#cath and jest heartless

[itsajollyjester]

[caihosreads]

“A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back”

Jest and Catherine inspired by Marissa Meyer’s Heartless🖤

this book man this book 🙇🏻‍♀️

Never thought I’d ever be sympathising for the Queen of Hearts and yet here we are… painting an extra squishy happy scene hoping to fill up the void this book left.

[theanxiousfireblossom]

So I finished Heartless by Marissa Meyer a couple weeks ago and something I have been nonstop thinking about is Cath’s parents.

100%, I blame them for everything that happened, but they are just so interesting to me. They spend the first 90% of the book telling Cath what is best for her, but never truly listening when she tries to talk to them. Even her father, the one that was more open to her baking and recognized her talent for it and the joy it brought her, would not even CONSIDER the idea of her opening a bakery with a maid.

I kind of see where they were coming from. Their daughter was part of the gentry and would have no real concept of working her way through life. She also was seventeen, and few teenagers know what will actually bring them happiness, but they wouldn’t even let her try. They were forcing their dreams down her throat and ignoring how it was drowning her even though there were signs of it.

Cath hadn’t become cruel before she ran off with Jest, but you can see how she is starting to unravel into what will later make her the Queen of Hearts we all know and love. She stops holding back her thoughts, telling multiple people off, and generally just being grumpier.

Then everything falls completely apart and suddenly her parents are like “you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to”. To which she, rightfully so, tells them things could have been wildly different if they had thought to consider her actual happiness sooner.

To me, it really feels like they ignored the signs and with the gift of hindsight, realized their dreams were genuinely not going to make Cath happy, so they try to back peddle not realizing it is far too late for that. Cath’s reputation has cut Mary Ann out of her life. Cath’s reputation is so far gone, bakery would never succeed. Jest is dead. She has nothing left that brought her joy.

So, yeah. Her parents drove me crazy, but their reactions at the end of the book were just so amazingly blind to me.

[bookish-nerd-1130]

I’m sorry but

Cardan from TFOTA + Jest from Heartless = AMAZING

JUST THINK ABOUT IT

Cardan loves Alice in wonderland (or has at least read it)

he’d be entertained by Jest and would likely want him for his court

And jest would be BEWILDERED LIKE “?? Uh… Your majesty? What do you mean, I’m from a book?”

I NEED TO SEE THIS, PEOPLE

[hoes-n-foes]

I wish Heartless had a scene of Cath and Jest baking together, I feel like it could have brought so much to their connection and ours with the couple.

Imagine Cath bossing Jest around in the kitchen, them messing about

[mydarlingdearestdead]

"Woman like being appreciated for who they are."

tell 'em Jest

[unhealthy-obessions]

Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart and soul, FUCK Cath’s mother. Please, do me a favor and throw yourself off A FUCKING BUILDING YOU VILE, HORRID CRONE

[gatheryepens]

Uh oh, I’m falling in love….

[sasusaku-finallycanon]

I just need more fanfics & fanarts of Cath and Jest from Heartless by Marissa Meyer, for my survival 😭💔🙏🏻

[alice-aranha]

RESENHA: "Sem Coração" de Marissa Meyer.

Muito antes de Alice cair no buraco do coelho… E antes das rosas serem pintadas de vermelho… A Rainha de Copas era só uma garota vivendo seu primeiro amor.

ESTA RESENHA CONTÉM UM POUCO DE SPOILER DO LIVRO.

Minha nota para este querido e amado livro, é, sem dúvidas algumas, 5/5, com direito de estar na minha lista dos meus livros favoritos da vida!

‘Sem Coração' de Marissa Meyer é uma obra de arte que me fez criar empatia por uma personagem que eu despreza por causa de sua personalidade amargurada e sem coração. Sou uma grande fã de “Alice nos País das Maravilhas” do Lewis Carroll, não é a toa que meu nome é Alice. E nesse ano, li pela primeira vez a obra do Carroll e me encantei totalmente pelo o mundo de maravilhas de Alice, ou melhor, da Rainha de Copas. Em ‘Sem Coração’, que é um reconto da obra de Lewis Carroll, Marissa conta a história da Rainha de Copas antes de se tornar essa rainha maldosa. No livro, conhecemos Lady Catherine Pinkerton, uma jovem de 17 anos da nobreza que sonha em se tornar confeiteira com a sua melhor amiga e criada, Mary Ann. Catherine é uma pessoa de bom coração e gentil, e isso chamou a atenção do Rei de Copas que é solteiro e está em busca de uma Rainha para Copas. No baile do Rei, ele apresenta o novo bobo da corte, conhecido como Coringa, mas o real nome é Jest. Lady Catherine se sente extremamente atraída pelo bobo da corte. Na mesma noite, o Rei iria fazer um pedido de casamento na frente de todo mundo e ele estava na direção de Catherine, desesperada, ela pede ajuda para o Gato Chesire, que a ajuda e então ela sai correndo e se encontra com o Jest, o bobo da corte.

Um livro extremamente mágico, que me trouxe ótimas emoções e emoções triste também. É simplesmente muito interessante conhecer a Rainha de Copas antes de se tornar a Maldosa Rainha de Copas e descobrir que ela tinha um enorme e bondoso coração, que batia especialmente para o Jest. Marissa Meyer sabe muito bem como utilizar a sua escrita para emocionar os seus leitores, a mágica história de romance de Jest e Catherine é magnífica, apesar de ter uma ideia de como a história terminaria — por causa da forma que a Rainha de Copas é na obra de Carroll —, ainda sim fiquei emocionada e surpreendida. Criei empatia por uma vilã que nunca imaginei que criaria. Merece 5 estrelas sem dúvidas algumas, um dos melhores livros que li nesse ano, diria que seria o melhor mas li livros muito bom esse ano. Agora, após terminar esse livro, terei que superar a minha ressaca literária. Indico este livro para qualquer um que adore uma história de amor fantástica, que goste também de reconto de clássicos, assim como esta história é… Para mim, Cath e Jest ficaram juntos.

[4tarosho]

chapters 36-38 of heartless

[andreai04]

This was why she enjoyed baking. A good dessert could make her feel like she’d created joy at the tips of her fingers. Suddenly, the people around the table were no longer strangers. They were friends and confidantes, and she was sharing with them her magic.

[froggos-are-superior]

you look just like your father

and

it's the things we love most that destroy us

and

fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same

and

what if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

and

there's always a choice. it's just that sometimes one choice is worse than another

and

watch how quickly the supreme court can make an alien of you. watch how they light your skin on fire and call your attempts to breathe inhuman

and

perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness

and

sometimes evil deserves a sorry

and

but you're the good guys right? you're doing the right thing? you're the ones protected by the future authors of history. no one will remember your wrongdoings, so what does it matter?

and

sorry but destiny doesn't exist in this world. it's just one person's circumstances colliding with another's

[antihelpful]

//heartless spoilers

is it a hot take to say I do not like Hatta, that mptherfucker was so rude to Cath the whole book, which i wouldn't care about if it wasnt for his reason. JEST WAS SENT THERE TO MAKE HER FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM TO STEAL HER HEART. if he also fell in love with her that is JESTS PROBLEM, not fucken Cath's like you can't be pissed off that she is engaged to the king when that is the literal person you have been sent to get like I can't, motherfucker needs to learn to pull his head out of his ass

[hoes-n-foes]

Finishing Heartless gave me unfathomable anger and no outlet to express it

[mydarlingdearestdead]

Happy Ending?

Cath, post-ending, fluff

Catherine called for a carriage immediately.

Two months had passed since Peter Peter's execution. Two months, slow as syrup making it's way down a mountain.

"My darling!" The king squealed, for a moment Cath feared he meant to grab hold of her skirt. Afterall, his small size gave him every opportunity to do so. He didn't, for that would be improper. Instead he simply stood, red-faced and looked up at her. "Where are you off to?" He asked, forcing a jovial tone to go along with his beetroot face.

Cath met his gaze. Surprisingly, the king didn't flinch away. "Home." She said.

Catherine called for a carriage immediately.

A carriage that would take her to Rock Turtle Manor.

A carriage that would take her to the closest thing she had left to home. The bedroom where he'd whisked her away, the tree he climbed, the sea cave where he'd told her such wonderful things...

I can't stop thinking about you either, Lady Pinkerton.

Catherine felt herself smile for the first time in months.

She stopped short, mere steps from the carriage.

A smile wasn't possible. She was without a heart. Without emotion, or feeling.

The sister's had taken her heart in exchange for Peter's head. All Cath could possibly feel was rage.

She pondered this for a moment, her minding wandering back to Jest and their final moments together... And then it was clear.

The sisters had her heart.

But she had Jest's.

Jest had offered her his heart, and she accepted.

In the same way Cath had given her own to him. But now he was gone and her heart belonged to the sisters.

Perhaps she had given away something that wasn't hers to give.

Cath closed her eyes as tears welled up behind them.

Catherine fisted her skirt and climbed, unladylike, into the carriage. Jest gave her this chance, and she wasn't going to let it slip away.