cardan, about Jude in The Queen of Nothing: oops, sorry that's my wife, Jude, yeah Jude Duarte? that's my wife actually, did i forget to mention she's my wife? oh before you forget shes my wife, oh yah actually you know what's interesting she's my wife, oh are you drinking water? you know who else drinks water? my wife, Jude Duarte yeah sorry that my wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wife wi-

"Jude?" he asks.

"Go ahead" I say.

I hear the glamour enter his voice, heady and seductive and more powerful than I expected. "Crawl to me", he says with a grin. Embarrassment pinks on my cheeks.

I CAN'TTTTT, THEY'RE SOOO AAHHHHUEKENIEOWNWUWNW 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

“I don’t know, maybe he’d like to hear me scream”

“I would, and perhaps one day i will”

The bomb

“This is ridiculous,” I complain but put mine on.

Cardan looks at his reflection in the door of the microwave and adjusts his crown so it’s at an angle.

I roll my eyes, and he gives me a quick grin. And my heart hurts a little because we are all together and safe , and it wasn’t something I’d known how to want. And Cardan looks a little shy in the face of all this happiness, as unused to it as I am.

— Jude Duarte, Folk of the Air Series: The Queen Of Nothing

Notes on some character illustration for the folk of the air peeps!

im thinking of doing Orianna, Vivienne, Oak and Madoc next which will be fun to make

Jude “ I fear how much I love him” Duarte and Cardan “I love how much I fear her” Greenbriar

I picture this scenario where somebody asks cardan who is he with. Send help.

Cardan : This is Jude, queen of elfhame and also a human but she owns my heart most bittersweetly and I would like to-

Jude : just say that I'm your wife

Cardan : (totally a simp and very much crushing on her internally, proudly) I'm her husband.

I can't stop thinking about Suren's description of faeries in The Stolen Heir:

Holly Black wrote this so beautifully.

jurdan when there's a threat to Elfhame

guys i was reading the stolen heir yesterday and you know how the kelpie's name is jack of the lake or some shit??? i was going insane bc i kept reading it as jacks of the lake on accident for some reason 😭😭😭

BYE I CANT-

life lessons

Jude: I learned some very valuable lessons from this. Cardan: I’m guessing they are all horrible distortions on the lessons you actually should’ve taken away. Jude: Death isn’t real, and I’m basically God.

Cardan: I don't like Jude Duarte, she's my enemy, I hate her.

~ A few moments later ~

Jude: Hi Cardan

Cardan: Jude!!! My nêmesis!!! My sweetheart!! My love!! My everything!! What can I do for you today???

Cardan telling Jude that he loves her, is the only thing that made my happy

Jude: I hate you

Cardan:

"But every night, Jude haunted him. The coils of her hair. The calluses on her fingers. An absent bite of her lip. It was too much, the way he thought about her. He knew it was too much, but he couldn’t stop. It disgusted him that he couldn’t stop."

–How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, Holly Black

I hope my soulmate is as tormented by my image as Cardan is by Jude

Jude Duarte:

Cardan Greenbriar: