til i am sick of it

Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for April! A scene from The Wicked King by Holly Black, Cardan and Jude pledging their troth.

"Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home."

— How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hear ‘I Love You’ by QueenofNightmares

um hi i am obsessed with them and i love them so much you just DON’T understand and i would die to be Jude and feel this love and to be fathoms deep in love (is this dramatic?no.)

(https://archiveofourown.org/works/45935206)

I saw a lot of people (mainly on tiktok) who said they were disappointed at the lack of romance bc Jurdan are so hyped. As a mainly political fantasy/Sci fi/dystopian reader, Jurdan is the best thing ever. But if you read exclusively romance books, Jurdan simply does not have enough page time to qualify.

In my opinion, Jude's most interesting/important relationship in tfota was with Madoc. Her story was about respect. Their dynamic shifting throughout the books is the most objective way of tracing Jude's character arc.

I would say Jude's relationships with her sisters are also more important than her relationship with Cardan a lot of the time, but that might just be me.