#the prince of nothing

[botanicaxu]

A whole fantasy version six fanarts meme from several years ago but I finally finished it! The characters are:

Achamian (The Prince of Nothing)

Moiraine (The Wheel of Time)

Vaelin (Raven's Shadow)

The Fool (Realm of the Elderlings)

Alabaster (The Broken Earth)

Dandelion (The Witcher)

[jidaryat]

Think back on your life. Have any of your motives been pure? Ever? Think! Is there anything you’ve done for the love of God alone?

— The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing series #3) by R. Scott Bakker

[elvendeity]

the darkness that comes before, R. Scott Bakker

[windblownleaf]

Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied.

R. Scott Bakker, The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

[citricacidprince]

Hey hey hey listen to me [snaps my fingers in front of your face] you’re not going to be mean to kids joining Tumblr because TikTok got banned right? You’re not going to make fun of them because they’re ‘cringe’, especially on the supposed ‘cringe is dead’ app, right? You’re not going to go out of your way to just be hostile to children because you don’t like them, right?

“Oh but they deserve it, they’re annoying” cunts were saying that shit about you when you were ‘uwuing’ and ‘smol beaning’ on here in 2015. Kids will always be annoying and your generation, nor will you, ever be an exception to that rule. This app isn’t like an exclusive club, be fucking nice for once.

Edit: Since some people have brought it up in here tags

“Most of the TikTok kids aren’t going here, they’re going to Red Note” That’s fine, in fact, I’m very happy to see the Chinese community there welcoming them with open arms! However, it’s not like we aren’t going to have any kids join this site. I’ve already seen some join before the ban was imminent and most of them are children fandom artists. I stand by what I said, be nice to them.

If they don’t understand the culture here, teach them in a way that isn’t outright rude! Tell them about the lack of an algorithm and the fact they have to follow people for content! Tell them reblogs are more important than likes! Tell them they can leave notes for the OP or for the person they reblogged it from in the tags; that you can treat it like a little diary if you want!

And most of all, tell them that it’s okay, they don’t have to censor themselves here. After years of being on that app they’ve grown used to it, but you have to get it through their head that censoring words like ‘Kill’ ‘Murder’ ‘Rape’ ‘Pedophile’ isn’t helping ANYONE, they’re just making it harder for folks who have those tags blocked to be able to filter them out. Help them kill the cop in their brain and make sure they don’t fall into purity culture. Help them be cringe and free.

[crazysublimenightmare]

[rbfannee]

this is my roman empire.

[deathsweetblossoms]

Cardan, Locke, Nicasia, and Valerian by Frostbite Studios (from the Folk of the Air by Holly Black)

[roslynn777]

cardan and jude ♔

idk if i like this but whatever

this will also be available to buy on my inprnt so stay tuned 🫶🏻

(based on dolce&gabbana 2006 fall/winter collection cover by Steven Meisel)

characters by Holly Black

[solastalgiart]

🗡️🍷✨

[florsdelluna]

Golden hour ✨🧡🍂🧚 #jurdan

[rosiethorns88]

Dropping a very special Sketch-a-wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for August! The winning request was to illustrate an off-page scene from The Folk of the Air series, when Cardan was writing his letters to Jude. I countered that Cardan went through the five stages of grief writing those letters, and each deserved it's own illustration. (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance) You'll also notice some familiar outfits throughout! Have a great weekend. :)

[jidaryat]

A book was never “read.” Here, as elsewhere, language betrayed the true nature of the activity. To say that a book was read was to make the same mistake as the gambler who crowed about winning as though he’d taken it by force of hand or resolve. To toss the number-sticks was to seize a moment of helplessness, nothing more. But to open a book was by far the more profound gamble. To open a book was not only to seize a moment of helplessness, not only to relinquish a jealous handful of heartbeats to the unpredictable mark of another man’s quill, it was to allow oneself to be written. For what was a book if not a long consecutive surrender to the movements of another’s soul.

— The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing series #2) by R. Scott Bakker

[lyyzismess]

HAPPY BELATED VALENTINE’S DAY

[xcruelprincessx]

I love how jude starts the series by saying Cardan is the most cruel of them all, just to be reveled later on that he's in fact the least cruel faerie that has ever faeried

[deceitfulapple-eatingscoundrel]

elithienart.