#Eris critical

[lov3rgirlx]

What if I told you Nesta had every right to feel left out by Feyre not painting her. Elain did the same thing as her and got a damn painting. Nesta NEVER brought up her issue with it to anybody so why do people come at a character for their feelings, especially when they are valid?

[etchedjade]

Cassian has had FIVE HUNDRED YEARS to learn and use the opportunities handed to him by Rhysand and his mother. He’s actively chosen NOT to. Instead, he’d rather play victim and project his inferiority complex onto Nes, and perhaps even Eris.

It’s old. It makes me roll my eyes. Az most certainly has made the best of it and I applaud him for it. Cassian should’ve been taking notes.

One of the many reasons I’m pro Eris and Neris ngl. Eris chose to make the most of his situation so that he won’t feel lowly and inferior. Cassian has not.

One of the most annoying things to me about the “poor Cassian he’s just a sad little brute of a warrior and Nesta makes him feel so inferior” arc in ACOSF is that it’s literally ALL CASSIAN’S OWN FAULT. Yes, his early childhood is especially traumatic and unfair but he was taken in by Rhys and his mother young enough (even earlier than Azriel) that he was given far more luxuries than any of the other Illyrians. The timeline is a bit screwy for the bat boys early days but Rhys took power relatively young after the war and Cassian was immediately put into a high ranking position of political power. He has all the money/power/luxuries he could want and also he’s FIVE HUNDRED+ YEARS OLD.

This man is not some poor sad underdog being belittled by a LITERAL TWENTY YEAR OLD WHO SPENT MOST OF HER LIFE IN POVERTY. Even the foil they try to do between him and Eris for sympathy is ridiculous. Yes, Eris is politically strategic, well dressed, knows how to dance and be diplomatic but CASSIAN COULD BE THOSE THINGS TOO and we know that not just because it’s obvious from his standing (which again he’s had for centuries) but because LITERALLY AZRIEL IS.

Azriel is described as the politest one constantly (even better at it than Rhys), Azriel knows how to dance expertly with Nesta (without needing sudden training from Mor), Azriel knows how to handle Eris and general diplomacy and AZRIEL HAD THE SAME UPBRINGING AS CASSIAN IF NOT A WORSE ONE. Again, the weird dichotomy they try to create between Cassian and Nesta about their social standing is ridiculous enough because it misrepresents Nesta but also the victimization of Cassian as if it’s somehow the worlds fault for his behavior and vilifying of people like Eris and Nesta for calling him out on it is insane.

[the-darkestminds]

Me:

[b00kdiary]

Eris Vanserra is Rhysand if he didn’t have the Inner Circle.

Eris Vanserra is a dreamer with no stars. The Autumn Court is his Hewn City, it’s his Court of Nightmares.

Free my man 😭

[extremely-judgemental]

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.

[lainalit]

If acotar was filmed in the style of a mockumentary, Eris and Lucien would be the characters that break the 4th wall by looking at the camera while other characters are fighting or saying/doing stupid shit

[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!!

[bittersweetyrn]

big fan of essek thelyss, not the fanon interpretation, which is either "smol bean, tiny fragile elf who's a sweetheart and basically a child" or people mistakenly calling betrayal of one's home country a "war crime" and then proceeding to be flippant about it anyway, but the real Essek

pretentious motherfucker that committed treason bc he though he was smarter than everyone else

learned to float literally just to impress other rich people

canonically neutral evil

basically head spymaster of his country and master of lies but sucks shit lying to his friends

stayed bitchy even after his redemption arc

"there is nothing I would love more than to not be around you all for the remainder of this day"

a space wizard that crushed someone with telekenesis just to show off (the person was already dying)

sexy feet, nice ass, overall hottie

fell in love with a traumatized wizard of his enemy country and it was mutual despite all the betrayal

faggot

gave away state secrets to enemy wizard bc he though he was sexy

discovered time travel with his boyfriend

proceeded to say they shouldn't use time travel (bc now he's a good boy) but was willing to sacrifice everything and help if his bf wanted to use it

once confessed he had such a bad fight with his dad that his dad ran into the demon caves and never returned (essek doesn't feel bad about this at all)

young for an elf but still 120 years old, he called his bf "young man" and flexed on him about how much more evil he is

[reblogandlikes]

I'm convinced I'm not the target audience for the acotar series because I just saw someone say that they're rereading it and somehow love Rhysand more...? The first time I can understand the lack of introspection and caught up in the hype, but the second time? Seriously? Do people honestly think as Feyre and the IC does about him and are unable to see past the false persona of "amazingness" when he's a terrible leader and throws his power around to those who rightfully challenge him as a form of intimidation?

Maybe because they know where they story ends, they're now reading everything from a 20/20 romantic lense because they "understand him", but even with this understanding, to me, makes his entire personality even more underwhelming, forced and unnecessary. Oh so powerful, yet barely does anything substantial with it. Then what's the fucking point of you other than to fill a "morally ambitious", super powerful, dark haired quota trying to convey feminism, but not actually?

And then, when I'm critical, I have to check myself and ask if I'm being bloody pompous, but no. No, I'm not. The love for Rhysand is baffling for the genre he is in, and i think that's one of my main gripes. Dark romance, sure. But not in a series that has the audacity to hammers down "abusive" behaviour on one character but not the other in the books and by fans in online spaces. It's so weird. If you have fae's, let them be viciously so, because they are not human. Their behaviours and customs should be the differences highlighted. That should be the appeal, or am I wrong? Not for the faeness to used to be OK in one moment, but not in the next because it doesn't suit the convience of the plot or may paint your beloved in a bad light. You've then just convoluted your own world, sjm, and takes away character depth.

I'm tempted to say that I've aged out of sjm's storytelling style, but i've witnessed fully grown adults eat this shit up. But age has nothing to do with this, and I'm just honestly at a loss. I feel like an outlier. Like, I'm just not getting the appeal to these favourable characters and get frustrated when things are clearly unjust or misrepresented, yet others swear ones actions and behaviours are perfectly fine yet hate to see it in others. You can't just pick and choose when shit is ok or not, especially when the characters have very similar reasoning behind their actions. Maybe I like shit to be nuanced too much, which would explain why it irks me of being told what to believe in contrary to evidence.

It's ok to like whatever book you want, but just dont lie about the content within or delude tourselfninto believing characterisations that are false because even authors fall victim to their own character bias. *Sigh* So I'mma chill and go tackle the books on my tbr.

[thefatesofspring]

You know when it comes to Rhysand for someone who knows what it’s like to lose a mother & the pain that comes with it, this male has no problem continuously threatening Lucien or Eris with the life of their mother, even though he is fully aware of how bad Lady of Autumn already has it by being married to Beron.

Not only that but he knows/suspects her & Helion to be mates…

How can you play the sob story of losing your mother & villanise Tamlin but then later on threaten the life of another innocent female just because you don’t like her sons & they are not stupid like you…

I promise Rhysand is not all there.

[chooseoptioncbitch]

Eris is my favourite character. I have so many reasons for this, but the main one is how complex his character is. Personally I think he really is a good person and does what he thinks is right but he is still morally gray. Like really morally gray, for example Rhys is supposed to be morally gray but sjm tries to justify everything he does. Morally gray characters do bad things. If you're trying to write one let them be bad, arrogant, selfish at times. The world isn't black and white, it's shades of gray. Eris shows that and his actions are probably the most realistic, because we all know he's done bad things but he owes up to them just like real people do (or should). Sjm claims Rhysand has never done anything bad and more bs like that.

(also azris and the vanserra in his name make eris VERY appealing)

[ladydeath-vanserra]

sjm is too straight and too much of a coward to make Azris a thing but I am NOT

[bookbitchx]

I heard this was the place to come criticize Feysand and the IC?

Because if so, I've found my people.

[the-darkestminds]

just another day thinking about what a disaster the high lord’s meeting was for the night court. the spymaster was smashing chairs and choking other delegates. the high lady was setting fire to innocents. the high lord was treating his ex boyfriend like his personal puppet. the human emissary was vomiting in the reflection pool. and yet. somehow, against all odds, these messy idiots convinced 5 other courts to join their cause. a miracle, really.

[shadowqueenjude]

Autumn Court is literally Indian if SJM wasn’t a coward.

Come on. Indians get married by walking around a fire and the Autumn Court is the court of FIRE??? HELLOOOOOO

Beron is giving crazy brown dad. He abuses his children so that they can “be better,” there’s a huge emphasis on brains over brawn, and Beron literally tried to force Eris into an arranged marriage??? Like…

Lucien’s ex being named Jesminda, which comes from the Punjabi name JESMINDER.

Fire in their blood and fuck like it too? Reference to all of our spices obviously.

Bonus: You’re telling me Eris WOULDN’T wear this???

[extremely-judgemental]

Rhys isn't good guy playing bad. He did bad things and sometimes felt bad about it.

Eris technically doesn't do anything wrong. People believe he did. He doesn't deny the rumours and plays along.

Eris is the real good guy playing bad.