Don’t Get Cussed Out

Ezra| 29 | Biracial & Trans | He/Him TOG rarepair creator and side character enthusiast. Sam, Nox, and Connall are my little meow meows! 🤭❤️ My main is werewolffprince.

[eyllweambassador]

I don’t know why I’ve never thought about Manon and Nehemia smooching but I am now

[velidewrites]

Actually begging this fandom to take 2 seconds of their time to think about whether an art piece looks like it was AI generated.

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I love watching people who claim to be against whitewashed art reblogging and complimenting whitewashed art.

Y’all are so predictable.

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I need people who openly admit that they aren’t Black to stop speaking for Black people on what we should and shouldn’t be upset by. We’ve long since had discussions about the way SJM writes certain topics, this shit ain’t new.

What you need to do is focus on your own media literacy skills, worry about THAT instead of how we should interpret shit.

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I don’t remember if I ever shared this old comm or not but here’s a lil sneaky peak 😘

Art by madam_allurane on insta ❤️

[separatist-apologist]

I know AI can be difficult to spot, but even as it gets better, if you want to know how you can tell the difference between true art drawn by hand and AI that was maybe rendered (a little) afterwards, look for symmetry.

Actual hand drawn art is symmetrical. Hair that blows off into the background on just one side? Probably AI. A necklace that stretches over one end of the characters body but not the other? Probably AI. Artists notice those details and will make them symmetrical, AI doesn't concern itself with those details.

The eyes are another one. AI eyes are usually a little cross-eyed or strange. If you stare at them, you'll notice mismatched pupils or more white on one side than the other.

I've been seeing more AI Lucien in the tags recently. I know no one in this fandom intends to support AI stolen from our artists (except for the people creating it and passing it off as their own), and I think just knowing the tells of AI makes us all better consumers of fan works. We should continue to support the artists who keep creating content because they love the same books as us, and whole-sale rejecting AI no matter how "realistic" you think it looks. It's stolen. I've seen AI generated images being passed around that were clearly fed @krem-does-stuff's art, which is a shame because she hand paints every piece she does and that takes time.

There is no skill, no talent, no love for the community in AI.

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I don’t think I’ve ever shared my favorite Lucien fancast yet but there’s this real handsome Brasillian model named João Jesus… lemme just show y’all the vision.

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saw you're a samxcelaena girlie and just wanted to say i literally love you A++ opinion. have been obsessed with them since sam was mentioned in book 1. i was desperately hoping he was secretly alive until I read the prequel and books 3+4 where it became abundantly clear that was not the case. absolutely devastating. chaol existing only pushed me further into my delusion (i know he's a complex character. that does not mean i dont fine him boring). I barely tolerated rowan for the rest of the series (I complained extensively to my sister for years). also your lucien fancast it top tier xx

We share a brain because I was also obsessed with Sam since book 1 and AB only fueled that love tenfold. I swear once I get the chance to do a reread, I will work on drafting my fanfic where Sam is alive during the events of ToG - HoF 😩 I have a lot of it planned out already but I’m so lazy. I’m not the biggest Chaol fan personally (I just yknow… wanna box him) and I like Rowan enough, but I think him being bisexual would’ve increased my feelings towards him in the long run. At this point in time, I almost always imagine him exclusively in mlm relationships and simply close friends with Aelin 💀 whoops lol

Also thank you! Joao Jesus is just so god damn pretty and Lucien deserves to be fancasted by pretty Black and Brown men!

[eyllweambassador]

I love watching people who claim to be against whitewashed art reblogging and complimenting whitewashed art.

Y’all are so predictable.

[bookofmirth]

sometimes I look at how people in this fandom treat one another, and I just think...

y'all are doing this over an author who wrote a character whose dick is too big for his underwear. Like, she wrote that. On purpose. She wrote random accidental beheading, she mixes up character names, she confuses dates, she wrote a fae king who has packs of red thongs at his house for ??? reasons. I guess because you never know when your guests will need packs of red thongs.

This is the content that you are bullying, harassing, and stalking other actual humans over???

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81% mark…

At this point, I need Rigelus to solar beam Bryce’s goofy ass into oblivion.

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If I wasn’t busy at work hauling boxes and shit, I’d write a think piece about how Bryce would be just as shitty of a ruler as her dad and uncle because of her internalized racism.

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I’m 60% through HOFAS and this book is doodoo garbage. That’s all.

[xenthosss]

People feel like they have to... Justify their ships now? When the hell did that start? Ask me why I ship something and it's like, the characters were in a room together one time. The fuck more do you expect from me?

[acourtofwhatthefuck]

this guy could make a damn good Lucien 😏😏

[separatist-apologist]

For the style prompt, all @the-lonelybarricade and I could think about was Lucien and his cruel beauty.

As always, @vaieart delivered 🦊

@lucienweekofficial

[the-lonelybarricade]

I just wanted to take a moment to quickly speak on something. It's come to my attention that there are some bookbinders on etsy selling bound acotar fanfic for profit without the author's consent, some of which also includes fanart that was added without the artist's consent.

Not only is this deeply disrespectful to the artist and author whose labor is being sold without credit, profit, or permission, it is also illegal. SJM has copyright to any written works involving her worlds and characters and selling acotar fanfic is an infringement on that copyright.

Please, please do not buy or comission bound fanfic. It puts the authors of those fics at risk and will be a very quick way of ensuring that those beloved fics get taken down. If you see someone selling bound fanfic, please do not support them.

Fanfiction binding is supposed to be done for personal use. I think it's a very beautiful trademark of fandom to love a fic so much that you go to the effort of printing and binding it yourself. It is a labor reminiscent of the creation of fanfic itself, pouring in hours of work purely out of love for the story that made you feel something special. It is a wheel coming full circle, and commercializing it for profit is a gross corruption of the spirit of fandom and book binding.

I think the rise in Booktok popularity has exascerbated some issues that have been permeating fandom for a while, and its created an influx of fans who treat fandom content as though they're commercialized goods.

As a reminder, the majority of fandom content is created for free as a hobby to engage with both the material and other fans in a fun, relaxed environment. We do this for love, please respect our work and do not ruin this space for everyone.