Cassian dreaming of Gwydion and foreshadowing Ataraxia and his own HEA 😭🙌🏻
[Cassian observing Ataraxia on Rhys's desk]
"The great sword's hilt was a simple cross guard, the pommel a rounded bit of metal.
Gwydion, the last of the magic swords, had been dark as night and as beautiful.
How many games had Cassian played as a child with Rhys and Azriel, where a long stick had been a stand-in for Gwydion? How many adventures had they imagined, sharing that mythical sword between them, as they slew wyrms and rescued damsels?
Never mind that Rhys's particular damsel had slain a wyrm herself and rescued him instead."
—ACOSF, ch. 42
My absolute favorite HOFAS spoiler after the break as I lose my mind over this moment in ACOSF after having read HOFAS 🥹
I am screaming at how this moment is in ACOSF, Nessian's book — then cut to HOFAS where Cassian's badass mate Nesta slays a damned wyrm with the same magical sword he's looking at here (which she herself Made by the way 💁🏼♀️), the same one that makes him think of Gwydion, which in fact is in his very same mate's possession by the end of HOFAS 😭🙌🏻‼️
All the times I read this before HOFAS, there was always something kind of bittersweet and sad about the way Cass's train of thought here ends on Rhys and Feyre and how badass his High Lady is, and how grateful Cass clearly is for the way she saves his brother by loving him...
I always assumed SJM was partly leaning into the fairytale trope of dragon slaying by looking back to that very first book in the series where she brought the Middengard Wyrm onto the page and used it to further characterize her main heroine at the time, Feyre.
Little did we know SJM, with this moment in ACOSF, was also pointing to the future and, for Cassian in particular, creating an echo simultaneously forward and back in time to when his own mate would go on to not only slay the same kind of wyrm, but would do it wielding the immense power of the very same new magical sword, Ataraxia, on the table before him — and only because he loves her and trains her to wield it 😭🙌🏻
Cass is filled with such longing in this moment. I'm floored in the most amazing SJM-induced way that this longing ABSOLUTELY gets fulfilled.
And again, in past readings of ACOSF that fulfillment was legible in part by how at the end of ACOSF Nes finally claims Cass as her mate then literally saves him when she erupts and Un-Makes Briallyn, in whose thrall he is trapped. That was always amazing enough, a beautiful HEA in its own right.........
BUT TO THIS CASS OF ACOSF CH. 42 I SAY: YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF THE RICHES OF DREAMS FULFILLED YOUR HAPPILY EVERY AFTER WITH NESTA HAS IN STORE 😭 JUST YOU WAIT MY DUDE
(Can you even imagine how Cassian must have felt, what his reaction was when Nesta came home after her adventures with Bryce in the tunnels under Prythian, and he learned what Nesta did to that wyrm with Ataraxia? He must have melted into a mated puddle of goo to the tune of "That's my fucking mate, y'all!" 🥹)
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I HAVE NEVER CRIED THIS MUCH BC OF A SHOW AAAHHHHHHH
THAT WAS SO GOOD BUT SO SAD! FKRJFHEIFNDIJENFW I WANT MORE I NEED IT I NEED THEM ALL
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Luz-ing my mind over here- LMAO SORRY BYEEEE-
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[Verse 1: Liam Payne & Harry Styles]
I go a little bit too fast
I go a little bit too far
I go a little bit too late
I go a little bit too hard
I can't walk away, can't walk away, I can't walk away no, no
I get a little bit too close
I get a little bit too loud
I get a little bit too high
I get a little bit too proud
Can't walk away, can't walk away, can't walk away, no
I can't walk away, I can't walk away, I can't walk away, no
[Chorus: Louis Tomlinson & All]
I will never be the one to say that something that you love is wrong
You can make the same mistake and I'd still be here no matter what
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
I will never be the one to say that something that you love is wrong
You can make the same mistake and I'd still be here no matter what
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
'Cause you are mine, so all that matters is you and I go down together
[Verse 2: Liam Payne]
I get a little bit too brave
I get a little bit too wild
I get a little bit too crazy
I get a little bit too down
If you walked away, if you walked away, if you walked away, no
So don't walk away, don't walk away, don't walk away, no
[Chorus: Louis Tomlinson & All]
I will never be the one to say that something that you love is wrong
You can make the same mistake and I'd still be here no matter what
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
I will never be the one to say that something that you love is wrong
You can make the same mistake and I'd still be here no matter what
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
'Cause you are mine, so all that matters is you and I go down together
[Bridge: Niall Horan]
Best I've ever known
Everything I need
You're my highs and lows
And everything in between
I can't give you up
You're the death of me
Venom in your veins
Brings me to my knees
[Chorus: Louis Tomlinson & All]
I will never be the one to say that something that you love is wrong
You can make the same mistake and I'd still be here no matter what
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
I will never be the one to say that something that you love is wrong
You can make the same mistake and I'd still be here no matter what
Pick your poison, drink it up and enjoy it
'Cause you are mine, so all that matters is you and I go down together
???!!!!!
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I'm rewatching hbomb's plagiarism video and oh boy he really did predict every single trick Somerton pulled in his new video.
Like. People want hbomb to make a followup video, a response to the 'apology' and... he doesn't need to! Just rewatch the Filip section of his video and he covers pretty much everything James said!
The excuses, the deflection, the not addressing the truly egregious things he did because it would make him look worse...
Which really does make it feel like James Somerton didn't actually watch hbomb's video. Some people have voiced their doubts that he saw it and I can't help but agree, especially since some of his claims are debunked directly in the video (the part about getting Sean Griffin's permission).
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