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Actually this is the first time I realized Gen has no problem fighting every single member of the guard cause that’s just. How they do things in Eddis. Boy was probably like “ah, FINALLY, some reminded of home!”

#I dunno if I’m getting more because it’s been awhile since I’ve read them or cause I’m forced to listen more slowly via audiobook #king of attolia #the queens thief #tqt

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Costis at the end of King of Attolia: pick your battles. Pick fewer. Put some back. Wait you can’t fight every single guard- PICK FEWER YOU IDIOT

#king of attolia #the queens thief #tqt

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Truly cannot recommend the Queen’s Thief audiobooks enough. I’ve been frustrated all King of Attolia because I felt like the narrator wasn’t doing Gen’s voice right, it was different than it was before. And then there was a scene where it sounded like I remembered, and then Costis realized that this was his real accent and he’d been putting on an Attolian accent the whole time, and I was like YEAH OK CARRY ON

#the queens thief #king of attolia

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Costis’s narration starts calling him Eugenides instead of just “the king” right after he says “Could you act like a king for once” lmaoooo

#the stabbing scene is the BEST #king of attolia #just realized KoA is a tag for two books. whoops #tqt #the queens thief

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In KoA Costis mentions the attendants harassing the king by putting sand in his sheets. But when Gen tells Irene about the various tricks people have been playing on him, sand in the sheets is NOT one of them. Because that one doesn’t matter because he’s not sleeping in his own bed anyways

#king of Attolia #the queens thief #tqt #KoA

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Sorry so obviously I’m back in my Queen’s Thief era. I forgot how hecking AMAZING these books are

#they’re so good I came back to tumblr for them lmao where else can I shout into the void

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the ideal way to read The Queen’s Thief series is actually to start over from the beginning of the series whenever you finish a book

#…… anyways

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i love that irene has like 2 friends and almost executes both of them. and they're both like 'yeah that's fair you probably should'. meanwhile gen's watching like 'babe.... we don't execute our friends' and irene's like 'we don't?' and relius and teleus are like 'we absolutely do' and gen's like 'how am i the most normal person here'

#there we go I knew I had something in my tags abut that situation #tqt

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I'm re-uploading this as its own post, since tumblr cuts off threads now. A brooding Eugenides as inspired and referenced from this post of Belgian-Egyptian artist Tamino by user @taminoamirfouad

[Costis] stepped toward the doorway. The king sat with his feet on the chair and his knees drawn up to his chest, looking over them and out the window. So motionless was he, and so silent the progress of his tears, that it was the space of a breath before Costis realized the king was crying.

-The King of Attolia

#a little homesick boy 🥲

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the amazing @onebulb made this for me, so here: queen’s thief as vines but now it’s an actual video instead of gross links.

#I MISS VINE

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I wanna say that every part of King of Attolia is my favorite part but possibly my favorite part is when Attolia goes “Relius. You are my oldest and most trusted advisor, who helped me keep my throne and committed your life to me. But you made a mistake, so I’m going to have to kill you.” And Relius goes “My queen, you are incredibly correct, that is 100% the right thing to do” and Gen is standing there like “wtf is wrong with you people, I thought I was the one with poor coping mechanisms”

#king of Attolia #the queens thief #tqt

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Wait also I just wanna say: all the people who have suddenly decided that Rhys is unforgivable for his actions in ACOTAR definitely have not read The Queen’s Thief and definitely SHOULD because it’s just such an excellent example of people doing bad things because of war but everyone understanding that yeah, that sucks but it’s not unforgivable

#i think QOA would be a very good lesson in critical reading lol #the queens thief #queen of attolia

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The scene where Attolia sends the MOW back to Eddis makes me go absolutely FERAL every single time it’s SO GOOD

#queen of attolia #the queens thief #tqt

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Rereading The Thief (actually, listening to the audiobook, which I recommend!) and as always I’m just. OBSESSED with how clever this book is. Because the entire first half of the book Gen seems like a whiny baby who can’t do anything! And then in the second half you start to think… huh, maybe he is actually good at things? And on rereads you realize that the closer they get to Eddis the more his competence starts to subtly show through and it’s just SO GOOD

#the thief #the queens thief #tqt

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guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition

#murderbot

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Murderbot keeps freeing random Units and like, it gave Three and the other two B-E SecUnits the actual code to disable the governor module rather than just breaking it for them like it did with Tlacey's ComfortUnit. At what point are we going to see a random SecUnit show up and go "wait you're Murderbot! I know you!" because one of the freed B-E units also gave them the code, and so on so forth

#the best is if like. any time a SecUnit sees another they just automatically send the code oackage #and one day a well meaning SecUnit gives MB it’s own code package #and it’s like. what. is that. #murderbot

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Anyways, just to clarify:

The definition of Zionism is the concept that Jews have a right to live safely in their ancestral homeland of Israel. That’s literally it. That’s all. People who have decided that Zionism is a dirty word are the ones who have added “at the expense of Palestinians/anyone other than Jews” to that. The original definition - and the definition that Zionists believe - is literally just “please just let us live”.

A movement suggesting that all Jews are inherently evil/bloodthirsty/trying to kill any non-Jews is inherently antisemitic. Criticizing Israel’s government and policies is reasonable; implying (or insisting) that the average Israeli is an evil, bloodthirsty monster is racist. Zionism is not a dirty word