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Honestly you antis are something else. Rhysand is NOT ABUSIVE. You read ACOMAF, yes? Tamlin never really cared for Feyre, he just used her to free him from his curse. And then he hurt Feyre over and over while claiming it was to âprotectâ her. Yeah, no. But Rhysand actually cares for Feyre. He only hurt her as a last resort, because he had to protect her and Velaris. And Rhys always takes time to consider her feelings, like in ACOSF he didnât tell Feyre 1/2
2/2 because he wanted her to be happy. Rhys knew that telling Feyre she could die in childbirth would make her depressed. Rhysand has ALWAYS looked out for Feyre and her feelings, and he actually respects her as a person.
Idk why SJM stans feel the need to bring up Tamlin when we talk about rhysand. We know heâs abusive, we just also acknowledge that just because rhysand doesnât abuse feyre the way Tamlin did doesnât mean he isnât also abusive. Pretty much everything that happened with rhysand and feyre utm couldâve been avoided had rhysand talked to feyre about everything instead of resorting to violence.
Part of the reason I do vehemently dislike her work is because SJM consistently redeems abusers and allows them to get away with their actions so long as theyâre hot and ârespectâ their love interests. Rhysand ârespectingâ (though thatâs debatableâ Feyre doesnât mean heâs a good person and you shouldnât applaud someone for doing the bare minimum. Him being ârespectfulâ or whatever doesnât make him a good love interest.
âSometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the wave washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.â
â The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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I love that Albedo asks you if thereâs anything that sets you apart physically from humans in Teyvat and that Traveller just straight up doesnât tell him that they used to have wings. I think thatâs something he would consider conversation worthy
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i drew alina because last month the promo pics made me rly excited but i didnât finish it until now lol
also feel like itâs weird to post my art on here especially when itâs not related to my usual fandoms so if you want to see more follow me on instagram my @ is vgracoart :)
âCome with us,â Emerie offered, eyes lined with silver.
Nesta shook her head. âConsider it the repayment of a debt.â
A tear slipped down Emerieâs cheek. âFor what?â
âFor being my friends. Even when I didnât deserve it.â
Emerieâs face crumpled. âThere is no debt, Nesta.â
But Nesta smiled softly. âThere is. Let me pay it.â
This really is the worst possible reasoning for Nesta staying behind, isn't it? It somehow manages to completely undermine both the friendship between Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie and Nesta's development. Because this isn't her selflessly sacrificing herself for her friends. It's her going "I'm such a terrible person that for anyone to put up with me is a great gift/sacrifice on their part and I need to repay that debt by sacrificing myself for them." And even though Emerie initially disagrees, she ends up doing what Nesta wants in the end, which reaffirms that Nesta is right.
It's really a shame, because up until then, I actually like the idea of Nesta staying behind to allow the other two to win. It felt refreshing. For once, it's not the protagonist going on while the others stay back to make it possible, but the other way around. And I actually like Emerie winning the Blood Rite better than Nesta winning because Emerie is Illyrian.
But the reasoning just ruins it all, and in my opinion, it was completely unnecessary. Here's what it should have been: Gwyn is badly injured, therefore, she can't be in a combat situation because she would likely die. That means either Nesta or Emerie need to get her out, while the other remains behind to hold off the people following them. (With that, the option of them all remaining is out of the game - one needs to stay, two need to go, or Gwyn will die.) So, it's Nesta or Emerie. They both want to stay, both want the other to take Gwyn and go. And Nesta'd reasoning is not "I owe you a debt for putting up with me", it's "You go win for all the other Illyrian women who were clipped like you were, for all the Illyrian women who were told they were lesser, to show them, show everyone, that they are not." Because Emerie - an Illyrian woman who got clipped, who is actually from the society that does the blood rite and being oppressed by it - is far, far more powerful a message than Nesta as a High Fae woman winning an Illyrian competition (which would have been problematic considering the entire High Fae/Illyrians dynamic).

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â[The Valkyries were] A clan of female warriors from another territory. They were better fighters than the Illyrians, even. The Valkyrie name was just a title, thoughâthey werenât a race like the Illyrians. They hailed from every type of Fae, usually recruited from birth or early childhood. They had three stages of training: Novice, Blade, and finally Valkyrie. To become one was the highest honor in their land. Their territory is gone now, subsumed into others.â
âAnd the Valkyries are gone, too?â
âYes.â Gwyn sighed. âValkyries existed for millennia. But the Warâthe one five hundred years agoâwiped out most of them, and the few survivors were elderly enough to quickly fade into old age and die afterward. From the shame, legend claims. They let themselves die, rather than face the shame of their lost battle and surviving when their sisters had not.â
okay. one. novice/blade/valkyrie are 3 out of 4 of the part names. great. guess nesta is gonna become a valkyrie smh.
two. âlegend claimsâ no, if this was 500 years ago it should NOT be legend bc 500 years is within living memory for MANY fae. in fact, a large amount of the fae in this series were around back then. ONE OF THEM should remember.
three. ohhhhh the unfortunate implications of this. let us remember what The WarTM 500 years ago was about (stopping the enslavement of humans), and which side lost (the side that wanted to own humans as slaves), so if the valkyries let themselves die out of shame over losing in the warâŠmaybe we should take a minute to consider exactly what that implies about which side of the war they fought on. and maybe we should Not Fucking Have nesta & gwyn & emerie become valkyries bc holy shit the tone deafness. and also, this makes me incredibly suspicious of merrillâs interest in the valkyries. like if itâs just writing the info down,,,, sure, but kindly do not fangirl over them.
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sjm: so thereâs this group of female warriors who fought on behalf of human slavery⊠letâs ignore that because #feminism
also, time to note that cas wanted to help the valkyries + casâs previous lover was one of the valkyries who died in that war đ
Theyâre floating around the idea of Rhys become High King of PrythianâŠÂ
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like I think itâs very interesting that the IC is suggesting that Rhys use the magic blades that Nesta forged and imbued with her power to become High King when heâs been the one whoâs viewed her as a monster and treated her horribly all this time. The sheer irony, the sheer hate for women in power. gross.
I was just wondering why you thought that Mor was a lesbian in cannon. I get why you could see it that way as she acted uncomfortable after sleeping with Helion but she does say that she gets pleasure from sleeping with men. I'm not trying to start anything I just wanted to get your opinion on it.
so from what i recall, she doesnât get uncomfortable after having sex with men (which she only does to make assriel leave her alone), she looks downright nauseous and like she canât feel at home in her own skin. i canât find the exact passage (i donât own the ac0tar novels), but there is no canonical evidence in ac0war to support the idea that mor enjoys having sex with a man.Â
(emphasis only exists to exemplify what iâm saying, not bc iâm irritated with you, anon! just wanna make that clear.)
i mean, this is seriously simplifying why mor would find âpleasureâ while sleeping with men, but be attracted to women: thatâs why dildos exist. and fingers. and vibrators. and any other kind of sex toy that can take the place of a man if youâre not into men but like penetrative sex.Â
what sj/m apparently fails to realize is that sex is about more than anatomy; more than peen into vagina. you have to be attracted to the person youâre with, trust the person youâre with, and if you canât even look the person in the face (as seems likely with mor) youâre not enjoying the sex. itâs a hard distinction to describe, but basically, just bc mor finds pleasure in sex with men, itâs not bc itâs a man sheâs having sex with. the reason sheâs so nauseous afterward is bc she had sex with a man, who she was not attracted to. it was more compulsory.Â
plus, to put it simply, sj/m canât seem to fathom the idea that a woman might not enjoy having sex with a man, so she just left morâs sexuality so kludgy itâs difficult to pin down. thus, we have to pick apart the evidence we have and look at it objectively. and, objectively, it appears that mor is a lesbian.Â
âHave you ever loved him? That way?âÂ
âNo.â She wrapped her arms around herself. âNo. I donât ⊠You see âŠâÂ
Iâd never seen her at such a loss for words. She closed her eyes, fingers digging into her skin. âI canât love him like that.âÂ
âWhy?âÂ
âBecause I prefer females.âÂ
For a heartbeat, only silence rippled through me. âButâyou sleep with males. You slept with Helion âŠâ And had looked terrible the next day. Tortured and not at all sated.
Not just because of Azriel, but ⊠because it wasnât what she wanted.Â
âI do find pleasure in them. In both.â Her hands were shaking so fiercely that she gripped herself even tighter. âBut Iâve known, since I was little more than a child, that I prefer females. That Iâm ⊠attracted to them more over males. That I connect with them, care for them more on that soul-deep level. But at the Hewn City ⊠All they care about is breeding their bloodlines, making alliances through marriage. Someone like me ⊠If I were to marry where my heart desired, there would be no offspring. My fatherâs bloodline would have ended with meâŠâ
The passage IS confusing, so I can see why some people might classify Mor as bi, but as a bi chick⊠look. She says she âcanâtâ love Azriel that way. She says that if she married who she wanted, âthere would be no offspringâ and âher fatherâs bloodline would have ended with [Mor].â
That more than implies that given the choice she wouldnât sleep with a guy ever, but enjoys penetrative sex. Since the author appears to have never considered the idea of a strap-on or how wlw sex actually works, Mor is relegated to still getting sexual pleasure from a penis with bonus eye-rolling because of course itâs only the woman abused by men who is the lesbian. I thought we killed this trope, yâall?
(Also if her father puts such stock in bloodlines and his would have ended with her it makes literally no sense to throw her out and leave her tortured to (presumably) death, but thatâs not the point here)
plus, even if she did marry a woman, that doesnât mean that Mor could never have children if she wanted to?
and as an aside, wtf is the line âFor a heartbeat, only silence rippled through meâ
yâknow, now that we have more than one example of sj///m being âinclusiveâ by writing in wlw, it makes it clear that same sex relationships arenât exactly commonly open, meaning itâs unlikely that same sex relationships are accepted in either world. at least, not for women, since sj///mâs narrators very rarely (i canât think of any moment, actually) react this same way about mlm.Â
also, great to see how sj///m thinks the way to be inclusive and an âallyâ is by making a female character confess under duress (or close to it) that sheâs gay and for her narrator to fucking gape like the female character just said her favorite pastime is licking sweaty armpits.Â
now that weâre here and itâs 4am hereâs some paintings that make me go absolutely bonkers
In The Kitchen by Helena Janecic, Untitled by Daniel Gerhartz, Compassion by Daniel Gergartz, Lâabandon (Les deux amies) by Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec
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Ajshsjdks these paintings are so beautiful I am in awe

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Just popping in to answer a quick editing question re:Â âwhen do I capitalize things in my narrative???? help me I am capitalizing everything??â
If youâre writing epic fantasy, the temptation to name everything with a fancy name like Soulbreaker, The Rolling Pin of Destiny, can be overwhelming. You want it to read like an epic of a bygone age, you want it to sound grand and magical. What often happens is you wind up with a muddled narrative, too many unpronounceable names thatâd make Tchaikovsky roll his eyes, and the dialogue and narrative flow equivalent of a clogged toilet.
Which is not to say you canât have fancy names for things, just yâknow, be wise about when and how you use them.
The question I got was particularly pertaining to describing the rooms of a castle. âDo I call it the Great Hall, or the great hall?â
Well the way I work that kind of thing out, is to remind myself that the majority of castles have a great hall. So capitalizing it is a bit like thinking of your living room as The Living Room. See, how odd that looks? Same with âcastleâ in general, you donât need to capitalize castle whenever you type it. if you are naming it by itâs proper name, then yes, but if say, your character glances up at it or tells someone âgo to the castle, quickly!â it doesnât need to be capitalized. If they say âgo to Castle Plinth, quickly!â it does.Â
Itâs noun vs proper noun, or to put it another way, a type of building vs the specific building in question that has a formal name.
Titles are a little more tricky, especially with Lord this and Lady that and a whole host of etiquette rules, but a common trick is to think of it in terms of, is it a title? or a descriptor?
Vlad is a viscount (descriptor), but heâs also the Viscount of Castle Eyrie (title + formal name= capitalization).Â
You also shouldnât capitalize species. Human isnât typically capitalized, so donât write âthe Elfâ or âthe Vampireâ. They are âthe elfâ and âthe vampireâ. If however you are referring to them as a specific group withing said species, theyâd be the High Elf or High Vampire.Â
Think dog (noun descriptor) vs German Shepherd (proper noun of a specific type of dog).Â
Same with regions. Capitalize region descriptors. If your region is called something like âWoodlandâ youâd still refer to them as âthe elfâ, but if you are referring to them in reference to the region where they come from, they are âthe Woodlanderâ or âthe Woodlander elfâ. (and if you get confused, always, always think of it in real world settings. The woman is a woman, but she is from America so she is American, or the American woman.â)
Is this making sense? I hope itâs making sense. Iâm running on about two hours sleep so I may read this again tomorrow and cringe. But these are some of the most common mistakes people make when writing fantasy.
So yes, by all means call your weapon Soulbreaker, The Rolling Pin of Destiny, but be aware you can just as easily say âKevinthcksy smacked him hard about the head with his rolling pin.â It imparts the same meaning, just a little more impactful and swift. Which incidentally, is exactly what you want in a weaponized rolling pin.
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