Me reading fairy p!rn im 2012 (on ao3)

Me reading fairy p!rn in 2021 (published books)

The audio is from Little Women (2019), and the casting of Saoirse Ronan as Jude and Timothee Chalamet as Cardan is almost perfect?? Except I hate Chalamet’s voice :))

ANYWAY YA books should get anime adaptations and I should do them!!! (Also yeah they are supposed to be dancing for this but uhhh)

Now that I’m more or less a tiktok animator (somehow), I’d like to animate a scene from tfota, to prove that YA books should get anime adaptations. Any suggestions? Preferably with little to no dialogue because I’m not doing voices

cruelqueen:

I decided to collect all exclusive stories I know of. I have done something similar for SJM books . 
If you know of any other exclusive story, please let me know!

THE CRUEL PRINCE
A visit to the Impossible Lands Barnes and Noble edition

THE WICKED KING
deleted scene from The Wicked King, Barnes and Noble edition

THE QUEEN OF NOTHING
Cardan’s letters from the Queen of Nothing Barnes and Noble edition, should be read after the book
deleted scene from The Queen of Nothing , sent via Holly’s official newsletter

Some posts I found useful:
post about True Names
A Guide to Holly Black’s Extended Faerie Universe

i will never get over these tfota parallels

jude at the beginning of tcp:

jude at the end of tqon:

it’s always “wyd” and never “chasamchafwmchabmhiymjch”

never not thinking about that jurdan moment in queen of nothing when:

“What was it like?” I ask. “Being a serpent.”

He hesitates. “It was like being trapped in the dark,” he says. “I was alone, and my instinct was to lash out. I was perhaps not entirely an animal, but neither was I myself. I could not reason. There were only feelings—hatred and terror and the desire to destroy.”

I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. “And you.” He looks at me, his lips curving in something that’s not quite a smile; it’s more and less than that. “I knew little else, but I always knew you.”

And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.

me reading tfota in a nutshell:

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taryn:

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taryn:

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taryn:*breathes*

me:

jude & madoc’s relationship [tfota spoilers]

i don’t think y’all understand the way jude & madoc’s relationship absolutely KILLS me .

it agonizes jude to love madoc when he is the one who killed her parents, but he is the only father she has ever known.

she wants to be nothing like him, and yet she is her father’s daughter. it is him who teaches her to fight, to be strong, to be ruthless and unyielding and cunning. and she loves him for this, so much so that when she uses all that he taught her against him, it breaks her heart a little.

when they find themselves on opposite sides of the war, jude can think only of how his love for her is not enough to outweigh his love for power. yet she realizes that her love for him does not outweigh her desire for power either. they are two sides of the same broken coin.

in the end, when she must pronounce madoc’s punishment, she exiles him because she knows that being forced to live in a place of peace is a worse fate than death for him. and yet a small part of her also cannot bear to see him die. she knows their relationship can never be healed, but it is her lingering love for the father that taught her how to be strong once upon a time that saves him from death.

jude has only ever called madoc “father” when she is about to betray him, but when she whispers, “goodbye, father” it is not to announce a betrayal. it is to acknowledge that he is her father, and she loved him, and she hurt him, and he did exactly the same to her, and now they find themselves back where they first began with the roles reversed- madoc brought jude to the faerie realm, where she had no desire to be, and now jude sends him to the human world, where he has no desire to be. but perhaps he might learn to love it the way jude grew to love elfhame.

perhaps jude’s punishment was never a punishment at all.

perhaps it was a final gift to the only father she ever knew.

I’m re-reading the cruel prince and it amazes me how well holly black wrote the misconception scenes between jurdan. almost every scene where jude thinks cardan is saying or doing something to humiliate or harm her, he’s always doing so to protect her and she can’t fathom otherwise whereas cardan thinks he’s being super obvious. these two idiots are so adorable

Sarah J. Maas

Leigh Bardugo

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Cassandra Clare

Holly Black

Cardan in between The Wicked KingandQueen of Nothing: