Am I the only one who when reading acotar, if it’s not an actual plot point about something, then I genuinely don’t care?
When people hate on Rhys and Feyre for getting a fifth house after the war when their people are trying to rebuild the city. It’s like?? Thats never been brought up as an issue in the books so why should I care about that? Why should you care about that?
(Besides the fact that in ACOFAS, the people have to force feyre to go home and stop helping)
Or when people say they dislike feyre because she ‘destroyed the spring court’ and ‘made hundreds of people from the spring court homeless.’ Like that is not a major plot in the book. We literally do not know anything about any of spring court people that fled.
Not to mention that 1.) feyre told tamlin she would do exactly that and he didn’t listen 2.) all feyre did was expose tamlin. Every instance, she gave him a chance to do the right thing and he didn’t EVERY. TIME. 3.) tamlin had already teamed up with prythians BIGGEST ENEMY, an EVIL king. You think that was gonna end well for the spring Court even if feyre hadn’t intervened??
But my point is, why should you care about this hypothetical situation that we don’t even know is accurate enough to have it as a reason to dislike feyre??
Did tamlin’s people abandon him? Yes. Do we know for certain that they’re homeless? No.
they could actually be thriving, happily in another court for all we know.
But considering the kind of high lord tamlin was, I’m fairly certain those people are better off.
Tamlin was willing to let his people starve if they couldn’t pay taxes. Tamlin sided with Ianthe sooo much, even after she sold out Feyre’s sisters, to the point that he allowed one of his won soldiers to be whipped even after that soldier exposed ianthe for using magic on him. Tamlin sided with Hybern and allowed his forced to come into his last. Tamlin beat up Lucien and was physically violent with feyre. Tamlin did NOTHING under the mountain.
And it would be different if we got to meet a spring court inhabitant that fled tell their story and show that that did in fact happen and that feyre ruined the lives of all these people. But we didn’t.
“Whatever you did … it worked. Tamlin’s sentries abandoned him. Over half his people refused to appear for the Tithe two days ago. Some are leaving for other courts. Some are murmuring of rebellion. It seems you made yourself quite beloved. Holy, even.”
Abandoned him. Leaving for other courts. Murmuring of rebellion. Not scrapping for food. Not homeless. All feyre did was show them exactly who tamlin was. The people of the spring court finally saw that and abandoned him. They loved feyre enough to leave their homes, to possibly rebel against tamlin. You think they would love feyre this much if they had to flee and were on the brink of starvation and homelessness? No.
But it’s feyre fault that his people left him because they hypothetically could’ve become homeless? You hate her because of this? Oh ok
Or the people that hate Rhys for the hypothetical children of the court of nightmares that are stuck there.
Like what is the point in making up these problems and scenarios that aren’t plot points in the book in order to dislike/hate on characters?
And I feel like it’s just Feysand that gets this type of hate where someone has to bring up these situations and problems that aren’t even rlly mentioned in the books?
Like I could understand mentioning the female Illyrian wing clipping. (even tho that was completely explained in the books, but I digress.) something that actually happens in the book and is an actual plot point and we see an actual character effected by (emerie)
But to bring up stuff like that, I’m just genuinely like?? Why should I care?? Why should that make me dislike Feysand?
Does this make sense?? Is this just me?? Pls let me know
