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#the important thing is that we're still creating! #sometimes #in small passionate doses

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love this moment!

you're right in that everything would become suddenly renewed through Cardan's perspective. i get the feeling the land magic uses its kings and queens like a battery, much like disney's Atlantis, and so a younger, more chipper battery would give it/its people more vibrant colours and emotions

imagine. every time the land gets a new monarch, the people get a new era.

Surely you have noticed that since his reign began, the isles are different. Storms come in faster. Colors are a bit more vivid, smells are sharper.

do. do y’all think this changed when cardan was crowned because that’s just how he sees things?

like he sees colours more vividly than eldred did, his emotions were more wild, less contained, so storms came in quicker

#the cruel prince #the folk of the air #cardan greenbriar

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"actually guess what... i've written about 3k words toward a (sort of?) alternate story fic for A Curse for True Love which I'm thinking about posting over on @neon-academia soon if i work up the courage"

i know i owe you guys another chapter of snakes and lattes but what if i told you i had a sort-of-kind-of-mostly-written-lowkey 'fix it' fic

which exists

and is full of alternate A Curse for True Love moments? including an iconic baddie Marisol return?

what if, you know?

i read the full answer to my ask and OMG that’s exactly what i pictured jskdjd your answers always make my day😭🫶🏻 and eternal life for her cats is definitely what taylor would want for her end of the bargain HAHAHA

thank you for your answer i hope you have a great day 🩷🤝🏻

hey but thank YOU for the asks! for some reason i usually get them whenever i'm walking somewhere so i end up spending the rest of the walk pondering my reply, which gives me something fun to do :) so thanks for virtually keeping me company on my walks anon!

i've been reading the Once Upon a Broken Heart series lately and i have lots of thoughts about that churning around in my head atm. if you've read the books feel free to chat about it with me here any time.

actually guess what... i've written about 3k words toward a (sort of?) alternate story fic for A Curse for True Love which I'm thinking about posting over on @neon-academia soon if i work up the courage

context

#my fic #once upon a broken heart #a curse for true love

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Snakes and Lattes misses you too <3

if you could see my google docs you'd know i never gave up on it but i for sure have left it in limbo for a frankly cruel amount of time. there's a little update here

and here's couple of snippets (with some spoilers cut away from between them) just to say thanks so much for your continued interest in spite of my sporadic posting :)

enjoy! (and thank you SO so so much again ily)

Jude | 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲

There were two notes waiting for Jude when she woke. The one she found, and the one she did not. 

More on that second note later.

The note she found had been pinned to a dress that usually hung in a suit bag at the back of her wardrobe, but now billowed enticingly from the curtain rail in her bedroom. Deepest blue to twinkling white with an entire forest in between.

The coronation gown.

The poor thing hadn’t come up for air in years.

...

It was a bit of parchment. Sunbleached. Expensive. Similar if not identical stock to the one that had been splattered with her name and wedged into Alice’s Adventures.

Unfolding it revealed a sketch on one side that staggered her.

She had not expected to see herself there, seventeen and severe, rendered in elegant strokes of charcoal and chalky blue pastel. Somehow, the very fey dress design still managed to compliment all her very human muscles and curves. There were notes and arrows scribbled around it that had long since faded beyond legibility. She would have to ask the artist to fill in those blanks for her later. 

The young prince Cardan probably thought this was terribly romantic.

The older prince Cardan probably did, too. 

But the girl in the sketch would not have thought it so. If she had discovered this drawing, she might have sent it back to him in a thousand angry little pieces. She certainly wouldn’t be caught dead in any dress that he had a hand in designing. It was fortunate, then, that Cardan now dealt with the woman that girl had grown into. She liked him well enough to tolerate this sort of thing. To appreciate it, even.  

Now for the note proper. 

Just a few words scribbled on the other side of the sketch. ‘A deal’s a deal,’ she read aloud. ‘At twilight, follow the bird.’

Snakes and Lattes  |  A TFOTA Cafe AU ☕🐍🗡️🍄🖤

𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐟𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨 💕

may contain traces of pining idiots, housemates/workmates with a questionable list of rules, family closure and a full persephone-scale exploration of Cardan’s power set AO3  |  Wattpad

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#snakes and lattes fic #hope howl anon sees this too! #very sweet people #1000 sincere thankyous #tfota fic #the folk of the air #jude duarte

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hello hi yes lovely human, it is fall in the northern hemisphere (spring where you are), but I kindly request some information regarding snakes and lattes, the lovely fic you have written for us peasants that hasn't been updated in a while.

I am having withdrawals and only ask because it is one of the few things in my meager life that brings me joy and you are extremely talented when it comes to slow burn, but also writing as a whole.

No pressure, of course, just curious. I hope you're doing well.

hugs and kisses from howl pendragon

sweet howl anon <333

i'm sorry it took a while to respond, but you should know that the notif put big smile on my face and unburned my bacon

i wish wish wish i could trade your fall for my spring! i hope it's crisp and kind to you.

spring is hardly a season at all here, it's more like a threat that reminds you summer isn't as far away as you'd like it to be. however, i've made my peace with it. i have in fact embraced many more visits to the sea, as well as a new hobby of hunting down citrus fruits i've never tried before from various fresh food markets around town. apparently sumo mandarins are super common and popular, but i had never tried one before. i can't get enough of them now!

onto our unupdated story

i didn't want to give a boring "i'm working on it" or "one day" response because it's such a sweet message and you're a wizzard and that means i need to get fancy. SO. please accept this top secret never before seen evidence of Chapter Art for the next chapter:

and a chapter title: "At Twilight, Follow The Bird."

the chapter is 90% finished, and the migraine that kept me from writing it for months seems to have mostly cleared up. the next installment will immediately follow a recap "interlude" chapter i've also written with added notes for ease of further reading.

thanks for your continued interest in spite of all the seasons that passed us in between <3

i really do hope you're keeping well

#asks #anons welcome #howl anon #snakes and lattes fic

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𝚒 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚙𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎:

someone needs to teach him how to use all that weird earthy plant magic

they’re both one broken nail away from a villain arc

mommy issues + maternal = found family wholesomeness

iridescent feathers

wait maybe they shouldn’t team up

doing so might result in a fashion event so cataclysmic it tears a rift in the spacetime continuum

but anyway dark hair

they have this super mean group chat reserved for gossip, sales, schemes and roasting everyone’s outfits

they watch geralt and jude training from the comfort of their matching deck chairs whilst sipping chilled wine and complaining about the sun wrinkling their skin

spf+++++++++++++9000

they both need a hug

so yeah i just think 💅

𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝟿𝟶𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚎 (𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜):  𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚎/𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚊𝚗 ☑  || 𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚕/𝚜𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚎  ☑  ||  𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚝/𝚢𝚎𝚗 ☑  ||  𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚗/𝚛𝚎𝚢 ☑  ||  𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚊/𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚊𝚜 ☑  ||  coming soon: 𝚕𝚒𝚕𝚘 & 𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚒 & 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑 …

#yennefer of vengerberg #cardan greenbriar #yennidan? cardifer? #the witcher 3 wild hunt #the folk of the air #90s anime aesthetic #your faves as 90s anime #my art

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this coffee tastes like i can still have a beautiful life

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Out of a Fairytale

#pixel art

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Long lost crystal sword

#pixel art

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In the club yawning

#yawning #checking emails #anticipating the satisfaction of peeling off these false lashes #texting mum to come pick me up

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ｌｉｇｈｔ  ｄｒａｇｏｎａｉｒ

#slipwave art #dragonair #vaporwave #pixel art

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Late night sketch, watching Labyrinth .

#obsessed with this art style #blanket burrito cinema

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just for fun(k) 🎶

i found a nice vinyl mock-up template and played around with it until this happened. “snakes & lattes the soundtrack” on messy marbled blu/red wax

cosmic_brew playlist (updated more regularly than my fic oooooo)

#i actually love doing design mockups they're so soothing #snakes and lattes fic #jurdan #vinyl aesthetic #lofi #lofi art #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #tfota #the cruel prince #my art #my design #vinyl records #record store

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bro i sketched a cute jurdan wallpaper for you bro 🛒

"𝐀 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐟𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲. 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐤𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥."

if you're lost dw, it's a scene from a fic i wrote :) i've had so many requests for art of this scene from ch.5 of snakes & lattes. clearly i had fun! it was a wonderful refresher sketch for working with this art style

links to the chapter and original post: post , ao3  , wp

#ill met by moonlight #a midsummer night's meme #snakes and lattes fic #tfota #the cruel prince #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #jude x cardan #jurdan #tcp #tfota fanfic #tfota fanart #my art #my fic #broooo

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today someone saved Snakes and Lattes to a reading list entitled “F*ckers who will never update :)” 

and that was it. 

that was the spite fuel i needed to open up the neglected word doc. 

#that and the stray readers who recently discovered the fic and liked/commented enthusiastically on every chapter #i hit a wall but i think maybe i can just walk around it? #it was a mix of very lowkey winter blues (winter in my side of the world) #and a mean comment someone made somewhere online about the story being a confusing slog #which honestly is fair #there's a lot of little details you need to remember for it to make sense #and if i'm only updating once in a blue moon #then it for sure can become a confusing slog #anyway #isn't it quite powerful how one negative comment can sort of keep you from soaking up every good comment you've ever received? #it only lasted a while but that was quite a potent anti-motivation spell! #anyway anyway #i think i'm back #i'm suddenly sitting up in bed at 3am writing down ideas for fic/fanart again so that feels like being back #hope you're all keeping well #if you made it this far and you can be bothered please comment your favourite tea flavour #mine is toffee oolong milktea #i used to order it every week from gong cha until it was discontinued </3 #harney and sons hot cinnamon sunset!! #that's a close second :) #........ #the irony of this tag section being another Confusing Slog is not lost on me #snakes and lattes fic #cinnamon irl

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“If I promise never to make wishes like that again, can i stay?”

im sobbing, wren deserved all the love

w/ a quick doodle

#love love love the moody colours #wren #the stolen heir #tsh