#the marked dragon prince

[bookloveravenue]

The Marked Dragon Prince (book 1): Ruthless Mate by Jen L. Grey

Two dragon princes. Arranged to marry one. Kidnapped by the other.

I’d always hoped to marry for love.

Fate had other plans.

My mundane life gets spun off its axis when my family is threatened.

The price of protection for the people I love?

A forced marriage to a handsome, enigmatic man who holds… dark secrets.

He’s fighting a war I didn’t even know existed.

Thrust into the world of the supernatural, I’m kidnapped by his brother.

And now, I’ve become a pawn in their sinister game.

I shouldn’t be attracted to my captor.

But something about Thorn overpowers my soul and makes me want to forget all the unforgivable things he’s done.

Yet, none of it matters in the end.

I won’t let my family suffer, which means going back to the man I must marry to save them.

Even if it destroys me.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63284182-ruthless-mate

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March 20, 2023

My Review: 5/5 Stars

All Everly wanted to do was go to med school and keep the promise to her mother that she would look after her half-siblings. Even if that meant dealing with her less than welcome stepfather. And when she hears her stepfather owes a lot of money to a powerful man named Drake and if he doesn't come up with the money, he'll take her younger sister as compensation. Unable to live with that, she goes to Drake and tells her to take her instead. If that means marrying a horrible man then so be it. She'll do it to protect her sister. But there is a lot more going on than she realizes. And when she and a woman who was supposed take her to Drake are kidnapped by Thorn, well Everly is about to learn there is a whole world she doesn't know about. Specifically: dragons. And her deal with Drake? Not so simple after all. And then there is Thorn. Her attraction to him is unreal and though she tries to fight it, it's not so easy. Not when she learns the truth about who he is, not when he saves her life and in doing so changes her forever. There is a war brewing in the dragon world and Everly is fight smack in the middle of it. I loved this first book of Jen's new series! I'm so excited to see this new story unfold with dragons and the new set of rules from Jen's other supernatural series. This first book promises romance, danger, and the supernatural in ways we haven't seen yet. Everly and Thorn are a great new pair of heroes and I can't wait to see how their story unfolds.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[m4rs-ex3]

i love how much chiller and more comfortable she's gotten when sleeping, but also how they show that that instinct hasn't just gone away

[madeinheavenff7]

💕Happy Valentine's Day 💕

[withdenim]

Furry on furry yearning, that’s my jam

[fandom-susceptible]

I return to the Dragon Prince fandom with the following post

First of all, can we talk about how Runaan just has not changed clothes since he woke up from being dead. This man is still wearing his ripped up assassin pants. Didn't even change before going to invoke a formal ritual to clear his daughter's name.

Also this is just a really sweet Ruthari moment, the united front to protect their daughter.

And on a less wholesome note, that little scar on Runaan's hip that his ripped up pants and riding-up shirt are showing is gonna make me act up.

Edit: so I've rewatched the episode with his revival at the end of season 6 now and must correct a mistake. That's not the same pink they use for his scars. Which means that is one of two things.

Adonis belt (hot)

Hip bone (angst, having lost that much weight starving himself)

either one is better than a random scar, but the TDP art style with shading leaves it somewhat unclear to me personally as to where that line actually rests in relation to his skeleton, which would answer the question of which it is

[tategaminu]

manifesting more scenes like this please

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

look at this diagram I spent entirely too long on

[raayllum]

Thinking about how Ezran becomes king of ashes and then builds something new on the other side of it; how Callum faces symbolic to literal leanings of death and comes out fundamentally altered but alive on the other side (much like Runaan); how Rayla is a Ghost and then reborn within the confines of the Silvergrove. Thinking about the trio in S7 and phoenix symbolism amid facing a villain who is, by his own admission, doomed to live forever and to inevitably rise again, over and over

[vaguely-concerned]

so for obvious reasons, rye is not generally all that popular with most of the senior watchers. however. I think there is a certain type of younger watcher to whom he is The ultimate hot badboy icon and fantasy. (we're talking about a group of extreme indoor kid goth nerds who've barely been outside. it doesn't take a lot ot achieve bad boy status in this context and the only thing in this world that lasts forever is a bad reputation in a small insular group like the watchers.) it's SO funny because rye thinks of himself as such a disappointing fuckup of a son of the grand necropolis. and meanwhile there are novices kicking their feet and giggling as they're like

'Ingellvar is so cool. no one knows where he's from he was found down here as a baby. mysterious orphan appeal. he could be a secret dalish prince or something for all we know. (*annoyed extra nerd watcher novice voice*: umm actually the dalish don't have princes, merrivar?? read a real book sometime maybe???) he's a rebel. he doesn't care what the senior watchers think no time for politics he just gets the job done. (*small sad rye voice* I care a lot what the senior watchers think actually. a pathetic amount, in fact. it just rarely seems like it helps anything at all) I heard he graduated almost top of his class even though he spent all his time as a student partying up in the city and having a torrid affair with the son of a noble family. sometimes in his spare time he wears a cool punk leather jacket but like the fantasy version of that. he has tattoos apparently but no one's seen them for years. yuh-uh it's true too, I know someone who knows someone he dated once. they say he saw a knife fight once. like, in a bar brawl, with living people. all that, and he's even sneakily emotionally unavailable. *starry-eyed sigh* what a dreamboat'.

needless to say this only grows worse with the events of the game, after he takes out the formless one and rumours start to spread that he maybe killed a god or something too???? and this being nevarra, more importantly he's out there killing dragons with his sworn companions?? like a fucking fairytale prince but with that devil-may-care rebellious streak???? he's the safely unavailable first crush at a distance of many a young watcher. now imagine the reaction when he shows up home for the first time in a year after the war of the banners accompanied by The one true bad boy fantasy to rule them all: literally the sad brooding crown prince of the crows of antiva in leather pants who has WINGS and a dark tortured side of his nature that he has to constantly battle against for the sake of those he loves.

(the perception vs. reality situation for both of these characterizations is. so unspeakably hilarious needless to say. consider how much of the above lucanis characterization is accurate to the person he actually is and then you've basically found the level of distortion lens being applied to rye as well. is most of it technically true? sure. 'technically' is having to do a whole world of heavy lifting there tho fhdfska)

what I'm really saying here is that there is a subsection of this group that's been ferociously writing rye/lucanis rpf from the moment they were seen trotting down into the necropolis depths together (other pairings within the lighthouse gang as a whole, caught in tantalizing glimpses as they visit the necropolis, of course having their own devotees), and when this fandom subgroup eventually discover they were right it's with all the insane glee of a sixteen year old fanfic writer on wattpad (is that still where the kids are these days. idk i'm getting old folks) finding out that their dark mafia prince AU is basically true. varric might be gone but the legacy of friendfiction lives on after him. the king of thedas rpf being the shoulders of titans that young watchers are standing on to write fevered WILDLY inaccurate depictions of the private life of two of the most low-key domestic quietly devoted and undramatic people on the continent, one of them being varric's own poor little meow meow slash mentee, is something that can actually be so personal. rye does not end up terribly famous in the end considering the shit he manages to get done in this game, and he thanks his lucky stars for it. but to a tight-knit community of mourn watch fic writers he is blorbo from my apocalypse. it's all I could have wished for him.

(funniest possible outcome of all this: myrna gets so fucking tired of trying to understand what the novices are being so tittery about that she asks rye 'watcher ingellvar with the realization that this is a long shot and the admission that vorgoth and I have exhausted all other avenues of investigation: do you possess secret insight about what an 'x reader' is. and also 'ship war'. your name seems to come up in this context a surprising amount'. 9000000 points of incoming psychic damage about to hit the fan.)

[jellydrawsposts]

As much as it pains me I can’t imagine Corvus staying at Katolis Castle and I do NOT think Soren would take that news well

[mistxmood]

mods are asleep post more doodles

[m4rs-ex3]

2x09 // 6x09 // 6x06

truth, mind, and heart

[agentoffangirling]

Okay but is it controversial to say that I prefer the old animation of TDP over the new one?

Like the one from s1-3. Idk, the new one is too smooth and kinda lacking for me

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Nafaalilargus Descends on Prince A'tor

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard - Introduction slide

Art by Mark Jackson

[bzezz]

father’s image

[moon-sky-sun-earth-ocean-stars]

Karim's markings

Did I'm the only one who noticed Karim doesn't have face marking like the rest of the sunfire elves? I really wonder why. I noticed earthblood elves don't use it but the sunfire elves does, so it feels like he is not supporting the tradition or something.