Cardan getting over his drinking and drug addiction from the first book into just drinking moderately in the last book is possibly one of the greatest "show and tell" examples in tfota.
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I CANNOT take cardan seriously after that scene in twk when he was poisoned and picked up the lute and started playing 💀
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"Cardan looks taken aback. Or possibly I spoke so fast he's not even sure what I said. 'You need not say it out of pity,' he says finally, with great deliberateness. 'Or because I was under a curse. I have asked you to lie to me in the past, in this very room, but I would beg you not to lie now.'"
- Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing
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None of us imagined a letter or letters from Cardan
It was all. Short and formal (and long, the part you didn't guess). Full of gossip (about his feelings, really) wine stained (maybe, but also ink and tears) another trick...well yeah, (he's saying I love you without saying it and maybe hoping despite hope for you to say the same)
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The way I would do anything to read this part in QON for the first time again, when you realise Cardan had always known it was Jude. The build up from her standing on trial as Taryn, Cardan’s annoyance that makes you think he believes her… and then the slowly rising hope when he asks her to come to his chambers, because he HAS to know it’s Jude. The way I was holding my breath because I wanted them together again SO badly, and then the first thing Cardan says when they’re alone being, well, didn’t you get my letters?
—Like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just INSANE. the tension. the power. the execution. chef's kiss. the way I felt so unhinged reading this scene because I missed them together SO much. it was such perfection
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Scrolling through tumblr rn, and seeing all the cruel prince posts, I realized something. For when Jude was locked up underwater, it must of been so crazy. Like she had to act like she could be enchanted and controlled by the people around her so she wouldn’t seem like a threat. Like I remember reading that she had to kiss Balekin??? that must of been awful, and I doubt she ever told cardan about that, I doubt she’d ever want anyone to know what she had to go through. That just kills me everytime.
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"valerian was into jude"
the fandom:
"admit you like jude"
cardan:
"admit you're vulnerable and not the monster you were treated as"
wren:
last one in honour of @thejudeduarte and of course one month of tpt
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Jude and Cardan sketch (That high slit jude dress has been sitting in my mind for a while.)
I seriously need to finish TPT because it is getting hard to avoid the spoilers 😔😔
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Is noone gonna talk about the fact that in tcp, in that scene where Jude gets poisoned by the faerie fruit, they see 7 shooting stars and Jude describes that at as dozen deaths. I haven't heard anyone mention that that could have been foreshadowing what was to come later during the coronation as 6 Fae died then (Elowyn, Eldred, Dain, Rhyia, Caelia and Taniot) and also Valerian earlier on which makes 7 deaths like prophecied.
I thought it was really clever, nothing a reader would have really paid attention too.
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cardan: jude... my sweet villain... darling god... my heart is a scabarous old thing but it is yours... marry me... become the queen of elfhame.
jude: ok.
cardan: *internally* SHE LOVES ME OMFG
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