#the unseelie prince

[ataurusinabookshop]

Alright, I’m gonna need some books with actual villain love interests. Not the powerful guy who’s on the opposite side of war or an opposing kingdom, or a guy who has a villainous persona to keep the people he loves safe, OR he’s allied/works with the antagonists but he doesn’t believe in the cause and is a good person deep down.

No.

I want a full fledged unhinged villain who loves the protagonist without restraint and won’t change for the sake of love while also having emotional depth.

Kathryn Ann Kingsley does this stupendously.

Her villains are essentially unrelenting forces of nature and are unapologetically malicious. All of them are terrible but have their own scars and love their protagonists with all their shriveled rotted hearts. Kingsley just has a way to make these villains deplorable and likable to the reader imo

Some of them aren’t all bad and have people who rely on them, but they DO NOT CHANGE THEMSELVES in the name of love.

Like I love characters like Rhysand and Warner but I want some villains that are actually villainous

[hvacinth]

books i've read in 2024: The Unseelie Prince by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

We are the venomous spiders that weave webs of shining silk. We are the graceful hunter in the shadows, perfect in our ability to kill.

[not-poignant]

the Unseelie Prince??? al;jsdf;adkf;sa *flails arms wildly*

[readyforbooks]

He smelled like the night itself. Like the breeze that would come through the cottage window as the sunlight faded. Of dewy grass and deep woods.

—Kathryn Ann Kingsley, The Unseelie Prince

[booksgaloresposts]

I brought “ The Unseelie Prince” to work today and if you know that book, you know the cover is a bit risqué. I always keep the cover face down because of it but today my coworker got curious and turned it around when our other coworkers were in the room with us and now everyone at my job knows I read fairy porn 💀

[book-quote-romantic]

"“I lied to you, Unseelie prince, because I was lying to myself. I didn’t mean to deceive you. I hope you can forgive me.” She could only smile down at the flowers that she knew would soon rip her to shreds. “I understand now what my greatest wish truly is.” ... "“I wish to be wanted.” Shutting her eyes, she let her tears streak down her cheeks." (And I understand this to the core of my being. So much so that I sobbed upon reading it, feeling hollow inside and raging against the world for it. Because ever have I wanted the same thing. Yet we, as women, are only ever used as a means to an end. It has always been so.)

[illustratinghan]

it’s bound to be a fun time with the queen and the bomb 🃏

characters by @/hollyblack 🫶

follow me on instagram - @/illustratinghan

[mrsthunderkin]

Boy do I love drawing men being causal sluts

Tonio and Perth there on the right belong to @owlcatchyoul8r

[nuvemzinhacorderosa]

the Bomb 💥

[rise-deepseamonster]

I need to know how that conversation between cardan and nicasia went.

Cardan: *throws an acorn into the ocean or whatever and nicasia appears*

Cardan: heyyyy nicasiaaaa what's uppppp

Nicasia, tired of fending off suitors and can't put up with his bs as well: what do you want

Cardan: I've been super good too, all engagements and about to be weddings, coups and getting stabbed... say, you wouldn't mind a small tiny favour for an old friend now would you?

Nicasia: *groans* again, bitch?

Cardan, already waist deep wading in: we should totally catch up on the way, bestie

[monstersandmaw]

*trips and stumbles into a modern supernatural story setting*

a young woman who's kinda done with dating but is out with her succubus bestie because said bestie needed a night out and oh no she just accidentally used the Unseelie Prince himself as a fake boyfriend to get rid of the human creep who's been hitting on her all evening in the nightclub which also doubles as a supernatural haven (but only if the supernaturals abide by the treaty that says they can't use their power on the humans who are also occasionally allowed in to help make the place look more legit...)

And oh no, the Unseelie Prince is not impressed at the gall of this boring human falling into his royal lap and demanding that he pretend to be something so revoltingly demeaning as her boyfriend, but then she realises that he's not going to play along and stands up with this kicked-puppy look in her eyes and... what's a dark and uncompromising Unseelie Prince to do but kiss this human breathless, and with only a look tell the creep to fuck off or he'll decorate the walls with his insides...

And then the pathetic little human has the nerve afterwards to 'thank' the Unseelie Fae Prince with a reputation for eviscerating people who look at him sidelong for too long? Like she's his equal? Like what he deigned to do for her was something she's just going to brush off and forget and not owe him ten different ways til Sunday??? And then she just... walks away from him after that and goes back to her bestie who comes back to wonder what in the name of all creation just happened - 'I leave my human alone for five minutes and this is the mess she gets into? Have you lost your goddamned mind, girl?’

So yeah. That's where I'm at today.

How are you?

[ataurusinabookshop]

Today is officially a good day my dudes.

[nightfaeses]

[ wip ] she who shatters 🪞

[not-poignant]

Do you have a favorite character evolution or relationship evolution that you’ve written? Personally, the way Augus becomes soft for Mosk in The Ice Plague really tickles me.

Oh hmmm, this is such an awesome question! But also really hard to answer.

I think I have more than one. But the one that weirdly comes to mind is Sharpwood in The Golden Age that Never Was. I've been kind of obsessed with his character ever since and I feel like I'm 'saving' him for an original novel somewhere along the way. Something about him going from like, a cold, distant servant, to what he became, until finally at the end you realise you really want to get to know him better and it's too late... I don't know. I think often about writing a side story of his trauma recovery, but I don't have like...spare time to do it in. Alas.

In terms of the main characters, like the point-of-view characters, Gwyn's and Augus' journey was compelling enough that I followed them for nearly a decade in a single universe. And I feel like that's the most obvious answer because it's like 'well, I spent tens of thousands of hours on them because they were my favourite evolution / relationship evolution.'

In terms of less obvious characters... I actually really loved writing Mosk becoming protective of Gwyn in The Ice Plague and then becoming kind of like a mentor figure almost to him, despite his age and lack of experience.

I loved, loved, loved writing the slow tentative growth of connection between the prickly Gwyn ap Nudd and equally prickle Raven Prince in The Ice Plague as well.

Right now, I'm a big fan of Efnisien and Faber, and Efnisien and Flitmouse too. :D

[mjrtaurus]

Tell me why I dreamt that Till released a new single music video and the intro was just him and Richard hardcore making out on a couch backstage?

Then tell me why I was disappointed when I woke up to realize it didn't happen?

[alex-iltempo]

I liked character of Roiben in TFOTA so I'm starting to read The Modern Faerie Tales...

well, first I'll read The Darkest part of the Forest... Those as I understand have connections to The Folk of the Air series