Tess

I have an unhealthy obsession with books, musicals and ships (the kind that float on water). Currently fixated on The Rookie.

[whenwewereyoung97]

⚠️Warning: contains Onyx Storm spoilers⚠️

*Edited on 12/15/2023 to add Aaric and Devera.*

*Edited on 12/22/2023 to add assorted details*

*Edited on 01/03/2024 to update Aaric’s name and alias (I know his actual middle name is Aaric, but the name/middle name/last name format ruined the ✨aesthetic✨ since no one else has a known middle name)*

*Edited on 02/10/2024 because I realized on my reread that Jack pushing energy on Violet likely isn’t actually a manifestation of his signet, as much as it is him using Venin powers*

*Edited on 09/18/2024 since Xaden gave us new information on Emery*

*Edited on 01/19/2025 to add Cianna*

*Edited on 01/20/2025 to add Nyra*

*Editing to add new OS information*

Made this because I know I’ll forget many details by time book 3 comes out, and I figured I’d share it for those interested. It’s a combination of information from my own read throughs, and from The Empyrean Wiki.

Please let me know if you see any mistakes, or if you have more to add.

I decided against doing Flyers for the time being, as what information we have is rather limited.

⚠️Warning: contains Iron Flame spoilers⚠️

⚠️Warning: contains Onyx Storm spoilers⚠️

Rider Data Masterlist

Violet

Surname: Sorrengail

Signet: Lightning wielding/Dream walking

Dragon’s name: Tairn/Andarna

Dragon’s description:

- Black Morningstartail (M)

- Golden Feathertail (former); Irid Scorpiontail (current) (F)

Xaden

Surname: Riorson

Signet: Shadow wielding/Reading intentions

Dragon’s name: Sgaeyl

Dragon’s description: Blue Daggertail (F)

Rhiannon

Surname: Matthias

Signet: Retrieving

Dragon’s name: Feirge

Dragon’s description: Green Daggertail (F)

Ridoc

Surname: Gamlyn

Signet: Ice wielding

Dragon’s name: Aotrom

Dragon’s description: Brown Swordtail (M)

Sawyer

Surname: Henrick

Signet: Metallurgist

Dragon’s name: Sliseag

Dragon’s description: Red Swordtail (M)

Liam

Surname: Mairi

Signet: Farsight/Ice wielding

Dragon’s name: Deigh

Dragon’s description: Red Daggertail (M)

Sloane

Surname: Mairi

Signet: Siphon

Dragon’s name: Thoirt

Dragon’s description: Red Daggertail

Garrick

Surname: Tavis

Signet: Air manipulation/Distance wielding

Dragon’s name: Chradh

Dragon’s description: Brown Scorpiontail (M)

Bodhi

Surname: Durran

Signet: Countering signets

Dragon’s name: Cuir

Dragon’s description: Green (unknown tail type)

Imogen

Surname: Cardulo

Signet: Memory erasing

Dragon’s name: Glane

Dragon’s description: Orange Daggertail (F)

Quinn

Surname: Hollis

Signet: Astral Projection

Dragon’s name: Cruth

Dragon’s description: Green Scorpiontail (F)

Dain

Surname: Aetos

Signet: Retrocognition

Dragon’s name: Cath

Dragon’s description: Red Swordtail (M)

Jack

Surname: Barlowe

Signet: Pain projection (Signet or Venin ability?)

Dragon’s name: Baide

Dragon’s description: Orange Scorpiontail (F)

Aaric

Full name: Camlaen “Cam” Tauri, Aaric Greycastle (alias)

Signet: Unknown

Dragon’s name: Molvic

Dragon’s description: Blue Clubtail

Mira

Surname: Sorrengail

Signet: Extending wards

Dragon’s name: Teine

Dragon’s description: Green Clubtail (M)

Brennan

Surname: Sorrengail, Aisreigh (alias)

Signet: Mending

Dragon’s name: Marbh

Dragon’s description: Orange Daggertail (M)

Lilith

Surname: Sorrengail/Daxton

Signet: Storm wielder

Dragon’s name: Aimsir

Dragon’s description: Brown (unknown tail type)

Augustine

Surname: Melgren

Signet: Battle foresight

Dragon’s name: Codagh

Dragon’s description: Black Swordtail (M)

(Unknown)

Surname: Devera

Signet: Unknown

Dragon’s name: Unknown

Dragon’s description: Red Clubtail

(Unknown)

Surname: Kaori

Signet: Illusionist

Dragon’s name: Smachd

Dragon’s description: Unknown

(Unknown)

Surname: Carr

Signet: Fire wielder

Dragon’s name: Breugan

Dragon’s description: Orange Daggertail (M)

Burton

Surname: Varrish

Signet: Weakness reading

Dragon’s name: Solas

Dragon’s description: Orange Daggertail (M)

Naolin

Surname: Unknown

Signet: Siphon

Dragon’s name: Tairn

Dragon’s description: Black Morningstartail (M)

Heaton

Surname: Unknown

Signet: Breathing underwater

Dragon’s name: Unknown

Dragon’s description: Unknown

Emery

Surname: Barnes

Signet: Air manipulation

Dragon’s name: Unknown

Dragon’s description: Brown Clubtail

Cianna

Surname: Unknown

Signet: Air manipulation

Dragon’s name: Gaothal

Dragon’s description: Unknown

Nyra

Surname: Voldaren

Signet: Unknown

Dragon’s name: Malla

Dragon’s description: Red Scorpiontail

Ulices

Surname: Ferris

Signet: Unknown

Dragon: Fann

Dragon’s description: Green Swordtail (F)

Felix

Surname: Gerault

Signet: Unknown

Dragon: Nuirlach

Dragon’s description: Red Swordtail

Aura

Surname: Beinhaven

Signet: Fire wielder

Dragon: Dagolh

Dragon’s description: Red Clubtail

Lyron

Surname: Panchek

Signet:

Dragon:

Dragon’s description:

Lynx

Surname:

Signet: Shadow wielding

Dragon:

Dragon description:

Baylor

Surname:

Signet: (far-sight?)

Dragon: Veirt

Dragon’s description:

[feyrescourt]

quick reminder with the two new books coming out, feyre and rhys are political leaders who, yes, are family centric, but will prioritize safety of the night court and prythian, especially now being new parents. they love their family and will help them in anyway they can, but that doesn’t mean they are cardboard cutout characters that will do whatever you want them to do. they’re not going to say or do the perfect thing, so i’m telling you rn i don’t want to see any weird anti feysand shit coming from this community when this books drops. thank you that is all.

[whenwewereyoung97]

Yeah, this is starting to feel like tying up loose ends…

[whenwewereyoung97]

Question that has become essential to my very existence

Would Xaden drive a truck or a motorcycle?

Truck

Motorcycle

Other

Voting ended onApr 2

[highprincessofthenightcourt]

If Rhysand had wanted to control Feyre, he would have been mad when she went to see the Suriel and nearly died. If he thought he had power over her life, he wouldn’t have accepted that she wanted to be with Tamlin when he knew she was his mate. If he only wanted an heir, he could have just let her believe that she owed him one because she was with a High Lord--she already thought that was the way things worked, he didn’t have to assure her that she owes him nothing. If Rhysand didn’t respect Feyre, he wouldn’t tell her that she has every right to disagree with anything he says. If Rhysand didn’t care about Feyre’s wishes, he wouldn’t have tried his best to be nice to her sister despite disliking her so much. If Rhysand didn’t believe Feyre’s life mattered more than his own, he wouldn’t have sacrificed himself to the Cauldron so it didn’t drain her power and kill her instead.

It’s all in the books, simple as that. No matter how distorted some people’s view of him is, he will never not be an amazing partner. He has done what he could with the cards he was dealt. There is no ideal behavior when one faces impossible, unprecedented situations. The circumstances of their lives have not been easy so far, they’ve faced terrible challenges back to back. But at the end of the day, the love was always there and nothing was ever done out of malice.

Misinterpretations won’t change that.

[whenwewereyoung97]

Smash. Next.

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[bookclubforme]

I cannot wait for Xaden Riorson in his villain era. He has so many reasons to destroy Navarre and it’s going to be so fun to see what he does because I really truly believe that he is going to be a monumental pain in the ass to ALL sides now that all the responsibility is off his shoulders.

Navarre:

- Tortured and Executed his father

- forced him to take responsibility at 17 years old for every marked one’s actions so that if they did something wrong, he would be the first one punished

- took away his title and tarnished his family’s legacy with the ‘great betrayer’ bullshit to the point he actively fought against being in a relationship with Violet because he knew it would affect her

- ripped him away from his cousin, his best friends, and his home to be fostered elsewhere

- ripped apart siblings, which he may not have had but he would have seen how hard that was on Liam.

- burnt his home to the ground (even though Aretia somewhat survived)

- passed laws specifically targeting him and his friends so that they couldn’t gather without risking execution.

- passed laws so they couldn’t even all be in the same squad

- forced him to protect the daughter of the woman who was personally responsible for hunting down everyone loyal to his father and dragging them to his executions who also tortured him as part of the deal.

- without any actual concrete proof tried to punish him for stealing by giving him the choice of fighting in a battle with dark weilders he had no reason to think he would win or be responsible for choosing not to fight and condemn civilians to die

- killed off 5 of his closest friends and most trusted people in the world between Resson and trying and cover up what happened in Resson. (Liam, Soliel, Ciaran, Eya, Mason)

- constantly attacked the rest of the survivors

- put his dragon into constant pain by forcing prolonged separations from her mate

- tortured the woman that he loved for 5 days to bait him into deserting his post so they could declare him a traitor and Torture and execute him

- and, even after admitting the necessity of fighting the dark Weilders and allying with Pomoriel, still tried to exert control over him by making his relationship against the rules and put him under constant surveillance to try and catch them together

- threatened to invade and attack his territory and citizens for allowing refugees in

Pomoriel & Tecarus specifically:

- tried to force him into an arranged marriage

- tried to force him to endanger the few riders he had loyal to him by insisting the Luminary only be fired in Cordyn, which would have made the dragons stationed there huge targets for dark weilders

- forced him into the position where he had to risk his and his friends lives to steal daggers to supply them with since they didn’t have a luminary

- put the love of his life in an arena with a starved dark weilder & treated it like the nights entertainment to watch her fight for her life

Dark Weilders:

- this one feels kind of self explanatory. The root cause of all of the above problems, and

- endangering Violet by association

- hurt Sgaeyl

The fourth book is going to be Xaden Riorson hunting his enemies and getting his revenge while having phenomenal dream sex with his wife while she chases him across the continent trying to restore his soul.

[depsidase]

[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 own family through poverty, died to save her entire world and is now finding peace and fulfillment in starting a family 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

[whenwewereyoung97]

✨Obsessed✨

And, yes - the Hellman’s POBAB edition smelled just as bad as they say it does.

[chenford4lifer]

THE ROOKIE IS BACK ON JAN 6

[whenwewereyoung97]

[whenwewereyoung97]

Not me expecting Sera to have been pregnant for the entirety of AFITF and being disappointed we don’t find out one way or another.

[whenwewereyoung97]

Took me a while to come back to this one, but I feel avenged

[whenwewereyoung97]

Me when I realized I’d get to meet Jennifer -

Me when it was time to actually meet her -

But she complimented my shirt so 🥹🥹🥹

[whenwewereyoung97]

She’s beautiful 🥹

[whenwewereyoung97]

“(…) I’m going to need this dagger,” I said, turning back to Kolis. “I’m not going to waste it on you. It’s too pretty.” I held it between us, wanting him to see it—wanting him to remember it. “Besides, if you do come back? And she is reborn?” Kolis went still. “I will place this dagger in her hand myself,” I whispered. “And it will be she who drives it through your heart.”

Three more days until Sera comes through on this promise and I am wrecked.

[whenwewereyoung97]

Re-reading the meeting between Poppy and Nyktos in Crown of Gilded Bones after having finished Born of Blood and Ash has me giddy. The panic he must have felt upon realizing who stood before him, but also the shock and amusement and sheer happiness of realizing she’s Sera’s granddaughter through and through.

What I wouldn’t give to have this scene from Nyktos’ POV.

And you just know he immediately went back and told Sera every minute detail. I like to think it made her sleep a little less restless for awhile.

[alleecatblues]

INFORMATION ABOUT QUEER/ADULT CONTENT BEING DELISTED

Hey, I'm sure you've heard by now that several online retailers have blanket delisted queer/adult content. Information seems sporadic, so I want to create a masterpost of what happened, why it matters, and what you can do about it.

WHAT HAPPENED

You've probably heard that Steam and Itch.io have removed all of their adult/queer content from listings. Itch has even gone so far as to prevent creators from being able to get their payouts.

This is not Steam/Itch's fault. Mastercard and Visa have pressured them to remove their adult content. Visa and Mastercard collectively hold over 90% of the market share in payment processing. Unfortunately, if they cut you off, you pretty much lose over 90% of your gross income, which is a death sentence for basically any company.

This is also not just localized to Steam and Itch. Several anime/manga retailers have also been affected, and more companies are likely to follow. I would not be surprised if Patreon cracked down again soon, so if you have adult/queer content on there, I suggest you prepare accordingly.

The reason for this happening is not a response to the current US political climate, or these payment processors randomly deciding to force their puritanical views. It is a concerted effort by a group called Collective Shout, an anti-porn group masquerading as a feminist liberation org. (Look up the meaning of the word SWERF.)

Collective Shout has, allegedly, sent over 1,000 letters to Visa and Mastercard urging them to take action against certain digital retailers selling adult content. Which, thankfully gives us an avenue to respond. More on that in the third section.

WHY THIS MATTERS

For some of you, I don't need to explain why you should care. For others, let me explain to you why this is a massive cocern for everyone, not just adult content creators.

First of all, we've already seen perfectly sfw queer content catching strays from this. You should already be well aware that adult content and queer content are often conflated, and the two are pretty inextricably linked to each other. If you try to ban one, you will, inevitably, end up banning the other as well.

Secondly, this sets a precedent for "concerned citizens" to be able to pressure payment processors into removing whatever content they don't like from the internet. Even if you don't partake in adult content. Even if you're not queer. Even if this doesn't currently affect you or anyone you know right now, it will. They managed to do this with only 1,000 letters. If they get away with it, it'll only be the beginning.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Remember when I said they sent 1,000 letters to make this happen? I bet we can get more.

I wrote a form letter for Mastercard and for Visa. Fill in your name. Print them. Sign them. Mail them out. The addresses for the respective companies are at the top. It shouldn't cost much. Even international postage shouldn't be prohibitively expensive for most people.

Some people are sharing phone numbers and emails. That's fine, but I prefer a physical footprint. You can't see 1,000 phone calls. 1,000 emails don't take up physical volume. If you get 1,000 letters about something, you can see how much people care about it. That means something in this day and age.

IF YOU LIVE IN THE US there is a bill being introduced right now that stops payment processors from being able to control what people can and cannot purchase. Call your representatives. Right now. Even if you don't think they'll support it. Here's a script I wrote. And trust me when I say it'll help. I used to talk to politicians for a living. I know what I'm talking about.

SHARE THIS POST. Reblog it. Reblog it multiple times a day. Send it to everyone you know. Seriously. Everyone. Even if they're not on Tumblr. Get the word out. The most successful advertising is word of mouth. So use your voice and make sure people hear it. We've beaten this shit in the past and we'll do it again, but we still need to put in the work.