Cordelia Carstairs - @cassandraclare

Let me tell y'all punks something about ACOWAR (spoiler FREE I promise)

I LOVED this book for one glaring reason (that goes beyond how much more Azriel we got, but I digress).

That reason is the gray area. There is SO. MUCH. moral gray area in ACOWAR. Characters that I admittedly thought were PERFECT and could do no wrong did wrong. Characters I thought were pure evil did right.

SJM portrayed a beautiful picture of humanity in a fantastical world. Not one of us is morally right or morally wrong, point blank. We are MESSY, and so was every character in ACOWAR. MESSY. And she didn’t shy away from portraying them as such. The characters moved all over the spectrum of right and wrong and that’s just LIFE.

The gray area is a GOOD THING. Now is it going to incite a million and one arguments on this platform concerning the age old argument of “oh so and so did this when they should have done this because I say so and since they didn’t they’re A PURE EVIL ABUSER SATAN WORSHIPPER BLAH BLAH BLAH.” And that part sucks. But real people are messy and all over the spectrum. And so is ACOWAR and I LOVE IT.

Shadowhunters in Classic Fairytales

So, this is a really, REALLY crazy theory of TWP, but...

F*CKING ASH MORGENSTERN IS THAT YOU?!

My only ACTUAL RANT about ACOSF- Rhysand

Ok so I’ve gotten a couple asks/ messages about why I still hate Rhys and I mean there are so many reasons...most of which are the same as before ACOSF since his character didn’t change but is just now also someone who hides life altering pregnancy news from a pregnant woman???

But even beyond all of that- a big reason why I’m still an anti is that scene where he warns Nesta to be nice to Gwyn and Cassian calls out a MASSIVE truth- that Rhysand refuses to believe even one decent thing about Nesta. Which is unfair to Nesta, but also made me realize how much more difficult all of this is made for Cassian, and how unfair Rhys’ attitude is to Cassian who never ONCE questioned Feyre.

Why would he have questioned Feyre you ask? Idk how about the fact that when she first came to the Night Court Feyre:

Hated Rhysand

Was only there for a bargain

Was literally about to marry another High Lord

Refused the job that Rhysand offered her in the night court

Didn’t want to stay in the night court

Asks to be taken back to the spring court

And still everyone in the IC is obviously so nice to her because-among other things- she’s Rhysand’s mate and they trust him even if there’s a chance she is a literal actual spy or traitor.

Please now compare that to the scene where Cassian literally tells Rhys to fuck off because he REFUSES TO BELIEVE EVEN ONE DECENT THING ABOUT NESTA.

A woman who:

Has no loyalties outside of the Night Court

Risked her position in the mortal world for the Night Court

Was turned into a Fae for the night court

Trained to repair the wall for the night court

Fought in the war for the night court

SAVED CASSIAN (Rhys’ so called “brother”)’S LIFE

KILLED THE KING OF HYBERN

Still went to the post war strategy meetings

At this point in the book had also already agreed to scry for the Dread Trove even though it’s traumatic as fuck for her FOR THE NIGHT COURT

AND THIS BITCH ASS RICE CAKE CANNOT THINK ONE SINGLE DECENT THING ABOUT HER.

No one even said trust. No one said like.

LITERALLY GIVE HER THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT ONE TIME YOU SELF RIGHTEOUS P R I C K

I will NEVER forgive Rhysand for this, tbh. He only forgave Nesta for her great crimes of *checks notes* not hunting at 15 and then being traumatized after a war... when she saved him, Feyre, and Nyx. Someone who has done as much as Nesta has and suffered as much as she has, despite other failings, should not have to STOP TIME AND SPACE AND SAVE THREE LIVES IN ORDER TO GAIN THE FORGIVENESS OF ONE STUPID STAR BLINKING PRICK.

As an addendum I’ll say- I get that Nesta isn’t perfect. She was mean and has addiction issues that needed to be addressed but you know what those things are super common for? VETERAN PTSD. This world CANNOT go on and on about mental health while literally refusing to allow a main male protagonist to forgive a war veteran unless they save everyone just because they “aren’t nice”

These random waves of sadness when your doing just fine will be the end of me. How is my heart still dropping every time I remember

mmm just some self-indulgent modern au stuff ft my fav girls

Im so Pacific Northwest and new England coded

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One single thread of gold tied me to u ❤️

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