Veeeecuckoo - Untitled

Wow, such beauty!!!

The tail, the dagger, holding each other at waist!!!

Cardan and Jude - The Cruel Prince

Artist: @/moon_rabbit__

You guys remember, “I have seen the acorn before the oak”, right? When Madoc came to visit Eva in the prologue of The Cruel Prince?

Apparently one method of tricking a changeling child into revealing their identity is to pretend to cook a meal for many people in an eggshell. The changeling, upon seeing this, will, in astonishment, say

Acorn before oak I knew,

An egg before a hen,

But I never heard of an eggshell brew

A dinner for harvest men.

or something along those lines, thus implicating him.

This is from a Celtic fairytale titled Brewery of Eggshells and is from Thomas Crofton Croker’s first volume of Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland which was published in 1825.

I think Holly Black might have seen this Facebook post because it has the EXACT same words in it and was posted in 2012. 6 years before the publication of The Cruel Prince.

Thoughts?

P.S. I don’t think anyone else has interpreted the quote in this way but @rhysiedarling has written a particularly interesting piece where she refers to it as an example of foreshadowing.

Me again 😁

How does aging in Fey Lands works?

Twins doesnt look kids amymore, similarly Vivi and Cardan. Does their look changes till some age and then stops? (I somehow imagined Madoc to look like middle age, but it could be just my not so focused reading.)

If I am correct, Jude and Taryn should live long if they are ij Fey Land?

Thanks 😊

hello again, nonnie!

the way i've always interpreted it is that any child raised in Faerie, no matter if they are human or fae, ages until "maturity", after which the aging process stops. for most humans, mental/physical maturity would peak at age 25. i'm not sure about those stats when it comes to the fae, but i assume it would be somewhere around there. the difference is, however, the fae don't have to be raised in Faerie to stop aging.

for a human who is brought to Faerie after they've already surpassed maturity, i assume they just stop aging at whatever age they are when they enter, and stay that age until they return to the mortal lands.

on twitter, Holly has confirmed that Jude and Taryn should indeed remain youthful for a very long time, so long as they remain in Elfhame. in the books, the same thing was mentioned, but with the added tidbit of "as soon as they step foot back in the mortal world, all the years will catch up to them immediately". this was all told according to conjecture, however.

and because there have not been many cases of humans remaining in Elfhame for extended periods of time before returning to the mortal world to compare, we shouldn't jump to believe the rumours floating around what we know to be a land full of prejudices against mortals.

as for Madoc, we don't really have a reference point for what a 2-decades-old red cap and a 2-centuries-old red cap look like side by side. so i'm not sure we'd be able to percieve how old Madoc looks based on our human beauty standards.

however, i've personally always thought of him as looking a little like Richard Coyle from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (but with green skin, of course).

-Em 🖤🗡

cardan in tcp, randomly dancing with jude, avoiding her question as to what he wanted and avoiding insulting her with a fake excuse, lowers his hand on her hip, then (obviously) trying to get jude to say she hates him: “you really hate me, don’t you?” ends up leaving after judes response because buddy almost lost self control there (when you read the cardan in twk you’ll understand). let us not forget later that night he was watching her because just after his family was murdered (yikes), he found jude where she was hiding, telling her it’s not safe for her in that current situation. SOMEONE couldn’t get their mind off her especially after what she had said.

cardan in twk when jude says she hates him, showing signs of his kink: takes judes chin in his fingers, tilting her face to his. “say it again” his voice is l o w

cardan another time in twk, when him and jude are getting it ON: TELL ME AGAIN WHAT YOU SAID AT THE REVEL THAT YOU HATE ME TELL ME THAT YOU HATE ME (she does) he proceeds to kiss her harder (she says it again) he makes a harsh, l o w sound. takes off from there

this is just cause i love how longggg cardan has been wanting her, unable to control it and other great shit like damnnn fucking favs

Morpheus and his long, black coat

+bonus: 

Andrew Kane, "How To Be A Dog"

Prediction based on Stolen Heir chapter 1+2:

Reluctantly betrothed prince and Queen is a hoax

Queen and Knight is a go. I felt vibes.

Oak is gonna to thirdwheel hard.

that sequence was so delish

You promised.

Jude Duarte Aesthetic