pro peace and quiet

Theory based on nothing but vibes: we WILL see clearly how not being able to be with their mate will make a male erratic and drive him to madness, but it's not gonna be Mr. "I don't always come to the city to see my mate" it's gonna be Mr. "What if the Cauldron was wrong?"

friendly reminder that nesta would fucking MURDER azriel if he played with her sisters feelings and fucked her, like antis claim will happen, just to jump to her sexually traumatized best friend

being 100% serious when I say that I think what everyone needs to live by is that the longest relationship you’ll ever have is with yourself

All these antis coming out after their rereads and suddenly saying, “Well Elriel is obvious!” Sorry but this is something you only noticed after your 527616484th reread???? Just tell me you’re backtracking without telling me you’re backtracking.

people will criticize works for being heavy-handed and yet when you see how a lot of people experience these works, one can only conclude they're not too heavy-handed enough.

I am constantly seeing people trying to puzzle out what's "ruining books" and it makes me more and more tired. Read a different book. You have more choice in reading material than at any other point in all of history. No one thing can be ruining ALL of them.

every day of my life i read someone being like “why doesn’t this story just solve the problem immediately and casually? they just drag it out and make it an issue” well. because that’s the Story

to be honest i think there’s a large number of people who conflate the very real and widespread phenomenon that women tend to be written off as just mothers or love interests in order to diminish their importance in a given story with the fact that a huge reason they’re sent to narrative purgatory in this way is BECAUSE the labels of “mother” and “girlfriend/wife” are systematically devalued and seen as inherently inferior because they’re terms that have been associated with ownership and/or control over women. like the amount of people who’ve told me that a certain female character is uninteresting or badly written because she happened to have a kid or be a man’s girlfriend or sister just to find out she was actually fleshed out very well and carried significant narrative importance frustrates me soo bad. there’s a huge problem with how those roles (specifically “wife” and “mother”) are systematically devalued and yet also perpetuated as the only viable options for women to achieve their societal roles in the patriarchy but acknowledging the devaluation of those labels to begin with is an important discussion in itself.