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[daniveart]

Doodles ~

[angryskarloey]

Various engines of the Erratic & Wandering Journey, later the Slow, Mouldy & Jolty.

[mkbosworth]

HOSAB & ACOSF: Fae Legends

Dusk Court:

- Confirmation the legendary 8th court did exist and that it's likely the prison island. The pegasus originally hailed from this island. Therefore Bryce’s fan-girl fascination with Pegasus toys is a homage to the land of her ancestors.

Legends of the Fae:

- Theia was the Dusk Court’s Ruler. She became High Queen of the Fae when she wed the last High King, Fionn.

- At some point, Theia and Pelias (who was the High King's general) decided to betray (...or leave) Fionn.

- They stole Fionn's cache of weapons (the starborn sword, truth-teller, the horn, the harp, etc.). THen Theia, Pelias, and Theia's 2 daughters ran off to another world - using the horn and the harp to open the gatway. This world was CC. Theia and gang quickly figured out who the Asteri were - their old masters: The Daglan.

- Theia decides to join forces with the armies of Hel to destroy the Asteri. This is likely how Theia and Adias meet... and then fall in love.

- Pelais (who likely didn't like being replaced or demoted) decided to align with the Asteri. He killed Theia on the battlefield and then crowned himself prince by forcing the eldest Starborn daughter Helena to marry him.

- Jesibia's comment to Adias about “don't fuck us over this time” likely means that after Theia died, Adias and his brothers decided to take their armies back to Hel and leave Pelais and the Fae (as well as the rest of the people of CC) to fend for themselves against the Asteri. Obviously, that didn't end well. The people of CC are still fighting some version of this battle to this day.

- Helena was forced to marry Pelias against her will. Helena and her younger sister likely came-up with the plot to save the Fae from Asteri domination in both words.

- I think the "plan" was that Helena would remain in CC partly as a decoy, but also to use the horn to help close the gates into CC. Meanwhile, her younger sister sneaks off (into the night)....using the harp she travels back to their ACOTAR homeworld. Helena kept the Starsword and The Horn, but her sister got the dagger (truthteller) The Harp....and both travel back with her to the Dusk Court.

- The images Nesta saw when touching the Harp, are of the Fae in CC. They are trying to get back thru the gate into their ACOTAR homeworld – but there wasn’t enough time for everyone to make it through. Likely the Asteri were closing in. Thus the sisters used the horn and/or harp to close the access point. Some of the Fae were in fact trapped in the walls when this happened. Perhaps, this is the magical act that caused the island to die.

- Helena’s sister went on to close all the access points in the ACOTAR world. In Prythian the access points are likely the three mountains - The Middle, The Prison, and Ramiel. There may be others on the continent - maybe Koschei's lake? With the access points closed, Helena's sister had no way to return to CC. She lived in Prythian for the rest of her life.

- Given the resemblance that Ruhn and Rhys share....Theia's younger daughter likely became (through marriage) apart of the Night Court - and is Rhy's ancestor.

- Ruhn is a descendant of Helena. Rhys is a descendant of her younger sister. This is why they look alike.

- Theia's family name is Starborn. Helena’s last name was also Starborn – this is why in CC they’re known as "Starborn Fae".

- Rhy’s family name is Starborn!!! (It was passed on from the un-named sister.)

[sandeepjamuda]

In the lovely occasion of "Pran Prathistha of Prabhu Shri Ram" it's my heartly devote to him. Jor Se Bolo " Jai Shri Ram" ✊ !!!

[loveforseo]

Seo Moon Jo is such a sexy name for an antagonist like how do they expect us to not fall in love with this psycho when his name alone is attractive as hell 

[pampam003]

HUNT ATHALAR 🌙 spoiler (?)

Can we please give more love to Hunt , I read some comments on YouTube saying he had no personality... EXCUSE MEEEEE, maybe he was not as bold like Connor BUT YOU KNOW HE TRIED , WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM AN +200 YEARS TORTURED ANGEL , HE DID AND TRIED HIS BEST AROUND BRYCE AND THATS ENOUGH FOR ME . AND OMG HE IS SUCH A SWEETHEART **cries**

[unclecassian]

On the Topic of High Lord of the Night Court vs. Tamlin the Tool

*Spoilers for A Court of Thorns and Roses, and A Court of Mist and Fury*

Many people have been turned away from ACOTAR because of the transition from Rhys as a villain to the main love interest and thinking it’s promoting unhealthy and abusive relationships. If I had strictly only read the first book and found out that Feyre ends up with Rhys, I could understand where they were coming from. I admit, even halfway through ACOMAF my first time reading it, I was still rooting for Tamlin. Even as I fell in love with Feysand there was a part of me still hoping Tamlin could redeem himself.

He was the good guy in ACOTAR, he was Feyre’s first love and since I had yet to read TOG, I based my expectations off every other YA book I had read before where the first love interest is the last; that somehow they will find their way back to each other. But as I read the series now, it’s easy to see the differences in Tamlin and Rhys that display just how wrong Tamlin is for Feyre after Under the Mountain.

One of the biggest distinctions I always see when reading is Tamlin’s response every time Feyre asks to accompany them either in a meeting or on a trip to a nearby village versus Rhys’ reaction to the plan to nullify the Cauldron. While Rhys worries about leaving Feyre and not being able to help her, he tells her that at the end of the day it is her choice, and Feyre’s reaction to it is heartbreaking. “If I hadn’t been already in love with him, I might have loved him for that—for not insisting I stay, even if it drove his instincts mad, for not locking me away in the aftermath of what had happened yesterday.” Tamlin says no every time she asks to go with him, every time she wants to know more about something, he says no so much that his first line of the book is no. Let me repeat that. Tamlin’s first line of the book is NO. If that doesn’t say something about where his character is at during this time… And not to mention that when Feyre finally stands up for herself and says that he can’t stop her from coming, he locks her in the house, knowing how broken she is from being in a cell Under the Mountain for three months.

Not only that, but also both of the males’ responses to finding out Feyre was picking the other says more than anything IMO. Rhys: I heard you were going to marry him, and I told myself you were happy. I should let you be happy, even if it killed me. Even if you were my mate, you’d earned that happiness. Versus Tamlin: I don’t give a shit if she’s your mate. I don’t give a shit if you think you’re entitled to her. She is mine. Sorry, honey, Feyre is her own person and doesn’t belong to anyone.

To the readers who claim they hate Rhys and argue he’s more abusive and manipulative than Tamlin but haven’t finished the second book, that’s exactly what SJM was going for. In the first book, you’re not supposed to like Rhys. He’s working for the villain as her whore and right hand. He’s Tamlin’s enemy and since Tamlin is the good guy in the first book, he’s also the reader’s enemy. You not liking him is exactly the goal. That means SJM is a good and effective writer. 

At the end of the day you’re entitled to your own opinion so if you want to hate Rhys, then that’s your choice. But I’m going to love my cinnamon roll <3

“If I could date any fictional character…. I would of course pick Rhys, I heard he has great table manners”

[angelathewitch]

Yall please help I just finished ACOTAR and I'm starting TOG but I'm having so much trouble getting into it. Is the first book really different from the second or something?? I need motivation 😭😩