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How do you feel SJ//M handles trauma? For Bruce Rhysmale Alien Feyrug Luc//ien Tampon Rowboat Nes//ta.

Very badly. She promotes unrealistic and impossible standards of conquering trauma. She repeatedly writes about characters struggling with trauma despite drawing criticism. Bonus: she doesn’t care for sensitivity readers despite having struggled with mental health herself.

B/ryce’s trauma was handled the worst considering S/jm struggled with mental health last year and it still didn’t hammer any sense into her. She literally implies that you can overcome mental trauma if you’re just strong enough and says that essential oils helped B/ryce conquer her PTSD. I talk more about it here.

Eri and Cloudy briefly talk about how Rhymale’s trauma was handled here. But s/jm basically never addresses the trauma that you suffer from by fighting in wars, by being sexually abused, by witnessing the death of his family (did he witness it?) or practically anything else because she has to hammer in how much of a badass Rhymale is (I guess you can't be strong or desirable if you're a man suffering from trauma).

Alien wasn’t handled well either. She literally suffered torture for months in K/oA and S/jm wants us to believe she was up to fighting and went back to being as badass as before in just a couple days. The loss of her scars and her magic wasn’t fully explored. E/ndovier’s effect on C/elaena wasn’t handled well either. N/ehemia’s death was suddenly forgotten the moment Rowboat got romantically involved with her. Losing her human body supposedly made her sad but there was zero evidence to support it except for Alien saying so in one dialogue.

S/jm never brought up F/eyre’s feelings on being forced to hunt in the woods as the youngest member of the family. And she was literally healed by love. There was no other component to the struggle. Oh, and there was Rhymale’s magical d*ick too.

L/ucien was entirely sidelined. He was reduced to F/eyre’s pawn and taken out of the books for the most part during A/cowar and A/comaf. There was little screen time for S/jm to work with at all, but even if she had taken the opportunity, we know she wouldn’t have done much good. His lover was killed but it never affected his actions or thoughts. You would assume he would either shut out people or be really protective of people he cared; and while the latter does manifest in the form of T/amlin it’s not handled very well. His feelings about being a bastard aren’t addressed properly either, if memory serves right.

T/amlin was just a placeholder dude. He was never meant to have depth. S/jm just wanted to pull a “plot twist” and reaffirm that Rhymale was a better love interest just because he didn’t treat F/eyre like shit (which he did anyway) and that was all he existed for. To ensure that readers kept the F/eysand ship sailing she went out of her way to characterise T/amlin as a piece of shit. She didn’t give two shits about the fact that T/amlin witnessed the death of his family, lost the woman he loved, suffered at Amarantha’s hands and watched his entire court get destroyed. I was genuinely pleased with how F/eyre’s relationship with T/amlin was resolved in A/cowar but A/cofas came out and S/jm went back to shitting on him. She can't for the life of her write decent storylines or construct sensible character arcs.

R/owan is a little less talked about because his character has no depth apart from “muscled” and “magical d*ck” but I disliked how s/jm addressed his trauma from losing L/yria and his unborn child. She made R/owan dismiss L/yria as a legitimate person and a person he was once very in love with just because she was not his true mate. He’s been in plenty of wars - but no trauma as a consequence of that. His terror of losing Alien was better handled but I suppose it was because they’re actually endgame.

N/esta is easily handled the worst of all characters apart from B/ryce. She has to put up with this sort of bullshit, and is treated the worst of all s/jm characters (check out this link and the links I’ve left in that post).

Some other resources:

Alien losing her humanity: https://spaceshipkat.tumblr.com/post/180694690752/i-really-hate-how-sarah-janet-brushed-over-the

L/ysandra: https://spaceshipkat.tumblr.com/post/175786326822/it-really-really-bothers-me-that-lysandra-a-rape

N/esta versus F/eyre in handling and addressing trauma: https://polysorscha.tumblr.com/post/615779427844014080/it-really-does-show-how-fake-and-transparent-sjms

Rice: https://polysorscha.tumblr.com/post/189879636474/its-actually-super-frustrating-that-rice-is-seen

More rice: https://polysorscha.tumblr.com/post/176953901679/i-wouldn-t-mind-rice-being-so-sexual-after-his

E/lide: https://polysorscha.tumblr.com/post/189188046049/elide-is-only-18-and-suffered-a-lot-of-trauma-but

Tampon: https://polysorscha.tumblr.com/post/181951368619/i-dont-like-tom-lane-but-i-sort-of-feel-that

General trauma handling in S/JM books: https://polysorscha.tumblr.com/post/181874734059/love-can-help-but-it-cant-solve-and-sjm-is-not

Important: https://polysorscha.tumblr.com/post/178342196329/sjm-is-an-example-of-writers-need-to-search

shewhotellsstories

https://shewhotellsstories.tumblr.com/post/166509640040/your-fave-is-problematic-pt-12-incubators-with

https://shewhotellsstories.tumblr.com/post/165800768080/your-fave-is-problematic-pt-7-trigger-warning Just gonna throw in here that her handling of pregnancy robbed women of their agency and she uses redemptive rape as a plot device and has the victim of sexual violence kill herself.

bleeding-star-heart

Aelin Ashryver Galathynius As a Colonizer: The Epic Writing Fail

I am not here to talk about why it is wrong for SJM to have her protagonist espouse colonialism and imperialism. Partly because it is OBVIOUS that she shouldn’t, and partly because of better-equipped antis have already talked about why that should be obvious. Antis of color, no less.

So instead, I am here to talk about why making Aelin a potential colonizer in EoS is not just wrong, but also a major, major writing fail.

To explain why this is, let’s talk about who Aelin is as a character for a minute. Or at least, what she’s supposed to be. Because, despite being a woman of privilege, she is not the kind of person who should at all believe in Rowan’s rosy “books and culture” view of colonialism at all. Why? Because she is a direct victim of colonization. The king of Adarlan invaded her native country, murdered her parents, also murdered her great-uncle, and tried to murder her-instead killing her nanny in the process. All of which traumatized eight-year-old Aelin so much she ended up trying to drown herself.

A character with this kind of traumatic backstory related to colonialism would be nowhere near naive enough to believe that imperialism is about “bring[ing] books and culture” to people. Especially not since Aelin was also the princess of Terrasen before it was invaded. Aelin knows exactly what colonialism is really about-oppressing one group so that another can benefit from it. And she knows this because she experienced it!

Can you imagine if Katara or Jet from A:TLA blindly supported colonialism? Or any of the Talking Animals from Narnia thought King Miraz was a good leader during the Telmarine rule? No, of course you can’t, because a character who has suffered under colonialism, written properly, would never be pro-colonialism. That is because people generally tend to oppose things that make them suffer.

Since Aelin is inexplicably pro-colonization in EoS however, SJM has not just created a bad message. She has also massively screwed up her heroine’s characterization in order to send that bad message.

alectology-archive

The s/jm fandom is so fucking huge that aco/tar is trending. Food for thought.

happysharkintensifies

I was hoping it would become a niche thing. But no, it isn’t.

This is like Twilight 2.0, right? Only this time, it’s a thousand times worse.

alectology-archive

It refuses to die down. Just why.

thereisonlyoneoption

Because its like hydra, it refuses to die only to grow more toxic heads -_-

nestadeservesbetter-deactivated

You’re right @thereisonlyoneoption ! Ever since S/arah posted the new A/COTAR title name, she’s gained 3k+ followers (in 6 hours!).

alectology-archive

The frick, really?

alectology-archive

I was skimming H/oF and came across this C/elaena quote:

“Gods, he was brilliant. Cunning and wicked and brilliant. Even when he beat the hell out of her. Every. Damn. Day.”

This just sounds so… wrong. So, so wrong. It sounds like she doesn’t mind being abused and might even feel that she’s deserving of it.

ellakay69-deactivated20210109

@crescentcitysux It isn’t just because she sounds like she doesn’t mind being abused in my opinion. It’s because she says that it’s because he is cunning, wicked, brilliant. The author literally is saying that because Ro/wan is superior in strength, inteligence, and all this crap, he can do everything he wants because he is badass like that (read it with lots of irony and repulse). And not only this, she is saying “See, this is sexy ! This attractive, that’s what and who you shoud be aiming to be !” Honestly, this is such a big problem because this kind of mentality is deeply rooted not only in misogyny but in colonialist and supremacist ideals. It’s rooted in this twisted and wrong idea that strength equals to being brutal and violent, without mercy and compassion for the weaks; that the only way of being strong is being without soul and that only when you become like that, only then you will be the hero: not because you’re kind and value others lives but because you will be above everything and everyone else. You will be superior, a god and the world and the people who lives in it will be nothing more than your playground and a scenery to fulfill your own fantasies.

Honestly, how much more I learn about SJ/M books more I see they really are the definition of white feminism. Even though she doesn’t realize (and that’s really really worrisome) by making her characters value this kind of strength, she perpetuates ideals that not only excused but worshipped all kind of abuses throughout the history of humankind. It’s not surprise her books ended up being racist, xenophobic, supremacist, monarchy/cop worshipping, slut shaming, and everything of worst. She doesn’t want to write about good people, she wants to write about superior people and because in her mind this equals to being physically strong while giving a shit about everyone else, we end up with a female character that not only excuse her abuser but worships and is attracted to him and everything he represents.

happysharkintensifies

@ellakay69

This is pretty much SJM’s world in a nutshell.

Also notice how excessively overpowered Rowrat is compare to Celery. This pretty much follows the trend in a lot of SJM’s writing, in which supposedly ‘feminist’ female characters inexplicably find themselves overpowered, outwitted, or just overwhelmed by toxic men who exceed them in strength, intellect, etc., and then find themselves enamored with them in no time at all.

No matter how powerful a female character is, SJM will always find a way to make them inferior or subordinate to a man.

shewhotellsstories

Many ya books fall into this unsettling trend of let’s focus on how hot he is while he’s abusing me to make the abuse less horrifying. SJM goes out of her way to excuse it (remember when Celaena said she deserved to get punched in the face?) and then acts like the guy is god’s gift to feminism. I hate it so much.

It’s like even though these women are in theory supposed to be the heroes in their stories, they have to not only be submissive but SJM goes out of her way to show the audience that these guys could hurt the MCs if they really wanted to and deserve a gold star for not being as abusive as they could be.

#abuse tw

croissantcitysucks

okay so i read the scene where sab//ine confronts bruce and haunt over being accused of stealing the horn + dan//ika’s murder and…i kinda see sab//ine’s point?

i mean sab//ine sucks and i hate her but honestly danika ain’t that much better. for all the book tries to get in on the “fuck rich ppl” action, dan//ika is still a rich, privileged asshole who only gets away with half the stuff she does because she has status and powerful family walking behind her, cleaning up all her shit.

let’s review dan//ika’s actions:

she’s revealed in chapter 6 to have multiple thefts on her record. why they are not taken more seriously, we shall never know. (hint: it’s bc she’s already super privileged and sab//ine has basically made a hobby out of cleaning up dan//ika’s shit!)

she parties/does drugs/drinks nearly every night, which can’t be inexpensive and apparently does a number on her reputation (she gets called a “party princess” quite a few times, actually). can you imagine how much further it would slip if she didn’t have sab//ine behind her?

regardless of intentions, her theft of the horn would have easily been discovered without sab//ine’s interference. if it was discovered it probably could have got her removed from her position in the pack and ruined any chance of her becoming prime apparent. yet sab//ine, who is specifically wants the prime apparent position, saves dan//ika’s chance at becoming the prime apparent & her reputation.

bruce tells a story about her and dan//ika helping wreck their residential hall in university and having to pay a hefty fine for it,,, but instead of having dan//ika pay the fine sab//ine pays it and just makes dan//ika pick up trash for the next summer. and dan//ika has the gall to whine and complain about it??? sab//ine is being fucking going soft on dan//ika! she should have paid that fine herself and then still picked up trash for the rest of the entire YEAR.

dan//ika is just a low-level asshole all around. she cuts in line, shit talks about anyone who’s not bruce or her pack, and expresses the belief that anyone holding her accountable for her failures as a law enforcement officer online is put up to it by her mother, which is literally some conspiracy theory level bullshit. is it really so hard to believe that the people in the city want to hold their law enforcement accountable for irresponsibility?

she’s a cop for an oppressive government that enslaves people and i’m going to be mad about that whatever she does.

quite honestly she would not be where she is in the story without sab//ine cleaning up her every misstep. she ain’t a self-made man. in fact, she’s the farthest thing possible from it. and bruce’s incessant dan//ika-worship is annoying, unwarranted, and frankly kinda delusional. i don’t know why the narrative expects me to like, and then be sad about the death of, this privileged asshole of a cop who’s apparently never faced a real consequence in her life.

croissantcitysucks

okay so we have another anecdote about dan//ika!

“Danika’s senior thesis was on the history of the illegal animal trade. She uncovered a real smuggling ring, but no one in the Aux or the 33rd would help her, so she and I went to deal with it ourselves.” Bryce snorted. “The operation was run by five asp shifters who caught us trying to free their stock. We called them asp-holes, and things went downhill from there.”

and

Her eyes darkened, nothing but pure Fae predator shining there. “Some. The ones who shot Danika…I took care of them. The police got the rest.” Burning Solas. He had a feeling there was far ore to the story. “I know people think Danika was a reckless partier with mommy issues, I know Sabine thinks that, but…Danika went to free those animals because she literally couldn’t sleep at night knowing they were in cages, terrified and alone.

hm…okay. let’s talk about this.

first, i don’t believe this disproves any of my previous conclusions. everything in the above post is still true and it greatly outnumbers this single story about dan//ika and bruce going to bust a smuggling ring. this anecdote does nothing to actually refute the idea that dan//ika was a reckless partier with mommy issues. she’s still a reckless partier with mommy issues, as shown by everything else in the book. she just happens to also like animals. seeing s//jm so obviously trying to pull the wool over the readers’ eyes with this shitty story is honestly kind of insulting. does she really not know that everything she’s put into the story so far backs up the idea of dan//ika as an irresponsible partier?

second…i find it quite disturbing that we’re supposed to think this is any measure of moral quality considering its implications. dan//ika can apparently loose sleep over the plight of animals and put her and her best friend’s lives in danger to save those animals, yet can also become a cop and participate in the oppression of humans with apparently no regrets. she’s sleepless over the pain of animals but apparently humans, who have been mistreated by the vanir for god knows how long, don’t get any of that? this is also why the briggs scene feels so weird. s//jm tries to use him to push the idea that dan//ika was a rebel sympathizer but she’s actually pretty unsympathetic to the plight of humans at large?

i want to keep talking abt this but words escape me…ugh. there are just so many stupid things in this book. dan//ika sucks, no i will not be taking criticism.

croissantcitysucks

literally a couple paragraphs later we’re still on the “dan//ika was always doing stuff to help people” fucking WHEN, tho??? we never see any of this? the briggs thing doesn’t count bc a) she literally still arrested him, and b) “giving him a chance” to back down doesn’t fly when she serves an oppressive government. if she’s so important/powerful then maybe she should’ve actually done smth about the issue instead of basically ignoring it! honestly idk how any of the stuff she does w/ briggs could be construed as helpful? like??? just stop, s//jm

like who the fuck did she help? not briggs, definitely, and that’s the only “example” we get besides the animal thing which, as i’ve already said, is bullshit.

dances-on-clouds-deactivated202

D/anika is basically a rich white PETA lady who refuses to wear fur or eat meat but won’t lift a finger for underprivileged human beings

battlestar-royco

Hello, I just need to get this out. So I watching this lady review ACoF/As and she was talking about how she wants Cassian to be happy but not with Nesta because she was bad person to everyone before during and after the whole war and I’m really over people hating on Nesta like she’s literally centuries younger than the ic members but she’s always the one at fault despite their garbage treatment of her!!?!

The general stan take on N/esta is that she’s irredeemable and C/assian is too good for her. Many of them have literally said the only way she can repent is by groveling at Rice and Fayre’s feet. I still have yet to see how a 500something predator is any better than a 22-year-old who insults and avoids him as a defense mechanism. Like obviously N/esta is a canonical abuser to Fayre and we’re not going to deny that, but SJ/M favors C/assian and downplays his moral ambiguity (ie destroying a building in the Summer Court as a joke, victim-blaming N/esta for being wary of fae who enslaved humans, using brute force to harass her etc). SJ/M seems dead-set on getting N/esta and C/assian together as a strategy to amend N/esta and Fayre’s relationship, but 1) that’s betwen N/esta and Fayre, and 2) sometimes the best option is to just let it lie. I don’t think anyone would be worse off if Fayre and N/esta amicably decided to go their separate ways.

inthemidstofbuddie

When it comes to Az/riel, I've decided to ignore canon tbh. In my headcanon, he likes Mor but he told her centuries okay and respects her feelings though of course it hurt at first. He's open about that and that it caused a crack in their friendship but he never guilt tripped her for it. He's a talented spy and a good friend. Also he definitely kicked Rice's ass when he forced Mor to work with her abusers. SJ/M wasted his potential so much *sigh*

alicentsgreens-deactivated20240

Bold of you to assume sj//m has sensitivity readers when it's questionable as to whether she even has an editor

Lmao I know, I expected too much😅

She did thank a couple of sensitivity readers in the acknowledgements for catw0man, but she only had to deal with them bc the publisher was penguin, not blooms, and only after she managed to heartily fuck up the first draft by whitewashing sel//ina kyle among other things. Perhaps sj///m thinks that, since ccity is adult, she doesnt need sensitivity readers, bc you don't have to tread as carefully in adult (compared to ya) or some shit.

Ccity definitely needed both: an editor who can put their foot down, and a buuunch of sensitivity readers bc this book is problematic as hell SORRY hEL

vanimeldes

The "problem" — if I can call having sensitive readers as such — with Catwoman was that it was part of the DC, which of course is a wide fictional universe with a giant fanbase — and even in this context, she almost screwed up royally.

I preface this stating that in my opinion, CCity is more engaging that AC0TAR and the post-H0F T0G series, but the writing is atrocious and the representation — despite the significant number of characters that can be described as PoC — is far more problematic. J/uniper, Br/yce's brown BFF is very sexualised and referred as "faun" more often than not in a way that is very exaggerated. Haunt is coded as MoC (although I can't for the life in me tell whether he's Native American or brown or MENA; the fanartists so far opted for a Native-American look, although again, nothing is clear) but he's a slave who now pines over Br/yce after he had thought of her as a vapid but sexy chick for the first 5 or so chapters, has NO personality and everything about him — the writing, as well as the character itself — is very bothersome on many levels. There is a mention of Br/yce having to do communitary work after she had been caught having sex in public, which honestly wasn't necessary.

And on top of that, the most bothersome thing for me is that the human rebels are portrayed as dangerous, evil and unjust in their cause, while we're meant to sympathise with the immortal non-human Vanir opressors. This is so painfully problematic, I am sure many readers came from countries which experienced rebellions and revolutions against opressive regimes; I personally am not the one who nitpick each and every detail I find problematic because an author doesn't own me anything; authors are supposed to tell the story they want, not the story I want. But there are limits to which this freedom goes, especially when you touch a subject that means so much for so many people and you basically tell them that the opressive rules are being right to opress them.

longsightmyth

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Feyre Archeron, Elain Archeron, Nesta Archeron, Tamlin (ACoTaR), Clare Beddor, Andras (ACoTaR) Additional Tags: Characters will be added as they appear - Freeform, Canon Rewrite, rework, Canon-Typical Violence, do not copy to another site, Do not post to another site Summary:

Feyre and her sisters have managed to stay fed and clothed in the years since their father lost their fortune. Then Feyre kills a wolf too close to the wall. (an A Court of Thorns and Roses re-imagining, originally slated to appear in a zine that is now being revamped)

dragonidk

most good stories have a theme but what is the theme of the entire t0g series? “if you’re born into royalty you’re superior”? “if you’re white, thin, and pretty you’re a better person”? “you only have value when you’re in a relationship”? feel free to add because i don’t understand.

battlestar-royco

Nehemia’s death really gutted me cause on top of black rep she was such an interesting character, her personality was way better than Celery’s and she was complex. I even remember shipping her with Dorian which I’m sure sjm didn’t want sksks she’s queen of setting up ships she had no intentions to which is even funnier when you remember she says she let’s the characters take over and guide the story

Yeah no SJ/M could never conceive of a dark-skinned black girl in a relationship, let alone an interracial relationship with one of her precious white boys who could be shipped with Celery. Like remember when Fayre visited the Summer Court with Rice and she was like “I’m so sexily fooling T/arquin into trusting me I’m amazing” and then when C/resseida and Rice were flirting, Fayre resented her for it? Anyway.

N/ehemia’s death definitely contributed to my trauma in a major way, thanks for that SJ/M. I will never recover from reading C0M and then H0F back to back. That was so fucking misogynoir and racist, jfc. How did anyone let her get away with brutally murdering two black girls in a row????? How??? And then she did all That with the southern continent and the retcon that N/ehemia decided to kill herself so that Celery could go on? And yet she’s still lauded for her representation of women? SJ/M has been using that “I let my characters guide me” excuse for years to avoid accountability for the blatant racism and irresponsible, unethical writing she’s been publishing her entire career. And the worst part is, people let her because she makes money, and she still has white stans who try to pretend she’s so feminist for her female characters and that N/ehemia in particular is good representation.

bittenwraths

And the worst part is that Ne//hemia was created to die. Ever since her inception in Q0G her whole purpose was to die and be a trauma talking point to Celery.

Let me just say this, as a black woman, I would never die for a white woman. Not ever unless she was my wife.

Signed. Copied.

dragonidk

i need an AU where celery is killed off instead of n/ehemia so she becomes the main character who overthrows the king of a/darlan and is named Empress N/ehemia of T/errasen, A/darlan, and E/yllwe.

discountalien-pancake

Idk if stans look at my blog, but if they do, I would like to be very blunt: Hunt being a brown Asian makes CCity *more* racist, not less.

The fact that his former love interest is described extremely vaguely (dark hair, dark eyes, no mention of skin tone), and his current one is white and he OBSESSIVELY (and yes, possessiveky) lusts over her.

The fact that he is a slave.

The fact that his dead unnamed Asian mother was a housekeeper.

The constant sexualization.

It’s all fucking racist.

bittenwraths

He doesn’t look Asian in the fan art. In the art he looks like Cassiass, so 🤷🏾‍♀️ he’s already being white washed.

Do we even know what Asian culture he’s a part of? And like why is his name Orion? S/JM couldn’t even bother giving him an Asian name? Like why? Whyyyyy?

bittenwraths

S/JM clearly went to the CC school of half assed diversity.

sixofyeet

read crescent city and it absolutely does not disappoint.

it is exactly as horrible as i imagined :D

bittenwraths

The way S//JM writes class disparity just always reeks of 1%. She’s blissfully unaware of the implications of writing class oppression from the view point of the oppressors.

It would be like if The Hunger Games was written from the perspective of someone from District 1, or if Parasite was written in the perspective of the Park family, or if Knives Out wasn’t in Marta’s perspective but one of the family members instead.

Hell, even K//iera C//ass understood to write in the perspective of someone like America who is the underdog and isn’t well off (at least we’re told that it’s never actually shown but still).

S//JM is just ignorant.

alicentsgreens-deactivated20240

tbh i don't mind having smut in books (so long as it's not cringey or marketed to children) but the n/esta book DOES NOT need it. n/esta is clearly in need of help, not earth-shattering sex from some man -sorry MALE who harassed her and does not treat her right. the i/nner circle needs to stay the fuck away from n/esta.

Yeah Nesta’s book will be published as Adult, so that changes things in terms of how explicit the smut can get. But like you said, anon, FAS ended with nes//ta in a very bad state of mind. Sj//m proves again and again that she has the sensitivity of a sledgehammer when it comes to these things, and she apparently thinks that sex is a substitute for therapy. In an ideal world, if I were in charge of writing ac0tar 4, sex wouldn’t be part of nes//ta’s arc at all. Everything sj//m has teased so far raises red flags for me. I’ll pass.

battlestar-royco

I’m also pretty indifferent to smut in books but I just know SJ/M will use it in excess and rather insensitively in the N/esta book. I still think it’s sketchy of her to change the age category in the middle of the series. It’d be different if she was writing a completely new set of characters in the same universe, like the Grisha books, but you know a lot of younger readers will follow N/esta into her next book.

inthemidstofbuddie

So many of Mess fans are angry with the covers. Ive seen them throw out that this is such a money grab - that the covers don’t fit the mood of the books - and that it is appropriation of Chinese culture. Don’t think it had the reaction blooms was expecting

i can’t speak on whether it’s appropriation or not but yeah, i’m not surprising stans are angry about it. frankly, i’d be worried if they weren’t (they were also thankfully angry over the tiny book versions of t0g). I think it was @sanktaalinaa who speculated that they’re trying to rebrand those books as Adult, in anticipation of CCity’s release. sj///m will likely never again publish in YA.

the-high-prince

Yup, one of the big stan accounts posted this

Which does make sense for what they say. Price jumping that high?? I paid $9 for the paperback of ac0tar 2 years ago. Also, those covers. I dont like them, straight up. It's just, no. Not for these books

discountalien-pancake

Ew? Note how the font is also chosen to echo “oriental” book cover designs. And the art style itself is very East Asian. Also this stan is on fucking crack bc it does not at all match the aesthetics of those covers beyond the extremely superficial similarity in colors.

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