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Nora, 27. Never not emotional about Eugenides This is technically my main but it’s exclusively a QT blog, for miscellaneous everything see @lesbian-paladin and for batfam see @damianwaynedeservedbetter

[rise-to-it]

since this is my main and I keep it pretty TQT specific, figured I would note that my primary sideblog is @lesbian-paladin

[ihamtmus]

the queen

@meganwhalenturner

[tenebrius-excellium]

Me: *browsing the Queen's Thief tag*

Everyone: *"Gen is so scary this!!! Attolia is so scary that???"*

Me: Is no one kinda scared of... THE AUTHOR

[meganwhalenturner]

I am 😇

[opifex-nobillima]

[meganwhalenturner]

This is me— writing The Queen of Attolia.

[meganwhalenturner]

[bestest-goblin]

[heisenbergsays]

tqt is such a special series to me esp as an enjoyer of women characters and even more esp women characters who aren’t perfect victims.

irene and helen get angry and lash out with violence. they fall in love and make huge costly mistakes motivated by personal flaws. they’re dangerous, brilliant, and clever - and both learn to weaponize those traits in different ways in order to survive the patriarchal systems over which they rule. they’ve also both almost definitely pegged their husbands, one of whom is kind of a god sometimes

their arc of going from enemy queens to allies and eventually family will live like a warm little campfire in my heart for the rest of my life, and i just want to hug mwt’s neck for bringing them into existence

[lizzienoodles]

guy who's having gauzy idealized wife flashbacks for the whole adventure but it turns out she isn't dead or anything he just really misses her and wants to get home

[aethersea]

it's funny how often, in the queen's thief books, the sad and shocking twist is that the love was there all along. there's the big obvious one, of course, but it comes up again and again: Dite with his hopeless crush, Sejanus with his mocking cruelties, Relius with his abject devotion and Teleus with his stalwart loyalty, Attolia's ladies closing ranks around her, Sophos telling all his tale and bashfully leaving out how often and how wistfully he thought of Eddis. in other cases it grows silently and catches our narrator by surprise: Costis down the well, Pol on the cliffside.

and it doesn't save everyone. love is not always a gentle thing, and it's not always enough. the minister of war nearly strangled his son to death. Sejanus committed treason. Eddis went to war. but it's always there, unobtrusive as a shadow, pervasive as the sunlight.

I think sometimes of a quote from mwt saying she front-loads the trauma: the worst thing that is going to happen to the characters, emotionally, generally happens in the first few chapters. their world ends, their life shatters, they lose everything, they are alone and afraid with no allies and no hope. and then we rebuild. over the course of slow, painstaking pages, they regain their footing in the world, carve out a new self, discover a new perspective and a new strength. further ills befall, of course, and at the great climax everything seems bleak and dire once again, but it's still not the worst thing to happen to them. they face the dire moment bravely, afraid but not alone, certain now in who they are and how they will face the end if it comes.

I'm still mulling this over, I don't have a tidy knot to tie between these points, but they feel connected. something about the compassion woven through these stories, both for the characters and for the readers. something about how they're tales of intrigue and adventure, yes, but they're also stories about building something good, and about seeing the best in people even when their worst is horrific, and about love as an act of courage in a harsh world. love as an act of faith. love as the last thing left that might be able to save you.

[elliewilliams]

whats yalls ultimate fave character. like years have passed, interests have come and gone, yet theyre still here. mines ellie williams

[freenarnian]

The Thief of Eddis walks into a bar

[threedollarsdotcom]

You can heap responsibility for the fate of the universe on a teenage girl

[syrren]

gearing up for my annual reread of the Queen's Thief series

[the-knights-who-say-book]

king of attolia being like. you don’t know this guy but he just punched his boss in the face and now he’s gonna get promoted in punishment. you love him now

mwt’s MIND

[pvrrhadve]

#myattolian #mycostis #myfriend

[capricciosso]

one thing I love about gen and irene is that when gen adopts costis, irene very much goes okay that is going to be your dog, not my dog. I am not going to be doing one ounce of work for that dog. and then three years later she’s like I will personally die for costis’s right to make reckless and borderline suicidal decisions for the slimmest chance of being reunited with the love of his life. doth any here dare fail countenance mine word? and no one does <3

[ihamtmus]

the queen

@meganwhalenturner