#tdpotf

[thepencilgirlsv]

🍂 The Darkest Part of the Forest 🍂

Last week was the 11th anniversary since the publication of TDPoTF, and I decided to finish this illustration I started back when I read the book last year!

(1st post of 2026 yay)

[lianne-blop]

The Darkest Part of the Forest

[letmeliveinelfhame]

LITJOY X HOLLY BLACK ANNOTATIONS

The Darkest Part of the Forest annotations

The Cruel Prince annotations

The Wicked King annotations

The Queen of Nothing annotations

How the High King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories annotations

The Stolen Heir annotations

The Prisoner's Throne annotations - coming approx. summer 2026!!

[madockisser]

Happy international men’s day to all of the gentlemen out there! today we celebrate the morally questionable- men written by Holly Black, my favorite kind of man 😍

ALL ARTWORKS SHOWN ABOVE BELONG TO frostbite.studios ON INSTAGRAM!! 🫶

[book-lover85]

the way the catalyst (or at least an important piece in getting the plot to start and continue) for the plots in all the Faerie books is a Faerie falling/being in love

Roiben being in love with Kaye is why she didn't die at the Tithe, why she was able to bring down the Court of Flowers, it's why he trusted and listened to her advice even when he had no real reason to trust her

Kaye being in love with Roiben is why she wants to help him so much, why she declares herself to him and solves his impossible quest, and why she brings down the Court of Flowers to save him

Ravus being in love with Val is the only reason she gets help with her addiction and is kept safe from other Fae

Jack being in love with Hazel is the whole reason she goes to the moonlight revel and gets enough info to save Fairfield

Severin being in love with Ben is the whole reason Ben and Hazel have any interactions with him and get his help to fight the Alderking

Madoc being in love with Eva is the reason he asks her to come back years and years later and kills her when she refuses, the reason why he took Jude and Taryn to Elfhame

Cardan being in love with Jude is vitally important, most of his decisions are made because he loves her and trusts her

Vivi being in love with Heather is the reason she learns to respect and understand humans more than her sisters ever did, the reason she's willing to start all the way over with Heather just to be with her

Oak being in love with Wren is the reason he continues to trust and help her when she literally tries to kill him and locks him, why he risks his sister's trust and the High Court never letting him return to help her

Wren being in love with Oak is the reason she tried so hard to help him, the reason she makes such confusing decisions, she's confused, she loves him so much but she's supposed to let him die

there are tons of Fae scattered throughout the books who are trapped in servitude or prison because they had to save their lover, at any cost

(ofc familial and platonic love also matter and affect the Fae but in an entirely different way)

and the way this all connects back to that line in either Valiant or Ironside saying that Faerie do everything with their whole self, love and hatred, they can love and hate for centuries, promises will never be forgotten and heartbreak hurts deeply

a Faerie loves so deeply in this incredibly genuine way and when a Faerie is in love it thoroughly influences their actions

they tell the truth even in ways they may be unaware of (or deeply ashamed of)

(also also also the way most of these pairings are Fae being in love with mortals is soooo meaningful because like despite many of these characters hatred or distaste for mortals and the Fae's general dislike of mortals they can't help when they fall in love with one as naturally as if they were any other Faerie)

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Ben and Severin from The Darkest Part of the Forest.

[ivycrestfell]

lord severin in tomodachi life 💋

i would customize miis with face paint but 1 i have 0 skill and 2 i hate how u can see the 2d paint when they turn to the sides 😭

also are his eyes green i forgot also i gave him that fit cus i had nothing else but i lowk think it’s kinda cute

ignore my fugly island i am too lazy to make it look like the isles but soon trust ALSO that is Cardan and liriope in the back- recovering from their brutal fight

[clockworkbee]

Love how Holly Black takes the most obvious and typical plots from fairytales and then twists them in her books, only to then end them at some absolutely cliché scene 🤌🏼