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[pojainter-deactivated20240317]

Here’s my latest ACOTAR piece! The Archeron sisters <3 I created this piece for Jana Runneck’s calendar last year and totally forgot to post here! This was so much fun to create and hopefully will be selling prints of it soon! 

[ladyvexahlia]

《 h i g h l a d y 》

[bookofmirth]

Hot take: I love ACOTAR, but the world building has always been super weird to me. Everyone speaks the same language, and for some reason the High Fae are super respected even though they look the most like humans, who are scorned. (I guess you could chalk this up to High Fae generally being the most powerful???) Some things are modern like the plumbing and cafes and all that, but then there's also kinda a medieval feel? Idk idk idk

Yeah, same. The magic system especially, because I think it’s supposed to basically make up for any questions we have. So much stuff Rhys is just able to do with the snap of his fingers, like he can kill people that way, so why is there not a limit on him doing that to someone like Jurian or the King of Hybern? Maybe it was a political thing at the time, but it’s just… idk the magic is too convenient and there is basically no limit except for “running out”. Running out of what? How is it created? What’s it made of? What does it run on? Why do certain fae have more than others besides blind luck? Who knows.

The whole High Fae looking human things is a super interesting point though! Then again, part of their magic makes them a lot prettier than mortals, so maybe that is supposed to make up the difference 😂 I’d like to imagine that some “lesser” fae look down their noses at High Fae for their resemblance to humans. 

I think sjm has her strengths besides world building. There are other fantasy authors you could read if that’s your thing (Brandon Sanderson, NK Jemisin, S.A. Chakraborty, Alexandra Rowland), and I think that it’s possible to have both really great world building and really great characters, she just chose to focus on character and plot! I could pick apart the world for ages and have a lot in the past, but idk what I tagged it. She’s definitely nowhere as adept as the aforementioned authors, or lots of other sci-fi/fantasy authors, but that’s mostly ok with me, as long as I don’t think about it too much. :P 

Sidenote: I would LOVE IT if they spoke multiple languages in the acotar world omg. Can you imagine the potential considering how diverse they actually are? *drool*

[aelin-godkiller]

Just adding this from Chalie Jane Anders on Twitter:

I don’t think that Maas always achieves this in acotar, but I do think that a lot of the weird magic and world building things are due to her having fun with it and wanting the readers to have fun with it as well. 

I tend to imagine acotar as fairytale land. ie, anything can happen at any time, the period is vague, the world feels unexplored, and the places and things that matter are the things that are happening RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW

So velaris feels real, but the territories between the velaris and the con? the rest of the night court? fake never heard of her. 

Weirdly enough, acotar and the first person pov reminds me a lot of medieval epic poems in which the world feels explored only as the protagonist sees it, things happen at seemingly random points, nothing obeys any laws, and the end goal is love and probably also sex. 

[monolime]

Nesta Archeron

The girl who stole from the Cauldron

[zoyastormwitch]

nesta of the cauldron | instagram | art tag  

[merwild]

My courage and the sacrifice I made for my people on that battlefield earned me no name. It only cost me my soul.

Forever.

A little something for the fanfic I wrote. 

Feyre facing her biggest nightmare. 

[flaviedub]

Feyre Archeron with @may12324 ‘s style becauuuse she is such an inspiration

[embaileyart]

“Of course I’ll dance with you. All night, if you wish.”

“Even if I step on your toes?”

“Even then.”

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BRUHHHH I’VE NEVER HAD A BOOK HANGOVER AS STRONGLY AS I HAVE FROM “A COURT OF MIST AND FURY” BY SARAH J MAAS. How do I even recover from this, someone please freak out with me

Rhysand and Feyre at Starfall, my ultimate favorite characters of all time EVER

[charliebowater]

MY BABIES ARE DONE. *dies*

Rhys & Feyre, looking all High Lord & Ladylike. This was soooo much fun to work on and I’ve already ranted and raved about how much I love these two… and everyone else in ACOMAF… and Sarah… and

Prints are available over on Etsy (limited hand signed run, once they’re gone - they’re gone) and regular copies are available through Society6!

I LOVE YOU GUYSSSSSS <3

[meabhd]

Good Lord…

[ak-draws]

Feyre-doodle from today :)

[shalizeh7]

I’m currently reading “A Court of Wings and Ruin” by Sarah J. Maas. Haven’t finished the book yet, but I couldn’t resist drawing Feyre :)

[eklixio]

✨ Feyre & Rhysand ✨ I just finished ACOMAF and I’m not ready for it to be over!!!

📚 bookstagram / shop ☕

[aelin-godkiller]

Hot take: 

We know that victims of abuse are  likely to experience revictimization and be abused again, by a different abuser or by the same one. Feyre’s life in many ways follows this pattern, at least through acotar and the beginning of acomaf. We see her first abused and neglected by her family, in the form of a father who is unable to provide, a sister who is verbally abusive (Nesta), and another sister who is unable to ease the burden (Elain, though Elain is the least abusive and neglectful). Though Nesta and Elain are also the victims of their father’s neglect, Feyre is the person who bears the weight of this neglect the most, as she becomes the provider, and at the same time she is verbally abused by her eldest sister (just reread the first 2 chapters of acotar if you don’t think Nesta is all that awful). We then see Feyre enter a relationship with a man who is both angry and uncontrolled, and able to provide stability for her. Tamlin, though many of his actions in acotar point to him being abusive, is at first the only person in the last 5 years of Feyre’s life to have provided something for her rather than the other way around. Similarly, his aggression towards her and his abusive tendencies (which are present in acotar) mirror, in many ways though not all, the abuse and neglect Feyre has suffered at the hands of her family. Both types of people who are meant to love her, her family and her partner, also abuse or neglect or attempt to control her. Again, the abuse and control Tamlin perpetrates is far different from what Nesta/Elain/her father do to her in acotar, but I think the link between love and abuse is pretty solidified in Feyre’s mind regardless. Feyre’s story is not just the story of a woman falling prey to an abusive man and then liberating herself from him. It’s the story of a woman who has been revictimized and abused by multiple parties who then breaks those cycles of abuse, liberates herself, and forges connections with multiple people who do not abuse her (Rhysand as a partner, Mor as a sister and friend, Amren as a friend and mother figure, Cassian and Azriel as friends and protectors). To deny that Nesta/Feyre’s dad/Elain abuse and neglect Feyre, to claim that Nesta in particular shouldn’t be accountable for that verbal abuse, is to deny an important point the story makes about cycles of abuse and breaking them.* Similarly, the trope of found family rings so true in acomaf because Feyre lacks a born family who loves and supports her. The Inner Cirlce is comprised of people who have all lost a family or been abused by one, and Feyre’s joining of it wouldn’t be so profound if we hadn’t first seen how her born family abused/neglected her. 

*disclaimer, because if I don’t people will yell: You can still like Nesta, enjoy her story, and care about her own personal issues and trauma. I like Nesta. I’m excited for her book. I’m just saying that if you deny that Nesta verbally abused Feyre, if you deny the impact that Feyre’s father’s neglect and Nesta’s verbal abuse had on her, then you’re overlooking what is one of the most important and powerful messages the series imparts, and you’re also possibly diminishing the experiences of abuse victims. (I say possibly because there’s not one way to read acotar’s messages about abuse). This is not to say that Nesta is always abusive towards Feyre or that she holds no love for her sister, it is simply that she is really, really verbally nasty and abusive towards Feyre especially in the beginning of acotar and we can assume for the year prior. It’s not that Nesta has never in her life been a good sister (she has!) it’s that she has also been a very bad sister who is abusive. She can be both, family relationships are complex.

[zoyastormwitch]

the archeron sisters  nesta | feyre | elain   instagram | art tag 

[aristotlewilliams]

Why does nobody talk about that moment in ACOWAR when Feyre and Cassian hold hands when they’re walking back into the prison like the comfort and support they get from each other is so important

[sapphoesie]

Or that Cassian took Feyre to a concert in Velaris, and trained her and taught her how to be stronger but also allowed her to talk about Rhys if she wanted. Or that Cassian was the first friendly face Feyre saw after being back in the Spring Court for so long in ACOWAR. So many important Cassian x Feyre moments! Their friendship is so under appreciated!!

[aelin-godkiller]

I’m rereading Wings and Embers and WOW

first of all Nesta Is A Look. Cassian tries to intimidate her and she just…cuts him down to size so cruelly

every interaction between them is just! so antagonistic!! when they are actually soft for one another it will kill us all!!

but also, we need to talk more about Nesta as a survivor of sexual violence (Tomas Mandry doesn’t r/pe her but he does try, and this is super traumatizing in itself), and how she doesn’t tell anyone out of fear, and how then the King of Hybern takes away more of her choices to govern her own body and shoves her into the Cauldron

and she’s left with these two massively traumatic episodes neither of which she’s coped with or tried to heal from

and I just

I WANT NESTA TO HEAL AND BE HAPPY. 

[acotars]

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