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@night-courts-shadowsinger Rhys never sexually assaulted Feyre wtf
Violent Foundations
An Excerpt from The Tragedy of Feyre Archeron: Decentering Female Trauma to Garner Sympathy for a Male
Feyre’s relationship with her canonical endgame, Rhysand, is one constantly painted in a romantic light that intentionally attempts to blind the reader to the innate violence that surrounds the pair. With every gifted crown, gown, and house, Maas tries her hardest to cover up the horrifying foundations Feysand, their fandom ship name, was built upon.
Exhibit A
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | Ch. 37
Torture: Rhysand twisting Feyre’s exposed bone.
Is when someone in an official capacity: Rhysand as Amarantha’s second puts him in a position of power. The fact that he can even be in her cell for definite amounts of time, freely interacting with her, says enough.
Inflicts severe mental or physical pain or suffering on somebody else: Mental pain and suffering aside, Rhsyand inflicts physical violence on Feyre. Her vision blacked out due to how severe the pain of her bone being twisted, several times, were.
For a specific purpose: Rhysand is torturing Feyre in order to get her to accept a bargain: two weeks spent in the Night Court, the court Rhysand is High Lord of, in exchange for her arm to be healed from the injury she sustained completing her first trial.
The bargain scene, for all intents and purposes, fits the definition of torture; all conditions are met with individuals that match.
Exhibit B
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Her trials aside, a majority of Feyre’s time Under the Mountain is spent non-consensually dancing in a sexual manner. It starts with Rhysand sending two shadow wraiths to take Feyre her cell, strip her naked, and paint her. They then proceed to dress her in two sheer panels of gossamer, ignore her demands to be clothed in something else, and physically restrict her from taking the panels off. Though this act is not torture, it is still a violation. She is made vulnerable by two individuals she does not know, in a place she’s endangered in.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | Ch. 39
Rhysand reveals she is so scantily clad in order to be his escort to a party. Feyre’s sexual assault and humiliation at his hands begin here. On their way to the party, she is already self-conscious about the outfit she was forced into, and by the time they arrive, it is very clear that she does not want to go.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | Chapter 39
It is very important to note that Amarantha was not the one who ordered this. Rhysand chose of his own volition to take Feyre to the first party, and by doing so put Feyre on Amarantha’s radar outside of the trials.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | Ch. 39
Exhibit C
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Rhysand, perhaps knowing she would not do as he asked otherwise, makes Feyre drink faerie wine, a substance that her human body is not built for and intoxicates her quickly.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | Ch. 39
At no point during this encounter did Feyre choose to drink the wine. In fact, one could interpret that her mind echoing Rhysand’s instructions and her fingers moving to do as he wished is evident of him using his daemati powers to further influence her actions. Regardless, the fact that she said and thought “no” four times is enough to say Rhysand drugged her and this causes her to black out.
Exhibit D-1
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Feyre wakes up in her cell still dressed in nothing and is disoriented to the point of regurgitation, remaining sick for most of the day. She finally finds out what happened during her blackout from Lucien.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | Ch. 39
Exhibit D-2
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | Ch. 39
Rhysand sexually assaults Feyre night after night after night presumably for the entirety of time she was Under the Mountain after her first trial. He continuously drugs her with the wine and she continuously blacks out, leading to gaps in her memory that are never explicitly stated to have returned. Please note that Feyre consented to none of this. She had no power, no agency, and no personhood at Rhysand’s hands. Her becoming dependent on the wine to stifle the horrors of what was happening to her doesn’t change that fact. She considered her blackouts a mercy, you do not seek reprieve from things you enjoy.
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At a particular party, Feyre gets an opportunity to meet Tamlin in a secluded place, and it becomes the only time she enthusiastically consents to being sexually touched by a male. They’re caught by Rhys, however, and he takes it as an opportunity to assault Feyre, again.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses | Ch. 42
This is another violation of Feyre’s consent. Note the language being used here: pries, forcing, pushed and thrashed. She doesn’t want it, Rhysand knows she doesn’t want it, yet he did it anyway. Later on, he says this was to have a reason why the paint on her body had been disturbed but he had the ability to magically correct the paint, and if scent was the issue then it wouldn’t have mattered anyway.
Conclusion
You’re free to engage with literature however you choose, but denying Rhysand sexually abused, assaulted, and humiliated Feyre doesn’t make it untrue. Maas may attempt the same via retconning and placing reason over impact but it does not change what she wrote.
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capricorn-0mnikorn · 3 months
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While you studied the blade, I was practicing Hope.
(Inspired by This Thread)
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wernerherzogs · 1 month
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https://x.com/ecto_fun/status/1757092932698407022?s=46&t=9vEy8nOI4FSHv-FZzAzEcQ
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vakariaan · 2 years
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Do you think Eddie was into Chrissy?
100%, friend. That scene in the woods was straight up flirting once he'd broken the ice. He saw there was something bothering her and she was scared and once he realised she wasn't scared of him, he did the absolute MOST to make her smile. He was throwing himself around and making jokes, he was reminding her they knew each other/hung out in middle school, he invited her to come see his band play, he was pulling down his shirt to show off his tattoos when he had tattoos there on his arm he could have shown off instead, he was playing with his hair and showing off and giving her a discount just because she laughed at his jokes and he liked her. Even when he brought her to his trailer he was still making silly jokes and showing off. He wanted Vecna to pay for what he'd done, he dedicated that song to Chrissy. He was absolutely into Chrissy.
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leam1983 · 6 months
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(re: @homunculus-argument transgender parenting)
I don't think it's imperfect at all. Community values are something to defend whether there's a strong community in place or not. Normalizing fear of other adults isn't sane, anywhere and ever. Most of the problems affecting politics in modern life are manufactured from the smear campaigns of another decade, jumping through the ever-evolving media circus of our collectively amplified fears. The actual number of "sex offenders" is far lower than anyone feels comfortable letting anyone else know, and parents will happily cite "caution" to justify any paranoia they're already comfortable with.
Acting like things just get better naturally and people don't have any kind of moral imperative to start a conversation, means the society has failed, community values decay, and the surreal feeling of trust runs out of metaphors. It is exactly perfect to consult a successful transgender adult, since other alternatives are even stranger.
You're technically in the right, but nobody should get a pass because their stature, assumed gender or pre-existing positive bias are favorable. We're actually in agreement; I just think it's fair of some parents to feel the need to double-check on who's helping them develop their sense of identity, the same way I'm honestly hoping parents don't blindly trust teachers. I know that *sounds* like a Conservative argument, but you could flip it to Progressive parents wanting to ensure their kid doesn't get gaslit by bigots.
Call me crazy, but I've been burned too often to trust people blindly. I need to be acclimatized to someone else before I fully lower my guard. That's even amongst some of the objectively kindest people I know.
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myths-tournaments · 6 months
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Not to be an old weeb on main but Bleach and Naruto representatives are absolutely SENDING me 🤣 Bleach has multiple illegal-human-experimentation-happy scientists and literal nazis, and what we get to fight for us is a garden variety misogynist 🤣🤣🤣
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anitha-witchlady · 1 year
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Education
Anitha-witchlady
They say that education cures all ills.
From poverty to illiteracy to ignorance,
Education is our lord and savior!
Education is blind they all say,
but education can see all of us!
in the oh so hallowed schoolhouse
our class doesn't matter;
our race doesn't matter;
our gender doesn't matter;
our disability(s) doesn't matter;
hint, hint- it actually does!
tell that to the millions who are forced into closets!
tell that to the poor red kid
whose house has no running water!
tell that to all the black girls who were shot! (Bet you fucking didn't know that!)
tell that to the trans men who can't come out because they'll be gaslighted into saying their tomboys or lesbians!
tell that to the trans women who fear getting raped!
tell that to the non binaries who cannot be themselves!
tell that to all the invisible kids!
tell all that, I mother fucking dare you!
school is a reflection of our society.
what we allow in our schools
is what we allow in society.
so don't tell me school is blind
when this oppression is happening!
don't--I'm warning you-- allow this to happen anymore!
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m3-mianbo · 1 year
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@taylorthewho
What? (You @ed me with just the word 'what' and I don't know what thing I said you might have been referring to??)
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mercifulvengeance · 2 years
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so youre my new uncle huh. welp nice to meet ya -iris
Oh, uh, I suppose so then, huh... nice to meet you too, I suppose.
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snailcubezz · 4 months
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eastgaysian · 7 months
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ruushes · 3 months
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had some very specific things i wanted to work on this weekend and got possessed by the specter of undercut lae'zel instead 🤦
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the-gayest-sky-kid · 3 months
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god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers
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wernerherzogs · 5 months
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cassandro has been on prime for a bit! 😁
omg and it's actually available in my country too BLESS
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vakariaan · 6 months
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You haven't updating in 5 months. How are you?
Are you doing okay?
Bless you for checking in ❤️
I'm okay, just trying to spend less time online.
I'm finding myself exhausted by fandom behaviour on all sides and honestly I lost all motivation for giffing etc because I was sick of seeing my gifs reposted on Twitter etc with no link back or credit.
I'm no longer WFH, so my days feel shorter.
I'm just so tired and I don't know when I'll find the motivation for things again.
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jortsbian · 7 months
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