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Jude's dress for Dain's coronation (the one Cardan commissioned).
Ziad Nakad, Spring/Summer 2021.
#OBJECTIVELY CORRECT BLOG#the folk of the air#holly black#the cruel prince#the wicked king#the queen of nothing#jude duarte
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okay i wanna talk about people undermining cardan’s decision to exile jude. i cannot stress this enough, he didn’t exile her for the sole reason of impressing her, that was just a bonus. it wasn’t a haha i got you moment. it’s funny i get it, but the jokes blow it way out of proportion.
if you actually read the books you’d understand he mainly did it to pacify queen orlagh because she was literally demanding jude be given to her so she can imprison her again in the undersea for killing balekin. this way, jude will be safe while they were finalizing the treaty. in no way would orlagh go along with anything as long as jude was still hale and in elfhame without punishment.
he knew she’d be angry, but he had full confidence she would understand the riddle (which was why he was so confused when jude was trying to bargain for her exile to end) and come back, but she didn’t. instead she thought “pardoned by the crown” was only a mistake in his wording and that if she were to come back, he’d only exile her again or have her killed or imprisoned. up to halfway in TQON jude still didn’t see what cardan felt for her. she still thought it was only a big game to him—that everything he did was a ploy. but it wasn’t.
cardan in TWK didn’t even think he could hurt jude, he had no idea she loved him back, and you can hardly blame him, the walls jude built around herself are sky high. plus he’s terrified of her lol. again, cardan didn’t exile her to hurt her or prank her. it wasn’t an elaborate ploy to ���impress her,” that was just a bonus. the main reason was to keep jude safe from orlagh while they were finalizing the treaty.
#THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS#istg as shocking as it is to their relationship this is like a pivotal moment in cardan learning to be a good high king#the folk of the air#the cruel prince#the wicked king#the queen of nothing#cardan greenbriar#jude duarte
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"live every day like it's your last": scary. weirdly foreboding. not a good thought process if you get anxious easily. stressful. so much pressure that it loops back around to making you do nothing. "live every day like it's your FIRST": everything becomes fascinating. renews the excitement of discovering things for the first time again. makes you feel like exploring stuff. #mywisdom
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Does anybody know if you ever stop being 11 years old and lonely
#prev tags:#every version of me that has ever existed#exists within me#because in growth you multiply#hopecore
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#lots of library books to read#not to mention GRADUATING!!!#and at the very end our usual week long trip out of the city for ceremony!#tumblr polls
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What the flock?! such smart names!
Science should let more cartoonists name things. That how we got the thagomizer and the Rube Goldberg machines. Anyways! SHERLOCK CROWMES!!!!!
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Locke being obsessed with wanting to be the main character in his stories and ending up being murdered off screen would never not be funny to me 🤣. I just know how much he would hate that his murder wasn't even important enough to make it to the books!
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Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for April! A scene from The Wicked King by Holly Black, Cardan and Jude pledging their troth.
This scene was nondescript on the type of flowers that were blooming in the king's chambers as they were professing their vows to each other. But given how they were both adamant that their marriage would be utilitarian and short lived, I feel like the room blooming over head was a sign that it was more permanent than they realized, hence the wisteria and its meaning. 🤭
#AAAAAAAAAAAA#I’M IN LOVE I’M IN LOVE I’M IN LOVE#the wicked king#the folk of the air#jurdan#jude duarte#cardan greenbriar#holly black
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Hi, I noticed your story has conflict in it, and I was wondering why you didn't just write people who are right doing everything correctly with a note saying "I enthusiastically co-sign everything in this story"? Must be some kind of mistake haha
#god forbid two girls raised in fae by a redcap do fucked up shit in the face of horrible fucked up shit#i may not like taryn but i will not sit here and let her be dragged so bad#not to mention jude for still caring about her as her SISTER#i will not be silenced#the cruel prince#the wicked king#the queen of nothing#the folk of the air#jude duarte#taryn duarte
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He drinks a whisky drink (action) he drinks a vodka drink (bonus action) he drinks a lager drink (hasted action) he drinks a cider drink (action surge)
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today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god
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Jude: I don’t need therapy. I just need to stab something.
Cardan: Wait, no. That's not—
Madoc: [nodding proudly] Finally, a healthy coping mechanism.
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cardans mindset (probably)
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Shimin: Do you like me?
Zetian: We're married.
Shimin: Yes, but did you marry me as a friend or like a wife.
Zetian:
Shimin: It's unclear :(
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