These are my multitudes

Animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, ( j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel’s hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance. (Borges 1966, p. 108)

[itscolossal]

Swaths of Tulle Billow from Site-Specific Installations by Ana María Hernando

[jhorna]

This is what I wanted my wedding dress to feel like.

I succeeded!!!

[rob-pattinson]

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) // WandaVision, 1.08 (2021)

[jhorna]

One painful experience culminated in destruction, one in creation.

I love this show so far.

[unit-02]

[sosuperawesome]

Callahan Ceramics on Instagram

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[pandariousgooch]

i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay

[kitchenwitchupinthisbitch]

Wow! My mind is super into this new information

[ghost-in-the-shul]

Thanks! Now I can finally complain to that overseas copper merchant about how long it took to get the sub-standard copper he sent instead of the premium grade copper I was promised at checkout, I Sure Hope he responds Quickly

[filmnoirsbian]

From the bottom of my heart: im not sorry for anything i put on yalls dash, i am my own target audience and i find my taste immaculate but thank u for witnessing 💕

[jhorna]

This captures perfectly how I use all social media except reddit.

[peregreen]

You cannot convince me this conversation did not take place about a week prior to the inciting event of King of Attolia.

And then he didn't.

[luxlightly]

Today on "I'm an Adult and Get to Decide What That Means": Mad scientist light switches

[addamatic]

Today in that’s an excellent accessibility aid and I need the print file omg

[luxlightly]

Print file here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:649284

It’s got versions for several types of switches.

[catchymemes]

[the-real-skeletor]

Good evening to my short kings

[criptochecca]

Good evening to my tall queens

[jhorna]

Eugenides and the Queen of Attolia

[shaelit]

ALSO, I feel we need to talk about the symbolism of the earrings, because it goes so far beyond a simplistic “haha Gen’s into earrings, he gave her a pretty thing like a magpie offering a shiny bauble from its stash.”

Attolia didn’t have the royal jewelry. Some had been doled out by the men around her to their mistresses and coconspirators. Some she had sold herself to cement her position of power. Those pieces were gone. So in their place she had her gold headband made. The text explicitly states the headband was in place of the missing jewelry. It also explicitly states that the gold and ruby headband was made to imitate Hephestia’s, since Attolia planned to rule her barons and her kingdom alone, the way the Great Goddess ruled the old gods alone.

Eventually, she replaced the royal jewelry with other pieces, or found and bought back the old pieces. But she continued to keep and wear the headband, her symbol of solitary authority, and kept it stored apart, on the end table next to her bed.

And it is that headband that Eugenides matches with his earrings. He is saying “I was here, next to your bed while you slept, and you are unharmed,” and yes, he is offering her something pretty and shiny, but more than that, he is saying she doesn’t have to be alone. He’ll match her, complement her, stay beside her, the matching earrings to her icon of power and authority. He doesn’t want to rule. He doesn’t want to be a matching headband. He just wants to keep her company.

[jhorna]

UM I agree with all of this BUT ALSO if you’ve read Book 6........there’s more to the earrings, which are presumably rubies.....? ;) ;) ;)

[shaelit]

I’ve gotten a lot of asks and replies about the short stories.

Thief! is a short story on Megan’s website.

Eddis is found in the back of the 2006 KOA paperback.

Destruction is found in the back of the 2010 ACOK paperback.

Knife Dance is found in the back of the 2017 QOA paperback.

Wineshop is found in the back of the 2017 KOA paperback.

As far as I know, these are the only TQT short stories. Thief! is the only one currently online. To read the others, I would recommend:

1. Checking your local library for physical copies of the old paperbacks.

2. Checking your local library for digital copies (or physical, I guess) of the new paperbacks.

3. Checking a secondhand site like Abe Books or Better World Books for steeply discounted copies (they usually run about $3.)

You may also contact the publisher to see if they would consider working with Megan to host the older stories online somewhere.

[jhorna]

UM GOING TO LOOK FOR THESE LATER!!!

[mankillercalledbunny]

I want a best friends necklace set except instead of "best" and "friends" one says "you shot the ambassador" and the other says "you gave me the gun"

[the-knights-who-say-book]

the ideal way to read The Queen’s Thief series is actually to start over from the beginning of the series whenever you finish a book

[jhorna]

This is the way.

[ophanic]

props to stem people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any english essay because literally u just have to say stuff. but for stem paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be true. wack. 

[luckysovreign]

props to hums people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any stem essay because literally u just have to repeat stuff. but for a hums paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be new stuff from your brain. wack. 

[jeaniefranklins]

#FINALLY the solidarity we need to defeat business majors

[mysharona1987]

[dennator25]

[haunted-meat]

So this seems dumb…and it is…but it’s dumb with a purpose. I can almost guarantee you the exact line of reasoning that gets NASA engineers to 100.

Ok, first of all assume the worst and assume she needs the max amount of tampons possible for all days. Now lets count it up.

7 days? Better be safe and make it 10.

3 tampons a day at worst? Better be safe and make it 5.

So that gives us 50 tampons. Ok. Double it.

And that’s how you get 100.

It’s ridiculous, but NASA has a culture of “overengineer absolutely everything to do with human safety, and then design around it” which is actually pretty cool.

[signoraviolettavalery]

Listen, I know this gets made fun of so much, but like I am a woman who has periods and I have absolutely no idea how many tampons a woman requires in a week. I use primarily pads. But these men, at the least, ASKED her instead of making unfounded assumptions.

[talvin-muircastle]

Which would you rather be:

A. The NASA Director Who Sent Too Many?

B. The NASA Director Who Didn’t Send Enough?

[marcelanunes]

Marilyn Monroe by Sam Shaw

[jaubaius]

A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

[dovewithscales]

@dzamie