#that's the reason i love cardan

[chappellrroan]

I have soft spot for pathetic hopelessly in love men who try so hard to pretend they're so unbothered

#sending that ask tara i wanted to phrase it better but it's literally how it is #that's the reason i love cardan #tfota #cardan greenbriar #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the folk of the air #jack of the hollow #prince of hearts #ouabh #the ballad of never after #a curse for true love

[magexii]

book covers i designed for the folk of the air series

#folk of the air #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #taryn duarte #at least implied #coming out as a booktok book fan. i’m so sorry #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #holly black #mage #mage art #these are over a year old i don’t love them but i want them on here for archival reasons lol #the folk of the air #hand lettering waaah #jurdan

[darlingod]

Cardan: *brings his ex back to live on the land and then exiles Jude who he married the night before & who just got back from enduring over a month of torture*

Cardan: *does not have any doubts that Jude could possibly misinterpret this situation*

#out of context just calls out to me I’m sorry #also poor Jude saved his life the day before too #Cardan and Jude not realizing how insecure the other feels about themselves in their relationship is just #I understand Cardan’s perspective I just love giving him shit for this #like you created the biggest misunderstanding that has ever been misunderstood #the way we could have avoided that #fuck you too Lady Asha you miserable waste of space #like ew keep out of ur sons love life I cannot believe u did that #Jude is the only reason that bitch was ever out in about in the first place and Asha did the opposite of paying her back #UGH like Cardan ripped out his heart and put it in those letters #and you just destroyed them?? #alarming #excruciating #distressing #cardan greenbriar #the wicked king #jude duarte

[eerna]

shoutout to Nicasia for being the only one who figured out Jude was the mastermind behind the coup. Orlagh, Madoc, and Balekin, the Big Brained Centuries Old Antagonists, as well as the rest of Elfhame, all convinced her she was wrong so she gave up on trying to prove it after a while but the way she made Jude sweat was soooo girlbosses supporting girlbosses

#k calling balekin big brained is a stretch but he is supposed to know more about the entire thing than NICASIA #everyone else was like ''oh poor little jude tangled in a situation she isn't capable of handling all because she was useful that one time' #while nicasia was foaming at the mouth screaming ''NO YOU DON'T GET IT IT WAS HER IT WASN'T CARDAN SHE DID SOMETHING TO FORCE HIM INTO IT'' #man i love twk. by far the best of the trilogy. what a cool book #tfota liveblog #now i could keep going and monologue about how repeatedly across books cardan and nicasia know each other so well and know how each is gonn #act or react in a situation and how the reason she was the only one who knew the truth was because she was the only one who got to see his #vulnerabilities and wishes but i'm not gonna do that bc it's 2 am <3<3<3<3<3

[alwaysbeenasmartgirl]

me halfway through the night: a good sleep schedule would be nice.

*clicking on the next chapter of a jurdan fanfic*

me: but jurdan content is better

#jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jude greenbriar #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #i love them #jurdan #jude x cardan #high king cardan #queen of nothing #prince cardan #tfota #who needs sleep right? #RIGHT? #them >>>> #they are the reason #that i still believe in love #enemies to lovers #oof #sleep #who needs it

[starrynightsxo]

cardan: *arguing with jude* but I'M the High King so-

jude: I'm the High Queen

the fandom:

#we know #he knows #he cant argue with that logic #real #makes sense bro #sorry cardan but shes our queen #and for some reason I used young sheldon?? #I like this series tho tbf :) #BACK TO JURDAN THO #jurdan forever <3 #<3333 #love #tfota #books #bookish #the cruel prince #booklr #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #cardan #jude #the folk of the air #jurdan #judecardan #jude x cardan #cardan x jude #reading #the folk of air #image source: pinterest #young sheldon

[viivdle]

jude: tell me

cardan: i cannot

me, in the corner:

#fucking finally #what happened #holly black was insane for that #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #i love this book sm #i want to eat it #the cruel prince #jurdan #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #i want to bite them for some reasons #would faeries taste good #i think so righr #fuck i should sleep

[icycoolslushie]

Cardan just goes you have the hospitality of my table if you're loyal, but if you're a traitor, you get the hospitality of the ✨queen✨

The hospitality of ✨knives✨

#ICONIC #i loved how everyone suddenly became scared of jude when he said that #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the queen of nothing #tfota #the folk of the air #ace clicks post now (for some reason) #reread tfota in 3 days

[cruelprincae]

Forever laughing about the young hag Fae girl who tried to gift her way into a marriage with Cardan

#( ooc mobile tag. ) #( i too would force my way into marriage with the high king if he looked the way cardan does #( like he doesn't carry the title of “the most beautiful Fae in elfhame” for no reason. he IS beauty #( and his reaction to all of this is merely a 👁️👄👁️ “i appreciate the gesture but i'd make a poor husband” and the hag girl goes :// #( i love him sm

[sweetvillainjude]

the way jude and cardan wore armor their whole lives to protect themselves and guarded their hearts so furiously that they didn’t know how to take that armor off…but because they had each other, they finally had a reason to be vulnerable, and with each other they could finally lay their weapons down and for once just be loved without it hurting

yeah i am so weak for jurdan

#jurdan #tfota #jude x cardan #they have me in a chokehold #i cannot be normal about them #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #i just cannot #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #i stayed right there (elfhame)

[ezziefae]

i find it hilarious that almost everyone in the folk of the air series knew about jude and cardans romantic feeling for each other except jude and cardan themselves😭 madoc knew, locke knew, balekin knew, nicasia was suspicious but didn’t want to face the truth. I even believe the court of shadows had a feeling something was going on between the two. the roach DEFINITELY KNEW. lady asha knew too!! the reason she intercepted the letters!!!

throughout the books we get hints and reveals of the side characters knowing about jude and cardans love for each other. EVERYONE KNEW EXCEPT JUDE…..and CARDAN

GAD I MISS JURDAN

#jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #holly black #jurdan #the folk of the air #the stolen heir #oak greenbriar #elfhame #the prisoners throne #the cruel prince #I MISSS THEMM #THEM YOUR HONOR

[whisperingreader]

I’m losing my mind over the fact that Cardan always admired Jude. The reasons changed as the years went on, but that scene where Jude is told that fact, altered my brain chemistry. When we’re told that Cardan never hated Jude, he hated that she brought about these new feelings. And Cardan is SUCH a lover boy, I can’t get over it. He really just wants to be loved and the way he finds that with Jude has me in shambles.

#the cruel prince #cardan's letters #cardanandjude #cardan duarte #high king cardan #jude x cardan #prince cardan #cardan greenbriar #high queen jude #jude greenbriar #jude duarte #jurdan #folk of the air #high king of elfhame #the wicked king #the queen of nothing

[darlingod]

Love was never a game to him (Cardan BYYOUIAMFOREVERUNDONE Greenbriar) LOVE HAS NEVER BEEN A GAME TO HIM AND WAS ALWAYS ONLY A FOREVER

#the cruel prince #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jurdan #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #queen of nothing #tfota #perhaps another reason why he was so reluctant of his feelings toward Jude #cause he knew he’d be forever undone #and mortals aren’t forever #but he ain’t ever met a mortal like thissss #in tcp he’s all: go back to where u belong🙄🫣 #and here he’s like: never leave me I will love you forever

[isabella1798]

Why does no one talk about Eva (Jude’s mother) and Asha (Cardan’s mother) being best friends + Justin’s deal with Grimsen ?

I would love a backstory of Asha and Eva’s “friendship” because we know they were best friends who went everywhere together causing trouble. Their companionship was brief, they were both awful and they used to sneak of to the mortal lands together. I can imagine Asha knew what was going on between Justin and Eva and made Eva spill all of the *tea*. I’m very certain that Lady Asha helped Eva and Justin escape and was present at the time of when Eva received that prophecy. It got me thinking how Eva and Justin could get a pregnant mortal in to Madocs household but Asha was probably the one that did by using her glamour. Asha said she could tell Jude about her mother and her mother’s escape which obviously tells us she was there. It also got me thinking if they sent letters to each other while Eva and Justin lived in the mortal lands is well. If Eva and Asha were still in contact then it might have been how balekin found out Eva and Justin were alive (although balekin claims he found out from gossip) … he probably found one of Asha’s letters at the time they lived in the palace (a symbolic reason as to why Asha burned Cardans letters to Jude). We also know Oriana didn’t like Asha and Eva. Which makes me think that part of the reason why she could not tolerate Jude, Taryn, Vivi and couldn’t care less about Cardan is because Eva and Asha were cruel to Oriana. Even though Oriana told Jude Asha never loved anyone, it makes me think Asha might of loved Eva, even if it was only a little bit. Of course Asha will never admit this to anyone because she is a heartless and shallow woman, but I think she wanted to help her friend escape because she could see how miserable Eva was. I get the impression she didn’t think it was a good idea but still did it because she loved Eva. And when she found out Eva had died she must have mourned for her ex best friend. I can also see Asha looking at Jude and Cardan and thinking how much they remind her of herself and Eva. According to Oriana Eva had a great appreciation for Asha’s wickedness and this reminded me of when Cardan said to Jude in TWK “I never thought I could see my cruelty as talents but you did”. That is the exact copy of Asha and Eva. I think that’s why Asha holds a lot of resentment against Jude because Jude is the spitting image of her mother and is a lot like her. And that’s something that Asha is reminded of that she wishes to forget. I can see Asha and Eva getting drunk on wine at each other’s homes and playing cruel pranks on the folk while making fun of everyone and sneaking off to the mortal lands coming back with heeps of mortal clothing, accessories and food while they were friends.

It’s quite interesting to think that Eva, Asha, Oriana and Liriope (Locke+Oaks mother) were all familiar with each other. Could they have been friends all in a group like Cardan, Locke, Nicasia and Valerian ?

But what I want to know is what was the deal Grimsen made with Justin and did it have anything to do with the hag that gave Eva a prophecy about Jude? And something to do with Cardan’s star chart reading? Was the deal that Justin’s future children would have power or something like that? I have no idea but this is a question that NEEDS to be answered before this trilogy ends. Holly Black said she will probably do one more book set in Elfhame after the Prisoners Throne and that Jude will “face a political problem” at the end of this book. This makes me think the last book will go back to Jude and Cardan. And if so we need to know what this deal was….

#jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #holly black #madoc #high queen of elfhame #high king of elfhame #oak greenbriar #queen suren #taryn duarte #vivi duarte #eva duarte #jurdan #folk of the air #lady asha

[starrynightsxo]

"jude and cardan had a toxic relationsh-"

no actually, they did not. there were reasons for everything that happened and just because everyone is so quick to judge things these days doesn't mean it needs to happen to them. whilst in the first book there was some initial behaviours that do support the claim, there were reasons behind them and also this is how enemies to lovers works !! they BECOME lovers. there is such a thing called a redemption arc?? not to mention we get an apology from cardan for everything he has done. toxicity is not what was in their relationship - it was ferocity. The ferocity of their love.

So let's all please stop labelling everything to ever exist toxic and focus on the people who actually need support from their toxic partners / relationships

EDIT: I would just like to clarify that I meant all this for when jude and cardan were in an actual romantic relationship together! This is by no means condoning what happened at the beginning of the books as that was most definitely wrong. I DO NOT condone any form of toxic relationship. I was trying to point out that once they were in an actual romantic relationship then they were NOT toxic and this is what some people argue they were. Apologies for any misconceptions!

#i do not condone toxic relationship #it just really grinds my gears when people say this #like ugh #books #bookish #the cruel prince #booklr #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #tfota #cardan #jude #the folk of the air #rants #random thoughts #jurdan #jude x cardan #cardan x jude #love hate #enemies to lovers #judecardan #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #book rant #new books #holly black #old books #the folk of air #high king of elfhame #high queen of elfhame

[beloved-daydreams]

Their marriage is so soft and a bit funny. I love how Jude is playing 5d chess while Cardan is trying to convince her like "I'm a good bargain!!! Being Queen is a great honor you know???"

Also, I wonder if Cardan asked Jude if she imagined this would be more romantic because HE wanted/tried to make it romantic with the exchange of the rings. Or else what reason would there be for him to do that? Yes, she's human but he's masking the marriage behind a veil of "oh this is for us to trust eachother and leave eachother to move freely" meanwhile he's also doing a gesture that is supposedly "useless" in this context if this is truly just some beneficial agreement. A partnership. Which shows that to him this is beyond just that. He clearly wanted this and felt like making it into a "logical alliance" and sell it as such to Jude was the best way to make her agree to it.

#the folk of the air #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #tfota #jurdan #jude x cardan #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte