#Anti inner cicle

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Isn't it weird that Rhysand claims to wear a "mask", but we don't know when it started? He's been attending inter-territory meetings since he was a prince (he met Tamlin at one of those meetings), and it's not like he just showed up at one of those meetings all gloomy and yelling "haha fear me, you scum, I'm the bad guy now huahuahua 😈😈”.

Tamlin was young at the war, a kid, I think, and Rhysand was about 38 and fought, I think he was at at least one or two meetings before that (war preparation meetings, mostly). So when exactly did he start wearing this mask to protect the cute little city? He didn't grow up in it, he grew up in the Illyria, he went there when he was 8. How could he love a city he didn't even live in?

He also didn't have much contact with his father, in ACOSF in Cassian's pov we read that Rhysand's mother made RARE visits to her husband, and they were partners. Rhysand didn't see his father until the war approached, when he went to the camp and saw his son almost surpass him in power. Rhysand was raised in a camp full of Illyrians, where the author wants me to believe that before they were much worse than they are now (I don't think anything has changed, no matter what Feyre believes that Rhysand has changed). So, hey, is it really a mask?

I know he had a "complete education", probably with tutors, but I don't think tutors without the supervision of the high lord would say something like "pretend to be a son of a bitch to protect Velaris", because there's no way people from outside the city can go to teach there in the Illyrian mountains, you know? The city was secret. It doesn't make sense. Has he been pretending since forever? Why don't the Illyrians seem to doubt his evil, if he was raised there? If he stayed there even after the war? His mother and sister went to visit him there, I have reason to believe that he lived in Illyria until his father died precisely because the high lord was afraid of being dethroned by Rhsyand, and being kept surrounded by people who hate him would prevent allies and therefore, a rebellion.

So again, what reason does Rhsyand have to pretend to be evil and protect a city he didn't even have access to until he became high lord (he lived there until he was 8, doesn't count, okay? He spent at least over a century with Illyrians)? Is it really a fake? Let's think about it... sarah, sarah, you better give me a decent plot if you want me to actually like your literary abusive god.

🇧🇷Não é estranho que Rhysand alegue usar uma "máscara", mas não saibamos quando isso começou? Ele comparece a reuniões entre territórios desde que era príncipe (conheceu Tamlin nessas reuniões), e não é como se ele simplesmente tivesse surgido em uma dessas reuniões todo trevoso como se gritasse "haha me temam, seus lixos, eu sou o vilão agora huahuahua 😈😈”.

Tamlin era jovem na guerra, uma criança, acho, e Rhsyand tinha uns 38 anos e lutou, acho que ele estava em pelo menos uma ou duas reuniões antes disso (reuniões de preparação de guerra, principalmente). Então, quando exatamente ele passou a usar essa máscara para proteger a cidade bonitinha? Ele não cresceu nela, ele cresceu no acompanhamento, foi pra lá com 8 anos. Como ele poderia amar uma cidade que ele sequer morava?

Ele também não tinha tanto contato com o pai, em ACOSF no pov de Cassian lemos que a mãe de Rhysand fazia RARAS visitas ao marido, e eles eram parceiros. Rhysand não viu o pai até a aproximação da guerra, quando ele foi ao acampamento e viu o filho quase lhe ultrapassar em poder. Rhysand foi criado em um acampamento cheio de illyrianos, onde a autora quer que eu acredite que antes eles eram bem piores do que são agora (eu acho que não mudou nada, não importa o que Feyre acredite que Rhsyand mudou). Então, ei, é realmente uma máscara?

Eu sei que ele teve uma “educação completa”, provavelmente com tutores, mas eu não acho que tutores sem a supervisão do alto senhor iriam dizer algo como "finge ser filho da puta pra proteger Velaris", porque não tem como pessoas de fora da cidade irem dar aula lá nas montanhas illyrianas, sabe? A cidade era secreta. Não faz sentido. Ele esteve fingindo desde sempre? Porque os illyrianos não parecem duvidar da maldade dele, se ele foi criado lá? Se ele continuou lá mesmo após a guerra? A mãe e a irmã dele foram visitar ele lá, tenho motivos para acreditar que ele viveu em illyria até o pai morrer justamente porque o alto senhor tinha medo de ser destronado pelo Rhsyand, e ser mantido rodeado de gente que odeia ele impediria aliados e portanto, uma rebelião.

Então, de novo, que motivos Rhsyand tem para fingir ser mal e proteger uma cidade que ele sequer teve acesso até virar alto senhor (ele viveu lá até os 8 anos, não conta, ok? Ele passou pelo menos mais de um século com illyrianos)? é realmente uma farsa? Vamos pensar sobre isso... sarah, sarah, é melhor me dar uma trama decente se quiser que eu realmente goste do seu deus abusador literário.

[viajandopelomar]

"Reading will always be political" that's beautiful.

Okay okay okay I don't know if this will even make sense or just sound dramatic or like rambling so bare with me I guess

I keep seeing people saying "oh you don't think reading should be made political but you read books like ACOTAR and xyz?" and while I totally get the point and agree with it, let's just look at this particular example for a second because it's completely unsurprising.

Let's be real, the majority of the people who read ACOTAR praise the "inner circle". They see them as the good guys, the best of the best, "goals", whatever. It has gotten to the point that it's almost cult-like, I mean I've seen people who haven't even read the books already in love with the inner circle just because fans basically convince them to be.

Anyway, even just their name is already starting off bad, the inner circle? By actual definition an inner circle is a curated group who move in the same circle. AKA the elite few chosen out of complete bias by the leader (not for any particular care for their people or political savvy because we know they have none of that) just because they're "besties"

This particular inner circle consists of

1. A man who has committed sexual assault, abuse, war crimes, murder and more. Has quite literally segregated his own people and abandoned 2/3s of his court. Knows about and allows the unrelenting physical, mental and sexual abuse of the women and children he is responsible for. Locked up survivors of sexual abuse and uses them for free labour and pretended it was some sort of charity.

2. A man who obliterated a village because of his own rage. Committed physical and emotional abuse and sexual harassment. Takes some sort of pleasure out of seeing women in pain.

3. A literal torturer (granted he doesn't seem to actually enjoy his job but he still does it)

4. A woman who abandoned all of the other women who are abused the way she was even though she's quite literally in charge of the place. Who also said that a woman at her worst mentally after severe trauma should be punished by being put with her abusers.

5. And literally a 1000+ year old ex-inmate of the Prison. Baring in mind we don't know why she was in the Prison, she wasn't pardoned or anything similar she escaped so she is still a criminal as far as we know and she is the nastiest skank ass bitch ever so I can only assume she did something horrific based on everything she's ever said. Ever. (this is mostly a Mean Girls joke because Rhysand is literally a Regina George wannabe but also Amren is the nastiest skank ass bitch)

These are the same people who are pretty racist towards Illyrians, make borderline vicious animals out of Illyrian men and allow them to do as they please so that they have disposable pawns to fight their wars and have left the Illyrian women and children to be abused by them. The same people who have decided that the entirety of Hewn city are abusive, not that there could possibly be any other women or children in similar situations to Mor. The same people who, while they build their *checks notes* fifth mansion, tear down buildings for funsies because they can't abuse whoever they want to use their powers. The same people who got pissed off about someone *double checks notes* saving another world and their own.

I'm sorry (not) but the same people who support and adore and worship these characters are typically the ones who "don't want to bring politics into reading" and say things like "it's just fiction". It isn't just fiction. There is no such thing as just fiction.

Reading will always be political. And I'm using ACOTAR as an example because I'm seeing it used and found it ironic in a way but christ nearly every fantasy book if not literally every fantasy book out there has politics that can be directly correlated to our own. I mean I always say that if someone told me that different people wrote ACOTAR and Throne of Glass I would believe them but at the same time that's mostly a joke because of how drastically different they are. I found Throne of Glass so deep, so much more focused on the underdog, the seemingly smaller stories that add up the the bigger picture, the end result of everyone not just the select few (the inner circle). Don't get me wrong, there are problems with it but a lot of them are called out in the writing and you can see that for the most part it's the writing of a young dreamer. And then you have ACOTAR and it's just so privileged and biased and trying so hard to tell you that the elite are at some sort of disadvantage and like basically you could convince me it was written by a straight white man with 0 effort.

Moral of the story is, when someone like SJM uses Breonna Taylors death to hype up her own book, it's not just fiction. When SJM who very clearly self inserts into ACOTAR and puts her own beliefs that she's taken from the real world into these stories that she writes, it's not just fiction. When she takes real world examples of abuse and privilege and segregation and misogyny and whatever fucking else and puts them into her stories, it's not just fiction. When what you're reading directly correlates to or effects your own political beliefs, it's not just fiction. When what you're reading can be translated to the real world in a scarily realistic way, it's not just fiction. When we could wake up tomorrow and be in the exact same situations we read about, it's not just fiction. Fiction is fiction sure, but it will always be based on real life. There is only so much the imagination can do, it needs a base point and that is the real world. So it is never just fiction

[viajandopelomar]

Suddenly I thought of a fanfic where despite being expelled, Lucien ends up being chosen by magic and becomes the high lord of autumn 🤌🏻. Where did I get that from? I don't know.

Basically, Beron dies in these encounters he has with Bryalin (something like that, I didn't really think about how he would die) and she expected to be able to use the crown on Eris, but magic chose Lucien, who is currently Rhysand's emissary. Lucien is shocked but has nothing to do. Eris is 👁️👄👁️, but then calms down because in the end he is not the one who will administer the territory. And everyone is like 😱😱, because it's no secret that Lucien has a lot of contacts, that he himself is a VERY good advisor, the man is a complete package of skills for a high lord.

The Night Court again tries to use Elain to have an alliance, to get something, to take things from the Autumn... But they don't hide it well and Elain, who did nothing to be "sold" in this way, ends up having the bond denied because Lucien spent a lot of time traveling through the Autumn (I think he says this in book 1 or 3?) because he didn't have lands to manage like his brothers. He knows everything, and in book 3 he basically seemed to blend into the scenery. That's it, Lucien, high lord of the Autumn Court.

Someone write 🙏🏻 (and put it on ao3)

🇧🇷 De repente eu pensei em uma fanfic onde apesar de ter sido expulso, Lucien acaba sendo escolhido pela magia e se torna o alto senhor do outono 🤌🏻. De onde tirei isso? Não sei.

Basicamente, Beron morre nesses encontros que ele tem com Bryalin (ao algo assim, não pensei direito em como ele morreria) e ela esperava poder usar a coroa em Eris, mas a magia escolheu Lucien, que atualmente é emissário do Rhysand. Lucien fica chocado mas não tem o que fazer. Eris fica 👁️👄👁️, mas depois tranquiliza porque no fim não é ele que vai administrar o território. E todo mundo fica fica 😱😱, porque não é segredo que Lucien tem vários contatos, que ele em si é um conselheiro MUITO bom, o homem é um pacote completo de habilidades para alto lorde.

A corte noturna tenta usar Elain para ter uma aliança, conseguir algo, tirar coisas do outono... Mas eles não disfarçam bem e Elain, que nada fez para ser "vendida" dessa forma, acaba tendo o laço negado porque Lucien passou muito tempo viajando pelo outono (acho que ele diz isso no livro 1 ou no 3?) porque ele não tinha terras para administrar como os irmãos. Ele conhece tudo, e no 3 livro ele basicamente pareceu se fundir com o cenário. É isto, Lucien grão senhor da corte do outono.

Alguém escreva 🙏🏻 (e coloque no ao3)

[viajandopelomar]

Assim, a maior parte do que está no livro, não explica, ele só usa a máscara desde antes da Amarantha simplesmente porque foda-se, a educação completa que ele teve na verdade, pelo o que ele mesmo falou, não parece ter sido tão completa assim, pq em acomaf ele fala q a mãe dele (da qual teve ele com 18 anos e antes de ir trabalhar no campo como costureira, ela morava na rua ou quase isso) que dava aula pra ele, não tinha tutor nem professor particular era a mãe e só dava dps q ele ficava o dia inteiro treinando, e dá a entender que a raivinha que ele tem dos illyrianos vem exatamente do fato de que ele cresceu ali....

É, ele diz que a mãe dele educou, mas pensei que foi só no início. Em acosf ele entende o que o Kelpie diz e explica só com um "minha educação foi completa", então imaginei que na adolescência ele tivesse tutores. Eu chuto Amren, porque é canônico que ela ensinou ele a usar o poder..pelo menos em parte, e ele foi direto pra ela quando ouviu o bicho na mente da Nesta.

Rhysand é todo mesquinho. Também acho que ele não gosta dos illyrianos por ter crescido com eles, não importa o quanto ele diga que ame a cultura (CADÊ A CULTURA QUE A GENTE NÃO SABE?????), e mantenho minha idéia de que ele superprotege a cidade porque ele não cresceu nela. Ele deve ter vivido achando que aquilo era o topo, que seria o auge da vida dele de grão senhor 🤡. Ele poderia ter usado as décadas longe do radar do pai (depois da guerra) pra ter alguma aproximação com o resto da corte, mas não. Tenho certeza que acumulou mais raiva pelos illyrios e ficou pensando em Velaris como meta de vida. Porque por mais que ele diga que fez o que fez em sob a montanha pela CORTE, e acosf Cassian diz a Nesta que Emerie saiu de um dos buracos que as fadas menores eram mantidas 🫠.

Então tipo, a corte noturna não foi atacada em si, porque muito do território dela permanece desconhecido (e sabemos que a mãe da gwyn conseguiu até entrar na corte, como eu não sei, porque supostamente fronteiras) e posso afirmar que isso é um fato, em ACOMAF temos o pov de Feyre onde Tamlin diz que o templo que ela ouviu que foi atacado era um dos poucos lugares conhecidos da corte. Mas ao que parece, as fadas que viviam em territórios vastos e conhecidos foram arrastadas para a montanha, e muito possivelmente foi Rhsyand quem os arrastou, ele talvez tenha selecionado aqueles que iriam, diversificando os tipos de fadas pra que Amarantha nem sonhasse que existia mais (Velaris). A cidade escavada com certeza foi, e os illyrianos também, acredito que por serem uma espécie guerreira também fosse motivo pra Amarantha não querer eles fora de vista. Então não, Rhsyand não protegeu a corte (ele até caçou os illyrios que apoiaram Amarantha pra sobreviver, mesmo que eles não tivessem feito nada que chegasse aos pés dele), ele protegeu a cidadezinha brilhante que ele sempre sonhou em morar. Pra ele é tudo o que importa