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@pscentral event 02: comedy âł HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER + Rules, Theories and Lessons
âWell, you have to be more specific, Ted, âcause I have so many theories!â
cardan has such a way with words like my sweet villian, my darling god??? my dearest punishment??? if ure the sickness i suppose u canât also be the cure??? come home and shout at me. come home and fight with me. come home and break my heart, if you must. just come home??? BY YOU I AM FOREVER UNDONE?!?!?!!??!
In defense of Cardan
Rereading The Cruel Prince is fascinating, because there was such an effort made to show Cardan as âcruelâ in the beginning, and he does do some nasty things. For instance, I donât think we ever learn if he had a good reason for his random cruel act of tearing the wing of a faerie who didnât bow to him. That moment has always bothered me and I donât have an explanation for it.Â
And yet, so many of his interactions with Jude can be seen through a different light on a reread after we know his character better. Once we know he does not relish violence and expends a lot of energy avoiding his own humiliation. Â
Take the everapple incident during astronomy lessons.Â
Valerian and Nicasia certainly wanted to hurt Jude, and Locke was already playing his own twisted game. But knowing what we learn later about Cardan, all his possibly cruel actions go slant and are arguably a kind of protection, the only kind he can offer Jude while being subtle about it.
First, Nicasia starts it - she steals Judeâs notebook and slaps her across the face.Â
Cardan looks over, and I can tell from his expression that she has failed to please him.
Iâm not sure if Nicasia was trying to please Cardan. It may have been for her own amusement, not his. But heâs already wary and not thrilled about whatâs going to happen.
Then Valerian shoves the faerie apple into Judeâs mouth. Nicasia steals her salt, the antidote, before she can reach for it. Valerian shoves the apple back in her mouth, choking her, and Jude begins to black out from lack of air. Someone yells âDo something!â and itâs unclear who - this was probably not Cardan, because it doesnât seem like his method of intervening. Maybe it was Locke, maybe one of the teachers or bystanders. And then...
  Abruptly, Valerian is kicked off me. I roll onto my side, coughing. Cardan is looming there. Tears and snot are running down my face, but all I can do is lie in the dirt and spit out pieces of sweet, fleshy pulp. I have no idea why I am crying.   âEnough,â Cardan says. He has an odd, wild expression on his face, and a muscle is jumping in his jaw.   I start to laugh.   Valerian looks mutinous. âRuin my fun, will you?â   For a moment, I think theyâre going to fight, although I cannot think why. Then I see what Cardanâs got in his hand. The salt from my basket. The antidote. (Why did I want that? I wonder.) He tosses it up into the air with a laugh, and I watch it scatter with the wind. Then he looks at Valerian, mouth curling. âWhatâs wrong with you, Valerian? If she dies, your little prank is over before it begins.âÂ
So Cardan is the one who intervenes to save Judeâs life before Valerian can choke her to death. Heâs freaked out, he doesnât want this, and itâs possible his friends basically know that and are messing with him just as much by messing with Jude.Â
He has also gotten his hands on Judeâs salt. Now, why would he have bothered to pick up her salt? It was inside her basket, which Nicasia had, and thatâs not the most direct path to an imminently choking Jude. I think he was intending to get her the antidote.
Except then he was caught out in an awkward position where, for just a moment, it looked like he might be helping her - heâs even just pulled Valerian off her. He canât show that weakness to any of the court teens, least of all his friends. So he improvises and scatters the salt, making it look like heâs part of Valerianâs game. This sucks for Jude, who needed that salt, but itâs also probably the best move to avoid a target on himself and a worse target on Jude, who heâs now reframing as a game, a plaything, not something to completely destroy. While that is still dehumanizing and demoralizing, it is still ultimately safer to downgrade her torment to a fun joke for them, not something that should end in physical harm. He is deescalating a situation he canât entirely defuse.Â
This intentional choice of his, one he hates having to make, is reinforced by the difference between his words and his expression.
  âPrince Cardan?â Noggle says. âShe ought to be taken home.â   âEveryone is so dull today,â Cardan says, but he doesnât sound as if heâs bored. He sounds as if heâs barely keeping his temper in check.
Heâs trying to maintain the attitude that this is silly, this is no big deal, but heâs simmering with anger at this assault on Jude, and possibly at the way he must carefully strike this tone so that his friends donât escalate, or worse, turn on him too. It would be bad for him in general if they turned on him, but it would also leave him with no power to put a stop to how theyâre treating Jude.
  Nicasia smiles, holding up the golden thing she has in her hand. The filthy, mashed remains of the apple. âCome lick my hands clean. You donât mind, do you? But you have to do it on your knees.â   Gasping and tittering spread through our classmates like a breeze. They want me to do it. I want to make them happy. I want everyone to be as happy as I am. And I do want another taste of the fruit. I begin to crawl toward Nicasia.   âNo,â Cardan says, stepping in front of me, his voice ringing and a little unsteady. The others back off, giving him room. He toes off his soft leather shoe and puts one pale foot directly in front of me. âJude will come here and kiss my foot. She said she wanted to kiss us. And I am her prince, after all.â   I laugh again. Honestly, I donât know why I laughed so infrequently before. Everything is marvelous and ridiculous.   Looking up at Cardan, though, something strikes me as wrong. His eyes are glittering with fury and desire and maybe even shame. A moment later, he blinks, and itâs just his usual chilly arrogance.
Once again, he has saved her from the everapple. Nicasia was not just going to humiliate her, she was also going to drug her more. Cardan had to stop her.Â
But he canât just play the hero here. So he suggests that Jude, who has also just said she would be happy to kiss any of them, kiss his foot. Itâs humiliating, sure, but itâs also innocuous compared to Nicasiaâs intentions, and kissing his foot will not further drug her.Â
He has to keep playing this game to get them both out of this as cleanly as possible. Heâs still struggling to keep his fury under wraps, though, and it slips through when Jude looks at him.Â
And then Locke becomes an active player in the scene.Â
  âWell? Be quick about it,â he says impatiently. âKiss my foot and tell me how great I am. Tell me how much you admire me.â   âEnough,â Lock says sharply to Cardan. Heâs got his hands on my shoulders and is pulling me roughly to my feet. âIâm taking her home.â   âAre you, now?â Cardan asks him, eyebrows raised. âInteresting timing. You like the savor of a little humiliation, just not too much?â   âI hate it when you get like this,â Locke says under his breath.
This exchange is harder to parse. In the moment, it does look like Locke is the only good guy, who is sweeping in to save Jude from Cardan and Nicasia and Valerian. This is how Locke wants it to look, and it is how Jude interprets things immediately after.
But knowing what we learn later about Lockeâs character and his intensions, and noting how quietly intrigued he was by this incident up until this moment, it seems that Locke has decided to chime in to play the hero on purpose - heâs seen his in with Jude, and that is acting like heâs on her side and getting her out of this situation.Â
Cardan knows all about Lockeâs love of âstoryâ and watching things play out, which is why he makes a jab at him that Locke seems to think some humiliation is fine, at least. Heâs asking where the line is for Locke, who is acting morally superior when Cardan knows thatâs hypocritical. On a first read, it seems that Locke is saying he hates when Cardan gets into a mood to humiliate people. But on rereads, itâs more likely heâs annoyed that Cardan wonât fully surrender himself to the unfolding story in front of them, or allow Locke to move it forward unhindered.
Now, Iâm going to take a moment to wildly speculate about a couple things. First, Valerian probably could have come up with this idea and gotten his hands on an apple himself - itâs not like theyâre rare, and theyâre known to be dangerous for humans. But why now? Heâs not that bright - if he wanted to do this to Jude, why hadnât he done it before? Is it possible that Locke suggested it and/or handed him the apple? Secondly, Lock is the worst, and I think itâs entirely possible that he didnât only want to play hero by walking Jude home. If he got to have a little âfunâ with her on the way home and manipulate her into thinking it was consensual, well, Iâm sure he wouldnât mind that either. We know he sucks. Heâs awful. This doesnât feel like a stretch to me. Jude was not guaranteed to be safe alone with Locke while nearly naked and drugged.
I think Cardan knew or guessed some of that too.Â
  Cardan pulls a pin from his coat, a glittering, filigree thing in the shape of an acorn with an oak leaf behind it. For a delirious moment, I think heâs going to give it to Locke in exchange for leaving me there. That seems impossible, even to my wild mind.   Then Cardan takes hold of my hand, which seems even less possible. His fingers are overwarm against my skin. He stabs the point of his pin into my thumb.   âOw,â I say, pulling away from him and putting the injured digit into my mouth. My own blood is metallic against my tongue.   âHave a nice walk home,â he tells me. [...]   I suck on my injured thumb, feeling odd. My head is still swimming, but not like it was. Somethingâs wrong. A moment later, I realize what. Thereâs salt in my human blood.
This, to me, feels like Cardanâs most risky move. He might have given himself away to everyone, but he almost certainly did to Locke. While Locke probably already knew how Cardan felt, so he wasnât revealing anything wholly secret, confirming his feelings could also be dangerous.Â
He might have been able to pass it off as a quick moment of cruel harm toward Jude, or even managed to prick her finger without anyone else noticing.Â
But crucially, he ensured that she did not walk off alone with Locke while not in her right mind. He did it. He got them out of that situation without revealing any of his feelings (well, he tried - probably only Locke noticed) and made sure Jude, whose human blood he knew would have salt she needed, received the antidote to the everappleâs effects.Â
Cardan did make Judeâs life harder throughout their teen years, but I really donât think he ever intended real harm to come to her. He was a bully, but not a complete villain. And once he had a certain reputation, he had to maintain it and use it, just to navigate through sticky situations when his friends decided to commit villainous acts themselves.Â
I could continue on about all the other indications that he has helped or defended humans, but Iâll leave that for another day.Â
Thinking about the trauma poor Oak went through, I'm so excited to get a story from his POV.
The kid has 3 sisters, none of which are related to him. He's not related to his parents either. His biological mom was murdered by his biological dadâwho was in turn murdered by his dad.
Then his half-brother was murdered by his non-murderous sister, leaving his murderous sister's HUSBAND as his closest living relative
I hope he got a therapist during his years in the Mortal realm
We love a traumaboy đđ hopefully he didn't get any coping advice from Cardan
murdering his kidsâ bio parents is really a bad habit of MadocâsÂ

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Jude Duarte as Rothbart gifs
I finished reading Queen of Nothing yesterday and then I watched Swan Princess, and everything Rothbart said started to sound like things Jude would say and now I canât unsee it.Â
âYou have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcel me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down.â - Jude in The Cruel Prince
âMithridatism, itâs called. Isnât that a funny name? The process of eating poison to build up immunity. So long as I donât die from it, Iâll be harder to kill.â - Jude in The Cruel Prince
âPower is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.â - the entire theme of The Wicked King
Cardan:Â âShe is my wife and the rightful High Queen of Elfhame.â Jude: **raids Cardanâs closet** **asks Taryn for wardrobe help** **asks Tatterfell to do her hair** - The Queen of Nothing
And as a bonus, Jude riding up to the giant serpent at the end of Queen of Nothing:
I love Jude dearly and also I stand by this, Jude and Rothbart are kindred spirits.Â
Thereâs a theory that early Europeans started saying âbrown oneâ or âhoney-eaterâ instead of âbearâ to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa âthe faceless womanâ because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber
English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize itâs spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.
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Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, otherwise youâll draw their attention.
Yall have evil whales?
Iceland does! They are the illhveli, literally âevil whalesâ, and they live to kill you. They love nothing more than killing and eating humans and sinking their ships. Their greatest enemy is the steypireydur (thatâs blue whale to you), which is the greatest of the good whales and the protector of sailors.
All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. Thatâs right, theyâre so evil, you canât even eat them.
They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.
The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.
Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!
Or what about death from above? The stĂśkkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.
Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hideâŚ
⌠while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.
The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.
The same canât be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.
The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.
How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.
For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.
https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/
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This is also why fairies were referred to as the âGood Neighborsâ and why there are so many nicknames for Satan.
The concept of avoidance speech is endlessly fascinating and rife with plot points for writing, but honestly Iâm just thrilled about the EVIL WHALES.
song of the lioness characters as john mulaney quotes
alanna: I was hoping by now that i would look older but that didnât happen.
thom: âWhoa, that tall child looks terrible! Get some rest, tall child! You canât keep burning the candle at both ends!ââ
jon: Oh, yes, and what a mighty king I will be, eating dinner at 4:45 in the afternoon.
george: And I said ânoâ. You know, like a liar.
gary: Itâs a grid system mother fucker!
raoul: Itâs really easy not to go to things. It is so much easier not to do things than to do them.
buri: *smashes a 40* SCATTER
thayet: This might as well happen. Adult life is already so goddamn weird.
myles: Iâm either having a drink or I have to pee. Youâre living the golden years, kid, not me.
alex: To me, âPerson of Interestâ is almost too flattering.
roger: IN FACT, WEâRE GONNA FRAME YOU FOR MURDER, AND YOUâRE GONNA GO TO JAIL FOR 30 YEARS.
liam: A 28-year-old healthy man trying his best.
coram: Thirteen year olds are the meanest people in the world.
faithful: I like to lean in and go âstop snitchinâ motherfuckerâ and walk off.
How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversations about how my head is going to find itself on a spike.
Cardan in The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black
Cardan: After dinner, I will tell you my terms. But until then, I am going to enjoy the party.
Balekin: I do not have endless patience.
Cardan: Cultivate it. *waltzes away*

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I feel calm, gloriously calm. This is weakness, to put fear above ambition, above family, above love, but it feels good. It feels like being powerful.
The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black
Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag's carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst.
The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black
Teen Wolf priorities
Lydia: *finds a dead body and calls Stiles*
Stiles: Ok, I gotta call my dad.
Lydia: I already called the police.
Stiles: You called 911 before you called me??
Lydia: I'm supposed to call you first when I find a dead body???
Stiles: YES!!!!
Parrish was really onto something
A true renaissance painting yâall-

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Harry Potter AU in which Fred and George are in different houses and they steal and wear each others ties whilst doing stupid things in hope of the others house losing points
Finally a Fred and George AU that doesnât make me want to set myself on fire.
AU where Fred and George are in different houses and they get their hands on house ties from the other two houses as well. By the end of their first year nobody knows which house either of them is in and just take points off a random house whenever they see a redhead getting up to something.
The confusion runs so deep by the time Ron starts that Snape once takes points off Slytherin for Ron fighting with Malfoy.
Thereâs a few months in Fred and Georgeâs second year when they successfully convince most of the school that theyâre actually quadruplets, one in each house.
âGeorge! Why are you wearing a Slytherin tie?â
âWhat? No, Iâm Edward. Y'know, Slytherinâs resident Weasley?â
âWhâŚhuh???â
âNext youâll be telling me you donât know Hubert!â
â?????â
After this confusing quadruple mess, a conspiracy theory emerges that Fred and George are actually just one person, and there were never any Weasley Twins. To add fuel to this theory, Fred and George make a point to never be seen together (publicly).
When asked about this theory, Fred/George subtly insinuates that he used Polyjuice Potion so that there could be multiple versions of himself at once. This goes around the Hogwarts Rumor Mill like fire. The Weasley family says nothing to dispute it, not even Percy.
Percy makes polyjuice successfully for the first time in his fifth year, when he finally has sufficient motivation. Fred, George, Edward and Hubert walk into the great hall one morning, identical but for their school ties, and the chaos is so great that nobody realizes Percy and Ron are missing.
Hart of Dixie rewatch thoughts
Iâve made it to season 3, which is way less fun than seasons 1-2, and hereâs how I feel about all the characters now that Iâm 18 episodes into S3:
1. Iâm so relieved Joel is gone. He was such a tiring character who shouldnât have been there for so long.
2. In general Iâm not a fan of any of the couples!! Wade and Vivian can be done now please, and remind me why Annabeth and Lavon arenât together anymore??
3. Lemon is too good for George now and I hope she never takes him back.
4. Zoe and Lemon are great together and I wish theyâd have more grudging friendship scenes together!Â
5. Iâm not interested in Annabethâs new boyfriend unless he makes Lavon realize how incredible she is and makes him fight to get her back.Â
6. Everyoneâs eyeshadow is fantastic, way to go 2014.Â
I finished the whole series a bit ago and the 4th season really took a TURN. I didnât hate ALL of it? But come ON, Annabeth and GEORGE???? Every time they were on screen together I just muttered âno no no no I hate this I hate this I hate thisâ to myself. That pairing was certainly a CHOICE.Â