The Game Is…on?

Plantin-Moretus Museum

reasons to love cardan greenbriar:

does not know how to fight with a sword and this is never portrayed as a weakness.

dramatic as fuck.

turned on by knives.

wears makeup (and this is never thought of as weird). would probably buy out sephora given the chance.

would scorch you in a who wore it better contest.

he was raised by a cat who abandoned him and then he got exactly one (1) hug during the whole triology and we should all hug him now because he's starved for affection.

gave us "my sweet villain"

gave us "my darling god"

gave us "my sweet nemesis"

tail.

the best snusband.

light hair touches.

coronation dress.

tricky tongue.

tricky fingers.

sly feet.

*breaks crown in half like that scene from mean girls*

"my wIFE!"

"i would. and perhaps one day i will." (internal shrieking, you know the scene)

"the hospitality of knives"

always about that consent. concerned with jude's feelings and respectful of her boundaries (at least in most of twk and qon).

also a bit of a martyr for mortals. he saves all those mortals and i-.... he was a king before he was a king.

likes to wear his crown (and party hats) crooked which like.... adorable.

overcame his drinking problem to be worthy of jude. because he loved jude.

he loves jude.

“It’s okay to want something that’s going to hurt”

— Holly Black (The Queen of Nothing)

“Stars were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?”

— Ransom Riggs, Miss Perigrine’s Home for Peculiar Childern

Léonard Misonne. London 1899

millard: jacob-

jacob: emma used to call me jacob

millard: because it's your fucking name