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Very few lines rip out my heart, stomp on it, stab it, burn it, and then expect me to go on with my day. But this line is one of those.

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before i read read tfota i expected jude to be this cold, conniving, calculating fmc. then i realized there was such a huge part of her character that’s left out way too often and it’s one of the many things about her character that i love so much. jude is SO vulnerable throughout her inner monologue. she’s the definition of “do it scared” this girl was constantly fearing for her life and that did not stop her from doing anything. her childhood was just taken from her, she never got to be “normal”. she’s just so full of love but has to preserve herself to survive, so much of what she does is for her family, she cares about them so much. and just wants what’s best for them and and and

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Take me home to Elfhame 🍃

I’m not really that surprised this is what popped up considering the amount of times a day I search up something related to the cruel prince, but Im not complaining. I genuinely think Id thrive in Elfhame and you cant convince me otherwise

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♡ᴊᴜᴅᴇ & ᴄᴀʀᴅᴀɴ = sᴀɴ & ᴀsʜɪᴛᴀᴋᴀ ♡

I’m trying so hard not to make all my post about tcp but I just love them so much

(ik it has the signature but I can’t tell what it says, if someone knows the fanart creator so I can give credit and follow them can you pls lmk tyty 🥹)

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welcome back booktok 🦋

Ive already made a few post but heres my official bookish tumblr intro
Okay I love yall mwah bye

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Cardan right before making one of the biggest mistakes of his life:

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sometimes I stare at the ceiling and think of how much I miss Cardan and Jude. I'm so glad Holly Black is writing another Elfhame book.

art by @frostbitestudios

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The Cruel Prince Ch.16

Ch.16

Locke: They’ll be too drunk to notice

Cardan moments after Jude arrives: *locked in*

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ARTIST: frostbite.studios

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Jude: I was born for politics. I have great hair and I love lying.

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i decided to get needlessly curious about the progression of time in tfota, then realized there wasn't much about it online. so for the like. two other people in the world who care about this stuff, here's what I've got:

jude says her birthday is nov 13, 2001 when telling dain a series of truths + one lie. the lie is that she can't swim, so we can assume this is truly her birthday

madoc says the new king will be coronated on the autumn solstice, which typically falls in late september (if you want to be really annoying about details, the autumn solstice was on sep 23 in 2019, the year tcp is set)

jude is seventeen at the beginning of tcp (7 yrs old when taken to faerie, and tcp takes place 10 years after that). given the timing of the coronation and her november birthday, she turns 18 during the time skip between tcp and twk (happy bday queen, pls take it easy on poisoning yourself)

twk starts with 5 months of jude's bargain with cardan already past, and by the end (when he proposes) 7 months of the bargain have gone by. this puts us at like... springtime. maybe april?

then there's the tqon exile time jump, which the internet says was four months (i tried looking in the book and couldn't find an exact number, but jude does make a comment about it being early autumn near the beginning of tqon, so this (or even slightly longer) checks out)

tqon timeline is a little foggy but it's pretty fast-paced, so I'm going to posit that it's about a month (feel free to drop details below, i just couldn't find much)

tldr: tfota all takes place in the span of about a year, which we already knew, but it's fun (for me lol) to see it all laid out. jude is presumably not far from her 19th birthday when she's officially coronated at the end of tqon. this also means that oak’s books are set in the future! (2028, i think?)

also, if I’ve done the math right, jude was exiled in the mortal world in 2020, so covid does not exist in this universe. good for them

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this new jude & cardan fanart >>>

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Welcome to the world of Elfhame

I feel like so many people talk about The Cruel Prince (and rightfully so) but not enough about the other books in the same world, so I made a breakdown of them and their reading orders ♡

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