[justarandomblogs]

The frightened child who sheltered in my manse died on the Dothraki Sea, and was reborn in blood and fire. - A Song of Ice and Fire

That girl who had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort … she had died Under the Mountain. I had died, and there had been no one to protect me from those horrors before my neck snapped. So I had done it myself. And I would not, could not, yield that part of me that had awoken and transformed Under the Mountain. - A court of mist and fury

[justarandomblogs]

I was tagged by @nestacauldron  Thank you ❤

rules: bold what you prefer & tag 10 7 people

1. coffee or tea

2. early bird or night owl

3. chocolate or vanilla

4. spring or fall

5. silver or gold

6. pop or alternative

7. freckles or dimples

8. snakes or sharks

9. mountains or fields

10. thunderstorm or lightning

11. egyptian or greek mythology

12. ivory or scarlet

13. flute or lyre  

14. eyes or lips

15. witch or fairy

16. opal or diamond

17. butterflies or honeybees

18. macarons or eclairs

19. typewritten or handwritten letters

20. secret garden or secret library

21. rooftop or balcony

22. spicy or mild

23. opera or ballet

24. london or paris

25. vincent van gogh or claude monet

26. denim or leather

27. potions or spells

28. ocean or desert

29. mermaid or siren

30. masquerade ball or cocktail party

I’m tagging - @mor-queen-of-truth @amanhecwr @faithfire @polysorscha @my-mad-fan-diary @discountalien-pancake and anyone who wants to participate.

[inthemidstofbuddie]

Prior to SJM I've always imagined the fae to be a wicked, but elegant folk (they were portrayed as such in old fables and old books). Like I read about them living in nature, but at the same time having the manners of royals, which means they're educated in politics & know how to act in presence of authorities. Their wickedness was more to show that though beautiful they're still harmful & alluring etc. But SJM's fae are just uneducated, snobby, all look the same & behave like horny 12 year olds

yeeeeeeeeeeeeep. like, look at holly black’s new book, or margaret rogerson’s debut. they both feature fae and they both actually stay true to fae mythology for the most part. sj/m probably just wanted to write elves (since she’s a legolas stan), but since elves are a no-go in publishing (when she sold t0g and now) she had to rename her elves as fae. 

[vanimeldes]

I’m pretty sure Tolkien trashes in his grave at least once a minute over how his elves had been literally transformed in some hypersexual abusive “Fae” pricks, in an epic fantasy wannabe.

[inthemidstofbuddie]

that one person definitely sjm on her lack of diversity due to her editors making her not include it really pisses me off. everything they said was pure speculation - where’s the evidence that she originally had all those characters being brown? YOU CAN NOT USE YOUR FICTION AND HEADCANONS AS A DEFENCE FOR THE LACK OF DIVERSITY. I’m fuming and idk why this has gotten to me so much >.<

thissssssssssssssssssssss yeah there is NO factual evidence to back up that absurd claim. sj/m has literally said she doesn’t want to “force diversity” so that right there more than deflates the arguments about her originally having a more diverse cast. no one says they don’t want to force diversity after being told to remove said diversity. and yeah, editors do have a lot of sway with what you’re allowed to keep in your book, but i highly doubt it’s as much as that person was implying, especially for sj/m’s current work. 

[inthemidstofbuddie]

sj/m: “i want to include sex positivity in my books! my female characters can have sex which is sex positivity! my characters have sex while flying which is sex positivity! my female characters get slut-shamed for having multiple partners which is sex positivity! my male characters claim their female love interests and become aggressive when another man so much as looks at them which is sex positivity! sex positivity is important to me!” 

me: 

[the-real-adam-taurus]

Honest to god, this is all I remember from the books:

Unnecessary sex, bigotry, nearly everyone giving someone a “vulgar gesture,” and more sex (I don’t get how she can use vulgar insults like “prick,” but can’t say “flip off.”)

[coca-chaol]

Has Sarah J. Maas ever even used the word “sex”? She never just blatantly says “oh, we had sex”. It’s more like, “he thrust his velvet wrapped steel in me and and growled my name and claimed me and we roared and exploded into magical glitter”

[the-real-adam-taurus]

You’re right! She hasn’t! And as for the sex, it always sounds like they’re animals, and not people. Grunts, growls, ripping, is that supposed to be sexy? I didn’t know I was reading animal porn. No thanks.

[bi-dorian-havilliard]

The diversity of sjm books

[empireofshitstorms]

Looking at SJM's audience it's clear that they mainly consist of 14-19 year old white privileged girls, who've been conditioned by society to consider everyone an enemy, who doesn't share the same views, and solely rely on the books POV rather than actually trying to make their own mind about certain issues. It's very sad to know how less they view mental illnesses as something serious and I feel very pitiful towards any friends or family members, who have to endure such harsh and (1/2)

merciless people around them (I mean it in case those members actually are confronted by depression etc.). There was an instagram post made about Nesta, where the writer called the IC & fandom out for their behaviour towards Nesta and almost 80% of the comments consisted of the fandom saying that Nesta doesn’t even want to be helped & that Feyre rightfully ‘earned’ that money (WTF DID SHE DO FOR IT???) & depression isn’t a good reason to excuse her behaviour in acofas. That’s just sad. (2/2)

I quite agree that her audience is between those ages but I have an account of Bookstagram and so many readers 20-30 also proclaim great love for her books too. Her books also claim to be feminist but also is really just white feminism and most of the time, truely is misogynisitc. Believe me, I was one of those girls too, I’ve read the House of Night books back in the late 2000s and because of how media portrays women who wear jeans, converse and hoodies are better than girls who wore makeup and dresses, I soon began to beleive it. Its a recurring thing that needs to stop. 

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[justarandomblogs]

How has feyre earned the money. She doesn't sell her paintings. She teaches for free without any fees. So how exactly has Feyre earned any money. It's all night courts/rhys money. Feyre even literally says that rhys money is hers. Feyre hasn't earned shit. She got all this. Rhys has given her everything. Whatever she is now, is because if him.

[empireofshitstorms]

"I'm a wolf, and will not be afraid." (A Feast for Crows - Chapter 6 - Arya.) And SJM had the gall to say she doesn't like ASOIAF/GOT lmao.

Oop. And there we have it. 

I just find it so unnerving that she claims she hates ASOIAF/GOT when she clearly copied so many aspects of GRR Martin’s world building, characters, quotes, etc.

I just don’t know how she manages to get away with it.

[empireofshitstorms]

Aren't Sarah and BB necessarily grooming children? I mean they intentionally put explicit sexual stuff inside books, which noone can fool us into believing they're healthy or educational, but they on recently put on disclaimers in TOD and ACOFAS. Such things can literally traumatize children and coming from someone, who is expecting one, I cannot fathom how on earth they think it's alright to go through with it.

I find it so strange that S/JM was able to write erotica in YA books of all things? I think shes the first author I’ve heard about that being able to do this. All YA books I’ve read that have sexual scenes have a nice black out scene, even fanfiction writers (some) separate the smut scenes from the rest of their writing too so they do know about this themselves are writing sex scenes for people their age. It’s marketed at young readers from the start (T0G, C0M and H0F) but after writing AC0TAR and AC0MAF she decides to implement sexual scenes halfway through the series? I just don’t understand how Bloomsbury lets her get away with that. 

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[onlinepunk]

Some of you need to learn the difference between skinny girls being made to feel insecure about their body from certain people and fat girls being made to feel like their entire life is worthless because of their body size from literally the entire world

[onlinepunk]

People still don’t get the point of this post…….wild

[nanyallen13]

Brooding YA Hero: Rhysand Edition 

[battlestar-royco]

Omg you should make a post about all the awful fan theories stans have for kingdom of ass and the upcoming ac/otar books. All that talk about the non existent or accidental foreshadowing is just funny. They are trying to make Mess look like a literary genius 🙄

Dude I don’t know if I have the willpower to look through stan blogs for theories, but if you guys want to send me some asks or messages about the theories that are floating around, I would be happy to compile and “analyze” them. It honestly would be really fun because, like, what could they possibly theorize? The worldbuilding is inconsistent and paper thin, the characters are weakly motivated and flat, and foreshadowing does not exist unless it is blatantly obvious and predictable or completely accidental. SJ/M stans are so much more imaginative than her. They project all their own theories onto the books and conflate that with complex writing, and she gets all the credit.

Remember pre-AC0WAR when stans were theorizing about all this stuff that ended up being completely irrelevant, like if Fayre’s mother was fae, if the mercenary would come back into play, if M0r was the King of H.ybern’s mate (lmfaoooofhwgrwgr why are stans like this), if C.assian would have to amputate his wings, if N.esta would be I/llyrian and/or have fire powers, if E.lain was a sociopath, etc? And the ONE thing that was actually “foreshadowed” was Rice and Fayre being mates because Fayre painted stars on her dresser before she met Tom Lane?

I just don’t understand why people still have faith in Mess as an epic fantasy writer. In other fantasy fandoms, the tags are full of well-thought-out meta on magic and characters, but the SJ/M tags are almost entirely about ships. The “foreshadowing” she sets up is inconsequential and unsubtle, and anything kind of interesting gets dropped for the sake of her ships. I doubt she even realized she was seeding all that stuff because she is so sharply focused on F/eys/and and her other 55 billion m/f ships. All we could possibly theorize about is endgame ships, because ships are the essence of her series, and I’m pretty sure all the current ships as of E0S/T0D are going to remain the same. Honestly I would gain so much respect for SJ/M if she makes C.haorian and/or M.alide canon but I see a <1% chance of that happening.

[thebestoftumbling]

[bookoisseur]

I miss this show.

[vanimeldes]

I still don’t understand how could Feyre learn how to read and write in just one week, and only by writing/reading dumb sentences such as “Rhysand is the most handsome Lord” etc. It is know that the capacity of the human brain to absorb information decreases after the age of 18-20. Feyre was already 20 when she started learning how to read. It is also known that reading and writing are one of the most difficult tasks performed by a human being, that’s why parents teach their children how to read from a very young age. It is physically, biologically and medically impossible for a 20 yo person to learn how to read in just one week.

And I don’t understand how was Feyre illiterate in the first place. I can’t remember when exactly did the Archerons lost their fortune, all I remember is that the loss of their fortune was the reason why Feyre could no longer have acess to education. But how did her sisters (Nesta who was 3 years older than her and Elain was 1 year or so older than her) have access to education? I assume that at least Feyre ’s village is based on a Middle Age village and in Middle Ages, the children from the wealthy families were homeschooled. If we accept this supposition… didn’t the Archeron sisters have the same teacher? And if it was so, how didn’t they learn how to read together, no matter that they were of different ages. Let’s say that Nesta was 7 or 8, Elain was 5 or 6 and Feyre was 4 or 5 - each one of them was old enough to learn how to read bc most of the kids nowadays know how to read around the age of 5. I see no point for Feyre being different.

[justarandomblogs]

See everything has to be easy for Feyre. And Feyre absolutely HAS to be good at everything. No matter what. 19 years of being literally uneducated, she can easily read/right, read novels, right formal letters as a Highady in just 3 months. See easy IDK why we have entire educations systems and children start learn from age 4. And hence learn.

She has literally just, just learned to read/and right and now suddenly she's good at accounts. She manages the budget of night court. See its so easy. IDK why we accounts have to go through education. IDK why we have to study commerce for years and then by practice become good at accounts. IDK why Chartered Accountants study their ass off.

After literally seriously 3 months of training, she can beat two bloody immortal warriors who are thousands of years mire experienced than her, she can take part in battle and face outright combact. It's that easy for her. IDK why we have entire military trainings, army training, and soldiers have to go through years of training and years of practice.

It's actually proven that despite having no supplies, not painting for literal months, having irregular practice, and no knowledge Feyre is the best painter ever. She even starts to teach children. Someone who has no knowledge and logically should not be that good at painting. Still she is like Da Vinci level artist. It's so easy for her. See IDK why artists also learn techniques, different styles, go to art schools, and after years of practice become good.

Illyrians are trained to fly from when they are children. So from childhood Illyrian have practice. Then have been flying for years and hence are good at flying. But it's extremely easy for Feyre. She learns to fly in matter of 2 months. IDK why the Illyrians had to practice for years and learn.

So basically for all we know just a few lessons of science, and Feyre will put Einstein and Stephen Hawking behind. Everything is that easy for her.

No matter it's so disrespectful to people who actually work hard. Who actually work for years. People who actually succeeded by working hard and dedication in their work. But Feyre no. It's all easy.

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