#anti acotar

[lainalit]

#should be grateful that they weren't killed by an EVIL man but just by a man who pretended to be evil #don't worry guys they ALL were bad people who deserved to be killed by a flying rodent #Claire beddor deserved to be killed cause she pushed feyre once when their were children #acotar critical #sjm critical #anti sjm #anti acotar #anti rhysand #anti ic #anti inner circle

[hrizantemy]

I genuinely laugh when people say that Nesta’s book is unreliable, which is just dumb because Nesta’s book is in third-person. Third-person refers to a perspective in storytelling where the narrator is not directly involved in the events of the story and refers to characters by their names or pronouns like "he," "she," or "they." It's like someone observing and narrating the events from the outside. Now if we’re talking about unreliable then it would be Feyre’s perspective. First person is a perspective in storytelling where the narrator is directly involved in the events of the story and refers to themselves as "I" or "we." It's like experiencing the events firsthand through the eyes of the narrator. So grow up and accept that Rhysand’s true colors are showing and that your faves from other sjm series would hate him and the IC.

#anti acotar #anti acosf #anti inner circle #anti feysand #anti rhysand #anti cassian #anti azriel #anti morrigan #anti amren #anti nessian #pro nesta #nesta archeron deserves better #please stop #delusional

[wingsdippedingold]

Pisses me off that SJM gave her characters the names of real mythology deities because now I can't look for Eris, Nyx, or Morrigan posts without it cluttering my feed and I don't want to block the tags because I still talk about ACOTAR 😔

There's also the deeper issue of her giving the name "Nyx" the supreme GODDESS of the night and a very popular feminist icon to a male character

#anti sjm #anti acotar #anti sarah j maas #sjm critical #ig temporary tag blocking works for now

[holmespsychoaddict]

She spilled 💀

#anti sjm #anti sarah j maas #anti rhysand #anti night court #anti acotar #hunger games #anti ic #anti feysand #anti inner circle #anti cassian #anti all of them tbh

[belle-keys]

this is the worst book description I’ve ever read like I’m actually having a stroke

#sexy fae vikings #hades and persephone AND beauty and the beast #this is awful i’m sorry #this is actually making me nauseous so #books #fantasy books #booktok #anti sjm #anti sarah j maas #anti fbaa #anti acotar #fae books #beauty and the beast #hades and persephone #anti intellectualism

[angel-maybe-alive]

He was a man written by a woman, unfortunately the woman was Sarah j Maas

#anti booktok #anti sjm #anti acotar #anti sarah j maas #anti rhysand #jokes

[keepittoyourshelf]

Rhysand is NOT morally grey, for fuck’s sake. I’m tired of the amount of people that jump to say “rHySaNd!!!” any time someone asks for recs for morally grey villains. I will downvote that shit on Reddit, idc. I’m petty and it’s just an incorrect statement.

Actual morally grey characters would include Kaz Brekker, Lestat de Lioncourt, maybe even Cardan Greenbriar. They don’t have an excuse or explanation for literally every single wrong thing they’ve done in their entire lives.

Rhysand, if anything, is morally brown, because his morals are shit and so is he.

#anti rhysand #anti feysand #anti sjm #anti feyre #pro tamlin #anti inner circle #anti acotar #sjm critical

[novaricewrites]

Very tired of the shadowy/darkness-themed brooding male love interests in fantasy romance books. Especially the ones where the character revolves heavily around sex / sexualization.

This is especially irritating when they are 'healed' or complete as people because they are dating the protag. Seriously. It just promotes that toxic 'You can fix him with love' concept. This is such an inherently harmful message.

Not saying those kind of broody characters shouldn't be allowed to exist at all. However, the dominance of that character type over other portrayals in romance especially, subscribes to the common notion of masculinity having only one desirable form.

The main lead does not have to be the most powerful, the most virile, most tragic or most intimidating.

It's shallow and overdone.

Why can't the men and boys in these leads also be written as thoughtful and warm, sunlight characters. Soft hands and gentle voices. Complex and spirited and vibrant. Let them also be kind, lovely and full of quiet things.

I have so many thoughts on this general topic that go into way too many directions to summarize in one post.

#is this prompted by my fondness of peeta mellark maybe #anti sjm #anti rhysand #anti ic #anti acotar #men in media #fantasy romance #masculinity in literature #lucien vanserra #and the point is why are they often not the main love interests but just a side character when they are not that typical format #twilight too #we should not perpetuate the idea of men being fixed by love and sex #this literally connects to the victim blaming mindset #you should have given him a chance bullshit

[yoddhasblog]

One thing that makes me rage about ACOTAR every single day is that there is no mention at all about who did the household chores when Feyre was hunting.

It's canon that Feyre doesn't know how to cook. She doesn't do household work. She would spend the day in the forest hunting, which of course is a great thing in itself for a child( she was fourteen I think when she started hunting) but who took care of the house(hut).

Something tells me it wasn't Papa Archeron or Elain. In the first few chapters of Thorns and Roses Nesta had chopped wood twice(I think, it's been a while since I read the book). I'm assuming as there isn't much info about this that Nesta was the one to do all household work. There's cooking, cleaning, laundry, chopping wood, mending clothes, doing repairs around the house if required, groceries, and about a hundred other little tasks that keep a house running smoothly. Feyre didn't do it, Papa Archeron didn't do it, I can bet my life Elain didn't do it. Did magic faeries come to their house at night to do all this.

I don't understand where the narrative that Nesta was a spoiled and lazy girl who sat on her ass and didn't do anything came from. You know, my father had always told my sister and i, that whatever conflict we have between us, we should resolve it amongst ourselves. If you let a bunch of strangers know about the weaklinks in your relationships they will break you both apart. Of course, he tells us this due to our snake-ish relatives but honestly, when I had read about the relationship between the sisters, I wanted to scream at the book to not let the IC exploit their issues for personal gain. Which they did. That's exactly what Rhysand has been doing since he met the sisters.

#anti ic #anti inner circle #anti rhysand #anti sjm #anti feysand #anti acotar #anti acomaf #anti acowar #anti acosf #anti cassian #anti amren #anti mor #anti sarah j maas #nesta deserves better #pro nesta

[moonssalad]

I will never forgive Cassian for not standing up to Rhysand when he threatened to kill Nesta and just obeyed him to get her out of the city.

Fucking pathetic. Hes like Rhysands dog.

#anti acotar #anti acosf #anti cassian #anti rhysand #anti nessian #pro nesta archeron #pro nesta #nesta supremacy #anti sjm #anti sarah j maas

[manonslayme]

I’m will never stop thinking about how if rhysand and the IC were in TOG universe they would all be antagonists and hated by Aelin and her court

The whole plot would be about Aelin trying to save Feyre, Nesta and Elain from Rhysand and his bat bros and fix the Hewn City up

Manon would kill the bat bastard for not doing anything for the women Illyria

#tog #throne of glass #manon blackbeak #elide lochan #aelin galathynius #rowan whitethorn #fenrys moonbeam #dorian havilliard #there would be a whole plot about aelin trying to save Feyre from rhysand #anti acotar #anti inner circle #anti rhysand

[lainalit]

Okay, am I the only one who cannot think of something Feyre and Rhysand would love to do together other than sleep with each other???🤔

I don't know, but I think that these two don't really mesh well together.

Rhysand, for me, seems like someone who needs intellectual stimulation with a partner, I think he really likes to talk about science, philosophy, politics, etc. Also, he is someone who clearly thinks often about the future of prythian.

But Feyre seems more like someone who wants to go out into the woods to hunt or just walk around, have fun with friends, and just live in the moment; she doesn't strife me as someone who will likely have conversations or debates about scientific/ philosophical questions and want to discuss political issues, like taxes, clean water, electricity, etc. for the citizens of the night court.

I don't know, but maybe that's why Sarah wrote the whole pregnancy trope in Acosf because Feysand really is an incompatible couple who only works, then external factors surround their relationship because, without them, the whole ship falls apart 🤷‍♀️

#They really are the couple that think a baby will safe their marriage #usually I don't question fated mates in books but these two have so little in common it's almost hilarious #even most opposites attract couples in other books have some shared interests than these two #acotar critical #sjm critical #anti sjm #anti acotar #anti feysand #rhysand #feyre archeron

[hrizantemy]

People are really mad because Nesta and Claire Beddor were most definitely lovers. I didn’t write the books sorry.

#anti acotar #anti acosf #anti inner circle #anti feysand #anti rhysand #anti cassian #anti azriel #anti morrigan #anti amren #anti nessian #pro nesta #nesta archeron deserves better #she deserves Clair beddor #guys they were friends #no they weren’t

[wingsdippedingold]

Tamlin had ringlets as a child, prove me wrong

This is my contribution to Tamlin week

@tamlinweek

#tamlinweek #pro tamlin #tamlin #anti sjm #anti acotar #anti sarah j maas #tamlinweek2024 #tamlin week 2024

[asilentfrenzy]

remember when

"Rhys bared his teeth. My limbs turned light, trembling at the dark power curling in the corners of the room. Not fear - never fear of him. But at the shattered control as Rhys snarled at Lucien, 'My mate may one day find it in her to forgive him. Forgive you. But I will never forget how it felt to sense her terror in those moments.' My cheeks heated, especially as Cassian and Azriel stalked closer, those hazel eyes now filled with a mix of sympathy and wrath. 

Lucien, to his credit, didn't back away a step. From Rhys, from me, or the Illyrians. 

The Clever Fox Stares Down Winged Death. The painting flashed into my mind."

(it's the "forgive you" for me lmfao like shut the actual fuck up)

he has the audacity to say this shit to lucien when two books prior -

"'You draw blood from me, Lucien, and you’ll learn how quickly Amarantha’s whore can make the entire Autumn Court bleed. Especially its darling Lady.'

'Oh? Here I was, thinking you still mourned your commoner lover after all these centuries,' Rhysand said, stalking toward me."

"'I knew you liked to stoop low with your lovers, Lucien, but I never thought you’d actually dabble with mortal trash.” My face burned. Lucien was trembling—with rage or fear or sorrow, I couldn’t tell. 'The Lady of the Autumn Court will be grieved indeed when she hears of her youngest son. If I were you, I’d keep your new pet well away from your father.'"

"'Amarantha will enjoy breaking her,' Rhysand observed to Tamlin. 'Almost as much as she'll enjoy watching you as she shatters her bit by bit.'" 

Those invisible claws lazily caressed my mind again - then vanished. I sank to the floor, curling over my knees as I reeled in everything that I was, as I tried to keep from sobbing, from screaming, from emptying my stomach onto the floor. "

(damn. i wonder how it felt to feel her terror in those moments 🤔)

anyway, friendly reminder that rhysand is the biggest fucking hypocrite in the series and feyre & co's self-righteous attitudes are absolutely insufferable 🤗

#anti rhysand #anti inner circle #anti feyre #lucien vanserra #anti acotar #anyway everyone in the inner circle is so fucking irritating it's wild

[littlemisssatanist]

my acotar unpopular opinions

taking this time to come out as an acotar reader. yes i've read all the books and i've spent way too much time thinking about it. i enjoy the books in the sense that i enjoy hating on many of the characters and loving a few of the others.

be forewarned inner circle fans. you will not like this.

rhysand is not a 'morally grey' character. he's a rapist and a groomer. he sexually assaulted feyre utm, he groomed her (reminder that she was 19 in acotar), and he withheld important medical information from her. 'you'll always have a choice' my ass.

nesta telling feyre about her pregnancy was not a bad thing. why do people act like it is? 'oh she did it to hurt feyre' hurt her by doing what? revealing the lies that her beloved husband had woven? revealing the fact that she'd die giving birth? the fact that rhysand told literally everybody but feyre?

mor is not the champion for women everyone thinks she is. this i will give to sjm it is truly impressive to make a character like women and still be a pick me. i'm not even going to go into her whole weird ass relationship with her dad (i still don't understand why she wouldn't just kill him. 'oh rhys needed the army' rhys is supposed to be the most powerful high lord ever. either admit he's a fucking loser or give me an actual good reason for this) or the fact she's seemingly incapable of doing anything to help the women in the court of nightmares, but everytime she was mentioned, i had to let out a heavy sigh and rub my temples.

on a similar topic. i liked eris. like a lot. out of all the acotar characters sjm has written, eris is by far my favorite.

the inner circle needs to sit the fuck down. they are the most hypocritical bitches i've ever met. they like to think themselves high and mighty. reading them make fun of lucien's band of exiles while their name is literally 'court of dreamers' was the most infuriating thing ever. and then they have the gall to be insulted when called out. don't dish what you can't take.

out of all the inner circle, the only one i don't hate is azriel. this is simply because he is the only one who hasn't opened his big fat mouth and done something bad (except if you maybe count his whole thing with elain). cassian is on my hit list. it's on sight with cassian.

nessian is sjm's worst ship and i will stand by that. lucien/nesta could have been so much. 'nesta would have ripped lucien apart' and cassian was your first choice? not even azriel was considered? like be so for real right now. sjm didn't see the potential of lucien/nesta and i will forever mourn that.

sjm is a terrible writer. i'm not saying this to be mean but she seriously just sucks at it. that being said i admire her ability to still make millions of dollars off her shitty writing. as a woman, i am rooting for her. as a reader, every day i wake up a shoot a prayer to the heavens begging the gods to not let sjm write any more books from the inner circle's pov.

lucien/elain is better than azriel/elain. argue with the wall.

eris/azriel is better than azriel/elain. you can kiss my ass.

NESTA/ERIS IS BETTER THAN RHYSAND/FEYRE. i know this because i have been enlightened.

feyre is a victim to rhysand. that being said, she is also a major bitch. both can be true because these things are not mutually exclusive. i wish she could make friends outside of the ic like nesta did, but i know that's unlikely.

feyre's pregnancy storyline was completely useless and went against her whole character.

acomaf retconned everything about tamlin and feyre's relationship in order to make more money. idc.

tamlin gets a ridiculous amount of hate. rhysand is hypocritical. so tamlin locking feyre in a house because she wants to ride out with him into potential danger is terrible and abusive, but rhysand locking nesta in the house of wind for... *checks notes*... having sex and spending money on alcohol is helping her? what?

#anti rhysand #anti sjm #anti inner circle #anti acotar #rhysand critical #inner circle critical #acotar #acotar critical #pro nesta #anti nessian #pro eris vanserra #anti mor #this might be a controversial one