Kaz is a control freak. He needs to be in control of every confrontation, conversation and he needs to be able to control every person around him. Kaz does not act without meticulous planning. I can’t think of a single instance where he improvised. He improvised a PLAN after the Ice Court job fell apart but he was never blindly acting on instinct. Everything went according to plan, if it didn’t he had a backup plan. He’s basically a Moriarty crime boss. The spider at the center of the web and he knows exactly how each one of them dances.
He needs control so he will never have to depend on another person for safety or food. Like he depended on Pekka Rollins. Like he depended on Jordie. He longs for someone to have his back, to have Jordie there again. He blames Jordie for leaving him alone and being foolish in trusting the wrong people.
This character is so interesting and it’s astounding how Leigh made him so sympathetic despite the fact he kind of awful. Do I love him? Yes I do. Do I know why? No I don’t.
Story: The story begins with the royal family—a woman of common birth caught the eye of the prince, and when the prince’s father died, they were crowned king and queen. The queen gave birth to a second son during a summer of great drought. However, the child was wolf-like and inhuman, so the king had a giant maze built underground and placed his son inside.
A beautiful girl named Kima was born to a poor family, and with her birth came the end of the drought. Kima’s parents had a second daughter, Ayama, who was so ugly that her parents treated her like a servant. Only Kima and Ma Zil showed Ayama kindness.
One dry day, the beast escaped from the labyrinth and soon after, townspeople noticed their livestock dead. The king offered a high reward for someone to forge a truce with the beast on behalf of the kingdom. Ayama’s parents planned to move to the coast to escape, but Ma Zil suggested they send Ayama as the messenger. Ayama ventured across the wild lands to a forest of thorny trees and stopped at a pool of water.
The beast appears and speaks to Ayama about the cowardice of the king’s men and the beast’s own situation. He tells Ayama that if she can tell him a story that makes him feel an emotion other than anger, he will let her live. Ayama tells one of Ma Zil’s stories:
A boy eats endlessly and is never sated, living in hunger and misery. A wise doctor examines the boy and concludes that he must eat a bit of the sun to counteract the night in his body. The doctor’s daughter takes the boy across the western sea and scoops up a piece of the sun. The beast interrupts Ayama, disparaging that the story will end with the boy returned to mundane happiness. Ayama quickly changes the ending to the story—although the boy is no longer starving, he is still unhappy, and must simply endure the feeling of emptiness.
The beast gives Ayama a sprig of quince blossoms and lets her leave the thorn wood. When she returns to the town, the people do not believe she met the beast until she shows them the sprig of magical quince. The king is impassive, but his wife and human son are thrilled by Ayama’s victory. Her family is given the promised reward and Ayama resumes her servant-like life at her home.
Soon, the people find their crops destroyed, and the king again calls for a messenger to meet with the beast. Ma Zil again encourages Ayama to return to the thorn wood. The beast again tells her of his mistreatment by the king, but Ayama suggests that he could learn to behave differently from his father. Ayama tells a second story at the beast’s request:
The two children of Mama Tani are sickly and disobedient, causing Mama Tani much trouble. An evil spirit begins to harass the house and the children especially. The beast posits that the story will end with the children promising to be good and the spirit departing, as a warning to ungrateful children. However, Ayama has rewritten the ending—the spirit is revealed to be the children of Mama Tani’s first children, who she killed with poison in order to garner sympathy from her village. The spirits’ harassment kept the new children safe from Mama Tani’s sickening poisons. The children tell their father, who sends a messenger to Mama Tani’s first town (where she killed her first children), but by the time the messenger returns, Mama Tani has left the village again. The beast wants a bad ending for Mama Tani, however, so Ayama decides she was killed by coyotes.
Again, the beast gives Ayama a sprig of quince blossoms, though both she and the beast are reluctant for her to leave the thorn wood. The king rewards her family with a large estate, but before she leaves, the he tells her to return to the thorn wood a third time to kill the beast. He gives her a special knife made from thorns, since regular blades cannot pierce the monster’s skin. Ayama agrees, but forces the king to promise that even if Ayama fails to return, he will give Kima the rewards and allow her to marry the human prince.
At the thorn wood, Ayama tells a third story: The youngest of three sisters cares for an ugly bird while her sisters spend their nights partying. After a week, the bird transforms into a handsome prince, who offers the girl his hand in marriage. The king and queen, however, dislike the peasant girl and set a series of challenges for her to accomplish. The two older sisters quickly ride to the palace and demand the prince return their sister to them. Thanks to their partying, the sisters are wary of handsome faces and fine titles, and tell the prince that he is unworthy of their sister, since he does not love her enough to defy his parents’ challenges. The youngest agrees, and the three sisters return home and go to parties together.
Ayama reveals the king’s knife. The beast tells her that he did not destroy the peoples’ crops and livestock, and Ayama decides not to kill him. Instead, with his permission, she binds him and brings him to the palace. Ayama tells the king that she loves the beast and reveals that the king was responsible for destroying the peoples’ herds and fields. The king’s men attack Ayama, but she is unharmed; she reveals her new monstrous characteristics. The queen admits the king’s treacherous ways, and Ayama has the king sentenced to the labyrinth he created.
Ayama and the beast marry, and Kima and the human prince marry, too. Ayama and the beast rule the kingdom, beloved by their people and feared by their enemies.
Tattoo Idea
Ayama and the beast together surrounded by thorns sprouting with quince blossoms
Story: Hades fell in love with Persephone and decided to kidnap her. The myth says that in one of the rare times he left the Underworld, he traveled above ground to pursue her, while she was gathering flowers in a field.
One day Hades, God of the Underworld, saw Persephone and instantly fell in love with her.
Adis (Hades) confided his secret in his brother Zeus, asking for help, so the two of them concocted a plan to trap her. As the girl (Persephone) played with her companions, they caused the ground to split underneath her.
Persephone slipped beneath the Earth and Hades stole her to the Underworld where he made her his wife.
The myth says that Persephone was very unhappy, but after much time, she came to love the cold-blooded Hades and lived happily with him.
There are different interpretations of this myth, my favorite being Persephone wanted to go with Hades and knowingly ate the pomegranate seeds that made her stay with hades half the year.
Tattoo idea:
Geometric tattoo of skull, pomegranate, flowers and gem stones for hades god of the dead and earthly riches and Persephone goddess of spring and the pomegranate that bound her to the underworld
Words: What Hades gave me was a crown made for the immortal flowers in my bones
So, A Court of Thorns and Roses was said to be a loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast?
That’s a fucking lie right?
It’s actually based on the Scottish fairytale “Tam-lin”
The very obvious name reference aside, Tam-lin is about a a fairy boy named Tam-Lin who is rescued by his true love from being held captive by the fairy queen…
Okay, I’m reading the Harrow Faire series by Kathryn Ann Kingsley and I REALLY want a tarot deck inspired by the series, especially since “the family” represents the major arcana
0 The Fool = The Contortionist
1 The Magician = The Magician
2 The High Priestess = The Flyer
3 The Empress = The Aerialist
4 The Emperor = The Ringmaster
5 The Hierophant = The Catcher
6 The Lovers = The Twins
7 The Chariot = The Zookeeper
8 Strength = The Strongman
9 The Hermit = The Bearded Lady
10 Wheel of Fortune = The Juggler
11 Justice = The Firebreather
12 The Hanged Man = The Rigger
13 Death = The Clown
14 Temperance = The Seamstress
15 The Devil = The Puppeteer
16 The Tower = The Soothsayer
17 The Star = The Diva
18 The Moon = The Barker
19 The Sun = The Mechanic
20 Judgement = The Maestro
21 The World = The Faire
I’d honestly love to be the soothsayer, sounds like a fun time.
The minor arcana suits could be the same as they always are (wands, swords, cups, pentacles) or they can be adjusted to fit the circus theme (swords, mirrors(like the house of mirrors), memories, etc)
If these cards were to be designed by Abigail Larson that would be so dope
I don’t know ow whether to be mad I didn’t find Kathryn Ann Kingsley’s work until now OR Kinda happy since all of her series so far are finished and they’re all awesome
I wanna make a villain love interest with soft dark hair, pretty eyes, feminine features, tattoos, round glasses held by a thing decorative chain, and op powers with a yandere type of crazy personality but still has a friendly charm to him.
Question is what is he(an eldritch god? An unseelie king, a dark mage? A demon monster??) and what would the plot be?
I’m kinda getting vibe for a dark fae with a “he who shall not be named” type of reputation and since it’s “mer-may” there could be a little mermaid deal going on…
Story: The story begins with the royal family—a woman of common birth caught the eye of the prince, and when the prince’s father died, they were crowned king and queen. The queen gave birth to a second son during a summer of great drought. However, the child was wolf-like and inhuman, so the king had a giant maze built underground and placed his son inside.
A beautiful girl named Kima was born to a poor family, and with her birth came the end of the drought. Kima’s parents had a second daughter, Ayama, who was so ugly that her parents treated her like a servant. Only Kima and Ma Zil showed Ayama kindness.
One dry day, the beast escaped from the labyrinth and soon after, townspeople noticed their livestock dead. The king offered a high reward for someone to forge a truce with the beast on behalf of the kingdom. Ayama’s parents planned to move to the coast to escape, but Ma Zil suggested they send Ayama as the messenger. Ayama ventured across the wild lands to a forest of thorny trees and stopped at a pool of water.
The beast appears and speaks to Ayama about the cowardice of the king’s men and the beast’s own situation. He tells Ayama that if she can tell him a story that makes him feel an emotion other than anger, he will let her live. Ayama tells one of Ma Zil’s stories:
A boy eats endlessly and is never sated, living in hunger and misery. A wise doctor examines the boy and concludes that he must eat a bit of the sun to counteract the night in his body. The doctor’s daughter takes the boy across the western sea and scoops up a piece of the sun. The beast interrupts Ayama, disparaging that the story will end with the boy returned to mundane happiness. Ayama quickly changes the ending to the story—although the boy is no longer starving, he is still unhappy, and must simply endure the feeling of emptiness.
The beast gives Ayama a sprig of quince blossoms and lets her leave the thorn wood. When she returns to the town, the people do not believe she met the beast until she shows them the sprig of magical quince. The king is impassive, but his wife and human son are thrilled by Ayama’s victory. Her family is given the promised reward and Ayama resumes her servant-like life at her home.
Soon, the people find their crops destroyed, and the king again calls for a messenger to meet with the beast. Ma Zil again encourages Ayama to return to the thorn wood. The beast again tells her of his mistreatment by the king, but Ayama suggests that he could learn to behave differently from his father. Ayama tells a second story at the beast’s request:
The two children of Mama Tani are sickly and disobedient, causing Mama Tani much trouble. An evil spirit begins to harass the house and the children especially. The beast posits that the story will end with the children promising to be good and the spirit departing, as a warning to ungrateful children. However, Ayama has rewritten the ending—the spirit is revealed to be the children of Mama Tani’s first children, who she killed with poison in order to garner sympathy from her village. The spirits’ harassment kept the new children safe from Mama Tani’s sickening poisons. The children tell their father, who sends a messenger to Mama Tani’s first town (where she killed her first children), but by the time the messenger returns, Mama Tani has left the village again. The beast wants a bad ending for Mama Tani, however, so Ayama decides she was killed by coyotes.
Again, the beast gives Ayama a sprig of quince blossoms, though both she and the beast are reluctant for her to leave the thorn wood. The king rewards her family with a large estate, but before she leaves, the he tells her to return to the thorn wood a third time to kill the beast. He gives her a special knife made from thorns, since regular blades cannot pierce the monster’s skin. Ayama agrees, but forces the king to promise that even if Ayama fails to return, he will give Kima the rewards and allow her to marry the human prince.
At the thorn wood, Ayama tells a third story: The youngest of three sisters cares for an ugly bird while her sisters spend their nights partying. After a week, the bird transforms into a handsome prince, who offers the girl his hand in marriage. The king and queen, however, dislike the peasant girl and set a series of challenges for her to accomplish. The two older sisters quickly ride to the palace and demand the prince return their sister to them. Thanks to their partying, the sisters are wary of handsome faces and fine titles, and tell the prince that he is unworthy of their sister, since he does not love her enough to defy his parents’ challenges. The youngest agrees, and the three sisters return home and go to parties together.
Ayama reveals the king’s knife. The beast tells her that he did not destroy the peoples’ crops and livestock, and Ayama decides not to kill him. Instead, with his permission, she binds him and brings him to the palace. Ayama tells the king that she loves the beast and reveals that the king was responsible for destroying the peoples’ herds and fields. The king’s men attack Ayama, but she is unharmed; she reveals her new monstrous characteristics. The queen admits the king’s treacherous ways, and Ayama has the king sentenced to the labyrinth he created.
Ayama and the beast marry, and Kima and the human prince marry, too. Ayama and the beast rule the kingdom, beloved by their people and feared by their enemies.
Tattoo Idea
Ayama and the beast together surrounded by thorns sprouting with quince blossoms
When the Little Mermaid’s turn comes, she rises up to the surface, watches a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a safe distance. Then a violent storm hits, sinking the ship, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here, the Little Mermaid waits until a young woman from the temple and her ladies in waiting find him. To her dismay, the prince never sees the Little Mermaid or even realizes that it was she who had originally saved his life.
The Little Mermaid becomes melancholy and asks her grandmother if humans can live forever. The grandmother explains that humans have a much shorter lifespan than a mermaid’s 300 years but that they have an eternal soul that lives on in heaven, while mermaids turn to sea foam at death and cease to exist. The Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, visits the Sea Witch who lives in a dangerous part of the ocean. The witch willingly helps her by selling her a potion that gives her legs in exchange for her beautiful voice, as the Little Mermaid has the most enchanting voice in the entire world. The witch warns the Little Mermaid that once she becomes a human, she will never be able to return to the sea. Consuming the potion will make her feel as if a sword is being passed through her body, yet when she recovers, she will have two human legs and will be able to dance like no human has ever danced before. However, she will constantly feel as if she is walking on sharp knives. In addition, she will obtain a soul only if she wins the love of the prince and marries him, for then a part of his soul will flow into her. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries someone else, the Little Mermaid will die with a broken heart and dissolve into sea foam upon the waves.
After she agrees to the arrangement, the Little Mermaid swims up to the surface near the prince’s castle and drinks the potion. The liquid feels like a sword piercing through her body and she passes out on the shore, naked. She is found by the prince, who is mesmerized by her beauty and grace, even though she is mute. Most of all, he likes to see her dance, and she dances for him despite suffering excruciating pain with every step. Soon, the Little Mermaid becomes the prince’s favorite companion and accompanies him on many of his outings but he does not fall in love with her at all. When the prince’s parents encouraged their son to marry the neighboring princess in an arranged marriage, the prince tells the Little Mermaid he will not because he does not love the princess. He goes on to say he can only love the young woman from the temple, who he believes rescued him. It turns out that the princess from the neighboring kingdom was the temple woman, as she was sent to the temple for her education. The prince declares his love for her, and the royal wedding is announced at once.
The mermaid sisters give the knife to The Little Mermaid.
The prince and princess celebrate their new marriage aboard a wedding ship, and the Little Mermaid’s heart breaks. She thinks of all that she has sacrificed and of all the pain she has endured for the prince. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her, but before dawn, her sisters rise out of the water and bring her a dagger that the Sea Witch has given them in exchange for their long, beautiful hair. If the Little Mermaid kills the prince and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid once more, all her suffering will end, and she will live out her full life in the ocean with her family. However, the Little Mermaid cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping prince lying with his new wife, and she throws the dagger and herself off the ship into the water just as dawn breaks. Her body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warm sun and discovers that she has turned into a luminous and ethereal earthbound spirit, a daughter of the air. As the Little Mermaid ascends into the atmosphere, she is greeted by other daughters, who tell her she has become like them because she strove with all her heart to obtain an immortal soul. Because of her selflessness, she is given the chance to earn her own soul by doing good deeds for mankind for 300 years, and will one day rise up into Heaven.
Tattoo idea: a dagger with a blood swirling in water pattern at the tip of the blade, the blood weaving into the mermaids hair and the mermaid turning to sea foam
The tattoo design I commissioned turned out so well. No, you do not have permission to use this exact image for your tattoo, but you can use the concept
Summary: Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption.
When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.
Tattoo Idea
Rose and apple blossoms tattoo with intricate designs with the words “apparuit iam beatitudo vestra”
The Folk of the Air/ How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories Tattoo
Summary of first book: Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.
To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.
As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
Story: A noble mouse named Despereaux saves a princess named Princess Pea.
Book I: A Mouse Is Born
A small, sickly mouse named Despereaux Tilling is born in a castle with his eyes open (most mice are born blind). Despereaux, unlike other mice, spends much time reading , and particularly enjoys a book about a knight saving a princess and living happily ever after. One day while reading, he hears music that sounds like honey. He follows the sound, which leads him to Princess Pea and King Philip. He sits at the king’s feet to hear the music, falls in love with the princess, and speaks to her. The king leads the mouse away because mice are related to rats, who were outlawed some years ago. Furlough Tilling, Despereaux’s brother, sees this, and tells his father, Lester. Lester calls the mouse council as Furlough goes to collect Despereaux. The mouse council orders Despereaux to be sent to the dungeon to die, because talking to a human is forbidden. When Despereaux goes into the dungeon, he meets Gregory, the jailer, who saves him because Despereaux tells him a nice story.
Book II: Chiaroscuro
Book II centers around a rat named Roscuro who loved the light and was less vicious and cunning than the other rats. He decided to go into the light. He climbed onto a chandelier, above a banquet. However, he fell into the queen’s soup, and the queen, whose habit was to state the obvious, said, “There’s a rat in my soup,” before dying. The princess, now hostile to Roscuro, ordered him to leave. Roscuro, angry, desired revenge against the princess. The king, upset, banned the use of spoons, soup, bowls, and rats.
Book III: The Tale of Miggery Sow
Many years before Despereaux and Roscuro were born. A six-year-old girl named Miggery “Mig” Sow witnesses the death of her ill mother. Afterward, Mig is sold to work by her father for some cigarettes, a hen, and a red tablecloth to a man Mig calls Uncle. Uncle often clouts Mig’s ears, leaving her partially deaf. Mig decides, upon seeing the princess pass by on a horse, that she wants to be a princess. Mig is then sent to work in the castle by the King’s soldiers, who tell “Uncle” that no human being is allowed to own another. In the castle, she gains a lot of weight. Only her head stayed small. Mig’s main job is to go down to the dungeons to deliver Gregory the jailer his meal and, while there, she meets Roscuro and confesses to him that her greatest wish is to become a princess. Gregory gives her a handkerchief, Despereaux in it, and returns to the castle. Roscuro convinces Mig that if she helps him kidnap Princess Pea, he’ll make her a servant girl so Miggery Sow can become a princess.
Book IV: Recalled to the Light
Despereaux escapes the dungeons on a tray of Gregory’s that Mig brings back to the kitchen, where he hears her conversation with Roscuro. However, Despereaux is soon discovered by Mig and Cook. Cook, as a mouse-hating woman, orders Mig to kill Despereaux. She explains to Mig that her philosophy with mice is “kill ‘em, even if they’re already dead.” When Despereaux is attempting to flee, Mig chops off his tail with a knife so that she can tell Cook that she got a part of the “mercy”. Despereaux spends the night in pain, sleeping on a sack of flour. He dreams of the castle’s knights in shining armor, darkness, and light. However, when the knight removes the helmet, the shining armor is empty. Despereaux begins to doubt “happily ever after” and everything he has read and starts to weep. Meanwhile, Roscuro leads Mig to Princess Pea’s room with a knife in one hand and a candle in the other to lead Princess Pea to the dungeon.
The next morning, the castle is in a panic over the missing princess. Guards are sent to search the dungeon, only to find Gregory dead from terror. He was lost in the dark mazes because Roscuro has chewed the rope which secures him to the dungeon entrance. Despereaux is seen by the mouse council, who mistook him for a ghost because he is covered in flour from sleeping on the flour sack. Despereaux forgives his father, upon the father’s request, for sentencing him to the dungeon, before mocking the rest of the council. Despereaux goes on to see the King. Despereaux tells the King that he knows that Pea is in the dungeon, but the King refuses to believe him because Despereaux is related distantly to the rats.
Despereaux then goes to Hovis, the thread master. Hovis gives him an entire spool of red thread and a sewing needle to serve as a sword for his quest to the dungeons. On his way, he runs into Cook, who has grown so anxious from Pea’s disappearance she has resorted to breaking the law and making soup. Instead of attacking Despereaux, she offers him some soup before seeing him off. Mig, meanwhile, learns that Roscuro tricked her into helping him kidnap Pea and that she will never be a princess. Roscuro plans for Pea to remain locked in the dungeons so that he can marvel over her brightly colored dress, but Despereaux arrives to save Pea, and Mig chops Roscuro’s tail off with the knife when he refuses to show them the way back. However, many rats arrive on the scene because they followed the smell of Despereaux, and the soup he recently ate. Despereaux threatens to kill Roscuro with the sewing needle. Roscuro, catching a whiff of the soup left on Despereaux’s whiskers, realizes he does not truly want to hurt anyone and begins crying. Pea offers that if Roscuro lets her go, she will treat him with some soup. Roscuro agrees. Botticelli and the other rats are so disgusted by the happiness of all that is happening that they return to the darkness.
Despereaux and Pea become close friends. Because even in this strange world, a mouse and princess can not marry. Roscuro is allowed access into the upstairs of the castle, and reunites Mig’s father, a prisoner in the dungeons, with his daughter. Mig’s father promises that he loves Mig and will never leave her. But before this, however, Roscuro, Mig, the King, Pea, and Despereaux all get together for soup, as Despereaux’s friend Hovis, his parents, and his brother watch in amazement behind the scenes.
Tattoo idea
The cover art of Desperaux with his thread and needle with the words: “stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell a story. Make some light.” At the bottom
I ship it so harddddd the side characters were all so supreme in HOSAB I looked forward to Ruhn’s chapters so much, I like being in his head ngl Also, Einar aka the Autumn king needs to die can I get some knives in the chat pls
I ship it so harddddd the side characters were all so supreme in HOSAB I looked forward to Ruhn’s chapters so much, I like being in his head ngl Also, Einar aka the Autumn king needs to die can I get some knives in the chat pls
