#the liar's crown

[just0nemorepage]

The Liar's Crown || Abigail Owen || Dominions #1 || 448 pages Top 3 Genres: Fantasy / Romance / Young Adult

Synopsis: Everything about my life is a lie. As a hidden twin princess, born second, I have only one purpose—to sacrifice my life for my sister if death comes for her. I’ve been living under the guise of a poor, obscure girl of no standing, slipping into the palace and into the role of the true princess when danger is present.

Now the queen is dead and the ageless King Eidolon has sent my sister a gift—an eerily familiar gift—and a proposal to wed. I don’t trust him, so I do what I was born to do and secretly take her place on the eve of the coronation. Which is why, when a figure made of shadow kidnaps the new queen, he gets me by mistake.

As I try to escape, all the lies start to unravel. And not just my lies. The Shadowraith who took me has secrets of his own. He struggles to contain the shadows he wields—other faces, identities that threaten my very life.

Winter is at the walls. Darkness is looming. And the only way to save my sister and our dominion is to kill Eidolon…and the Shadowraith who has stolen my heart.

Publication Date: August 2022. / Average Rating: 4.11. / Number of Ratings: ~720.

[stargirlie25]

consider yourself an enemy if you try to say Nesta didn't have a right to use the trove in the ember bonus chapter.

I know all these ppl are Rhysand Stan's in disguise trying to make a point.

NOT EVERYTHING BELONGS TO ONE CHARACTER ONLY!

The trove obeys Nesta SUCK ITTTT

I don't say it as much but I think Rhysand Stan's annoy me more than Rhysand himself.

LIKE people will never let Nesta goes even though she is practically the authors favorite character?

[madou-dilou]

"Gods -Sarai, get up. Just -what am I going to tell them ?"

[threewaysdivided]

Feyli's Fancy Florals

More Dan Jones & Dragons? More Dan Jones & Dragons.

Bringing the number up to four with Feyli, the Flower Crown's born-again Dhampir Druid and sole wielder of feminine wiles (played by the talented NicholeGoodnight), all dolled up for a night of lying her butt off, stealing from rich people and smuggling small woodland creatures into upper-class venues.

More Flower Crowns Gala Outfits: Morenthal | Gelnek | Hobson

Design talk and also some bonus art under the cut:

Gotta say, Feyli's outfit was definitely the most tricky out of the set so far. Nichole gave quite a specific description of the details in Feyli's dress (a blood-red gown with black roses around the top, black rose-vines trailing down the body and a dark lace cape) so a lot of it was figuring out how to translate those elements in a way that felt nice and balanced, then adding some complementary embellishments for fun. Each Flower Crown has been pushing me to learn more program tricks and Feyli certainly gave me some fun new challenges to figure out.

For the dress itself, I ended up going with an off-the-shoulder mermaid-skirt gown in attempt to find something that would look nice on Feyli's body-shape and show off the roses without utterly destroying the line mileage if I wanted to draw her in it again later. (Still ended up doing the skirt-embriodery by hand so task failed successfully).

Accessory-wise I thought it would be fun to crank the "roses" theme up to 11, since Feyli really leaned into that with her alias and cover stories, so I threw in some rose-embroidery finishing to the edges of her lace cape (shout out to ClipStudio users rainbowgrimart and 얀얀씨 for their ornate lace and jewellery brushes, which were an absolute lifesaver for the detailing) and also traded up her usual hair-wildflowers to match.

Whether Feyli canonically wore her antlers to the ball is a mystery, but since she can change those now and Nichole did mention her keeping the hair-flowers I thought it would be neat to give her a smaller but more formal set of sparkly silvered deer-horns to fit the dress-code. I also had some fun playing around with her hair and make-up since it was a black tie nobles event and I figured Lady Infiltration might go the extra mile to style herself for the evening. She's the only party member with long hair, I had to.

The jewellery was mostly just goofing. I really wanted to give her a version of Tante Padva's "slit throat" ruby choker necklace from Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus since I felt like Feyli's backstory and Nichole's description of the dress would vibe with that aesthetic. For the rest, I figured silver would be a cute way to have her be matchy with Coil and contrasting to fellow-infiltrator Morenthal. Plus I thought it would be funny to give her a bunch of rings and loop-bangles since she's such an incorrigible fantasy-gachapon girlie.

Once I realised that Feyli had somehow managed to bring a bag with her rescue-rat companion, Soli, and recently-acquired copper dragonscale lizard through the cloak-room weapons check, I knew I had to find a way of including them as well. They're hard to see in the main drawing but I had so much fun with them that I decided to do a bonus sketch:

(Also feat. Pocket, the Party's new intrusive thoughts generator fairy friend.)

Double-bonus detail crop because I quite like how Feyli's expression-work and hair turned out:

[trexalicious]

The signs were there from there beginning...

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

No because look!

They’re both wearing a crown of thorns that’s a religion thing. The killer is definitely someone from the church. Probably Kelly/Karen

[ramonag-if]

MC had a good dream last night, awakening the next day with a skip in their step and a grin on their face. Someone asks them what has them so happy, they answer "A sweet dream, one that i wish was reality" the dream being Sal(liar)yra being held accountable for their actions, and serving punishment a 1000 fold.

You won't get to live this power fantasy no matter how much you want it 😂 You can make Salyra feel pain every time you insult her so it'll be a slow and torturous existence for her which some would say is crueller than a quick and easy punishment 😆

[jewfrogs]

how poorly do we think a funny thing happened on the way to the forum has held up

[one-half-guy]

Imagine if in Sonic's world have some of those apps that simulates what you'll look like when you get older or what you used to look like when you were younger and stuff.

Then expand over this: imagine that there's an app that simulates what they would look like if they were any other species, like "how Sonic would look like if he were a fox" for example.

Okay now the point: Silver learns about this app someday and eagerly decides to test it and see what he would look like if he were the same species as his friends... Then while he finds the results funny, everyone utterly HATES the results because all of them lacks his marvelous quill crown.

Them all hate even more when Silver gets a reptile species (specially Espio & Blaze) because in these he loses not only his quill crown, but also his majestic chest fur, this rob is a heinous crime.

[lyricallymnded]

crown of greed // only liars feat. kellin quinn

[magnusmodig]

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃 about mortals and their propensity towards the excessive. his years spent with jane foster , though few , had forewarned him of such matters. particularly in the veins of shopping plazas. jane was a humble woman , and so on the few spare times he had coaxed her from her work ( fearing she would burn herself out should she burn too brightly ) , it was in the name of simple things: groceries or equipment to return to her craft. a bookstore or a furnishings for the home they had called theirs.

humans enjoyed variety , and thor could not begrudge them that. but mimsi's department store was VAST even to thor's opinion. the shop boasted three floors with many rooms hosting wares of many times and places. shelves near burst with small antique decor and 'knick-knacks' could be found hidden tucked away in various small corners. truly a more massive establishment — and far more cluttered than the royal palace of valaskjalf.

but there was something in the store for everyone. and for thor , he found himself stalling as he carefully edged his way through a corridor of shelves , attention caught by the familiar shape of astronomy binoculars. struck by memories of four mortal years time ( and perhaps , as well , a masochistic compulsion towards regret ) thor reached for the binoculars and found the hardware solid beneath his fingers. carefully , he procured it from the shelf whence it had been tucked away — only to not notice how its strap had curled itself around the base of a porcelain vase.

as the binoculars were secured , the vase came loose , and with toppled the floor of the small row with an resoundingly loud CRASH. the pieces scattered across the dappled grey tile. for a moment , all was still. . .

. . . then thor cursed in asgardian.

@epilvgue / starter call !

[fluffypotatey]

Merlin: Arthur! Look! 💐

Arthur: What the hell is that?

Merlin: Flowers! For you! :)

Arthur: [404 error brain not found][artpen.exe has stopped working]

Arthur: Excuse me a moment.

Arthur: *goes in his chambers* *locks the door*

Arthur: *screams into a pillow*

Merlin, still in the hall: 💐 ?

Arthur: *opens door* *takes the flowers*

Merlin: :D

Arthur:

Merlin: :)

Arthur: ......i'll need a vase for them *shuts door*

Merlin: *smirking* right away, sire!

Arthur, leaning against his bedroom door: *clutching boquet tightly as he admires examines it*

Arthur: *mumbling* i didn't think he'd actually give me them

[inthroughthesunroof]

Previous dentist: Yeah, so you have a very small cavity right here. And there's already a filling on the other side of the tooth, so I can't put a filling in this one. Has to be a crown. Bye!

Me: .... half my teeth have fillings on both sides already, I know it's fucking possible. So what makes this one special? Wait where are you going?

New dentist, a year later: ... cavity? Uh, yeah, I don't see anything. You do need root planing tho.

[psychicpinenut]

the urge to make a jane gifset with the lyrics to hurt by nine inch nails (johnny cash cover)

[julescarstairs]

What genre have I been into as of late? It’s a pretty obscure one, a silly little something I like to call books with a pair of twins in a royal setting where the safety of one another prevails over anything and everything, to the point where one is willing to forfeit their life for their twin even if they really don’t want them to. (Bonus if there’s a body double/bodyguard situation)

[sussex-sweetheart]

Harry hasn't uttered horse face's name and yet the cronies still need to use his to sell their bullshit books. 😒