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my budget is a fucking mess. i‘ve got the spending habits of a victorian dandy on the salary of a medieval serf. i’m living like post-incarceration oscar wilde with prime 2-day shipping

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Someone: I don’t ship Nessian. Nesta is a bitch and Cassian deserves better. Plus it’s a toxic relationship.

Me:

#come at me #nesta is my baby #hell yeah she's a bitch #the supreme bitch

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Some of you have never had your hearts ripped out because of Nesta Archeron and everything she’s been through and because you see yourself in her and it shows.

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Thoughts on ACOTAR 4 (the Nessian novel)

To preface, this is likely a very unpopular opinion. But it’s not a hate post, it’s something I wish to discuss. So please respond and add to the conversation! Preferably polity, but if not what can I do about it 😂 with that said:

Does anyone else get really uncomfortable whenever people write about or have headcanons etc. of Nesta becoming Queen of Illyria or doing the bloodrite or being an ‘inspiration’ for Illyrian women to fight back against their oppressors?

Would that not be the worst trope of them all? The trope of a privileged white person coming into a ‘barbaric’ POC society to fix them with her higher sense of morals and culture?

Authors have been slain online for less. Think the huge boycott of Veronica Roth’s book Carve the Mark because it allegedly made POC savages and white people holier than thou. Or The Continent by Keira Drake, that had a white girl near brutalised by a POC culture only for her to then fix it, partly by building a wall that separated them from everyone else. A book that was recived so badly by reviewers with ARCs that the release date was pushed back so the whole book could be re-written and re-edited.

I just think of Nesta doing the Bloodrite, and it makes me feel gross. Woman for centuries, probably Millenia, have been thwarted and oppressed in Illyrian society. For Nesta, someone who has lived her whole life never doing anything for herself, a woman who detests being fae rather than human, who has never worked a day in her life, to come into a society that she actively mocks and insults and take what their woman have never had would be disgusting.

Worse could be said if she were queen. Firstly, I’ll repeat what I’ve already said. Nesta openly mocks Illyrian culture. Secondly, Nesta has never done anything for herself. It was her parents that provided for her, then Feyre, then Tamlin, and now Rhys. All problematic aspects aside, how in any world would she be a good queen/leader?

Personally, I don’t think Sarah will take this route, and if she does, it will be with a character like Emerie, not Nesta. But I’ve seen SO MANY posts wanting something like that, that I felt the need to discuss it.

Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk.

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Hey there followers, I've come to throw in my two cents. And believe me, that's all my opinion in worth.

That said, I sincerely doubt there's gonna be a "Nesta is Queen" plot line. Sure, she's refered to as a queen in a couple occasions, but nah. First of all, that's Feyre's perspective, and Feyre is notoriously short sighted. Case in point she sees Nesta as the imperious older sister that looks down on her therefore she considers her a disapproving figure of authority ergo "Queen", has nothing to do with the *real* Nesta.

The idea of Nesta as a queen is, frankly, laughable. He doesn't want to lead or rule or any of that. The only thing she wants to have authority over is her life.

I know what you're thinking, "but she clashes with every authority figure, including her kid sister and her big shot hubby!" To which I counter that she really wouldn't if they stopped trying to control her / steer her life.

Believe it or not Nesta isn't the petty one. Rhys is. Feyre to a lesser extent but still petty cuz she doesn't tell Rhys to bottle it. What Nesta wants is to live her life without constantly being told what to do.

So, no, she's not going to be queen and the people that theorize and all the stuff, gotta go back and analyse the source material.

As for her training with the Illyrian females, now that is possible, as long as no one tells her to do it. If she's gonna train then it has to be her decision exclusively. Maybe she's moved by someone, maybe she's impressed by the women that have had their wings clipped (therefore losing an integral part of themselves much like she did when she was made fae) but are still fighting. Maybe she finds a community of people that don't pity her or sneer at her or try to tell her how to live her life.

There's a lot she can learn from Illyrian society, but being queen doesn't make the list.

I also feel obligated, after looking at reblogs/comments and seeing multiple people say this, to mention that the reason that Nesta acted differently with Feyre is because she saw herself in Feyre and she resented that Feyre was strong and willing enough to go out and hunt for their survival and worst of all, keep them alive when all she wanted to do was die.

Thing is, kids, that all Nesta has ever wanted is the power to make her own choices and she's always been denied the opportunity.

When they were in the shack and her choice was to die, Feyre made her live. When her choice would have been to leave, she couldn't because without Feyre, Elain and her father were vulnerable and unaware of the biggest threat. When she wanted to stay out of a war, she hosted her sister and her court. When she wanted to stay in her world, she was forced into another. When she wanted to heal her wounds privately, she talked about it publicly. When she wanted her father to live, he was killed. When she'd accepted her death, she lived.

There's only so much you can take from someone before they break and the war was the final straw for her.

So no, she won't be Queen, she would never be queen because the idea of doing what was done to her to other people would be excruciating.

What I want to see is how Nesta takes control of her life and that's what we should all be looking out for.

Sorry if this was rambly, I have a lot of thoughts on Nesta and Cassian and Nessian. A lot. Too many really.

#nesta #nessian novel

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Nesta: Still pretending you're cool, I see.

Cassian: Still pretending you're not hopelessly in love with me, I see.

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Bruce Wayne looking at the child who’s the spitting image of himself on his door step claiming hes his son: My pullout game is strong who the fuck are you??

#i laugh #accurate

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Jude: *warns Living Council of impeding attack by Orlagh*

The Living Council:This is so sad Alexa play despacito

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This moment when you’re so into a book that when you reach the last chapter, the last sentence, the last word. You just look around and just want to throw yourself because it was just fantastic but you’re also kinda emotional because the magic trip is over.

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No, I haven’t started reading @hollyblack‘s “The Wicked King” yet, but here’s a pic of Cardan & Jude ;)

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unpopular opinion but I would sell my soul to read a scene between Nesta and the Ouroboros mirror instead like can you imagine the staredown? Nesta would just go “thank you, next.” and the Ouroboros would just break into P I E C E S.

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This might be the actual plot for the next novella. Sarah said there was going to be one based on the Snow Queen and that's basically the plot of the snow queen.