#the dragon's rose

[menagerie-of-monsters]

Find the Word Game

I am incapable of resisting a chance to share snips - thank you @i-can-even-burn-salad for the tag!

My words were: call, color, comfort and common

I'm tagging @eruden-writes @perasperaadastrawriting and @howdywrites

Your words are: minor, perfect, quit, keep, and hand

Snips below the cut! Be forewarned: this time it's gonna be STEAMY.

Call

Originally published in the I Am the Fire anthology under the title "The Dragonslayer's Choice", this novella is going to be re-released soon as "How to Slay a Dragon".

He broke the kiss to pant for air, head off the ground and mouth a fingerbreadth from mine. "Hui-Seun," he said, heavy with desire. "Tell me what you want." A slow smile curled my lips, and I rocked my hips against his, making him voice that purr again. The sound vibrated through his chest, full-throated and deep, the feel of it translating to trembling pleasure along my skin. "You know, some people call orgasm the 'little death,'" I said, my smile sharpening as his eyes darkened with desire. "I'm a dragonslayer, greatwyrm, and I've already accepted the bounty for slaying you. But I'll be kind, and let you pick the method." "Sunlight," he groaned, lifting his hips up to run the hardening press of his erection between my legs. "You may kill me like that as often as you like." "Oh?" I asked, as one of his clawed hands slid down to grab my ass and pull my hips more firmly against his. "Is that so?"

Color

From the upcoming "The Changeling and the Dragon", the sequel to "The Sorceress and the Incubus".

I looked down at Qavan, mouth open with lust as I smiled, and sat down onto him, achingly slow, until I could feel the pressure of him pushing up against the depths of me, and I had seated him in me to the hilt. The whimper that fell from his mouth as I did it set me aflame. I wanted him so badly, and now I knew I could have him. I could have had him all along, and I was more than ready to make up for lost time. Qavan, beneath me, wanting me. I leaned forwards, and his hips canted up to follow, and I settled down onto his chest. My mouth pressed against the hot skin of his neck and my hips moved against him, slow and demanding. Qavan wrapped one arm around my shoulders and grabbed my hips with his other hand. He started thrusting up into me, following my pace, the curve of him driving him up against the sweet spot under my curls, with brilliant pleasure that radiated out from my core across my entire body. I forgot the rest of the world. None of it mattered to me, while I was here with my dragon, with him buried inside of me. I sucked color onto his shoulder, that he might hide it if he so desired, and reached down between us to press my fingers against the sensitive peak of my sex.

Comfort

From "The Dragon's Rose", a Beauty and the Beast retelling set in 1500s Scandinavia that I currently have updating on Amazon Vella as a serial. One of very few third-person things I've written!

Syx made a soft sound, and a shimmer of desire slid down the skin of her chest. She moved over him slowly, trying to be sensual, then lowered herself into his embrace, surrounded by the marble walls of his scales. Alisa moved so that her chest was pressed to his back, putting one arm under his neck and wrapping the other arm around his ribs. Want warmed her, tingling between her legs and making her heart beat faster and breath come quicker. She wanted the comfort of touch and of affection, to bring them back from the brink of pain. She pressed her mouth to the back of his neck and stroked her fingers down the skin of his chest. Syx moaned, low and soft, shifting back to press against her. "Alisa," he said, in that same low voice, drawn out. "You… you're hurt." She kissed him again, then licked his neck, and he arched back, gasping. "Not badly," Alisa said against his ear. "And it will feel so good."

Common

And last but not least, from Monsters of Faery book 3, some sex aftermath~

Lianka smirked at me, getting her mirth under control. "That's quite a few marks on your neck, Isabela. Change your mind about what you'd do if the duke offered you his sword?" I narrowly avoided saying "swords" - Varistan would not want that to be common knowledge - and grimaced, my hand going to my neck. "Nobody told me he goes into fucking rut," I complained as she raised one eyebrow at me. "How was I supposed to resist the fucking Flame of Faery eager to please for once in his life?" Her lips twitched, but Lianka came over, tilting my chin to look at my spectacular collection of hickeys. "It's not like any of us have spent it with him," she pointed out as she started running her thumbs slowly down my throat to erase all of Varistan's hard work. "Historically, he's locked himself in his rooms and ridden it out alone. The main evidence has been the laundry and his bad temper." "Well, I suspect he'll be in mildly better temper than usual when he wakes up this time, though whoever gets the short straw for the laundry has my sympathies," I said, shifting to give her access to the other side of my neck. "I'd appreciate it if you fixed my lady parts. The aftermath of a six-day fuckfest is deeply uncomfortable."

[puricodraws]

The template for the ideal D&D party! Who's up to play a game of "Caverns & Cheesecakes"?

Available as a print on my Etsy Shop!

[daily-dragon-drawing]

My daughter is obsessed with your art! She was wondering if you have done a rose dragon yet 🩵🌹

#128 - 玫瑰 (méiguī / rose) - Don't worry about the spikes...doesn't she smell nice? 🌹✨

[girl-gwoe]

Yeah, yeah, im a lil late again and im sure u seen 100500+ Alistairs with roses, BUT! I want my own hahaha

Happy valentine's day 💖

[heavenhatesme]

For the times I was afraid to go out.

For the times I couldn't wear what I liked.

For the times I couldn't afford to buy a scarf I didn't even want.

For the times I had to take a detour to avoid morality police.

For Iranian women, for Iranian people!

Stand with us and be our voice!💚🤍❤️🕊

[otiksimr]

Rose

[nakkin]

W.I.P (The uncensored version here)

[jellycatsdaily]

Jellycat of the Day | 21st August 2024

↳ Rose Dragon (little)

“Wake me up when it’s quest ‘o’ clock!”

[lady-arryn]

from @withered-rose-with-thorns to @marvelsrejects Happy Birthday 🧡

[menagerie-of-monsters]

Word Game

I got tagged by @space-cadead! My words are:

CLEAN - The Sorceress and the Incubus, Echoes of the Void Book 1

At all the edges of my senses I could always find Rain. If I felt the position of my body, I knew where I was, and that Rain was several thousand feet below me in a seated position. If I scented the room, I caught the phantom smell of pine and clean air with her every breath. When I tried to focus on the quietness of the room, I heard the sound of her voice as she spoke. I couldn't not sense her, either, I discovered, as I tried to give her some amount of privacy. Everything I knew about familiars came from the side of the magic-user, which only made sense, as the number of documented sapient familiars could be counted without moving off of one's fingers. But now, on the other end of that relationship, I discovered that it was only the mage who could control the openness of the soul-bond. If Rain wanted to block me out, she could. If she wanted to reach me, there was nothing I could do about it, save to control my emotions.

SHADE - Captured by the Fae Beast

The crown prince was watching me with one of those smoldering, half-lidded gazes that men get when they're waiting for you to notice them in a club, so they can sexily walk across the room at you and take you onto the dance floor to grind. Dain didn't do the sexy-walk-and-grind, but he definitely flicked his wolf gaze down my body, making no effort to hide his observation. He was wearing gray tonight, a deeper shade than my metallic dark silver, with silver chains linking the piercings on his ears. "Hello, Crown Prince Sundamar!" I said, falling into a voice that regrettably sounded like a TV announcer. "I did not know you were there!" "I'm aware," he said, his voice low and purring. "I didn't imagine you were walking like that for my appreciation." Dain walked towards me with his own saunter, which was more of a predatory stalk. "I did, however, appreciate it."

SLIGHT - Sacrificed to the Goddess, The Incarnation of Veskaia Book 1

"If you wish to drive me mad, that's a good way to do it," he said huskily. "My tail is very sensitive, and a daemon woman will often hold or tug her men by the base of their tails when she wants them to desire her." "Men?" I asked, doing it again with slow deliberation. "If she can afford it, a daemon woman usually has three or four, and sometimes many more," he said, with amusement on top of the obvious arousal. "Brothers, often, especially twins, but not necessarily." Arellath groaned when I slid my fingers up the underside of his tail to the join of his body, and dropped his face down to mine, his nose alongside mine and his mouth a bare finger's-width from mine. "I think I need to keep you occupied, your glory," he said, with a slight rock of his hips against me. "May I kiss you?" "Please," I answered, my voice going breathy.

ROSE - The Dragon's Rose

"A monster," he said, a shudder in his voice. "A serpent of the Devil. I was lost in the woods, and there were wolves. I… accepted its hospitality." His voice took on a tone of pleading. "I didn't know, Alisa, I didn't know what it was. I just wanted to bring you back a rose, it had so many, climbing all over the tower, and… and…" Father shuddered, and dropped his head again. "I have to go back," he said dully. "The mare will take me back. I broke off a rose and it's going to kill me." Alisa stared at him. A monstrous serpent. A tower covered in roses. That story Galen had told her about the lindworm in the woods. Father, stealing a rose. She climbed up to her pallet and picked up the book of plants, then clambered back down to Father. She flipped it open to the picture of the sun-in-the-winter roses, able to find it by heart, and laid the book down in front of Father. He looked at it with that same dead look in his eyes, as if he didn't see it. "Papa," she said, trying for gentle instead of scared and angry, and not succeeding, "Did it look like this?"

As to some words for others... how about steam, night, smart, gray?

@brynwrites @karolinarodrigueswrites @sio-writes

[gvalesdraws]

CW blood and rendon howes head

Roses have Thorns

[amelia-yap]

hap borthday

[zeynyukine3011]

I'm so confused. Is the top right one Jason or Jon??? It doesn't look like neither of them but since he is positioned with Damian's other friends, he could probably be Jon?

Also why Talia is not here? You know, Damian' literal fucking MOM.

And Steph! Damian and Steph has a relationship while he doesn't have anything with Barbara. Steph should be here. She is forgotten again 😭😭😭

But I'm so glad Maya is here and not forgotten 🥹

And the pencil sketch is so good I really love it. I always love when comics show Damian's love and skill for drawing.

And he wrote "I'm loved" 😭😭😭😭 I'm crying.

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Anthony Hopkins

[oxventure]

Folk horror meets D&D in Wyrdwood!⚔️ 🩸 😱 Magic has become unstable, and only those brave enough to use it can uncover the truth... Spring is here, and magic will have its due...🔮 (incredible poster design by @riotb0nes) 🔔 Get notified when Wyrdwood arrives on Friday the 13th

[lovernanaminn]

now I'm gonna need you guys to listen to me very carefully about this