a little delulu

i post a whole bunch of random shit | u might wanna stay out if ur an sjm fan lol | ao3: Thatsameoldivy

[dontknow666]

I noticed that every time someone criticizes Rhys on his behavior fans shrug it off with "Well yes,he's morally grey"

He's not.

Morally grey characters do not get an entire chapter of monolgue where they can explain(badly) their actions. Morally grey characters do not explain and justify their actions at all. Because their morals do not align with the general public.

Tell me one morally grey character in fiction who got an entire chapter dedicated to explain and justify themselves. Even then his explanation is...lacking, it's justified with "he had to protect Velaris and his family" not the Night Court, his citizens but Velaris. Chapter 54 of acomaf is written to make us feel bad for him and see where he was coming from, but once again his explanation is horrible. (Or at least is it if you can look past his moderately sad background). And both the text and the characters tell us that yes his actions were justified and there's nothing wrong with him, he's not bad.

Morally grey characters are not written like that.

Sjm told us via page that Rhys is not a bad person and that every one if his actions are justified instead of letting us decide. And because of that he's not morally grey.

Anywayyyyy thank you for coming to my ted talk 🥰

[maladattata]

tamcien meme time

beautiful art by @lucychanart terribly cropped on my phone

[s-n]

[designerpotatosack]

Btw, Alis not trusting Feyre in WaR because she was allegedly happy in Summer, and this being framed as "smart" and "right" in contrast to stupid naive Tamlin, is genuinely harmful for a series that keeps claiming it takes abuse seriously. Even ignoring the fact that Rhysand is a mind controller, not believing an abuse victim simply because they didn't appear outwardly abused is crazy behaviour. People do all sorts of stuff to survive a horrible situation, including pleasing their abusers.

It doesn't mean anything in the story cause v all know Feyre's lying, but from any pov that isn't Feyre's, alis's behaviour is genuinely horrible, especially where she keeps "testing" Feyre w the night court clothes and stuff. J all around crazy behaviour to be trying to purposely trigger smn to test if they're telling the truth bout their abuse.

[pitohiu]

I’ll always hate the fact that Nesta sleeping around and having unsafe/rough sex was a problem and an unhealthy coping mechanism that she needs to stop doing, until the moment she starts having rough/unsafe sex with her soul mate.

Like suddenly it stops being a problem once she’s only sleeping with the one guy everyone (the characters not the audience) wants her to end up with.

Like which is it? Is it REALLY a problem when she’s doing it. Or do they just want her to stop ‘embarrassing’ them.

[lucky-clover-gazette]

[keepitmovinshawty]

Nesta and Cassian fucking right after the kelpie assault was Nesta self-medicating with sex AGAIN but no one thinks of it that way since it’s Cassian, the person she’s “supposed” to have sex with.

[ennawrite]

acosf wouldve been better if Nesta & Rhysand fucked in secret and singlehandedly ruined their lives forever and then had to live with the ramifications of their desires but like they get away with it because power or whatever .

[hieragalbatorixdottir]

I'm sorry, i thought i finally let acotar and sjm and her stupid stupid toxic characters go but i just saw a bag of oatmeal in my kitchen and i just

Either cassian is completely toxic because he definitely knows all about nutrition or sjm is genuinely fucking dumb. No sugar on oatmeal? For a person with ED? Seriously?!?

Not to mention the training?!? She was malnourished and traumatized and mentally unwell and instead of getting her a therapist and some fucking space to breathe, they locked her in a house with a person, who sexually harrassed her multiple times, and forced her to train and eat by a set plan which she had no say in.

I'm sorry, it just makes me so mad, i feel like writing a fic where nesta kills herself to escape but I'm not gonna because she deserves better

[sawed-on-shotgun]

the human body when you use it and exist in it

[maladattata]

The beginning of acowar wants to portray tamlin as bad and stupid for believing feyre would or could love him, but it accidentally makes him the only one to not doubt her. Feyre has told everyone that she was abused, but alis says, no, I heard you were smiling in summer, so I won't believe you and doubt you were abused. Tamlin is criticised for believing feyre was abused despite having gained weight and looking healthier. And it is to me a disgusting implication that abuse is always outwardly visible, that the right and good characters doubt feyre's story of abuse, while only evil tamlin believes her unconditionally. Feyre even uses this idea of outward visibility by herself abusing tamlin (bc yes the provocation into a breakdown and then consciously choosing to get hurt to portray yourself as a victim is reactive abuse, feyre is following the darvo pattern). But bc she bears the physical appearance of abuse it must be her that's the victim, there can be nothing psychological going on.

It also fits with Rhysand's powers as a mind manipulator, his abuse never leaves physical marks and is invisible and therefore not real. It is a pretty harmful view on abuse imo, to only view it as physical manifestation, be it malnutrition or wounds. It is repeated over and over again: lucien is abused bc he is seen wounded even though we never see how it happened, nesta is healed bc she is eating again, tamlin only registers as hurt in the narrative once he is physically thinner and unkempt.

The book cannot conceive that nesta and feyre are in abusive relationships as long as they are eating well. This could be an interesting comment on these girls being thankful for incredibly psychologically isolating and controlling situations bc they were starving for so long, the simple fact of not suffering malnutrition is enough for them. But I know for sjm abuse is only men punching and not men sweet talking and keeping information from you and controlling your food, your body, your location, your sexual behaviour, etc etc.

[acotar-rants]

ACOTAR is Actuallly...

D20 On a Bus - romantasy version.

No, really, think about it. The entire ACOTAR series is a printed game of "yes and" with no rules except the ones you make up on the spot - or also take away on the spot.

Feyre was once a traumatized young woman who had some compassion for others? Well, now she's traumatized and entitled to everything and everyone around her.

Shouldn't Rhysand and the IC make a more diplomatic approach to Tarquin to get the Book of Breathings? Nope, theft it is.

Should Rhysand and the IC really rely on a glass orb that shows you stuff without context or sound to human queens who have no reason to trust them? Eh, it works out mostly.

Mates are likely just the universe trying to get the next powerful child out of a couple, but that won't stop people from hoping the partners they're with will be mated to them.

Hey, cool, a new antagonist! I wonder what they'll do? What are their motives? Oh, they're killed off pretty quickly.

ACOTAR is what happens when you're playing imagination with other kids and everyone just adds on whatever they want with no logic or explanation. Fun for a game of imagination, but it makes a terrible book series when you know for a fact there are other series that do it 10x better.

[maladattata]

I told my sister who's a gynecologist in training about the acosf pregnancy plot and she almost exploded, so time to remember that there is no possible forgiveness for rhysand from that

[beedreamscape]

This is just ridiculous. How can a 500 year old man pass judgement onto a trio of girls with max three years of difference between them? They should equally be vulnerable and young to him, while he should admit his bias has nothing to do with their age but his attraction to Feyre.

[cyrusincrisis]

If 3 am is the witches' hour, I present to you-

3:14, the pious hour!

[wlwarhammer]

Feyre should be at the club not dealing with a 900 year old man who is psychotically and homosexually obsessed with her ex fiancé

[franficsnow]

The Illyrians in ACOTAR don’t make any sense and neither do the bat boy’s backstories. In ACOMAF Cassian explains that he was a bastard child and that his mother had no nobility in her blood. So, the Illyrians didn’t care about him, because he was a bastard. Then why give him the privilege of training? Why was he allowed to become a warrior in the first place? Do Illyrians needs to pay for warrior training? If that’s the case, Cassian definitely wouldn’t be able to go.

The fact that Illyrians allowed him to be educated, without anyone advocating for this bastard child (under like five years old) doesn’t make any sense. Furthermore, the IC claim that the Illyrians value status, BECAUSE noble bloodlines have strong offsprings and they value strength/power… Then why do they still not respect Cassian, Rhysand, and Azriel? We’re told on multiple occasions on how powerful they are and that they’re the most powerful Illyrians within the past few centuries.

Additionally, if they’re so against bastards— why did they allow three to train simultaneously? I understand Rhysand being allowed to train because well he’s the High Lord’s son. But Cassian and Az? Well, Az does have super special powers, which also doesn’t make sense for Illyrians to care about… because no one can train him. Illyrians don’t have any other magic abilities except power beams. 🧍

And because of my issues with… plot holes and murky cultural values— I head cannon that Lord Devlon, the Illyrian who trained the bat boys, was the one to advocate for Cassian and put him in training. I think Devlon may be the closest thing to a father figure Cass had. It’s a messy relationship, and Devlon isn’t nice by any means… but like— the Illyrians very much make me think of the actual military. And soldiers are usually not very nice to each other. But no matter how mean someone is, they are still professional enough to work towards a common goal. And Devlon being as experienced as he is saw potential in Cass and put him to training— or maybe he knew his dad.

Also as a side note: Why can’t any character have decent parents? I swear every character in ACOTAR has shitty parents and hate them. 😭 can there not be nuance? I’m feel like these characters hate too easily. Or that the parent is so polarized. I for one also head cannon that Rhysand’s dad actually loved him. Maybe he messed up a lot, or was so very busy, but overall he loved Rhysand. Just, in his own way which again isn’t healthy and confused the hell out of Rhys. But I think these relationships shouldn’t be so cut and dry.

Children can both love their parent, and recognize that the relationship was very unhealthy. Or at the very least can we have Rhysand think of his father’s abuse and have him think: “I don’t want to be like him.” Because we can’t just give a character trauma and not impact the narrative. Or hell maybe he has so much on his plate of bad memories, especially after UTM, that Rhys is like: “I don’t actually remember much of my childhood.” Because his mind is blocking it out.