anti sjm ✓

mor, nesta and lucien are the only characters who deserve happiness and that's a fact :)

[croissantcitysucks]

rhysand: “i’m a feminist!!!!" 

also rhysand: forces all of hewn city to live under a mountain in an intensely misogynistic & violent society, thereby trapping all the women he supposedly cares so much about in a confined space with their oppressors, who aren’t called “oppressors” for no fucking reason, goddammit.

[lilytriestoexist]

i... no❤️

[aspidenchantress]

lucien vanserra is an amazing character and sjm did him dirty in order to put feysand in a better light.

[hudush]

yall make me SICK

[dragonidk]

[zoya-nazyalenskys-archive]

@ sjm stans please fucking stop spamming the witcher tag with posts about how henry as geralt is the perfect ro/wan whitethorn

[aspidenchantress]

those poor people in velaris having their high lord and lady fucking in the fucking sky

[localbooktrash]

Antis: This is why we don't like the books

Stans: YOU ARE MANIPULATING READERS WITH YOUR OPINION

[alexiaugustin]

Okay but when Cindy from readwithcindy said "I love it when a woman is independent now that a man allows her to be" she really did end Rhysand's career as a fae-feminist once and for all

[agneasarrow]

Cas/sian radiates the same energy as those dudes on Twitter that are all like “iF pEOpLe rEalLy wAnNA bE eQuAL wHy cAn’T I pUnCH yOu iN tHe fAcE”

[alicentsgreens-deactivated20240]

[helenaferron]

It seems that Azr/iel always stumbles upon “spoiled goods”.

“Spoiled goods” aka M0r and Ela/in. Ignoring the fact that it was in the nesta tag, are you kidding me?? “Spoiled goods” ??? And idc that the op says later that they don’t mean it in a bad way, they still chose to use this phrase. I bet they think they are very feminist.

[vanimeldes]

What the hell

[battlestar-royco]

Putting all value of female characters on the way they are useful to men? In the AC0TAR fandom? I’m so surprised. Poor Assriel :(((.

[inthemidstofbuddie]

(i didn’t want the uncensored c word on my blog 😅)

stans really are the cream of the asshole crop. i feel bad generalizing bc it is true that some aren’t that bad (i’ve had a few good interactions out of the whole lot of the bad), but on the whole the fandom is terrible, not only to each other, to us, and to sj/m, but to the books themselves. sj/m didn’t anticipate that what she wrote would have a lasting effect on her fandom and how they view a book, especially when it’s a female character in question, and a female character who doesn’t worship the ground that fey/sand walks on. with Nesta, she’s abrasive and unlikable, which is why i love her, but that makes sj/m’s stans hate her. Elain has tipped her cap to fey/sand in ac0fas, and she’s quiet and demure, so the stans will obv accept her. were Nesta a male character and act like she does…? i think the stans would worship the ground he walks on, bc they’re naturally drawn to that kind of personality and sj/m loves to write her male characters—when they’re conventionally attractive, young, and straight—in a glowing way where it makes you feel like she’s forced rose-colored glasses on you and you can’t get them off without being chased out of the fandom to become an anti

[battlestar-royco]

sj/m’s writing has put so much of characters’ worth onto their sexuality and sexual practices that of course stans would be confounded when n/esta having sex with people doesn’t equate to character development and becoming a palatable person (ie groveling at failsand’s feet). sj/m often makes a wreck of her character development, and n/esta’s arc has been incredibly wonky, but she has certainly developed. this is more than i can say for most of the other characters, which is why we (and a lot of other antis and some stans too) like her the most. n/esta’s arc is very internal and we don’t get her pov throughout the trilogy, so we have to observe n/esta’s changes through faerug’s biased eyes, and it doesn’t help that faerug is far away from n/esta for most of the series. rice and e/lain have both been forgiven for acting in the same or worse fashion as n/esta did during the arch sisters’ childhood and through the war against prythian. the difference between them? faerug forgives rice because he’s a man and forgives e/lain because she falls in with the inner circle. the ic have all done horrible things, and continue to act horrible, and yet are forgiven. the only difference between them and n/esta, l/ucien, and t/arquin (and even tom lane because he’s the blond version of rice) is that faerug rejects the latter from her friend group. similarly, e/lain had to reject l/ucien as her love interest and start something with assriel. l/ucien can never be part of the ic, seeing as his only in would be through faerug, who holds him accountable for the abuse she suffered at tom’s hand. being in the ic and/or being a white man are the only criteria for redemption in this series.

[inthemidstofbuddie]

truuuuue!! that’s one reason why ac0fas disturbs me on such an intense level, bc we get to see these characters in an environment where the only pressing conflict is whether to buy embroidered towels or lace doilies for a Christmas present (i’ll never get over the fact Elain bought azriel embroidered towels), which thus allows the book to become a character study. it’s not well-done by any stretch of the imagination, but it still allowed us to see how Elain is now feyre’s favorite sister bc she rolls over and plays dead, and it allowed us to see feyre’s guilt over what happened to Nesta. in private, feyre is very contrite and wants to help Nesta and accepts she herself has done bad things, and then as soon as feyre is back amongst the inner circle all of that changes and Nesta is the one at fault.

it’s really disturbing how feyre holds Nesta’s rent as ransom to force her to go to the Christmas party where she’s 1) ignored (no one even bought her a gift besides Elain? and Cassian but i’m getting to him), 2) ridiculed, 3) hounded by Cassian and portrayed as the bad guy for rejecting his advances, and 4) forced to take blame for something she’s been trying to undo and make amends over for a long time (namely how she treated feyre when feyre was a kid). (as an aside, stans refuse to accept that feyre is now doing what Nesta did and is working to undo, while feyre is finding glory in how she treats Nesta, like some kind of payback.) and now, to add insult to injury, Nesta is being sent away to a place where women suffer atrocities with a male fae who pretty much tried to rape her in that short story, and she was forced to deal with rhysand trying to manipulate her with his high lord status.

sj/m is hinging Nesta’s redemption (and her arc) in stans’ eyes on whether or not she’ll get with Cassian, bc that’s the only way sj/m knows how to write a character arc: falling in love with one of her favs and becoming endgame.

[battlestar-royco]

oh god i somehow keep on forgetting that the next book is going to be n/essian in i/llyrian camps. i’ll still never get over the way sj/m had cass victim blame and make fun of nes for being afraid of him/the fae, nor will i get over him invading her space in w&e, nor him sexualizing her when she is clearly unwell in fas. it’s so absurd how twisted the narrative is in the ic’s favor. the dynamic between the two active sisters has clearly switched and probably even more in faerug’s favor than it ever was when nes was in power–though nes was the more active agent in the arch family dynamic, the most social power she had came from being in a relationship with a dude who tried to rape her (tomas). i really really hope mess discusses this trauma further in the n/essian book. faerug has a whole group of immortal warrior friends and the most powerful hl as a husband at her back, plus unique powers and over a year of fae world experience over nes and elain. faerug is the one controlling nes’s life and holding her acceptance and her standards over her sisters’ heads like a carrot. it’s incredibly toxic. we were in the mind of faerug as she navigated spring and night and fell in love with both the abusers, but nes never gets the benefit of the doubt that stans are so willing to give faerug even though she went through a similarly traumatic ordeal and came out as a better person.

[bi-dorian-havilliard]

Me when Feyre giving rhrysand a blowjob after a battle

[vanimeldes]

Some poetical justice, finally….

(The whole article here)

[inthemidstofbuddie]

“It has sex scenes that made some of the smutty romance novels I’ve read in the past look like a Disney movie,” she wrote.

A third reviewer said the “vulgar” sex scenes would have scarred them for life if they had read them as teenager.”

IM IN TEARS

[vanimeldes]

I mean, where is the lie? Unfortunately it is just a school, but it’s something still, maybe more and more schools will take notice. Better later than never.

[inthemidstofbuddie]

it’s still a start! a very late one, about stuff we’ve been talking about for eons, but it’s still fucking amazing 😂

[vanimeldes]

What is even funnier - this was posted on a T.oG group I am in😂😂😂😂 and in the comments they are just laughing and were like “well, it is smutty”, but none of them was like “well, this should have happened for quite a time, these books are inappropriate for children and young teens”.

[hoe-for-ares]

SJM really said in front of everyone at her most recent event that she’d have a threesome with Rhysand and Rowan? Lmao sis you kinda gross but ok lol

[vanimeldes]

W-w-what? When?

[inthemidstofbuddie]

yeah, same! when??

[saltymorrigan]

if this actually happened, i am disgusted?

[battlestar-royco]

sarah janet mess and her stans when confronted with the fact that her books are not remotely feminist and that rice, faerug, alien, and rowrat are all actually abusers:

[saltymorrigan]

somebody check on that woman omfg