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oh dark!qqueenofhades tell me your unpopular SAB opinions for the sleepover ask game 🌒

...you want to get me in trouble don't you.

TGT/SOC BOOK SPOILERS BELOW!

1) Mal/Alina is just... boring, okay. Boring. I've said this before and I stand by it. There's no growth, it's regressive as hell especially for Alina, it's not (at least as written in the books) actually any "healthier" than Alina/Aleksander (see my rant on Fiction Is Fiction, Not Real Life), and it literally sends Alina back to exactly where she started: powerless, in obscurity, living on a farm with Mal, not a Grisha, etc. It's presented as what a Good Girl would choose (which is why book!Alina suffers from Good Girl Syndrome) and just... meh. Fictional women should be allowed to go feral, be worshiped by their morally grey dark and handsome powerful lover, and take over the world. As a treat.

2) Likewise, I love Aleksander, but let's not kid ourselves that the boy is flaming hot garbage. I sometimes see posts like "Aleksander did nothing wrong and is actually the hero of the entire story" and I'm like, well, the whole point is that he started out with a good cause and then he went too far in it and his perspective has become so skewed that any evil is justifiable in the name of his greater good. Yes, the aim of protecting the Grisha is noble, but not by putting all of Ravka under shadowman totalitarian rule. I certainly don't agree at all with the simplistic "worst villain evah!" framework that the book text and some fanon interpretations try to push on him, but yeah, he's done genuinely garbage-ass things and Villain Discourse TM would be so much better if we didn't try to whitewash our trashy favorites as entirely morally pure and correct all along and act like they're not, well, trash. Enjoy the garbage. Live the garbage. Love the garbage. Dive into the garbage and paddle around. It's what I do.

3) I don't know if this is unpopular or not (especially among readers of my blog) but if they made Fedyor and Ivan into a couple just to then follow their book arcs and kill them off anyway, the writers will personally receive bags of flaming poo on their lawns, with love from me. Also, they can then stfu permanently about how "diverse" they want their show to be.

4) Inej really, really is too good for Kaz. By like a lot. However, both of them are well aware of this fact (especially Kaz) and I am always a fan of people/characters growing and changing together, rather than staying stuck at one place in their lives. So I'll accept it.

5) Killing Matthias at the end of CK was an extremely stupid decision which seemed to be made largely for grimdark shock value (and to set up two more books which, imho, were definitely not as good as the other ones), especially when all the other couples got a happy ending, and I don't and will never accept it.

....there are probably more but let's hold the salt train for now, lmao.

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