2000th Listen Of Cardigan And @taylorswift I Need To Know How The Fuck Did You Rhyme Cardigan With Car

Remember how I said SJM was to blame for me failing Algebra bc of the acotar tv adaption?

Well guess what, I failed Mandarin :>

“My name is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, and I will not be afraid.”

I am screaming over my own art right now. This came out 10x better than I had initially envisioned and I am so damn proud of it✊🏻

House of Sky and Breath Ending Spoilers:

For the people who can’t watch the video right now, here is the scroll down version! For the video I edited the audio so that it ends sooner, but you’ll be able to watch the first part with the music like this too, only the ending deviates… So I highly recommend watching the video on a desktop too!!

Enjoy ^^

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“Bread and Roses” 🍞🌹

Elain, Feminism, and Deeper Implications?

Disclaimer 1: This is my first time posting! I am very new to the “fandom.” I got a Tumblr after finishing the ACOTAR series and wanted to delve deeper into underlying theory, mythology, folklore and themes. I found such thorough and beautiful analyses and theories on here, so I decided to legitimize my lurking and just get an account. I’m not really sure how Tumblr works with the tags. Please be forgiving and kind if I did all of this wrong!

Disclaimer 2: I have read all of SJM’s books. I am “pro”Elain, Feyre, Nesta and every character in the series (yes- even the “evil” ones). I say that bc I have noticed (as a newbie) this fandom has a tendency to get nasty so quickly and we miss the essence of such psychologically complex and dynamic characters. I am a clinical psychologist, and have a great appreciation for how SJM writes all of her characters (villains included). That being said, this is a pro-Elain/pro- woman post. If you don’t like Elain, then don’t read this!

Ok so 🚨 Major HOSAB spoiler below 🚨

Let me just be honest, I knew the ending of HOSAB before reading it (LOL). I couldn’t help but look online and spoil it for myself. I am who I am. I am totally and unapologetically the girl who reads the last page of the book before starting. Guilty as charged.

Anyways, let’s talk about mf’n bread and roses. I tried to look around and see if anybody was discussing the MAJOR sociopolitical and historical implications of this, but didn’t see anything (so sorry if I missed somebody’s post and this was previously discussed). Bread and Roses is a slogan tied to feminist advocacy and the suffrage movement.

On a surface level, “bread and roses” is OBVIOUSLY alluding to Elain who is not present in the scene. I don’t see how anybody could argue that this symbolism is heavily associated with Elain. What I am talking about is the deeper implication for Elain with SJM assigning these symbols to her throughout the series. For whatever reason, I never put it together on the deeper level until it was literally in print, in front of my eyeballs, and I read aloud multiple times “BREAD AND ROSES!!!!” It was in this moment that I realized SJM is more brilliant and, potentially, politically bold than I originally thought.

Because…BREAD AND ROSES!? Let’s briefly chat about the implications of this and how I think this totally ties in with Elain, our most “feminine” coded character in the SJM metaverse. So the slogan “Bread and Roses” was coined by labor organizer Rose Schneiderman in a 1911 speech encouraging women to fight for more than bare minimum pay for necessities (bread)..we also deserve love, beauty, art, and MORE (roses). We deserve to not just survive, but to live: “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.” This inspired the poem “Bread and Roses” by James Oppenheim, which later became a song, as well as a feminist/civil rights/labor rights slogan that is still relevant and readily used today. In fact, the 2019 Women’s March theme in London was…Bread and Roses. And..just read this:

Bread and Roses

By James Oppenheim

As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing, bread and roses, bread and roses

As we come marching, marching, we battle too, for men
For they are women's children and we mother them again
Our days shall not be sweated from birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread, but give us roses

As we come marching, marching, un-numbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread
Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew
Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses, too

As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days
The rising of the women means the rising of the race
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes
But a sharing of life's glories, bread and roses, bread and roses

Notice any parallels? Any buzzwords in there from any specific prophesies you noticed? 😉

The slogan “Bread and Roses” was a rallying cry during the Lawrence Strike, aka “Bread and Roses Strike,” aka “The Singing Strike(!!)” in 1912. The Bread and Roses Strike was a large strike of women textile workers in Lawrence, MA. Many women were beaten and soaked with firehoses in the dead of winter. What was unique, at this time in history, was the “spirit” of the workers who were singing and chanting. I read that singing was an integral part of the success of the strike, as many could not read or speak English. Song was used to bring women together and help others learn the English language.

Are you seeing any possible parallels here, but in a fantasy world with magical powers, yet? Perhaps some “singing” powers as it might pertain to Elain developing more understanding and fluency of her powers? Because…I am!

(I’m going to stay away from shipping bc I am honestly terrified to go there with the fandom and don’t want to get my head ripped off…but yea.)

Ok so how does this tie into Elain, you ask? Elain is disliked by a lot of the fandom (from what I can see) bc she’s seen as “boring.” She’s seen as a bland/vanilla girl who just enjoys her flowers and baking. People use this to justify their stance in the ship war. She’s “too much” in regards to domesticity and simplicity (by perspectives I have read). She’s a very traditionally feminine coded, gender-loaded character..kind of like these symbols which have been used throughout the women’s/civil rights movement to fight with and rally behind. I think people are about to be VERY surprised by Elain. I was already sure of this and then I read that last chapter of HOSAB..and I’m convinced!

Rose Schneiderman in 1911: “What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist—the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.”

Sun, music, art…hmmm.

SJM is an unapologetic feminist. In the dedication to KOA SJM wrote:

“For my parents--who taught me to believe that girls can save the world”

Her using Bread and Roses and connecting Elain to bread and roses as symbols throughout the ACOTAR series was intentional. It was not an accident. It is not in place to stand that she is weak and boring. That she is naive and simple. I truly believe SJM has a (large) percentage of the fandom believing that Elain is a simple and domestic woman who just wants to garden her flowers and bake her bread (“she belongs in Spring!”), but Bread and Roses are so much more than that. There is hope for more. There is hope shining through the void to not just survive! But to live! You will not tell me otherwise after that slapped me in the face. Bread and Roses is a rallying cry, still used in civil rights movements to this day! Used to advocate for racial, gender, and social equality. LGBTQ rights, labor rights, politics….Bread and flippin’ roses.

Women do not have to settle for the bare necessities. Women do not have to settle for surviving. We (Elain included) deserve to live! Bread and Roses is a slogan representative of egalitarianism. Balance. No matter our sexual orientation, race, religion, gender, or hobbies…we are ALL deserving of love and beauty. Joy and wonder. Art and song. That’s what Bread and Roses is about.

And…because I can’t resist…an author who has associated such STRONG feminist symbols with a character would never pit that character against another woman over a man. SJM is not going to make this next book about a man’s choice of what woman he wants. It will be Elain ‘Bread and Roses’ Archeron’s choice to get her damn roses. To not simply settle for the bread. I have never been more confident in where the direction is going. Shipping aside, Elain’s book is about the serve.

“Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread, but give us roses”

I would love to hear thoughts or if anybody else picked up on this!

I was a dreamer born into the Court of Nightmares.

roh’s favourites: The Morrigan in A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Fourth Wing Characters And Their Red Flags (Iron Flame Spoilers)

Violet: really bad at basic math (6+1=??), constantly interrupts people when they’re about to spill the tea, caused a questionable stain on the Tyrrendor Throne.

Xaden: unresolved mommy issues, really bad at 20 questions, stuck in his emo phase, has Endgame by Taylor Swift on repeat so much it seeps into his vocabulary, inappropriate use of the communal gym showers, self-sacrificial to a fault.

Dain: patchy beard, memory thief, used his nepo baby connections to get the wingleader position even though he sucks at it, has a low key crush on Xaden (the true enemies to lovers all along).

Jesinia: writes Xaden & Violet fanfiction with explicit scenes during work hours.

Andarna: forgets to take her melatonin and makes it everyones problem.

Tairn: major exasperated dad energy, v emotional and impulsive, unresolved trauma around Naolin, superiority complex when it comes to gryphons.

Sgael: Not that good at making choices.

Nolon: HIPAA violations for sure, was the true weakest link all along.

Caroline Ashton: dared to be in the book more than Garrick???? Literally wtf.

Brennan: Faked his own death yet chose the most obvious pseudonym ever, so deep in the closet he’s living in Narnia.

Mira: the abusive sibling (she was justified tbh), really bad at getting very obvious hints.

Daddy Sorrengail: literally doesn’t have a name? Speaks in code to his children for plot reasons only. Weak heart (sure buddy).

Rhiannon: Makes every other character look bad because she’s an actual angel.

“I think,” he said eventually, so faintly that it seemed like his mind was elsewhere, “you do yourself a disservice by refusing to hope."

"no reason, it's just hot"

Instances of Rhysand swearing in ACOSF. No reason it’s just hot.

“I don’t know what the fuck the two of you have been doing in this house, but it reeks of sex.”

“Only the surface of it,” Rhys whispered, hands still shaking as he ran them down his face. “Fuck.”

Rhys snarled. “It is bad, For so many gods-damned reasons, it is fucking bad.”

Rhys’s eyes simmered; the stars whithin them winked out. “Fuck you.”

“Like a give a fuck about Tamlin right now.”

“Get Nesta out of this city. Right now.” Rhys’s power rumbled in the room like a rising storm. “Before I fucking kill her.“

im just putting this out there and seeing how much sense this makes (count the lyrical references - difficult)

my taylor swift obssessed brain compiled a list since the second we knew about (then rumoured) toe breakup all the way to the present (travis kelce) enjoy!! (or maybe not because this list is so messy it doesnt even make sense to ME)

you didn’t even see the signs…

lover house burning down

making an L to lover 

crying during champagne problems (MULTIPLE TIMES)

esp glendale n2 😭

switching invisible strings to the one

ANGRY SINGING “if you wanted me you really should’ve shown”

angry lover

“I LOVE YOU AINT THAT THE WORSE THING YOU EVER HEAAAAAARRRRRRD 🤬🤬🤬🤬”

crying lover 

MEXICO CITY

dissociating lover 

“my my my loverrr 😶😐”

surprise songs

“wondering if i dodged a bullet of just lost the love of my life”

should’ve said no + better man 

better man “cause he never didddd”

this is why we can’t have nice things 

“here’s to my baby 😐😶🫤; here’s to my mama 🥰😚😘” (dissociating version) 

all of the girls you loved before (angry version) 

cornelia street (shooting daggers version)

CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT TO ANGRY/SAD VERSION

i miss u im sorry HEARTBREAKING VERSION

MAROON MY SHOW 😭😭

Matty Healy. (they broke up afterwards but like) 

they held hands at that private club 

attending eras tour MULTIPLE times 

“you know who you are i love you” - both on stage (DURING CARDIGAN TOO??)

YOURE LOSING ME

and his response???!!! ITS NOT IT JOE ALWYN 

bejeweled (and midnights being the “ultimate breakup album”)

he didn’t show up at her party (eras tour)

everyone unfollowing him (gigi/ haim sisters/ blake/ ryan reynolds etc.) AFTER they went out tgt 

-> travis. (But this came later so it doesn’t count)

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romance is not dead if you keep it just yours 

king of my heart (SMILING ????!!!!)

exile (cuz they wrote it tgt BUT THE SINGING WAS GUT WRENCHING)

entire rep album??? lover album???

their photos tgt where she looked SO HAPPY 

(the one of her in a green and yellow dress/ them dancing tgt/ leaked mirror photos/ miss americana/ i couldn’t find you and i got so sad/ singing LOVER/ looking at him during rep stadium tour😭😭)

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In your life you'll do things greater than/Dating the boy on the football team (my ass)

She attended THREE of his shows

First show - riding off in a getaway car (y’all this is Taylor “brings a trauma kit” Swift) 

Her sitting on his lap during the afterparty where he rented out the entire restaurant 

They held hands the third (?) time they walked out of the show together 

KISSES ON CHEEKSS (the photo) 

THE TWO PAP WALKS

SNL AFTERPARTY where they danced together

SNL cameo 

Him leaving her house

Her at his house

His dad saying how she cleaned up the suite

New Heights (jason kelse 👑)