Throne of Glass and ACOTAR

Etherialki: 

Materialki:

Genya:

King’s guard, perchance?

Nikolai:

Time to go raid Area 51!

Hang on, this isn't Area 51. I think I've ended up at some sort of global climate change protest.

Well, here I am 99% less likely to be shot, and this event is more likely to actually achieve something.

Thank you for giving us characters:

Who  have periods

Who have flashbacks

Who have nightmares

Who have intimacy issues

Who have physical disabilities

Who try to be happy despite trauma but don’t always succeed and that’s okay

Who have periods

Who have non-stigmatized, non-abusive sexual encounters with loving partners

Who have healthy sexual encounters even after sexual trauma

Who have to come to terms with the blurred lines of abuse over time rather than “just knowing”

Who fall out of love

Who have multiple relationships in their lifetimes

Who take time to get over a serious relationship before being able to jump into a new one

Who have to train and work in order to be fit and in shape

Who have a complicated relationship with their families

Who make mistakes, even mistakes that negatively affect the lives of innocent people, but who still try to be good

Who are badass women

Feyre and Rhys on their way to the Court of Nightmares. I sketched this up in early April when I first got my Cintiq and never posted it here for some reason… I want to paint too many Feysands. Someone help me!

@acotarnet event 12: international women’s history month
 ↳ ladies of acotar

Lucien has a choice to how to treat Elain.

Either like the father who raised him. Force his mate to marry him and into a life she doesn’t want.

Or

Kaz:

Inej:

Wylan:

Jesper:

Nina:

Matthias:

Kuwei Yul-Bo:

Jan van Eck:

Pekka Rollins:

Rowan: that cant be true-

Aedion: watch this

Aedion: hey Aelin! Race you downstairs!

Azriel: What bro?

Cassian: Tell the whole world we’re bros.

Azriel: *whispers* we’re bros.

Cassian: Why’d you whisper bro?

Azriel: Because you’re my whole world bro.

What I like about Nesta, is that she hides her insecurities so well and she does not want people to know just how vulnerable she really is and how much she truly feels. She hides her pain, her feelings behind ice and thorns. And behind ‘I don’t care’.

Anyone who looks carefully at Nesta, who knows what its like to have to hide that part of themselves, know where Nesta is coming from.

Her “I don’t care.” is my “I’m fine.”

She was raised in a home where warmth was secondary. She had wealth, until it was taken away. She had her family, but her family was not close. I think Nesta might resemble her mother most. And (I could be wrong) but I got such a fairly ‘cold’ vibe when Feyre talked about her mother before her mother’s death.

Nesta is the oldest, she probably remembers her mother the best (outside her father) and her mother was taken from her. As someone who lost her mother, a mother who wasn’t exactly warm, it takes something from you. That death and that lack of warmth. It gives you barriers that you dont want anyone breaking. And you put up this front, to show you are ‘fine’ and that you do not care how people or events affect you.

Nesta doesn’t know how to handle people who see her truly. Or people who show genuine feelings about her or for her. Her gut instinct is to say ‘i don’t care’ when it comes to the insults placed against her. Whether it be something said to her, or something done against her.

She shows up at the manor house, or rather dragged there by Cassian, under Feyre’s orders. Nesta takes note of all the paintings in the house. All these paintings made by Feyre and there is not. A single. One of. Nesta.

Her dad, a useless man who felt sorry for himself who sat on his ass and let his family starve and lose their fortune for years, just staring at a fire and making stupid wood carvings, got a painting. Him and Elain.

Mor got paintings, Cassian, Azriel, Rhys, everyone. But Nesta.

And her reaction? 

“I don’t care.”

Elain treated Feyre just as bad as Nesta. Maybe she wasn’t outright as vicious in words, but she let Feyre go out and hunt, she let Feyre skin the animals and take care of everyone and get them money. And like Nesta, Elain had no problem spending the money.

Elains PTSD made her this soft thing that needs protected or what fucking ever. “Elain is Elain’ is the biggest fucking bullshit excuse in regards to how Rhys views the treatment of Feyre.

Feyre’s PTSD was horrible, yes. She was wasting away and depressed and that is awful. Yes.

But Nesta’s PTSD? It made her spiteful, and cruel and she shows these so blatantly aggressive symptoms where shes basically killing herself and because its not the soft and sweet pretty PTSD that Feyre or Elain had, people keep their distance. No one is looking beneath the surface to see just how much this woman is suffering.

Nesta is prideful and hates sycophantic people. It’s been said so often how much she hates these people. And where is she now? Her pride is in ruins, she was living off money her sister gave her. She was living in the fucking slums and is now self medicating because she feels nothing. This prideful woman who would never take handouts, is doing that now and no one seems to understand just how much she is self destructing to do something like this. 

Cassian: Let’s do “get help”

Azriel: I am NOT doing get help.

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