Stan That Character. Point Out Other Character's Flaws Because Sure, They Exist But WHY Do You Guys Create

“My name is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, and I will not be afraid.”

I am screaming over my own art right now. This came out 10x better than I had initially envisioned and I am so damn proud of it✊🏻

sjm hi now would be a nice time to publish az's book so we can know more from his pov pls and thank yewww

Good on Az for standing his ground and not kissing up to their asses like everyone else👏

"Chain me to a tree, Rhys," Azriel said softly. "Go ahead." He began checking the buckles on his weapons. "I'Il rip it out of the ground and fly with it on my damned back."

Then Az went for the throat. “And Tamlin will learn.”

Rhys’s snarl set the lights guttering. “And?”

Cassian shot Azriel a warning glare, but Az said, unafraid and unbowed, “We need to be prepared for any fallout.”

“No,” Feyre and Rhys said at the same time, in the same breath.

Azriel’s eyes shuttered. “I wasn’t asking for permission.”

“We take no risks,” Feyre said, voice flat with command. “Pull all your spies out.”

“Like hell I will.”

Azriel bristled and turned to Rhys. “And you agree with her?”

“She’s your High Lady,” Rhys said coldly. “What she says is law.”

My favorite part of Feyre and Rhys meeting for the first time in chapter 21 is how she’s sitting there describing how magnificent he is, how she’s never seen someone so handsome, how “the night seeming to press in closer around him”, “As if he’d been molded from the night itself”, “tendrils of star-kissed night trailed in his wake”

And this mf who is obviously reading her mind is just 😏😏😏😏 the whole time. He’s so annoying 😂

Friendly reminder:

we all loved Tamlin at some point.

but-- but-- what if it's a happy reunion?

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SJM:

I know everyone is rooting for a crossover but if Bryce and the IC ruin my queen Aelin Galathynius’s peace with her mate, I will be deeply upset.

Aelin has done ENOUGH. Let her live in Terrasen happily.

2000th listen of cardigan and @taylorswift i need to know how the fuck did you rhyme cardigan with car again because just how

I think first and foremost this fandom needs to remember that everyone has faults. And by everyone, I mean the people within this fandom, the characters in ACOTAR, and SJM herself. I think that we need to remember that despite all the character’s faults, we kept reading. We kept reading because we like the plot, we like the inner circle, we like Feyre, Rhysand, Cassian, Nesta, Azriel, Mor, Emerie, Gwyn… we like the universe that Sarah J Maas has created. (Anf if you’re that group of people that reads for the sake of hating it or only read on because of so and so character, that’s okay too.) At the end of the day, all of us still read on. It doesn’t matter how problematic you think Sarah J Maas, she still deserves our thanks for creating a universe that we love, characters that we relate with, and a community that we get to share in. People come into this fandom because they have something to say about the book, not to argue over who’s right and who’s wrong. It’s fine for a huge fandom to not have a generally agreed on opinion, it’s fine for people to share theories, opinions, love and hate certain characters, find certain actions problematic, that is totally fine and is what the fandom is for. But a fandom is supposed to be a loving and accepting community, and when you see people leaving this fandom, leaving social media, shouldn’t we also self-reflect? When you see such a clear line between pros and antis, so many people blocking each other, so much hate, isn’t time to do something about it?

Everyone has good intentions and I know that. When it's no longer about the ships and the theories, everyone in this fandom is the sweetest person. But it's always about the ships and always about the problems, and there's so much hate isn't it time to just wonder why? I dont think it's any single person's fault. Sarah J Maas is human, she doesn't wake up one day and decide that the abuser that people characterize Rhysand as should get together with the heroine. Or that it's such a beautiful day for her main characters to be neglectful rulers who are so selfish that they had a bargain to die without regard for their people.

I get that authors should be called out for poor representation or some other sorts of "problematic actions" but I think this fandom has overanalyzed the books to a point where everything is problematic and everything is either this or that and if it's not it's Sarah J Maas's fault it's that person you just blocked's problem. And maybe I'm being naive and maybe this is what the freedom of speech and all that crap entails. But other fandoms aren't like this. Other authors have faults too, but they're never overanalyzed to this point. People love certain characters over others too, but they don't have the entire fandom divided because you either like Nesta or you don't.

And I think that just because you can filter out anti tags and "the block button is right there"... is that really any better?

This isn't right. This isn't a community.

And I honestly don't even know what tags to use at this point because it's not gonna reach the target audience regardless because either the anti tags are blocked or the pro tags are blocked and there's fucking wars with actual people dying right now and we're fighting over fictional characters. And I really want to be nice and fair and reason with people and actually DO SOMETHING instead of just talking about it, but I am also so, so mad.

im practically a celebrity now!! i have my first "do you like home videos" ask 🥰🥹

sassy aelin >>>

maeve: a blood oath is eternal

aelin:

ok i think we can all agree that chain me to a tree was the hottest thing azriel ever said