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Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs - on the probabilities. || Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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Here’s some fourth wing art! #fourthwing

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Xaden yelling "WELL THE FUCK AWARE" at Violet is honestly so funny to me. Like that is PEAK exasperated husband energy.

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i've finally put my finger on what irritates me about the new enemies-to-lovers-that-aren't-really-enemies surge

these couples all have the same goal

imo, in order to actually be enemies, you have to be working towards different goals - not necessarily opposite goals, but different ones

if both individuals are working toward the same goal in different ways, they are rivals at best

for example, in fourth wing, violet's goal is to stay alive and xaden's goal is to keep violet alive. same goal. they aren't enemies

in acotar, rhysand's goal is to defeat amarantha. feyre's goal is to defeat amarantha. same goal. they aren't enemies

in the cruel prince, cardan's goal is to fuck around and do nothing. jude's goal is to hone herself into a blade that can survive the cruelty around her. these are different goals! they are actually enemies! (i would hesitate to ever really call them lovers though... i think these two would have ended up better as fuckbuddies and nothing more but that's a separate complaint)

basically, if you want your trope to be actual enemies to lovers, MAKE THEM ENEMIES FOR GOD'S SAKE

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Does anyone else wonder if the dragons freaked out when the egg, that’s been incubating longer than any of them have been alive, all of the sudden started hatching for no discernable reason?

Because I do.

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*Andarna starts hatching*

The Dragons:

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It was interesting to see Cassian wildly and completely out of his element as a courtier, and I wish that Nesta—who has experience seducing Dukes with a quick turn of the foot and whatnot—was roped in to assist. It would've been great to see the training go both ways: Cassian training Nesta to be able to defend herself physically and Nesta training Cassian on the nuances of courtly games of power.

... aaand I also just wanted more scenes of Nesta using her powers for Good and not for Evil.

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Nesta Archeron is for the girls who prefer anger over fear. the girls who prefer actions over words. the girls who are scared of their emotions. the girls who love smutty romance books. the girls who are secret hopeless romantics. the girls who fear getting close to people and then losing them. the girls who find it hard to make friends. the girls who grew up way too fast. the girls who are hard to impress. the girls who dont know how to be soft and are learning over time. the girls who are always cold. the girls who have confidence but no self esteem.

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feyre antis love to hate feyre for learning to fly with illyrian wings but then turn around and praise the nesta, gwyn, and emerie for appropriating a culture that has been extinct for centuries

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so let’s talk about my baby lucien ‘cause his trauma is so tremendously overlooked

starting with his past, namely what happened to jesminda, the fact that he’s been hunted by his brothers and had to kill one of them, his “father” hating him and having his fucking eye carved out by amarantha

this is already a whole lot, but throw in fifty years trying to get tampon off his ass with no avail until the very last moment, knowing it would lead to their downfall and his possible death (‘cause while tampon was to go utm to be amarantha’s consort and be treated like a king, he would’ve probably met his death eventually)

and that’s not even the end of it. so tampon failed, they are now under the mountain and he probably has to sleep with one eye open (if he manages to sleep at all) because his assholes brothers and father might as well try to get rid of him while he’s there; then feyre gets there and he almost gets his mind crushed by rhys (don’t know if he would’ve done it, but I’m assuming so ‘cause he didn’t quite have a choice beyond how clean the death would be); he then gets dealt twenty lashes by his best friend and high lord for helping his friend survive just to be tortured and almost killed (again) in feyre’s second trial; then he watches someone he’s come to care about die

you’d say it’s enough right? wrong. he gets out from utm just to have to deal with tampon’s outbursts, abuse and his own helplessness in helping feyre and don’t get me started on damned ianthe; I can’t even begin to think what he went through with tamlin after feyre left; just to then find his mate, who doesn’t want him, and have to live with the fact that he involuntarily played a part in one of the most traumatic moments of her life; then he decides to leave the place he has called home for a very long time to go to a court he thinks delights in torture and death just to see her and after that leave again for a very dangerous journey to find some bird (lmao, love vassa) and then come back and fight in a fucking war

it’s not like it’s a competition but I feel like all of this is often dismissed like nothing; when I say he deserves happiness at last I really mean it and I’ve come with receipts lmao

like people are constantly complaining that lucien was different in acomaf but they never stop to think that he probably has ptsd from utm too and maybe there’s a reason he’s not as funny and sassy (still love him to death)

this is not to excuse him not helping feyre, he could’ve done more but his trauma is always dismissed and almost nobody tries to understand why he’s changed

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"Nesta is another version of Amarantha " Yeah you never actually read the books and probably just skimmed it

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If Helion dies before giving his son and heir a hug, I will lose my marbles.

If Helion dies at all, I'm going to lose my marbles.

Sun Daddy and Sunny Heir deserve some peace and love in their lives.

I'm so ridiculously invested in the Helion/LOA/Lucien subplot.

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this is what played when Bryce Quinlan made the drop and no one can convince me otherwise.

‘five. four. three. two.

one. the milliseconds raced towards zero. true death.

the clock stopped at 0.003.

a red line shot across the bottom of the Eleusian system’s graph, along the runway towards oblivion.

Declan whisperered, “she’s running.”’

what song do you think she made it to?

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mmm, ash and gasoline; smells like spring cleaning

my fictional husband

alexa, play despacito

the F in FMK

the only sane person in the whole book

*trips* *spaghetti full of secrets fall out of pockets*

The Mindfuck, literally

I was thinking of drawing all the CC characters but there's like 50 of them so I'm just working my way down the list and we'll see how far I get

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Disclaimer: this post contains major spoilers from House of Sky and Breath

This was so much fun to make, it'll make everyone's lives easier including myself haha so happy reading everyone! I tried my best to include accurate info🤍

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hi!!

I've seen a lot of posts lately that say Feyre is an unreliable narrator. And usually that Nesta's perspective is more true or more reliable. Can I have your thoughts? Because while Feyre's perspective is one interpretation of events, I never thought she was actually unreliable so now I'm not sure

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Yeah, the idea that Nesta herself, as a character, is more "reliable" than Feyre, doesn't make sense to me. I can't help but wonder if people are using this as another "here is why Nesta is better than Feyre" argument, since people gotta be pitting them against one another.

(I haven't really been on tumblr the last 4-5 days so idk who is making these arguments or what they are like, just to preface this. I also got some new nails so typing on my laptop is fun!)

Characters could be unreliable for two reasons:

They don't have all the information or have been lied to, or

They are intentionally misleading the reader

#2 isn't true, I think we can all agree on that, while #1 was true for both Feyre and Nesta. Neither of them are trying to lie to the reader, and neither of them have the full truth at any one time; all of us are always inherently restricted to seeing the world through our own perspective.

The main issue here is the voice acotar is written in. Feyre's books are written in first-person, which inherently restricts us to knowing what she knows - although, really skilled writers can still tell the reader more than what the character knows, without the character actually knowing it. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is one of those books. Anyway, SJM has written Feyre in first person in a way that makes her knowledge of the fae world limited. That doesn't make her unreliable in the sense that she is lying to us, she just doesn't know things. And for acotar-war, that works - we get to learn about the world as Feyre does.

acosf was written in third person close. That means that we are not limited to what Nesta experiences and knows. That is not necessarily better, it's just different. That also doesn't mean that what Nesta feels and experiences is necessarily "more" true. It's just that the scope of what we know is wider.

Think of it like this: first person is like watching a movie in full screen. Third person close is like watching a movie in widescreen. It's not that we are seeing things completely differently, we just get more from third person close, including things that the main character might not notice themselves. Maybe a better comparison would be watching acotar through Feyre's GoPro, where Nesta's book was filmed in widescreen. They are both the truth, it's just that acosf gave us more.

I wonder, are people trying to say that Feyre is biased? Because that doesn't make sense either... we are all biased to some extent. Nesta being more critical of the IC doesn't make her smarter, or more savy, or whatever. It's just a function of who she is and the way that she encountered the Night Court. If she saw the IC as people who had saved her from an abusive romantic relationship, she would have the same positive view of the IC as Feyre does.

Sorry this got long, I just can't help but wonder - do people think that Nesta being critical of the IC is inherently better? Because criticizing something/someone, or seeing flaws, doesn't necessarily mean that someone has thought more, or been more objective. Maybe the IC has problems, but um. Hello, hi, the Autumn Court? Spring Court? idk, this idea that finding flaws makes someone a critical thinker drives me crazy because it's just not true.

We all come to things with our own perspectives. There is no avoiding it. And I just don't see how we could say that Nesta's perspective is more true - it's just her perspective, which yes differs from Feyre's perspective, but do we really expect a sister-in-law to view her sister's husband in the same way her sister does? Cuz yikes. Weird. Just because Feyre loves Rhys, doesn't make her view of him untrue. If we were to accept that, then we'd also have to say that Nesta's view of Cassian is "untrue", etc. When the irony is that those feelings come from our "biased" perspective in the first place! Of course we see people we love more positively than people we dislike, but that doesn't mean we are blind to who they are, or lying to ourselves about them. Maybe we offer them more forgiveness or grace than we would offer other people. But again, that doesn't make our perspective "wrong" in any way.

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Azriel and his mother❤️❤️

Newly commissioned piece by @lucielart

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Nesta antis be like, "Why do Nesta stans think everything is about Nesta?"

Because it literally is.

Nesta has been vital to the plot since ACOTAR. She's an Oristian. She's the only person in existence to Make three magical weapons. She's the only person who can control the Dread Trove. She was the most powerful person in Prythian. She almost defeated Rhysand in her sleep. She's the Queen of Queens. She has a connection with the Mother.

The better question is, if antis hate her so much then why are they always posting in the Nesta tags? Why do they spend their time and energy scrolling through the Nesta tags to comment their hate on pro-Nesta posts and stalk and harrass Nesta stans?

Say what you want, but if everything wasn't about Nesta then antis would find something better to do with their day, like making friendship bracelets, for example. If you spend all day long talking about Nesta and making 100% Nesta hate blogs... then she's a vital character.

Oh, and Nesta's one of the most loved characters in ACOTAR. Go cry about it in the AntiNesta tag.