Okay, I know everyone in the anti Rhysand crowd loves to dump on Rhys about how he assaulted Feyre, how he never did anything to stop the wing clipping, etc... but those problems are already mentioned in the narrative(albeit portrayed in a very different light).

You know what ISN'T talked about? Illyrian child soldiers. Illyrian kids are forced to go into war camps at eight years old, they get whipped as encouragement, they have to participate in a bloody death tournament. All of this is only to give the bat boys sob backstories. And yet somehow, the fandom never talks about them half as much as the wing clippings. Like, we all know that Illyrian girls have no choice but to become housewives, and that it's terrible, but hey, at least Rhys acknowledges it's wrong, and is trying, ....well....sort of....(with dubious effectiveness...and effort...) to stop it. Let's talk about how Illyrian boys have no choice but to go into war camps, to become warriors even if they don't want to, and nobody ever acknowledges how fucked up this is in-universe.

The fact that Feyre said she couldn't remember if Rhys touched her or not in ACOMAF must have had alarm bells ringing in Tamlin and Lucien's heads because when Rhys drugged her and made her dance UTM they know (because Lucien talked to her after) THAT SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER ANY OF IT. 🚨🚨🚨

Rhysand having a 500 year old building torn down to force Nesta into rehab.

That's it. That's the post.

Illyrians sucks, their brutality suck and dare to call it culture.

Rhysand sucks for making Feyre bound her life with his, and right after get her pregnant.

He sucks for keeping SUCH a MASSIVE info about her boby.

They IC sucks for keeping it from Feyre.

Rhysand sucks for telling Tam to kill himself when he was the one who saved his ass.

Eris getting hate for stm Keir did to Mor.

Mor acting like a pick me bimbo party girl when the females of her court are suffering...

Amren is a power thirsty angry chihuahua.

Cas is ...the worst mate one could ever have. Enjoys hurting Nesta and doesn't care to defend her.

Men who locked their wives / female relatives in asylums because they were doing thing they (the men) didn't approve of.

And please do look at the list I'm going to put below of reasons of admission into asylums:

Notice the two in dark red?

The war

Like I said in that post, someone in that house cooked the meat she hunted, cleaned their house, did their laundry, etc. because she says she was out hunting pretty much all day (and any hunter will tell you that this is basically true). We know Papa Archeron probably didn’t do all that stuff. So it had to have been Nesta and Elain.

I feel like Feyre tried to devalue what they did due to internalized misogyny since those other jobs are traditionally feminine and hunting is “a man’s job”. Feyre is very much a “not like other girls” kind of person. She doesn’t want to be girly, she wants to hunt and fight and wear pants and be one of the guys. So she downplays the importance of housework.

Do you know how hard it is to do laundry by hand? Plus scrubbing floors, washing dishes, dusting, etc.

Just because it wasn’t hunting doesn’t mean it wasn’t difficult or important.

This is just another example of why Feyre is an unreliable narrator and nothing she says can be considered fact, because she wants to make herself look better than everyone else. She wants all the praise and focus on her.

She's precided over the CoN for centuries and hasn't done anything to change it or help the women and children being raped and abused. Her inaction is enabling the men of the Hewn City to beat and rape their women and children. In my opinion, Mor needs the CoN to maintain their cruelty so she can feel good about herself and maintain her status as the only "good" person to come out of there in the thousands of years that it's been around. If Mor would actually help the innocent women and children, then she wouldn't be able to claim to be the only victim of the CoN, and thus, she would lose her sense of self-importance.

Mor frequently sides with men against women to the detriment of women.

She's incredibly vicious towards Nesta for no good reason. I know Mor stans will use the excuse that Nesta is "mean" to Cassian to justify Mor's viciousness, but Cassian frequently insults and abuses Nesta, he disrespects her boundaries and harasses her, and he almost sexually assaulted her. Mor sides with the abusive man and belittles his female victim, to the point that she tells the victim that her abuser is a "good" man and that the victim doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. Mor then compares the abuse victim to her abusers while simultaneously praising the abusive man. Mor willfully helps lock Nesta up in the House with two men, one of which Nesta has repeatedly claimed to be uncomfortable around. She sees Nesta covered in bruises and doesn't even care to ask whether or not Cassian was abusing Nesta (which, according to Az, was a definite possibility). Mor told Nesta that they should have dumped her in the human lands to be hunted and killed. Mor also said that they should have dumped Nesta in the CoN, to what: be abused and raped? Mor is constantly siding with the men abusing Nesta to the, obvious, detriment of the woman. Even after Nesta was abducted at night by men (wearing nothing but her nightgown), tortured and violated in the Cauldron, it was Mor who got all handsy with Nesta's dress, not caring how that might re-traumatize Nesta, and then she played the victim because Nesta didn't want to wear Mor's dress. You would think a woman would have been more caring and considerate, but Mor only cares about herself and how she can tear women down to feel better about herself.

Feyre claims that Mor is like a sister to her, but Mor sided with Rhysand against Feyre to the detriment of Feyre. Mor was willing to withhold life-threatening information from Feyre - information that Feyre was entitled to, information that a true friend would have told her - even if it led to Feyre's death. Once again, Mor sided with men against a woman to the detriment of the woman.

ACOFAS, Chapter 21

Hmmmm... the woman I suspect is my mate is helpless, alone in the world, and entirely dependent on the goodwill of her sister/my High Lady and also my brother/my High Lord, who I know severely dislikes her. Shall I help her? Nah. I shall instead suggest that she do what I know she cannot.

The title Mother is soaked in blood.

Basically all the mothers we see are either dead or suffering, yeah? The act of being a mother, chosen or not, almost always leads to violence or suffering. There's an element of sacrifice to it, yes, but rarely is made willingly. Often these women are simply collateral to the desires and goals of the men around them. Cassian's mother, raped and worked to death, forced to carry a child she did not want, then forced to give him up by the men who inflicted him upon her. The Lady of Autumn, forced to carry son after son after son, for a man she never wanted to touch, bound to the birthing bed for as long as Beron willed it. The Lady of Night, tortured, beheaded, mutilated, her pride and joy taken as trophies to hang in the halls over her murderers, for the crime being at the right place, at the wrong time. There's a real sense of horror and violence embued into the role of mother, in acotar, and none escape it, not even Feyre.

All of this is compounded by the fact that textually, they are remembered almost exclusively by their suffering. None of them are given names, or speaking lines or any influence over their children beyond the second hand trauma they passed down. They are vectors of pain and grief. Motherhood is not beautiful in ACOTAR, it's an act of violence against the women it happens to.

@azrielappreciationweek

I know there are a few different ways to approach a prompt like this one — Azriel’s classical good looks, broody-bat charm, or often-discussed wingspan could easily do all the work for him instead of resorting to poetry. However, in what I imagine for his future love story, he won’t need to resort to poetry because he’s going to be the pursued instead of the pursuer. Nesta has already dubbed Azriel as Gwyn’s new ribbon & I think Gwyn is going to surprise Azriel with the same love, acceptance, and fierce loyalty shown to Nesta.

All that said, here’s Azriel on the receiving end of a surprise kiss from Gwyn after a casual stroll around Velaris. The spark in his chest might just explode after this one ✨