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actually wild of holly black to write cardan’s arc so powerfully that I went from genuinely hating him and never believing I’d like him to thinking “ok so maybe he’s not awful ALL the time” to desperately rooting for him and furiously wanting him to be loved and happy over the span of three books. like tfota was WILD for doing that (and doing it so well)

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just thinking about how "jude, you can’t really think i don’t know it’s you. i knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh." doesn't have to be specifically about jude taking taryn's place at the trial and cardan realising her disguise, it's also about the moment jude walked into the brugh for the first time when she was seven and every time after. he knew her.

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Cardan: I need to talk to you about something.

Oak: I get it. You hate me. You’re going to have me killed. You’re going to lock me up. Beat me. Yell at me. I understand. You thought I was trying to kill you and take the throne, and I should’ve came to you and talked to you. I am so sorry please don’t hate me.

Cardan: …I don’t know about any of that but ANYWAY what I DO KNOW is that i knew your tricks before Jude did. I am LITERALLY so smart. Big brain. so big i need a bigger crown. i have never been so smart. jude is never living this down. GET WRECKED

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Official art of Oak and Wren from the tour makes me want to cry

(From @nayxreads on Instagram)

(From Holly Black's page)

Official art here

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Did anyone else notice how in the Prisoner’s Throne Jude and Cardan seemed to be slightly different?

Not in a OOC way, but… more like each other.

Jude is more talkative, and can now hold court better. She’s better at formal dinners and even more sassy than she was, which is so typical of Cardan.

Cardan is more prone to violence.

He couldn’t even lift a sword properly, but now can fight even when injured?

When he thought Wren hurt Jude, he was 100% ready to fight her

I just- they grew as an old married couple.

They’re slowly turning into a single entity and I’M DYING FOR IT

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Just finished a reread of TFOTA and this quote from Locke (of all people) stuck out to me.

"Do you love me enough to give me up? Do you love me enough to weep over me?"Jude finds the questions off putting and odd, which I don't blame her.

Flash forward to QoN: *Jude, willing to cut off snake Cardans head, not knowing what would happen, but knowing it would break her*

When she truly loved someone, she was willing to give them up, and weep over them.

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CARDAN MAKING FUN OF LOCKE TO HIS CHILD IS SO ON BRAND OF HIM. CARDAN IS NEVER LETTING THAT GO.

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Cardan not going after Jude during her exile always makes me cry because the only reason he wasn’t is because he wanted to respect her wants and autonomy so bad. He didn’t want to make her come back if she didn’t want to, didn’t look for her because he genuinely believed Jude would come back if she wanted to be found. And again it’s just so in-character of him to automatically think she’s just found something better than him because no one ever willingly picked and stayed with him when they had a choice so why would she?

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Jurdan gets funnier and funnier the more you think about them and realize how much of a big loser both of them are when it comes to love.

Mfs get married to supposedly "form a trustworthy alliance" -> Cardan exiles Jude the next day to impress her, because apparently his rizz disappears when it truly matters 💀 -> Jude takes it seriously, stays in the human world for months and is salty af -> Cardan cries himself to sleep and writes pathetic little letters to her. Like wow you did that to yourself you dumb bitch 😭

And don't get me STARTED on their dumbass confessions. Cardan's was, I'm pretty sure, 80% on a whim. Like, maybe he had prepared the words in his mind but he didn't plan to confess to her right then and there at such a bad time. Says "well you probably already guessed as much" at the end then RUNS AWAY probably because he's overwhelmed and Jude is left standing there like???? No I fucking didn't guess you liked me lmao??? I'm dumb af bro, should've been this direct from the start :')

And Jude's is also hilarious because she says it kind of hurriedly as soon as they're alone, since she had promised herself to tell him the first moment they get together. Girlie confesses and CARDAN DOESN'T BELIEVE HER 😭 so homegirl has to EXPLAIN in DETAILS when she thinks she started to fall for him, why she started to like him, why she believed he didn't like her and why she felt the need to hide it. And ONLY after that whole ass explanation Cardan's finally like "omg!!! You liked me because I'm clever and funny?!?? Omgggg..."

Those fuckers were really married for months before fumbling their way through awkward confessions because they can't indulge in the thought that the other likes them. Like they were legit EMBARRASSED to admit that they like eachother while being MARRIED. Please this is so unserious, get real.

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Jude: never trusting Cardan even though he can’t lie (valid)

Cardan: trusts Jude with his whole heart even though she can lie (unhinged)

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how dare cardan greenbriar casually drop a number like "yes, my sweet villain, my darling god" and kiss jude duarte on the mouth in front of basically the whole damn kingdom

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POV you overhear Cardan Greenbriar talking to someone on the phone

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Cardan in the Wicked King:- why is yall solution to everything is murder????

Cardan in Queen of Nothing:- oh you kidnapping MY WIFE???? Murder it is then

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i’m never drawing anything as stupid as this ever again

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the fatui harbingers are so funny to me because it's like eight of the sexiest queer goths you've ever seen alongside the pringles man

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if lyney and aether were to get married would arlecchino be the traveler's "father"-in-law 🤔

#Someone needs to write that fic ASAP #Imagine the family dynamics

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what a kind and reliable group