#thickasthieves

[meganwhalenturner]

Return of the Thief will be released on October 10, 2024 and there will be TWO matched sets of all six books! Wahooo!

[saphiecelladon]

Some small messy sketches from a little bit ago :)

[mygoldenwolf]

The most iconic quotes from each of MWT’s lovely main characters. Vito Basso as Eugenides Pooja Mor as Irene Malcolm Lindberg as Sophos Imaan Hammam as Helen Matt Poeschl as Costis Jackson Hale as Kamet

[bitchimanaries]

@moonface4him ain't this the truth nothing could come between us 💯😘 My soul sister

[jujiepoo]

Since I'm currently sick with the flu 🤢 here are a few of my favorite things from a happier time 📚🥃☕ booooo I hate being so sick! 😭😭😭 #thequeensthief #thethief #thequeenofattolia #thekingofattolia #aconspiracyofkings #thickasthieves #meganwhalenturner #jkrowling #expectopatronum #harrypotter #shelflovecrate #enchantedjourneys #milkdrink #ilovebooks #yafiction #yalit #ilovereading #favoriteseries #favoritebeverage #bookstagram

[moonstone-writes]

Do you know what I’m never going to get tired of?

Stories about my two furry disasters falling in love.

And they are disasters the pair of them. Neither of them know how to handle their emotions, Sly is immature and Carmelita is angry but I ship it anyway.

Because I love their potential.

And I think the reason I gravitate toward writing and reading a million AU fics is because canon has been... I won’t say unkind but, unfair toward them I think.

And I get how you can write yourself into a corner when you create a very morally black and white love interest for a character who is both morally(and literally)grey. And I think the games did the best they could to show Sly and Carmelita’s connection and underlying affection.

I would have loved to have seen more depth and growth in their relationship though.

See Sly’s progression from 'this is a fun game flirting with the angry, pretty cop chasing me' to 'oh shit feelings... ABORT ABORT'.

See Carmelita soften her hardline stance as she realises that she is very fond of her criminal.

And that's where the beauty of fanfiction is because we can take our own spins on how these characters develop, on how they change and grow.

So shoutout to all y'all in this boat with me. Let's keep making awesome things!

[likewaterintodryearth]

How Kamet and Attolia Irene are Practically the Same Person.

Thick As Thieves may be Kamet the slave’s story, but it’s HER, the queen’s story too. Told by him. Felt by both. I am currently in my second re-read of Thick As Thieves.  (The first time, I read it on my phone Kindle app while I was waiting the thousand years for delivery of my physical book to my doorstep overseas.)  So now the highlighter and the markers and the pens get no rest as I underline and circle and proceed to personalize/trash the margins with my musings. I observe with mounting frequency and intensity that pretty much anything we can say about Kamet, we can say about Irene.  And my heart breaks again for them both.  If you’re anything like me, you approached Thick As Thieves starving for more about Irene and how her healing and character development are going and were initially disappointed that only 4 out of 337 pages actually physically have Irene on them.... until you realize how parallel Kamet and Irene run and ACTUALLY Irene is on ALL 337 pages without actually physically ever being mentioned.  Kind of how god/goddess is all around us, omniscient, omnipotent, whether we know it or not.  Kind of how Eugenides also is, in his Universe. And also in our heart and minds, he’s there, even though we don’t see or hear him. I made a list of some of the ways Irene = Kamet, Kamet = Irene: - They both initially choose Power over Freedom.  Irene to hold her throne-- there is no other choice because her people would have been doomed, cheated, subjugated into oblivion by her evil fiance. Kamet to be one of the most powerful men in the empire as Nahusaresh’s right hand.  They both couldn’t really even imagine the later was an option.... until Eugenides comes for Irene, and Costis comes for Kamet. - MISTRUST runs through their veins and their fear and angst and struggle against having their wounds ripped open, each time, is utterly raw and palpable. - They both cannot swim.  The inability to swim being symbolic of their feelings of helplessness, drowning, the agony of their imprisonment beneath black water.  Black, Irene sees, not only because it is dark, but because of the fatality it holds.  For Irene, we get it, in just a couple words: “Do you swim, your majesty?” Eugenides asks.  “No.” she answered shortly.  And Kamet, more the talker, articulates multiple times throughout TAT both their terror, and the terror of every other person in the world who cannot swim who is faced with being forced into the ocean against their will: He’d “swallowed half the sea that night...” “If I fell, I’d drown” And there’s the part where he causes Costis to lose the purse with his King’s money in the river when he is “clinging to him like a monkey” in shallow water.   - When Eugenides first takes Irene out in a boat, she thinks it’s to murder her. The first time Costis takes Kamet out in a boat, he also thinks its to kill him. - Both Kamet and Irene are taken from their homes as children.  Kamet is literally abducted when his small village is raided.  Upon her brother’s sudden death and Irene is suddenly heir, her old nurses, everything and everyone familiar is suddenly gone and she has new rooms and new servants in the palace and then she is sent away to her malevolent fiance’s home, where she is completely alone without allies.  Also, Kamet is a scribe-slave, so they were both probably surrounded by superficial opulence and finery seemingly incongruent with what we first think of when we think of imprisonment.   - They both wear masks of impassive calm over their anxiety and fear: “I went after him, drawing on all my years of practice to give an appearance of calm that I didn’t feel.” (Kamet, TAT, p. 32) “She’d been sick and frightened, while waiting to see if the captain of the guard would follow through on his promise” to kill her second suitor. (QoA) - People look at them both, and see a slave: Irene feels the barons looking at her the way people looked at the slave girls in the market.  (QoA, p. 203) - They both struggle with feeling untrained, physically defenseless in a harsh world where death by sword is almost imminent.  Irene seems to have learned to shoot a pistol, wield a knife, hunt on horseback later in life, but still she can’t “pretend to be a soldier,” and “envies Eddis” because Eddisian society sees far less gender barriers than Attolian and trains its women in the art of war alongside their men (and also, allocate traditionally women’s work like sewing to both genders when they are too old to fight!).  Also, she rules by her Guard. And comes undone at the thought of halving it.  Burly men like Costis and Teleus to protect her where she cannot protect herself.  And, for Kamet, we know “what happens to a slave who arms himself in the empire... what they do to slaves who even look for too long at a sword, or a dagger, or anything more dangerous than a penknife.” - Immediately following QoA, p. 199-207, when Irene is reflecting extensively on how her rise to the throne/enslavement came about, we learn the most important thing we know about Kamet and how he connects to the Queen: “The secretary shrugged, too wise to say that he sympathized with the barbarian queen as her choices grew fewer and her freedom slipped away.”  - They both appear snotty because they’re scared. “I knew my anxiety had made me appear arrogant.” (Kamet, TAT p. 82), “Attolia gave her a haughty look back. ‘We are in accord, Your Majesty?” she asked.” (QoA, p. 303)   - Haughty, Bitter, Amused : Megan Whalen Turner consistently uses the same adjectives to describe both of them and their reactions to things. - Kamet is often “exhausted,” and he compares himself to Costis’s virility and vitality in the same way that Irene often “feels old” and compares herself to Eugenides who looks “so young.” Exhaustion and feeling older than their years represent their living in constant fear and unhappiness, and each looks to their divine counterpart who comes to unlock their hearts and  sees energy, strength and youth on the other side, being returned to them in their redemption. Can you think of any more? In other words, the first time I read TAT, I missed Attolia Irene so much, cuz she’s my favorite.   Now, since I made this connection, I hear her whenever I listen to Kamet.  So in my second reread, I don’t miss her anymore.  She’s right there, through Kamet.   @queensandkingsofattolia I know you miss Attolia Irene as much as I do =) @artfrostedleaf I know you GET IT!!!!!!!!  The interconnectedness and Seeing the Divine ONENESS each all of them in their world and so each of us in our own. @meganwhalenturner I know you must get tagged in thousands of posts, and have a ton of fan mail to wade through... I dare to tag you in this, because I hope in articulating the vastness of the divine channelling that I receive through your work, I can let you know how thankful I am for how you and your work have touched my life.

[typeadogblog]

These two #thickasthieves #odinn #puppy #pitbull #weeklyfluff #cute #bslbitesmypitbulldoesnt