of gods & thieves

A fandom humor, art, & aesthetic blog inspired by Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief series

[clawmarks]

Ornamentstil - Alexander Speltz - 1906 - via Internet Archive

[pitneenoftheday]

The Annux Attolis Eugenides, lounging languidly where his wife might notice.

Shared on this blog at the request of the creator, a Queen's Thief fan without a tumblr account, who wanted to make it available for public enjoyment.

Special bonus lineart (Color your own Annux Edition)

[emilybeemartin]

I've been using these as illustration warmups for the past five weeks

[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!!

[2seeitall]

Temple of Hephaestus, Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece

[sassaffrassa]

It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead against the hollow of the queen’s shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.

hi, i'm very cool and normal about these books, don't worry about me

on ao3 here

[book--brackets]

Best Fantasy Book: Semifinals, Poll 2

The Queen's Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce

see results

Voting ended onSep 11, 2024

[book--brackets]

Best Fantasy Book: Round 3, Poll 3

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

The Queen’s Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

see results

Voting ended onSep 1, 2024

[everywaythatmatters]

Attolia broke an amphora once…

[fredgolds]

god i know it’s really awful for sophos but like. the inherent hilarity of being given a gun and the advice that Violence Is The Only Way and thinking ‘this is terrible but at least my friend has given me a secret better option’ and then when you go to find out what it is it’s just. another gun.

[fredgolds]

this is SUCH a funny set up like..... no matter what you decide, sophos, my wife is right. here’s another gun

[freenarnian]

A Conspiracy of Kings spoilers:

[birleyal-deactivated20240809]

[redpanda-redpanda]

[capacity2]

U want something and then when u get it it’s like omg………… I’m scared

[ofgodsandthieves]

— Eugenides

[klexos]

I inherited this country when I was only a child, Nahuseresh. I have held it. I have fought down rebellious barons. I've fought Sounis to keep the land on this side of the mountains. I have killed men and watched them hang. I've seen them tortured to keep this country safe and mine. How did you think I did this if I was a fool with cow eyes for any handsome man with gold in his purse?

― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

Finally finished this piece! It's good to be back on this website:)

[captain-hooks]

Won’t name names but I read kind of a disappointing political fantasy book and it has me pining for the BEST political fantasy books, Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series, naturally

[chimaerakitten]

“While they squabbled about who might be the next king, she’d made herself queen.” (Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia)

Inspired by/homage to Alphonse Mucha’s Art Nouveau Gismonda Poster (click for detail)

[makethosenarratorsfight]

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; FINALS.

Eugenides (The Queen's Thief) vs. Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Eugenides

Lemony Snicket

Voting ended onAug 3, 2023

Eugenides Propaganda:

the entire plot hinges on a detail he lets the reader (and every other character) assume is true. I don't want to spoil it because it's a really fun reveal but he is lying from the first second he appears on the page and you can't trust him to tell the full truth about ANYTHING related to himself and his goals. he mostly does it to keep his advantage and not have other characters be suspicious of him but it's just so fun when you realise he's been lying the whole time

Lemony Snicket Propaganda:

(I would like to preface this by saying that Lemony Snicket is the author's pen name, not a real person, and he exists as a character in-universe as well as being the one in-universe who writes the books!) I'd say he's unreliable because he spent time collecting information about the Baudelaire kids and then... wrote books about it. He has no idea what any of their dialogue actually was, what they were thinking, or even the whole plot, he's just doing research into the incidents and then filling in the gaps to make it a story. What ACTUALLY happened to the Baudelaires? Nobody really knows for sure

While the Baudelaire siblings are in potentially life threatening danger, he will randomly start talking about his own life and just leave the siblings hanging. For example, once Count Olaf was threatening to kill Violet, and then Lemony randomly began talking about how he met the love of his life at a costume party. This man CANNOT stay on topic. Usually when a new character is introduced, Lemony tells us right at the start that they’re either going to die or that the Baudelaire siblings will never see them again. Foreshadowing is not subtle in these books. CONSTANTLY emphasizes how miserable he feels while writing these books. At one point he admits that he had to put his pencil down and go cry for a while because of how sad it made him. Once he filled an entire page with nothing but the word “ever” to emphasize how dangerous it is to put forks in electrical outlets. He also repeated a paragraph about deja vu later on in the book to give the reader deja vu.