“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing them becomes too high.”
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Perigrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Same energy
the weeks after the murder were filled with fake tranquility. charles was drinking more than ever. richard wasn’t able to sleep without medicine. francis started smoking more and more. henry’s headache got worse.
I think the full gravity of qon's climax just hit me again. Jude, who schemed so much to keep Cardan under her control in the previous books, didn't choose to do that again when she got the chance to. She had the chance to get alot of power, control over cardan and others, the chance to rule undisputed, to never be afraid again. But she didn't choose it. She chose Cardan instead. Chose him over herself too (she mentions she isn't sure if she'll be able to bear the pain of losing him). She let go of all that she wanted before because she didn't want to give Cardan a life of misery, of being trapped. She set him free, only to find him again.
SHE CHOSE CARDAN AND HIS LOVE OVER EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE—
brb while I weep again.
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve (detail), 1507. Oil on panel, 209 × 81 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Meeting in a centuries-old graveyard to read poetry about death
Tommy Lee in his early 20's
[Photos by Elaine Adams Denning]
Cardan literally going from John Mulaney “thats my wife” to sex god “one day I’ll hear you scream” is ICONIC