I desperately need a scene where the IC are having dinner and the topic of tamlin gets brought up and they start talking shit about him and going on about how he deserves everything thats happening to him and lucien’s just sitting there gripping his fork,jaw twitching,eyes simmering,hands shaking with rage as he tries so hard to keep his mouth shut because now is not the time to say something stupid—but they just keep talking and talking and talking until eventually he has enough and gives everybody a vanserra style telling off 😁.
actually i talked about this w a friend a while ago but i think the whole acotar series couldve been improved sm more if all the fae were evil and fucked up and it was a silly little romcom instead of wtv the fuck sjm was going for
like imagine tamlin who has flowers growing over corpses in his garden 😋😋😋😍😍😍😍 or a rhys who makes stars to put in the sky after every kill he makes in another court (to cont a family tradition !!!) as a way to taunt every other lord... 🤩🤩 and they fall for this muscled runt of a woman who adds more bodies to both their collections. I mean like. itd still be better if it was sapphic. but still. this would improve the acotar series by a landslide
(also ending like iron widow's love interests :3c)
so I work out at 5:30am most days and when people ask me how I get myself out of bed in the morning I just shrug because there’s no way I’m telling them that in my head I pretend that I’m training to be a Valkyrie and picture cassian yelling at me for motivation
my mortal enemy that talentless charlatan sarah j maas does this thing that a lot of subpar writers do, where she doesn't write good and bad actions, she writes good and bad people. and it doesn't matter if one "good" character and one "bad" character do the same exact thing, or even if the good character does worse things, if the good character does it its a good action and if the bad character does it its a bad action. doesn't matter what the action actually is.
both the other characters and the narrative itself will condemn the things that the "bad" character does, proving that this is something that society in this world condemns, but those same exact characters, along with the narrative, will praise the "good" character for those exact same things. which is not only hypocritical, but also just shitty writing.
nesta's still gonna be mean to you even when she likes you. the difference is that she's the only one allowed to be mean to you and she will start a physical altercation if someone dares to open their mouth to say some shit against you.
“We don’t need a basket of fish,” I murmured. “Why make her suffer like that?”
He flicked his eyes to where Ianthe had stepped aside to let the creature pass, a hand on the jewels of her belt. As if the female would snatch them right off her to use as payment. Tamlin frowned. “I cannot make exceptions. Once you do, everyone will demand the same treatment.”
I clutched the arms of my chair, a small seat of oak beside his giant throne of carved roses. “But we don’t need these things. Why do we need a golden fleece, or a jar of jam? If she has no fish left, three days won’t make a difference. Why make her starve? Why not help her replenish the pond?” I’d spent enough years with an aching belly to not be able to drop it, to want to scream at the unfairness of it.
His emerald eyes softened as if he read each thought on my face, but he said: “Because that’s the way it is. That’s the way my father did it, and his father, and the way my son shall do it.” He offered a smile, and reached for my hand.
“Someday.” Someday. If we ever got married. If I ever became less of a burden, and we both escaped the shadows haunting us. We hadn’t broached the subject at all. Ianthe, mercifully, had not said anything, either. “We could still help her—find some way to keep that pond stocked.”
“We have enough to deal with as it is. Giving handouts won’t help her in the long run.”
A Court of Mist and Fury- Chapter 8 (Sarah J. Maas)
We don't have time to feed or help poor people! It's better to let them fall into bigger debts, and kill them once they can't pay those!
Tamlin's so insecure he can't bring himself to even consider some form of change.
ahh but what were your thoughts on fourth wing the people want to know!!
(is it okay if i go by an emoji? i have sent you an embarrassing amount of asks lmao like the dragons and the gibbon and abbreviated title for sloane 😌😽 ily)
u can absolutely pick any emoji u like if u would like me to know it’s u! i’m more than okay with that 😚
also fourth wing thoughts……
i saw someone else on here put it perfectly which is like; it’s not a good book but i had a good time reading it.
like yes, i did devour it in about 2 days but also it was insanely predictable. about 5 pages in i called out the reveal at the end lmao. the dragons were fun, but also…. predictable (omg she gets the biggest one even tho she’s so tiny! omg not one but TWO???) (tho i did get very hyped up for them)
it did lots of other things well- the romance wasn’t so cookie cutter (minus dain, i feel i’ve read that storyline a dozen times lol) & violet’s fragility/brokenness of her body was done really well that she didn’t just Suddenly Overcome it which i appreciate a lot. it had a lot of casual language that i wasn’t such a fan of (i love prose! beautiful prose!) but like i said, i was decently entertained !
basically no one’s coming for azriel’s spot anytime soon >:)
I'm cripplingly sad and kinda numb but my body is just "Oh it's h0rñy time? Yeah, it's h0rñy time. Think about fictional characters doing unspeakable things. While you lay devoid of emotion other than lewd thoughts :)" like bro pick a lane
Thank you for continuing to inspiring me to write on days I’ve given up, making me laugh with your crackship kerffufles, and genuinely just being a good friend and great beta reader over the last several months. I appreciate you and I hope someday you’ll find your way into my author’s notes at the end of my real books. TY for being you — never stop. @lorcandidlucienwill