Cheyene

@ripe.rock on TikTok

[orcboxer]

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

[beardedmrbean]

[baygeethefirst]

I've been on keto since February and I STILL MISS PANCAKES LIKE A SONOFAGUN

[raylangivins]

[sugar-petals]

modern media in a nutshell

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[guooey]

it’s almost halloween…… vampires…… my window will be open………..

[betrachtung]

my god, there is never any time to recover from the world

[feelingsoftheday]

If you’re ever stuck between me and another person, don’t pick me. I’m good.

[volchitza]

“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[darkwood-hollows]

two moods of doing structural revisions on your manuscript:

[vidalinav]

I’m also obsessed with Nesta and Cassian having the creepiest child known to man and them being like this is totally normal what do you mean? Like this baby reaches for knives early on. This little baby is the one who wants the creepy cursed doll. This child says ominous things and everyone’s like… okay! Only Lucien is the one whose like actually this makes sense. Half of Nesta and half of Cassian was bound to be chaotic. He never wants to babysit though.

[deathofherreputation]

sometimes I’m like, hmm, I feel like I might be a n.est/a girlie because I connect with her healing journey, but then my mother makes a cruel, cutting comment out of nowhere to me when I’ve been nothing but kind to her and my husband has to encourage me to distance myself from toxic family members even though I’m trying my hardest to keep us together and do everything I can to make everyone happy, and then I realize I’m in fact a Feyre girlie 🥲

[thespilledquotes]

“Just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”

— Unknown

[ecileh]

there was this really interesting theory on tiktok last year about how in a lot of women-centric fantasy, only “good girls” get to keep their powers. i think about this in relation to the SJMverse soooo much because it happens with a lot (all) of her characters.

the video has been deleted (it’s blank in my bookmarks 😭) but to paraphrase the theory, OP magical female characters get placed into two categories:

good girls: selfless, savior complex, puts everyone especially her man first, often modest/humble, scandalized when they have to wear sexy clothes for a plot point, only fuck when presented with one bed or similar situation (they need to be seduced)

bad girls: selfish, proud, difficult to get along with, vain, seductive/DTF

feyre is a good girl. she puts everyone else, especially her male partner, before herself. she is a little more selfish at the beginning of the books, but she undergoes a lot of character growth by acowar/acofas. in acowar i think it makes her compelling because she’s so recklessly brave, but by acofas when she’s wearing herself to the bone doing charity work she’s become a bit of a martyr. she also is forced into wearing sexy clothes (by rhys) and they don’t do anything sexual until there’s, of course, only one bed. she’s so OP her powers eventually get nerfed for plot reasons (nesta, elain, and other side characters need a chance to shine, so feyre gets pregnant, shielded, and now has a baby to protect so she probably won’t risk herself for a while), but her powers are still there. she’s just choosing not to use them or put herself in harm’s way because she’s now a mother.

nesta and amren are bad girls. because they are selfish, proud, difficult to get along with. we don’t know much about amren’s sexual history but we know nesta made her way through velaris and jumped right into bed with cassian—not for love, but for a distraction—once she was confined to the house of wind. (i know feyre claimed her one bed moment with rhysand was for a distraction as well, but she wasn’t really in the same place as nesta where sex was an active self-destructive coping mechanism for her. and she later admits to rhys she was lying about wanting distraction to protect herself.) and yeah amren gives up her powers for the war and nesta gives up her powers for……a wider pelvis.

because bad girls can only be redeemed by sacrificing their power. good girls will gladly sacrifice their power and lives, but they are always spared. bad girls may offer their lives too (as amren did, and in TOG so did aelin), but even if their lives are spared they never get to keep their power like good girls do.

(and of course OP men get to keep their powers.)

so many authors seem to think the only satisfying resolution to a difficult woman’s character arc is making them give up their power to save someone else. personally i think it’s so tired. give us a stone cold bitch who doesn’t have to nuke herself for a new pelvis!!! please authors i am begging you

[theselfcarelifestyle]

You have so much time to figure things out. You don’t need to have it all together in this exact moment.

[feysandarcheron]

Tl cleanse he’s living happily ever after in his perfect palace in his perfect city with his perfect wife and baby and family rhysand the man that you are no one will EVER be you

First art by jessdraw.s on ig , second by virtual_bunny on ig, third by lexaarts_ on ig, fourth by god on the bible

[pathologising]

remembering that to get better you have to try, unfortunately