#ac0sf is just painfully male centric
like maybe i’m just a toxic person but i think feyre nesta and elain having a screaming match would have added more to the book in terms of a sister relationship than that twilight baby plot ever did
like look me in the eyes and TELL ME nesta elain and feyre yelling about how they failed each other or whatever wouldnt have been a more satisfying resolution over elain being passive aggressive and feyre and nesta not caring about each other for 699 pages then having magic baby solution, i will simply tell u ur wrong
this got me thinking abt how nesta’s arc in this book (no i will not call it a healing arc, fuck that) is SO centred around the men the narrative seems to think she’s wronged. like? all of her problems are either family-related or war-related but it all gets pushed to the side in this book, and for what?
i could accept her father being important in her arc, bc he obviously falls under the banner of family problems, but s//jm not having nesta have those conversations with her sisters (or even deal with her mom problems) speaks SO LOUDLY here. but apparently there’s plenty of time for the narrative to go on abt how cassian is sm better than her & she doesn’t deserve him & etc etc. even her relationship with RHYS gets more actual closure than her relationship with her sisters, and once again it’s her making some grand gesture to make up to rhys for whatever bad thing the narrative thinks she did to him.
but fuck complex relationships between women though!!! fuck nesta’s healing bc that would require her to spend more time with her sisters & other women and this book is too busy making her grovel for men & shoving her into a shitty relationship with the guy who called her unlovable & never really apologized for it!
