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could you maybe (under a cut) quickly explain what happens at the end of acofas? I'm really not planning to read any more of sjm's writing but i wanna know all the tea lmao

Alright, so I posted the excerpts a while back but I’ll just explain it so you don’t have to read it. This is the teaser/epilogue for the next book, which is clearly going to be some sort of N*ssian thing. Cassian comes to Nesta’s house to bring her to Feyre and Rhys. He points out that he can smell the scents of other males in her room (which is… yeah). We swap to Nesta’s perspective as she arrives at Feyre and Rhys’ home. She notes there are portraits, painted by Feyre, of all the other characters except her. She comes into the room where the entire Inner Circle is gathered. Amren slut-shames her really nastily and Rhys acts very aggressive towards her. Feyre straight up tells her she doesn’t want her in Velaris anymore. Nesta refuses to go but Feyre says she doesn’t have a choice. It’s revealed at the very end that Cassian is taking her with him to the Illyrian camps. It’s important to note that Nesta seriously dislikes Cassian and wants nothing to do with them, and that the Illyrian camps are places notorious for their disrespect and abuse of women, so it’s really just the worst idea Feyre could ever come up with. 

#fuck feyre i hate that bitch. #its not like i like nesta but this is vile.

[aelinphobic]

“soul bonded” and “mates” are such a lazy fucking plot device honestly

like

its so grossly done too.

“youre my mate if you dont marry me right now i’ll kill myself”

dISGUSTING

#why develop relationships when you can do this

[aelinphobic]

cool enjoy the book without tagging this as anti sjm

I refuse to let anyone ruin my excitement for the last ToG book 

#listen i dont care if you dont like the books #stay in your tags and have fun

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stop excusing an author’s blanketed racism or homophobia by using the line, “but look at _____, there’s barely any poc or lgbt characters in there.” two wrongs do not make a right. authors need to include minorities into their books. even if it’s a fantasy land with faeries and powerful beings, there are still going to be people with black skin, brown skin, olive skin, etc. a fantasy world is no excuse for exclusion of different skin colors and sexualities.

representation is incredibly important. and we don’t want the last minute token gay man who is a static character with no purpose other than to satisfy the people. that doesn’t cut it. it is not fucking hard to have more than 2 people of color or 1 lgbt character in your book.

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im izzy

hey anti friends,

i know some of your names but not all of them, so if you feel comfortable doing so, would you reblog this and add your name to the post itself so i know what to call you? mine is Kat

kay bye 👋🏻✌🏻👊🏻

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Rhy/sand 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 feminist

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t**fs found my blog.

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“i read t*g/ac*tar for the cute romance” to all the boys i’ve loved before outsold 

#anti sjm #anti tog #anti acotar

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“she didn’t mean to hurt your feelings” “she didn’t know any better” “it’s not that bad” “if you read the books” “nehemia dies but she’s SO badass!!” “emrys and malakai” “mor is gay or bi!!”

every time a sjm stan makes a post telling us why we shouldnt “hate” on her (with the same 5 bulletpoints as all other posts of its type) i lose an entire decade off of my life and the anti in me rises again

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while we are here please don’t call sjm a terf. terfs are actually dangerous and hurt trans women on purpose, they know what they’re doing. while transphobia in sjm’s books shouldn’t be excused, she’s most likely not a terf. 

#anti sjm #i've seen people calling her a terf and #words mean things #please don't use terf at any given opportunity #terfs are actually dangerous like you really have no idea of what they can do

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sjm stans: hating sjm's books is misogynistc

also sjm stans: sure riceman drugged and tortured feyruh but it's not that deep

FYI: I never said this. stop taking what i say out of context. I literally never said this and i know it's about me because you are saying it after reblogging me

this wasn't about you it was about @sublime-elusive-enraptured i have no problem saying it

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i’m sorry that you have anxiety but using your anxiety to guilt trip people who don’t agree with you is not good (i have severe anxiety and depression so i know what i’m talking about), also this isn’t especifically about you. every person that comments in our tag says it’s misogynistic and it isn’t. sjm has hurt us on a personal level and i find it awful to say that what we are doing is misogynistic because it’s not an attack on her being a woman but about the hurtful and triggering (psycological meaning) she writes.

you’re literal trash stop pulling the misogynistic card when practically all of us who hate sjm’s books are women, mostly woc and gay and bi women. 

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Not on topic but, the icon you used for hyunjin is so cute, she's so adorable 💓💓💓 u hate s//j//m and stan loona, we love iconic bloggers with good taste🎉🎉🎉

I LOVE HYUNJIN SHE'S THE CUTEST and thank you so much i thought i was the only sarah jamás anti and loona stan out there

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hating white women for being privileged is not misogynistic HSJAGSSJDHDH

Sigh.

I guess Sarah J. Maas is the new Stephanie Meyer. Everyone hated Meyer for writing smutty vampire fiction. Now everyone hates SJM for writing smutty fae fiction. 

Both SJM’s series are being adapted to either TV or the big screen. Once this gets big, I can’t imagine how the anti-SJM people will rip her apart… 

I don’t even think her books are perfect. What book series is??? I don’t know why a white, cis author is required to have diversity. I get that it’s 2018 and more and more authors are becoming educated on diversity, but I never expected SJM to write my experience. And the botched attempt at including diversity in ACOWAR is because people were sending effing threats to her for not being inclusive enough. Instead of “writing what she knows” she tried to appease everyone and people still aren’t happy. Trying to please an entire readership is hard and the anti-SJM crowd have an impossible standard they expect SJM to live up to. Why are we asking a white, cis, rich author to be the spokesperson for diversity??? Rather than hating her, elevate diverse stories. MOST OF YOU DON’T EVEN DO THAT. Most of you don’t even speak Tomi Adeymi’s or Dhonielle Clayton’s or name. Most of you don’t even bother with Sabaa Tahir or Renee Ahdieh. Why? Because ya’ll think it’s cool to hate white people now. It’s no surprise that SJM has a large appeal with Americans, the UK, and Australia. Why? Because it’s a Euro-centric fantasy… White Americans, the British, and Aussies feel close to home with Eurocentric fairytales. I’d rather an author not include diversity than have an awkward attempt at it because you guys screamed at her to write outside her comfort zone. Seriously. 

Not to mention, The Mortal Instruments is arguably “problematic”, the movie bombed, and the TV show is worse yet… Cassandra Clare doesn’t get nearly the same level of hate. Why? Because Malec. Because Clare has Magnus and Alec, she can do no wrong whatsoever. I see so little difference in SJM and Cassandra Clare as far as “issues” go. The men in TMI were aggressive and verbally and emotionally abusive and there was an INCEST plot line. Clary was willing to put her life on hold for a guy…………. like Bella was with Edward. I don’t understand the double standard. Cassandra Clare can write whatever she wants but SJM can’t? 

You don’t have to like her books but I hear more people saying they don’t like her books more than actually promoting diverse stories. It’s completely counter productive. 

How about leave well enough alone.

Not to mention, some of ya’ll blatantly lied about the content of these books. I almost stopped reading SJM and then when I read some things IN CONTEXT, I realized people were trying to be offended on purpose and then told all their friends something was problematic that wasn’t and make all their friends hate SJM. That’s so immature. 

And hating other women, is quite frankly, unfeminist. 

Constructive criticism. Calling out. Speaking your mind. Fine. 

But threats? Lying? Attacking. Yeah. Sh*t like that makes me stay away from “problematic” culture so I read whatever I want. Yes, there are teenagers reading her books but many people are in their twenties and up. You can’t tell grown ass women we can’t read what we want to read. There’s a whole “problematic” section of books called erotica that women have been reading for YEARS. How come no one is perusing the erotica section and telling grown women not to read those books??? (To be fair, ACOTAR is very New Adult…….. sure, we can talk about the content of the material another time) 

Anyway  I just can’t take the anti-SJM cause very seriously. I’m 26 and SJM is, what, 33? I’m not going to make fun of another woman 5 years my senior. I’m not a girl. I’m not a child. I’m not in middle school. Because that’s what that is. That’s what bullying is.  There are SO many books that make me cringe. There are authors that I side-eye. But you know what? I move on. If they aren’t willing to change, that’s on them.  Trying to “take down” female authors is pretty messed up. So few male authors who write worse female characters don’t get nearly as much sh*t. I find it strange that this side of “feminist” book movement spends all their energy attacking women rather than speaking up against the patriarchy in the publishing world and in America in general (or elsewhere).

H i p o c r i s y at it’s finest. 

Edit: 

Saying someone can’t read Sarah J. Maas books and still enjoy 100% more diverse books is like saying, Liking the Lord of the Rings is automatically racist…. I, as a POC, can say, “I like LOTR.” I can even say, “I want to watch the reboot of LOTR on Amazon even though I don’t expect it to be diverse in any sense of the word” and almost no one would care. <<< FYI I have no interest in a LOTR reboot. But you know what? The same voice attacking SJM, aren’t saying crap about the Euro-centric, heteronormative, LOTR reboot taking place in more “woke” times.

I know the “times” are different so people expect literature to be more advanced and diverse, but… honestly? There are so few types of fantasy to be inspired by that I don’t expect a white author to break ground on writing diversity. Secondly, A Game of Thrones may have been written in the nineties but the TV SHOW IS STILL EURO-CENTRIC AND ALL THE BROWN PEOPLE ARE SLAVES OR SERVANTS. GOT was written by a male and he still isn’t getting as much crap as SJM. All I’m saying is that nothing comes without criticism, but damn ya’ll hate white women the most, which to me is misogynistic AF because there are many current male fantasy and sci-writers who write worse things and write less diversely and who don’t get any sh*t for it. And sure, some of those things were written way back when. But they are getting REBOOTED by MALE directors and producers AS WE SPEAK and no one seems to care as much. smh.

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riceman personality: powerful, sexy and doesnt think women should die for existing 

#GAGSGDGFS HE IS SO BAD #anti rhysand #anti sjm #anti acotar

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Am I the only one who feels like sj/m did A.mren dirty? She was one of the most powerful creatures in Pry.thian and now she’s just a basic High Fae. But guess who are considered the most powerful now…that’s right F and R.

#imagine being so inscure about your own characters you do others dirty so they're the most powerful #pathetic

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me, a bi woman: i'm tired of how sjm portrays bisexuality, it's based on stereotypes and overall badly written. not to mention, the treatment of a fellow wlw like mor was awful.

stans: shut up she's trying and getting better! you're so selfish, the cishet woman is the actual victim

#anti sjm