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scarletaire · 2 years
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getaway girl (Chapter 2)
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The Jurdan “Actors” AU
“How have you been?” The question is as double-edged as the blade in her hand. No matter what she answers, he’ll find a way to cut her with it.
She keeps her eyes on his feet, waiting. “Busy.”
Or: 
She hasn’t seen Cardan since the table read.
[Read on AO3]
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Jude waking up in Elfhame like
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darlingod · 7 months
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Cardan on the inside when dropping the bombshell that Jude was his wife and was most definitely not in exile:
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rainingriversofyou · 17 days
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Jude Duarte - The Folk Of The Air - Artist: sen_verse
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shit-im-bi · 2 years
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I love how jude could have been one of the "I could fix him" girlies but was mentally ill enough to be a "I'll be even worse than him" girlie.
We really gave Cardan redemption because it was his drinking versus jude going on killing sprees and hiding bodies???
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sarcasmiclife · 5 months
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TFOTA might just be the only fandom in Tumblr where fans haven't made their own homo-sexual ships instead of following the canon
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dam-bluecookies · 11 months
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What do you mean jurdan 🙄 the real romance is Cardan and his beloved door! “my prince” “my door”
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happy-bookworm · 6 months
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Tfota fanartists make wonderful amazing, fantastic art but I have one tiny lil quibble.
I haave never seen a fanart of Jude Duarte with her missing finger?? Like?? It is a physical characteristic of hers that sets her apart from Taryn?? When it gets bitten off by that soldier/guard dude when she was younger??
Every fanart of Jude I've seen has her with all her fingers intact pls-
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viivdle · 19 days
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baby cardan
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sweetvillainjude · 5 days
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TFOTA tumblr fandom you will always be my favourite ♥️
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tfota fandom is best fandom 😻😻
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eerna · 10 days
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Ok Ok so I've been thinking this for. quite a while like even before Stolen Heir was released. it's kind of controversial because I might be making mountain out of a molehill but -
I think Jurdan fans border on being disrespectful to Holly Black at times... the problem isn't what one chooses to focus on even though that annoys me too, like it's not like people can control the fact that they focus more/love a character more than the other. But I'm starting to see this especially on Instagram and Goodreads, and I think I have good reason to believe HB is more active on insta and Goodreads is like, the book reviewing site, if there's any place she may look for comments or critique it's that.
and my problem lies with the language used . HB can announce she's working on something and can give hints about it and I've seen soo many people just outright tell her "I don't care about [x] and [y] just give me JURDAN!!" or anything along that vein , there's also "I'm only reading this for Jurdan lol I kind of couldn't care less about []".
It genuinely annoys me a lot !! And I wish I could say to each their own but ykw? At some point it starts to feel like if these two characters aren't involved people don't even try to make an effort to connect with the other characters, the new protagonist, etc. To be honest your page was a breath of fresh air because I don't even see a lot of folks focus on ANYTHING in TFOTA other than this ship.
There's also the irony that so many people pride themselves on loving Jude, their morally grey female rage character, but refuse to discuss Taryn with nuance. Or Vivi, sometimes. It's weird how so many people love Madoc (justified, I like him too) then refuse to think that hey, maybe Taryn's way of coping with faerie is different than Jude and that affects her actions! something something fandom misogyny
The above unrelated paragraph is just to say that a Nicasia focused book is something many people just absolutely will not be able to handle lmao and I so dearly wish Jude and Cardan's 'screentime' is few and far in between just so that it's less palatable. But oh well.
(And after Prisoner's Throne it worries me because with the implication that the Nicasia focused book might have Jude and Cardan POVs I feel like she's catering more to these people now.
If that's how things turn out that would genuinely make me really sad because I didn't pick up her books after reading TCP, I started with Spiderwick Chronicles, then Modern Faerie Tales, and I love the way she creates atmosphere, her worldbuilding, her depiction of the weird and creepy and magical. I especially think that's her strongest suit, more than characterization, so something like this that hinges more on specific characters genuinely turns me off.)
AGREED SO MUCH WITH ALL OF ITTT I too noticed the really dumb people in her comments crapping on everything that isn't a new Jurdan book... Like, the woman was writing books and enjoyed fame 15 years before Jurdan happened. She obviously has a lot to say about her world. Why the hell would you want her to stop developing it and only focus on 2 characters??? I was a big Spiderwick fan as a kid, and when I read TFOTA I had no idea it was by the same writer but I could TELL the vibes were all there. I too think that is her specialty and I'd rather get 10 stories on different characters than 5 on Jurdan.
I want the Undersea book to be about Nicasia and part of it is because I agree, I think most of the fandom would HATE it and it would fry their brains, and I want to see it. It is dumb and petty of me, but it would be sweet vindication for all the clowns screaming into my ear that Taryn is problematic actually in case I didn't notice. Ultimately I know it is a fruitless endeavor. TFOTA has the misfortune of being too good and complicated for its main audience of tiktok book fans, but also too bad and simplified to spread into more general, unspecified fantasy circles where its themes could catch the attention of people who would know how to appreciate them. That means there is only a small portion of fans who both like the books AND have the critical thinking skills to appreciate all the things they do right outside of romance/basic female wish fulfilment.
In the end, judging by TPT, we are gonna have to take the L and accept we bet on the wrong horse and minority does not make the money. But at least we will be there together to make a mountain out of a molehill!
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chaiichait · 2 months
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Jude doodle!
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folfar · 23 days
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Fandom Trumps Hate - bidding is now live!
Just a reminder that bidding for FTH 2024 is now open, and you can find my creator page here - I am offering a Capri fic of 10-20k and a TFotA story of 5-10k!
Bidding is open until the 9th of March, and I have nominated MECA as my chosen charity. If you want to hit me with any questions about what I could write for you, please do!
My Ao3 is here if you want to browse my existing fic!
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no-madness · 11 months
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THE REAL QUESTION FOR MY GIRLS...
ARE YOU A WING GIRL OR A TAIL GIRL?
Forget other questions about taste in men. Do u want a morally gray man or a perfect green flag nope. The real question is which do u find sexier wings or a tail?
Do u like the: u-may-suffocate- me-to- death-with-these, gorgeous, smexy wings of; the wingspan of which foretells many other things *cough cough* OR do u like the -wraps-around-your-calf-while-kissing, gently-caresses-you-when u-r sad, shows all the inner feelings of the guy- tail ???
The ultimate question of whether u like Rhys' wings better or Cardan's tail???
#i-am-a-tailgirl
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daddycardan · 11 months
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Justin Duarte’s bargain with Grimsen
Lowkey we never get an explanation for this, but can we talk about it for a sec?
When Jude meets with Grimsen, he tells her the following:
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So Grimsen doesn’t confirm or deny whether Justin actually made the bargain, but we can assume that he did. Because why would Holly Black even bring it up if Justin just declined it? It wouldn’t contribute to the story. So let’s say he accepted.
We can also assume that this wasn’t a straight forward bargain, like most faerie bargains, it must have been vaguely worded and obscure. Poor Justin probably didn’t know what he was gonna lose. And in the end, he lost his wife, then died himself, and his daughters got snatched away.
On the other hand, there’s also an argument for Justin not having accepted the bargain, because while he was an excellent blacksmith, his blades don’t seem to be renowned for being the best in the world. Nightfell is a good sword, but they never emphasise that it’s the best blade ever. So that might indicate that Justin didn’t receive Grimsen’s boon, after all.
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