Isabelle

Everybody’s talking about brands and stores you’ve never seen in real life. You generally assume they exist, but they might as well be one giant prank the rest of the internet is in on.

You find a post that just sounds wrong. It makes no sense. It’s like OP lives in a weird alternate reality. 9/10 times, it’s just some USAmerican Thing.

You’re still not entirely sure how much an inch is. Or a foot. Or even how many of the former there are in the latter. You maybe know your height in feet and inches.

You have no idea how much a pound is. You’d also like to know how the fuck pound shortens to lbs.

What the fuck is “military time”

Somebody talks about some legal process or something similar. They don’t mention which country’s legal system this pertains to. You know anyway.

People talk about politics. None of it pertains to you. Many posts contain guilt tripping. “How can you not care about this?? Why won’t you reblog this?? People need to know this about x candidate for y position!” You’re busy trying to stay on top of the political landscape in your own country.

You pick up some random slang from the internet. Monkey see monkey do. You’re called racist. You didn’t know it was AAVE. You learnt it from black letters on white background, not from the mouths of people whose faces you could see. How would you have known? You try to unlearn it.

People tell you that you must publicly denounce Chick-fil-A or you’re homophobic. You don’t even know what a Chick-fil-A is.

People say you don’t know LGBTQ+ history. What they mean is you don’t know USAmerican LGBTQ+ history. Nobody cares about your country’s history.

You’re “called out” on using an “offensive” term. It’s (a direct translation of) a completely harmless word where you live.

People expect you to have an idea of how far apart 2 USAmerican states are. You barely know geography past your country’s immediate neighbors.

You randomly switch between British and American spellings. Nothing’s real and there are no rules.

People talk about multiple hour car rides and you get twitchy just thinking about it. You suddenly understand why USAmerican cars are so big.

Somebody talks about school shooting drills. You only ever had fire alarm drills.

You see a cool statistic. The study’s only about the US. It’s unfortunately of no use to you.

People misuse/misspell words and names from your native language. It’s tiring.

(You feel sorry for the French. Nobody should be allowed to mangle the word déjà vu like that.)

You’re still not over the fact that USAmerican school children are supposed to say that pledge thing every morning. You’re never getting over that.

You still don’t know why the men are fresh or what the fuck a sophomore is.

Who the fuck pays up first and then fills up gas??? That’s made up, right??

Everybody has a weird obsession with some comfort food you’d never even heard of before you signed up here.

Moreover people are getting excited about all these remakes of old cartoons you’ve never heard of much less seen

You still don’t get how people can eat that stuff for breakfast

And you still don’t know how people can afford all that takeout when usually that means doubling the price

You have no idea how to calculate a tip. When are you supposed to tip, anyway?

You know more about the general layout of a typical USAmerican high school than the one you went to

It wasn’t that long ago that you realised that ‘cheer leading’ isn’t the leader of the cheering group, but the actual term for the sport itself

You see a cool survey. It’s USA only.

You see a cool competition or raffle. It’s USA only.

You see a cool movie/series that’s supposed to be on Netflix. It’s USA only.

You see a cool movie/series. It’s on Hulu/HBO/Prime.

You see a cool movie/series. It won’t be released on a platform you have access to, or in your country, for another 6 months.

People will guilt you for not “supporting the writer” of said movie or show.

A friend links you a song on YouTube/Spotify. It’s not available in your country (unless you’re using a VPN).

Your own Netflix has a 1/10 of the content and most of it is shitty old documentaries you have no interest in. You’ve seen it all already.

People keep talking about 1 day shipping??

And then they complain if it takes a few days to arrive? Honey, I order my Halloween stuff in August out of necessity.

Especially because local stores don’t sell Halloween things.

And even then it’s like, $70 in shipping

And Halloween is only something you celebrate in your own home. You’ve never carved a pumpkin, never gone trick-or-treating. You think hayriding is when you slide down a hill on a bale of hay and try not to fall off. 

You’ve been shamed by Uncle Roger who says you should get a rice cooker but they’re nearly $100

You ask your friends what you should have for dinner and they hit you with a dozen really good ideas, all of which either include an ingredient you don’t have access to, or a crock pot.

You’d have a lot more fandom related stuff like shirts and figures and posters, if they were actually physically sold anywhere near you and you didn’t have to order it online and pay $70 in shipping and wait a month and a half for it to (maybe) arrive and suddenly you’re not a ‘real fan’.

You can name more USAmerican states than municipalities/counties/provinces in your own country because USAmericans always tell you which state they’re from rather than just the country itself, even in international chats.

You know the difference between cloths/clothes, breath/breathe and there/their/they’re and you can’t fathom how it’s possible to so consistently make those errors in one’s native tongue

You keep seeing all those neat promotional stuff and exclusives like those plastic cups you get at the movies with your favourite comic book character on them and you know that you’ll never see one with your own eyes

ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU CAN BUY IRON MAN PASTA?? Like, pasta, but in the shape of arc reactors and Iron Man helmets???

Coffee Shop AUs are one of your fave fic tropes even though you’ve never been to one

You shudder at the idea of washing your underwear in a public washing machine.

While you’re having a heatstroke you’re being told that that’s not hot? THIS IS HOT. IT’S SO HOT THE STREETS ARE MELTING. WE LIVE IN A LITERAL DESERT.

You get multiple annoyed/confused comments from Americans, assuming that you were writing about the USA and complaining that you’ve misrepresented it.

Next time you make a post about a your-country specific issue, you make sure to mention the country, give some basic cultural context and possibly even include explanations in brackets for certain concepts.

Also:- trying to explain your parents why people kill each other because of their race like some animals

- trying to explain how racism works and the american history of it because they are horrified people are being killed because of their skin colour

- trying to make your parents/family not say certain things because they might be considered homophobic or racist.

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”  

So because I always search for these kinds of playlist posts when I am super deep in the fandom of something and I listen to a lot of songs that really remind me of the ToG series I thought I’d try to make one myself lol (Some songs may double if I feelk like they fit multiple Characters) If I wrote the Booktitles after the Songtitle it means that I thought of a specific scene when listening to the song so yeee…also feel free to message me with songs that I could add cause I really wish I could find some more for Rowan, Lysandra, Aedion, Elide etc.

(Click on the headers to get to the Spotify playlists!)

ACOTAR Playlist

ToG in General

Game of Survival - Ruelle (QoS, EoS)

Dead of Night - Ruelle (QoS)

Secrets and Lies - Ruelle

Hero - Ruelle

Monsters - Ruelle (QoS, EoS)

Madness - Ruelle

Home - AURORA (QoS)

Recover - Ruelle

Kings and Queens and Vagabonds - Ellem

Take it all - Ruelle (QoS, EoS)

Up in Flames - Ruelle (QoS, EoS)

Battlefield - SVARCINA (QoS, EoS)

Tomorrow We Fight - SVRCINA

Ready Aim Fire - Imagine Dragons (QoS, EoS, KoA I guess)

Heroes - Zayde Wolf

Warriors - Imagine Dragons

Heathens - Twenty One Pilots

Immortals - Fall Out Boy

Gold - Imagine Dragons

Mars - Sleeping at Last

Who We Are - Imagine Dragons

Atlas - Coldplay

Fleurie - Hurricane

This Ship Is Going Down - Xeah (QoS - KoA I guess)

Empires - Ruelle (QoS - KoA I guess)

Sound Off The Sirens - Sam Tinnesz (QoS - KoA I guess)

Heart of the Darkness - Sam Tinnesz

Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde

Wolves - Sam Tinnesz ft. Silverberg

Breathe - Fleurie (EoS)

This is the Hunt - Ruelle (CoM, HoF, QoS, EoS)

Unstoppable - The Score

Live Like Legends - Ruelle

Kings - Tribe Society

Glory and Gore - Lorde (EoS)

Waves of Gray - Ruelle (EoS, KoA)

The Downfall - Ruelle (EoS - KoA)

Revolution- Unsecret ft. Ruelle (QoS - KoA)

United - Hidden Citizens (KoA I guess)

Devil in me - Halsey (literally fits almost every character)

North - Sleeping at last

Torches - x ambassadors

Fire Meets Fate - Ruelle (End of CoM - EoS)

When It’s All Over - RAIGN (EoS)

Silhouette - Aquilo (QoS-KoA)

Between The Wars - Allman Brown (QoS-KoA)

Wicked - Tommee Profitt (QoS - KoA)

Feel That Fire - Tommee Profitt (EoS - KoA)

Can’t Hold Us Down - Tommee Profitt 

One Eye Open - Tommee Profitt 

Do You Hear The People Sing - Les Misérables 

Rise - Leage of Legends (HoF - KoA)

Here We Stand - Hidden Citizens (EoS - KoA)

Onward & Upward - Tommee Profitt (EoS - KoA)

Noble Blood - Tommee Profitt

Undone - Tommee Profitt (QoS - KoA)

Sound of War - Tommee Profitt

Celaena/Aelin

Runnin’ - Adam Lambert (HoF,QoS)

Warrior - AURORA

Runaway - AURORA

Rival - Ruelle

Revolution - Diplo

Revolution - The Score

Born Ready - Zayde Wolf

Champion - Barns Courtney

Street Fight - Adam Jensen

Beekeeper - Keaton Henson (Assassins Blade, ToG)

Little Pistol - Mother Mother (Assassins Blade)

Monster - Beth Crowley

Battle Cry - Imagine Dragons

Kill Everyone - Hollywood Undead (Assassins Blade)

Another Way Out - Hollywood Undead (Assassins Blade)

Glory and Gore - Lorde (Assassins Blade)

Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons

Look what you made me do - Taylor Swift

Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde

A Little Wicked - Valerie Broussard

The Hate Inside - Sam Tinnesz

Play With Fire - Sam Tinnesz

Battle Cry - Beth Crowley

Will I Make It Out Alive - Jessie Early

Legends Are Made - Sam Tinnesz

My Domain - SVRCINA

These Roots - Grey

I’m Not Afraid - Wondra (espescially Assassins Blade)

Paint It, Black - Ciara (Assassins Blade)

When The Sun Goes Down - Laney Jones

Devil Devil - MILCK (to Arobynn)

The Devil Within - Digital Daggers (to Arobynn)

No More Heroes - Aviators

Castle - Halsey

Gasoline - Halsey

Invincible - Ruelle (EoS)

Hold Your Breath - Ruelle (EoS)

Until We Go Down - Ruelle (QoS - KoA)

Natural - Imagine Dragons

You Should See Me In A Crown - Billie Eilish

This Is My World - Esterly (QoS - KoA)

Ember - Katherine McNamara (toward Arobynn, The King)

New Blood - Zayde Wolf (QoS-KoA)

Glitter and Gold - Barns Courtney

I Apologize - Five Finger Death Punch (HoF)

Watch me - The Phantoms (QoS - EoS)

Silent Running - Hidden Citizens (HoF - KoA)

Survivor - 2WEI (HoF - KoA)

Far From Home - Sam Tinnesz

The Heart of the Raven - Mono Inc. (Celaenas farewell to Nehemia)

Risk It All - Mono Inc. (HoF - KoA)

Here I Am - Tommee Profitt

Gloria Regali - Tommee Profitt

Dorian

Bad Dream - Ruelle (QoS)

Dead of Night - Ruelle (QoS)

Deep End - Ruelle (QoS)

Hollow - Cloudeater (QoS)

Control - Halsey (QoS)

Monster - Starset (QoS)

Man or Monster - Sam Tinnesz ft. Zayde Wolf (QoS)

Bad Man - Esterly ft. Austin Jenckes (Hof,QoS also kinda EoS)

Run Boy Run - Woodkid

King - Lauren Aquilina

Lonely - Yoe Mase

Brother - Kodaline (BCS HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH CHAOL OH GOD)

Crossfire - Stephen

The Driver - Bastille

This Is My World - Esterly (EoS-KoA)

Silent Running - Hidden Citizens (EoS-KoA)

I Apologize - Five Finger Death Punch (EoS)

Survivor - 2WEI (EoS)

Risk It All - Mono Inc.

Here I Am - Tommee Profitt (EoS - KoA)

Gloria Regali - Tommee Profitt

Chaol

Bad Dream - Ruelle (HoF,QoS)

Crossfire - Stephen

We must be Killers - Mikky Ekko

Shattered - Trading Yesterday (ToD)

I’ll Be Good - James Young (ToD)

The Downfall - Ruelle (EoS, QoS)

The Draw - Bastille

Infinitesimal - Mother Mother

All The Kings Horses - Karmina

The Driver - Bastille

Lonely - Yoe Mase

Same Mistake-James Blunt

Nothing Left - Beth Crowley (End of CoM)

You’re Somebody Else - Flora Cash (to Aelin End of CoM, QoS)

Brohter - Kodaline (AGAIN BCS DORIAN)

Breaking Inside - Shinedown

Who Are You, Really? - Mikky Ekko (end of CoM - QoS)

Wrong Side of Heaven - Five Finger Death Punch (HoF)

I Apologize - Five Finger Death Punch (HoF - QoS)

Risk It All - Mono Inc. (HoF, QoS)

No One’s Here To Sleep - Naughty Boy

Deep End - Ruelle (HoF, QoS)

Manon

Whose side are you on - Ruelle (EoS)

Battle Cry - Beth Crowley (EoS)

A Little Wicked - Valerie Broussard (HoF, QoS)

The Downfall - Ruelle (EoS)

Running With The Wolves - AURORA

Monster - Beth Crowley

Go To War - Nothing More

Battle Cry - Imagine Dragons

What I’ve Done - Linkin Park

Monster - Starset

Man or Monster - Sam Tinnesz ft. Zayde Wolf

I’m Not Afraid - Wondra

No More Heroes - Aviators

My Domain - SVRCINA

Two Evils - Bastille

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Natural - Imagine Dragons

This Is My World - Esterly (EoS)

Ember - Katherine McNamara (EoS)

New Blood - Zayde Wolf (EoS)

Watch Me - The Phantoms

Glitter and Gold - Barns Courtney

Ready Set Let’s Go - Sam Tinnesz (EoS)

You Should See Me In A Crown - Billie Eilish

Wrong Side of Heaven - Five Finger Death Punch (EoS)

I Apologize - Five Finger Death Punch (EoS)

Risk It All - Mono Inc. (EoS)

No One’s Here To Sleep - Naughty Boy

Here I Am - Tommee Profitt

Witching Hour - Tommee Profitt (EoS)

Aedion

Meet me on the Battlefield - SVRCINA

Warriors - Imagine Dragons

Believer - Imagine Dragons

Thunder - Imagine Dragons

Control - Halsey

Today We Rise - Galavant 

Iron - Woodkid (THIS FITS SO WELL I WANT TO CRAWL MY EYES OUT)

Soldier - Fleurie

Casualty - Hidden Citizens

Natural - Imagine Dragons

This Is My World - Esterly

I Apologize - Five Finger Death Punch

Wrong Side of Heaven - Five Finger Death Punch

Far From Home - Sam Tinnesz

Risk It All - Mono Inc. (HoF)

Winter’s Song - Tommee Profitt (Bcs of his loyality to Aelin)

Others

Meet me on the Battlefield - SVRCINA (Elide)

Blame - Bastille (Arobynn)

Something Wild - Lindsey Stirling (Elide)

Unbreakable - Nick Howard (Elide)

These Roots - Grey (Elide)

I know your secrets - Tommee Profitt (Lysandra/Celaena toward Arobynn

The Devil Within - Digital Daggers (Lysandra/Celaena toward Arobynn)

Welcome To Hell - Mono Inc. (Lysandra/Celaena toward Arobynn)

My Domain - SVRCINA (Lysandra)

Team - Lorde (Aelins Court)

The ones that like me - Brantley Gilbert (Gavriel)

Two Evils - Bastille

Ships  (All Ships)

Rowaelin

Bring me back to life - Extreme Music 

Lover.Fighter. - SVARCINA 

Wildfire - Seafret 

Beautiful Mess - Kristian Kostov

Find You - Ruelle (end of EoS, KoA I guess)

Warrior - Beth Crowley 

Carry You - Ruelle

Pieces - Red

Even if it Hurts - Sam Tinnesz

Wicked Game - Ursine Vulpine  

Remembering myself - Stephen (HoF)

Burning Heart - SVRCINA (HoF)

Brave - Riley Pearce

Hold on for your Life - Tommee Profitt (EoS/KoA)

Winter’s Song - Tommee Profitt

Remembrance - Tommee Profitt

Chaolaena

Walk Through The Fire - Zayde Wolf ft. Ruelle (CoM)

Remembering myself - Stephen (CoM)

The Scientist - Coldplay

Let Her Go - Passenger 

Sorry - Halsey

Better now - Etham (after CoM)

The Other Side - Ruelle (after CoM)

Wicked Game - Ursine Vulpine   

Talk - Kodaline

Dynasty - MIIA

Tearing us Apart - Honora 

Already Gone - Sleeping at Last

Celorian

Let it die - Starset

Young God - Halsey 

I can’t make you love me - Dave Thomas Junior (ToG, CoM)

Wicked Game - Ursine Vulpine    

Sam X Celaena

Dark on me - Starset

Die for you - Starset 

Hymn For The Missing - Red 

So I thought - Flyleaf

Still here - Digital Daggers

Hold My Girl - George Ezra

Chaol X Yrene

Pieces - Red

Even if it Hurts - Sam Tinnesz 

Fix You - Coldplay 

My Demons Acoustic - Starset

Dusk Till Dawn - Zayn ft. Sia 

Next to me - Imagine Dragons 

Carry You - Ruelle

Wicked Game - Ursine Vulpine

Weight - Crywolf   

Remembering myself - Stephen   

I Found - Amber Run

Can You Hold Me - NF

Smokestacks - Layla

Brave - Riley Pearce

Hold My Girl - George Ezra 

Heal - Tom Odell

Winter’s Song - Tommee Profitt

Remembrance - Tommee Profitt

Dorian X Sorsha

Another Love - Tom Odell 

Saturn - Sleeping at last 

Weight - Crywolf

Hurts like Hell - Fleurie

Wicked Game - Ursine Vulpine    

Carry You - Ruelle

Can You Hold Me - NF

Hold My Girl - George Ezra

Heal - Tom Odell

Where’s My Love - SYML

In My Veins - Andrew Belle

Manorian

Dixie Boy - April Smith

Play me like a violin - Stephen

Come Fly With Me - Ruelle

Wicked Game - Ursine Vulpine  

I Found - Amber Run

War of Hearts - Ruelle 

bury a friend - Billie Eilish

Midnight Oil - Tommee Profitt

Other Ships

Brother - Kodaline (Dorian and Chaols friendship lol, also Aedion and Aelins friendship)

Talk - Kodaline (Dorian and Chaols Friendship in CoM, HoF)

Unsteady - x ambassadors (Lysaedion)

Weight - Crywolf (Elide x Lorcan)

This gets updated regularly! ~ Last Updated: April 14th 2019

What do you need?

This is why you are not exempt from statements about “all men” even if you are overall good.

You benefit from the bar constantly being lowered by systemic issues within the gender.

Only 50.8% percent of reported raped result in an arrest. When an arrest is made, there's an 80% chance of prosecution. When prosecuted, there is only a 58% chance of conviction, and out of those only 69% see a day in jail. Only 16.3% of reported rapists ever see a day in jail. It's estimated that 60% of rapes go unreported, meaning that currently only around 6% of rapists ever face any jail time under our current system

38.4% of murders did not result in any criminal charges in 2017. Out of the 61.6% of murders that result in criminal charges only 70% result in convictions, meaning that only 43% (less than half!) of all murderers in the US recieve any jail time.

This isn't even accounting for the fact that most criminals are not dealt life sentences, and therefore are going to be released eventually with little to no rehabilitation anyways! The people you are scared of are not in jail, they are already living among you

This brief breakdown is not even going into the fact that due to how flawed our criminal justice system is, many of the people arrested for violent crimes are not the bloodthirsty criminals pro-prison propoganda would like you to believe! Look at cases like Cyntoia Brown, a girl who at age 16 was given a life sentence for murdering a man who she was trafficked to and was threatening to kill her. How about the fact that since 1973 there's been 167 people who were on death row that were found to be innocent and were being imprisoned under false pretenses. Or this list of people executed in the U.S. who were later found to very likely innocent. Due to systemic racism false and unjust sentencing disproportionately affects people of color, especially black individuals.

Even the supposed front line of defence to protect us from the rapists, abusers, and murderers that you fear are the very people you're scared of. An estimated 40% of the police force has been accused of domestic abuse, and out of those that have been arrested (which is VERY low) over half keep their jobs. Over 400 police officers were charged with rape between 2005 and 2013, over half of which were assaults on children, a number that's estimated to be somewhere between ridiculously and mind bogglingly lower than the actual amount of police rapes due to many factors, including low reporting, unwillingness to investigate fellow police officers, and many departments unwillingness to release any data they have on crimes committed by their officers. There were 1099 recorded murders by police officers in the year 2019, 99% of which led to no convictions. These are the people that we are supposed to trust to find the rapists, abusers, and murders among us, but they themselves are doing it at higher rates and with lower accountability.

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