Honestly you antis are something else. Rhysand is NOT ABUSIVE. You read ACOMAF, yes? Tamlin never really cared for Feyre, he just used her to free him from his curse. And then he hurt Feyre over and over while claiming it was to “protect” her. Yeah, no. But Rhysand actually cares for Feyre. He only hurt her as a last resort, because he had to protect her and Velaris. And Rhys always takes time to consider her feelings, like in ACOSF he didn’t tell Feyre 1/2
2/2 because he wanted her to be happy. Rhys knew that telling Feyre she could die in childbirth would make her depressed. Rhysand has ALWAYS looked out for Feyre and her feelings, and he actually respects her as a person.
Let’s sort this out sentence by sentence.
Rhysand is NOT ABUSIVE.
He is though. He literally twisted feyre’s broken arm, drugged her, sexually assaulted her and was later excused for it - that should’ve warned you about the sort of person he is. and I will say this once: keeping medical information from a person is abuse, and yes it applies to pregnancy!!!
You read ACOMAF, yes? Tamlin never really cared for Feyre, he just used her to free him from his curse.
this is blatantly false though. I hate tam, but he did love feyre in book 1. like if you fail to realise that his character’s abusive nature literally came out of nowhere just like chaol’s characterisation was wrecked so that alien could have a romance with rowan, I don’t even know what to say. (keep in mind all of this is with respect to book 1, I do not condone tam’s treatment of feyre in book 2)
And then he hurt Feyre over and over while claiming it was to “protect” her.
the word you’re looking for is abuse, and yes I agree. literally never said otherwise. why are you dragging tam into a discussion about rice’s character anyway? is your standard of comparison that low?
But Rhysand actually cares for Feyre.
he’s literally her love interest in the books, istg, of course 70% of the rice content we get is legitimately about him being good and caring for feyre (or at least, the narrative trying to convince us that it’s the case). this doesn’t mean we can ignore the other 30%!!! him bargaining with mor’s abusers and being excused for it, his actions in book 1, keeping info about her pregnancy from her, slutshaming nesta and keeping info about her powers from her, failing to give feyre legitimate choices while claiming everything is her choice and really just convincing her to go along with all of his plans, making a suicide pact with a 22 year old, kinda stalking her when she was a human teen, etc.
He only hurt her as a last resort, because he had to protect her and Velaris.
idk what you’re talking about but if this is with reference to his actions under the mountain, please seek help. this sort of behaviour from a man is not okay!!! at the very least you have to agree that sarah made really disgusting plot choices and could’ve literally gone with anything else, but the problem with the s/jm fandom is that you guys refuse to accept that she’s a bad writer!! even after the shit-show that was acosf!!
And Rhys always takes time to consider her feelings, like in ACOSF he didn’t tell Feyre because he wanted her to be happy. Rhys knew that telling Feyre she could die in childbirth would make her depressed.
Again, please get help!!! that is not ‘consideration’. that. is. abuse. oh my god people literally think this is okay and are trying to rationalise it because they love s/jm’s book so much I -
sometimes I legitimately worry about the people reading these books...
Rhysand has ALWAYS looked out for Feyre and her feelings, and he actually respects her as a person.
child, respecting a person you supposedly love is the bare minimum
please don’t come back to my inbox with these horrible takes again
Idk why SJM stans feel the need to bring up Tamlin when we talk about rhysand. We know he’s abusive, we just also acknowledge that just because rhysand doesn’t abuse feyre the way Tamlin did doesn’t mean he isn’t also abusive. Pretty much everything that happened with rhysand and feyre utm could’ve been avoided had rhysand talked to feyre about everything instead of resorting to violence.
Part of the reason I do vehemently dislike her work is because SJM consistently redeems abusers and allows them to get away with their actions so long as they’re hot and “respect” their love interests. Rhysand “respecting” (though that’s debatable” Feyre doesn’t mean he’s a good person and you shouldn’t applaud someone for doing the bare minimum. Him being “respectful” or whatever doesn’t make him a good love interest.
“Sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the wave washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
I love that Albedo asks you if there’s anything that sets you apart physically from humans in Teyvat and that Traveller just straight up doesn’t tell him that they used to have wings. I think that’s something he would consider conversation worthy
i drew alina because last month the promo pics made me rly excited but i didn’t finish it until now lol
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“Come with us,” Emerie offered, eyes lined with silver.
Nesta shook her head. “Consider it the repayment of a debt.”
A tear slipped down Emerie’s cheek. “For what?”
“For being my friends. Even when I didn’t deserve it.”
Emerie’s face crumpled. “There is no debt, Nesta.”
But Nesta smiled softly. “There is. Let me pay it.”
This really is the worst possible reasoning for Nesta staying behind, isn't it? It somehow manages to completely undermine both the friendship between Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie and Nesta's development. Because this isn't her selflessly sacrificing herself for her friends. It's her going "I'm such a terrible person that for anyone to put up with me is a great gift/sacrifice on their part and I need to repay that debt by sacrificing myself for them." And even though Emerie initially disagrees, she ends up doing what Nesta wants in the end, which reaffirms that Nesta is right.
It's really a shame, because up until then, I actually like the idea of Nesta staying behind to allow the other two to win. It felt refreshing. For once, it's not the protagonist going on while the others stay back to make it possible, but the other way around. And I actually like Emerie winning the Blood Rite better than Nesta winning because Emerie is Illyrian.
But the reasoning just ruins it all, and in my opinion, it was completely unnecessary. Here's what it should have been: Gwyn is badly injured, therefore, she can't be in a combat situation because she would likely die. That means either Nesta or Emerie need to get her out, while the other remains behind to hold off the people following them. (With that, the option of them all remaining is out of the game - one needs to stay, two need to go, or Gwyn will die.) So, it's Nesta or Emerie. They both want to stay, both want the other to take Gwyn and go. And Nesta'd reasoning is not "I owe you a debt for putting up with me", it's "You go win for all the other Illyrian women who were clipped like you were, for all the Illyrian women who were told they were lesser, to show them, show everyone, that they are not." Because Emerie - an Illyrian woman who got clipped, who is actually from the society that does the blood rite and being oppressed by it - is far, far more powerful a message than Nesta as a High Fae woman winning an Illyrian competition (which would have been problematic considering the entire High Fae/Illyrians dynamic).
“[The Valkyries were] A clan of female warriors from another territory. They were better fighters than the Illyrians, even. The Valkyrie name was just a title, though—they weren’t a race like the Illyrians. They hailed from every type of Fae, usually recruited from birth or early childhood. They had three stages of training: Novice, Blade, and finally Valkyrie. To become one was the highest honor in their land. Their territory is gone now, subsumed into others.”
“And the Valkyries are gone, too?”
“Yes.” Gwyn sighed. “Valkyries existed for millennia. But the War—the one five hundred years ago—wiped out most of them, and the few survivors were elderly enough to quickly fade into old age and die afterward. From the shame, legend claims. They let themselves die, rather than face the shame of their lost battle and surviving when their sisters had not.”
okay. one. novice/blade/valkyrie are 3 out of 4 of the part names. great. guess nesta is gonna become a valkyrie smh.
two. “legend claims” no, if this was 500 years ago it should NOT be legend bc 500 years is within living memory for MANY fae. in fact, a large amount of the fae in this series were around back then. ONE OF THEM should remember.
three. ohhhhh the unfortunate implications of this. let us remember what The WarTM 500 years ago was about (stopping the enslavement of humans), and which side lost (the side that wanted to own humans as slaves), so if the valkyries let themselves die out of shame over losing in the war…maybe we should take a minute to consider exactly what that implies about which side of the war they fought on. and maybe we should Not Fucking Have nesta & gwyn & emerie become valkyries bc holy shit the tone deafness. and also, this makes me incredibly suspicious of merrill’s interest in the valkyries. like if it’s just writing the info down,,,, sure, but kindly do not fangirl over them.
Sarah Janet Remember How The Humans Were Literally Enslaved For Once Challenge
like I think it’s very interesting that the IC is suggesting that Rhys use the magic blades that Nesta forged and imbued with her power to become High King when he’s been the one who’s viewed her as a monster and treated her horribly all this time. The sheer irony, the sheer hate for women in power. gross.
I was just wondering why you thought that Mor was a lesbian in cannon. I get why you could see it that way as she acted uncomfortable after sleeping with Helion but she does say that she gets pleasure from sleeping with men. I'm not trying to start anything I just wanted to get your opinion on it.
so from what i recall, she doesn’t get uncomfortable after having sex with men (which she only does to make assriel leave her alone), she looks downright nauseous and like she can’t feel at home in her own skin. i can’t find the exact passage (i don’t own the ac0tar novels), but there is no canonical evidence in ac0war to support the idea that mor enjoys having sex with a man.
(emphasis only exists to exemplify what i’m saying, not bc i’m irritated with you, anon! just wanna make that clear.)
i mean, this is seriously simplifying why mor would find “pleasure” while sleeping with men, but be attracted to women: that’s why dildos exist. and fingers. and vibrators. and any other kind of sex toy that can take the place of a man if you’re not into men but like penetrative sex.
what sj/m apparently fails to realize is that sex is about more than anatomy; more than peen into vagina. you have to be attracted to the person you’re with, trust the person you’re with, and if you can’t even look the person in the face (as seems likely with mor) you’re not enjoying the sex. it’s a hard distinction to describe, but basically, just bc mor finds pleasure in sex with men, it’s not bc it’s a man she’s having sex with. the reason she’s so nauseous afterward is bc she had sex with a man, who she was not attracted to. it was more compulsory.
plus, to put it simply, sj/m can’t seem to fathom the idea that a woman might not enjoy having sex with a man, so she just left mor’s sexuality so kludgy it’s difficult to pin down. thus, we have to pick apart the evidence we have and look at it objectively. and, objectively, it appears that mor is a lesbian.
“No.” She wrapped her arms around herself. “No. I don’t … You see …”
I’d never seen her at such a loss for words. She closed her eyes, fingers digging into her skin. “I can’t love him like that.”
“Why?”
“Because I prefer females.”
For a heartbeat, only silence rippled through me. “But—you sleep with males. You slept with Helion …” And had looked terrible the next day. Tortured and not at all sated.
Not just because of Azriel, but … because it wasn’t what she wanted.
“I do find pleasure in them. In both.” Her hands were shaking so fiercely that she gripped herself even tighter. “But I’ve known, since I was little more than a child, that I prefer females. That I’m … attracted to them more over males. That I connect with them, care for them more on that soul-deep level. But at the Hewn City … All they care about is breeding their bloodlines, making alliances through marriage. Someone like me … If I were to marry where my heart desired, there would be no offspring. My father’s bloodline would have ended with me…”
The passage IS confusing, so I can see why some people might classify Mor as bi, but as a bi chick… look. She says she ‘can’t’ love Azriel that way. She says that if she married who she wanted, ‘there would be no offspring’ and ‘her father’s bloodline would have ended with [Mor].’
That more than implies that given the choice she wouldn’t sleep with a guy ever, but enjoys penetrative sex. Since the author appears to have never considered the idea of a strap-on or how wlw sex actually works, Mor is relegated to still getting sexual pleasure from a penis with bonus eye-rolling because of course it’s only the woman abused by men who is the lesbian. I thought we killed this trope, y’all?
(Also if her father puts such stock in bloodlines and his would have ended with her it makes literally no sense to throw her out and leave her tortured to (presumably) death, but that’s not the point here)
y’know, now that we have more than one example of sj///m being “inclusive” by writing in wlw, it makes it clear that same sex relationships aren’t exactly commonly open, meaning it’s unlikely that same sex relationships are accepted in either world. at least, not for women, since sj///m’s narrators very rarely (i can’t think of any moment, actually) react this same way about mlm.
also, great to see how sj///m thinks the way to be inclusive and an “ally” is by making a female character confess under duress (or close to it) that she’s gay and for her narrator to fucking gape like the female character just said her favorite pastime is licking sweaty armpits.
Just popping in to answer a quick editing question re: “when do I capitalize things in my narrative???? help me I am capitalizing everything??”
If you’re writing epic fantasy, the temptation to name everything with a fancy name like Soulbreaker, The Rolling Pin of Destiny, can be overwhelming. You want it to read like an epic of a bygone age, you want it to sound grand and magical. What often happens is you wind up with a muddled narrative, too many unpronounceable names that’d make Tchaikovsky roll his eyes, and the dialogue and narrative flow equivalent of a clogged toilet.
Which is not to say you can’t have fancy names for things, just y’know, be wise about when and how you use them.
The question I got was particularly pertaining to describing the rooms of a castle. “Do I call it the Great Hall, or the great hall?”
Well the way I work that kind of thing out, is to remind myself that the majority of castles have a great hall. So capitalizing it is a bit like thinking of your living room as The Living Room. See, how odd that looks? Same with “castle” in general, you don’t need to capitalize castle whenever you type it. if you are naming it by it’s proper name, then yes, but if say, your character glances up at it or tells someone “go to the castle, quickly!” it doesn’t need to be capitalized. If they say “go to Castle Plinth, quickly!” it does.
It’s noun vs proper noun, or to put it another way, a type of building vs the specific building in question that has a formal name.
Titles are a little more tricky, especially with Lord this and Lady that and a whole host of etiquette rules, but a common trick is to think of it in terms of, is it a title? or a descriptor?
Vlad is a viscount (descriptor), but he’s also the Viscount of Castle Eyrie (title + formal name= capitalization).
You also shouldn’t capitalize species. Human isn’t typically capitalized, so don’t write “the Elf” or “the Vampire”. They are “the elf” and “the vampire”. If however you are referring to them as a specific group withing said species, they’d be the High Elf or High Vampire.
Think dog (noun descriptor) vs German Shepherd (proper noun of a specific type of dog).
Same with regions. Capitalize region descriptors. If your region is called something like “Woodland” you’d still refer to them as “the elf”, but if you are referring to them in reference to the region where they come from, they are “the Woodlander” or “the Woodlander elf”. (and if you get confused, always, always think of it in real world settings. The woman is a woman, but she is from America so she is American, or the American woman.”)
Is this making sense? I hope it’s making sense. I’m running on about two hours sleep so I may read this again tomorrow and cringe. But these are some of the most common mistakes people make when writing fantasy.
So yes, by all means call your weapon Soulbreaker, The Rolling Pin of Destiny, but be aware you can just as easily say “Kevinthcksy smacked him hard about the head with his rolling pin.” It imparts the same meaning, just a little more impactful and swift. Which incidentally, is exactly what you want in a weaponized rolling pin.
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