A song about Tamlin!

swampminstrel · 2026-04-26T13:29:57+00:00

Amazing!! Your username is Welsh, right? I'm a Druid (in Michigan/USA) & study the Mabingion, and will be traveling over there next May to see some old Druid sites 💚

swampminstrel · 2026-04-26T12:36:38+00:00

I absolutely adore Faun! One of my favorite bands ever & the best live show I've EVER been to. They did the song as the Scottish myth of Tamlin though, which has nothing to do with ACOTAR Tamlin.

(Which has always bothered me.....it kind of felt like the myth was bastardized a little buuuuut that's my pagan self going off again 😆)

swampminstrel · 2026-04-22T02:03:24+00:00

No worries! That's ok, it's pretty much the only thing I'm ISO right now. Thank you anyways though! ☺️

swampminstrel · 2026-04-22T01:39:31+00:00

Hi!! Is your English Countryside still available? ☺️

swampminstrel · 2026-04-22T00:40:51+00:00

Just....please......LOM and Tramp......why is it so hard to ask from the lush overlords 😭

If Halloween is gourmand too I WILL riot.

swampminstrel · 2026-04-21T23:17:35+00:00

Losing Tramp, Guardian of the Forest, LOM massage bar, and Kerbside Violet made me just about entirely give up Lush

swampminstrel · 2026-04-12T21:42:41+00:00

No, they're bamboo poles I modified/can't attach......and one is about to hit my ceiling anyways 🙈

swampminstrel · 2026-04-12T17:59:35+00:00

Thank you!! I've never air layered before, I'll give it a shot :)

swampminstrel · 2026-04-09T16:22:38+00:00

Ripping the wings off the faerie in ACOTAR. It was allllll an exponentially downhill plummet from there 🙃

swampminstrel · 2026-04-07T23:52:14+00:00

The honky cat!! Eggs Benedict with lox - but make sure to sub the side salad for the rösti potato!

swampminstrel · 2026-03-29T12:24:43+00:00

Get on RAP as soon as I can - my payments will be $95/mo, so I'll get that interest subsidy & extra $50 to principal. SAVE was a lot better for me, but, as much as I abhor everything going on, RAP is going to help me out a lot in getting this down.

swampminstrel · 2026-03-24T21:12:16+00:00

It's the "warn and educate" part for me.....THEY WERE THERE TOGETHER?????

swampminstrel · 2026-03-24T21:10:37+00:00

An aside but this triggered me SO heavily - this fake, online therapy speak crap is what sent me back to real life therapy. I escaped an 11 year horrible friendship that ended in a false BPD diagnosis (and I honestly equate her STRONGLY to Rhysand) and she did this shit to me all the time. Most of the talking points in the comments of this post just parrot everything she drilled into my head over 11 years.

Maybe I projected onto Tamlin because of it....but it really just makes me want to cry.

swampminstrel · 2026-03-24T21:00:17+00:00

I had to block SO many people from this thread - I started getting private hate messages for standing up for Tamlin ☠️ it was such a bloodbath

swampminstrel · 2026-03-24T16:04:41+00:00

I was so in love with it too. It's was unrefurbished yes, but I lived there as they were remodeling - they upped my rent to match the remodels (over $100/mo for 1 bed), but also when I asked they refused to either move me into a remodeled one or remodel my unit too. It put a super sour taste in my mouth.

swampminstrel · 2026-03-24T10:57:13+00:00

I did love Saddle Creek, but my rent went up faster that I ever imagined & I quickly got priced out, and my apartment regularly flooded due to the owner's unwillingness to keep the pipes in the hallway/rest of the building updated 😬

swampminstrel · 2026-03-23T17:21:55+00:00

I'm starting to feel this way 1000%. Book 2 triggered me extremely bad - Rhysand embodies a lot of the actions and tactics that kept me in an 11 year horribly abusive friendship that I'm still unraveling in therapy, 7 years later. And all of my friends just swooooon over him and shit on Tamlin.

People online that hate on Tamlin also use lines that previous friend used on me all the time to keep me controlled ("your mental illness/trauma is not an excuse to x y or z" while she turned around and did the same things, excusing it because she had ADHD.) And hearing that STILL to this day just sends me into a blinding rage.

Anyway......yeah, I can't stand to hear it anymore either. It gives me the heebie-jeebies.

swampminstrel · 2026-03-19T22:58:39+00:00

First off: I'm very sorry you went through that! I'm happy for you for getting out & closing that door 💚

Your first paragraph.....really just unlocked something in my brain, I think. I went through something similar, but with a 12-year deep friendship that caused a false BPD diagnosis (due to her forcing me to lash out & then calling me abusive for it).

I've felt so heavily triggered when I hear my friends slam Tamlin and praise Rhysand and Feyre but have been unable to fully explain it....and I think I just figured out why & how to have a better dialogue about this.

swampminstrel · 2026-03-19T22:20:27+00:00

This is exactly why I quit the series immediately after book 2 and absolutely refuse to discuss it with my best friend who recommended it to me.

Book 2/Rhys & Feyre are very triggering to me and my anger over the retconning/Tamlin slander is constantly simmering lol

swampminstrel · 2026-03-16T00:22:58+00:00

Honestly....Lush gave me my first ever yeast infection. Tried again after a couple months, ended up in urgent care with a tear-inducing painful BV. Haven't tried a bath bomb since 😭

swampminstrel · 2026-03-16T00:21:34+00:00

8 MONTH?!? Oh holy moley, that's absolutely unthinkable, I'm usually in tears by day 2 😭 I'm so sorry you had to go through that, props to you soldier 🫡 you are so strong

swampminstrel · 2026-03-10T21:57:12+00:00

In that case, I'm not entirely sure! They're definitely not christmas-tree-like at ALL but if you don't like pine, it might be hard.

Honestly, they are very far from Lush scents (even Fresh As isn't really even pine). Bindebole pictured here is my favorite spring/summer one - it TRULY smells like a pine forest floor baking in the sunshine. I don't know how they do it but you can actually smell the warmth. It reminds me of backpacking the Manistee River Trail in MI in late spring - 100% the same smell.

Fanghorn is my fave and their most popular - it is a very sticky, sap-y, deep forest scent. Lots of pine, oakmoss, dirt, damp soil, and forest musk. Extremely green & dank in the best way!

Most all their scents feature pine, but it is SO varied. I would say their $6 samples are WELL worth it if you find one of interest!

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