Progress not perfection

Did he force her into a deal by twisting her injured arm?

Worse.

Did he kiss her without consent?

Worse.

Did he tell her to her face that no one liked her?

Worse.

Did he have sex with her in the middle of the war, surrounded by dead bodies? Or did he have sex with her after she’d peed herself out of fear in the swamp?

Worse.

Did he think things would never go beyond the times he masturbated thinking of her? Or did he belittle her attempts to be more active in the IC? Or did he decide who was good for her and who wasn't? Oh, I know! Did he treat her like a porcelain doll and a trophy, even though she herself said she wasn't a child for people to fight over?

Worse.

So what did he do?

A terrible, sickening thing 😓he had to admit to himself that his mate is just as beautiful (or even more so) as the only woman who treated him with the slightest bit of kindness before being brutally murdered by his own family.

What I hate is that Nesta summarizes her trauma as drinking, sleeping around, and becoming a wretch. In Nesta's own book, she never tells a single soul of the physical and emotional abuse she endured at the hands of her grandmamma. She never tells anyone about Tomas attempting to rape her, or about being sexually assaulted by the kelpie. She barely talks about the torture inside the Cauldron as she was turned High Fae. She never tells anyone of her terror of bathtubs afterward, or how she overcame that trauma on her own. She barely mentions her discomfort around fires, but yet it was still a trauma she overcame on her own.

Everyone; omg she’s such a badass!

Feyre; traps the suriel even though it’s actually really difficult

Everyone: what like it’s hard?

Feyre: spends only a short time training to fight properly and learning how to fly

Everyone: omg she’s so amazing and so badass and powerful

Nesta, gwyn, and emerie: won the blood rite after months of training with the best warriors ever and working together. All fae.

Everyone: it just doesn’t seem believable that they could win.

She destroys an entire court on the cusp of war and is shocked that 1) Her actions had disastrous consequences for the people of Spring, and 2) Her actions benefitted the enemy.

an heir, something to have of rhysand

“Yesterday, we had been ourselves — open and friendly and caring.”

… At the meeting :

Feyre and Rhysand picking a fight with Tamlin

Rhysand using mind control to silence Tamlin

Azriel physically attacking Eris

Feyre arrogantly implying they could use mind control on the High Lords

that ridiculous justification for stealing from Summer

Cassian verbally attacking Beron

Feyre attacking Beron

Feyre literally burning Eris and the Lady of Autumn

Seriously, what is wrong with this girl? Does she have some kind of cognitive issue? I’m telling you, she creates these fanfics in her own head and fully believes them.

Night Court: Is infamous for its tyranny and debauchery, and also for having the Most Powerful Daemati High Lord Ever as its lord

Night Court: The High Lord willingly serves Amarantha (Hybern's general) for no apparent reason other than to save his own skin (because no one else knows about the secret city he sacrificed the rest of his court to save, after all)

Night Court: High Lord publicly abuses a human girl for months Under the Mountain, in front of all the other High Lords

Night Court: High Lord kidnaps said girl from her wedding to the Spring Lord, she later turns up married to Night with an explanation that definitely doesn't involve mind-control

Night Court: Approaches Summer on the pretext of forging an alliance, betrays and robs them instead

Night Court: Sends formerly human girl as a double-agent to break the Spring Court from within

Night Court: Somehow Just Knew about an imminent attack on the Summer Court, despite no one else getting word. And they definitely don't try to leverage this as capital against their previous offences against Summer

Night Court: Tries to change the time and location of the High Lord meeting at the last minute and strongarm everyone into agreeing to it

Night Court: Causes immediate insult to every other High Lord present at said meeting by insisting they bow to its Lady, because the Night Lord thinks she deserves it

Night Court: Immediately starts talking shit to the other lords about Spring, who has yet to arrive

Night Court: Immediately starts drama with Spring, once he does arrive. Uses magic to choke him quiet when he says things they don't like

Night Court: Refuse to admit responsibility for betraying and stealing from Summer, using their aid in the attack to deflect from it

Night Court: Dodges questions about murdered Winter children and deflects with a sob story when pressed. A former human woman must apologise on their behalf

Night Court: Violently attacks delegates from the Autumn Court not once, not twice, but three times over the course of the proceedings

Night Court: "So, who wants to be our allies?"

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................and then six out of seven fucking hands go up.