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Now we all know what happens if you get the Book of Peace. You return it to Syracuse and save Proteus. But if you don’t get the Book, you have a choice to make. Either sail to paradise with the woman of your dreams, or return to Syracuse to die. You’re either a thief or a hero. So here’s my question: If you don’t get the Book, will you go back to die?
SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS (2003)
My favorite villain of ALL TIME. I LOVE HER 💗
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On full blast, and twerking, unapologetically
tongue out all dday Err' day
Bishop: Coco is late. Again.
Ezekiel: How did this happen? I called him at eight o'clock this morning and pretended it was eleven.
Riz: I printed up that fake schedule for him saying we were starting at nine instead of noon.
Chucky: I set his clock to say PM when it’s really AM.
Bishop: Oh, boy. We hay have overdone it.
Coco: *bursts through the door* WHAT THE HELL TIME IS IT?!
Emily next week talking to Devante and Nestor:
I’ve always struggled with why I like Aelin so much. Not in that I feel as if I shouldn’t love her—I wholeheartedly adore Aelin. She’d my favorite character from, like, anything. She’s a total chaotic-good badass in the same vein as Matrim Cauthon (my SON) and Magnus Bane.
But like…why this character? Why have I chosen this one to devote an entire blog life to? I mean seriously, I’ve been reading fantasy books forever, and though I’ve read books I initially love as much as ToG (Kate Daniels, the Fever Series), ToG is what I’ve stuck with longest in terms of obsession. And it’s largely due to Aelin.
While I was reading The Assassin’s Blade the other day, I was struck by just how angry Aelin is. She’s in Skull’s Bay and she’s just…fixing for a fight. She’s this hot ball of rage, of fury, of untamed, unfettered anger.
And that’s when I realized how few female characters we get who are this angry, who are allowed to be so angry. I mean in real life, anger is a masculine coded emotion. We associate it with men, it is accepted within men, and while men are viewed as having anger, women are viewed as being emotional. (you can check out Stephanie Shields Speaking From the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotions for more on this). In other words, women are viewed as being innately emotional. Women’s emotions are coded as being part of who they are, not due to some external force. So she’s being emotional, rather than reacting appropriately to something that has happened. And we view the only acceptable emotion in men as anger.
This leaves very little space for female anger. Either you’re being “overly emotional” or “over reacting.” Or, you’re being too masculine. You’re angry, like a man. Your rage is not something people want to see.
In fiction, we get so few angry female characters. And I mean truly angry characters. Not momentary anger. Not the anger of Inej telling Kaz she will have him without his armor. Not the anger of Hermione yelling at Harry for not speaking to Ron in book 4. Not the anger of Elizabeth turning down Darcy’s proposal. A raging, burning, angry female character. Where is she?
She’s Aelin. Aelin, for all of the Assassin’s Blade, for ToG, CoM, and most of HoF, is angry. She’s furious. At the King, at the empire, at Chaol, at Rowan, at Maeve, and finally, at herself. She has other moments of course. She’s happy, she’s sad, she cries, she laughs, she enjoys herself. But underneath it is the well of anger, anger that she rarely accesses, because as she explains to Rowan, “I’m afraid I’d burn the whole world down out of spite.”
And we see that anger break free at times. When she kills Archer Flynn. When she yells at Emrys and Luca. When she screams at Rowan about the fae genocide. When she beats him up. She keeps her anger leashed, for the most part, and HoF is really where we see that anger crest and break the dam. It’s so deliciously good.
Because why shouldn’t she be angry? She’s been dealt a shit hand. Her family murdered, her kingdom colonized, her best friends murdered, her childhood dominated by an abusive monster, her first love dead, her second love hates her and on and on. Why shouldn’t Aelin Galathynius be pissed?
I think why so many people see a change in her post HoF is that in part, she loses the anger. That’s okay. You can’t be angry forever, and part of her journey is allowing herself to release that anger, to acknowledge it, to stop pushing it down. Throne of Glass is, I think, at its core the story of a young woman learning to let herself be angry and then conquering that anger. In QoS and EoS she’s still the cocky, badass, chaotic-good, witty Aelin that we know and love. But she’s a lot less angry. Yes, she’s still pissed. At Darrow, at Maeve, at Elana, at the Gods damned gods. But…she’s learned to be okay with that anger. She’s realized that she won’t burn the whole world down.
Anyways, I love Aelin because she’s angry. And I love SJM for giving us an angry female character. And I love her even more for doing it again with Nesta.
Aelin gets all the cool traits normally reserved for male characters. It’s why some people don’t like her – she breaks too many of the traditional rules for female characters, even Strong Female Heroes. They can still be noble, like Katniss, but it’s Aelin’s incandescent rage that makes her unique. While I was immediately drawn to her because she reminded me of Buffy, she’s angry in a way Buffy never let herself be.
I wouldn’t say Aelin let go of her anger after HoF, but rather she learned how to channel it in healthy ways, and allows it to drive her but not consume her. She’s far more determined in QoS and EoS–she has an agenda, and dammit she’s going to achieve it. She now knows how to use her anger to accomplish her goals.
I don’t think Sarah set out to give us such a game-changer of a character, but somehow as Sarah’s writing matured so did her conception of the character, and she allowed that rage to exist as part of Aelin rather than an abberation in Celaena that she occasionally allows to get out of hand.
When we conceptualize anger, it’s inherently male, like this guy (bless Pixar for exploring its young heroine’s anger–as well as all of her emotions in Inside Out). On cop shows, the “loose cannon” is always male, a cop who “doesn’t play by the rules.” He’s still always one of the good guys, but a bit of an antihero.
It is so incredibly rare to let female antiheroes exist because we don’t want our female characters to feel ugly emotions. It’s why Jessica Jones is so powerful to me, because she’s angry in the same way Aelin is angry, except instead of having fire powers she self-medicates and is a functional alcoholic.
I just… love everything about this post, and want to respond to it, because it is the uglier emotions that make Aelin so remarkable. No one ever tells her to “calm down.” No one (okay, maybe Chaol) tells her she’s letting her anger rule her. Rowan lets Aelin be angry, which is why they work so well.
The other reason I love Aelin?
She’s contradictory. She’s this incandescently rage-y character, but she’s also allowed to be indulgently feminine. She loves dresses and books and chocolates and bubble baths. She’s in a world of men, so she especially values her female friendships. While she’s such a game-changer, allowed all these masculine heroic traits, she still gets giddy about dressing up and flirting with boys.
Some of the reviews of Throne of Glass were off-putting because they seemed to fault her (and the book) for being ditzy and boy-crazy as soon as he gets out of slavery. To me, this originates in misogyny that hates the feminine, that thinks the only valid female characters are the ones who resemble male characters, who kick ass and don’t care about what they look like (though they are always somehow effortlessly flawless). It’s this mindset that devalues everything a teenage girl loves and finds important.
Aelin gets to be both. And damn right it pisses people off. How dare she love dresses and be arrogant! How dare she be reckless and weak about chocolate hazelnut cake! How dare she be an assassin but also a girl! It’s why underlying criticism of Aelin, even made by women, feels inherently misogynist to me, because they’re trying to fit her into a box of what a female heroine is supposed to be, but she’s beyond boxes. There may be flaws in Sarah’s writing (though it is utterly fascinating to me to see how she improves with each book–the prose in Tower of Dawn is technically her best writing yet), but not in her conception of Aelin. So that’s why I’m on her Defense Squad.
Yes!! All of this.
Thank you for adding to my meta and putting into words why Aelin is so amazing. Her rage is one of the best things about her.
“Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.”
― Amy Sherman-Palladino
It’s dawning on me just how genuinely difficult it is to figure out if an FMA character is good or bad when they’re introduced.
And this is because literally 90% of them debut by trying to beat the shit out of Ed. Seriously. If you tally up every good/ally character at the end and divide them into “tried to beat up Ed in their introductory episode” and “did not try to beat up Ed”, I’m willing to bet the first category is larger.
A list of eventually “good” characters who were introduced by assaulting Edward Elric:
Roy Mustang
Winry Rockbell (manga introduction)
Scar
Izumi Curtis
Greed
Greed again
Slicer(s)
Tim Marcoh
Ling Yao
Lanfan
Fu
Mei Chang
Buccaneer
The Entire Briggs Mountain Army
Jerso
Zampano
Darius
Heinkel
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Extra fun fact, the series Big Bad, Father, is introduced to Ed by healing Ed’s wounds. Ed and Al spend at least five minutes of that episode thinking “Maybe this dude isn’t so bad” which honestly I understand when you consider 2/3 of the people Ed meets typically try to kill him.
So true
STAY is a Henry Cavill Fan Fiction
Sighing I wiped the fogged up mirror with my hand exhaling a deep, meant to be calming breath, as I faced myself in the mirror "This can not be happening, not now, definitely not today." I thought to myself. Because honestly this would mean God hates me. Of all the rotten... I didn't finish the though. There I was on my wedding night completely freaking out as my new husband waited for me in our room. And to think today started out so promising. This was not how my story was suppose to begin....
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Stay: I need you more than you think.... It's the most beautiful, terrible thing two people can do. You tell each other...
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HENRY CAVILL for Hugo Boss Eyewear Fall/Winter ‘18
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First 👏🏼 of 👏🏼 all 👏🏼 Michael 👏🏼 B 👏🏼 Jordan 👏🏼 how fucking dare you post a vid of you in bed with your voice deeper than my mother fucking trust issues and then laugh like it’s no big deal
I cannot express in words how this is making me feel rn
He wants me dead
