For my fellow Taylor Swift and Sarah J. Maas fans. Since it’s A Court of Silver Flames eve, here’s a thread of Taylor Swift lyrics that fit ACOTAR characters and ships.
Feyre Archeron / The Archer: I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost, The room is on fire, invisible smoke, And all of my heroes die all alone, Help me hold onto you
Rhysand / Peace: I never had the courage of my convictions, As long as danger is near, And it’s just around the corner, darling, ‘Cause it lives in me, No, I could never give you peace
Starfall Feysand / Enchanted: This night is sparkling, don’t you let it go, I’m wonder struck, blushing all the way home, I’ll spend forever wondering if you knew, I was enchanted to meet you
Feyre and Tamlin / exile: I never learned to read your mind (never learned to read my mind), I couldn’t turn things around (you never turned things around), 'Cause you never gave a warning sign (I gave so many signs)
The ACOMAF wedding scene / Speak Now: Don’t say yes, run away now, I’ll meet you when you’re out of the church at the back door, Don’t wait, or say a single vow, You need to hear me out, And they said speak now
Nesta Archeron / The Man: And I’m so sick of them coming at me again, 'Cause if I was a man, then I’d be the man
Elain Archeron / Breathe: And we know it’s never simple, never easy, Never a clean break, no one here to save me
Cassian / State of Grace: And I never saw you coming, And I’ll never be the same, You come around and the armor falls, Pierce the room like a cannon ball, Now all we know, is don’t let go
Nessian / Treacherous: And I’d be smart to walk away, But you’re quicksand, This slope is treacherous, This path is reckless, This slope is treacherous, And I-I-I like it
Azriel / Beautiful Ghosts: So I watch from the dark, wait for my life to start, With no beauty in my memory
Mor / ME!: I promise that you’ll never find another like ME!, I’m the only one of me, Baby, that’s the fun of me
Amren / Ready for It?: Knew I was a robber first time that he saw me, Stealing hearts and running off and never sayin’ sorry, But if I’m a thief, then he can join the heist
Lucien / I Know Places: They are the hunters, we are the foxes and we run, Baby, I know places we won’t be found, And they’ll be chasing their tails trying to track us down, 'Cause I, I know places we can hide
Elriel / gold rush: 'Cause I don’t like a gold rush, gold rush, I don’t like anticipatin’ my face in a red flush
Elucien / invisible string: And isn’t it just so pretty to think, All along there was some Invisible string, Tying you to me?
also it’s funny how y’all love this enemies to lovers trope where the guy is devoid of any emotion/humanity and softens/develops he falls in love but the moment that, god forbid, a morally grey, traumatised, imperfect female character is introduced you hate on her because she isn’t as agreeableorniceas the MC.
spoiler alert: your internalised misogyny is showing.
addition:
no but can we just talk about how aaron warner and nesta archeron are literally the same character yet one is worshiped and the other is hated ????
it’s so fucking funny how y’all love this enemies to lovers trope where the guy is devoid of any emotion/humanity and softens/develops when he falls in love but the moment that- god forbid- a morally grey, traumatised, imperfect female character is introduced you hate on her because she isn’t as agreeableorniceas the MC.
spoiler alert: your internalised misogyny is showing.
i’ll say this once and once only (who am i kidding i’ll repeat this to my grave and it’ll possibly be engraved on my gravestone):
NESTA ARCHERON IS TOO GOOD FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN RHYSANDS HYPOCRITICAL INNER CIRCLE (MORE LIKE INNER CULT)
i’m sorry but i’m getting the craziest deja vu between how tamlin treated feyre after UTM and how feysand treated nesta in this book (legit same abuse just in different fonts). this is not to excuse nesta’s previous behaviour but like sis was traumatised??? and they wanted her to jump into work as part of their happy little court like her father didn’t jus die in front of her and she didn’t behead a guy?
alcoholism and sex are common ways people deal with trauma… are they the healthiest? no, ofc not but locking her in the House of Wind (idc how pretty her prison is it’s still a prison) is legit equal to tamlin locking up feyre in his manor. she should have been given interventions, of course, and been offered more help but like to force her to train which may have been triggering so soon after the war is fucking evil. and the audacity of mor and amren to suggest even worse locations (the prison and the court of nightmares) like what the fuckkkkkkkk.
everyone in this book showed their true colours and the entire inner cult SUCKS. don’t even get me started on the lack of reading the mf room when feysand built their palace right after a war. moreover why tf does their so called high lord care about nothing else in the night court but velaris ??? they really said fuck illyria and everything else y’all fend for yourselves. and they want him as high king ?? colonising is not the solution for prythian babes and even if a high king was needed rhys would legit be the worst kind ever since he’s so heavily biased towards his little twinkle city. i would take beron over him as high king fr.
anyways rant over but acosf PISSED ME TF OFF. i literally got so mad i had to put it down multiple times. i don’t think i can handle much more of this. since azriel didn’t annoy me as much as the rest i think i’ll be able to handle a book from his POV as long as i don’t have to deal with the rest of his merry men much.
some of you have never had an unpopular female character as a hyperfixation and been forced to scroll through pages upon pages of bad hot takes about how terrible her character is while trying to peruse her tag for actual fanworks and it shows
tell me you’ve loved nesta from acotar without telling me you loved nesta from acotar
wtf was that ending??? the most anticlimactic shit i have ever read… we asked for a nesta book but we GOT FEYSAND PROPAGANDA INSTEAD?
sjm couldn’t even entertain the POSSIBILITY of a nesta supremacy 2021??? she’s just complacent to the IC now.. barely any powers yet feysand get to keep theirs and then some??????? there was so much potential for her magic and this is how it ends? her apologizing on her KNEES?? the bitch who had rhys shaking in his boots to then go hug him
i’m so sleep deprived, i’m so annoyed. i got this book for FREE but i still feel like my time and money was wasted. again i’m calling all my fanfic writers to do my girl nesta some justice.
cause again WTF WAS THAT
it’s been almost a year now and yeah nothing has changed. i have yet to re read that ending
I’ve been wanting to re-draw the two illustrations I’ve made of Nesta and Elain, and then add Feyre to it since I’ve never drawn the third sister! I think this re-draw looks A LOT better than the original, and I’m so happy with it. plus Nesta as a Valkyrie? Hell yeah! ⚔️✨
✨ I’ve had this image stuck in my head for weeks and I needed to draw their family picture. Reading ACOSF made me feel even sorrier for the three sisters because of how their mother and father treated them. Nesta, the one who was groomed by her mother to be like her. Elain, who was only seen as a pretty face by her mother. And Feyre, the one her mother only cared about when it came to protecting the family.
✨ so here it is, and I honestly cried while sketching this out. It was a very emotional piece to me.
