#marissa mayer heartless

[hoes-n-foes]

I wish Heartless had a scene of Cath and Jest baking together, I feel like it could have brought so much to their connection and ours with the couple.

Imagine Cath bossing Jest around in the kitchen, them messing about

[mialicassi]

im actually so scared 😭

i cant even imagine an universe where they dont end together and happy help

THE PINK ROSES AAAAAAAA IM GOING INSANE

THE QUESTION MARK, THE FREAKING QUESTION MARK WHAT DOES IT MEANS LAUREN WHAT DOES IT MEAAAAAANNNNNNNNN

[anncanta]

Lemon Tart and the Man with the Axe

I am amazed at how archetypes work and how in a good book the image and the text always walk on the edge. Especially when the author and the text don't even hide what's going on.

I recently finished reading Heartless by Marissa Meyer and I'm still impressed.

This book is wonderful. I fell in love with it immediately, and now it's not just one of my favorite books – it's a book that is with me. Mine. The book I've been waiting for. It evokes so many feelings in me that I can't describe them all. Only the main ones: joy, delight, surprise, admiration. Recognition. Pain. Disbelief that such a book was possible. And admiration again.

Now that some time has passed since I finished reading it, I realize that I keep returning to one of its characters. Not only because he is exceptionally attractive – and I've been missing such a male character for many years – but also because he was surprisingly misunderstood within the text.

No, it's not the author's problem. The author is a genius, and she probably intended it that way. I can't remember another instance where a character in a text was surrounded by so many other people's views and was so different from what others saw. And yet, he doesn't argue with that view. He just lives his life. And it literally leaves you stunned. How is that possible? How could it be written? How could it be done so easily?

Well, it all seems so simple. There is a novel – a fan fiction based on Alice in Wonderland. The main character of the novel is Katherine Pinkerton, the young daughter of the Marquis, the future Queen of Hearts. There is a love story that failed, declared almost at the very beginning. It all seems like a typical romance. Everything points to it. Everything leads to it.

But this is Wonderland. Here, everything may not be as it seems.

And here I will digress and say a few words about the perception of the original.

Alice in Wonderland is often considered a fairy tale for children, a cute joke, a story told by a strange professor to his young friends on a hot summer day. Many people read it as such – as a bright ‘Disney’ pastoral. In a sense, it is. But only to a certain extent.

Because for Lewis Carroll, the story of Alice falling down the rabbit hole was, among other things, a parody of the scientists and friends around him, a logical exercise, a puzzle toy, a poetic exercise, a mockery of the ancient literary tradition (the ballad about the Jabberwock), a mathematical problem and just pure pleasure.

And this story is also extremely artificial, extremely conditional, almost a puppet theater.

And here I return to Marissa Mayer's novel. In order to understand what it is about, you need to remember one important thing: the characters in Alice in Wonderland are cards and chess.

No, there are people, animals, and strange creatures whose nature is difficult to determine there. But the main context is the two kingdoms in which the action takes place – these are two sets of chips and two spaces of the game.

And this is the main thing.

In Carroll's book, this game is permanent, brash, furious, seething, and absurd. It rolls over you at once and overwhelms you. So much so that you don't notice how the inexorable order emerges behind this crazy dance.

In Marissa Mayer's book, the game is more orderly, more restrained, and logical. Although it continues to be furious and passionate. This can only be compared to music, and all that comes to mind is, paradoxically, Saint-Saëns' Dance Macabre. However, what's surprising about that? Both cards and chess are games in which the stakes can be very high. Sometimes the stake is life.

Marissa Mayer understands this very well. That's why the Joker appears in her kingdom in a deck of cards.

I still can't get over his appearance. Besides how it was done – with such exquisite mocking grace and simplicity, with skill and taste. How much dignity, beauty, and sexuality there is in it. But the main thing is that the Joker is not just a card. This is a card that changes the game.

You can't help but reach for the image of the trickster, you just want to say that the deceiver and the lover of jokes has come to shake up the stagnant Kingdom of Hearts.

But it's more complicated. Tricksters are the public's favorites, it's hard to take your eyes off them. But you have to if you want to understand what the tale is about.

The Joker is a card that can change the current layout, which, if necessary, beats any other, including trumps, which in a certain sense is on its own.

That's why it was no surprise to me that Jest is playing his own game. By the way, Jest is a variant of the word ‘joker’, ‘jester’, ‘fool’. So, I suspect, we don't know the real name of this hero.

Everything is wonderful in his image. But the most striking thing is how, despite his mystery, he is shamelessly frank. And how frankly it is done.

There are many details that can be given here, but I will focus on one – Jest's friendship with Raven. As we will see later, it will pull others along with it, and not by chance.

From the very first moment he appears in the text, Jest appears in dual form – as a human and as a bird. Aside from the fact that a bird is a very powerful archetypal image in itself, especially a raven, it seems important to me that Jest does not simply split into two. He does not simply split into a human and a raven.

He splits into a joker and an executioner.

This is what suddenly struck me after a few days of reading the book.

I was not surprised that Kath did not see this – Kath is seventeen. How could I not?

In the amazing scene in the garden, where Kath, having fled from the king's proposal, rushes among the bushes and trees, suffocating in her tight corset, she sees how out of the darkness comes out to meet her first the figure of a hooded man with an axe, and then – Jest, sitting peacefully in a tree with a flute in his hands.

It is so obvious that there is no need to explain anything.

If anyone hasn't figured it out by the last third of the book, Jest says it outright: ‘The Raven was the executioner in the White Queen's court.’ It's both a warning to Kath – girl, I'm friends with the executioner. We've been best friends for years. Does that bother you? – and a reminder to the reader that jokers and rooks are not sweet romantic heroes.

There's another elegant twist hidden here.

Look. On the outside, the story of Jest and Kath is a sweet tale of an innocent girl who fell in love with a handsome young man who died tragically in battle.

A bright, beautiful, spectacular Disney story. Lemon tart.

But inside this tart is a very unusual treacle filling.

There are several moments, in addition to the one I mentioned above, indicating that everything is not so simple.

The first is the appearance of Jest in the Kingdom of Hearts. As Cheshire says, no one knows who Jest is or where he is from. He simply appeared at the gates of the royal palace, talked to the king, showed a couple of tricks, and offered his services.

However, this is just a joke. The Joker always unexpectedly appears in the game.

And there is more to come. The second moment is the Hatter's tea party. During which we see that if this is the king's joker, then there are at least two kings. The daytime one is the cheerful, frivolous, and carefree King of Hearts – and the shadow one is the thoughtful, strange, ironic, gloomy Hatta.

And even though the tea party is just a game, it is needed to show us that Jest as a character has a double bottom, a second meaning, a dark underside.

And the third moment is the conversation between Jest and Kath at the well, where he tells her directly, ‘I am the rook. I can walk any distance, if in a straight line. I come from a country that has been at war for many years. I have seen people die and I have taken many lives myself.’ In this scene, he seems very young and very much in love. And he is, but its beauty and strength is that if seventeen-year-old Kath sees only this youth and love, letting everything else pass in one ear and out the other, then the adult reader sees the rest.

They see a tired, very grown-up man who serves on the royal court. He has served there for many years. A man who fought, intrigued, persuaded, created alliances, destroyed them, carried out impossible missions, and killed. A man who is incredibly tired of all this. Who really wants to stay in a peaceful, calm kingdom and find a family. He does not know if he will succeed. But he clearly understands that the main obstacles to this are not the king, not his own low position, and not the Jabberwock.

The beauty of it is that Kath is not a lovesick fool who blindly throws herself at a handsome prince, although she is madly in love. Kat is a very young woman. All her thoughts, feelings, and actions are determined by her youth and lack of experience. In the finale, it seems to us that she is mad with grief. But the more I think about it, the more I am inclined to believe that it is not only from grief but from the fact that something has befallen her that she was simply unable to understand at the age of seventeen.

And this is a real tragedy.

When I finished reading the book, I couldn't understand why I didn't feel sorry for Jest. He's a fantastic character, smart, handsome, talented, ironic, sexy, kind, strong. What's the problem?

The problem is that Jest himself didn't see this story and its possible ending as tragic. Look above – he is a military man, a courtier, smart and calculating, a professional politician who is friends with a professional killer. A man who deliberately came to another country to seduce the queen, steal her heart, and leave. In the book, it's said quite delicately, but quite clearly: Jest wasn't trying to take Kath's heart because she wasn't a queen yet. His plan was to have an affair with her, make her fall in love with him, wait for her to marry the king, and become her lover.

This man knew how it would end. He had counted on it. He had no great doubts about it. He was simply not used to doubting such things. He had lived like this all his life. Hatta, who had spent much more time with him than Kath, saw it very clearly. His dull melancholy and slight contempt with which he speaks to her at the end of the book are the result not so much of hostility and jealousy towards her, but of the impossibility of explaining. He understands that he cannot explain to this frightened, grief-stricken girl that no matter how much pain he felt, no matter how terrible what had happened, the worst thing is that Jest did not see anything unusual in it. And this tears him apart from within. It was not time that caught up with him and stunned him with madness, but the realization that had finally come of what kind of life they both lived and the price they had paid for it.

But Kath cannot understand this. She is young and confused, she is under pressure from all sides and, among other things, she has no way of understanding it. These things can only be understood by life experience. So all that remains with her after what she has experienced, all that remains of Jest, is a man with an axe.

Without forgetting for a moment that she is writing a fanfic based on one of the greatest works of English literature, the author uses one of the most famous devices of this literature – an embodied metaphor. The dark side of Jest, his shadow, the part of him that Kath has tried desperately not to see throughout the story, splits off and stays with her.

And it doesn't matter what color the roses are if you don't understand anything. The Sisters take her heart, not because they take their pay for the opportunity to carry out revenge, but because there is no place for the heart where a person clings to the dead. Kath could have had the memory of Jest, of who he was – really was, of what happened, of their love. But she chose to hold on to a static image, of what she saw first. To a man in black with an axe. She can't be blamed for this. Her youth and inexperience made her do it. And in the end, she stayed with this man. She wanted to keep Jest, and she did – in the form she could. The irony of life. The irony of Sisters. The irony of the story and love.

In Marissa Mayer's interpretation, the story of the Queen of Hearts is the story of a girl who never became an adult.

And it is also a story about how important it is to play fair. First of all, with yourself.

* The art is from the internet. I don't know the artist. If you do, please let me know in the comments.

[monarchv0id]

“One to be a murderer, the other one to be martyred, one to be a monarch, the other to go mad”

[cowboysyd]

read all of Heartless knowing Jest would kaput yet was shocked when it happened

[nuctoria]

Forgot about him. This is Jest from the book Heartless by Marissa Mayer and it's basically a backstory to the Queen of Hearts. It's a really nice book if you can handle the sad parts in it.

Too Many Jesters

Dimentio - Super Paper Mario

Rascal/Jester - Glitter Force/Smile Precure

Bittergiggle - Garten of BanBan

Shadow Milk Cookie - Cookie Run Kingdom

Lychee Dragon Cookie - Cookie Run Ovenbreak

Ice Juggler Cookie - Cookie Run Ovenbreak

The Fool - Reverse 1999

Pomni - The Amazing Digital Circus

Fizzarolli - Helluva Boss

Sundrop - Security Breach

Moondrop - Security Breach

Berial - AFK Journey

Jevil - Deltarune

NiGHTS - Nights Into Dreams

Reala - Nights Into Dreams

Marx - Kirby

Kuromi - Hello Kitty

Some I know from childhood from games, shows and so on. Some I only know cause I see so much of them. Some I had no choice but to know from how popular they are. I still know to many and I have no bloody idea if that's everyone.

@billinshoes who asked for this. But I'll add my good friends @istadris @itsavee4117 @darknadaworld and @fruitytiff so we can all suffer together with this.

I need therapy.

[notcressdarnel]

Cath: my dream is open a bakery

Her mother: Life isn't some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and all your insipid dreams magically come true. So let it go.

[help-i-cant-life]

Masterlist

I want you to know exactly where I am. And where you can always find me:

carrd

❗= Gory/Bloody

Obey Me!

Writing:

M/C has a stutter

M/C has asthma

M/C has ADHD (Levi/Beel)

Date Night

Sleeping in the same bed

Art:

Beelzebub Shimeji

Hannibal

Writing:

AU where Hannibal only speaks in rhyming couplets

"You're my new pillow."

Transitioning pt. 1: Braum

Transitioning pt. 2: Dysphoric

Art:

Angel/Devil Hannigram

Slashers

Writing:

"This is my favorite place in the whole world." (Brahms)

Art:

Stu Macher

Ghostface

Brahms Heelshire

Chucky

Jason Voorhees

Patrick Bateman ❗

Harry Warden

BBC's Ghosts

Art:

The Captain 1 // 2

Mat Baynton

Writing:

Cap gets a crush

Star Trek

Art:

Lt.-Cdr. Data

Lt. Geordi La Forge

The Swedes

Writing:

S/O that has depressive episodes

Otto's S/O has a nightmare

S/O with ADHD

Baking with Otto

To Kill a Witch

Prologue

To Meet a Witch

To Love a Witch

To Kill a Witch

To Miss a Witch

Art:

Öga för Öga

Umbrella Academy

Art:

Tua w/ song lyrics: #1 // #2 // #3 // #4 // #5 // #6 // #7 // Axel // Otto // Oscar // Hazel // Cha-Cha

NBC Chuck

Writing:

Need You Here

When They Died

IDKHBTFM

Art:

"Bleeding Magic" ❗

iDKHOW

Dallon 1 // 2

Heartless

Art:

Tarot Cards: Murderer // Monarch // Martyr ❗ // Mad

Random Art

Goretober 2021 ❗

Snail Shell

Dennis Nilsen

"bury a friend"

Haemolacria ❗

"still feel."

Randy Feltface 1 // 2

Dr. Stein

Joanne Baker ❗

Ezra Cole

Underwater

Original Writing

Poems:

"Love"

Untitled

"Friends"

Writing:

Letter to Ryan

Labels

Yearning (Completed)

March 3

March 5

March 8

March 17

March 25

April 1

[lesliesbookbubble]

Guess what? More books. Spy any favorites?

[artherondale]

Sem coração, (2018) - Marissa Meyer

Resenha:

      Sem Coração é a história da jovem de 17 anos que sonha em abrir uma confeitaria com sua melhor amiga e empregada, Mary Ann. Mas Catherine é de família nobre, e confeiteira é uma função exercida por meros plebeus. Para realizar seu sonho, Catherine tenta conquistar o rei, enviando para ele macarrons, tortas de limão e outras delícias. O que ela não previa era que o rei se apaixonasse por ela e a pedisse em casamento. E pior: numa das festas no palácio, ela conhece o Coringa, o novo bobo da corte, por quem se apaixona perdidamente. Nasce aí um amor proibido que marcará a vida de Catherine para sempre

Total de páginas: 416

Resenha:

      Contando a estória em um ponto de vista narrativo, podemos enxergar com facilidade diversos pontos de vistas sem de preocupar o que é verdade ou mentira. Contudo, o maior ponto narrativo é a protagonista mostrando seus passos para enfim comprar uma seu grande confeitaria ao lado de sua criada e melhor amiga. Vida de Catherine vira de ponta cabeça quando sua mãe quer casa-la de qualquer jeito com o rei de copas. Um homem bem mais velho que cath e também muito imaturo para sua idade, agindo como um homem sem qualquer responsabilidade ou equilíbrio para ser rei. Ainda lutando para enfim ter sua cafeteria ela conhece o grande coringa no qual se apaixona. A garota se vê presa em uma aventura muito bonita e significativa para uma versão de como ela se tornou alguém sem coração. Uma versão muito mais plausível e compressiva do que as outras. Aqui, além de ser uma estória bonita de amor e sonhos, trata-se de uma boa fantasia e suspiros que o grande coringa faz a gente suspirar toda vez que é um grande cavalheiro. Um dos livros mais lindo e amáveis em que já li.

Nota: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0

[luluvonv]

@a-super-evil-cat-who-murdersand @positivelyamazonian have tagged me to answer these lovely questions so, with a horrible delay, I am diving into it :D Btw thank you for tagging, this is probably the best one I’ve been tagged in :)

First crush on a fictional character:  Kurtis Trent. Seriously, before TRAOD I’d never been into any fictional characters. Kurtis was the first one that has charmed to that extent that I, in my late 20s, still go nuts over him…. daily. I was stunned by his cheeky behaviour, mysterious attitude and simply, there was something gripping that I felt drawn to him even though I believed he was a villain at first,

A book that made you cry: Geeez, so many. As a child, I cried during Harry Potter series. Most recently I cried during The Legacy story by Positively Amazonian, Six of Crows dulogy by Leigh Bardugo or The Queen of the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen.

Book that was spoiled for me:  The Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo because I’ve read Six of Crows first and I was looking for fanart which spoiled few things for me. Also, some films I saw first before reading a book they were based on; sadly, I don’t remember titles.

First book you fell in love with: As a child, I fell in love with Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five series. I used to go to a public library every day to borrow a new book from the series as I couldn’t put them down and read too fast.

First Time you couldn’t stop smiling because of a book or character: I really do not remember who was first. Probably Fred and George from Harry Potter, because they are funny dorks. Pen Alcott (The Queen of the Tearling) or Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) because they just melted my heart. And most recently Jest from the Heartless (I’ve not finished it yet) - he made me giggle stupidly in a train. And I giggle and smile because of Kurtis Trent in quality fanfictions on daily basis;D (is that a coincidence that most of them are seriously damaged male characters?!)

First Person that really impacted your reading: I’ve developed a passion for reading on my own. No one in my family reads that much, or at all. I am the Queen of Bookworms in our family… Does the librarian in our hometown library counts? Maybe it was her, when in my second grade we paid an obligatory visit to a library, and she willingly answered all of my nosy questions and showed me around individually. I was stunned by so many books at one place.

I wanna tag: @maximanxd @shadowtearling and anyone else who wants to do this. 

[hoes-n-foes]

Finishing Heartless gave me unfathomable anger and no outlet to express it

[kcfya]

No hearts :( 

[ivory-in-rapture]

10 books I wanna read in 2020  

I was tagged by @sunkissedadam . Thank you so much for the tag. I was actually thinking of making a 2020 reading challenge post so this is a great start I think!

1. Call down the hawks (*sigh* I’ll get my copy next month...hopefully)

2.Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 

3.Crush by Richard Siken

4. If we were villains by M. L. Rio

5.The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

6.The Absolutely remarkable Thing by Hank Green

7.Heartless by Marissa Mayer

8.The hate you give by Angie Thomas

9.The children of blood and bone by Tomi Adeyemi

10. The starless sea by Erin Morgenstern 

These are 10 books amongst others from my reading challenge.

I’ll tag @francesjanvier @museofnightmare @ilmae @kathlxxn18 @iaskedformorewishes @books-of-dawn and anyone else who wants to do this!

[snarksearching]

I got tagged! Rule: Tag 8 people you'd like to get to know better :)

I was tagged by @maywildflowers <3

Name/alias: Izzy :)

Birthday: July 4th

Zodiac: Cancer

Height: 5 feet exactly :')

Hobbies: Reading, Writing, Drawing, Exploring really obscure places, Being a big mythology nerd

Favourite Colours: Teal, Silver, Pink and Baby Blue

Favourite Books: The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Mayer, honestly one of the best series I have ever read; Heartless is also a good book by her :))

Last Song Listened To: Dernière Danse by Indilia

Last Movie Watched: Iron Man

Inspiration For Muse: Honestly? My friends and the people around me. They give me so, so many great ideas, and if I'm being honest 90% of the stuff I create isn't even for me, it's made in the sole purpose of "hey, this person/this group of people would probably like this!" And I wouldn't change that for anything :) Music is also a big inspiration, as are certain books and movies.

Dream Job: I'm working towards being a director/screenwriter :)

Meaning Behind My URL: Funny story actually, me and my friends were joking around, and one of them offhandedly said that if I were any sort of mythical creature, I'd be a celestial. I said that celestials were too majestic for me to be one, calling myself more of an offbrand celestial; hence, the url

I tag:

@annoyedlord @unicorn-bentacles @ebug2002 andddd I know very few people apparently lmao so that's it xD

[the-ingenious-f00l]

Catherine: I became a heartless tyrant after the boy I loved died. Levana: same here. Catherine: I guess it's my fault for going back to Hearts. Levana: I guess it's my fault for stabbing him. Catherine: what Levana: what