Just A ____ Girl(?) Living In A ___ World

Feyre: oh my god I love you so much

Rhys: oh my god I love YOU so much

Azriel: we have to go find the Guy

Feyre: the Guy?

Cassian: oh shit yeah so we can get the thing

Feyre: the thing?

Rhys: war is coming. we just had a war but now there's another one brewing. and only the Guy can stop it. with the thing. but nobody's seen her in a bazillion years and she lives on top of a mountain made of pure Sharknado

Feyre: seriously?

Rhys: yes and now we have to dress up super-fancy and go the most lavish palace you've ever seen. it's a key part of the sixteen-point plan to get the thing

Mor: I have trauma

Feyre: I also have trauma

Nesta: I am the most interesting character in this series

Cassian: oh my god sooooooo much trauma

[meanwhile in Illyria]

Emerie: the author has some racial stereotyping stuff she really needs to unpack

[okay back to Velaris the city of Most Special Ever]

Elain: I am baking just in case you forgot I existed for a second :3

Lucien: sometimes I am here also

Rhys: is it time for a sex scene?

Nesta: after a collective vomiting break!

[everybody vomits]

Feyre: wow that was a reflection of our trauma! I just brutally killed the Guy actually because she double-crossed us!

Me: oh, just this couple that posts really sweet cosplay reels on Instagram. I don't even know half the characters they dress up as, but I'm hooked on their content

Sophia: cosplay is...fancy dress, isn't it?

Me: yep

Sophia: wait! She's wearing classical draperies and handing him a bow! I know that one!

Me: oh yeah, that's Penelope and Odysseus. I think a new movie version of the Odyssey just came out, so it's on everyone's minds

Sophia: couples still do fancy dress as the great lovers of literature? like they did at those masquerade balls that made the papers, when I was alive?

Me: apparently so!

Me: oh, just thinking how there aren't any lasting or celebrated stories about loves like mine. It wouldn't have been considered a good thing for a woman to show everlasting devotion to another woman exclusively, because you would be assumed to be single your whole life and everyone would constantly be trying to force you into marriage with a man

Sophia: constancy of love has always been a treasured virtue

Me: yes, but they didn't consider it love in that sense; they just considered it friendship

Sophia: it might be that sometimes they saw one and we took it for the other. Can you read those stories and pretend that the women in them feel as you feel?

Me: often, yes

Sophia: then perhaps they did, in spite of the authors' intentions

Sophia: ... also, my friend Estelle never married and frequently compared herself and her beloved Charlotte to Penelope and Odysseus regardless of gender

Me: were they separated for a very long time?

Sophia: she did this every time she had to go to the market and Charlotte stayed home

Are you in the Way?

Are you in the wAy?

Are you in the waY?