feyre gets everything she ever wanted, absurdly quickly. Five homes, endless power, a baby boy within a couple years of her marriage when many fae try for hundreds of years. Her mate/husband is a piece of shit, but she forgives and loves him regardless. All of the most powerful people in the Night Court, and not a single one who will ever be anything less than an echo chamber for Feyre.

Nesta is berated like a dog for all of ACOSF. She is trapped, only let out to complete tasks, her own body’s abilities hidden away from her, and used as a sexual object to control a man. She is emotionally berated by her jailer while he continues to fuck her. All of her sharp edges are filed down until she is acceptable. When she steps out of line, she is then physically abused via the hike, forced to carry more than her body is meant to endure. The abuse continues mentally, despite the man she is with knowing she is suicidal.

Yet, Nesta endures. She does as she is expected. She breaks. Against all odds, she survives the Blood Rite, despite no one in the Inner Circle caring to try and help her.

She saves the entire Night Court royal family. High Lord, High Lady, son.

By the end, mere months after Nyx’s birth, Nesta still has no place in the Night Court. She is emotionally abused, still. She exists to serve. Her te refuses to defend her, even when her life is threatened. The only home she has is very nearly trapped inside of, being forced to other perform extreme physical activity, or ask another person to let her leave her own house.

Nesta is an abuse victim. I honestly do not care what mean things she’s said to Feyre when they were literal children. I do not care that the “cruel” voice in Feyre’s head is Nesta’s. That does not justify or excuse that Nesta is trapped and emotionally and mentally abused on her best of days. She has nothing in this new life that is hers. Everything is held within the palm of Rhysand’s hand.

Feyre has gotten everything she ever wanted. She has faced no consequences for the hundreds of lives she’s utterly ruined. For the theft or laws she broke. She is loved, cherished, protected, adored.

Nesta is eternally paying the price for childhood sins. She is trapped, violated, and has become the thing her mother wanted her to be. A woman taking the abuse men offer, all for the sake of her family.

Nesta will never see the world. She will never know what the world has to offer for a woman with a good name and coin to spare. Nesta is a horror story.

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there was never any hope for Rhaenyra to have a good relationship with the green kids regardless of what Alicent did because the green kids lived with Viserys and saw and felt the favouritism of Rhaenyra which was always bound to bleed resentment, more importantly Rhaenyra knew and never did anything about it she liked that her father blatantly loved her more over his other children, the only way she felt like she was enough for him was if he was choosing her over his other kids. the “thank you father” on Driftmark was her rubbing it in Alicent and her siblings faces that Viserys would always choose her.

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Let's play the did SJM forget her own lore game again

Is Eris actually the heir to the autumn court or is the magic still undecided because if the magic chooses the High Lord and the heir is always apparent, why, exactly, would he need Night's support to oust Beron?