r/Tamlinism

Hi fellow Tamlin fan girls and boys and Simps galore! I wanted to see how much of the TamFans only like Tamlin!!!

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ACOSH & ACOFM

Saw this on instagram via Antoinette. Legit or not? Either way how would you feel about the art? color? and titles? Insta link below in comment

I'm not sure how widespread the idea is but I just saw it when I was reading a post about Elucien. I really hate this theory because it's so random. Sure Lucien lived in Spring and was a courtier to its High Lord but he also abandoned it for the Night Court and has yet to denounce Feyre for its destruction. What makes Lucien a likely candidate of being chosen by the magic to become High Lord? Thoughts?

So I'm a big fanfic reader (love the sense of community you don't get with published fiction), but never written any before.

For some reason with these books, it's the first time I've had a headcannon bang this hard on my head to get out haha but the problem I'm having is that I want to make sure in writing Tamlin how he felt to me, but he just drops off the map post ACOTAR so....I feel like this community is the perfect place to find more of him :)

Does anyone know of any good Tamlin focused pics based in SC post WAR that show him for who he is? Happy to read AU as long as it's got similar vibe to how Tamlin's feeling post WAR 😁

One of these things is NOT like the other...

Love when the internet brings receipts in art form!

I just finished the first chapter with Tamlin in it and just Fck RHYSAND Fck EVERYONE

FYM “THIS IS TAMLINS OWN FAULT” RHYSAND?!?!?!?!

EVERY SINGLE SITUATION THAT LED TO THIS WAS LITERALLY MANUFACTURED BY FEYRE
HIS PEOPLE LOVED HIM
HIS PEOPLE WERE WILLING TO DIE FOR HIM

THEY LEFT HIM BECAUSE OF A SINGULAR INSTANCE OF REACTIVE ABUSE BY FEYRE AND THEN ALSO THE OTHER LITERALLY TWO THINGS ONE OF WHICH WAS A FALSELY IMPLANTED MEMORY THAT WASNT EVEN REAL!!!!

Rhysand is a fcking prick who is not doing the “tough love” thing he did for Feyre HE IS JUST BEING HORRIBLE BECAUSE HE CAN AND KNOWS HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT!!!! UGH!!!!

Tamlin has gone through SO MUCH it’s not even funny:
- Was sexually harassed from a very young age by Amarantha
- He had to send his closest men to their deaths just to have a chance at the curse being broken, and had to handle them BEGGING to do so bc they loved him so much
- His family was killed and even though he didn’t like 3/4 of them, he still was thrown into the role of High Lord with little to no formal education on the subject bc he avoided it bc he NEVER EVEN WANTED TO BE HIGH LORD
- Had to learn to be High Lord WITHOUT any kind of formal guidance except from someone YOUNGER THAN HIM!!!! (Rhys had his IC to help him, and Amren!!!!)
- Had to see that his best friend was scarred and lost his eye bc he tried to negotiate for his sake
- Dared to trust Amarantha despite knowing that she was up to no good, TWICE, and the first time he lost his power and the second time he got his entire Court cursed!!!!
- Fell in love with someone and was forced to let her go for her own sake
- Had to watch Feyre be tortured during the trials and could do nothing to stop it
- Had to watch Feyre be beaten by Amarantha and he didn’t have the strength to stop it until Feyre LITERALLY DIED
- HAD TO WATCH FEYRE DIE

I can’t even, and this is only what I REMEMBER

Edited bc Tamlin and Rhys both have it bad and it is not fair to compare traumas

In Spring the wine Feyre drank is joyous and freeing...

How Feyre drinks wine in SPRING

"I said, and pointedly chugged the contents of the glass.” (Feyre willingly drinks the wine. It is her CHOICE)

'It was like a million fireworks exploding inside me, filling my veins with starlight. I laughed aloud'

'“I’m going to paint you,” I said, and giggled—actually giggled—as the words popped out.'

'I’d downed another glass of faerie wine. It was the most glorious thing I’d ever tasted. It liberated me from bonds I hadn’t known existed.'

'With each step, I savored the dampness of the grass beneath my bare feet.'

'I swayed on my feet as I watched the faeries dancing, circling the bonfire. Not formal dancing. It was like they were as loose as I was. Free. I loved them for it.'

'I began to dance in place before him. “I’ll look after her,” Tamlin murmured above the music, and I glowed, my dancing becoming faster."'

'Through it all, Tamlin and his musicians played such joyous music that I didn’t think the world could contain it all. I sashayed over to him, my faerie lord, my protector and warrior, my friend, and danced before him. He grinned at me, and I didn’t break my dancing as he rose from his seat and knelt before me in the grass, offering up a solo on his fiddle to me.'

***

I laughed so hard I thought I’d combust, and when I opened my eyes, I found Tamlin there, spinning me round and round. Everything became a blur of color and sound, and he was the only object in it, tethering me to sanity, to my body, which glowed and burned in every place he touched. I was filled with sunshine. It was like I’d never experienced summer before, like I’d never known who was waiting to emerge from that forest of ice and snow. I didn’t want it to end—I never wanted to leave this hilltop.

***

'I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world. He smiled at me, and I found myself smiling back. I didn’t need to pretend, didn’t need to be anything but what I was right then,'

***

I glanced at Tamlin, biting my lip. I’d practically floated into my bedroom that morning. But Tamlin’s gaze now roved my face as if searching for any tinge of regret, of fear. Ridiculous.

“You bit my neck on Fire Night,” I said under my breath. “If I can face you after that, a few kisses are nothing.” (The next day Feyre remembers the night before while having drunk wine but she remembers NOTING UTM after that wine…LET THAT SINK IN!)

How Feyre drinks wine UTM

Alis to Feyre before she went UTM

'“Don’t drink the wine—it’s not like what we had at the Solstice, and will do more harm than good.'

***

He (RHYSAND) smiled, and extended the goblet again. “Drink. You’ll need it.” Drink, my mind echoed, and my fingers stirred, moving toward the goblet. No. No, Alis said not to drink the wine here—wine that was different from that joyous, freeing solstice wine.

“Drink,” he said, and my traitorous fingers latched onto the goblet.'He (RHYSAND) smiled, and extended the goblet again. “Drink. You’ll need it.”

No. No, Alis said not to drink the wine here—wine that was different from that joyous, freeing solstice wine. “No,” I said, and some faeries who were watching us from a safe distance chuckled.

“Drink,” he said, and my traitorous fingers latched onto the goblet.'

***

'I awoke in my cell, still clad in that handkerchief he called a dress. Everything was spinning so badly that I barely made it to the corner before I vomited.'

***

'He (RHYSAND) had me dance until I was sick, and once I was done retching, told me to begin dancing again.

I awoke ill and exhausted each morning, and though Rhysand’s order to the guards had indeed held, the nightly activities left me thoroughly drained. I spent my days sleeping off the faerie wine, dozing to escape the humiliation I endured.'

***

'Rhysand gave me that goblet of faerie wine and I could lose myself for a few hours. I stopped contemplating Amarantha’s riddle—it was impossible.’ (see how she stops working on the riddle which is what Rhysand wanted bc he could not have her guess it and free Tamlin)

***

'So I greedily drank the wine, and I stopped caring about who I was and what had once mattered to me. I stopped thinking about color, about light, about the green of Tamlin’s eyes—about all those things I had still wanted to paint and now would never get to.'

***

‘...waiting for Rhysand to beckon me to drink the wine and dance or do whatever it was he wished of me...'

Just a stream of consciousness type thought, but considering what we know about Tamlin from Book 1, i genuinely think that if he had not walked away and had seen what happened to Feyre when he shielded her in the house, he would have immediately taken the shield down and done something about it.

Why? Because he would have seen himself in her. His magical outbursts are very similar to that and that would have been something that he could empathize with. He resents and fears the fact that he can’t control his magical outbursts sometimes, and if he were to realize she had the same issues, as was as powerful, if not MORE SO, than him, he would realize the following:

A

1. He just caused that in her, and that would cause him immense guilt.

B

1. he would realize that her magic and skills are in fact something that she needs to hone, IMMEDIATELY. Both for her safety and the safety of others. And that could even lead into a plot where they have to figure it out together and that would be a great bonding exercise for both of them (but only if Feyre decided to forgive him for shielding her in and idk if she would).

Idk what do you guys think? I think it’s an interesting thought exercise to think about.

Came across this from a redditor "Tamlin looking stupid as always."

I really don’t think these kinds of readers actually read apart from dialogue and skimming.

Amarantha was obsessed with Tamlin. Do readers honestly think that this powerful High Fae who was Hybern’s right hand etc would be interested in a DUMB High Lord? She wanted him because he was the whole package.

Tamlin was a double agent and got more intel than the IC ever got.

Tamlin gave Feyre a clue to the riddle UTM in that closet while under the control/power of Rhysand and Amarantha.

Tamlin is the kind of character who was raised to be a fighter BUT he was a lover this whole time.

Tamlin didn’t want to flirt with Feyre because he didn’t want to use a human that way so his line about her hair being clean is not only sweet, it’s hilarious and a nod to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Not to mention, we know that Tamlin has had many lovers of all kinds, so the dude has rizz.

You think a stupid character can learn to play the fiddle? That takes patience and time and skill and smarts. Ask any violinist how long they’ve been at perfecting their instrumental skills.

He basically predicted what was going to happen to Feyre, so he has foresight

He worked around Amarantha’s curse by talking around the curse as a way to give clues to Feyre. The whole heart of stone clues is why the bargain was broken and ultimately freed him to free others.

His biggest character flaw imo is he is too trusting and maybe some think that’s stupid but that just proves that his ‘heart of stone’ is actually a ‘heart of gold’.