Sci-Fi Fangirl Blues

Humanizations of Caine and Moon

Two of them come from the ruling class, yet they all support it. Like, Cassian and Azriel, they're bastards, Amren... Yeah, I've not figured out to this day what's the deal with Amren, but she doesn't come from the same class as they do. And Feyre? Feyre grew up poor, so you'd expect her to see what the others can't.

I mean, these people talk about dreams and change and seem to consider themselves some revolutionaries, but they don't do anything except for upholding the same ruling class they claim to hate. Like, didn't Rhysand at some point basically say all his ancestors were greedy or evil or whatever? Doesn't Morrigan hate Hewn City because of the system that allowed her family to basically sell her into marriage? Cassian and Azriel, don't they hate Illyria (or some of it) because of the way they (and even Cassian's mother, in his case) were treated?

But they don't do anything about it. These people say so many times they don't like the system they have, but they don't try to change it. Does this system work in their advantage? Yes. Why? The reason is simple: Rhysand. Without Rhysand, Cassian and Azriel would still be bastards, and Morrigan wouldn't have escaped Hewn City.

It seems that from the moment Rhysand enters in someone's life, that person's empathy disappears completely. Morrigan, Azriel, Cassian and Feyre don't think for a moment to put themselves in the shoes of any other person outside of Velaris. They sympathise with their younger selves, but not with the people who are in the same positions as they once were.

No matter how injured. If a parent doesn't deem it necessary to see a doctor, it doesn't happen. Teachers can suggest a doctor visit, but unless it's a very acute injury (and even then), it's ultimately up to the parents.

You can be 13. Twisted, maybe broken ankle. You teacher lets you sit out in PE. She's concerned, and tells you to rest when you go home, and see a doctor. You get home, ur parents fill a bath and add some Epsom salts, and then laugh at you for using it moms old colorguard stick as a cane. Take some ibuprofen they say. It's just a little sprain, ur a kid.

You go to school the next day, go to ur office assistant time. Office calls ur mom to come get you, because you're clearly in too much pain for school. Your mom laughs when she gets you, says you just were so determined not to miss school. Scolds you for making the office ladies worry.

You never see a doctor for the injury.

Your parents come into the exam room at every visit. This does not stop with age, except for gynecologist. But your parents are on the medical release forms. They fill them out for you, with you. You do not get to take them off.

You never get to tell s doctor about the ankle. Even though it never quote healed right, and it hurts every day.

Then your 18. In college. Still on your parents insurance, and have no car. The on campus clinic only does std testing. You fall down some stairs. Same injury. You call your parents, crying from the pain. You are using a mop as a cane. They console you and say to have a bath, take some meds, and let them know how it feels in a few days. You end up borrowing your roommates rolling chair to get around for the weekend.

By Monday, you can walk again. You walk miles to class every day. You ask to see a doctor, but your parents won't drive the hour to come take you, and you don't have the insurance card. You are still at their mercy for medical care. The ankle tries to heal again. This time worse than before. The tendons click with every step.

Now you're in your twenties. Finally have your own healthcare. You see a doctor. You get to mention the ankle! They say it's been too long to really even know what was damaged. That you have arthritis now. It healed wrong but it can no longer be fixed.

The literal cofounder of queer theory as an academic field says that abandoning trans people is fascist logic.

The voices in our community trying to exclude us may be loud, but they are not right, and they do not speak for the community as a whole or our history or anything at all.

JENNIFER'S BODY

It also fits with Rhysand's powers as a mind manipulator, his abuse never leaves physical marks and is invisible and therefore not real. It is a pretty harmful view on abuse imo, to only view it as physical manifestation, be it malnutrition or wounds. It is repeated over and over again: lucien is abused bc he is seen wounded even though we never see how it happened, nesta is healed bc she is eating again, tamlin only registers as hurt in the narrative once he is physically thinner and unkempt.

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

choosing literally anyone ahead of her

shouting at her in public to the point that people crossed the street

forcing her to hike until she collapsed from exhaustion

you get her as far away as possible, you fly as fast as you can and claim sanctuary to protect her

if you truly loved your mate - and that bond is said to be the most sacred of all - you'd never serve a high lord who threatened to kill her again

but the hike was never intended to be a way of getting away from rhys - the hike was always a punishment to please the high lord you worship and the final step in breaking down your mate