I am so fucking pissed at Feyre and Rhysand after ACOFAS

Holy fuck. The way Feyre treats Lucien in this is absolutely horrible. She mocks him for making friends outside of her Inner Circle, and even mocks their name like they don’t call themselves the court of dreams??? Feyre is so hypocritical and then apologizes and CONTINUES to treat him like ass. Lucien has been abused by Tamlin just as much as Feyre if not more. Lucien was there before she came and after she left and I’m going to assume Tamlin took it out on him. Lucien even went out of his way to find her, not for Tamlin, but because he genuinely believed Rhysand had malicious intent. NOT TO MENTION when she returned she genuinely considered LEAVING Lucien to most likely be RAPED by Ianthe. Oh and are we going to mention the fact that she and Rhys are deliberately withholding the information that Helion is his father? Bitch I’m not done. I love Rhysand, I really do, but holy fuck I would expect some more god damn sympathy from him for a man being abused. Rhysand should know fucking better that Lucien is going through a lot of shit and has NOWHERE TO GO. He gets the shit beat out of him by Tamlin, the entire Autumn court is trying to kill him, he doesn’t know about Helion, and Feyre just shits on him at the night court. Who the fuck can possibly be mad at him for making friends with Jurain and Vassa?? Feyre talked so much shit about Lucien being a bad friend and right about now I’m ready to throw hands because this is the most hypocritical fuckery i’ve ever seen thanks for coming to my fucking TED talk.

Idk I can’t agree with this bc Lucien just stood by in acomaf while Feyre was being abused and wasting away and literally kept telling her to wait it out. I don’t think Feyre owes Lucien shit. A lot of Feyre’s trauma flat out is tied to Lucien and I think it’s absolutely absurd to forget that she went through so much and literally lost the very essence of herself and Lucien was a person that just stood by and let it happen. I think it’s one thing to love Lucien as a character, bc believe me I do, but all of Feyre’s trauma is tied to Tamlin and Lucien and people keep forgetting that. Tamlin and Lucien both betrayed them to Hybern. Lucien tried to take her that one day in the woods. Lucien kept telling her to wait it out even tho she was wasting away day by day. Put yourself in Feyre’s position. It wouldn’t be so easy to forgive Lucien and like be his friend.

Lucien is going through a lot of shit and has NOWHERE TO GO

Have I missed something, because I distinctly remember that Rhys and Feyre allowed him to stay in the Night Court, and on top of that in their most precious place - Velaris? And that was after Feyre risked botching her escape plan by helping Lucien. Because, even though her trauma is also thanks to him, she still didn’t want to just leave him, because she isn’t a person who just stands by when her friend is in danger. Also, even after all the shit that’s happened to her (partially thanks to him, might I remind you again) - he judged her relationship and deeds. And she still forgave him. So nope, she doesn’t owe him shit. Rhys all the more so, since he wasn’t even Lucien’s friend in the first place. Also fucking everyone is going through a lot of shit. They’re having enough problems on their own to bother with every hurt person around them.

Lucien was abused and is lost right now - I’m not trying to undermine that. I hope he will find his happiness. But I’d say, that The Court of Dreams, Feyre’s sisters, citizens of Velaris and managing the aftermaths of the war in general are rather higher above Lucien’s fate on Feysand’s list of priorities. Oh, and their own traumas too, of course. So they kinda have a lot more shit to deal with.

You did indeed miss a lot of things. Feyre and Rhysand didn’t “allow” Lucien to stay in Velaris out of the kindness of their hearts but because they felt they could gain information from him as well as the fact that he was literally fighting along side feyre when her rescue happened. Lucien Vanserra was very much so abused and not just by Tamlin is everyone forgetting that his family murdered the love of his life in front of him and then proceeded to run him out of his own court and to this day make attempts on his life???? Feyre murdered one of his friends like that happened??? Its the whole reason she met any of them in the first place whether Tamlin set it up to break the curse or not that isn’t an easy thing to deal with and like she wasn’t even remotely sorry for the longest time until she started having feelings for Tamlin. Lucien tried to help her several times he has no control over Tamlin people seem to conveniently forget that although an asshole Tamlin is indeed a high lord. He was also you know, BEING RAPED by fucking Ianthe the whole time how can y'all have sympathy for Rhysand being raped by Amarantha and completely discard Lucien’s rape and the trauma from that???? So Feyre may not “owe Lucien anything” but where is Lucien at fault? He also owes Feyre not a damn thing and yet he was the first to go to her under the mountain and help her and almost ended up dead for it!? That happened!!! He almost lost his life for helping her!! And because he didn’t jump up immediately after a near death experience and do it again he’s suddenly “done nothing to help” that’s flat out bullshit. And he came back again later and she was pissed because he wasn’t fast enough and she made a deal with Rhysand. Like foh. She chose to put her own suffering over the fact that he just almost lost his goddamn life! Let’s not forget before she got a chance to get to know rhysand feyre also thought he was a villian so how are we gonna judge lucien for believing what he was led to believe by both rhysand and feyre? He went after her and she rather than explain calmly put on a show and I quote “ showed him what he wanted to see” again bullshit. He wanted to see that she was okay and because she put on a show that’s what he had to go back on how else was he supposed to judge the reaktionship?? Also Lucien played no part on Tamlins deal with Hypbern again he holds no power like ????? And again rather than tell Lucien the truth she put on a show. Lucien saw through her glamour he knew she wasn’t being honest and instead of ratting her out he kept his mouth shut and tried to accept the friend he lost and was worried about. And she repayed him by using him, ruining his only friendship, and making sure he had no place to go home to and yet he cared for her while they were escaping and was prepared to die fighting his brothers to protect her!!! His reaction upon being in Velaris says it all. He was genuinely surprised that he wasn’t stepping into a hell hole he really thought Feyre was in danger and miserable all that time!! And upon him being there all Feyre does is treat him like a criminal like i'ts lucien who can’t be trusted! Need I remind y'all it was also Lucien who stepped up and turned the tide in the war? Lucien helped them all along even after Feyre used him and treated him like shit and even though she “let him stay in velaris” it was for her own personal gain and they never made him feel welcome once. All he did was help her and try to care for elain. So It’s Lucien who owes Feyre not a damn thing and yes Feyre does owe Lucien something. A GODDAMN APOLOGY AND A THANK YOU!!! Feyre knew Lucien was also being abused because it mentioned that the thought crossed her mind that she never really thought about the fact that lucien might also be going through shit so don’t try to play the “well she didn’t know” she did know she just didn’t care to gauge the extent of it choosing to ignore it in lieu of her own.

 How can you misinterpret less than 300 words that badly, put things I didn’t say in my mouth and start ranting on things I didn’t even mention is just beyond me XD But okay, I’m gonna address all of this. And it’s gonna be fucking long and in detail.

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yesterday i learned about a mythical creature called a squonk that lives in the hemlock forests of pennsylvania and is so ashamed of how it looks that it spends 80% of its time crying, only comes out at night, and if you corner it it will literally physically dissolve into a puddle of its own tears until you go away and if that’s not the most relatable thing i’ve ever heard idk what is

#that’s not a cryptid that’s just me chillin

Hold the eff up.

Wasn't squonk also a character in that kids show "Winx". The fairy girls with powers?!

Holy shit he was. He cried into a puddle of tears.

The Night Court Illustration is FINALLY finished!! <3 Yeyyyy!! Patrons will be getting tutorials on how I created this piece! 

Ok so, unpopular opinion alert! I am half way through reading ACoFAS and so far …. I’m really not enjoying it. Its very underwhelming and the characters feel really odd to me? The writing feels really different too - I’m really disappointed because I was really looking forward to it, but yea. Hmmm. 

What do you guys think!? 

Characters copyright Sarah J Maas. Illyrian fighting leathers inspired by Charlie Bowaters design. 

Shadow of the Tomb Raider  official trailer ! 😍

Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world

- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’

- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction

- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour

- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’

- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc

- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from

- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant

- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white

- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’

- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired

This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American. 

This doesn’t just apply to “darker skin” Europeans either (which I’m sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.

Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you aren’t from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isn’t that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people can’t experience racism because that’s such a US-centric idea.

And if you’re from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UK’s resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?

(That’s Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)

(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)

(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)

(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)

They are white! Just because they are white, it doesn’t mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesn’t mean that they can’t be constantly told that they don’t work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they don’t deserve basic human rights.

So just before you force your ignorance onto people who don’t hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.

Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what I’ve been trying to say for far too long into words!

…I didn’t know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.

But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.

For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about “Mexicans” (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).

It’s worth understanding that

1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.

2. They don’t take the same form everywhere.

I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.

I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.

Being white is not that cut and dry over here.

And being “socially” white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered “white”.

READ THIS POST IF YOURE AMERICAN

I’m American and this is the FIRST time I’ve ever heard any of this. I always think I’m up to date on world issues but wow I am not. Thank you to everyone for sharing! 

About discrimination between nations in Europe, speaking Finnish and Sami languages in schools in Sweden was forbidden from students because Finns and Sami people were considered to be the lower race. Of course Europe has racism against black people, but yes, thinking about Europeans being “white” as whole is weird because a white Finn and a white Greek person couldn’t be more apart with their cultures.

Yes, all of this, and let’s not forget people like the Finnish speaking Finns have historically and from some cultural standpoints a lot more common with native Americans and the Asians and Blacks in America than white Americans, despite our recent “rise” in the social rank of race.

Less than 100 years ago we were considered mongoloid (and while it’s not entirely wrong, though Uralic or North-West Asian and Caucasian mix would be lot more accurate), and were oppressed by another nation (Russia) that tried to enforce cultural and linguistic genocide on us, and before that we were oppressed and practically enslaved by Sweden, not all that differently as in any other colonized nation–which we were for 800 years.

For all intents and purposes, our “whites” are the Swedish-speaking Finns, who to this day continue to be a lot more privileged than the Finnish-speaking Finns, on average.

In Italy, Southern people are considered less than Northern people and I, as a Northern people, can assure you sometimes it’s pretty bad. Mostly thanks to an idiotic right wing party that thinks that Italy should be divided in two: over the Po and below the Po (our longest river). They even think our ancestors are Celts lmao. Also a lot of people from the South are “less white” (again it’s stupid but whatever it’s just to make you understand), because they have ancestors from Africa so they are mixed, therefore their skin isn’t white as snow.

Also in Italy people from slavic countries are often victim to xenophobia, people are always ready to see romanians/albanian/russians…etc as culprits for everything, and it’s not unusual to hear someone says “this hairstyle makes you look like an albanian!” or “why are you going out dressed as a romanian” yeah they use slavic people as an insult bc people are led to think that they come here just to steal everything from us. And guess what most of them are white as snowflakes!

I’d like to point out that also italian people have faced discrimination from other european countries. We were, and sadly often still are, always seen as part of the mafia and therefore dangerous, or inferior and poor (y’all can find signs saying pretty nasty stuff online, and i’m leaving this here even tho it’s in Italian), i’ve heard a lady telling his son to stay away from me and my family because we were speaking italian and so we could do “bad things” to him and there were times when in shops we were made feel not welcome because we are italian…..and guess what my family is white.

So please when you are outside the us don’t try to apply your “racial standards” bc they are not valid in europe.

Rhys and Feyre illustration for a candle label design for Wick and Fable! To see more and grab your own, head on over to www.wickandfable.com 

Characters copyright Sarah J Maas .

Azriel for #weareacotar March

Thanks for being patient with me everyone, hope ya’ll like it. I dunno whats happened over the past few months but I’m liking how my art is rn :)

@something-called-sno @pancakeollika @raconteurwitch @lyannablackbeak @urbisie @tntwme tagging cus I thought you’d like it <3 

Changed Evangeline’s design a tad as I was painting (Character from @VictoriaAveyard Red Queen series). Now I have to paint the  dudes and make the scarlet guard characters, so much art I want to do, so little time  T_T

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328546-red-queen?ac=1&from_search=true

The Great Masters had used the pit as a prison. It was large enough to hold five hundred men … and more than ample for two dragons. For how long, though? What will happen when they grow too large for the pit? Will they turn on one another with flame and claw? Will they grow wan and weak, with withered flanks and shrunken wings? Will their fires go out before the end?

What sort of mother lets her children rot in darkness?

If I look back, I am doomed, Dany told herself …

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I know I already made a video for TOG but this books mean so much to me and after rereading Empire of Storms I was inspired to make another one. I am not really 100 satisfied with the result but decided I will still share it no matter what. I hope you’ll enjoy it ^-^ and thanks for watching! 

Assassin’s Creed Origins + Concept Art

Ruminating on scale stuff. A closer pass at the Ridge Ray face, pulling more heavily from my reference (photo/animal in foreground is mine).

Did a study based on Amaretto. More of my kids will show up in future Ray Dragon designs, methinks.