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#anti acotar
lorcandidlucienwill · 13 hours
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If you Inner Circle stans just admitted that the Inner Circle is fucking toxic and you’d never like such people in real life, I wouldn’t have a problem at all.
If the ACOTAR books were marketed as dark romance rather than YA, I wouldn’t have a problem at all.
If SJM hadn’t started this trend of writing abuser-abuse victim relationships as “enemies to lovers,” I wouldn’t have a problem.
I’m not a snowflake. I like toxic, obsessive relationships in fiction, but not when they’re abusive. Snowbaird is the perfect example of this: toxic, obsessive, and murderous, and I absolutely love them. Because it’s not between an abuser and their abuse victim. I’m also not stupid; I can perfectly acknowledge Coryo is the villain. Would I love Snowbaird in real life? Absolutely not.
It’s even fine to like abuser-abuse victim in fiction as long as you acknowledge it’s abusive and something unacceptable in real life. My problem arises when all YA romances are written like this now. You can write a compelling romance without abuse involved. Teens may not admit it, but we are impressionable. Do you really want the next generation to believe this shit is ok? Just take a look at booktok. The girls on there are scary.
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wingsdippedingold · 3 days
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Roman Reigns is who Cassian thinks he is, but he’s actually a little bitch
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yoddhasblog · 1 day
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I think it's really stupid to believe that somehow the 'bat boys' are the most powerful Illyrians ever. Rhysand as a high lord is of course as powerful as it gets in this line but he's the strongest high lord?? How? Do they have a competition of sorts to decide that??? Rhysand's mother was an illyrian we know as much, but in order for me to believe the legitimacy of his power I'll have to say that illrian women are much more powerful than the men. That's where he inherited his power. Maybe some horrifically insecure leader started wing-clipping to satisfy his own ego??? But this is far-fetched at best because we know SJM didn't think that far.
In the case of Cassian and Azriel, both are fully Illrian. No high lord parentage. There's nothing about their lives or heritage that suggests that they could inherit and possess a power that strong.
Conclusion: the bat boys aren't that powerful. either everyone is just humouring them. or there were many illyrian children just as if not more powerful but as they weren't invited into the super special circle of the dreamers, they are given no importance at all. Maybe it was another bastard. If yes then they probably perished due to their own circumstances. It's perfectly known that illyrian mountains are brutal and children with no one to take care of are just left to starve and freeze to death. These Circumstances could be avoided if their own fucking leaders acknowledge them and actually help with reforms.
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lainalit · 3 days
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One of the things I don't understand while reading the series is why Rhysand is book boyfriend material or even generally liked. I mean after the first book, he becomes pretty boring, like Sjm had a Villain character and instead of him being a cool Villain character who gets the girl, he is now a tragic hero who did everything for good reasons (even then most of the things he does, doesn't make much sense). I don't understand why he couldn't be just a Villain, there are many books there the Villain gets the girl and they together become power hungry or cruel.
I'm sorry but every time he tries to justify things it makes him more of a hypocrite, why can't he just say "yep I do things for my own personal gain and power and I don't care who I hurt in the process" now that would be hot 🔥
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holmespsychoaddict · 4 months
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She spilled 💀
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belle-keys · 1 year
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this is the worst book description I’ve ever read like I’m actually having a stroke
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angel-maybe-alive · 10 months
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He was a man written by a woman, unfortunately the woman was Sarah j Maas
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keepittoyourshelf · 5 months
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Rhysand is NOT morally grey, for fuck’s sake. I’m tired of the amount of people that jump to say “rHySaNd!!!” any time someone asks for recs for morally grey villains. I will downvote that shit on Reddit, idc. I’m petty and it’s just an incorrect statement.
Actual morally grey characters would include Kaz Brekker, Lestat de Lioncourt, maybe even Cardan Greenbriar. They don’t have an excuse or explanation for literally every single wrong thing they’ve done in their entire lives.
Rhysand, if anything, is morally brown, because his morals are shit and so is he.
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novaricewrites · 3 months
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Very tired of the shadowy/darkness-themed brooding male love interests in fantasy romance books. Especially the ones where the character revolves heavily around sex / sexualization.
This is especially irritating when they are 'healed' or complete as people because they are dating the protag. Seriously. It just promotes that toxic 'You can fix him with love' concept. This is such an inherently harmful message.
Not saying those kind of broody characters shouldn't be allowed to exist at all. However, the dominance of that character type over other portrayals in romance especially, subscribes to the common notion of masculinity having only one desirable form.
The main lead does not have to be the most powerful, the most virile, most tragic or most intimidating.
It's shallow and overdone.
Why can't the men and boys in these leads also be written as thoughtful and warm, sunlight characters. Soft hands and gentle voices. Complex and spirited and vibrant. Let them also be kind, lovely and full of quiet things.
I have so many thoughts on this general topic that go into way too many directions to summarize in one post.
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moonssalad · 7 months
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I will never forgive Cassian for not standing up to Rhysand when he threatened to kill Nesta and just obeyed him to get her out of the city.
Fucking pathetic. Hes like Rhysands dog.
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manonslayme · 7 months
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I’m will never stop thinking about how if rhysand and the IC were in TOG universe they would all be antagonists and hated by Aelin and her court
The whole plot would be about Aelin trying to save Feyre, Nesta and Elain from Rhysand and his bat bros and fix the Hewn City up
Manon would kill the bat bastard for not doing anything for the women Illyria
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asilentfrenzy · 26 days
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remember when
"Rhys bared his teeth. My limbs turned light, trembling at the dark power curling in the corners of the room. Not fear - never fear of him. But at the shattered control as Rhys snarled at Lucien, 'My mate may one day find it in her to forgive him. Forgive you. But I will never forget how it felt to sense her terror in those moments.' My cheeks heated, especially as Cassian and Azriel stalked closer, those hazel eyes now filled with a mix of sympathy and wrath. 
Lucien, to his credit, didn't back away a step. From Rhys, from me, or the Illyrians. 
The Clever Fox Stares Down Winged Death. The painting flashed into my mind."
(it's the "forgive you" for me lmfao like shut the actual fuck up)
he has the audacity to say this shit to lucien when two books prior -
"'You draw blood from me, Lucien, and you’ll learn how quickly Amarantha’s whore can make the entire Autumn Court bleed. Especially its darling Lady.'
'Oh? Here I was, thinking you still mourned your commoner lover after all these centuries,' Rhysand said, stalking toward me."
"'I knew you liked to stoop low with your lovers, Lucien, but I never thought you’d actually dabble with mortal trash.” My face burned. Lucien was trembling—with rage or fear or sorrow, I couldn’t tell. 'The Lady of the Autumn Court will be grieved indeed when she hears of her youngest son. If I were you, I’d keep your new pet well away from your father.'"
"'Amarantha will enjoy breaking her,' Rhysand observed to Tamlin. 'Almost as much as she'll enjoy watching you as she shatters her bit by bit.'" 
Those invisible claws lazily caressed my mind again - then vanished. I sank to the floor, curling over my knees as I reeled in everything that I was, as I tried to keep from sobbing, from screaming, from emptying my stomach onto the floor. "
(damn. i wonder how it felt to feel her terror in those moments 🤔)
anyway, friendly reminder that rhysand is the biggest fucking hypocrite in the series and feyre & co's self-righteous attitudes are absolutely insufferable 🤗
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wingsdippedingold · 22 hours
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SJM thinks the epitome of female badassery is fighting or often, being “masculine.” “Femininity” and wanting peace is not bad and does not make you weak.
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yoddhasblog · 7 months
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One thing that makes me rage about ACOTAR every single day is that there is no mention at all about who did the household chores when Feyre was hunting.
It's canon that Feyre doesn't know how to cook. She doesn't do household work. She would spend the day in the forest hunting, which of course is a great thing in itself for a child( she was fourteen I think when she started hunting) but who took care of the house(hut).
Something tells me it wasn't Papa Archeron or Elain. In the first few chapters of Thorns and Roses Nesta had chopped wood twice(I think, it's been a while since I read the book). I'm assuming as there isn't much info about this that Nesta was the one to do all household work. There's cooking, cleaning, laundry, chopping wood, mending clothes, doing repairs around the house if required, groceries, and about a hundred other little tasks that keep a house running smoothly. Feyre didn't do it, Papa Archeron didn't do it, I can bet my life Elain didn't do it. Did magic faeries come to their house at night to do all this.
I don't understand where the narrative that Nesta was a spoiled and lazy girl who sat on her ass and didn't do anything came from. You know, my father had always told my sister and i, that whatever conflict we have between us, we should resolve it amongst ourselves. If you let a bunch of strangers know about the weaklinks in your relationships they will break you both apart. Of course, he tells us this due to our snake-ish relatives but honestly, when I had read about the relationship between the sisters, I wanted to scream at the book to not let the IC exploit their issues for personal gain. Which they did. That's exactly what Rhysand has been doing since he met the sisters.
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lainalit · 1 day
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"My partner is just like Rhysand" 🚩🚩🚩🚩
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oristianvalkyrie · 4 months
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“Nesta could’ve just used the stairs”
Did you not read the fucking book. She tried multiple times to escape the house and she couldn’t make it hundred steps with falling and nearly killing herself. What don’t you understand about the fact that Nesta had been starving herself for almost a year. You think that she going to be able to just get up and go down ten thousand steps. She could barley walk after two hours of just stretching.
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