ceiling_fan

I don't know why this series inspires me to write so much. Honestly, I have a good guess: It's due to a highly specific combination of how there's a vast world in it which is often unexplored in exchange for characters picking invisible lint in the Night Court. And the morality, as indicated last time, is often flipped from what it should be.

While writing the more serious fic, I started writing sitcom asides, and it kind of... blew up until it was its own 10 arc thing. It started with "what if, when Feyre finds out about Lucien trying to break the bond, they've already opened to the multiverse and it just becomes completely unhinged?"

(The multiverse thing is because the author - Maas - has been doing that with all of her series and, although I haven't read it since I took one look at it and said 'absolutely not,' I know Crescent City is modern world and somehow Nesta and Azriel have already ended up there.)

Notes:
- "Alphahole" is apparently a real term in romantasy circles. It's used in Crescent City. I don't know.
- The pink sofa is real in canon and I, for the life me, do not comprehend why I seem to be the only person in the universe who picked up on it as the single best piece of furniture in the whole series. Especially since, in canon, Jurian is sitting on it snarking at royalty.
- "Make him a sandwich" might sound crude but this is the actual lore for the "mates":

"When the mating bond snaps into place between a male and female, the female must offer the male food so they can be mated. Once a female has done this, she has accepted the mating bond. This can be done in a public mating ceremony or privately where only the couple is present and the female offers the male food, like Rhysand and Feyre Archeron did."

- Thesan is the only character in the series in a committed same-sex relationship. His partner does not have a name and has zero lines.
- The other High Lords in general are just kind of... dismissed, aside from Beron (pure evil) or Tamlin (treated as a villain/controlling ex/now depressed and living in a ruin). They are, however, sovereign leaders, so realistically speaking...
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“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”

This is the most famous line in the whole series. I may have... twisted that a bit at one point. Or two.

This madness somehow ended up having a plot? I probably shouldn't post it anywhere serious, especially since it's written in sitcom script and set the whole series on fire, but this is basically: "The next book if it had any guts. And was an insane sitcom."

Why are parts of it actually serious? Good question. Why does it almost always circle back to some romance or sex plot? Because that is exactly what the books always do.

I don't even have anything in particular against Cassian, but the more the books glaze someone, the more they're getting punted down the ladder. Conversely, the sidelined/dismissed/condemned by the narrative are... well...

With some of the important plot points that will almost certainly be addressed in the actual canon next book are: Elain breaking the bond to be with Azriel over Lucien, Rhysand's "high king" arc, and the multiverse which is almost certain to happen.

Nothing Elain says is actually random.

With that in mind, the madness I somehow wrote over this week. Largely sponsored by the amount of times I've had to hear "assume positive intent" at work over the past month:

( I might need my head examined )


Final note: NGL, I had too much fun writing that version of Elain and now her canon version is almost certain to disappoint me.