The Cruel Prince - Tumblr Posts
the feminine urge to fall in love with the villain.
My type is women with weapons, men written by women and anyone wearing eyeliner.
normalize changing your entire personality after you read a book
the happiness i get when i buy books is something else entirely
convinced my cousin to read tfota trilogy and this is basically how it went
her, few chapters in: cardan sucks i hate him go jude!!
me: NO!! TEAM CARDAN!!!!
her, few chapters later: aw i love cardan <3
me: YES!! TEAM CARDAN!!!!
her, end of the book: ugh i hate cardan.
me: NO!! TEAM CARDAN!!!!
does anyone want to read cardan greenbriar x reader fics or is it just me?
okay so ik there’s some fics where human Jon gets kidnapped or what not by Fae Elias and Jon either a) somehow manages to escape or b) gives in.
but does anybody know of a fic where Jon gets free or whatnot by discovering Elias’ true name??
basically, i want a Jon that’s basically Jude Duarte from The Cruel Prince.
Bestie. You need therapy. Not a Fae prince with midnight hair and razor sharp jawline who hates you because he thinks of you. Often. It's disgusting, and he can't stop.
what is jude & cardan if not:
The Folk of the Air series really didn't have to go as hard as it did with the poetic lines
“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed, if only there was someone to congratulate me.”
“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.”
“If I cannot be better then them, I will become so much worse.”
“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” “No, tell me.” “I cannot.”
“Kill him before he makes you love him.”
“Kiss me again, kiss me until I'm sick it.”
“He is even more horrifically beautiful than I was able to recall. They’re all beautiful, unless they’re hideous.”
“My sweet villain, my darling god.”
“I want to tell you so many lies.”
“Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.”
“By you, I am forever undone.”
“My sweet nemesis.”
“It’s you I love, I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”
jude duarte's heroism and bravery lies in her standing up for herself it's not some lame and boring captain-america-standing-up-for-the-little-guy bullshit that main characters generally have and i LOVE that about her folk of the air would have changed the trajectory of my life if middle school me had read the books her selfishness and survival is so admirable most of the times people overlook her characterisation because we're all focusing on jude x cardan and it's ridiculous because she's such a layered character everything she does is for her own survival in this essay i will-
The Cruel Prince, Holly Black
friendly reminder that jude was so furious with balekin for poisoning cardan in twk that her hands shook
I-
Cardan was dreaming again, dreaming of her
Macbeth/ The Cruel Prince
"Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up thine own life’s means!”
“The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.”
I know that in the first, Ross is talking about patricide, but in general, when it comes to ambition and how far a person will go, there are a lot of parallels between The Cruel Prince and Macbeth. (Never mind the fact that Madoc always reminded me of Macbeth, and so did Jude, for those parts of her that reminded me of Madoc.)
“If you hurt me, I wouldn’t cry. I would hurt you back.”
- Jude Duarte
(Underrated Queen of Nothing quote)
“If I am undressed, he will know me.”
— Jude Duarte, Chapter 7, The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
"You are my creature, Jude Duarte."
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"Tell me that you are mine, Jude."
"I am your creature, Prince Balekin," I say, looking into his eyes and lying with my whole heart.
dunno if this makes sense but I found this parallel. turns out dain and balekin are more alike than we thought 🤨🤷
Against my will, I aim the sharp point of the knife. I press it lightly against my skin. I am ready. I hate him, but I am ready. I hate him, and I hate myself.
