Autumn Hares

The way he devalues the heroine and makes her feel small and worthless.

The way he cannot stand her being happy and confident without him.

The way he makes demeaning, offensive comments about her.

The way he ignores her misery and obviously thrives when she is weak and helpless.

The way he gets jealous and aggressive every time she looks at another man.

The way he tries to control her and speaks over her, not letting her make her own decisions.

The way he tries to blame her for his wrongdoings.

The way he leaves her alone in the state of obvious distress because he is too preoccupied with his bruised ego.

The way he resents her being more powerful and important than him and makes ugly scenes every time she doesn't pay him enough attention.

The way she feels guilty and ashamed and starts second-guessing herself when he is in a bad mood.

The way he guilt-trips her and manipulates her into feeling sorry for him.

The way he conditioned her to believe that her self-worth depends on him and her happiness is impossible without his presence.

The way he claims he only wants what's best for her, which makes his abuse even more insidious.

The way she never realizes what damage he's done and keeps doing to her because she believes she can trust him.

The way he gets everything he wants in the end: he is a rich, handsome, popular guy, and she is his nameless, quiet, unassuming, socially ostracized wife.

The way their relationship mimics a toxic, emotionally abusive relationship with eerie accuracy.

He is not evil in an appealing, sexy, fantasy-villain way. He doesn't need a big black cloak, shadow magic, or world-conquering ambitions. He is vile in the most mundane, suffocatingly mediocre sense of this world.

Happy Ides of March, folks!

I’ve been reading @snarkformysanity reviews on ACOTAR and it’s horrifying how much it makes no sense for Feyre to be illiterate with the reading comprehension of a 1st-2nd grader.

The reviews point out that Feyre was a noble until she was 11 years old and both Elain and Nesta got a perfectly fine education as neither of them seem to struggle whatsoever. The village that is supposedly so poor expects literacy enough to have a school for peasants. Feyre is only 1-3 years younger than her sisters and should have been taking lessons along side them.

The only explanation for her to be this behind at 19-20 years old would be her CHOOSING to avoid education. 11 years in nobility is enough time to be pretty fluent in reading because that’s just shy of starting middle school/junior high.

Also Feyre having misshapen letters? She’s an artist, how can she not draw very simple symbols? Writing is a motor skills thing.

Man, SJM was laying it on THICK trying to make Feyre this woe-is-me victim when all of her problems were extremely avoidable in the 8 years they were in poverty and before.

The reviews also really pointed out how SJM seems like she has a very poor understanding of poverty for the setting she’s trying to portray. The more I read the reviews and looked back at the book, Feyre really does come off as a rich girl who is terrible with money. If Feyre’s pov is to be taken as fact in book 1, the Archeron family should have been dead years ago. It is logically impossible for Feyre to be out hunting from sunrise to sunset and still do everything in the home if she really wants us to believe her sisters never did a damn thing.

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

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She likes action, but she doesn't put much thought into her action. She won't ask for or accept help when offered, but she is the one wronged when it turns out wrong. Like with reading. She was old enough, by the time they lost their money, that she should have been able to read. My head canon is that she was the type of student who hid during lesson time. Reading is boring! Lessons are boring! I make this assumption because she seems to know nothing about the world she was born into or its history. She's clueless about so much. And she never asks questions! Not the kind that would help. It was so frustrating being in her head. Be curious! Please!