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This is the latest Sketch-a-Wish voted by my lovely Patreon members for March! Featuring Jacks head-bonking gently encouraging Evangeline, hoping she'll remember *something*. One of my favorite scenes from A Curse For True Love! There are two very subtle symbolism I threw in here (one is the title referencing the scene in the book, the other, in the bg for its cultural meaning) to fuel more angst. ✨fireElmo.gif ✨ ----- Stephanie has graciously allowed me to add this artwork to my shop collection of licensed prints, already up via the links in my bio! ----- Hope you all have a pleasant week! :)

BEAUTIFUL

Here it is! The final design for the @fairyloot edition of the OUABH trilogy! These are the reverse dust jacket and hard case foil designs for the FL A Curse for True Love by @stephanie_garber , and what a finale it is! Anissa (FL) and Stephanie requested a green, gold and pink scheme for this one and the entire set of jackets have such a great color scheme together as a result! As I did with the TBONA jacket, I utilized fairylights to illuminate the lanterns. There's just no replicating that warm, fuzzy glow in papercraft, and it adds a fantastic radiance to the piece. (Also, if you told me 6 years ago I'd be making a tasteful strip-tease of one of my favourite characters in papercraft, I would have choked on my drink.) Meanwhile, we had an absolute blast with the hard case foil design! Stephanie's direction with the changing titles (referencing the changing stories in the Magnificent North) was definitely on display here! Evangeline is on both sides, but the front references Apollo while the back references Jacks! TBONA/ACFTL SPOILERS BELOW: // To emphasize these changes, Evangeline stands under a shower of stars in a too-good-to-be-true dream-like state. On the back, she stands under a shower of arrows, tears streaming, cause chasing true love can sometimes hurt! As if this wasn't a great concept already, but execution of the reveal? If you'll recall, a copy of the FL edition was accidentally shipped with standard editions a scant few weeks before the ACFTL release. A person bought it and posted a few spoilers, including both sides of the foil design. Except some people were only sharing the Apollo side (and rightly raging at the injustice of such a title!), and a few others sharing the Jacks side. The titles kept changing, no one knew the truth and everything was chaos, just like in the Magnificent North! It was great. 🤣🤭 // END SPOILERS Super fun time with both of these! And bittersweet now that the trilogy is ended! Thank you again to @fairyloot, Anissa and Stephanie for the opportunity to work on these! And to have the pieces stand by the GORGEOUS endpaper artworks by @aleikats for each book, these editions are truly special!

Guys the different Eva has on Jacks can be seen on the cover like this is before Jacks met Eva (OUABH) like my heartbroken babyboy going through so much right now 😭:

This after he met and go to know Eva and started falling in love with her (TBONA) 😆:

And this is after both of them have fallen in love with each other like AAAAHHHHH (ACFTL):

The difference is crazy, like the impact Eva has on Jacks is just 😍

ACTFL SPOILERS

Something I have been waiting for since OUABH came out:

"Jacks had so badly wanted to tell her that he couldn't even remember what Donatella looked like, that Evangeline's face was the only one he saw whenever he closed his eyes, that he would go with her anywhere...if he could." (Chapter 26)

I mean, this really just puts closure with the whole mess between Tella and Jacks, and also I just want by baby Jacks to admit that he actually loves Eva rather than his obsession with Tella the idea of true love. I also just want Eva to see that Jacks loves her rather than Tella.

Just rlly happy Garber put this in the book, we all rlly needed it after Finale.

**ACTFL SPOILER BELOW**

Umm, guys, how is this the funniest scene in the whole book?

Ngl the whole Valor family a mood frfr.

Like we got the crazy dad Wolfric (talking to a tree, like bud wuts going on here?)

The vampire boy:

Aurora:

Dragon boy:

Apollo Imposter (Not all us theorizing Lysander fricking Apollo like bruhhhh)

And the bad doctor (Honora lowkey made everything worse like wut type of healer r u?)

HAPPY ACTFL DAY YAAAAY

So excited for the epic finale of this phenomenal series

Also hoping my baby Jacks and Eva get their HEA *fingers crossed*

(sorry i haven't been posting in a while life's been hard lol)

i hate to do this but we actually already know that Apollo said this 😭

btw this is from the first 4 chapters of A Curse For True Love

Evangeline Fox in a variety of styles

Jacks and Evangeline - Once Upon a Broken Heart

Artist: @/sarah_vara_art / @sarahvara

Evangeline and Jacks - Once Upon a Broken Heart

Artist: @giannyfili for @imaginebookssshop

Evangeline Fox - Once Upon a Broken Heart

Artist: @ritta1310

Jacks and Evangeline - Once Upon a Broken Heart

Artist: @katouart

JACKS WHY?!??!

Like I'm assuming this is Jacks because let's be furreal, would Apollo actually be honest with Eva? (Like hell nah)

But like, if this is Eva and Jacks, then clearly this may be one of their first encounters for her to have to ask him. Maybe she recognizes him but doesn't know how, so she's asking him for a form of reassurance. BUT WHY THE F*CK JACKS GOTTA BE SO DIFFICULT JUST GIVE YOURSELF AND THIS POOR GIRL AND US A BREAK ASFDGHAGAJK

Evangeline and Jacks - Once Upon a Broken Heart

Artist: @nyastellar

Evangeline and Jacks - Once Upon a Broken Heart

Artist: @/coralie.renards

Evangeline and Jacks - Once Upon a Broken Heart

Artist: @mien.artist for @lilaclibrarys

Evangeline and Jacks - Once Upon a Broken Heart

Artist: @/star.speckle