#Pro nesta

[wingsdippedingold]

My rapid fire ACOTAR hot takes that y’all will hate:

I pray the pros don’t find this

I don’t ship Elriel or Elucien because I ship Elain with singleness and just traveling Prythian to learn about different plants and then settling down somewhere to become an apothecary. Is she aromantic and suffering from comphet in my head? You’ll never know

Nesta would not have eaten Lucien alive, I think she’d be tentative at first but then realize he’s not a threat to her then grow to enjoy his presence. They could have had a great romance that actually helped her grow as a person, unlike Nessian.

Nessian is a mutually destructive relationship. Cassian is too insecure to date someone who he thinks looks down at him. Nesta needs an emotionally supportive partner.

There was ZERO need to actively SA Feyre publicly to make her look subservient or as if she had a “claim” laid on her. The reasoning is weak, and SJM an Rhysand fans need to admit that they only defend it because they thought it was sexy, or because they self-insert and can’t make Rhysand actually look bad.

Tamlin isn’t a bad leader, but it doesn’t suit him. He’s much more of a people person than someone who would like to be removed from them and working on laws and politics.

Tamlin should be walking around the SC as they rebuild and see a woman directing townspeople on how to do so. Tamlin would admire her for being able to connect with people but also being able to govern well. They would have a romance and that woman would eventually become a lady and help Tamlin govern because she wants to make a difference and is good at that stuff. They eventually get married 💥

Canon Elain is my least favorite Archeron. I think she’s manipulative and worse than Nesta in her cabin behavior because she wasn’t upfront about it. She let Feyre think she was useless and kind, to later only throw her under the bus. Nesta is the one who went to the wall for Feyre, and Elain didn’t gaf about Nesta caring for her the second is stopped benefitting her. Elain even acknowledges all that Feyre did for them, and yet she still didn’t do anything

BUT to append to that, I totally get why she’s that way. It’s her only means of survival because since childhood she was treated as a doll with noice of her own. She can’t be upfront like Nesta because she won’t get taken seriously, so her only way to get what she wants is to manipulate people and use her niceness as a mask.

Nesta and Feyre have a closer relationship than Nesta and Elain solely because they were constantly arguing. Nesta “favored” Elain, but it was still distant, but she actively watched Feyre and treated her like a whole person even if it was poorly. I think this is also exemplified in their appearance. Feyre and Nesta look very similar, while Elain doesn’t look like them as much.

You can’t argue that Feyre’s childhood was traumatizing (it was) but then say that it had no negative effects on her development and ability to socialize.

Feyre is NOT good at reading people despite what y’all like to argue. She can barely read Nesta, a woman she’s known for 20 years.

She suffers from hubris and has a savior complex. For example, when the debtors came to cripple her father she notes that they only left after SHE cried and soiled herself. In her perspective she will always be the hero because that’s how she makes herself fell good.

Arguable my hottest take: I don’t think Nesta and Feyre had a power imbalance in the cottage to make their relationship abusive. In fact, I think Feyre held more power over Nesta, Nesta just didn’t acknowledge it/was mean so it didn’t seem like it. Feyre was their father’s favorite, was the breadwinner, and technically dictated whether they would get to eat. Feyre held control over her family’s survival, even if she didn’t want it, and they all knew this. It is specifically why Elain sucked up to her (a character know to jump to whoever has the most power at the moment and would protect her the most)

Feyre doesn’t act how she wants to, but rather as she thinks a good person would. She doesn’t want to hunt, but she does so because she thinks she has to. Many of her acts are “selfless” but are often shallow. She also thinks everyone wants to the helped the same way she would want to be.

To add to this, she doesn’t love her sisters. She doesn’t love them for who they are, but because of proximity. She even says to Nesta when trying to get her to come to solstice “but you’re my sister”

Feyre did not know love and it did not know her, and thus made her latch on to whoever gave her affection and she deemed as her own savior (Tamlin and Rhysand). Should she finally ever feel suffocated by Rhysand (though he has ensured she won’t), I wouldn’t doubt that she would run to another.

Feyre has 0 healthy relationships. ZILCH

By adulthood, Feyre’s illiteracy is no one’s fault but her own. As a child she didn’t want to ask Nesta, but she didn’t ask Elain or her father either. Even then they fell into poverty at like 9 and she still didn’t learn much so that doesn’t make sense. She refused Tamlin’s help and Rhysand literally had to force her to learn.

Rhysand’s character makes 0 sense when you consider her upbringing, family, friends, personality, and powers, and is just a product of SJM trying to write the morally grey ultimate love interest.

I’m on the fence about him being a master manipulator towards Feyre and the IC. I doubt Sarah meant for him to come off like that, but if he actually was it would be a masterful story and make his character feel more cohesive.

HOWEVER, if he was a manipulator I don’t think it would be that impressive for him to manipulate Feyre. She is naive and new to the world of fae, and she switches her opinions like night and day. She would be the perfect target. Again, this comes about from her upbringing and her own hubris.

The series should stuck to being a trilogy. Insert it drags on and makes new problems that aren’t even properly addressed

This was not rapid I fear

[xwintersoulx]

Before I Read A court of silver flames everybody told me how romantic it was and how Cassian is this great mate and how much he loves Nesta but all I Read in his pov was how he lusts after her. Always talking about her body BUT NOT HER AS A PERSON! WHERE IS THE LOVE?!

[silverflameataraxia]

The same reasons I dislike Cassian for the punishment hike are the same reasons I dislike him in the Ember bonus chapter.

During both the punishment hike and HOFAS, he sided with Feyre, Rhys, and the IC over Nesta.

During the punishment hike, he willfully chose to punish Nesta to please Rhysand. In HOFAS, he did nothing to stop any potential punishment that Rhysand ordered against Nesta.

During the punishment hike, he didn't give two hoots about her physical or emotional well-being to the point that she passed out. In HOFAS, he either didn't notice or willfully ignored her vacant face; her carefully blank face; her thin, brittle voice; the guilty look in her eyes; the bruised look in her eyes; and the wall of steel that she raised in her mind to protect herself from him.

In both the punishment hike and HOFAS, he couldn't have cared less whether Nesta lived or died.

During the punishment hike, he treated her so horribly that she had a mental breakdown. In HOFAS, he treated her so horribly that she appeared so lost, beaten down, and broken.

Cassian's temper is dangerous. He lets his temper ride him so hard that he completely ignores Nesta's physical and emotional well-being.

[fangirlforlife97]

IKR!!! The lack of positive videos or tributes, fan videos and aesthetics is truly infuriating and incredibly disappointing.

me going through any social media platform looking through the acotar tag as a pro nesta pro tamlin pro lucien girly:

[fenrysmoonbeamswife]

I have just been reminded of Balthazar the Illyrian and I feel like his erasure in all of our minds is a crime

Borderline golden retriever Illyrian and none of us are lapping that shit up?

This is my official announcement that I am now officially a Balthazar x Nesta stan

[nestaians]

saw someone say if rhysand chooses to give up dusk to nesta, she’ll be getting it only bc of him and basically she’ll get bc of a man and finding it funny cause nesta stans points out how feyre got her high lady title bc of a man like??

first of magic didn’t choose feyre so yeah she got the high lady title bc of the man, she does not have power to rule over night court -it’s in fucking canon

why do u think ic doesn’t listen to her right away and rhysand has to remind them she has authority every damn time? if she had the power to command ppl they would listen to her instantly

and as for nesta, if she is chosen by magic to rule dusk, like other high lords have been chosen to rule their courts, then rhysand has no choice here it’s not in his hands

fyi if nesta isn’t chosen by magic then i don’t like the idea of her ruling dusk bc that makes no sense

second i haven’t read a single nesta and dusk theory where rhysand is mentioned, let alone anything about him having to give nesta the dusk court to rule over unless my own ppl have failed me by being blinded by their hate for rhysand

[hrizantemy]

The stench of blood thickened the air, cloying and metallic, seeping into her lungs with every breath. It was everywhere—soaked into the churned mud beneath her boots, smeared across the shattered stones of the ruined keep, mingling with the filth and sweat of dying men. The scent was suffocating, overwhelming, yet not unfamiliar. Hewn City reeked of death in its own way, of rot and slow decay, of whispers and knives in the dark. But this—this was different.

This was war. Ugly. Wasteful. Pointless.

[fenrysmoonbeamswife]

I'm sorry maybe I'm misinterpreting (please read to the end first) this but "a character did xyz because of the author" is the single laziest excuse for a characters actions

If the author writes them as problematic and abusive then that's what they are because she wrote them that way. If this was a once off then maybe but the authors intention changes nothing about the inherent character and their consistent actions

I mean if you want to go down that road then Amarantha isn't actually a sick evil bitch, she didn't have to do anything she did, SJM wrote her that way so that everyone would feel sorry for Rhysand, she's just a byproduct of that writing

If SJM wrote Rhysand parading Feyre around naked just to be sexy/horny then why did she write pages and pages of him fake apologizing afterwards? Why does she feel the need to use morally grey as an excuse for everything he does? Why does she have to blame Nesta or retcon to justify Cassians abuse? If she writes these scenes and actions and then feels the need to write a justification for it, she knows exactly what she's doing and she doesn't care and saying she doesn't intend it that way just seems to me like letting her get away with it

And don't get me wrong I understand the general concept of this post (again I could be misinterpreting), that SJM didn't actually write them to be bad people and I can agree to an extent since she clearly thinks the sun shines out of their asses, so maybe both things can be true but it is important to apply nuance when an author romanticizes abuse and assault and non consensual acts. And as I said, her intentions don't change the fact that they are inherently toxic and problematic. Saying it's just to be horny they're not actually bad people just provides another excuse for them, and SJM, to get a free pass

can i say something . can i be brave . a lot of y’all are trying to find endogenic reasons for characters in acotar doing things when the reason they did them was not because they are abusive / morally bad characters but because sjm wanted to make the books horny. did rhysand have to paint feyre and waltz her around the parties under the mountain basically naked? did he have to distract the hewn city by making feyre a pet and touching on her in front of everyone? no. sjm wrote it to be horny. did azriel need to be a cringecore emo fuck (affectionate) talmbout sad shower jerks and the cauldron giving him elain? no. sjm wrote it to lay the tension for being horny later. did cassian have to do anything he did in acosf? no. sjm wanted to be HORNY. all these things are shitty not great things for the characters to be doing, but the characters aren’t doing them because they’re inherently problematic; they’re doing them because the author wants to be horny, and they become problematic as a byproduct. there are plenty of actions and plots and decisions to be rightfully critical of in these books — trust me i want to 1v1 the inner circle in a pit — but some of the takes i’ve seen on this hellsite are trying to apply nuance to things done purely for the sake of being horny and it’s driving me crazy

[andieburky]

NESSIAN ⚔️

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[podemechamardek]

@nessianweek | Day Five: Behind Closed Doors

My first idea for this art was to focus on the dialogue from the Acosf Prison scene, where Cassian says “I can’t risk you” and this phrase was repeated at a time when they were alone, after Bryce returned the mask to Nesta, because I believe it is one of the reasons, among others, for Cassian to be “the most furious” person with Nesta in that situation. However, the same Acosf Prison scene develops in a way that allows me to believe that Cassian recognizes that he should believe her. So I decided that, in response to Nesta’s “I’m fine” after the worlds were safe, in part because of the decision she made, he would again respond with an “I don’t know why I doubted you”, because I want Cassian to increasingly allow himself to consider Nesta’s perspective first, instead of criticizing her in favor of others, especially in cases where she is the most appropriate person to assess the situation.

My dear Jaque made this wonderful illustration, which I was super excited to share, and I don’t have enough words to praise and thank her.

Art by: Jaqueline Florencio (jjflorentina)

Commissioned by: @podemechamardek

🚫 Please do not repost.

[lib-arts]

The Archeron sisters

art by me

Day

Night

Dusk

[wingsdippedingold]

Nesta is trapped in a cage with a wolf, who she can no longer differentiate herself from

Feyre tries to hunt the wolf, but in shooting it, shoots her sister

That’s the best way I can sum up their relationship

+ Rhysand pokes the wolf with a stick

[gwandas]

Didn't feel right that I hadn't commissioned a Neris piece yet, and I've joked a couple times that I finally understand what Zutaras went through back in the day for shipping fanon... so what better inspiration than one of my favorite pieces of Zutara art 😁

I love how soft this turned out, Nesta and Eris look so pretty together in their colors 🥹

Artist: @.nanna.arts Commissioned by: Me

Do not repost without permission

[xwintersoulx]

Sarah J. Maas keps shoving down our throats that Rhysand is the most powerful High Lord and that he is such a good leader.

BITCH WHERE?! WHERE?!

He did absolutely nothing to show he is the most powerful. And if you Read the books again you will see only he and the inner circle say that. And with how the world building is it doesn't even make sense. And he is only High Lord of Valeris. The rest of the night court? Absolutely fucking not, he can't keep it together and mind you he is 500 YEARS OLD!

[silverflameataraxia]

It's so funny to me that Feyre tells Amren that very few people like Nesta, when, canonically, Nesta has always had way more friends than Feyre. Feyre's really only friends with the IC, and Nesta's really only not friends with the IC. Nesta's literally friends with everyone else, including a whole other world.

[yennas-stuff]

Nesta is actually so brave for reading smut in a place where everyone can smell your horniness.

Go off and get off, queen. Let them know. 💅