Fuck all love letters except whatever Cardan Greenbriar had going on when he wrote “my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. it was yours before i could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain”

The Wicked King 👑

"By you, I am forever undone."

Jude and Cardan 🥀

no you don't understand, attempted murder IS the most romantic expression of love

Cardan: murder isn’t a solution for everything

Jude: okay then why does it solve all of our problems?

Nur Fettahoğlu as Mahidevran Sultan MAGNIFICENT CENTURY (2011–2014)

Aaaaand (after a small delay) the fourth and final bonus Sketch-a-Wish from my 2nd Patreon anniversary - a frequently requested scene from Uprooted, featuring Sarkan (the Dragon) and Agnieszka! Phew, I'm art-pooped after this one. 🫠

imagine being that fucking rich and that fucking careless.

All hail High Queen Jude!

“But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”

frostbite.studios.

jude: you have daddy issues? what the fuck are daddy issues? just traumatise your dad right back

the folk of the air trilogy is basically jude duarte playing kiss, marry, kill except it's just with one person.

poisoned Cardan waltzing around the ball room calling Jude his “dearest punishment” and then proceeding to make out with her in front of everyone is the most silly romantic thing I’ve ever read if Im being honest. Imagine being a fae just vibing at the revel or whatever tf it was and witnessing the king drunkingly kissing his sentinel. Absolutely kooky night.

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. :)

list of things that will always get my goat

-el chupacabra

I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades

but I am also super annoyed by the way it's framed as "without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is" way more prominently than it's framed as "hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?"

so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are

This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.