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19. She/Her. Full time Aelin Galathynius advocate. Hobbies include searching for my Thomas Cresswell.

[acotars]

I’m an oddity, a commodity, a rumor. I’m the king’s favored. His prized saddle. The one he gold-touched and keeps in a cage at the top of his castle, my body bearing the mark of his ownership and favoritism. The gilded pet. 

I’m the darling of King Midas, ruler of Highbell and the Sixth Kingdom of Orea. People flock to see me just as much as they come to look upon his gleaming castle worth more than all the riches in the entire realm. 

I’m the gold-plated prisoner. But what a pretty prison it is.

GILD by Raven Kennedy (The Plated Prisoner Series #1)

[lost-in-fictionn]

Me reading enemies to lovers fics in 2012

Me reading enemies to lovers fics in 2021

[prrcyjacksons]

Some Acosf headers<3

Use code #dee3e8 to match background:)

[snelbz]

Regarding the ridiculous amount of hate on Twitter/Tumblr/Insta recently:

If you’re one of the “fans” sending threatening tweets regarding kidnapping Sarah’s literal fucking child, fat-shaming an actress for no reason, aside from following and being followed by Sarah, or causing any hate or vitriol in the name of being an “SJM fan”, unfollow me right now. I’m disgusted by the image our fandom is putting out, thanks to a few loud mouthed individuals, and you are are not welcome on this blog.

[snelbz]

Like I want to reiterate how fucked up all of this is, but especially how absolutely beyond fucked up it is to threaten someone’s child, whether it’s a “joke” or not. You people call yourselves fans, but you’re joking about putting her child in harm’s way and damn, did I lose respect for quite a few people I saw on Twitter today.

“We could never actually get to her son, it’s just a joke.”

That’s not the fucking point. The point is that you clearly have no respect for her, her family, her stories, her judgements for the show, any of it. Every single person who thinks it’s just a joke needs to open their eyes, sit down, and shut up.

I’m so fucking ashamed of our fandom right now.

[highqueenofashandstars]

The same kind of people who say “it’s just a joke” are also the kind that have no real morals, boundaries, or ethics towards being a good person towards other people. What about it is funny? Hm? Threatening a child? Threatening an author and her family in general? Literally bullying an actress off of Twitter who’s not even remotely confirmed for a very pre-development show? Absolutely ridiculous and horrible.

[simpingfornestaarcheron]

Nesta Archeron

Princess of Merchants

Cauldron made

Kingslayer

Lady Death

Queen of Queens

Mother blessed

Valkyrie

[nestasmate]

Do you guys not understand what “chosen family” means??? Feyre never had a family with the people she was born with so she made one with new people who were there for her when she was dealing with her shit. Nesta did the exact same thing and you guys now you guys are mad. Family doesn’t mean the people who share your blood, it means having people who care for you and are willing to be there for each other through the worst moments of life. EVERYONE deserves that! Feyre got it with the inner circle because she didn’t have that with her sisters. Nesta got with the valkyries because SHE didn’t have it with her sisters.

I totally agree that there should’ve been a better conversation between Nesta and Feyre, but that doesn’t mean Gwyn and Emerie should be weaponized against her. Mor was more of a sister to Feyre than her blood sisters were, just like Gwyn and Emerie were to Nesta. And that’s okay! In the end, Nesta and Feyre managed to mend their relationship— Nesta did single Feyre’s family after all. But it wasn’t Feyre or Elain who got Nesta to where she is now. It was the valkyries, and you guys need to accept it.

One more thing: why would Nesta choose to “heal” with the people who slut shamed her, made fun of her alcoholism, took away the only place she felt safe and called told her that she was a waste of a life when she was already having suicidal thoughts at the time? Feyre and Elain were absolutely not the people Nesta needed to be surrounded by at that point in her life. She needed people who understood her pain trauma and didn’t use it against her, but taught her how to embrace it. She needed people who she felt comfortable enough to laugh with, to cry with, to share her feelings with! And that is what she got. She would’ve never gotten that with her sisters because they were in different places in their lives and could not have helped her in the ways that Emerie and Mor did.

Side note: if you’re going to continue to reuse the same “she let her family starve blah blah” argument even AFTER reading acosf, you’re probably either a middle aged women with the comprehension skills of a 10 year old. OR you’re a 10 year old who should not be allowed to read this book. Keep grasping at straws, though!😋

[silverflamcs]

i just realized….while staying at the house of wind in acowar cassian would come see her like every other day and the two of them would always be bickering and going back and forth with each other…..did the house know what was up during this time bc oh my god it was probably thriving off these idiots. when nesta was forced up there did the house remember all those arguments and the tension between those two and had even more of a reason to play matchmaker for them drkjgsegn

pls i love this fucking house so much 

[courtofmaasdestruction]

azriel making his presence known before walking into the dining room:

[merymoonbeam]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[fanbitchesunite]

ACOSF SPOILERS

Can we just talk about how powerful Nesta is for a moment please:

- Proclaimed a death god

- Makes her own dread trove - including a made sword that hasn’t been seen in thousands of years

- Lanthys Wants her to be his queen, one of the baddest bitches of them all

- Completes and wins the bloodrite with like 4-5 months of training, even though illyrians have been training for like 20+ years

- Made the House of Wind come alive

- Rhys is scared of her

- Ensares a marriage proposal from Eris with three dances

- Leads an elite group of female warriors that defy Illyrian culture to the max

- STOPPED TIME WITH A HARP that’s meant to kill you

Any more reasons to love this queen

[regolithheart]

The Inner Circle: Nesta is dangerous. We don’t know what she will do with all that unchecked power.

Also the Inner Circle: Lets use the Dread Trove to make Rhys High King.

[bookbitchyas]

Don’t get me wrong I don’t dislike Rhys but if he becomes high king I’m out

[merymoonbeam]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[romaisamaria]

Nesta: “You’re an arrogant bastard.”

Cassian: “And you’re a haughty witch. We’re evenly matched.”

The Cauldron, fully aware why they’re mates:

[blueseyberries]

Me trying to choose which ship(s) to board like

[lovemeforever12345]

ummm sjm

so the first photo is the part in Acosf when they see Tamlin and Sjm writes Nesta saying to herself “Tamlin had even looked at her and ASKED if she’d go in Feyre’s place. and she had said no.” ….. but I went back to the frist Acotar book and took these …

….. make it make sense Sarah ….. make it make sense. Tamlin never asked Nesta if she would take Feyre’s place , and the reason why he didn’t/wouldn’t have asked that was because the whole point of the curse was that only the person who killed the fae-wolf THEMSELVES with hate in their heart could break the curse. SJM what happened to the original plot of your books? you can’t just make shit up that didn’t happen for the sake of the next plot . I REPEAT TAMLIN NEVER ASKED NESTA IF SHE WOULD TAKE FEYRE’s PLACE. Receipts are in the previous books. 

[inyourmindeye-deactivated202204]

Thank you for this!

I would also like to point out in ACOTAR Feyre says Nesta is 3 years older than her. And Feyre was 8 when her mother died. Which would make Nesta 11. But in ACOSF there’s a flash back of her talking to her mother when she was 12…

Also Nesta takes a moment to remember when Cassian was on the battlefield throwing that spear at the enemy…umm, Nesta wasn’t there that time to see it but she didnsitnand listen to illyrians talking about it.

Awkward for her.

I’m just ignoring it. I still love the book.

[callowaycobalts]

Nesta had loved Cassian since she’d first laid eyes on him. Had loved him even when she did not want to, even when she had been swallowed by despair and fear and hatred. Had loved him and destroyed herself because she didn’t believe she deserved him, because he was all that was good, and brave, and kind, and she loved him, she loved him, she loved him

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames (via callowaycobalts)

[rhysand-vs-fenrys]

Cassian hiding from Nesta during their mating frenzy because he feels guilty it activated without her understanding what it was