Satine Ainsel

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[smart-dreamy]

The Wicked King, Holly Black

How can ppl say Jude and Cardan’s relationship is toxic and possessive when Cardan literally explained the true essence of love and gave a speech about trust, love and balance of power in a marriage?

[just-here-4cake]

Jude said ‘I love you’ first btw.

During Taryn’s trial. ‘She loves someone else, he’s the one she’d want dead’

[sweetvillainjude]

this absolutely insane art from the queen herself frostbite studios & she’s illustrating a whole book??? we’ve never been so back

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[the-dumbest-of-dragons]

I am never

NEVER

Going to get over the fact that no matter what era or piece of media he shows up in, Anakin Skywalker will ALWAYS be the biggest drama queen the galaxy

Like bro, you're going to fight a 15 year old boy, you do not need to be pulling this kind of shit, get back in the FUCKING TIE FIGHTER

[viralfrog]

[xenonsreturn]

Oh my god

[whoops-junk-drawer]

Luke “there’s still good in you” Skywalker is 100% Padme “there’s good in him” Amidala’s son, and Leia “I recognised your foul stench when I was brought on board” Organa is a mirror image of Anakin “General Grievous, you’re shorter than I expected” Skywalker

[funstyle]

having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed

[jacobtheloofah]

i was paying attention, i was listening, but you see the problem is....it didnt work

[starcatboy]

“I asked chat gpt and”-

Yeah well I asked Count Dooku and he stared off into the distance while giving me some advice that kind of seemed like a metaphor for his own life problems that he created

[sugar-without-r]

Madoc when he realizes he's raised four children (only 1 of them is his own) and all of them disobey him:

[moncalas]

you're owen lars. your father has fallen in love with a woman and she's enslaved. you and your father aren't rich, but eventually you manage to free her. this one woman. one woman on a planet full of injustices.

you're owen lars. the woman you call mom had another child once. it doesn't make her love you less, but she talks about him in a way that makes it clear that she loved him, too. he's off to be a jedi now and she's very proud.

you're owen lars. your mother's been kidnapped and you have to assume the worst. a man and a woman step into your home and the man announces himself to be that kid who went off to become a jedi. he knows you less than you know him and before anything else can happen, he takes off to bring back his mother, a feat you think is impossible.

you're owen lars. anakin skywalker brings your mom's corpse to your doorstep. her funeral is interrupted by a message of utmost galactic importance.

you're owen lars. your brother is dead. you never saw him again after that first time. there is another jedi on your doorstep, with a baby in his arm and you know what it means and you can't bring yourself to face him as he hands your nephew off to your wife.

you're owen lars. obi-wan ben kenobi is a pain in the ass. he was more your brother's brother than you ever were and he doesn't understand your particular kind of grief, is drowning in his own. you don't even know the full story and kenobi will never tell you all of it. but you have a child to care for so you tell him off and get back to work.

you're owen lars. you didn't know your brother, but you know your nephew and your nephew wants out of this place as soon as possible. you know he won't be safe out there but in the end you're helpless to stop him. and you know the stories, you remember the one time you met him, the days your mother died. and you do this for her and you do this for your father and you do this for your brother and you do this for your nephew.

you're owen lars. your last act is to protect your brother's child. your child.

[medusas-daughter]

If I were Cardan Greenbriar and being a drunken fool saved my ass from Balekin's murder spree at the coronation AND got said ass in the hands of Jude Duarte I would take it as a divine sign to keep drinking clearly it's working for me

[sweetvillainjude]

i’m crying not the og jurdan warrior being a door

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[smart-dreamy]

One of my favorite things about The Cruel Prince is how Vivi, Jude and Taryn are literally raised by the murderer of theirs parents! Any other book would make Madoc a despicable and abusive villain, but I love how Holly Black made Madoc a reliable and caring father-figure… while kind of still being a villain.

He raises the twins alike his own blood, he teaches them everything he knows of combat and strategy, he makes sure they study with the noble children, Oriana forbids the girls of telling Madoc if they are mistreated bc she knows he will be furious about them being hurt, he genuinely wants to paint the walls with the blood of the folk who made Jude eat fairy fruity, when Taryn desires to marry the jerk of Locke he lets it clear that he knows it’s gonna go wrong, but allows her to do whatever she feels she will be happy and says she can always come back home when that thing blows up, even Jude mentions in The Wicked King how Madoc would call an army surgeon to take care of her shot leg.

And not even mentioning the fact Madoc pampered Taryn a lot in his war camp and stabbed Jude in The Queen of Nothing and had the nerve of saying he wanted to take her to the medics bc he would never let her die. Also, he sending a letter to Cardan furious and cursing him for being the “reason for his daughter died”.

Ruthless yet caring villain dads give me strength <3

[goth-queen]

[macabre-muses]

vader every time he came across 3po and r2 during the war probably