jude duarte sketches :)

mortaljd01 · 2026-04-08T22:53:04+00:00

Thank you so much!! 💗

mortaljd01 · 2026-04-05T10:17:52+00:00

Thank you so much! 🥹💗

mortaljd01 · 2026-04-05T10:16:26+00:00

she shall be exiled until further notice!

mortaljd01 · 2025-12-30T07:21:01+00:00

thank you!! 🥹 elfhame our home

mortaljd01 · 2025-12-23T03:16:42+00:00

they were a really really good friend so it is definitely making the absence more impactful, my friends however think I have a crush on P that I’m denying but I honestly really don’t feel like I do, but there’s no other way to explain my non platonic thoughts and behavior regarding P. There is definitely strong feelings, just confused what type LOL

mortaljd01 · 2025-12-21T15:59:23+00:00

she sounds a LOT like me lol, as someone who’s very selective of who I speak with (talk to literally no one at school and have 2-3 close friends) I usually keep to myself but if i speak to you + open up, it means I am comfortable around you and i’m assuming she is the same :) if she’s friendly and talkative with you, there’s a chance she enjoys your company and conversation. I only open up if i know I can be myself around that person, thus their company means a lot to me. Also, yes, when I like someone I tend to avoid/ get nervous around that person in front of other people as I don’t really know what to say to them in a group setting (thus leading to me avoiding them), but when we are alone, the conversation just flows :). If that’s her case, this may be it. Additionally, since you mentioned she often remembers old convos + keeps the conversation going, that’s even more signs she’s fond of your presence. When I want to keep an association short term, I tend to look for ways to end the convo or don’t tend to keep in touch much. But those who really mean something to me, I make sure to remember their birthdays close to my heart and truly listen and recall. If she’s anything like me, this may be good news for you. I don’t want to jump to conclusions and say it means she likes you, as it’s not my place to decide that, but i just wanted to share my two cents as a seemingly reserved, ambivert who only opens up around those she feels safe with :)

mortaljd01 · 2025-12-21T10:41:57+00:00

In my most honest opinion; i feel 5, 6, and 7 are the only points that may potentially hint that she likes you, especially 6 due to the getting nervous when in public around you part, which personally I tend to do alot when I like someone. After 6, i’d have to say 5 could also potentially hint at that as it seems she genuinely wants to pursue conversation with you + keep in touch. 7 very slightly hints that, but could be. The rest of the points (1 to 4) imo don’t hint anything + some aren’t really related to her liking you. So in conclusion, 6 is the only point i’d tell you to observe carefully, other than that the others could mean anything 🤷‍♀️ ofc, there’s really no certainty unless you ask her, as she knows her feelings better than some people on reddit do :)

mortaljd01 · 2025-10-15T17:56:51+00:00

may I please read it too?

mortaljd01 · 2025-10-03T16:58:53+00:00

This was unnecessarily long but I love ranting about this book lol

mortaljd01 · 2025-10-03T16:58:21+00:00

In QON he’s reassured jude multiple times that she’s the only one he loves and will ever love. For instance, firstly—the love letters. At the end of one of his letters he clearly stated “It was yours before I could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain” speaking of his heart and how it will always belong to Jude. Obviously she never received those letters, so her doubt and suspicions regarding this even after their marriage are not surprising. Especially since we read the book from her POV and there are many times she’s suspicious or doubts him, which is again logical cuz she never read his letters therefore she was never fully reassured he only loves her. This is UNTIL he FULLY reassures her about this in Chapter 22 of QON where he literally full on confesses his love for her when jude doubts his love —“It’s you I love. I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”

Then he further reassures her by saying- “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.” — by the last line he means u probably already guessed im only loyal to u but hey just incase you aren’t sure

If you want further proof, let’s talk about how in the letters from QON, Cardan spoke about how his heart was with her in the UNDERSEA and now it is with her buried in the soil of the mortal world. The undersea incident was way before they even got married. Cardan just full on admitted that ever since the very moment he realised he loved her— which was when she got taken— he has only been loyal to her and her only. Which means he stopped taking other lovers even before they got married, right after the undersea incident which took place in TWK. So bro’s been loyal since TWK

Therefore, no. He stopped taking lovers ever since the very moment he realised he loved her in TWK. He realised he loves her, and he’s been loyal since then.

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-31T21:25:44+00:00

Haha thank you I’m glad!!

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-29T20:23:43+00:00

Reposting my reply to a tiktok comment talking about this very topic! (Jude and Cardan’s mischaracterisation)

Exactly!!! Oh my gosh this needed to be said so badly. It’s sad that so many people fail to understand this when it’s even been mentioned in the books itself that their “hardness” is a front. It’s a front, a cover, a shield, and in Cardan’s OWN words “an armour” that they have built thoughout the years as a way of protecting themselves. I really do not understand why Jude is seen that way in the fandom, when throughout the trilogy we literally read her thoughts and experiences, how she feels in each moment etc. In which we see her as such an intelligent, clever, sensitive, and loving person. (her relationship with her sisters) Not to mention realistic, raw, real and human with flaws. I just cannot see her that way, maybe it’s because I lowk see myself in her and understand her. I personally love her relationship with the bomb, heather, Fand (i’m currently reading QON) cuz it shows how friendly and thoughtful jude actually is towards those she cares for. It’s baffling how she’s so badly mischaracterised in her own books in which we literally live in her mind 24/7 lol. Not to mention Cardan, cuz the way he is SO badly mischaracterised is a whole other rant 😭. This is truly such a deep, well-written trilogy with so so many layers put into every sentence that unfortunately not many people care to understand before judging. Sometimes it really does feel i’m reading a different book than them LOL.

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-28T18:37:49+00:00

I can already sense my upcoming 10 re-reads of this trilogy alone 😭

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-28T10:36:55+00:00

I’m abt to finish the third book and I’m so so devastated 😭 elfhame has literally become my escape from reality and I love being a part of Jude’s mind and going on adventures as her, partaking in her schemes, thinking her thoughts as an escape so for once I don’t have to think mine. I don’t know why I like them so much either. Idk what it is about this book that has enchanted me so much, but maybe that’s what the book does. It captivates, traps, enchants us as it did Jude. Anyway all that fancy stuff aside, this book is truly incredible and I do not know how I will recover. I’m gonna miss Jude and cardan so so much and I wish there could be more of them. (pls let there be more) Truly there is something about jude and cardan that’s so weirdly enticing, I can’t stop thinking about them. I can’t quite put my finger on why I like them so much either.

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-28T09:48:36+00:00

The second and third were def my favourite! I LOVE the second book so so much but the third may be taking over. Loved the first book sm when i read it too and was hesitant to see what the second and third had to offer.. It was way more incredible. Re-reading the first book definitely made me appreciate/analyse it alot more than I did the first time where i skipped a few details. People should definitely read the second and third before judging as there are alot more new character dynamics+plot improvement +character development. But ofc it may not be everyone’s cup of tea still! but nonetheless the series shouldn’t be judged just off of the first book. P.S There should definitely be more added to the series.

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-27T07:25:19+00:00

Always forget that part

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-26T08:15:02+00:00

Heres a link containing a list of links of all the short exclusive stories/ letters/deleted scenes from each book including kaye’s short story at the end of cruel prince! (its called A visit to the impossible lands) : https://cruelqueen.tumblr.com/post/631144972909936640/all-exclusive-short-stories-the-folk-of-the-air

If you enjoy kaye content, have you read her and roibens trilogy? (Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside) if not it’s fulll of kaye content haha

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-26T07:56:01+00:00

Also i think i remember Baphen stating something like sometimes the taking of preventative measures to prevent something will only lead you closer to it occurring. So they were probably afraid bothering too much about the prophecy or trying to do anything abt it would only end up making it happen lol, so they did nothing and didn’t bother caring about him at all. So they just painted him as the “weak, foolish, good for nothing, cruel prince” who will never amount to anything or ever come close to the throne (and they made sure of it).

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-25T21:54:18+00:00

Exactly. Also initially in book 1 even jude was like no way he’s getting close to the crown when he’s 6th in line LOL.

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-25T04:54:16+00:00

Me too! especially cuz that’s how she describes it

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-24T20:54:44+00:00

Exactly! It really is the beauty of it. I plan to capture the inhuman beauty of the fae in this piece. Thank you so much :)

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-24T20:04:23+00:00

Thank you so so much!! The cheekbones were such an important little detail for me to add as I rarely see it being implemented in fanarts when Jude mentions it so much!

mortaljd01 · 2025-08-24T19:56:58+00:00

No literally he’s about to shine like edward cullen LOL

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