I see people excited that Tamlin's not going to get a happy ending because abusers don't deserve it, but why doesn't SJM and this fandom extend that logic to all the other abusers SJM writes? There's Aelin, Rowan, Manon, Rhysand, Feyre, Cassian, Az, Amren, Mor, Ruhn, Lidia, and I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting about. Why is Tamlin the only one who doesn't deserve a happy ending? Why is his abuse unforgivable, whereas the other's abuse are labeled "mistakes?"
I also see people say that Tamlin and Nesta deserve to suffer. Okay...but why only them? Rhysand has caused 99% of his court to suffer for centuries; he's caused people across Prythian to suffer for centuries, especially during Amarantha's reign, so why doesn't he deserve to suffer? Feyre's destroyed the lives of thousands of innocent people across the Spring Court, Summer Court, Night Court, and human lands, yet she can just forgive herself rather than suffer? Cassian can mass slaughter an entire village, displace innocent women, children, and elderly from their homes, yet he's not allowed to suffer? Amren is rude, disrespectful, cruel, abusive, and racist to everybody, yet she's submissive to Rhysand, ergo she doesn't deserve to suffer?
I could go on, but the double standards that SJM holds her characters to bleeds into this fandom to the point that people will absolve characters of crimes far worse than what Tamlin and Nesta have done while simultaneously saying Nesta and Tamlin don't deserve forgiveness or happiness, and that they deserve to suffer...and it makes no sense.