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Let me set the scene:

The sky is clear, stars litter the nights sky and the moon is no where to be seen. On the balcony of the townhouse, Elain is sitting by the brick wall next to the door, and drinking in the silence. Azriel steps into the space cautiously. As he moves through the door, he doesn’t notice her at first as he steps into the starlight.

She watches him as she sits back and sees as he turn. He slowly looks towards her and sees her, sitting only a few feet away. As he goes towards her, he sits on his knees in front of her, his wings forming a shield around them. He gestures to her face, his calloused hands stroking the soft accents of her face, her cheekbones, her chin. As he reaches in, he leans into her ear, and bites it off. He burps from the satisfaction and leaves the room.

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Can we talk about the fact that in ACOWAR when Nesta watched Feyre go into Lucien’s mind and is like HAVE YOU EVER DONE THAT TO ME???

Feyre is like no I swear and probably thinks it’s because Nesta doesn’t want her to see all the mean awful things she thinks about her…

But really Nesta is just like thank GOD! If Feyre went into my mind she would know I fucking CARE about her and about that stupid fucking bat. How MORTIFYING!!! Imagine being so weak!!

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People (especially Nesta stan’s) forget that this is a fantasy book based in another world with different rules. Y’all love to whine about Rhys and Feyra being oh so mean to little Nesta but they live in a world where it’s canon to murder each other for funsies! ANY OTHER HIGH LORD OR FAE WOULD HAVE STRAIGHT UP MURDURED NESTA FOR HER BEHAVIOR/DISRESPECT! It doesn’t matter if she was their sister in law, at the very least the moment she opened her mouth to say something nasty, they would have tortured her or beat the shit out of her to teach her her place. THESE ARE THE RULES! Rhys would count as a fucking SAINT for giving nesta a year to try and cope AND paid her bills while she sat on her ass feeling sorry for herself.

And the fact y’all say that they shouldn’t have stepped in after all the shit she did, like, I would never want any of you to make any decisions regarding any one’s mental health or addiction. People who are addicted, have mental health issues or alcoholics DONT WANT TO BE HELPED! And you know where that lands them? Fucking death. You’re saying if your sibling was going through stages of addiction/ getting close to unaliving themselves you would just sit by and say “well they’re not ready to be helped, let’s just give them more time to figure it out themselves and give them all the money and enable their behavior”. Like what?

And for those saying that nesta was just mean and wasn’t an abusive asshole, constant attacks to someone’s character/insecurities IS EMOTIONAL/MENTAL ABUSE! And the fact the y’all praise and defend nesta for being a bitch, the moment someone is matching her energy suddenly they’re the bad guys? Pick a lane. A bunch of clowns and hypocrites.

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Nesta and Cass

Made on Artbreeder and Photoshop

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Casteel to Poppy: What you just did? Said? It has me feeling all kinds of wildly inappropriate things at the moment.

His parents, literally few meters away:

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At this point, anything that will bring Lucien happiness is something that I'm all for. If he can't be with Elain, that's ok because at the end of the book series, if he's content, so am I.

This doesn't necessarily mean that he HAS to be with someone, I think if sjm can pull off giving him a personal arch of love and care, I'm there for that too.

Out of all the people in Prythian, human and faerie world alike, Lucien has always been given the short end of the stick. Maybe, all the unfairness he has been dealt with in his life might make his character arch even better…hopefully.

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#rhysand #sjmaas #acotar #elain archeron #acofas #acosf #azriel #a court of thorns and roses #feysand #cassian #casteel da'neer #prince casteel #poppy x hawke #fbaa #tcogb #poppy x casteel #akofaf #poppy balfour #rowan whitethorn #rowan x aelin #hawthorn #celaena sardothien #tog

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One time my rabbi told us, “imagine you had a box with a little bit of god in it. What would you do with the box?”

So we were like ?? “We’d protect it and keep it nice and clean and polished” and he was like “your body’s that box. Stop eating markers”

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Can't convince me it didn't happen.

Q

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Tamlin to Feyre: You look better than before when you were covered in blood and mud and your clothes were ripped. And your hair is… clean.

Lucien to Tamlin:

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Why I think Gwyn is NOT Tamlin's daughter

+ TOG/ACOTAR GENTICS AT THE END

I've seen so many interesting theories in the ACOTAR fandom in regards to the new book, and a great chunk of these was about Gwyn being Tamlin/Lucien's daughter, and so I thought here's my take on it.

When I first read Gwyn saying "My sister and I were convinced at the Great Rite 28 years ago." I immediately thought "OH DAMN SHE MUST BE TAMLIN'S OR LUCIEN'S DAUGHTER!" but as I continued reading the book I put my Maas hat on and was like... "Hmm... yeah I don't think that's happening."

I have read, or rather, savored, all of Throne of Glass and ACOTAR books, so I'm an experienced SJM reader. Lemme tell you something about her writing, it's full, and I mean full, of foreshadowing. She creates ridiculously complicated plots and connections, even mixing in between the serials, and most of these you pick up on when you reread.

Did you know that Feyre was in fact mentioned going to TOG world in Heir of Fire? Did you know that Aelin was in A Court Of Silver Flames? Did you know that Dorian's first appearance in Throne of Glass has a Manorian reference? Did you know Vassien as a ship was a subject of a fae story in Heir of Fire? Did you know Rowaelin was foreshadowed in Throne of Glass? Did you know that Kaltain gave us a Manorian hint in Throne of Glass?

And these are just the ones I randomly thought of, there are so so much more!

Now, as a SJM reader, when I started thinking about "My sister and I were conceived on the Great Rite 28 years ago." I thought... that is too easy, too convenient, too obvious.

To me, that sentence is the equivalent of "Stay with the High Lord."

When I, and 99% of other readers first read it, the thought process was like this: It's obviously Tamlin! The Suriel just didn't refer to him by his name.

Same thing with the Great Rite, even a casual reader would immediately connect it to Tamlin.

Which High Lord did we see do Great Rite? Tamlin.

When the Great Rite was mentioned again, who was it mentioned with? Tamlin.

Who was the only High Lord not UTM 28 years ago? Tamlin.

This is something most of the fandom picked on, because it's so easy and so obvious, and I think SJM did it on purpose to bait us, but left clues (will get there soon) that it is actually not Tamlin, like she did in the first book.

Of course everyone will associate Tamlin with the Great Rite, especially one that happened while all the other High Lords were UTM, but how many readers will remember that:

It's not only the High Lord that participates, but his whole court

High Lord can refuse to participate like Tamlin did the last time

Gwyn said her mother did it with a stranger, and yeah they were under the masks at the time, but who doesn't know how the High Lord looks like? (granted her mom might have lied about it but I don't think it's the case considering it was specifically said it was a stranger when it wasn't necessary)

This is exactly like "Stay with the High Lord" because everyone immediately went with Tamlin because it was the logical thing to do, didn't even cross their minds that High Lord could be some other High Lord, I think Sarah is pulling the same trick twice.

I do think however that she left us a major clue on why it is not Tamlin, and that is Catrin, Gwyn's twin sister. She was mentioned a few times throughout the book as Gwyn's motivation and drive to move on and work hard, which is totally understandable, but mentioning her appearance... unnecessary. And SJM never writes anything unnecessary.

Gwyn has coppery-brown hair and teal eyes, and if she was the only child it could easily be assumed that she got it from her mother and that her father might look completely different. However, Catrin had black hair and black eyes, obviously like their mother who was a half nymph, which makes it a pretty reasonable assumption that Gwyn at least partly looks like her father.

Technically, it is possible that out of twins neither gets anything from the father and took it from grandparents instead, but it is extremely rare and not something an author would do. Imagine, you are a writer and you want to hint that this guy is the father of these twins, and you give neither twin any of his appearance traits. In fact, you go out of your way to point out that neither resembles him in the slightest.

Neither of them even has a similar trait, it wouldn't be stretching at all if Gwyn had reddish-blond or strawberry blond hair instead, or having a greenish glow in her eyes or amber specks in the center like Tamlin does. Or leaving Catrin's appearance a mystery. There was no reason to mention the way she looks whatsoever, yet SJM purposely pointed out that she looks completely different from Tamlin and Gwyn, making it obvious Gwyn gets the looks from the father while Catrin did from the mother.

See what I'm getting at here? She's baiting us while subtly planting hints that it's not the obvious option.

We have already seen the way she handles genetics (lil bonus):

Lucien has Helion's dark skin, and Loa's hair and eyes.

Nyx has Rhysand's skin and hair, and Feyre's eyes.

In TOG, when Rowan has a dream about his future children, three kids are a combination of his and Aelin's traits, while the youngest has his hair but her grandfather's eyes, eyes only, because kid inheriting complete looks from a grandparent is very very unlikely, and makes no sense from author's perspective.

Also, while everyone is focused on LUCIEN being Helion's son, nobody noticed that ERIS probably is as well! Not only were Loa and Helion involved when Eris was conceived, but Eris and Helion are also the ONLY TWO characters in the whole ACOTAR universe to have amber eyes, there is no way that's a coincidence. She literally described Beron's brown eyes, Loa's russet eyes, Helion's amber eyes and Eris's amber eyes all the in the chapter and nobody noticed because we didn't know of Loa and Helion yet, then all the focuses went to Lucien.

She wrote children looking exactly like one parent, a mix of parents, looking mostly like one parent, and having ONE trait from a grandparent which was literally only done not to have two kids that look the same way, but both twins having 0 resemblances to one parent? No way.

So, Lucien's daughter? Possibly. (I personally don't think so bc Lucien has way too much drama already lol but possible)

Tamlin's daughter? Nope.

My guess though? It's neither, I personally think Gwyn has a way more interesting story to explore (like being a Lighsinger) than who her father is.

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Helion is having the time of his life 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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my favorite characters with rightfully earned god complexes:

nesta archeron

annabeth chase

aelin galathynius

aaron warner

juliette cai

jude duarte

zoya nazyalensky

kaz brekker

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I found it funny that a dude living in a cave for 20 years decided to vaccinate as soon as he heard about the virus for the first time

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Forbidden, Lady of Autumn 🍁 & Helion Spell-Cleaver 🌞

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