Eldritch be thy blast

A hobbit at heart.

[helenvaughans]

[eldritchguava]

The acotar sequel of my dreams:

500 years of inaction and incompetence finally catch up with Ryhsand and his Court of Dreams. 2/3 of his court have had enough of his deliberate tyranny and rise up against him. The women who have watched him proclaim himself as king of choice and a secretly good guy while abandoning them to their fate - these women now lead the coup. Female rage topples the Night Court. And Rhysand and his dreamer friends finally realise that in all their centuries as the literal government they should have done more than just dream of a better world. Now they learn that action, or lack thereof, has consequences.

We never hear a word from Feyre and Rhysand ever again and they shut up throughout the rest of the books. Let them be irrelevant. Everyone is finally free of the Night Court.

Lucien finally tells Rhysand and Feyre to fuck off, roasts them within an inch of their lives by laying out all the harsh truths that Feyre loves to block out and officially cuts ties with the Night Court for good. He returns to the Spring Court, finally coming home. Him and Tamlin reunite and fuck and it fixes them. Everything is forgiven.

Together they rebuild the Spring Court. Because Tamlin is so strongly connected to the land itself, once he heals with Lucien by his side, so does the land. The Spring Court flourishes and thrives, thus embodying the metaphor of spring as rebirth, new beginnings and new life after darkness. They live happily ever after.

[eldritchguava]

The Night Court has one (1) fear

[eldritchguava]

SJM was insane for this:

So Tamlin kept quiet the entire time Under the Mountain. He didn't bargain for his own freedom, didn't plead with Amarantha to let Feyre go. But he broke his silence for Lucien?? To literally beg for mercy for him?

The whole point of Tamlin's silence was to avoid showing Amarantha how she can hurt him most, what breaks him. He endures it all in silence and yet Lucien being in danger is when he can't bear to keep quiet any longer. Lucien's the one thing that breaks his self-restraint!

And then Amarantha forces Tamlin to whip Lucien himself?? Tamlin, the protector, who tried desperately to keep Lucien safe and who then has to be the one to hurt him with no way to refuse?

Is it any wonder Tamlin then has such a hard time showing his true feelings in book 2? Look at what it got him the last time he did.

Their loyalty and affection for each other is weaponized against them both. This makes me sickkk.

[geniemillies]

tamcien warm up sketchies for the tamcien drought 🤲

[eldritchguava]

Rereading book 1 and I forgot how much Tamlin smiles in that book. He's so funny?? He's laughing, grinning, smiling, teasing.

I miss this version of him. He really was happy here, with Feyre and Lucien.

Book 1 was just PEAK.

[eldritchguava]

Lucien giving Tamlin a pep talk behind the scenes of book 1 when he's coaching him to flirt with a woman to save them all:

[eldritchguava]

Imagine going Under The Mountain to heroically save the damsel in distress (Tamlin) and then being pissed that the damsel... was in distress

[eldritchguava]

I have so much to say about this scene from ACOTAR:

Note Lucien's immediate and fierce defense of Tamlin. Not stepping back in the face of danger but standing at his side. Lucien's literally squaring up, ready to throw hands as soon as Tamlin gets insulted. No one gets to badmouth Tamlin when Lucien is there. The loyalty is unmatched.

Lucien being defensive over the Spring Court and calling it "OUR home" 😭 this is what kills me most. He sees himself as belonging alongside Tamlin in the Spring Court. It's their home, I am unwell.

Lucien answering for Tamlin. Not once but twice! The implication that he knows Tamlin so well that he understands exactly what Tamlin is thinking and feeling and how these comments affect him. That he knows what Tamlin wants to say, so he simply says it for him.

And Tamlin trusts Lucien. He lets Lucien speak his mind. He doesn't silence him or reprimand him for speaking so boldly but instead openly approves of his words. Lucien's voice carries weight, he's not just another subordinate. Tamlin trusts that Lucien has his back.

They were really one united front in book 1, one entity. Them against the world.

I love overthinking.

[maladattata]

every fanfiction that involves lucien should have a mandatory friendship healing arc for him and tamlin. actually every fanfiction that is even mildly ic critical should be obligated to at least mention tamlin being happy and ok and also having always (mostly) been right.

i'm having big feelings about my blond son rn and i will make it everyone's problem

[maladattata]

I want lucien to be free of that fuckass night court. only options for him in my mind are tamcien remarriage or he gets with nesta and teaches her about how to cut your toxic siblings off or (ideally) both

[eldritchguava]

Some High Lords are just more powerful and more competent than others.

[treecitysessions]

[eldritchguava]

People saying Rhysand was the only one who taught Feyre to read and write and that Tamlin wanted to keep Feyre illiterate...

Tamlin shows her his library, literally offers to teach her, to help her write her letters. And she says no.

He then writes her a series of limericks using words that he knows she struggles with (!) to help her understand their meaning through context.

Hello?? He tried writing love poems at first and then turned to filthy limericks instead. My heart.

That's so sweet! It's funny, it's witty. He's helping her while being careful to not embarrass her. He cares. He notices her struggle. He teaches her without patronizing her. Makes her laugh. Sharing something about himself in the process.

And he does it without having her write lines about him being the most handsome, most powerful and bestest man in the entire world. Funny how that's possible.

[eldritchguava]

I know this line is well known. And for good reason. It's insane! This is Rhysand speaking to Tamlin:

But I just noticed that the connotation of "like a lover" also shows up in the same scene when Rhysand is speaking to Lucien:

So what I'm hearing is... Rhysand speaks to both Tamlin AND Lucien like a lover. Softly, intimately, up close and personal. Interesting, very interesting 👀

So Rhysand (the bitter ex) shows up to make Tamlin beg and kneel at his feet and then just can't pass up the opportunity to flirt with both Tamlin and Lucien. Understandable. He throws in the famous "your beloved Tamlin" just for added drama to complete the vibe.

Toxic threesome when?? SJM I just want to pitch an idea for the next book...

[themadmorrigan]

Imagine if the fae in ACOTAR all wore glamours to make them easier/more pretty to look upon, or to hide their true nature or powers.

What if the Autumn boys had fair that flickered and streamed behind them like fire, skin that was hot to the touch, eyes that smoldered like burning coal?

What if Tamlin DID have enormous stag horns that bloomed with roses? And he left carpets of blooming spring flowers in his wake?

What if, wherever Winter fae went or whatever they touched, they left a trail of hoarfrost?

The eyes of people from the Hewn City being black and fathomless or, more freaky still, why have eyes when you live in darkness? Rhys, glowing softly in the moonlight, whose eyes shine as bright and cold as distant stars?

I just think it would be neat...

[senu102929]

There is a High Lady in Spring but it's just Tamlin who shifted into a female.

Feyre is mad because she was the only High Lady and now there's another and it's Tamlin?!

Rhysand is devastated because he was secretly hoping to get dicked down by Tamlin again.

They have to stop being so mean to her because they're both self-proclaimed feminists and Rhys still tries to get her to shift back into a high fae male but now he doesn't have the excuse of "you need to rule your court and you can't do that as a beast" so everyone knows he just misses Tamlin's 🍆

Calanmai is reversed and now it's a contest between males to hunt the white stag and the winner gets to go in the cave with Tamlin. Because she's Spring personified, the season of new life, she's constantly getting pregnant and there's just children running all around the manor driving Alis mad (many of whom have blue-black hair, violet eyes, and some even Illyrian wings.)

Chaos ensues and Tamlin just sits on the rose throne looking pretty with all the flowers Alis braided into her hair with this look on her face 😇