Excuse Me While I Fangirl

Reader, Writer, Fangirl, and Mom to ferrets. This is a multifandom blog that may include but is not limited to Tolkien, the Queen's Thief series, Star Wars, Marvel (MCU), Agents of Shield, and the Cosmere.

[anonabelle]

Another The Thief era Gen.

(excuse the outfit, it's vaguely based off what i saw the sounisian characters wearing in the official artwork but i didn't fully commit to faithful details nor do better research on what the proper attire would have been because i just wanted to draw)

[crocordile]

This is not exactly what was requested, but te prompt got me wondering what kind of person Dite would fall in love with after mending his broken heart, and this is all I could think of...

This was drawn as a treat for @allcanonisrelative for the @hamiathesgiftexchange!

[klexos]

“Maybe I shouldn’t push my luck,” he said. “I wish you wouldn’t,” Costis said faintly. “Your god might be offended.” ― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

I had this scene kicking around in my head for a while so glad to finally have an excuse to get it out!!

[221bdragonslayer]

My very self indulgent Queen’s Thief headcanon: baby Gen had a pet ferret. She rode around his shoulder everywhere. Since the word ferret can literally be traced back to the Latin word for “thief,”and they love discovering and squeezing through any small openings and passageways, Gen found his ferret to be a kindred spirit. She drove everyone else (especially his cousins) crazy because she would scurry through their rooms, pick up anything small enough to carry that caught her eye, and stash it under Gen’s bed. When she died after falling off a window ledge, little Gen was inconsolable: however, his grandfather comforted him by saying that she had been a true Thief and had a true Thief’s death.

(Bringing back this headcanon with this beautiful art by @hyperhs​!!)

[masterkeynobi]

i wish there were more than like 2 people in the world who've read queen's thief And the goblin emperor bc i've been thinking about how costis essentially gets bullied into becoming a nohecharis in koa and then decides to take it really really really seriously All Day

[memeuplift]

[ratherthepoint]

I wanna say that every part of King of Attolia is my favorite part but possibly my favorite part is when Attolia goes “Relius. You are my oldest and most trusted advisor, who helped me keep my throne and committed your life to me. But you made a mistake, so I’m going to have to kill you.” And Relius goes “My queen, you are incredibly correct, that is 100% the right thing to do” and Gen is standing there like “wtf is wrong with you people, I thought I was the one with poor coping mechanisms”

[healerqueen]

#i think the argument could be made that it's actually gen going ''my queen relius your oldest and most trusted advisor has made a mistake #so you know what you have to do right? kill him.'' and she's like ''yes my king you're right i have to kill him.'' #and he's like ''NO babe that was a TEST you FAILED try NOT KILLING PEOPLE SOMETIME!!'' #and then has to do the same thing over again to relius !!! amazing tags via @lovesodeepandwideandwell

[thisauthorisscreaming]

Does it count as 'sword in the stone' if it looks more like 'sword in the cairn'...?

[nothinggold13]

For @221bdragonslayer as we remember the universe we created and the fanfic I still need to properly finish so that this edit has context for literally anyone else. <3

The Redeemed Children of Archenland: a story of Cor, Aravis, faith, family, and hope.

[original-character-chaos]

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[ach-sss-no]

when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'

[mysteryteacup]

Brandon Sanderson: What's the difference between Gollum and Sauron?

OP: Skill issue.

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[punksalmons]

the thing about writing is that it's very hard unless you have to leave the house in 15 minutes or perhaps go to bed

[punksalmons]

the thing about writing is that it's very hard unless you have to leave the house in 15 minutes or perhaps go to bed

[starbell0]

I love love love the friendship (really sisterhood) that is shown so casually in kpdh because while, yes, they have some "I don't wanna lose you guys" moments - its all really shown in the way they interact with each other.

Like I don't think I've seen a more teenage centered piece of media (specifically in action/dystopian/whatever you would classify this as) portray what it's like to be in female friendships that are so tight.

Like YES it IS about eating food together and watching two second turtle videos for 7 hours and roaring at each other to hype the group out just as much as its about supporting each other and group hugs and all the other stuff we tend to see in popular media.

Honestly I felt SO seen by their casual portrayal like you didn't have to hear their backstory or see them comfort each other to know that they were bonded.

[matagonia]

The Windy Summit, woodblock print by William Setzer Rice (1873-1963) ca. 1925.

[99centmenu]

I saw myself in the mirror