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Thoughts on TQoN

I’m part way through a re-read of The Queen of Nothing, and I am suddenly struck by how feminist the entire Folk of the Air series is. It is a story about female empowerment. All of the victorious players are female, while the powerful men fall, one by one, starting with Eldred. Think about it: Valerian, Dain, Balekin, Grimsen, Locke, Madoc, even Cardan. The ones who don’t die must be rescued or shown mercy by a woman. Even in the Court of Shadows, it’s the male members who fall; only Jude and the Bomb are left to pick up the pieces and fight the final battle. The war general, Yorn, gets replaced by the female Grima Mog. Even the first of Jude’s guard, Fand, is female. Cool eh?

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Jude x Cardan

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Keeping up with the Greenbriar-Duarte

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WHERE IS ALL THE NSFW JUDE AND CARDAN MATERIAL?! 😭😭😂

#thecruelprince #thewickedking #thequeenofnothing #hollyblack #folkoftheairseries #judeandcardan

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I finished Queen of Nothing, so here’s some inevitable Cardan fanart... I wish it wasn’t over 😭

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“I am going to keep defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are the Prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this”— I throw his own words back at him— “This is the least of what I can do.”

The Cruel Prince, Page 77

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me climbing into holly black’s house to convince her to write a novella about cardan frolicking around in the mortal world with jude and being completely fascinated by public transportation and rollercoasters and automatic sliding doors

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I love his letters so much i had to make this for my lockscreen (´∀｀)♡

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“I found a piece of paper with my name on it. Over and over, just my name."⁠ ⁠ In honor of the end of The Folk of the Air trilogy have a doodle from when I first read The Cruel Prince! Originally I was thinking of this for a sticker and enamel pin but as Holly Black has asked for no fan merch that will be respected. ⁠

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“Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”

“I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”

me:

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Police: What are your names?

Cardan: Don’t tell him, Jude!

Police: [writing] Jude

Jude: Cardan, you’re such a dumbass

Police: [writing] and Cardan

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Jurdan getting pizza together

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Cardan, a deep and gorgeous character, and Jude, a marvelous protagonist unlike any I’ve enjoyed in the past. Poured a bit of my soul into this piece, trying to replace the bit that vanished after finishing the latest novel.

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Faerie got your tail. The QON prologue killin’ me over here.

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Cardan and Jude card

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queen of mirth

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broody faerie boi