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✨ Makes me feel like a Dangerous Woman ✨

Not exactly true. To ship Nesta with all these characters her fans end up changing everything about her to fit which male they want her to cater to. Saying it’s easier to ship her with everyone because she has a “consistently written character” and then taking that character and reworking everything about it to fit whichever ship you want her to be in, is very very silly.

For example, her relationship with Eris. Nothing about that ship fits who Nesta is in canon or her “consistent writing”. To make that ship work you have to undo all the growth she worked her ass off to achieve in Acosf and push her back into the box her mother groomed her to fit in. To ship Nesta with Eris is to ignore who she actually is and instead focus on who her mother forced her to become. That has nothing to do with her canon writing.

A lot of toxic Nesta fans are completely blind about her character.

The reason Nesta can be shipped with all these different characters is because her fans are notorious for stripping her of any personality trait they don’t like and inserting the ones they do like. Other characters like Feyre and Elain (who were mentioned in the post) aren’t too “male centered”. Nesta’s fans are the ones who are male centered and can’t rest until they feel she has the the validation and desire of every man in this series.

Plenty of fans ship Feyre and Elain with males not their mates.

I don't think their personalities need to be altered for any of these to happen, though I do admit some fans do a lot of self projection onto all three sisters, but especially Elain because her character has the least amount of development as of Silver Flames (hopefully the next book fixes that!).

Basically the less fleshed out a character is, the easier it is for the fans to project onto said character; and because Elain was once human Made Fae, she fulfills a lot of fantasies some readers have.

Whether or not someone likes crackships wasn’t really the topic of discussion. And Nesta’s personality definitely does need to be altered to ship her with a man who tried to literally buy her and asked her brother in law to sell her to him. You think Nesta in canon would end up with a man who treated her like she was less than a person and more like an object to be sold to the highest bidder?

@morweekofficial DAY 1: GOLD!! Decided to start the week off with a collage of things I associate with Mor, with a gold-leaning theme - including a thread for her future mate, because she deserves one 💛

As I’ve said before I don’t think a lot of people actually care about hewn city or Illyrians for that matter, these two plot lines are just an easy way to shit on rhys/the ic and so they run with them. Or how they say rhys is the cause for how the CoN is run or why the Illyrians hate high fae, however there is no truth to this statement. Rhys’s ancestors were the ones who decided to isolate the bad people of velaris society into the hewn city, and his predecessors did nothing for the Illyrians because they simply did not care about a species of lesser fae.

Rhys cannot fix what his ancestors did, he can only try to establish a better system. And he has tried to do just this with the Illyrians. He’s changed the inheritance laws for Illyrian women and has gave them rights to their own wings. He has also hunted down males who have preformed a wingclipping. It’s important to remember that the disrespect the Illyrians have for rhys does not root from him being a “bad high lord” but only because he’s high fae and he has fought for change within the Illyrian culture to better it. He himself is Illyrian of course he’d want a better future for them. I think Rhys is correct in not using his daemati powers to “fix” the Illyrians. Firstly, he would never be able to hold that much magic over that many people and even if he could, he wouldn’t be able to do it for a long period of time. Secondly, magic will not fix a backwards society in the long run. The only proper way to handle the situation is to establish laws and try to show the people that their way of thinking/behaving is not necessarily correct. Change indeed does take time.

Hewn city is completely different. We’ve had no actual evidence that anyone there is good at heart, while with the Illyrians we’ve had multiple instances where we see not all of them think in that same wrong way. The people of CoN are bad, we’ve had no insight into them being anything else. We only got Keir saying his people wanted to shop in velaris, but does that make them good? I’d still say no. Plus, we still saw in this scene and in others how the people of CoN truly believe and act. Mor being a dreamer in the court of nightmares is her story, not her fathers, not her mothers, not some other persons. Mor is the exception not the rule.

Personally, I think hewn city/CoN was never meant to be a plot line further developed beyond what it currently is😭. It’s only meant to be a form of conflict for the protagonists and a backstory for Mor. If we ever get more on the CoN it will be through a morrigan plotline though, and even then I still believe it will be more along the lines of how growing up in that place affected her.

I do think we will get an Illyrian plot line in the upcoming books, there has been far more buildup to that and evidence of the Illyrian people being good.

She loves unconditionally. Truly and absolutely unconditionally.

Feyre with Rhys: Loves him with all his past, understands him and makes sure he’s loved when he drops his several masks in front of her.

Feyre with Nesta: Loves her sister, is there for her sister even knowing that her sister apparently despised her. She cares for her well-being, she defends her at every turn.

Feyre with Elain: Makes sure that Elain is happy and has the time and space to do as she loves. She knew that when Elain finally came out of her stupor and finally started being herself (baking cookies with Nuala) she had to give her time. She had to give her sister her own time and made sure that when Elain was finally ready to approach her, she would be welcoming.

Feyre with Cassian: She truly loves and adores him. She opens up to him and he opens up to her. She knows that physical touch is something he loves, so she makes sure she bumps his wing, holds on tight when he gives her bear hugs (and when she gives them back).

Feyre with Mor: loves and encourages Mor to be herself. Even when Mor fights with her mate or sister, she still shows compassion and understanding to Mor.

Feyre with Az: Understands his darkness and quietness, his very worldly thoughts (when he first flew her, when he taught her to fly, when they went to save her sister together). Listens to him, respects him. She understands his humour and shows her concern for him every time he sets out to do something dangerous.

Feyre with Amren: Shows her love for amren the only way she knows Amren will understand and accept it. Respect (and blood of course). She listens to her counsel, respects her opinion and laughs herself hoarse with Amren when they almost drown to their deaths.

Pro-SJM’s plot, intent, and main characters.

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