me at 11: wow the elves have such a cool society! And it's neat how they helped humans with basically every slightly important to very important anything in history! The terrorism isnt fun though :(
Me now: *throwing things against the wall and pacing mid-rant*
EUGENICS! FUCKING EUGENICS! THE WHOLE 'WE DONT DISCRIMINATE' SPHEAL IS BULLSHIT! UTTER FUTHERMUCKERY! THEIR ENTIRE SYSTEM SETS UP THE COUNCILLORS TO BE DICTATORS, ANY SLIGHT SUGGESTION THAT YOU MIGH NOT VALUE LIFE AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE IS MET WITH INDIRECT THREATS, THEY TREAT THE OTHER SPECIES LIKE THEY DONT MATTER AS MUCH AND THEY HAVE NO APPRECIATION FOR THEIR CULTURES, THEIR ART IS ABYSMAL WITH THE INLY STYLE SEEMING TO BE REALISM AND HAVING NO ROOM FOR EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION IN THEIR MUSIC AND THEY NEVER SEEM TO READ OR WRITE ANHTHING FICTIONAL OR JUST FOR FUN! HOW IS THERE NO ELF SOCIAL MEDIA OR FANFICTION ANYTHING?? WHY IS THERE NO LONG DISTANCE MESSAGE SENDING METHOD OTHER THAN LETTERS????? ALSO DESPITE THE WHOLE FASHION EVERYTHING IS INCREADIBLY MALE CENTERED JUST LIKE MODERN HUMAN SOCIETIES THEY CLAIM TO BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN! THEY DONT EVEN HAVE GOOD EXCUSES LIKE HUMANS FOR WHY! THEY DONT DO ANY LARGE AMOUNT OF MANUAL LABOR SO THEY DONT HAVE A REASON FOR THAT DESCENT INTO GENDER DIVIDES, AS WELL AS THE CLOTHES! UP UNTIL SOMETIME A FEW HUNDRED YEARS AGO, DRESSES WERE FOR THE RICH AND SHIRTS AND PANTS WERE FOR THE WORKING CLASS/POOR! SO WHY DO THE ELVES HAVE THE GIRLS ALWAYS WEAR DRESSES OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL OR CERTAIN JOBS AND MEN ARE ALWAYS IN THE SAME SHIRTS AND LEGGINGS WITH SOME MILD VARIATIONS!!! EITHER EVERYONE WEARS DRESSES AND FLOOFY FUN CLOTHES TO FIRMAL EVENTS OR NOBODY DOES!!!!! ALSO! THEY HAVE A SERIOUS OVERSIGHT IN HOMOSEXUALITY! THE MATCHMAKING SYSTEM AND THEIR WHOLE SOCIETY EXPECTS YOU TO 'MATCH' HETEROSEXUALLY AND NEVER EVEN TESTS THE CONCEPT!!! THEY ALSO ARE ASSUMING YOU'LL HAVE KIDS IF YOU MATCH WITH SOMEONE OR ELSE ALL THE EUGENICS (BAD MATCHES BETWEEN TALENTLESS AND TALENTED) WOULDNT BE NECCICARRY!!! THEY CLAIM THAT THEYRE SO MUCH BETTER THAN HUMANS AND THEN ACTIVELY IGNORE MENTAL HEALTH ENTIRELY TO 'NOT CAUSE A SCANDAL' (Keefe Sencen was emotionally abused as a child even if not physically, and Fitz has some serious anger issues that could be helped with a multitude of human solutions involving a psychiatrist and/or a therapist, not to mention everything with Marellas mom Caprise), THEIR SYSTEMS FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN ARE HORRIBLE GIVEN EVERYTHING WITH WYLIE AND RAYNI SEPERATELY! THEY REFUSE TO MERCY KILL ANYONE BUT WILL WILLINGLY DOOM MANY TO AN INFINITY IN A PRISON FAR FROM ANYTHING FILLED WITH MADNESS AND BROKEN MINDS! THEY THINK THE MORE KIDS YOU HAVE THE LESS VALUABLE THEY ARE BECAUSE YOUR FIRST KIDS GOT ALL YOUR GOOD GENES! THEY TAKE CREDIT FOR EVERY ADVANCEMENT HUMANS HAVE MADE PAST THE STONE AGE!!!!!
ITS CONSIDERED NORMAL FOR KEEFE'S TEACHER TO HAVE A CRUSH ON HIM BECAUSE THEY LIVE FOREVER EVEN THOUGH SHES IN HER HUNDREDS AND HE WAS 14-15 AT THE TIME
THEY LIE, THEY DONT CONSISTENTLY FOLLOW REASONING FOR THEIR RESPECT FOR LIFE, THEY IGNORE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH AND FORGOTTEN CHILDREN IN FAVOR OF MAINTAINING THE IMAGE THAT EVERYTHING IS PERFECT, THEY REFUSE TO LEARN OF OTHER CULTURES I A RESPECTFUL MANNER, THEY ACTIVELY PRACTICE EUGENICS AND ASSUME COUPLES WILL PROCREATE AND BASE THEIR BIGOTRY UPON THAT, THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR HUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS OR ART IN ANY FORM, THEY DONT EVEN CONSIDER HOMOSEXUALITY AS AN OPTION OR A VALID CONCEPT, THEY ALLOW PEDOPHILIA IN THE IDEA THAT THE CHILDREN WILL BE IMMORTAL ADULTS SOMEDAY, THEIR ALLOWED GENDER EXPRESSION IS WORSE THAN MODERN HUMANS, AND THEY ALLOW THOSE IN POWER TO BE ALL POWERFUL UNTIL THEY CHOOSE NOT TO BE!!!!
Anyways anybody wanna go start a rebellion? We can be the humans or smth idgaf I just want their society changed
(btw I love the books and know the author is intentionally showing us the flaws in their society and she writes all the characters rally well! This is me thinking of the world as if it were real)
(edit: ignore the link to Scott's vampires pov that was an accident)