#sjm crossover

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🔥A COURT OF HOT TAKES🔥

Preface: Do I still read the books? Yes. Do I still enjoy most of them? Depending on the series, also yes. Now that we got that out of the way... Also, there are spoilers. Obviously.

Rant #4: SJM is too afraid to unalive important characters.

Remember in Throne of Glass where we lost not one but *17* characters (+wyverns) that we came to care about? Remember how devastating that series was, and you were just waiting for the next shoe to drop? The entire time there was mortal peril behind every door and SJM didn't care about your feelings and was not afraid to hurt you.

Now?

When's the last time someone of note dropped in ACOTAR? I guess it would be the Suriel, right? I mean, in ACOWAR, she had the opportunity to keep Amren dead, have her sacrifice have meaning, and instead, decided to resurrect her for reasons unknown. We lost the Bone Carver and the Weaver, I suppose, but did we care about them that much?

How about in CC? Lehabah was really the only gut-punch for me. I didn't give a flying fart about Danika or the Pack because we had just met them and didn't have enough time to form an attachment to make it meaningful, let alone remember their names. Oh, and there was Jesiba but...eh?

I really feel like SJM, after her criticism of unaliving Nehemiah during ToG, is afraid of getting rid of any characters that matter and if they might bring up some sort of critique. Because of this, the mortal peril in her books is basically gone.

Mates usually stay alive, and knowing this, I didn't care when Bryce was 'dead.' So a big battle involving mates? No worries.

But wouldn't it have hurt a hell of a lot more to kill Flynn in CC, someone who was so close to most of the characters? If you are going to go through the act of giving someone a final send-off, it better impact the reader or there is no point.

All this to say, out of all the series, she's tiptoed the most around ACOTAR, and I firmly believe that in order to bring mortal peril back into her plot, someone important is going to have to go, and they have to meet these criteria: 1) Can't have a mate 2) It has to hurt not just the reader but the characters 3) It has to have meaning to the story

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sjm crossovers

so i've seen a lot about Rhys and Aelin, Rowan and Azriel, etc etc but honestly the TOG characters are 100x better than the ACOTAR ones.

If Aelin went to Velaris, she'd be appalled. Let's not forget exactly how much she sacrificed to save Terrasen and Eyllwe, while Rhys hid himself away in Velaris, ignored the horrific misogyny and general suffering in the rest of the Night Court, and called himself a martyr. Yes, Rhys and Feyre were prepared to sacrifice themselves at the Cauldron, but I can't overlook the things they were prepared to do and ignore. Treating Elain like a child, sending Nesta to live in isolation with a cruel, taunting male like Cassian, Amren telling Cassian to let her fall into a pit of despair and desolation and only then reach out a helping hand. Aelin and her court would wage war on the Night Court merely for how they let women be treated. Azriel and Mor really were the only members of the IC I actually liked. Both were respectful, and Az never treated Nesta like she was a broken alcoholic slut. Az also treated Elain like a friend, gently offering smiles and walks without pushing it. Mor was just a total badass, but I did kind of wish she had told Az that she just didn't want to be with him. Aelin would have got on incredibly well with Mor and Nesta, and Elain definitely would have befriended Lysandra - one of my favorite SJM crossover headcanons is Evangeline and Elain having a garden together, and Evangeline kind of being adopted by Lucien and Elain. Lysandra and Nesta would have liked each other too. I can also totally see Azriel and Aedion getting on well - but all the TOG characters would and should collectively dislike the majority of the IC.

I have very mixed opinions on Amren, to be honest. Initially, I liked her character, but she treated Nesta so badly. I did like the Amren/Varian relationship, I definitely wanted more on that. Manon would have liked Amren, and probably Aelin too, eventually. Dorian and Lucien. No words. Side rant - I only really realised that Feyre and Rhys were pretty shitty people in ACOFAS, I was so disappointed in Feyre when I read the Gwyn-Emerie-Nesta bit in ACOSF and realised wait. THAT is girlboss. Not Feyre.

But yeah. Just my opinion lol 😛

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what the FUCK. I am in actual PAIN.

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aelin and lidia ……………………… ruhn and rhys ………………………….

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aelin would scare the shit out of them

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bryce is back and unfortunately landed in her father’s study and I can’t help but think of how the ic is panicking rn 😭 I imagine rhys is channeling nick fury rn trying to assemble a team of avengers to protect their world from aliens I can’t breatheeee 😭

this is probably rhys rn:

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I’m cryinggggggggg guys