#but if sjm really intended to make ratman endgame from the beginning this is such a easy fix

[lunamond]

While I'm not at all a fan of Sjm (I only read Tog, Acotar and dnf'ed Acomaf) and overall strongly dislike almost everything I know about her and her writing, I do have a strange fascination about the Acotar series in particular, partly because despite the bad writing there is so much untapped potential in this series.

One of the things I've been thinking about recently is how easily Sjm could have fixed a lot of the issues with Feysand, while still indulging in her super fucked up SA kink with one simple tweak in book 1.

Instead of having Ratman Sa Feyre "for her own good" Utm, just have Amarantha order him to do this as a way to further punish and humiliate Feyre. This immediately shifts the coupability onto Amarantha (the actual villian) while giving the opportunity to explore Rhys' guilt and the ways in which his actions under duress Utm impact his reputation as a bad guy.

It would also give us sth more concrete to explore as far as Rhys sexual trauma goes compared to canon where Sjm only uses his trauma to shield his character from any sort of criticism.

It would also change the very problematic "romantic" dynamic between Feyre and Rhys from victim/abuser to 2 people with shared traumatic experience (Yeah trauma bond).

It would also make the switch between love interests much more compelling and allow for actual nuance.

But instead we got Feyre being handed off from one hot immortal fey highlord who kidnapped, gaslight, and locked her up to a totally different hot immortal fey highlord who kidnapped, gaslight and locked her up but it's ok because this time he has dark hair and batwings.

#anti sjm #acotar critical #anti feysand #anti rhysand #this of course wouldn't fix everything #but if sjm really intended to make ratman endgame from the beginning this is such a easy fix #it would literally change zero plot #like I even remember reading acotar when I was 16 #and I already could tell the bat would end up a romantic rival based on his description #so when the SA happened I was like obviously this is Amarantha's doing #but nope #the text literally specified that Amarantha didn't like that Rhys was bringing her to the party #he literally just did because he wanted to make Tamlin mad #and Sjm has the audacity to then turn around and say the the Riceman is the better romantic option