#jude is our queen

[starrynightsxo]

[reu8ell]

Cardan being self-deprecatingly honest

[thenilofernoorulain]

So I just realised...

Jude and Taryn are very fucking identical, but Grimsen's earrings are supposed to make Taryn "more beautiful", which means she may look slightly different from Jude, but in TWK, Cardan saw Taryn with the earrings and still thought it was Jude, despite the fact that he can tell them apart.

(Yes, I remember he was poisoned.)

[hope-di-angelo]

I just saw a reel that says "so Jude just played Kiss, Marry Kill with Cardan's friend group".

You know who else she played that game with? Cardan.

She kissed him, married him and then eventually, kinda kinda, killed him.

So my point here is, Jude is our queen and no body touches her without having to plow us weeds out 1st

[annamatix]

fae having genitals but not having to go to the bathroom will never not be funny to me like basically they were born to fuck 💀

[deathsweetblossoms]

The Prisoner's Throne & Breadcrumbs for the Plot

Highlights From this article:

She refers to The Stolen Heir as an “evil queen origin story”

The likeness of this cover to The Cruel Prince cover, and Holly draws our attention to it

She describes Oak as a trickster and a loner who is always among people. “He carries a lot of guilt on his shoulders” but is someone who “knows what he wants”.

the insinuation that Wren will not start Prisoners Throne as with the same goodness that she started The Stolen Heir (I wish someone had the wherewithal to fucking ask her what Wren's journey was going to be, then. Does Oak's POV provide her a redemption arc?)

Three words to describe PT: “siblings, revenge, LONGING”. (I'm guessing Longing refers to Wren and Oak. Revenge can be any number of things as it seems to be the driving force for a lot of Elfhame. SIBLINGS is interesting because, obviously Jude, but this is Oak's POV. So we'll also get Taryn. And Vivi.)

“There is at least one more thing I’d like to do in Elfhame (which will be very obvious by the end of the Prisoners Throne)”

There is a “separate thing” Holly is interested in writing about in Faerie, so she has more Faerie stories coming

More Elfhame story CONFIRMED, and we already know it revolves around a political problem for Jude. Plus more faerie stories, which I’m guessing means side characters (like Darkest Part of the Forest or Tithe) or new characters.

[viivdle]

i'm running out of captions

[romajuliettemai]

Got some more prints for the prints wall! :D

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

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[starrynightsxo]

"And you think it was sunrise I was waiting for and not my queen."

CARDAN FREAKING GREENBRIAR THE MAN HE IS

[romajuliettesupremacy]

confirmed: roma montagov and cardan greenbriar are both the worst at sending letters

[thenilofernoorulain]

We were talking about Cardan's tail scene in bookIII...

@tanzeel5ahmed

[ao-ihinata]

Just me being dead inside because none of my bookmarked jurdan fanfics have been updated for a week ...

[deathsweetblossoms]

I rub my thumb over the stub of my missing finger top, bitten off by one of Madoc's guards, and realize abruptly that if I told Cardan about it, he might understand. Maybe more than anyone, he'd comprehend the odd mingling of fear and shame I feel -- even now -- when I think of it. For all our conflicts, there are moments when we understand each other entirely too well. (Jude, QON, Ch 20)

He considers explaining how much he despised the palace as a child, how he dreamed of escaping Elfhame. She knows most of that already. (Cardan, HTKOELTHS)

Once, she told Cardan the story of confronting Madoc after she'd drugged him, but before the poison began to work. (Cardan, HTKOELTHS)

Soft evidence of Jude and Cardan removing their armor, “one piece at a time”, via sharing their stories with each other.

[literary-chameleon]

ek Knife Wife to main bhi deserve karti hu :(

[darlingod]

They both killed their husbands willingly but only one of them wanted their husband alive 💀💀 Duarte women tea

Jude one-upping Taryn

Taryn: marries one of cardan’s friends

Jude: marries cardan

Taryn: Becomes a Lady

Jude: Becomes a Queen

Taryn: stabs her husband

Jude: Beheads her husband