Ranting With Sav

When I say ACOSF made me hate the pregnancy trope in any shape or form, I mean it made me HATE the entirety of the trope and anything that falls under it across genres. I am a writer myself (even though I’m not published). I wrote a series where in the final book, the couple gets pregnant. I researched the hell out of pregnancy stages to the point that I was well versed in them, and I’ve never been pregnant or even thought about getting pregnant myself as of today.

I now stay away from and have dnf’d multiple books after ACOSF because that trope makes my skin crawl. I think it’s some sort of trauma response after reading how violated Feyre was in that book by the very people who were supposed to love her and value her opinion (and autonomy) the most, only for another woman, Nesta, to pay the price by losing so much of her power while the male responsible for the violation faced nothing but an off-page scolding after threatening to murder Nesta for HIS mistakes. I never had a trigger warning I needed to be mindful of before starting a new read, but now I’ve set up a trigger warning just for pregnancy so I don’t accidentally read anything with that trope no matter how happy the couple is.

I can handle main characters who are parents. I can handle the single mom/single dad trope. But pregnancy trope? Unless the pregnancy is a tiny-minuscule-minor subplot with little impact on the main characters, I will avoid it like the plague.

I know so many people have a huge issue with how SJM handled it too, but the number of people excusing and justifying it is one too many. And it’s not even about “how misogynistic of you to think that once a woman becomes a mom, she can’t be a badass.” No. I promise you, I read the pregnancy trope just fine before the abomination that was Feyre’s pregnancy.

SJM is just so bad at it that I sighed in relief when spoiler HOFAS ended without a pregnancy.

This is so true because I don't understand the need to push a trope which SJM clearly couldn't write well.

Also how ACOSF ended, with Nesta altering Feyre's and her body to fit Illyrian babies in the future somehow doesn't sit right with me.

Wdyt?

"Fae age slower, so Rhys is actually supposed to be only in his late 20s or 30s, so of course, he makes mistakes."

No! What we wouldn't do is excuse the dumb, evil shit he does with that stupidity. I don’t care what kind of "make it up as we go" aging narrative we have for a fae here. He is almost 600 years old. He’s closer to 1000 years old than an infant. Maybe look wise, he looks like a 30year old human, but you don’t compare experience like that.

He’s been in warS... plural. And just think about it: the way a 30 yo thinks is different from a 20 yo. A 20 yo will have a vastly different mindset than even a 15 yo. That’s because experience and maturity of the mind aren’t tied to flimsy "aCkTuAlLy, bIoLoGiCaLlY" fantasy fae bullshit.

So why tf does this fandom keep making up excuses for him by bringing up how fae mature? Insane. Anything to avoid blaming him, like he’s going to come home at the end of the day, upset, to their home. Be serious.

thanks to myself to stopping reading acotar halfway through acomaf

everything i see about is how badly women are treated and how awful men in that universe are

i saw the red flag in the court of nigthmares and i don't regret to giving up

Had to dig up my ACOMAF ebook in order to cite some quotes for a discussion and I found 2 things that made me really shake my head when it comes to Feyre......this is PART 1...........

Chapter 8, after the tithe, when Tamlin finds out that Feyre gave the water wraiths the jewels and he is upset with her. They have an argument about it, and Feyre says "But I'm not going to take that chance and let them starve, because of some ridiculous rule that your ancestors invented."

But then.....isn't the Hewn City evil and kept trapped under the mountain because of some ridiculous rule that Rhysand's ancestors invented????!!!

Isn't Illyria the way that it is because of some ridiculous rule that Rhysand's/or some other people's (cough...cough.. HOFAS) ancestors invented????!!!!

Where is the rebellious compassionate Feyre here.....never met her.

i miss the ACOTAR Feyre man that girl was fierce asf kicking ass left n right

Seeing people defend Feysand's death pact is my thirteenth reason.

Sorry not sorry, how are some of you this fucking stupid? Like what the fuck do you mean it was romantic????? HUH????? My brother in Christ, let's be so for fucking real right now. There is NOTHING romantic about a fucking DEATH PACT HOLY FUCK

it's like saying let's do a collective $uicide in a kinky way (it surely doesn't matter if our kid grows up an orphan right) some of y'all need to get help lmfao

My blood boils whenever I think about Feyre mocking Lucien for making friends and for them coming up with a cool name for each other.

Then I remember that Lucien called Feyre out for being an asshole and my blood stops boiling.

he's just a sassy little fireboy 🎀

im curious how do night court citizens pay taxes? guessing velaris pay for it like modern way and if not then what’s their punishment?

and what about hewn city?

and what about illyrians? how do illyrians pay for taxes? what’s the system for them? same as high faes living in city? like they’re warriors, so do they get paid for fighting in war? and how do they earn when there’s no war? i suppose they all have jobs when they aren’t spending their entire days in fighting area?

and who pays ppl like devlon who are incharge of the whole camp?

who in night court manages the taxes and oversees the money court is spending?

If I lived in the Court of Nightmares I would pull a Luigi on Rhysand

Beautiful, clever and vicious Valkyrie - Gwyn from ACOTAR (any others) book series by Sarah J. Mass.

*tries to describe tamlin* *ends up describing alucard* i want to bash my head.

bonus...

(the art is not my own)

Dorian Havilliard commission for _mlovesbooks_ on IG! 💙💙💙

Art by me 💖 IG: aggiedraws_

Archeron sisters are perfect example on difference between being kind and being nice.

Nesta is kind, but she's not nice

Elain is nice, but not kind

And Feyre is neither