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ACOTAR 6 spoilers 😉

or instead of thinking for themselves, they would rather rely on someone with a big following because obviously, OBVIOUSLY, rather than forming your OWN interpretations and opinions, some would rather just believe one narrative to be true just because

it gets to a point, to be honest…

people offline tend to understand the narrative more because they are actually engaged in reading instead of engaging in whatever herd mentality certain communities groom online. LOL.

Agreed anon.

This is why when I recommend ACOTAR to people I tell them to avoid the online fandom until after they finish reading all of the books. This allows them to go in without bias and form their own thoughts/opinions (without certain loud and wrong individuals breathing down their neck).

I personally don’t understand why people think booktok influencers or people with large followings have any authority when it comes to these books. Some of them have a track record of being wrong so there’s no reason to think they know better than the average reader.

These books are very simple to understand. People don’t need to read them a hundred times to understand the author’s intent or what direction she’s going with the story. It’s like she said. It’s obvious.

vassa is a firebird and firebirds are similar to phoenix. the phoenix is associated with the sun god.

and while flying in her firebird form vassa is vibrant like "molten metal", just like lucien's hair when his temper rises and his power gets a little activation. and his remaining eye molten ore when in the territort of the autumn court.

gwyn's hair also shone like "molten metal" in the bonus chapter when she asked "do you sing" without a light source mention. like lucien when his temper turned into power.

Besides the fact that the sunshine association makes Elain a plant…Lucien is never associated with sunshine.

Direct call out to the fire of Lucien and how Feyre cringes at the thought of it with Elain.

Lucien and Vassa directly connected and getting the Feyre patented title. This was also right after the Helion father reveal and he’s still connected to fire, not sunshine.

Same with this. In the same moment it’s talked about Helion being his father, it’s still stated that fire is his gift.

Besides, what is a better use of a Lucien parent retcon? So SJM could make a vague word association to sunshine (that doesn’t even happen as we can see) or so Lucien can have spell cleaving powers and go after a woman under a spell?

What happened to "put your money where your mouth is", huh? Was the budget short for the week you had to dust off old art?

Oh did Holly tell you that? 🤣

Maybe instead of defending Yaz for doing something disrespectful, you should try calling out shitty behavior for once.

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

Okay then why did you erase part of an artist’s work? 🤔

Oh right because the entire art piece doesn’t fit your narrative does it?

This is disrespectful to artists. Don’t paint over or alter art people.

EDIT: Here is the entire art piece