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Hm

I’ve recently become obsessed with the idea of an AU where Cassian was never taken in by Rhys’ mom and instead worked his way up in Illyria as a warrior and he and Nesta don’t meet until Rhys brings them to Illyria during ACOWAR and it’s just INSTANT near bloodshed and Rhys and Cassian already have a sort of heads butting relationship characterized by mutual respect but more begrudging than actually liking each other at all and Cassian has 0 reason to hide the mating bond so he just gets all possessive real quick and Feyre is freaking out and Rhys is like of fucking course and Nesta is just like HA yeah that’s gonna be a no on the mating bond to a warlord thanks and it’s all just an absolute chaotic disaster

So anyway … if anyone wants to write that … (maybe I’ll try to get something together for Nesta week but I don’t have much faith in my free time these days)

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why is the metal community so pressed abt this it’s literally hilarious. 10/10. love it. i want it.

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MALE WIFE MALE WIFE MALE WIFE

#cannot believe psychic lady walked away with the best prize

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The biggest problem in acosf, to me, is that sjm wanted to write a rehab story but didn't actually want to write a rehab story.

And I'm not sure she likes nesta, yet. Like part of her still sees nesta the way Rhys did. And so all bets were off in terms of "fixing her"

I just remembered that Cassian sat across from Mor sipping tea while she talked about how Nesta should be in a dungeon or being tortured by being locked up in hewn city and he’s just there blown the fuck away by Mor’s beauty AND THEN LATER she winnows to Illyria where Cassian is training, ogles him and talks to Nesta about how she’ll never deserve him and how attractive he is

Nesta stood up for Cassian during the high lord meeting, in front of EVERYBODY and he can’t take his family aside and tell them to stop starting fights with her? He’ll stand in front of Mor when Eris is around but sit by and do nothing when Rhys threatens Nesta’s life?

He. Does. Not. Love. Her. Funny also that his attitude changed toward her after the war when she was taking other men to her bed. Sjm made her sleep around out of character so that nessian can have hate sex but sjm still virtue signals feminism as if Cassian in acowar wasn’t calling her sweetheart and Cassian in acomaf didn’t wipe away her tears in front of the queens and everyone. He promised her time together as his would-be last words. But then sjm writes that Nesta uses sex to cope and now all-of-a-sudden Cassian is telling her that everybody fucking hates her and that he never asked to be shackled to her. Making it clear she can only use sex as a coping mechanism if it’s sex WITH HIM.

Suddenly he’s not understanding. Suddenly he isn’t gentle with her. No, now he’s an incel who locks Nesta up until she caves and sleeps with him.

It’s hard to imagine a being with wings, who flies in the air, would want to confine his MATE to a house she can’t escape from. Azriel, too, was locked up as a boy and then acts as a prison guard against her? And for Feyre to be the one to do it when she was supposedly traumatized when Tamlin locked her in his mansion? I understand why elain packed her clothes and sent her on her way— she’s the type to save herself and if she sided with Nesta she’d be locked up alongside her.

I’m just saying, ACOSF is a lot to unpack and I’m still processing my shock and disgust years later. I truly can’t believe it happened.

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I don't usually click tumblr ads but that site has a lot of great drawing refs tbh

#araki ass fashion

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Cassian uses 3-in-1

Nesta uses bar soap

Cassian has a multi step hair care routine.

Nesta is the 3 and 1 person in that relationship.

😱

Actually I can get behind Nesta as a 3-in-1 girlie because I think she secretly hates it. She's minimized her system down to 15 min tops and spends 2 hrs of prep work reading

Cassian is still doing the least he can get away with though

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cassian uses 3-in-1 products and you can't convince me otherwise

I am once again asking you lovelies to help prove me right! 😇

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When I gathered the courage to tell my mother that I was her daughter, not her son, she simply said: "I have suspected so, ever since you were born." "Why?" "I was cursed when expecting you. A demon would take my firstborn son." "And?" "It came, looked at you and said 'Nah'."

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If i were in a high fantasy setting i’d be corrupted by the allure of ancient and forbidden magicks SO quickly you have no idea

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"unrepentant" is one of my favorite things to be. "don't you feel bad about what you did" no lol

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The Other Two (2019- ) - 3x06 “Brooke, and We Are Not Joking, Goes to Space”

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original: https://twitter.com/Manda_like_wine/status/977299937963765761

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There was a comic I really liked in highschool "usostuki lily" - it's even my avatar for this account! And the premise is:

"highschool boy cross dresses because he hates men so much he doesn't want to see one in the mirror." No trauma for it, that's just his schtick. And at one point near the end the author introduces a certified transgirl and has the characters comment, explicitly "wait no, this is a silly comedy, we're not supposed to seriously handle these concepts!"

but giving the benefit of the doubt. Especially the way some of these manga really play with gender and expression.

And I think that's a lot of the manga, imo. It's not that they don't want to play with trans characters, it's that if they actually commit to having trans characters, there's pressure to handle it well.

Still a coward's way out - to try and escape the scrutiny by saying "no no, not trans, no". But it wouldn't be manga if it was simultaneously gay, homophobic, trans, and transphobic

The manga: a college guy meets his childhood friend, who was formerly a boy but is now a woman, and has run away from home after an unspecified disagreement with her family which has left her with a significant amount of trauma; it's implied she was bullied heavily in the time since they've last seen each other.

But don't worry, she's not trans! She just got an illness which turned her into a woman!

The manga: a high school boy with an interest in make-up uses his gloomy, depressed (male) childhood friend as a model to improve his skills. This causes said friend to have an "awakening" and start dressing as a woman, and to overall be a much happier, brighter, outgoing person.

But don't worry, the friend is not trans! He's just a boy who crossdresses because his childhood friend likes him better that way!

The manga: a high school boy joins a club where the members can turn into magical girls, which in his case involves physically transforming into a girl. When in girlmode, he's much happier and enjoys his life much more, and overall prefers staying in girl mode; when the ability to transform is temporarily taken away from him, he sinks into a deep depressive episode.

But don't worry, he's not trans! He's just a boy who enjoys being a girl!

The manga: a college student loses a bet and has to crossdress for a night out on the town, and meets and hooks up with a butch girl; they fall in love and start dating. The boy always crossdressed when they meet, and starts enjoying being "treated like a girl" in the relationship and starts crossdressing even when he doesn't have to meet his girlfriend and enjoys activities such as clothes shopping and make-up and putting on nail polish.

But don't worry, he's not trans! He's just a boy who crossdresses to please his butch girlfriend!

The manga: a guy is magically turned into a girl as a result of saving his best friend, the crown prince, from an assassination attempt. The prince decides that he has to take responsibility, and asks the new girl to marry him; despite being smitten she refuses, wanting to date first. She is later offered a way to go back to being a man, but when she does turn back she's disgusted by her own appearance and depressed all the time, ultimately deciding to stay a girl.

But don't worry, she's not trans! She's just a boy who's been magically turned into a woman! And decides not to turn back when she can! Because she's not trans! Somehow!

"But we can't write trans women in manga! It's just not something that you do!"

[Image description: A one-comic panel. Gengar is glaring at a crowd of faceless characters; from the crowd, a speech balloon emerges, saying "You could if you weren't a fucking coward". End ID.]

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Sooo this happened on tiktok

And the comments are gold

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Forgot about that scene due to never caring to reread the spring court (there's no Nesta, you see).

Tbh that was just another in a long list of the "feyre/night court somehow forgetting the reputation Rhys and co purposefully built up over hundreds of years"

feyre: heavily implies that rhysand was raping her

tamlin and lucien who watched her be objectified, humiliated, degraded, tortured, coerced, and sexually assaulted by rhysand for three months, not to mention he has killed thousands of innocents and his public seat of power is called the court of nightmares: believes her

feyre: ugh wow i can’t believe they would think such a thing about my totally wonderful mate who has never done anything wrong in his entire life. i’m gonna destroy their home

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Forgot about that scene due to never caring to reread the spring court (there's no Nesta, you see).

Tbh that was just another in a long list of the "feyre/night court somehow forgetting the reputation Rhys and co purposefully built up over hundreds of years"

feyre: heavily implies that rhysand was raping her

tamlin and lucien who watched her be objectified, humiliated, degraded, tortured, coerced, and sexually assaulted by rhysand for three months, not to mention he has killed thousands of innocents and his public seat of power is called the court of nightmares: believes her

feyre: ugh wow i can’t believe they would think such a thing about my totally wonderful mate who has never done anything wrong in his entire life. i’m gonna destroy their home