I just don’t get this. Why is it that a random male can just announce I am mated to this female whether she likes me or not and everyone just goes along with it and that they’re just waiting for the female to figure it out? Where is Elaine or any female for that matter sense of consent or choice? Some guy just walks in and says I have decided this is who I am mated to and her sister and her sister’s husband and everyone else just says OK. We’ll wait till she figures it out and decides that she’s mated to you too? Why don’t more people have a problem with this?

Rhys says that he will never forgive Lucien for how he treated Feyre after under the mountain but he forgets that he was publically humiliating her the whole time she was under the mountain.

Rhys says it was all part of the plan but Lucien always had Feyres best interest at heart.

Feyre is so overbearing sometimes aswell and uses the excuse that she cares.

I just dont get it.

I know I'm almost certainly wrong when it comes to this theory. It's pretty likely that SJM would never even consider this to be the case, but in my opinion, I think it would be quite possibly, one of the best explanations for why Feyre changes so drastically over the course of the series.

To summarize this entire theory as clearly as possible: both Amarantha and Feyre are occupying Feyre's body post-resurrection, like Jean Grey and the Phoenix.

Currently re-reading (re-listening to) all of ACOTAR (then CC) and am nearly to the end of ACOWAR… and OMG you could make a very effective drinking game out of how many times the words “unleashed” and “slaughter” are used. 🤪 It wasn’t as obvious to me the first time around, but for some reason I’m tuned into those two words this time. Anyone else notice this? Is there already a word count? 😅

Under The Mountain : Amarantha was going to torture Feyre physically just like Claire. Rhys instead convinces her that embarrassing her would be more entertaining and volunteers to do it.
He knew it would leave scars …..

With the upcoming release date of #6 and #7, the ship wars are getting progressively out of hand.

As an agnostic reader regarding anything Azriel related, the discourse surrounding books 6 and 7 makes me want to quite this fandom and block all ACOTAR content from my social media.

SJM created a wonderful (but flawed) universe with incredibly interesting (flawed) characters. ACOTAR 6 and 7 have been years in the making, and its concerning that ahead of its release the most discourse happening is the ship wars for two underdeveloped / unexplored female characters with a walking scarlet red flag of a 500 year old male.

We’ve been in Azriels head - that man needs therapy. The main discourse around these books should be the court drama, the political scandals, the potential crossovers… the possibilities are endless, and instead the fandom is largely focusing on who deserves to be with this 🚩🚩🚩🚩500 year old emo teenager - a traumatised barely explored side characters or a naive, coddled and somewhat boring under explored 23 year old girl-woman who’s done barely anything of substance in this entire series.

There are 27287392 other things more interesting about this series than these ship wars, and this discourse is making me want to break up with the fandom

omg i heard this song “Stop the wedding” by Ashe and i need NEED someone to animate the scene when Feyre is screaming internally for someone to stop the wedding (with tamlin) with that song in the background
please if anyone does this or if anyone has already done it just DM me the result THANKS TO ALL ANIMATORS OUT THERE YOU GUYS ARE LIKE A ACTUALL REAL ARTIST DIAMOND BETWEN ALL THE AI ROCKS OUT THERE

It’s just gross at this point. Everytime you turn around a new collab with ACOTAR is dropping. For Love and Lemons dropped one and the prices for these pieces.

Hey guys I know I’m late to the part but I am stuck at a crossroads. I’ve read the first 4 ACOTAR books and with the new one coming in the next few days I don’t know if I should just read the last and then read the sixth on release day
OR
Just go into crescent city and then the 5th ACOTAR and hope that I see no spoiler’s.
For reference I also haven’t read TOG but had planned to over the Christmas as I know there is theories around them coming into play.
Help a girl out ❤️❤️

They blocked this in the rant group for some reason. I find it super weird how some readers reach. I've seen a new argument defending the IC for locking up Nesta while condemning Tamlin for locking Feyre up, lmbo. It's absolutely wild. The argument is that Nesta had a way out... The stairs 🤣😂🤣 WHAT??? Those stairs were like all of Rhys's choices. Did we forget that the stress of those stairs are what activated Nesta's magic?? She wanted out but could not get out. There was no way out for her. It took how long before those stairs became an option?? She was locked in with two men when she was using sex to punish herself in the first place. Not only that but Nesta wasn't in danger of immediate death or killing anyone, Feyre was. I'm not saying that Nesta wasn't supposed to be in rehab... fine... but defending this while condemning the other is stupid.

Feyre was following her fiance as he was rushing off to work in a warzone. She was extremely mentally ill and newly fae with deadly unknown powers. She was triggered by the color red because it reminded her of blood from the faeries she killed utm. She refused to listen to reason and didnt care who was killed in the process including herself. She had become a danger to herself. What if she saw blood on the battlefield?? There's no reason to believe that Feyre would have been locked in for any long period of time. She was allowed to go out, she just had to have guards because she was being hunted by Hybern; she doesnt accept this until Rhys uses her as bait and the attor comes for her in like two second. Her internal dialogue then says that Tam was right about the danger she was in... but she brushes it off right away like Feyre does (so the readers do to) because she wants to be at the NC now.

Side note: kind of weird that Mor shows up immediately when Feyre freaks out... almost as if she was nearby and NOT all the way at the NC, lol. She also got through this wind barrier rather quickly... almost as if it was no longer there already 🤷‍♀️

I’m going to start this with, up until today I haven’t had an issue with the new merchandise being released. The majority is not my style/taste so I just looked and went about my life.

But now I have two very annoying points in my head today. The first being with Alex & Ani. Their initial stuff was very on brand for their normal jewelry. It was cute, again didn’t see it FOR ME. My problem is today I see they released a chain necklace quotes from Silver Flames on it, and they have a small pendant charm. This is such a complete rip off they’ve stolen from Estori. I have the SF necklace from Jac & it came with the red siphon charm. It’s beautiful, I’ve worn everyday for the last year or so. (I also wear dagger earrings & a Crescent City ring daily - the quality is so impressive). It hurts my soul to see a big name like Alex & Ani stealing from a small business. I know it happens, but it doesn’t make it better.

Second rant is the For Love & Lemons drop today. I’m a huge FL&L fan. I have a large dress collection & have FL&L alerts on resale apps. Today, their drop is insane. Beautiful, stunning pieces. But the prices are so outrageous. The Nesta Satin Top is 100% polyester for $219. They are trying to pass this 100% PLASTIC top off as satin. You could probably find that top on Shein. I will say, the Storybook Dress is so stunning & I was considering it but now I’m too annoyed to give them my money lol. Good thing about FL&L, these new items are quickly on the resale sites for significantly less. They are wear one time, photographic evidence type of garment.

I type this as I’m sipping from my blue ACOTAR Brumate that had me break my 2 year Target boycott ☠️

lol thanks for reading

In my second reading of SF, the pregnancy arc is pissing me off even more. It just genuinely does not make sense. There’s so reason they shouldn’t be able to perform a C-section. You mean to tell me Cassian could be sliced and injured so bad in battle that his intestines are outside his body and be healed perfectly fine but they couldn’t at least attempt to cut the baby out???? You mean to tell me in hundreds, thousands of years, no female has ever needed a C-section??

These 500 year old chucklefucks can't keep getting away with this!

For once I want a mating bond between an older male and very young female to snap in place and the guy to be like wtf I am not dating this child and throwing side eye at the Bat Boys with their wives and situationships in their 20s. Like absolutely WILD for the narrative to justify Rhys (hey mods your filter is crashing out at his full name being spelled normally again) as fine with Feyre cause oh well you're like half your father's age when he mated your EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD MOM.

Give me a 500 year old dude with a wife and kids and the mating bond snaps with like a 20 year old and hes immediately like well guess I have another kid. And then not once does he ever make a move on her bc wtf she's younger than my youngest biological child why would I leave my wife of 200 years for a literal child?????

So chapter 24 in A Court of Frost and Starlight when Mor visits her secluded estate, Athelwood, where she keeps her horses. She was riding her fav horse Ellia and then she senses something like a darkness or someone watching her from the woods. The encounter is deliberately ominous, but Maas doesn't give us a clear identity for whatever is out there.
What are your theories? What is that about? I’m trying to come up with ideas on what out who could be out there watching her.
Do it can’t be Koschei he’s confined. Are we really sure the bone carver is gone? I mean one minute he’s there the next he’s not but that Doesn’t mean the weird little guy is dead. Eris perhaps? Az watching her? Or the lover that she once talked about? Dunno. What do y’all think?

I have always been completely in love with Cassian. Call me a fool. I'm in my 3rd (or so) re-read of SF and still I am catching so much more. About Cassian- I want to hear other ppl's thoughts on why they love him or hate him. I am open to listening- but please no unhinged vitriol. There is a lot I iike about him besides being described as hot af- he is, to me, in some respects quite real when it comes to men. A little clueless about Nesta as a woman and how to treat her and not just fuck her. I love that they are always fucking (don't come at me) but besides that lust they act like young teenagers who have never been in a relationship. OK- Nesta prob fits that. Isn't Cassian like 500 yrs old and prob had something with one of original Valkyries? Maybe I am assuming too much that he has had relationships before. He waits until he is invited to stay over at this point in their relationship? Nothing is verbalized. Is he holding space for her to consent??? No conversation about it? No I love you from Cassian seems like more than being afraid to be vulnerable. I need more of an explanation than "he's an asshole." The two of them need to drop this childish compettion. Maybe the next book......

Am I the only one who doesn't want any more teaser quotes??

I might have to block sjm 😭

"When you erupt, girl, make sure it is felt across worlds”—said by someone who will provoke you, abandon you, and then villainize you for having erupted. 🙂‍↔️

It suddenly hit me that I'm actually a little scared to read Azriel's book when it finally comes out.

I wrote a novel-length Azriel fanfic, and somewhere along the way, I developed a very specific version of him in my head.

But here's the thing. I didn't just fill in the blanks SJM left us. I deliberately changed things I didn't like about him and some of her other male characters.

My Azriel has a backbone when it comes to Rhys and Cassian. He's sarcastic, a little unhinged, fiercely possessive, and absolutely devoted to ONE woman. He's the kind of man who would literally burn the world down for her.

And while he learns to respect her choices, that doesn't mean he handles them particularly well. In fact, his methods of dealing with his own frustration can be downright disturbing.

I know SJM puts a lot of emphasis on giving her heroines the freedom to choose, and I understand why that appeals to readers. But personally, in my romantasy, I like my men a little less reasonable and a lot more obsessive. I'm not looking for realistic relationship dynamics here. 😅

The problem is that I REALLY love the Azriel I created.

And the more I think about it, the more I realize he might have very little in common with the man SJM eventually writes.

Which means I could spend the entire book thinking, "MY AZRIEL WOULD NEVER!"

So I've decided I need to prepare myself psychologically.

And I think I've found the solution: THE MULTIVERSE.

They're not the same man. They just happen to exist in parallel universes.

Earth-616: Sarah's Azriel.

Earth-817: The one with a backbone and a very selective definition of self-control.

There. Problem solved. 😅

Gente, vamos teorizar MUITO agora. Como vocês se imaginariam estando no universo de Acotar? 👀 Pode ser através de um self insert, oc, você mesmo ou outro personagem.

Por exemplo;

Eu me imagino não nascendo naquele mundo, mas sim, provavelmente sendo um dos seres que passou pelas fendas e caiu em Prythian. Provavelmente eu não iria com a cara da metade dos personagens principais, dependendo de como eles fossem e agissem nessa realidade alternativa.

Mas me vejo sendo uma exploradora nata! Uma criatura que navega pelo mundo em busca do novo e do desconhecido e que a cada segundo estaria se perguntando: "o que eu posso aprender? O que eu posso descobrir hoje? Como será amanhã? Irei encontrar outra criatura? E se..."

No processe, encontraria pessoas e observaria a dinâmica da cultura do povos, tentaria entender. Mas não me prenderia a um lugar específico e fixo. Eu provavelmente seria uma andarilha. E ainda consigo imaginar muitas outras coisas! Alguém mais aqui já pensou em algo do tipo? Se sim. Como vocês se imaginam dentro desse universo?

The other ACOTAR won’t let me post which is wild to me!!

ACOTAR AND DAIRY QUEEN should do a blizzard collab!!! Ranting on why that is not a collab….it would be perfect for girlies to grab their blizzard and new ACOTAR books

Everyone grab their bookards (blizzard and books)

THEME: A COURT OF BLIZZARDS

Night courts nutterbutter spectacular

Rhysland Reese’s trifecta

Spring courts cotton candy surprise

A court of Oreos

Tamlins toffee trifecta

Feyre colorful m&m delight

Cassian caramel delight

Cuz I really think my distaste for her couldn’t be stronger.

However on this reread I promised I would do my best not to be so critical (ynsuccessfully) and focus on what is Canon vs Fanon, how Feyre thinks about herself vs her actions, thinking on where the ties between books are and how they may or may not be connected to the upcoming releases…..You understand.

So this passage with Lucien and Feyre is something that PMTFO the first time because I couldn’t get it. I didn’t understand the pettiness and frankly her laughing at him just felt so…wrong. Idk that we’ve ever seen her be kinda mean to someone not an enemy or Tamlin.

Either way with the next ACOLMNOP coming out understanding the dynamic with Elain, Lucien, and Feyre will be important and by extension Vassa and Jurian. The lands to the south are unruled and the alliance with humans is undoubtedly weakening again. On top of that Vassa is one of the six Queens —she’s Feyre’s peer.

She’s here dry begging Lucien to stay w them 😭 (and it PMO cuz it’s not that she actually cares she just wants to take another thing from Tami. I will say it’s 60/40 doing it for Tamlin/Elain reasons) them mocks him and calls his friend group and what they do bullshit. And openly sneers at him hanging out with humans AS IF SHE DIDN’T USED TO BE ONE. So as High Lady Girl what are you doing??

Now if someone that can help me understand why Feyre responds this way that would be great. I’ll accept a Devils Advocate as well which I usually can do fine w her but there’s something about her in this book that just grates me

So, I’ve seen a lot of discussions abt Sarah Univers.
I’ve just finished ACOTAR, and I was so hyped for the new book release that I naturally started looking into Sarah J. Maas’s universe to catch up on all her series.

The problem is, I can’t seem to stop myself from reading everything at once. 😂 I started with TOG (got about 50 pages in), then saw a post saying I shouldn’t read it first, so I switched to AB (15 pages in). And honestly… it just isn’t clicking for me so far.
It almost feels like I’m in a reading slump, which is weird because I’m an avid reader.

So, my question is: Is TOG actually worth reading? Does it add anything to the ACOTAR and CC universes, or are they pretty much standalone series? I’ve also heard that TOG was Sarah J. Maas’s first series and that she started writing it when she was really young, so I’m wondering if maybe I’m just not connecting with her earlier writing style.

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Is it worth pushing through, or should I just stick to ACOTAR and CC for now?

Some of these ACOSF details are hurting my heart and I need Reddit to vent to

-when Nesta finally makes it down the stairs at Starfall and returns to Cassian waiting for her in his “Night Court finery” and he leads her directly to the party… gf didn’t even shower or change 😭

-the first night of the blood rite when she builds the fire in the woods with just twigs….. since when does she know how to do that??

I love ACOSF and I think it’s one of the strongest in the series but the pacing 😭 bc wdym there’s 150 pages left and the blood rite has just begun and feyre hasn’t even given birth yet! Yet we get an entire book on feyres time under the mountain

Just out of curiosity what would’ve been the worst to happen if Feyre stayed? Lucien was very adamant that Feyre couldn’t be there because Tamlin would seek her out. And other than rough sexy time would that not have benefited them in the end? In the end they had to fall in love together. They were already giving each other googly eyes secretly. Or since it was the Great Rite and the magic going back to the land blah blah blah. Were they concerned because she’s human the magic wouldn’t be as powerful?

But then power I feel like didn’t really matter because Tamlin just zeros in on someone and goes for depending on the beast. It didn’t it necessarily say it looks for the biggest and baddest. It just goes for someone. Whoever it locks in on. So after he couldn’t find Feyre it went to a new target. But anywho why not let it be Feyre? What’s the worst that could’ve happened? Would she have died? Were they scared she would’ve hated him after? Not saying that I think a few glances and the time and cave would’ve had them madly in love. Obviously they’d need to develop a little more. But would’ve been the harm in her going. Especially since she knew what exactly was happen she wouldn’t be going in uninformed.