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I love that Paige learnt vocabulary, fairytales, and the rules of chess from Arcturus, and in return taught him sarcasm, pickpocketing, how to make a molotov cocktail, and the various ways to cheat at cards. they are the definition of “I can fix her” boyfriend and “I can make him worse” girlfriend
happy glorious 25th of may
HAVE THAT CHARACTER GAIN WEIGHT AS A SIGN OF HEALING: NOW
nina zenik???
i got a fucking. advertisement on youtube. from google ai. saying. without sarcasm and with complete sincerity. "if shakespeare is too hard for you, you can always have our ai explain it to you." im gonna throw up. im gonna throw a molotov cocktail. if i see that ad again im reporting it for hate speech. how fucking dare you. i will kill you with my bare hands. with my exit pursued by a bear hands. i will tear google headquarters down brick by brick. im going to start biting people.
"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.
if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry
Stratt: "...you don't have a family, you don't even have a dog."
Grace:
STAY F***ING CALM
your name is ryland grace and you are a coward. you know it because it's written everywhere in your story: you are a coward and a quitter and the first one out the door when things get hard. you are good with kids because kids don't expect you to be braver than you are, and because kids respond well to distraction when you run away from a problem in front of them, and because kids are curious and open-minded and ask questions expecting surprising answers.
your name is ryland grace and you are a teacher. you are good at laying out the facts, at disgusing useful information in your quips. you are good at meeting people where they're at and getting them to understand the things that click into place in your brain so easily. you are smart but you love to learn new things and you love to help others love it, too. you used to think you were only good at teaching children. you were wrong.
your name is ryland grace and you wake up alone and with no memory of anything and it comes back to you in fits and starts: the earth is dying. you know how to save it. you used to stand in front of a classroom and help kids understand. there was a woman who believed in you. your friends needed you. your planet needed you. you do not remember being a coward because it is not important when the world is dying and you, ryland grace, are the only one who has a chance to save it.
your name is ryland grace and you remember being a coward but it feels like a different ryland grace. it feels like the ryland grace you are now, who leaps into space to collect a sample and does everything in his power to complete his mission, this ryland grace is not a coward. but you know that your name is ryland grace, and you are a coward. what do you do with that?
your name is ryland grace and you're faced with a choice: accept the fate you were so close to avoiding. go home. be a hero and be welcomed back with open arms. prove to the world you left behind that you could do it, that their faith in you was worth it, even though you are a coward.
or turn back and save the friend who is the only reason you were able to do any of it in the first place. save the friend who saved you. save the friend who can't save himself, and whose planet and people will die without him. and in doing so, make the choice you never made in the first place. make the choice to turn around and leave the earth and your people behind, never set foot on a beach again, never breath the fresh air again, never feel the light of your sun again.
your name is ryland grace and the choice is not hard. rocky would do the same for you. rocky did the same for you. rocky almost died for you. rocky gave up years of his life to make sure you could go home, and that sacrifice is the only reason saving him is even option. your name is ryland grace and you know, now, that it doesn't matter that you were a coward, once. there's more important things to worry about.
your name is ryland grace, and you get to have a hand in saving two worlds.
I hope everyone involved in the decision to make astronauts use Outlook on their way to the moon never goes a day of their lives without stepping in a fire ant colony
In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.
I think whatever happens in the next acotar book would be made 1000x better by Tamlin and Rhysand fucking nasty for twenty pages straight during the advent of the third act
just overheard somwone say "hey dude i dont see the future I've got two balls and neither is made of crystal" and im absolutely losing it
lol cassian being like "those tits tho" while commenting on Nestas emaciated body and when I had talked to an SJM stan about it and few years ago when just first read it bec I had been like "what the fuck?" she had been like "well it IS a romance book" ???? is the height of romance your male love interest sexualizing an emaciated body of a severely depressed woman bec i PRAY that romance never finds me
Shielding and Trapping
I will never understand how Tamlin locking Feyre in the giant manor to prevent her from following him into an active war zone when she had severe ptsd and would have been a danger to herself and everyone around her was more triggering to her than Rhys putting a shield around her entire body making it impossible for her loved ones to even touch her.
Feyre is in one massive cage and yet because it’s Rhysand’s doing, it’s the best thing ever. Velaris is warded, their homes are warded, her body is warded.
And unlike what Tamlin did that was 100% temporary given a very specific circumstance that could have gotten people or herself killed, Feyre is caged by Rhys 24/7.
Interesting how we never hear about Feyre doing anything except paint as her hobbies. What happened to hunting for sport? What happened to visiting villages and stuff? Does she even leave Velaris alone or is she always accompanied by the Inner Circle in some capacity? Guards are still guards even if she calls them family now.
Hearing Feyre laugh about having a cage around her body so strong that even her scent can’t be detected and being like “Oh it’s just Rhys being silly” is actually kind of horrifying. She makes it pretty clear this is something Rhys insists on.
I really can’t stand the hypocrisy sometimes. I swear, everything Feyre complained about Tamlin, Rhys does the same thing so much worse…
seeing sjm stans just rolling over and being like 🥺🥺 oh sarah is TRAUMATIZED and she wrote about it in her books now I understand why nesta and feyre were treated so poorly
NUH UH
at the risk of sounding like a whole ass insensitive bitch I think her projecting into her books and writing so irresponsibly to where two young women are repeatedly abused by their male love interests who faces ZERO accountability makes it WORSEEEE
ESPECIALLY when she wrote such harmful mental illness stigma AND wrote harmful and inaccurate depictions of alcoholism and alcohol abuse and also sexualized emaciated bodies from eating disorders and MULTIPLE SAs to the SAME female character
NOT INCLUDING writing that whole fuck ass pregnancy arc DURING the overturning of Roe v Wade
there are WAYS to write and process your trauma through your writing ESPECIALLY if youre going to PUBLISH IT TO MILLIONS OF READERS RESPONSIBLY. miss me with that shit
I just saw a post by @looseleaflettuce where your anon makes a super important comment:
It was only after I read this that I realized. Amarantha is a harassers (and a female portrayed as villain) Iantha is a harassers (and a female portrayed as villain).
Why are only women harassers but men (Rhysand and Cassian) aren't portrayed as such too?
Not only did Rhysand harass Feyre in the first book, he also drugged and manipulated her the entire time (and has clear signs of being Gaslighting).
Cassian I don't think I need to say anything. The guy is toxic as fuck, you can see it in ACOSF.
When women are not harassing, they are hypersexualized.
Morrigan, Nesta (my god all the time), even Feyre sometimes.
it's because the lashback to 2010s internet era feminism made it popular to be edgy and have examples of female abusers because "it's so deep and real to acknowledge that women can hurt men!!!" (ex: fifty shades of grey) w/o doing actual introspective on how patriarchy sets up a mediocrity framework that allows men to get away with abuse in the first place. even in fiction, women can only be Abusers if they are insanely overpowered positions (like evil fae court lady idk) or age gap/wealth gap — meanwhile cassian is literally just some guy to nesta at first and is STILL an immediate threat to her. it's annoying because it allows authors to get praise for showing "situations that aren't as seen" when it's not actually about acknowledging ways in which women can benefit from other power structures (ex: wealth, race, cishood, etc.) it's about seeming more progressive and Against the Popular Wave (read: feminism aka Woman Good) and therefore Unique/Revolutionary. and we all know how authors like sjm love being not like the other girls.
edit: you know what? let's talk about nessian re: being edgy by trying to show that Women Can be Bad Too ™. i am severely uncomfortable with sjm trying to do a classism inequality storyline with nessian by acting like nesta has power over cassian because she's wellbred as a human and he's not a royal fae or whatever. it's pathetic and she's actually out of her mind when she tries to argue that it's actually possible for nesta to do anything in this dynamic that's a breach of power. nesta has NO power here — but sjm uses cassian's traumatic backstory to be like See Evil Rich Women hurt him so that's why it's Good that he tames nesta and teaches her to be a good obedient woman!
Edit to add : there's also something incredibly concerning with how SJM constructs Cassian's character (who by description closely resembles a MOC) to be aggressive and sexually dominating specifically towards Nesta (someone he's overtly sexually attracted to). I'd argue that racially ambiguous male love interests who are written like Cassian and Rhysand get away with being written in this way because of racial stereotypes and fantasies going unchecked. I've seen the way people speak about how much Nesta should've been happy about being locked up with Cassian because to some, it's idyllic for him to be like that. And I wouldn't have such complaints about it if SJM had explored his personality beyond that, investigated why he feels he can only give his body to Nesta that way. Why he feels slighted by her and inferior to her despite the obvious power imbalance in their relationship (he has a rank of command, can leave the HoW whenever he wants and she has none of that). It has to be questioned why it's "sexy" and appealing that Cassian is written like this and allowed to be behave this way but Tamlin's sexual behaviour (who by description resembles a white man) is seen as uncomfortable. If not uncomfortable, we can recognize the toxicity of it in acomaf. We're not subverting anything by writing male love interests like this. We're just reinforcing things.
This would assume that Author Lady cares, which obviously she doesn’t.
Rewatched the podcast and was disappointed to see that Sjm just exposed herself as a privileged rich white nepo baby who just rambled on in the interview with a thousand ‘likes’ per breath. I’ve seen authors give interviews. They have such eloquent articulate answers when asked about their work and they even go on to explain the research, inspiration and background they worked on to come up with the storyline. For eg., Rebecca Yarros interviews tells you that she strategically plans The Empyrean. You can actually go back and connect the dots like a missing puzzle piece when the truth is later revealed in her books. She legit tells her readers that if they look deeper, they can find out the answers for her cliffhangers.
SJM might be the pioneer for Romantasy but she certainly does devalue her work by exposing that she writes off vibes and saying that readers read too much into her work because it definitely weakens her ability as an author. I’ve seen teenage wattpad authors have a better grip on their books than sjm. I expected a lot from her, ig, idk. She likely lowered my expectations of an audience who loves to read a good book with microscopic lens and pick up on anecdotes and clues like me. Gave me Chalamet vibes when she said how she told her professor that poetry is useless for her writing ? If only she had listened to her professor, she could’ve come up with a better Amarantha’s riddle than that crappy one in acotar lol😭. Ugh. Anyways, I’m keeping my bar low. She has a potential of butchering my untouched favourite characters like Luicen, Azriel, Gwyn and Emerie. Like she did with Nesta and Cassian in SF (SF is still my favourite novel of hers tho, despite my many criticisms). Ciao.
