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shitposting/complaining

[cyartomad]

obi-wan kenobi only looks like a respectable, even-tempered rule-follower because he's standing next to Anakin "what are rules" Skywalker and Ahsoka "i know the rules but i don't give a shit" Tano. the moment he's alone, and not being forced to keep anyone in check, he is JUST as chaotic as the other two, if not more because he DOES know the rules and he DOES give a fuck so the fact that he's breaking them means he REALLY wants to ruin someone's day

[zer0-gen]

Obi-Wan is a ‘letter of the law’ more than a ‘spirit of the law’ kind of guy. He knows the rules. Word for word in fact. But he also knows ALL the loopholes, and by the Force, he’s going to use them.

[zer0-gen]

Oh Victor Frankenstein, for once I understand you!

The Austrian Alps in winter may be my favourite view

[zer0-gen]

Literally the Band of Exiles - just give Alucard red hair, and Trevor brown eyes and we’re set.

And yes, I do ship both groups as a polycule. Because I feel like it.

[juriansgeneralgoods]

I'm sorry this is so funny.

Jurian, literally every time he opens his mouth:

[deslizada]

I think a lot of acotar discourse could be solved by collectively understanding that sjm is a terrible writer who cannot use storytelling tools successfully tbh. like the correct answer to "why did rhysand put feyre in skimpy dresses and make her dance while drugged under the mountain" isn't "because he's a sexual predator" (although that's a valid interpretation) but rather "because sjm thought it was hot and didn’t think through the implications". the same thing goes for a lot of discourse sticking points. the whole bizarre no c-sections allowed pregnancy subplot happened because sjm wanted pregnancy drama and didn't care enough to come up with something better. cassian took nesta on a miserable hike to punish her because sjm thinks keeping someone happy takes priority over telling them lifesaving medical information. and on and on. unfortunately being in this fandom is a deeply frustrating experience because the source material fucking sucks, and most of the good stuff in the fandom comes from people's reimaginings of canon, not because the books are good. personally I cope with this by making shit up in my head that I like better and I highly recommend doing that

[snowwhitewithanxiety]

Nothing will ever be funnier to me than Lucien being thoroughly unimpressed with Rhys' posturing and threats.

Like we're supposed to believe that Rhys is the strongest High Lord ever and is supposedly super terrifying and they are in his court where he can legally do anything he wants to with Lucien and Lucien is just......so over it? Mildly annoyed?

And if I recall correctly its not just Rhys standing around threatening and screaming at Lucien. Cassian and Azriel and Mor and Feyre are all there too being 'intimidating' and Lucien is just like "Cool so are you guys gonna explain what's going on here or???????"

[juriansgeneralgoods]

Jurian and Feyre in the Spring Court never ceases to be funny to me. he clocked her double agent bullshit immediately, because of course he did, and decided to start doing the absolute most to provoke her into reading his mind to tell her they're on the same side just shy of wearing a shirt that says "I'M ALSO A SPY" in big red letters. meanwhile Feyre's just like

[ennawrite]

the IC being convinced Jurian is the worst guy ever because *checks notes* he fought hard to get his people out of *checks notes again* *pulls notes back* *squints* *lifts up super sophisticated spectacles onto head* *brings notes closer* ENSLAVEMENT? AGAINST THE FAE?

[maplepalette]

I feel like we don't talk about Jurian enough and how he's so important to humans and a figure of freedom.

I will defend Jurian to my dying breath, I feel no remorse for Amarantha and her sister. Slave owners get no pity, Jurian did nothing wrong. Every action he made was for the freedom of humans and he deserves to have respect put on his name!!

[zer0-gen]

I just know that when Jurian revealed that he was a spy the whole time, Amarantha was screaming ‘I told you so!’ from Fae hell.

The first thing we’re told about Jurian is that he was the human general in the first war, which was about ending systemic enslavement of all humans by the Fae, in which he lied his way into the enemy camp, lied some more, brutally murdered a slave owner, and ditched.

So Amarantha brutally murders him, and spends the next 500 years telling everyone what a dirty scheming liar he is.

Then he comes back to life, and proceeds to do basically the exact same thing AGAIN. And no one seemed to question it. Seriously, no one thought, that maybe, just MAYBE, the only human survivor of the first war who is known for being a double agent, might be a double agent.

Jurian must have been so fucking smug knowing that he was getting away with it, and Amarantha could do nothing to stop him.

Anyway, all the fae leaders are idiots, and Amarantha is rolling in her grave

[endlesslyicymechanism]

I’m more interested in Autumn than I’m ever in Night court. The whole concept of Velaris gives me the ick. What do you mean there’s this special city that is all dreamy, classy and modern, where only special people can enter. Sounds elitist. Remember Feyre’s initial reaction to learning about Velaris? How irritated she was and how she called Rhysand a classist right to his face for choosing a bunch of people to be worthy of saving while the others had to rot and die under tyranny. Idk how she quickly got over that. But I sure as hell didn’t. It still irks me that the self proclaimed dreamers of NC chose to rule over only 1/3rd of their court while the majority either self rules or rots in misogyny and classism. I’m intrigued by autumn because it has lots of interesting stuff going on. There’s clear acknowledgement that Beron hates lesser fae and becomes an ally with anything evil, Eris—the actual dreamer of the whole series who wants to save Autumn from his tyrant of a father , the secret affair of Lady of Autumn, Lucien’s growth and tragic love. Most of all I’m intrigued by the forest house. We got one description of it on how it’s this sprawling complex and it takes half a day to even reach the end of it. I’d like for Gwyn to visit it sometime, see the place where her mama grew up. If Eris ends up to be her grandpa, she’d be the only surviving heir of Autumn, and how cool would that be ?

[zer0-gen]

Me when the Summer Court and Tarquin the being the underdog in his own court, actively trying to fix class inequality between High Fae and lesser faeries after 500 years of oppression, when even his own family are vaguely against him. Also Alis and her nephews in the aftermath of UTM and a major invasion getting their deserved peace reunited in the Summer Court.

Me when the Winter Court, and a female (Viviane) actually has political power alongside the High Lord she married, and has a healthy romantic relationship with + the political intrigue of what really happened to those kids that Rhys may or may not have killed?

Me when Hybern. What’s happening over there? No seriously. The king, his niece and nephew, and his favourite psychopath are all dead, as are several other commanders, so probably a succession crisis. They failed at conquest again, so likely a repression, maybe even a civil war. Why are they all evil? They probably aren’t but biased narratives ig. It’s clearly geographically based on Ireland, but politically couldn’t be further from them, maybe they have older, more eldritch traditions and practices though bc they all seem to be really old (but god forbid SJM actually research the cultures she bases her fictional ones on)

Me when the human lands and the aftermath of their only sort of protection from the Fae literally comes crashing down. What about the seven human kingdoms who just found out their monarchs betrayed them for the fae who used to own them as slaves at a chance for individual gain of immortality? That sounds like a great motive for democratic revolution. Do any of them know about Jurian, who by all accounts should be quite famous over there, and what kind of reaction would a resurrected war hero have among the wider human military? Are the Band of Exiles just trying to fix Vassa’s curse, or are they more involved with post-war politics in the human lands — like organising border forces and actually informing people how to fight of fae assaults?

I mean, it’s very clear that SJM doesn’t actually care about her world building unless it suits the romance that her romantasy series has. But she decided to have a politics-based plot to add to the drama, and jeopardised it with her politically incompetent mc and male lead.

[mysteryofvampires]

Oh, what a beautiful character we have here! I bet his personality is as beautiful as his appearance!

*After he opens his mouth for the first time*

Okay, he's the worst!

[korn-dawg]

i hate gay men who think cause they’re gay they’re allowed to say misogynistic shit and call women bitches and sluts

[zer0-gen]

My needs for ACOTAR 6:

1. Lady of Autumn killing off Beron — preferably beheading him Nesta-style but I’ll take poisoning.

2. Lady of Autumn x Helion — let this goddess have her happy ending.

3. Valkyries sleepover. Valkyries sleepover. Valkyries sleepover.

4. More Balthazar cameos. I like him and I want him to stick around.

5. Reveal that Merill was the last Valkyrie.

6. Tarquin x Gwyn — it can be platonic but they’re both lovely and deserve a good person in their life.

7. MORE BAND OF EXILES CONTENT

8. More Miriam and Drakon too — they showed up, fought a war and left. I need more.

[crunchbuttsteak]

Imagine this whole post in the TikTok text to speech voice.

[yourlocalbreadenthusiast]

That took me until the very last image to realize.

[creatures-in-posts]

Confirmed creature post

[bunniehrtz]

happy pride!!!!!!!!!!!

[zer0-gen]

happy pride 🏳️‍🌈🎉

[extremely-judgemental]

Comparison is the only form of logic this fandom apparently understands.

‘Nesta was self-sabotaging and she needed to be imprisoned.’

Feyre wasn’t eating or sleeping well to be in a fit form to encounter any creature she came across. But she wanted to partake in dangerous missions when she couldn’t handle seeing blood or anything even resembling it. Those are suicidal behaviours.

Feyre’s imprisonment was for her good, right?

‘Nesta was a threat to the people and had to be contained.’

Feyre was barely adjusting to her new fae body, let alone have complete control of her magical abilities especially when her emotions are haywire. She proved this to be true even months after she “healed" during the High Lords meeting. Feyre begged to be taken along on patrol duty along with the sentries who had no power or means to protect themselves from her outbursts, and she threw temper tantrums when Tamlin tried to reason with her.

Feyre was a bigger threat, right?

‘Nesta didn’t contribute to the court.’

Nesta didn’t have to. She was only a subject in the court, who already did a favour to Night Court and all of Prythian during the war.

Feyre was going to marry a High Lord. All she was asked to do was play the role of Lady of Spring and socialise with her peers and familiarise with the court matters. She couldn’t have one conversation with them without looking down on the people or their traditions. She wouldn’t learn anything about the court without griping about how boring it was.

Feyre was living off Tamlin without doing anything in return, right?

In Nesta’s case, it was abuse and unfair. Feyre (Rhysand and IC) forcefully dragged her back and imprisoned her when Nesta wanted a life far away from them. If she was being such a bother, Feyre could have just cut her off and let her come to her senses on her own, maybe have a suicide watch keeping their distance from her in case it was a genuine concern.

In Feyre’s case, there was no other way to stop her from running out of the manor without protection, running into dangers headfirst which she threatened Tamlin with. If anything, locking Feyre up doesn't essentially qualify as an abuse when she openly exhibited all signs of putting herself and others in danger, and it was called for.