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Gen, constantly:

Sophos (a panicked and therefore chatty Baby, having the first Adventure TM of his young life): What is this?

Gen (exhausted and in excruciating pain, literally only alive through godly intervention and only ambulatory through sheer willpower and Professional Pride TM), taking a deep breath: It's a river, Sophos.

uwugenides

return of the thief but it’s just irene showing up to eddis and claiming she lost the receipt but she’s still within the warranty period

shaelit

“What you don’t know is I’d been thinking for some time about deposing the queen of Attolia.” Eugenides blinked.

Eugenides’s queen and cousin, who is known for her kindness but not for her bloodthirstiness: I’m thinking about having your crush assassinated.

Eugenides:

terpsikeraunos

hwaet! memory-mother, in meadhall sing the hatred, from heartlocks broken, of achilles peleusson, cursed by his people, wreaker of woes unending. often his spear made the mighty drink to dogs, food for the feathered, strong souls banished to breathe in the dark.

terpsikeraunos

deep it was driven, the doom of zeus, since they stood sundered, bitter in boasting, atreusson the people-king, and sun-bright achilles. but who in heaven struck up their strife? the son of leto, livid at the king, spelled sickness, and the people perished, for atreusson harmed his holy priest, chryses.

terpsikeraunos

spear-greeks he sought by the swift sea-steeds, daring, undaunted, his daughter to ransom, bearing garlands of the arrow-guiding god on a golden staff. he sank before spear-greeks, saying to them and the sons of atreus, people-guides: “sons of atreus, and strong-scaled spear-greeks, may the mighty gods in their mountain-helming halls give you Priam’s gore-gold, and glorious homecoming. only unchain my child, in exchange for this ringhoard, with honor for him, the arrow-hailing son of zeus.”

jumpingjacktrash

is this the illiad as a norse saga? i’m in love.

valarhalla

Sumerian-style addition!

Bitter is the wail for you Achilles,

The wail I sing for you!

Bitter is the wail for you Achilles,

Of which the goddess sings!

Lo, the storm of his devastation was falling,

The baleful storm reaping itself upon the host of the Achaeans,

The baleful storm, which takes no mercy,

The storm of devastation, which takes no mercy,

Wrought by his anger.

The dark-headed people,

A thousand went to dust below the earth,

In that wind which swirled like hot clay,

The dogs were abandoning their bodies, to the winds,

The birds were abandoning their bodies to the winds,

The insects were abandoning their bodies to the winds,

Zeus was abandoning them, their bodies to the winds,

Open the copper chest with iron locks;

The tablet of lapis lazuli tells the story.

Long since Agamemnon, Mycenae’s wild bull,

And Achilles, Thetis’ son, the black-beared Aurochs,

Did emperil like lions the sheepfold of Troy- the dark-headed people mourn!

Truly the creator had compelled them to strife- the dark-headed people mourn!

Leto’s son, and Zeu’s son Apollo- the dark-headed people mourn!

He let forth the shroud of pestilence upon the city- the dark-headed people mourn!

The hot winds stirred it forth- the dark-headed people mourn!

And the pestilence shrouded the city like the dead.

The twelfth year having gone, the month ended,

Atreus’ son of princely office,

Atreus son of princely office,

Chryses in his holy house,

His temple of lapis and cedar,

His mighty name with unclean hands dishonoured.

sarahluann

I’m excited to show off this commission—pay me to draw my favorite fictional character? Yes thank you! This is a drawing of Attolia Irene from the Queens Thief series, designed as if it were for a coin. The commissioner is going to put this on a necklace and I’m excited to see how the final comes out!

whataliethatwas

I have started my reread of The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner, and from the looks of it, it appears I’m going to have a lot to say. You have been warned. Spoiler-filled waters lie ahead.

Taken together, these three sections from the meeting of the Magus and the thief are telling me that Gen has already been here before. He did his research and recon legwork, and is already familiar with this study, possibly even when stealing the king’s seal.

The reason I care about this and love it is that I’m getting some huge Goldilocks vibes here, that Gen also took some time to test out the Magus’s chairs while he was here so he already knows which chair he wants when brought here for this scene. “This one’s too hard, this one’s too soft, but this…this is the nicest one.”

berenshand

ever since i reread thick as thieves last week my brain has rly just been: *thinks about kamet and costis* *thinks about kamet and costis* *thinks about kamet and costis* *thinks about kamet and costis* *thinks about kamet and costis* *thinks about kamet and costis* *thinks about kamet and costis* *thinks abo

#every waking moment

professorsparklepants

The fact that Attolia is the only one of the three countries whose name has the feminine conjugation so that when Gen marries the queen and he becomes Attolis it's still his wife who embodies the country of Attolia which is why making Gen high king is truly an alliance between the three monarchs and not just subjugating Eddis and Sounis under Attolia

sarahluann

Gotta meet my “draw Attolia Irene monthly” quota. I think I’m ahead. Which is good, because I’ve started on a QT illustration project that might take me awhile to finish… 😉

professorsparklepants

I adore that queen's thief is an alternate history fantasy book about how the greek peninsula getting its shit together so it can repel an ottoman invasion.

fredgolds

torn between frustration at all the little details that pheris’s narration skips over/dismisses and delight that this is his Thing as a narrator. like “here’s every single romantic drama i heard about in the palace. here’s what the historians get wrong about the war. here’s something i am 90% sure happened behind closed doors. if you can’t figure out these women are pregnant from the handful of vague hints that i’m dropping then that’s on you”

incorrectqueensthiefquotes

Attolia: You’re a loose cannon, Gen.

Eugenides: No, I’m not. I’m a cannon maybe, but a loose cannon? Is that what you think of me?

Eddis: I think you play by your own rules.

Teleus: No way, he thinks rules were made to be broken.

Attolia: Those are all attributes of a loose cannon.

Eugenides: No, I’m just a reckless renegade. Costis is a loose cannon.

Costis: *punches the king*

fredgolds

imo costis and kamet are largely absent from rott bc kamet read parts of pheris’s account while it was still being written, specifically the bits where he casually dissects relius’s personal life, and said ‘don’t you fucking dare’

fredgolds

@gideonseymours ejfwcngltjwvkrlbsbieva

asterdeer

one of those pronunciation voice memes but it’s just names from the queen’s thief and it’s actually a ploy so i can finally find out how to pronounce ‘ormentiedes’

fuckyeahqueensthief

@rachiller a fair point, they definitely helped me with the Mede names and some of the Sounisian names as well but also, the audio books (both the narrators) pronounce Eugenides wildly different than I do so once I heard it I just went