#prince of ballad

[chappellrroan]

[ouabhs]

jacks never had a bad track. “Glad to know you’re thinking about me when you kiss your husband.” BANGER. “But for tonight, let me pretend you’re mine.” ICONIC. “I’d probably kill another man if I found him with you like this” LIFE CHANGING. “There is nothing of equal value to me”. UNMATCHED.

[hollowinmyheart]

He loved her.

He loved her.

He loved her.

He loved her so much he’d rewritten history

Artist : @khruri

[rosiethorns88]

I think I've now illustrated/papercraft every corner of this scene now. But it's such a great contrast to Night-Glimmer (shown side-by-side on the last slide). In Night-Glimmer, we're in Evangeline's perspective as Jacks carries her to a warm and safe tree-house. But turn the camera around, and from Jacks's POV, we see a dark void behind him, surrounded by the snow-tipped pine trees, a trapped feeling, stars hanging out of reach. It's still touches on the magical aspects of this scene, but frames a very different perspective! This piece is officially licensed and available in both shops (link in bio!)

[ouabhlover]

from “do not be tricked by his charming dimples” to “you know, i’ve always loved your dimples.” 😻😩🤭

[marinareads25]

ACFTL fav moments!

*ACFTL SPOILERS AHEAD*

- Jacks fucking up Apollo!!! MAJOR SLAY!

- Evangeline slapping Apollo!! That’s so mean… do it again!🤪

- Apollo turning into an ugly tree! Also major slay! (Can u tell I hate this mf?)

- Jacks watching Evangeline sleep awwww

- Jacks carrying Eva’s letter with him everywhere PLS THIS HURT

- Jacks best day being one of the days he spent with Evangeline in the Hollow IM SCREAMING

- Jacks crying blood tears when Evangeline confesses she loves him OUCHHH😭

- Chaos and Lala tension?!?!? Like would you two just kiss already?!

- Jacks becoming immortal because he did not want Chaos to go through it alone😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 he said if my friends jump off a cliff, I will too!🤪

- Jacks confessing he lied and that he did want another ending to their story!!!

- Jacks wanting to tell Eva he would go anywhere with her STOPPP😭😭😭

- the fact that jacks’ heart is described as rays of sunlight, colorful, golden and iridescent!!!! SOMEBODY SEDATE ME⁉️

[evajacks13]

evajacks tension is sooo insane. wdym jacks saw blood on evangelines lips and decided to clean it off with his tongue of all things. he couldve easily handed her a tissue - or really anything to wipe the blood off, but no, this man full on leaned into her face and dragged his tongue up across the center of her lips. not to mention softly and slowly like how evangeline described it. and holding evangelines head in place so she wouldnt lean in as much as he knew how much she wanted to??? INSANITY. oh that evajacks kiss in acftl is gonna destroy us all

[waytoooldforthissh]

Breaking Jacks' curse and mine

One of the main comments I’ve seen on ACFTL is that there were lots of questions that did not feel answered.  Many of those involve Jacks’ curse.  

The curse:

I, personally, am also cursed.  I am cursed to wake up in the middle of the night with this stupid answer. and spend an hour hunting down quotes.

I don’t know what Stephanie intended, but I do think the answer helped.

The answer, obviously, requires so many spoilers

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The kissing curse on Jacks was broken by Vampire Venom in OUABH when Jacks pushed Evangeline out of the way of Luc.

Relevant Events

Jacks hair is blue when we meet him in the North after the events of Finale.  He has a scar where Tella stabbed him.  There is no mention of whether his heart beat after the stabbing.  Ch 14.

He uses his poison blood to “break Apollo’s spell” (poison Apollo) after the wedding.  Kissing curse presumably still in play.  Ch. 34

Enter Luc 

Luc comes to Chaos to get Vampire Venom to cure his unsexy scars.  Ch. 42.

Luc realizes, for the first time, that he must have had a love spell on him.   Ch. 42.

Vampire Venom cured Luc of Marisol’s spell

Jacks pushes Evangaline out of the way of Luc, getting infected with Vampire venom himself.   Ch. 42.

Shortly  after, Evangaline notices that Jacks’ hair is gold again.  Ch. 43

“His heart.  It was really beating.”  Ch. 46  Evangeline is shocked to hear Jacks’ heart beating.  Its the first mention of it since his intro in the North.

And these next points are critical AND SPOILERS:

One way or another, Aurora placed the curse on Jacks.  Its not a mythical curse placed by Fate.   Some jealous bitch like Maarisol  just dropped a spell on him. 

JACKS DOES NOT KISS ANYONE IN OUABH, TBONA, or ACFTL *UNTIL* HE KISSES EVANGaLINE 

He tries, but Evangeline stops him at the party is TBONA.  

Aurora’s kissing curse was cured by the vampire venom.  

OUABH, Ch. 1. 

In ACFTL we learn that there are two versions of the curse.   Jacks’ cure works either way.    

Aurora says:

She is about as trustworthy as a tarantula, but that story curse does like to change endings.  

If Aurora really did curse Jacks’ heart only to beat for someone who could never love him, then Tella survived because she didn’t love him, but Aurora’s petty curse was broken just like Marisol’s love spell by the vampire venom in OUABH.

But, Jacks’ cure also fits the original curse:

Not capable of love because his heart stopped

Only one person can make it work, his one true love

His kiss was fatal to all but her

His only weakness

Like all prophecies and curses in stories, you got to read them a little backwards.   Evangaline was Jacks’ weakness.  Without thinking, he jumped in front of Luc, pulling her out of danger.  His selfless protection of her caused him to be exposed to vampire venom, the strongest known cure.  The vampire venom restarting his heart after he was stabbed in Finale.  And, as far as he is concerned, Evangeline is the only one who can survive his kiss because she is the only one he has or will kiss. 

This version is satisfying to me, because its Jacks’ selfless act that leads to his freedom.  He does not know it yet, but she has already saved him.  

Like Jacks, I have wasted my morning writing this for others and I am also free.

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

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i'm manifesting for u guys 🖤

[heartbreakprincexsweetevangeline]

"Her eyes were too heavy to open-but she could feel him. He held her with the type of intensity that only happens when a person wants something that isn't quite theirs. But she was. She just needed to tell him she loved him."

"The story curse was familiar with pain, but this was agony, the sort of raw grief that was only seen once in a century. The Fate was every tear that anyone had ever shed for lost love. He was pain given form."

Excerpt From

The Ballad of Never After by @stephanie_garber

[silenthylian]

I. LOVE. FOUND. FAMILY AND I LOVE THESE CHARACTERS SM.❤️❤️❤️

I like to believe that they became a little family and go on fun adventures together 🥹

They deserve the world and all the happiness fr 🥲💕

[chappellrroan]

i love doomed narrative so much. i love enemies to lovers. i love one of them becomes so rotten to core but the love never fades between them even tho they're on opposite sides so much. i love the they want to kill and kiss each other trope so so much.

[ouabhs]

evangeline’s mind is really in the gutter sometimes like she seems so innocent then I remember how she said she wanted jacks to stop her struggling and rip chaos off her so that he could pin her down instead.. or when she said it was hard to care that jacks had just been touching another girl because he knew exactly how to touch her

girl do you need a minute? 😭

[hollowinmyheart]

It's jacks actually

The sketch belongs to insta account @staroling

[rosiethorns88]

This is the latest Sketch-a-Wish voted by my lovely Patreon members for March! Featuring Jacks head-bonking gently encouraging Evangeline, hoping she'll remember *something*. One of my favorite scenes from A Curse For True Love! There are two very subtle symbolism I threw in here (one is the title referencing the scene in the book, the other, in the bg for its cultural meaning) to fuel more angst. ✨fireElmo.gif ✨ ----- Stephanie has graciously allowed me to add this artwork to my shop collection of licensed prints, already up via the links in my bio! ----- Hope you all have a pleasant week! :)

[shizzlesisntevenaword]

Evangeline: I can only hope Jacks loves me back

Jacks: *spoiler for ACFTL*

*spends the entire book following her around, carrying a letter in which she affirms not her love but her DISTRUST of him, is literally always on guard at her beck and call to make sure she’s safe, TURNED BACK TIME and threw away what he thought was his only chance at true love to save her, kept CRYING at the thought of her dying, would rather SET HIS HEART ON FIRE than risk getting tempted to potentially hurt her, called himself hers, whose single motivation for all of his actions throughout the entire book is to keep her safe*