#Anti morrigan

[extremely-judgemental]

Not to come off as Azriel apologist, but I don’t understand the outrage over the ‘Three sisters’ logic. As disgusting as it is, it is the only thing consistent with his past and character.

Did we really expect this guy to treat women right when one of his brothers is a sexual assaulter and the other is. . .Cassian? Not to mention the weird sex dynamic among the three. Did we all really expect healthy boundaries and concepts from the guy who was kept captive for first 11 years of his life, adopted by demonic spawns who abused him first and then helped him, spent the next 500 years pining over the woman who rejected him?

Sure, he had time to deal with his trauma and get over it like the others, but (imo) he didn’t have a chance. Rhysand made him a torturer when he is a fucking daemati who doesn’t need one, forcing Azriel to relive and inflict what was done to him. Cassian and Morrigan don’t let him forget what those two did with their constant whatever that is in front of him. Morrigan flirts with him enough to string him along. And if he wanted to leave them, that’s tough because try asking an abuse victim to turn their back on their saviour, and that’s who Rhysand and Cassian are for him. While the rest of the IC choose not to deal with their drama, this guy doesn’t have a chance with everyone rubbing his issues in his face whenever they can.

I find it funny that this guy is being blamed for the one thing SJM was on point about his behaviour.

[hrizantemy]

Day 18 of ACOTAR Games: This or That

Which do you prefer?

Nesta as a scholastic traveller in Prythian

Nesta as a ballet dancer in Midgard

Your contenders: @achaotichuman @litnerdwrites @umthisistheonlyusernamenottaken

I love the idea of Nesta Archeron as a scholarly traveler in Prythian. It’s not just the absurdity of imagining her, with her sharp tongue and even sharper glares, navigating the politics of the courts armed with nothing but ink-stained fingers and an overstuffed satchel. It’s the hilarity of the situations she would definitely find herself in—half because of her curiosity and half because she refuses to take anyone’s nonsense.

Just imagine it: Nesta dragging herself across Prythian, collecting rare tomes, scrolls, and stories, looking perfectly composed until you notice the smudge of dirt on her nose or the way her boots squelch because she refused to ask anyone for help crossing a swamp. She’d be that traveler who arrives at court looking like she spent a month wrestling kelpies, only to haughtily inform everyone that she is there on scholarly business.

The potential for comedy is endless.

The beauty of Nesta as a traveler is that she would be good at it—methodical, curious, and brilliant—but she’d still clash with every personality and situation imaginable. Feyre would try to micromanage her travels. Rhysand would insist on slipping into her itinerary like a nosy chaperone. Cassian would show up uninvited, insisting that she couldn’t possibly go anywhere dangerous alone, and Nesta would snap, “You are the danger, Cassian!”

In the end, Nesta’s travels would be less about her academic pursuits and more about her outsmarting everyone who doubts her. And if she ends up publishing a scathing treatise titled On the Utter Uselessness of Fae Males in Times of Crisis, well… that’s just a bonus.

[spacerockfloater]

The way people switched on Tamlin the moment Rhys was introduced is diabolical.

“Tamlin never really loved Feyre, it was all a trick from the start”: It is stated that Tamlin was disgusted by the idea of forcing someone to fall in love with him and considered it slavery, but ended up being so in love with her that he ultimately lets her go and choses her freedom and safety over that of his own people. Rhys confirms that Tamlin loved Feyre too much. And he loved her truly. Not because he had to. Tamlin treated Feyre with dignity when she was engaged to him. He introduced her as his lady, to be respected and cherished by all. And she really was loved by his people, too. Rhysand uses her as his lap dog to scare Hewn City and parades her as his whore.

“Tamlin never did anything for Feyre, he just used her”: He improved her and her family’s life in every aspect and offered her everything he had.

“Tamlin had sex with someone else in Calanmai”: Out of duty and responsibility because he didn’t want to force Feyre, who still wasn’t sure about her feelings, into it. All of the High Lords perform the Calanmai. Lucien says so. How convenient that this is never brought up with Rhysand. He surely does perform it as well. All the theories in here, “Lucien doesn’t know what he’s talking about/ This is a SC ritual only/ He probably just passes the duty on to someone else” are just a way for people to villainise Tam and glorify Rhys again. All of them inaccurate. The Calanmai is canonically performed by every High Lord. There’s no evidence that proves otherwise. As the son of one High Lord and the ambassador of another, Lucien would know. He is 500 years old. It’s just more convenient for SJM to never bring this up again because it raises the question of “Who was Rhysand fucking all these years?” and it makes her favourite character look bad. And once he is engaged to her, Tamlin flat out refuses to do it. Let’s be real for a second.

“Tamlin didn’t help Feyre under the mountain”: He literally could not. He was bound by a curse. He was forced to be Amarantha’s consort and a consort cannot oppose you. His powers were bound. Alis warns Feyre that Tamlin will not be able to help her. Stop acting as if he didn’t want to help her. He decapitated Amarantha the moment he got his autonomy back. Claiming that there’s no proof that Tamlin was under the influence of a spell when he literally didn’t break the curse and Amarantha’s magic didn’t allow him to use his powers is crazy. And even if he tried, he could never provide actual help. We see this when he begs Amarantha for Feyre’s life. Him showing he cares about her would only make Amarantha more jealous and vicious towards Feyre.

“Tamlin made out with Feyre instead of helping her”: He couldn’t help her run away. No one could do that. She would never make it, Amarantha would find her. In fact, Tamlin specifically could not help her in any way. He could only assure her he still wants and loves her. And she wanted that just as much. Rhys abused her physically, mentally, verbally, drugged her and much worse. And he enjoyed all of it. If he didn’t want to raise suspicions, he wouldn’t have placed a bet in her favour. Rhys is a sadist, SJM just decided to mellow him down in the next book so that we’d all like him over Tamlin.

“Tamlin ignored Feyre’s wishes and only wanted her to be his bride, he didn’t let her be High Lady”: Both Tamlin and Feyre were bad communicators going though trauma and Tam had a whole court to care for. Tamlin was unaware of how Feyre felt because she barely spoke up once. Rhys knew because he literally lived inside her head and had all the time in the world to focus his attention on her since his court suffered zero consequences during Amarantha’s reign. And Tamlin simply told her the truth: there’s no such thing as High Lady. Even her current title is given to her by Rhys, the magic of Prythian has not actually chosen her to be High Lady. The title and its power are decorative. And she said she didn’t want that anyway.

“Tamlin locks Feyre up and uses his magic to harm her”: He locks her in his humongous palace to keep her safe, after she just came back from the dead and his worst enemy is kidnapping her every month, while he runs off to protect his borders. Rhysand locks Feyre in a fucking bubble. Tamlin loses control of his magic. He doesn’t want to harm her. That’s not abuse. Abuse is intentional. Feyre and Rhysand lock Lucien and Nesta up. They lock the people of the Hewn City up in a cave. Feyre loses control of her magic and harms Lucien’s mother. Double standards I guess.

“Tamlin is a bad and conservative ruler”: Tamlin is such a beloved ruler that his sentries literally begged to die for him. Feyre had to fuck with their minds to finally turn them against him. They were his friends. He was so progressive that the lords fled his court once he became their ruler because he wouldn’t put up with their bullshit like his father did. He loved all of his people. He is against slavery. The Tithe was just tax collection. Rhysand practically rules over just one city, while ignoring Hewn City and Illyria. He treats 2/3 of his realm like shit and everyone except the residents of Velaris hates him. He collects tax, too, but we conveniently never see this. He ranks the members of his inner circle (my 1st, my 2nd etc.) and reminds them every moment that they are his slaves first and anything else second, while Tamlin treats them equally and even gives Lucien an official title by naming him Ambassador.

“Tamlin conspired with Hybern”: He was a double agent and his short lived alliance, two weeks all in all, not only didn’t harm a single soul, but ultimately saved all of Prythian as he was the only one who brought valuable information to that meeting. He dragged Beron to battle. Rhysand’s alliance with Amarantha harmed thousands and only helped save one city, Velaris.

“Tamlin is responsible for turning Nesta and Elain into Fae”: No, that was Ianthe, who got the info from Feyre. Tamlin was fooled by her, just as Feyre obviously was, or she wouldn’t have trusted her. Tamlin was disgusted by that act.

“Tamlin is less powerful than Rhysand”: Rhysand himself says that a battle between them would turn mountains to dust. Tamlin killed Rhysand’s dad, the previous High Lord of the Night Court, in one blow. He is just as powerful as Rhysand. SJM again just wants us to believe otherwise. And he is smarter, too. He was the only one not to trust Amarantha. And he was a good spy for Prythian against Hybern.

All of these takes are cold as fuck. SJM was testing the waters with ACOTAR and she made sure the main love interest, Tamlin, was insanely likeable, so that the book could be a satisfactory standalone story in case she couldn’t land a trilogy deal. She didn’t know it would be such a big hit. But once she realised she could turn this into a franchise, she had to figure out a new story to tell. She may claim otherwise, but there’s just too many plothotes to convince me. And in order to make her new main love interest seem like the best choice, she had to character assassinate the old one. There was no other way. ACOTAR Rhys was too much of an evil monster to be loved by the majority of the audience. But Tamlin was introduced to us as such a heroic and passionate man that is literally impossible to turn him into someone despised by all. Feyre’s relationship with Rhysand reads too much like cheating on Tamlin. That’s why anyone with basic analytical skills is able to realise the flaws of the narration.

[hugevanserrass]

reread the solstice scene from acofas and was surprised at how pleasant nesta was the entire time. from the way people talk about it, and from Cassian's reaction after she leaves, you'd think she was hissing and insulting everyone in the room. but no.

nesta wishes feyre happy birthday, she thanks elain for her gifts, and sits quietly, allowing them to continue with their presents. meanwhile mor gives cassian silk boxers that match the lingerie set he got her. nesta even kisses elain on the head before she leaves. she is 100% polite.

the next chapter is Cassian's pov and it starts with "he'd had enough. enough of the coldness, the sharpness. enough of the sword-straight spine and razor-sharp stare that had only honed itself these months"

BRO SHE WAS JUST SITTING THERE

[litteraslegit]

No. of people who have claimed that Rhysand is the most powerful High Lord in Prythian:

Rhysand

Inner circle

Feyre after falling for his self-centered ass.

And no one else :)

[the-darkestminds]

The fact that Mor regards Nesta as basically as evil and despicable as people like Keir is one of the reasons I cannot bring myself to like or respect her. Nesta fought for the humans, risked her own life to help the Fae in the war against Hybern, killed the king herself !! and was willing to die protecting Cassian. And yet because Nesta doesn’t get along with Rhys, because she’s struggling with her trauma and hurts Feyre’s and Cassian’s feelings, she deserves to be left for dead in the human lands? I’m sorry but Mor is the worst and I swear she’s just jealous that Cassian only has eyes for Nesta now. ✋😩

[aurenturley]

The weird thing is that Nesta's trauma responses are identical to Feyre's. Feyre stops eating, drinks constantly, closes herself off, has meaningless sex with Tamlin, and so on. Similarly, Rhys, Azriel, and Mor all engaged in excessive drinking and a stream of meaningless casual sex for centuries.

Heck, Mor still does both and they all drink like fish. All of them, including Feyre and Elain, say nasty shit sometimes lashing out (weirdly, Elain lashes out at Nesta when Nesta was endlessly patient with Elain during Elain's breakdown).

Even Amen deals with her trauma similarly to Nesta, by being incredibly harsh (often worse than Nesta) and self-isolating.

Yet, Nesta is the only one that gets punished for trying to cope with her trauma.

[thrumbolt]

It will never stop being hilarious when Mor rambles in her head about wanting to kill Tamlin. Bitch you can't even kill your shitty dad!

[roseadleyn]

okay but why is the entire inner circle so toxic towards each other? like found family my fucking foot they hate each other. cassian and rhysand gang up to beat azriel even tho azriel was beaten as a kid, mor and amren talk abt wine and men and occasionally power, feyre is only included because she's rhys' victim i mean wife and she has no friends of her own, rhys locked the entire inner circle up in velaris for 50 fucking years... i mean they don't even need threats or enemies atp. their family is enough evil for them

edit;: rhys and cass fucking know about azriels childhood trauma and still beat him btw

[delaneytveit]

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!!

[youareatragedy]

I'm forever angry that Nesta is treated poorly by the Inner Circle and I don’t want to hear excuses like “NeStA wAs s0 sELf DeSTruCtIVe aNd THey WeRe hELpINg hEr.”

Her sister locked her up "for Nesta's own good," even though that same sister knows full well—after spending so much time complaining herself—what it's like to be in the same situation.

Amren, who claimed to be Nesta's friend, preaches to everyone about "keep reaching out your hand," yet abandoned Nesta the moment Nesta acted as rude as Amren always does to everyone else.

Cassian acted like a predator, badgering her until she was too tired to maintain her boundaries.

Mor thought it was a good idea for Nesta to go to CoN and live there, putting her in the same environment Mor herself knows is cruel and dangerous to women.

Rhysand was consistently cruel to Nesta, so threatened by her that he repeatedly endangered her safety, threatened her life, and insisted she work under his supervision.

Azriel was complicit in many of these scenarios.

The only reason Nesta actually got better was because of her friendship with Gwyn and Emerie. It was them. And I don’t want to hear, “WitHOuT rHYs, NeStA wOUldN’t hAvE mEt GwYn AnD eMErIe” because without Rhysand and Feyre’s stupidity and narcissism (they think they’re the only ones who can prevent the war somehow *gag*), Nesta wouldn’t be traumatized by that damn cauldron in the first place and wouldn’t have been in that war. As if she didn’t already have enough unresolved trauma from her childhood.

SJM is just ignorant and hypocritical, too blind to see how toxic the IC is. If by the end of this, Nesta killed Rhys and wiped the IC off the planet, people would hate Nesta so much—but I would applaud Nesta and SJM, because for once, SJM would have done something right for acotar.

[dalishious]

Won't lie. When Morrigan appeared as yet again an "elven expert" for the Veil Jumpers I felt like there was an awkward space for applause. Awkward because I was just like

[hrizantemy]

It’s genuinely amusing how Tamlin is painted as the ultimate villain in the narrative, yet before the chaos with Feyre, his entire court was ready to lay down their lives for him. Meanwhile, it’s almost comical that two-thirds of Rhysand’s court, the very individuals he relies on for military support, harbor such animosity toward him that they actively want to see him dead.

[spacerockfloater]

Okay, but why did every High Lord bring one, maybe two companions to the meeting, while Rhysand and Feyre invited all of their pals and extended family? And allowed them to speak as if any of them has any real experience on ruling a court or actual authority to do so? That was so fucking wild. And the other High Lords just, accepted it? Out of fear? You’re telling me that six fucking High Lords couldn’t put Rhysand in his place, when it is canon that Tamlin alone can rival him?

And they all willingly helped bring Rhysand back? You’re telling me no one thought that “Hey, maybe we’re better off without him!”? Even though he was evil personified and a fucking pain in everyone’s ass? Aren’t the High Lords supposedly cunning and selfish? Was no one afraid that he might come back with a sliver of their power like Feyre did? Not even a knife to my throat could convince me to help resurrect that winged rat. I’d throw a ball celebrating his death the moment I got back in my court.

[litnerdwrites]

Nesta wears revealing clothing when she doesn't want to, only to be objectified by Cassian, the same way she was by Thomas, her parents and the entirety of human society, based on their views of women. Especially when there's no point to it. The priestesses seem to be allowed to wear robes when they start training, and Cassian even tells them straight that he doesn't care what they wear.

Then, one of the most confusing things to me, is the court of Nightmares. Mor wears revealing clothes to piss off her parents, Amren, I'm pretty sure, just wore whatever she usually wears, and Feyre... She just likes the more revealing style, ig? Like maybe she sees it as fancy dress or something, idk. But the rest of the women wear more modest clothing.

Mor specifically dresses to make a statement, that statement being a 'fuck you' to her parents, and the women she abandoned when she was saved, while also opposing the culture of the place she was raised in, showing her distaste for it. But, from what I can tell, that culture is similar to human culture in many ways, especially for women.

So, in that case, the fact that they act like it's a mandatory dress code to dress somewhat revealing, knowing Nesta values her modesty just never sat right to me.

This, to me, seems like blatant disrespect for humans and their culture, despite what Rhysand says, and they do it in many other ways too, not just with clothing. I have exams going on right now, but after that, I might go more in depth into the way human culture is treated by the NC, if that's something anyone wants to read about.

[litteraslegit]

Omg that High Lord meeting was such a clusterfuck of bullshit. It’s the most annoying and hard part to read in the entire series. Thinking about this scene gives me a migraine. Everyone was so cringe.

Tamlin’s entry *SWOONS*

How very caring of Feyre. Wondering whether Lucien’s mom heard the lies she crafted. The audacity-

The way Feyre always “block” things out when truth is being spoken that causes her the tiniest inconvenience every single time. The sheer ignorance from this women is disgusting

Now this is what we call a HIGH LORD 🗣️🔝

Taken notes Rhysand. Why did Rhysand bring his entire family to the meeting? They made the meeting 10x worse.