we mean well

It’s so tragic to see the dichotomy in one book of Nesta at her absolute best killing a fucking Asteri and then she goes HOME and … that …

They cant even treat one person who came to their court with some respect how are they gonna “unite the fey and humans” without looking down on them.

While I love Rhys and Feyre but SJM doesn’t handle politics in her books well. She bends it to whatever will be convenient to Feysand or the Night Court.

She constantly mentions how Rhys is the most powerful High Lord, but in the text it seems to me that Helion is. Even Rhys looks up to Helion and respects him. Power isn’t just raw power but also influence.

I wish Sarah didn’t make every political conflict/situation convenient for Feysand. Let there be consequences for each of their actions, that makes the story and the action much more compelling.

Now I know the romantic side of Acosf let everyone down.. and YES EVERYONE because let’s face it, it was shit. There’s was like 1% of romance out of it? But that’s a story for another day..

So we desperately needed to hold to our next ship but the worst that came out of ACOSF is actually all of these fandom wars.

Elriel and Elucien have been minding their own business for the past four years.. we never had any major issue between us. We love Elain, we love Azriel and we love Lucien. It’s a fucked up situation because the three of them deserve better. But we got along, we have open debates, good comebacks, we respected each other so far.

Everyone is entitled to ship, love, hate, dismiss, or do whatever you want with your opinion when it comes to fictional characters. But some of yall are straight up bullies and frankly quite childish.

Gwynriel you guys showed up out of fucking nowhere and mostly because you hate with passion Elain. Admit it, is the only reason you like the ship. Because explain to me why out of one or two interaction you decide to ship them but never paid the same attention to Mor and Emerie?

In fact.. I dont see Emerie getting the same love and support as Gwyn does. Why is that? Is it because of Azriel? Or is it because she’s white? Or is it because she’s not into women? But I’ll leave this conversation for another day because it needs to be addressed too.

Elriel are acting up because you guys started in the first place. We’ve been listening to all of your “I hate Elain, she’s useless, she’s boring, all she does is cooking, she’s this, she’s that.. blah blah”.. and we let it go because, fine, you’re entitled to your opinion.

But when you straight up bully people, start making up fake canons to support your claims, literally stalk other people feeds to push your point, and get angry when people dont agree with you.. then that’s when we have a problem.

You think I hate Gwyn because of Gwynriel? You think the reason I dont ship her with Az is because I hate her?

FUCKING NOOOOOOOO!!!

I freaking love Gwyn, and Emerie but you guys are seriously making me hate her same as you made me hate Rhysand when all the anti-nestas where going around!!!

This pedestal that you keep on your back to hold your fictional characters needs to stop.

I will ship whoever the fuck I want. And you go ahead and ship whoever the fuck you want. But what I won’t do is purposely go into a tag with a ship that I have no business going to drag people down just because we dont have the same opinion. I said “drag people down” not debate different perspectives. They’re are two different things.

I’m not gonna say Gwynriels are saints because I’ve also seen aweful comments coming from them in Tiktok. Both parts of the fandom have contributed to making the ACOTAR fandom a toxic environment and experience to everyone. But don’t come and blame it all on us, saying we started it because we hate Elain.

I know a lot of Gwynriels who love Elain and are waiting for her character to finally develop in her story, others that have come to dislike her for her actions in ACOSF and are rightfully and respectfully calling her out for them, and others that just don’t care about Elain at all and that’s okay. Not everyone has to like Elain or Gwyn (or Az!) if they don’t want to. Not everyone hates on Elriel solely because they hate Elain. Most of those who I know dislike Elriel have come to do so because of the behavior and bullying of toxic fans. Just as I imagine the same happens with Gwynriel.