Not that I got a great look at it, but I think I saw a queensnake today.
It looks stripier than most queensnake pictures I've seen, but it was swimming in a pond (and dove back into the pond when it noticed me), no other local water snakes are striped at all, and it looks and acts even less like any kind of garter snake.
It’s one thing to imagine the relief Jude felt when Cardan returned to himself from being a snake.
It’s another to imagine the comfort that Cardan felt when Jude ran to him after being a snake for three days. Imagine not knowing anything other than Jude, and anger for three days, and then Jude, rushes to you and embraces you. Calculating, determined, warrior Queen Jude rushes to you and hugs you.
i love doomed narrative so much. i love enemies to lovers. i love one of them becomes so rotten to core but the love never fades between them even tho they're on opposite sides so much. i love the they want to kill and kiss each other trope so so much.
"What I want is him back, him standing beside me, him laughing at all this. I would settle for even his worst self, his cruellest trickster self, if only he could be here."
Imagine hating a girl so much, that not only do you steal her man, but you then manipulate the system so that she’s sent to her almost-certain death in a bloody arena fight with 23 other kids
"you can't ship them because they're too toxic to each other" WELLL. speak for yourself because i ship them only because they're toxic to each other. they can't be together. one of them might end up killing another. THE DICHOTOMY. THE ANGST. THE TENSION.