#Lucien will be fine

[frostwing213]

You know what? I loved Nesta, and I liked the inner circle!

Nesta's gotta be my favorite charcter, and I ship her with Cassian!

I like Feyre, I like Rhys, I like the inner circle, I love the valkiries! I hate Tamlin.

I can like all those charcters and still love Nesta!

I liked her book! And I kinda agree with the inner circle. She was destroying herself and while maybe it might not have been the perfect corse of action, they were trying to help, and it worked.

I enjoyied reading Nesta's jorney! She had to work with herself to heal and forgive herself. Cassian helped her the way he knew how.

When looking at these charteres, try to actually put yourself in their shoes, empathize with them. Yeah, they're fictional, but they're meant to act like real pepole. I scroll the tags assoisciated with ACOTAR and I find so much hate, ussaully just to defend a charter the poster likes. I mean, have your opinons, but you can love charteres without hating on others! Surpise surpise, the charters meant to modle actual people have flaws!

This all being said, I have a minor complaint about ACOSF. Nesta was super op and powerful and I LOVED that! I love powerful female charters! I was dissapointed when she had to give up her power to save Feyre (Which I'm glad she did, btw. And about the whole pregnacy debacle, I think Rhys should have told her, but i can also see his point of veiw. Nesta probobly shouldn't have snapped the way she did out of anger, but I'm glad she told her)

Forgive my spelling errors

[sugarcoated-lame]

much to think about…

[blackmensuited]

[uukipi]

blessed by The mother looking like that

[spiritedstars]

Thinking about Lucien waking up on a random morning with Elain sleeping in his arms, in their cozy home and it's peaceful and quiet and they're so safe. Thinking about Elain slowly waking, blinking sleepily at Lucien then nuzzling into him with a smile, knowing she's in the arms of the only man who has ever truly seen her and loves her in a way she's only dreamed of. Thinking about how they are at home with each other and there's so much love. So much of it and their hearts are so full and safely tucked in each other's hands and it simply couldn't get any better than this.

[collectionstilllife]

Lucien Freud (British/English, 1822 - 2010) • Basket of Apples in Wales • 1939 • Private collection

[crmediagal]

I finished A Court of Frost and Starlight last night...and I have a lot of feelings. Putting them under the cuff and just gonna generalize the biggest peeves I had below...

Can the Inner Circle be anymore insufferable? They probably can…but they really gave me the ick in this book, even more than the others up to this point.

Feyre talking about how many Illyrians died in the Battle of Hybern or how many families in Velaris are displaced and homeless after the war…but then she keeps flexing about the endless supply of money she and Rhysand have. And doesn't even think about giving any of it away to those in need? Oh, and she's gifted another house at the end of the book?! The utter lack of self-awareness is gob-smacking and just makes her and Rhysand all the more unlikable.

My biggest pet peeve of all in this book: Feyre treating Lucien like actual garbage and Rhysand saying he "can't forgive him [Lucien]" for what he did to her UTM. I'm sorry, what kind of gaslighting is this?! Lucien?! Lucien did nothing but try to HELP Feyre every step of the way UTM and was even willing to let Rhysand turn his mind to soup rather than give up her name, and that's when she was still human! The gaslighting by the characters and author in these books over other characters' actions continues to drive me insane. Where did that assassination of Lucien's character even come from?!

Oh, and we can't forget Rhysand visiting Tamlin twice, who is CLEARLY deeply, horribly depressed - he's unkempt, not eating, barely communicates, and even asks for forgiveness at the end - and Rhysand just keeps verbally kicking the guy again and again. It was so unsettling and uncomfortable for me to read someone verbally abusing someone suffering this badly. If I had any more reasons to dislike the fandom's favorite High Lord, there it was. He's grotesque towards others' pains and faults but can't look in a mirror. Ever.

There really wasn't much to like about this book, and it's a shame because the after-war reprieve could have been a lovely, cozy read. It was interesting getting other characters' POVs, too…but they all are so infuriating and self-righteous that it made the experience very un-enjoyable for me.

I'm basically hanging on to this fandom for Lucien's and Elain's POVs…and praying that their storylines are upheld, not gaslighted, or sh*t all over.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Lucien-henri Grandgérard (French, 1880-1970) Femme nue allongée, 1911

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Lucien Gilbert

Artist: André Derain (French, 1880–1954)

Date: c. 1905

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

This picture is one of several dynamic, boldly-colored portraits that Derain created around 1905. In addition to depicting Gilbert, a childhood friend of the artist and later a collector of his work, Derain also painted portraits of his fellow artists, Matisse (Tate, London), and Vlaminck (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres).

[classicdavinci]

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (Symbolist painter, 1871-1950)

[nestastits]

The best insult yall could come up with for Lucien is cyclops? 😭sound like middle schoolers at this point.

Also, I’m gonna remind the Lucien haters that he lost his eye by amarantha (the same woman who raped Rhys for fifty years) because Lucien had the guts to stand up to her and she took it personally. It wasn’t a choice. Some of yall disgust me.

And if this were Greek mythology, Lucien would be the sexiest cyclops in all of prythian.

[parcai]

ur recent tamlinposting .... lowkey ur not wrong

rereading had me seeing the light fr, got so used to fanon tamlin i forgot who he actually is...let my boy free..

[blackmensuited]

[unironicallytes]

i've been trying to get a better feel for The Bastard Man, as his cheekbone and jawline shapes continue to bamboozle me

[thegothicalice]

Fantasy protagonist vibes 🌿Dress by Nuit Clothing Atelier, overdress Holy Clothing, necklace is a prop replica from Underworld, Ophelia earrings by Hanna Lemoine Fine Art.

[grayintogreen]

Because I’m genuinely curious:

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