Selene

Obsessed with women from history (and fiction) who were wronged, fantasy writer, book lover, translator, she/her

[alexof90s]

Inner Circle Bashing Ao3.

I am happy to inform you all that inner circle bashing fics went from 7 pages and appx 80 fics to 10 pages and 195 fics in one year.

We are getting bigger^^.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[lady-selenee]

This is how I learn this is a tag. Thank you very much, I'm going to start using it.

[ofbreathandflame-archive]

I always think the CoN scene in SF, where a pregnant Feyre walks around in her UTM dress, while Rhys gloats, knowing he withholds the full dangers of her pregnancy is one of the uglier moments in this series. It's such a jarring moment for me for so many reasons. The constant use of this dress, the fact that Rhys removes the shield while his enemies are mere feet away, all so he can gloat he got his wife pregnant. The fact that he is teasing and smug with Feyre knowing she's gonna die. And it's so indicative of the foundation their relationship is built upon. The shield, the dress, the knowledge. It's so weirdly dark to me. It's such a dark recreation of her moments UTM and such a clear visible sign of ownership.

[theladyofbloodshed]

Three brothers for three sisters? What about developing relationships beyond your little co-dependent circle so your family tree doesn't resemble a wreath

[dontknow666]

Forever mad sjm didn't lean into the fae being so much different from humans. Not just in looks, but society, fighting style and fae normality!

Oh the High faes are a little different than humans and have "magic" but can still be extremely weak? No the High faes are literally perfection, tall, body of greek gods, with no human imperfections whatsoever, skin glowing, hair shining, aura radiating off pure perfection and magic. You can literally smell the magic on them, because some of them(from powerful bloodlines or blessed by the Gods) carry enough magic to explode with it if they aren't using it. They barely fights with blades, but their magic–that is different based on their homeland– and when they do fight with them it's magical weapons that they need to recharge with their magic!

Lesser faeries looking almost high fae, in the background most of the time? No lesser faeries look like traditional faeries with distinctive looks an non-human features. They look like faeries of old but have very little magic because of that, with hundreds of different races depending on the court! Every lesser fae race has one or two(three if they very powerful) power that is tied their homeland and race. They fight with swords and blades because most of them do not have enough magic to fight with. They are more traditional faeries too, a few of them can't lie, trickster and very honor bond.

They stop aging at some point and that's were they become adolescents and become adult at eighty! Before that they are still considered minors and treated as such! Oh fifty year old Gerard skipped work? Calling the parents! Because why is Gwyn 20-something and considered an adult by everyone when it said multiple times that fae only become adults at eighty?!(like i like Gwynriel but it rubes me the wrong way that in acotar only the men can be hundreds of years old and love interest but the fmc still have human age? Mind you Gwyn and Azriel are fully fae and supposed to have a fae mindset) Because why was Morrigan engaged at seventeen when it's a child in even human ages? Why couldn't she be be in her thirties and have her explain her trauma to Feyre and her still human mind is like: betrothed at thirty? Isn't this a good thing? They wanted to marry most human girl at seventeen! And have her have a culture shock where the ic has to explain to her that thirty is a fresh teenager!

They are one with their homeland therefor hates to leaves their court! Would show how much if a tyrants certain rulers are/were if the citizens had to leave their homeland!

Immortality changes their brain and mindset so much, that they can adapt and move on from anything! Oh your partner of hundreds years died? Well unless you literally didn't wither away from grief you gonna move on in a few decades! After a certain age you're relationship with your parents changes as you become as mature and independent as them! Everyone know everyone because they are immortal!

I know that some people hate the fae of "humans with pointy ears" but you could do so much with them only if the authors leaned more into creating an entire different species and think of them as such instead of almost humans with magic!

[thebellekeys]

Ember Quinlan is the realest one for stepping into Prythian just for five seconds and realizing how horrifying Rhys and his treatment toward Nesta are.

[theladyofbloodshed]

"nesta is Illyrian"

no, actually, she's a mortal who has been taught to fear faeries all of her life and has been dragged into your world through no fault of her own, made into the thing she's scared of, and has been met with hostility rather than care

[theladyofbloodshed]

How anybody can read this and lust after it is crazy!! “I’m a woman in love with her own character” you wrote a stalking rapist and you’re in love with that? 🤮🤮 Anyway there’s a petition going around to try and cancel the adaptation of Haunting Adeline

And words from the author… her own fault for provoking him ✨

[theladyofbloodshed]

I found a subreddit called acotar_rant and when people do rant about the books and what they dislike, they’re met with comments like “mm I don’t think this is the series for you” or “you’re hating aggressively on a popular book for no reason”. Uhhh it’s a subreddit to complain about these books being shitty? Get your ass out of here

[lady-selenee]

I'm currently rewriting A Court of Glass Shards, and I'm writing on my laptop for the first time on AO3. Imagine my horror when I accidentally pressed some keys and my AO3 page with my almost finished first chapter closed.

Thankfully, my chapter didn't dissappear.

[theladyofbloodshed]

When Cassian proposes a death pact with nesta to be like Rhys and Feyre, I do hope she laughs in his face

[lady-selenee]

And then leaves him!

Like, Prythian has to have some equivalent of divorce.

[marcylimmac]

Ladies and gentlemen, Lucien Vanserra committed the GREATEST crime in the history of this saga against his mate...

Did he force her into a deal by twisting her injured arm?

Worse.

Did he kiss her without consent?

Worse.

Did he tell her to her face that no one liked her?

Worse.

Did he have sex with her in the middle of the war, surrounded by dead bodies? Or did he have sex with her after she’d peed herself out of fear in the swamp?

Worse.

Did he think things would never go beyond the times he masturbated thinking of her? Or did he belittle her attempts to be more active in the IC? Or did he decide who was good for her and who wasn't? Oh, I know! Did he treat her like a porcelain doll and a trophy, even though she herself said she wasn't a child for people to fight over?

Worse.

So what did he do?

A terrible, sickening thing 😓he had to admit to himself that his mate is just as beautiful (or even more so) as the only woman who treated him with the slightest bit of kindness before being brutally murdered by his own family.

And he also committed "animal torture" when he caught a fish with his bare hands for him and Feyre to eat.

[theladyofbloodshed]

Cassian didn't need to say "I love you" to Nesta because he showed it by:

choosing literally anyone ahead of her

shouting at her in public to the point that people crossed the street

forcing her to hike until she collapsed from exhaustion

laughing when she injured herself

[theladyofbloodshed]

Cassian didn't need to say "I love you" to Nesta because he showed it by:

choosing literally anyone ahead of her

shouting at her in public to the point that people crossed the street

forcing her to hike until she collapsed from exhaustion

laughing when she injured herself

[the-future-is-fowl]

Feyre isn’t technically high lady. Whether you’re pro or anti, she’s not high lady. SJM can have the inner circle crow about it all they want, but due to SJM’s own failed patriarchal magic system, the title will never actually hold meaning.

[arinbelle]

The way people turned on Bryce so fast bc she didn't worship Rhys and actually liked and trusted Nesta tells me all I need to know on how deep the Nesta hate goes.

[lady-selenee]

I just saw someone on Tiktok saying "Maeve faking the mating bond for Rowan and Lyria was a strategic way to hint at Rhys faking the bond for Elain and Lucien" and the same person still says "Rhys isn't evil".

If you think he faked a mating bond (did something another villain did) for his own goals, playing with the lives of two people, you still think he's not evil?

[fairiesandanxiety]

Cough *Rhysand and Cassian* cough