Can we take a moment to appreciate how the first mates/mating bond we ever saw was Emrys and Malakai in HoF, and how they were both men.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how a princess with a stick up her ass is unafraid to say she's in love with another woman.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how Aedion, the Wolf from the North, openly admits that he has had male lovers in the past.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how Morrigan tells Feyre that she prefers women to men.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how there are two High Lords, some of the most powerful people in the world, who do not care that others know that they've taken many men to their bed before.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how SJM listens to us and gives us what we ask for without complaint, how she modifies her stories for us.
And some of y'all still cannot be appreciative.
Smh.
Josh was her first and only boyfriend, and she married him.
she literally married her first love.
she literally married her first love.
she literally married her first love.
Rowan: Do we even have a plan?
Aelin: What if we did have a plan?
Rowan:
Aelin:
Rowan: What's the plan?
Aelin: oh, I don't know. I was hoping you had one.
- Aelin, most definitely.
Rhysand: Does anyone have shaving cream?
Cassian: No, I don't like the way it tastes.
Feyre: You've eaten shaving cream?
Cassian: Of course not. Why would I eat it if I didn't like the taste?
Cassian: Okay, Azriel, if I were the last man on Earth, would you date me?
Azriel: If you were the last man on Earth, I wouldn't exist.
Cassian:
Cassian: Goddamn.
Cassian: [Phone rings]
Nesta: Wow. Your contact for your dad is still "daddy"? What are you, two?
Cassian: [On the phone] Hey, Azriel.
I might get a lot of hate for this, but oh well.
There's one thing in ACOFAS that's been eating at me a lot: Rhysand.
Let me begin with, I do not hate Rhysand, but lately, he's been annoying me. I strongly feel that everyone should be treated equally, and I feel like Rhysand would be one to agree; the only problem is: he's doing the exact opposite.
Nesta. Nesta, throughout ACOFAS, was struggling with PTSD. A lot of the Inner Circle was, though, personally, I think Nesta got the short end of the stick. Nesta loves Feyre. She truly does, but she shows it in very subtle ways which we're not used to, but for four to five years, Nesta, supposedly, was a bully towards Feyre.
Now, Rhysand being Feyre's mate and all, of course he's going to be annoyed/mad at Nesta for taking her little sister for granted. That makes sense. What made my liking for Rhysand as a character drop in this book is the fact that he fully blames Nesta for what happened those four to five years, but he places absolutely no blame on Elain. That's wrong. Elain was a bystander. She didn't help Feyre at all, she just sat in her small ass garden and planted seeds all day; nonetheless, Rhysand is still very kind, very loving, very welcoming of Elain, but he fucking hates Nesta.
Rhysand's excuse for not blaming and hating Elain is: "Elain is Elain" (Maas 51). Would you like to know what he's saying? He's saying he doesn't blame Elain because she is weak and submissive. Because she is gentle and kind and because she let's others stomp over her—that's why it's not Elain's fault. No. No, Elain deserves as much disgust and hate that Nesta gets. I don't care if "[Nesta's] an Illryian at heart" (Maas 51) no, she's human. She's not a type of Fae with bat wings. She's going to make mistakes and she's going to do a lot of shitty things in her life, just because "she's an Illryian at heart" (Maas 51) does not mean she can't make mistakes or do shitty stuff.
Elain is a bystander. I doubt that she'll ever not be a bystander. She didn't stand up for Feyre once. And she deserves as much blame as Nesta is getting for her actions.
"If you blame one, you have to blame the other" (Maas 51).
Cassian: That's weird.
Rhysand: What's wrong?
Cassian: I keep trying to look up jokes, but pictures of Tamlin keep popping up.
Rhysand:
Rhysand: I mean,
Rhysand: it ain't wrong.
Rowan: Bitch
Lorcan: Blocked
Rowan: Wait, quickly, unblock me, I've got something really important to say
Lorcan: Unblocked
Rowan: biTCH
Can we please take a moment to analyze this quote.
