Cardude

Some incorrect quotes, skits and rants about our power couple from the faerie realm

[theladyofbloodshed]

i know pressure shouldn't be put on fanfic writers, but i am still chewing at the bars of my cage in the hope that these two fics will be updated one day

Embers & Light by duskandstarlight

Rage & Ruin by abraxos-and-ataraxia

[annamatix]

jude, frustrated: "were you dropped as a child?"

cardan: "what makes you think i was held?"

[shadowyyyidk-deactivated2025082]

You don’t understand just how much I want to feel the way I felt when I first read The Cruel Prince

[cardudescrown]

Ok but you know whats a job that wren would be great at?

Being a lawyer

Imagine this, she has the power to break spells and curses.

Lawyers have the power to legally handle that.

Wren can magically handle that.

People would go to her for their divorces, political conflicts, and anything that involves faerie law.

Like:

Wren: So you want to make it official that you no longer want any involvement with your wife?

Some faerie: Yes, She cheated on me. She totally broke our vows to each other. I want to break mine too. Get rid of her, officially. I need you to make it happen.

Wren: I see. Let's discuss about this together with your wife on further expectations.

[cardudescrown]

We all know from the bottom of our hearts and inside our souls

That Cardan would be the high maintenance chick in a relationship

[deathsweetblossoms]

Deleted Scenes From The Cruel Prince

(Some of these are alternate storylines)

These are all of them, both deleted and alternate storyline. I highly recommend buying this TCP edition 🫶🏼 as it comes with gorgeous artwork and a neat velvet cover!

[cardudescrown]

It honestly doesn't surprise me if Jude ever ends up harming her husband while trying to defend his honor

[cardudescrown]

Can't wait to see Jude give zero fucks about anyone and having no remorse about lying

Fae: Your majesty, you promised to give me your first born if I gave you my large sword

Jude: I did?? Can't remember, sorry bro

[cardudescrown]

Cardan with soggy black cat energy and Jude with judgemental orange cat energy

[cardudescrown]

If the next heir to the throne has a tail, it doesn't even matter if they're a half mortal

Jude would eat that shit up

[cardudescrown]

TFOTA is so grounded on the reality of some parts of it, that its confessions of two actual teenagers makes me feel physical cringe and heartmelting romance at the same time

Their love story sounds like a monthy python skit that was written by a 15 year old writer on paper, but it actually works???

[cardudescrown]

Cardan really did that high school teenage shit where you write your crushes name over and over and over again while daydreaming because you can't stop fucking thinking about them during school and at home

Our dude was actually an awkward unsupervised angsty teen all along

[cardudescrown]

TFOTA is such a masterpiece when you accumulate all of the things that happened

but if you isolate even one situation between Jude and Cardan with a 3rd point perspective, it's the most cringiest and awkwardiest shit that you can possibly hear out of context

Like:

Cardan: I love you, you know. but you probably guessed. *fucking leaves

Jude: ......... wtf

[cardudescrown]

Was anyone else incredibly disappointed by The Stolen Heir

Holly Black focuses more on the ongoing revelations of her characters which pays off after the story ends. In TCP, everything was thrown out of proportion since we view their world through Jude's perspective, which makes little sense for us. But after TQON finished, certain dialogues have been perfectly engineered with the characters intentions.

The political fantasy is what keeps the story moving, further revealing how charcters tend to act then react. It's multi-faceted but also confusing, rather than a direct confrontation style that authors would rather use. Holly Black also writes in explanations, rather than descriptions. This could be on Jude's reason why she doesn't feel empathy about Cardan's childhood abuse, or the perception about other people's actions and her immediate and quick presumptions about it.

In TSH, we don't get the bigger picture of Oak's background. Which is a genius maneuvering technique to keep their story fresh and alive.

Readers would feel frustrated of how the events played out. But Holly Black is in the long game, it takes patience and a lot of re-reading to fully grasp the intensity of the character's viewpoint of what they think is happening vs. What is actually happening. That is why most TFOTA fans really love to re-read her books.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

[appendingfic]

"Slip a little something in their tea - no fuss, and you can always pretend it was a mistake"

"Poison is WOMAN'S weapon! Call them out on their front lawn and slaughter them and everything they hold dear!"

"Can I compromise and invite them over for a party, get them drunk, and slaughter them while they're sleeping it off?"

[cardudescrown]

Cardan: I think I like you

Jude: and I think i want to stab you

[selkiemaidenfae]

i know we’ve talked about how cardan’s garbage morals look better in comparison to the absolute feral nature of jude throughout the books

but can we talk about how his family was so abusive and shitty that he looked at jude’s family—

—which consisted of two dead parents, their murderer who raised their daughters, his daughter who hates him, the world’s worst sister, oriana, and a little goblin of a brother who is technically cardan’s nephew—

and went “a family 🥰🥹😌💕💓”