#i made like 20 of these 😭😭 this series is so weird and ridiculous

[bookofmirth]

sometimes i sit back and wonder how sjm has made acotar into such a shitshow 😭

we’ve got the elriels vs the gwynriels. one of the most embarrassing fandom fights i’ve ever seen. we’ve got sjm taking the powers away from a female character yet again while still establishing everytime rhysand is on page how powerful and strong her is. we’ve got feyre’s almost teen pregnancy HALF WAY THROUGH THE SERIES. which pregnancy? fine. not going to complain. every woman should choose what path they want. but half way through a fantasy series? a couple months after she said she wanted to wait? when she’s a 20 year old immortal? when there is WAR coming and now we are all going to be forced to care about a child when we’re here for badass fantasy 😭 we’ve got rhysand becoming high king which is going to bring so much hate for sjm. one way or another shes going to take the thrones away from POC and LGBTQ characters and have them kneel to her white male character and his very young wife who has no education or experience being a queen and who’s first act as high lady was destroying a court?

i love acotar but it’s just so all over the place. i feel like she sacrificed so much plot to just haphazardly sow things together to make the crossover possible and ugh worst decision ever.

we’ve got the elriels vs the gwynriels. one of the most embarrassing fandom fights i’ve ever seen.

LITERULLY the most fucking embarrassing, I have never in my life seen this fandom act so fucking juvenile and that's a huge reason why I've been scarce the last couple months. I am constantly flabbergasted at how ridiculous people are acting in public, as if it fucking matters. They must be bored 😭

But yeah the other stuff you said, I'm honestly not as excited for acotar anymore either. I hate the crossover. Fully, enthusiastically, I am not a fan. If/when Az gets a book, it will be the Tower of Dawn of acotar for me (I don't like Chaol, I didn't care about ToD, I've never reread it because 😴, ToD only served to delay the plot lines I actually wanted to read with Aelin).

And on the one hand, it's not that deep. Really it's not. We have great characters, great ships, and that's always been the strength of acotar in particular. I can't remember a time we haven't been ripping on her magic system and worldbuilding in acotar in particular. It's not like we didn't know.

But now it's like, it's to a point where those things really matter a lot more than they used to, and so it feels weird and incongruous to what the series started off as.

Luckily there are thousands of other books on my tbr and tons of other authors I love!

#I made 300 posts in April #and 60 in September #who am i #not really interested #that's who #sjm critical

[gaygollum]

book series of all time

#see also gansey calling ronan his dog all the time #the hand cat and the boar that can turn into gasoline scented air #and we cannot forget the cow balloon. the bovine blimp. #the raven cycle #maggie stiefvater #trc #mine #i made like 20 of these 😭😭 this series is so weird and ridiculous #why do i spend every waking moment thinking about it #wait update like 5 mins after posting #‘hair conditioning’ is it hair CONDITIONER??? DAMNIT #In my Defense i have a cold. but also english is a stupid language