#acotar rant

[m4r-len3]

Witnessed the atrocity that is acotar tiktok and came across a video where someone justifies Rhysand not doing anything to stop wing clipping from happening by saying that "Murder is illegal but people still do it. He's already set the law, what else is he supposed to do?"

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I don't know, Ashleigh. Maybe fucking-

ENFORCE THE LAW?

LIKE A RULER? LIKE HE'S SUPPOSED TO?!

IT'S. HIS. JOB????

He doesn't have any punishments set up, as far as I'm concerned, besides beating up the leaders of those regions. Where are the precautions? Where is the fucking protection to begin with? "Change takes time" imagine if the fucking president that you voted for, said this after promising to do the one thing he promised to do if he became president. "Change takes time" You said you would ensure women are protected, if you can build a fucking library for them, enforce. The. Law. YA DIMWIT!

And I bet you that the reason he hasn't is because taking away the Illyrians's women (they're not objects who belong to them but you wouldn't know about that, would you, RHYS?!) would probably start a rebellion he doesn't want to deal with.

But I thought Rhysand's whole thing was that he defended women? Mhm? Is the feminist king in the room with us? ANSWER ME YOU FUCK-

[rizzoreads88]

“Lucien is a coward and didn’t help Feyre!!”

WDYEM…😳

The Lucien that…

helped Feyre in the second trial UTM? The one who was willing to be tortured by rhysand UTM rather than give Feyres name up? The one who helped heal Feyre UTM knowing the consequences? The one who tried to stand up for Feyre to his best friend/high lord multiple times in acomaf? The one who was willing to stay behind and die by the daglan twins so Feyre could escape the spring court? The one who helped Feyre get back to the night court? (She would have never made it back without him)… betrayed his best friend to help her?the one who fought his own brothers helping her? The one who has been helping them ever since in the night court?

THAT Lucien did nothing for feyre? Please be for real

Lucien has stood up to Rhysand, Amarantha and Tamlin.

You can’t say Lucien is a “coward or didn’t help Feyre” if you don’t hold that same smoke for Cassian and Azriel. Lucien has stood up for Feyre and defended her more then Cassian and Azriel have. Also Lucien has stood up to tamlin when he was wrong. When rhysand is wrong Cassian and Azriel don’t say crap. They stayed silent and went along w him lying about the baby… they stayed silent when he exploded rooms in his anger towards nesta and berated her in hofas even when in the end she was right. Azriel lets rhysand control aspects of his life to the point he’s letting rhysand control his love life. (As of now). They went along W rhysand when he wanted to hide information from Nesta about her own body (the fact she could make weapons). We could go on and on.

Now before ppl get in a tizzy I’m not hating on Cassian or Azriel either. Cassian is my fav acotar male and we all know I love Azriel. BUT You can’t say Lucien is a coward when he has in fact stood up to multiple high lords and for Feyre but then not hold that same smoke for Cassian and Azriel.

[me-amora]

"You were either hurt by a Nesta or you were Nesta and that is how you perceive the book"

OR MAYBE YOU CAN SIMPLY EMPATHIZE WITH CHARACTERS AND SEE MULTIPLE POVs AS YOU READ, LIKE ANY NORMAL PERSON SHOULD BE ABLE TO!!

Seriously, have we reached a social media narcissism complex that is so bad that anything and everything needs to revert to us?? Have we, as a society, completely lost the ability of trying to understand different points of view and/or analyzing things from a detached view without having to self-insert 100% of the time. And ofc everything, including the characters you like, will always be biased. BUT it's just worrying when people are not able to perceive a story from any other angle that isn't an overly personal extension of themselves

[eluciey]

Is anyone just kinda getting more and more pissed off with this marketing strategy?

It's 5 months until the book is released and we don't even have a title???

You want us to pre order 2 expensive books without a title ??

Why can't they give us a synopsis???

The books been written, they know what 6 is about, why can't they give us a synopsis for part 1 (6) and a title???

Meanwhile the fandom is just eating itself alive.

Like it's actually becoming a joke, I've never experienced marketing like this, it's bs

Meanwhile they're announcing the titles for books that come out NEXT YEAR. But complete silence about ACOTAR 6.

[disturbingly-silent]

the acotar fandom's obsession with infantilizing feyre is so strange.

her frontal lobe is underdeveloped. she's too young and incompetent to rule a court and give orders to anyone. she's too young and naive to be a wife and a mother. she's still depicted as an "illiterate teenager" who paints and writes like a four year old in various fanarts and tiktoks.

like am i the only one seeing a pattern here? none of these things are even the slightest bit true, its always just backhanded "opinions" and jokes disguised as harmless fun.

feyre is a mature, consenting adult who carried her father and sisters through poverty, died to save her entire world and is now finding peace and fulfillment in starting a family of her own after years of loneliness and suffering, but all people do is look past that so they can frame her as this clueless child who doesn't realize how bad she is at everything she does, including her own lifelong passion.

it's always been weird as fuck around here but holy shit none of yall are right in the head

[manuwritestales]

The cool toned color and warm toned color wtf.

Saying the hearts have nothing to do with the ships is ridiculous since, after the CHD and the announcement post, she said that 💙= Azriel book first (Gwynriel) and 🩷= Elain (elucien).

So now she's saying that the hearts have nothing to do with ships?

That's so funny.

[thread-and-truth]

Does anyone else feel like the ACOTAR subreddit is slowly being strangled by its own moderation?

I genuinely appreciate the work the mods do to keep things civil. That matters. But categorizing any book analysis or theory as “critical,” restricting it to a single day of the week, and then allowing the rest of the sub to be dominated by fangirling, memes, and shipping feels… bizarre for a forum that’s supposed to be about books.

Case in point: a post analyzing Rhys’s motivations UTM was deleted today because it isn't “Critical Tuesday.” Jesus Christ.

I understand that people engage with stories differently, and reading purely for the vibes is completely valid. That being said...

I’m not especially interested in seeing:

The 972nd photo of an IKEA dresser, poorly painted with stars, flames, and flowers

Weekly “This is Amren to me” [insert image of Edna Mode] posts

Screenshots of text messages from some stranger’s husband offering lukewarm first-read takes

BUT I just scroll past those types of posts and opt to focus on the ones that are more my speed. Why can't 'vibe' readers do the same with analytical posts?

At some point, shouldn’t there be room for actual discussion of the text?

[sapaul]

People are too funny. Out here calling SJM basic for pairing 3 brothers with 3 sisters… like babe, you’re reading romantasy, not Shakespeare. This is the same woman who made the answer to a life-or-death riddle… love. Y’all knew what you signed up for.