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I want to fill 2023 with queerness, horror, kink, herbal medicine, blood red nail polish, occult practices, women, skimpy outfits, goth music, books, art, lesbian sex, date nights & socialism.
I think about this alot
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.
"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 🤨🤷
(Underrated Queen of Nothing quote)
“If I am undressed, he will know me.”
— Jude Duarte, Chapter 7, The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
reading Sueño for class and tell me this isn’t about Cardan (especially the last line)
this parallel lives rent free in my head
“If you hurt me, I wouldn’t cry. I would hurt you back.”
- Jude Duarte
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.)
I-
Cardan was dreaming again, dreaming of her
friendly reminder that jude was so furious with balekin for poisoning cardan in twk that her hands shook
The Cruel Prince, Holly Black
If i had one wish, i would use it to send my parents to therapy before I was born
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 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.”
Holly Black could have so easily fallen into the YA trap of pairing every teenage girl with a wise and mystical fae 8 times her age but no, Holly said here’s your mystical fae he’s like 19 years old and he’s dumb as shit
what is jude & cardan if not:
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.