not a wmmap post but can i just say the way asm characters get shat on for the most ridiculous reasons is just so weird. like people have complained about how other female characters than the fl are so watered down and lack depth, but as soon as they see ohara von heinrich not invite shuri to the wedding because she genuinely believes it would just send her away and didn’t expect her to be brutally murdered AT ALL they act like she’s the mastermind behind her death??? there’s literally a panel of her reacting to her death and she doesn’t seem happy she was so distraught. and don’t get me started on shuri herself, the specific hate she gets is just so… have we read the same story. she was fourteen when her asshat family shipped her off to be married to a dude old enough to be her dad, because she looks like the dead empress….. i’m honestly glad i didn’t even witness all the hate she got i would be so mad.

Some Cardan Greenbriars

💖 my girl Jude 😘 #

Jude Duarte is first her MOTHER’S daughter, then Madoc’s

People always say Jude’s personality is a copy paste of Madoc, which to some degree is true. He raised her as a father and very much shaped her. But she was like that before too… just like her mother.

In TWK we get the snippet of Jude taking the training wheels off her bike and getting all bruised up while Taryn stuck to the side walks. And then in TCP we get Madoc’s short description of her mother as being clever and brave and unafraid if the face of Faerie.

She burned down the General’s house with a mother and unborn baby inside so she could get away. To protect the people she loved, Jude would have too.

So yes, Jude was polished by Madoc, but she was shaped first by Eva Duarte.

Popping into existence to share this messy doodle of Jude and Cardan before vanishing into the abyss once more.

The dress that Cardan gave Jude to wear to Dain's coronation.

I have suddenly gotten into The Folk of Air series by the urging of my friends and it is all I can think about. This dress was one of the first things I wanted to draw when I read The Cruel Prince.

Cardan: *banishes Jude to the mortal world and denies her position as the High Queen of Elfhame, a position he himself offered her that only the two of them know and only he can confirm, right after convincing her to free him of his servitude of her, seemingly outsmarting her in a mere few hours*

Jude:

Cardan:

Jude: >:(

Cardan: aRe yOU ImPReSsEd?

Jude Duarte is that bitch and I love her so much. She said I may or may not have started this fight, but she sure as hell is gonna win it.

Cardan has to use his tail like a child leash because it's the only thing he has semi confidence in that Jude won't slash a knife through.

And how could he have ever supposed she would come to care for him? Who can love someone who is empty inside? Someone who steals love instead of earning it?

- Holly Black, The Prisoner's Throne

"My sweet nemesis"

When there's a ball in a story, I'm there too, I can't help it.

people after the recent asm chapters are rightfully so angry at how uncanny the similarities between jeremy and johannes are, what I'M worried about is because jeremy looks like his dad he needs to not age like him istg Orka when i catch you

“By you, I am forever undone.”

Cardan and his words man 🫣

gonna be real, I don’t think enough fan art of wren captures that dog in her

she did not guess as much

the thing about the cruel prince is that jude is physically stronger than cardan and that's so attractive to me (and cardan, obv) bc it's mentioned (or am I imagining things) that cardan rules from the throne and jude fights out there