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SJM, SOC, TSC, TLC, JLA, PJO, + historical, & contemporary novels

[quotefeeling]

“Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.”

— Paulo Coelho

[unicornspwnall]

[elias-veturius-laia-of-serra]

Why I think no death in A Sky Beyond The Storm is in unnecessary

Simply because - it’s war. The author said she wanted to write something that’s very close to her life and her people. In war many innocent lives and many people die for no reasons other than it is war. I understand as a story readers will try to look at it methodically or logically but the thing is the whole point of this story involving war is the damage and amount it takes and how in the end wars always take and do more wrong than it does good.

In real life you won’t see the lives lost in a war and think “What the hell? My dad died? This didn’t help improve or further my plot at all! So unnecessary. Totally just for shock value” and that’s the point. Death in war isn’t fair and doesn’t make sense. In fact it never does. It is never justified to take away the life of an innocent person in the name of something you think is bigger or more important than them.

It’s unfair and it’s sad. It’s said the point of wars is to fight for something better and yet it just seemed to make everything else worse instead. I understand since it’s in a book we want to look at it more in a fictional story wise since it is fiction, but also remember the author is a south asian women that did want to talk about the harsh realities of her life and her people through story telling for others to understand. And a part of that is war and with wars comes countless of casualties. Majority of them unjust and loved ones that deserved better

[chidingchidas-blog]

This is exactly why I respect Sabaa’s novels. It’s so real and it takes a lot to be able to write, or even read, that kind of heavy and real material.

[running-with-thewolves]

Fuck off im so in love with this fictional man it’s embarrassing

[chidingchidas-blog]

I want to talk about how, through her white female supremacy, SJM entirely neglects every other aspect of morality...including aggression and rape targeting men. This that we read right here that all of you most likely ignored...is RAPE. He is telling her to stop and she continues regardless of the reason. If a woman was to do this(and I am a woman so you can’t go yelling male patriarchy and ignorance), all of us would go yelling about it. However, we didn’t, because SJM pints this as beautiful. She wants us to see that Cassian is a caring male who cares about his partner. However, in doing this, we(and it’s not your faults bc this is what she wanted) ignore the fact that this is...wrong. This is not a relationship that any young or elderly female or male reader should crave. SJM disregards aggression and rape against men in order to place white female supremacy on a pedestal and I’m tired of it. I’m tired of seeing young girls across the world have their perspectives changed because of the immoral messages SJM is spreading. This right here is RAPE. Let us call it out for what it is. I used every tag for the series because this is more than split sides...this is about something that’s actually messed up about an author and a book many of us look up to when we shouldn’t. This is about young readers, young boys and girls, and elderly ones too. This is about all of us and the kind of impression this type of writing leaves on our brains and the way we interact with others in society. This is about US. I’m not saying you have to hate nesta, cassian, or nessian, since this is actually on SJM and her writing, not the characters as it is clear she was trying to make it seem romantic when it’s utterly and completely repulsive and unacceptable.

[noodles-07]

Me every time I write

[jjluvsrhodey-deactivated2020112]

If you don’t think Fandom Racism has a real world impact

Black actors consistently have the lowest followers of their respective TV show (it took Caleb the longest to get to 1 million followers after Stranger Things came out)

The above point impacts actors marketability

Black actors usually have the least questions at conventions - this hurts their mental health and is plain rude

Fandoms have genuine leverage about how characters are portrayed - if fandoms attack Black actors, next season they face reduced roles or are cut altogether (Ani, 13 reasons why - the problem was with the writing, yet the actress received abuse and got her role heavily reduced in the last season)

They reduced and sidelined the intimacy between Guinevere and Arthur in the final season of Merlin due to fans attacking the character and shipping Arthur/Merlin

Actors ability to do their job - newsflash, facing racism on the job is traumatic and horrific. How many stories do we need to hear about actors who no longer want to talk about a project or do it again because their experience, especially with the fans, was toxic (e.g. John Boyega, Candice Patton)

This is more of an omission but I have seen fandoms keep their foot on actors’ necks to speak out on important topics. Yet it is silent when Black actors are facing racist abuse. It really should not have taken until this year for Grant Gustin to openly affirm his support to Candice Patton as Iris.

Your shows! You know that thing you stan? When you (and the writers) are racist, Black fans will *leave* and your ratings will go down, and the show will get canceled. So now you have nothing to fan over. Check out how long Sleepy Hollow lasted after they cut Nicole Beharie, or even GMW after the treatment of Angela Moore

Fandom racism is both overt and covert and has actual real world implications. Not just to the self-esteem and wellbeing of Black actor and fans, but people’s finances. If you don’t know, now you know. Call it out.

[worldsnotsaid]

It’s consistently discouraging to see black actors facing BLATANT racism and seeing how anyone just expects it to be okay.

I just want people to know that black fans understand the micro-aggressive language fans employ when arguing against certain ships and plot points (I.e. Damon and Bonnie, Rey and Finn, etc.,), even when there is no logical in world justification. We know when we are being dismissed from the conversation, and it hurts.

[frejann]

How do you make people fall in love with you

challenge them to a duel 

[im-someone-i-guess]

knife under their throat

[ahecktonoffandomsinoneblog]

Gun to their back

[alonlyfangirl]

Poison in their cup

[barlicgred]

Youre all horrible

[chidingchidas-blog]

The real ones know 😌

[dustjacketmusings]

Always good to have confirmation of things people already knew. In this case, that s/jm worships r/hys and somehow doesn't realize that arrogant is a personality trait and not just an insult. He absolutely is arrogant as shown in the text. You can like r/hys, that doesn't make him not arrogant.

It explains so much about nesta's perspective and how weirdly she viewed him.

[nesemryn]

It doesn't matter how much SJM loves a character. She will always love Rhysand more. The fact that us readers can openly see his flaws while the own damn author can't is astonishing.

[davidsfincher]

uncle bucky

[tealnymph24]

My heart ❤

[chidingchidas-blog]

🥺❤️🥰💗

[runningquill-art]

“Fly, Farasha!”

Together. They would either outrun this or die together. - Kingdom of Ash, S.J.Maas

[IG @runningquill_art]

[chidingchidas-blog]

😭😭😭

[yazthebookish]

I will address two things:

Gwyn and Nesta's first meeting

Comparing Gwyn to Ianthe (TW: mention of SA)

So here goes

Gwyn and Nesta's first meeting:

So, I've heard that some claim Gwyn was rude to Nesta on their first meeting but let's revisit their first scene together;

Gwyn marked the change. “I don’t need your pity.” The words were sharp, as clear as her teal eyes. “It wasn’t pity.” “I’ve been here for nearly two years, but I haven’t become so disconnected from others that I can’t tell when someone remembers why I am here and alters their behavior.” Gwyn’s mouth flattened to a line. “I don’t need to be coddled. Only spoken to like a person.”

Gwyn's "rudeness" as some put it up was not rudeness at all. Nesta slightly changed her attitude around Gwyn when she remembered why the priestesses were here and what they have gone through. Gwyn caught the slight change and called her out on it, not wanting her pity or to be coddled. She wants to be spoken to like a person and not a victim. So I don't get where this talk of "Gwyn being rude to Nesta" when it was her not wanting to be treated differently and rightly so.

After Gwyn leaves Nesta was literally wondering about her having two "friendly" conversations in one day with Clotho and Gwyn. She called her conversation with Gwyn friendly.

If you're gonna use Gwyn being rude as an argument to prove that she is shady or evil, we might as well use Elain's shadiness in ACOSF as evidence of her turning evil.

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Comparing Gwyn to Ianthe:

What is there to compare in the first place?

Because they both have Teal eyes? They both are priestesses? Like, truly, what is there to compare them about when one is a SA survivor and the other is a reputable predator? A rapist and assaulter? aren't you degrading Gwyn as character by even trying to draw a connection between her and Ianthe to prove a point to a theory that Gwyn is.. evil?

That is shitty especially without considering the feelings of SA survivors who have spoken time and again about their feelings and who see themselves through Gwyn, a character despite her trauma that showcased her inner strength and capacity to love and care about others.

I do not understand why some are bent on ruining and bringing down the character representing SA survivors and whose SA was brought upfront to all the readers.

[wisteriabookss]

Cassian: "Take 10, hell even 20 years if that's what you need to heal Nesta."

Also Cassian: "We've had enough of this bullshit behavior of yours after one year"

Me:

[ncssian]

for a moment i wondered if maybe he meant “take however long you need to heal, as long as you’re actively trying to heal” but even that doesn’t really make sense because wtf does actively trying even mean? does anyone keep their eyes on the priestesses in the library judging whether they’re “trying hard enough” to heal or not? or does it not matter because they go through their issues in a quiet way while nesta was being loud? i hate how everyone assumed at the beginning that she wasn’t even trying when she literally did exposure therapy to be able to use a bathtub again, or all the times she managed to clean herself up to show up at some family event. those are all acts of trying and just because they werent deemed “enough” doesnt mean they should have went unacknowledged

[chidingchidas-blog]

FACTUAL.

[lumosnoctem]

Gwyneth Berdara

Valkyrie || “Our stories are worth telling”

I am the rock against which the surf crashes.

Nothing can break me.

“I have been broken once before,” Gwyn said, her voice clear. “I survived it. And I will not be broken again—not even by this mountain.“

A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES

[nesta-stan]

Do y'all still remember pre-acosf when we all hoped Elain wasn't at the meeting because she was against it when she was in fact packing Nesta's bags.

Like damn, Elain deserved 10x more than a "Fuck you"

[nesemryn]

Remember when we thought Elain would be the one to stand by Nesta's side and understand what she was going through but instead ran out crying because Nesta "was not even trying" after a couple days of being locked up

[chidingchidas-blog]

Remember when we thought Elain would be one of the few to have faith in Nesta being able to heal but the first words she said to her in months were “did feyre pay you to be here”

[parcai]

Nessian <3

Cassian design inspo from merwild.

[chidingchidas-blog]

LOVE THIS

[luthientinuvielss]

underrated nessian moment: when nesta said "you're my friend too, cassian." then went on her tippy toes and kissed him on the cheek.