#the prisoner's throne spoilers

[eerna]

TFotA is a comedy actually

[abruisedmuse]

I missed his dramatic self.

Also, they love each other so much it's sickening

[fantasyfangirling4ever]

Oak: *Murders like seven people*

Jude: :0

Jude: *slowly turns*

Jude: MADOC, how could you do this?!

[murasaki-cha]

Me having to stop reading The Prisoner's Throne prologue every time Jude and Cardan appear to collect myself because every time they opened their mouth I started tearing up

Like this scene! This moment alone had me laying on the bed and just sobbing on a pillow for 5 minutes! That's mother and father y'all and they're so in love!!!!

[unhelpfulfemme]

“Ah, Queen of Elfhame, you see how useless your weapons are. You’re married to the faithless child of a faithless line. Your crown was secured with my daughter’s blood.” “My crown was secured with a lot of people’s blood.” Jude turns to her archers. “Ready another volley.”

I love how Bogdana is trying to elicit some kind of reaction from Jude and Jude's like, *shrug* "Okay? People die over the crown, yes? What do you expect me to say?"

[mia-nina-lilly]

SPOILERS PRISONER'S THRONE

I think when Oak glimpses Jude's terror when Suren proposes to remove something from her - something that, according to Oak, Jude apparently doesn't want to be undone - I think that, as much as it makes sense since Jude is someone who hates her vulnerabilities, hates being vulnerable above all, that something in particular wasn't the geas given by Dain.

You see, beyond the fact that Oak never wanted to be the heir to the Throne of Elfhame, and apparently won't be, now that the choice has finally been given to him, there are still many comments about the lack of a son of Jurdan, the reasons for this, and other indications of the theme, such as when Oak wonders if Cardan sees in Leander the son he doesn't have with Jude, or even when, at the beginning of the book, Jude's contraceptives are on display. It has been some time since that scene, meaning that Jude may have stopped taking them at some point, which means that, yes, the thing she feared being undone for a moment could actually be her baby in the womb. Remember that she held her abdomen tightly when the curse of Valeriam was torn from her, and although the plot suggests that she did this because of Wren's power, there is still the possibility that she did it as a kind of reflex to protect her child.

If it's not that in the end, I still think that, at some point after or during these events, Jude stopped taking contraceptives. Being who she is, motherhood will be quite a question, both because Jude probably considers this baby an additional weakness and because she fears the implications of raising a mixed-race child in Elfhame, where many people hate her just for being mortal.

Guys, I thought Jude touched her abdomen in the scene where Wren removes Valerian's curse, but in reality she touched her chest. Sorry guys! But I still think Jude might be pregnant

[bookish-phile]

spoiler from the prisoners throne

did the ghost just DIE? i liked him what the heck pls

[petratherrock]

NOTHING I HAVE WOULD I EVER WANT TO GIVE AWAY

This part, mannnn Wren is saying her feelings for Oak are there, even if Oak doesn't feel about her the same way. And she won't be getting rid of her feelings for him T-T

They're both stupidly mutually pining for each other, (un)requited love 100k fic

[123345566]

I just noticed the parallel between these two scenes

THE PRIOSNERS THRONE SPOILERS BELOW!! ‼️

In TCP, during the coronation seen when Caelia gets shot by Garrett this is what happens:

In TPT, When Cardan gets stabbed by Randalin Oak says:

What is it with fae and being embarrassed with wounds😭

[cogentranting]

So what I like about this line:

"but I know a great deal about mistakes. And about hiding behind a mask....Some might say that I still do, but they would be wrong. To those I love, I am myself. Too much myself sometimes."

is that 1. Cardan is telling Oak he loves him, because he's definitely not wearing a mask in this moment. And in general that's the text of the scene-- Oak has spent a large portion of the book with this angst over his family not really knowing him, and maybe not even really loving him. But Cardan is here demonstrating the opposite. Demonstrating that Oak has been better understood than he figured, and he's trusted and he's loved. All of which Oak had ended up doubting at some point or another in the second half of the book. And it's significant because it goes a step beyond saying yes Oriana really loves him, or Jude, or Taryn. To go that step further and make it Cardan too is a nice touch. 2. It really demonstrates how far Cardan has come from the boy starving for love, who was ashamed of his own feelings for Jude and then so incapable of expressing those feelings that he had her convinced that he wanted her dead. Seeing him having grown enough to not need that mask, and to sit and casually talk about love (AND to have already seen that in a number of his interactions earlier in the book). And the fact that Cardan specifically identifies this conversation as "brotherly wisdom" makes that growth even more evident, because of the history with Cardan's brothers. Dain and Balekin both were such huge sources of Cardan's pain. And they are the reason why it's believable for Oak that Cardan might think he's plotting against him- because that's what Greenbriar brothers DO. And instead Oak is met with Cardan's total trust in him.

[eerna]

I know TPT is gonna be a feast bc only 2 chapters are out and I'm already so well fed

[abruisedmuse]

Jurdan hugs heal me.

[fantasyfangirling4ever]

BI OAK CONFIRMED

[artandbooknook]

Oak and Wren fanart👇🏻

“Let me kneel at your feet in the throne room and gaze up at you adoringly”

Greenbriar men are built DIFFERENT

Art by me, artandbooknook on all socials

Only repost with credit please 🫶🏻

[murasaki-cha]

*HYPERVENTILATING* GUYS!!!!?!?!?! OH MY GOD GUYS!?!?!

JUDE AND CARDAN!!!!

JUDE AND CARDAN!!!!!!!

[unhelpfulfemme]

“I want,” she says. “That’s my problem. I want and I want and I want.”

“What do you want?” he asks, voice soft.

“Everything. Charm me. Rip me open. Ruin me. Go too far.”

He shudders at her words, shaking his head against them.

She goes on, whispering against his skin. “You cannot understand. I am a chasm that will never be full. I am hunger. I am need. I cannot be sated. If you try, I will swallow you up. I will take all of you and want more. I will use you. I will drain you until you are nothing more than a husk.”

“Use me, then,” he whispers, mouth on her throat.