The Queen's Thief

One author, one thief, and four books. Welcome to the Megaron, a Tumblr fansite for the Queen's Thief series. We post Queen's Thief stuff and ONLY Queen's Thief stuff! All Thief fans are welcome; if you haven't read the books or would like to know more, please use the navigation at the top. “Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.” - Megan Whalen Turner

[linovadraws]

It’s not really an OTP until someone loses a hand

[transmutes]

megan whalen turner stuff!!!!!!

so i went to a conference megan whalen turner was the guest of honor at, and i thought i would share some notes in case anyone was interested!

her keynote address focused on writing YA and the issue of censoring books 

the most important thing was to teach children to judge books and to judge them well, and understand that you are empowering them by allowing to make these decisions for themselves

children/young adults are intelligent and we should trust them to make reading choices

the freedom to say no to a book is as important as the freedom to say yes. it’s good to figure out what you are and are not comfortable reading.  the point is that you are giving young readers the right to discover these things themselves

queen’s thief stuff!!!

she doesn’t have a timeline for when the next book will be out. subscribe to her updates on author tracker and you will be notified as soon as there is any news

her publisher has pushed her to create a map of the peninsula, but she doesn’t like the idea of it because she wants readers to be able to create their own experience, plus she feels like most maps look too middle-earthy by default

she things the most important thing is to challenge your readers and let them piece together details of the story. this is why she hasn’t explicitly stated gen’s age, and she never will say his age. 

she also doesn’t specify how you should pronounce character’s names (she says yew-GEN-uh-dees but she’s like, everyone live your dreams)

she loved readers coming together in online communities and working things out, asking others to help them understand passages, etc.

she says she’s browsed the lj community sounis and most readers are able to come to the conclusions she has come to (ie gen’s age, etc) but she loves that people are able to determine these things on their own

[keladryhasmoved-deactivated2016]

my endless lit meme: otps [02/??] → eugenides x irene (the queen’s thief series by megan whalen turner)

[capetian]

onea realia / realisa onum || for attolia, the thief, and difficult loves in time of war

• namesake anaïs mitchell (I’m a beautiful fly on the wall of your four-chambered heartbreak) 

• about today the national (today you were far away and I didn’t ask you why) 

• foreign tongue alela diane (I’ll never tip-toe across my home ever again) 

• diana tasseomancy (send me a bow, diana; bless it with wine, wrap it with vine) 

• honeybee the coral sea (you can close you eyes to all the things that you don’t want to see about me, but you can’t close your heart to the way that you feel about me) 

• animals lisa mitchell (nothing is nothing and I ain’t glad)

• the stranger lord huron (now that I’ve seen your face I’m haunted by the letters of your name)

• fangs sarah jaffe (water to wine, she’s got fangs like mine)

«listen//keep»

[queenofattolia]

“after one moment of gripped immobility, the queen bent to kiss the king lightly on one closed eyelid, then on the other.  she said, ‘i love your eyes.’  she kissed him on either cheek, near the small lobe of his ear.  ’i love your ears, and i love’-she paused as she kissed him gently on the lips-‘every single one of your ridiculous lies.’  the king opened his eyes and smiled at the queen in a companionship that was as unassailable as it was unfathomable.” 

[queenofattolia]

“before he died, my grandfather used to bring me to your palace so that i could see it for myself. there was a party and dancing one night, and the palace was full of people. i went to the kitchen garden to hide because it should have been empty, but once i was inside, the door opened from the flower gardens, and you came in by yourself. i watched you walking between the rows of cabbages and then dancing under the orange trees.  i was above you, in one of the trees.”

he’d seen her in a pale dress dancing in the moonlight, pretending an entire troupe of dancers danced the harvest circle with her, her arms open to embrace the sisters and friends who existed only in her imagination, and he’d never seen anything so beautiful or so sad.

[diogenestypist]

"That isn’t your honor, Costis. That’s the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools."

—The King of Attolia (via picnicminded)

[lpanne]

Here are a couple of cross-stitches inspired by my favorite power couple. Eugenides and Irene. the top design is inspired by Attolia’s crown and earrings. The bottom pattern is designed based on the hook on the cover of the queen of Attolia. Now that i’m done with christmas presents for friends i can work on my requested patterns! 

top pattern

bottom pattern

[petrichorandpie]

A Queen’s Thief inspired costume for my 20th! (!!!)

[thequeensthief]

Wow, what a party! Fabulous.

[rifflescifi]

“You learn something new everyday.” “What are you learning?” Sophos asked. “To keep my mouth shut, I hope.”

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief (via rifflescifi)

[amuseoffyre]

“Who am I, that you should love me?”

The Queen of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner

[amuseoffyre]

It was not a kiss between strangers, nor even between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife.

The King of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner

[queenofattolia]

"Please," he whispered. His voice was low but clear. "Don’t hurt me anymore."

Attolia recoiled. Once, as a child, she’d thrown her slipper in a rage and had knocked an amphora of oil from its pedestal. The amphora had been a favorite of hers. It had smashed, and the scent of the hair oil inside had lingered for days. She remembered the scent still, though she didn’t know what in the stinking cell had brought it to mind.

[stealmepeace]

Mucha (via Mucha Attolia by ~RosaleeLuAnn on deviantART)

[shaelit]

I could easily see Irene rocking this dress. Perhaps on her way to a soiree to celebrate her victory over the Medes?

[maroonmorons]

book series everyone should read tbh

the queen’s thief by megan whalen turner

[queenofattolia]

“Just asleep,” Eddis reassured her.

At the sound of her voice Eugenides’s head turned slightly, but he didn’t wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it hurt.”