Megan Whalen Turner
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UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; FINALS.
Eugenides Propaganda:
the entire plot hinges on a detail he lets the reader (and every other character) assume is true. I don't want to spoil it because it's a really fun reveal but he is lying from the first second he appears on the page and you can't trust him to tell the full truth about ANYTHING related to himself and his goals. he mostly does it to keep his advantage and not have other characters be suspicious of him but it's just so fun when you realise he's been lying the whole time
Lemony Snicket Propaganda:
(I would like to preface this by saying that Lemony Snicket is the author's pen name, not a real person, and he exists as a character in-universe as well as being the one in-universe who writes the books!) I'd say he's unreliable because he spent time collecting information about the Baudelaire kids and then... wrote books about it. He has no idea what any of their dialogue actually was, what they were thinking, or even the whole plot, he's just doing research into the incidents and then filling in the gaps to make it a story. What ACTUALLY happened to the Baudelaires? Nobody really knows for sure
While the Baudelaire siblings are in potentially life threatening danger, he will randomly start talking about his own life and just leave the siblings hanging. For example, once Count Olaf was threatening to kill Violet, and then Lemony randomly began talking about how he met the love of his life at a costume party. This man CANNOT stay on topic. Usually when a new character is introduced, Lemony tells us right at the start that they’re either going to die or that the Baudelaire siblings will never see them again. Foreshadowing is not subtle in these books. CONSTANTLY emphasizes how miserable he feels while writing these books. At one point he admits that he had to put his pencil down and go cry for a while because of how sad it made him. Once he filled an entire page with nothing but the word “ever” to emphasize how dangerous it is to put forks in electrical outlets. He also repeated a paragraph about deja vu later on in the book to give the reader deja vu.
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Resolutions can lead to guilt
So instead, I remind you:
Start as you mean to go on.
Also: it’s never too late to start.
Lastly: Make Bad Art.
Mole god original sketch by Megan Whalen Turner. “Make Bad Art” addition inspired by Oftheides on Geninsula. Embroidery by me.
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Attolias! I've never managed to pin down designs for Queen's Thief characters, and I'm not sure I've got it yet but Momma didn't raise a quitter
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I told you I have a thing for Kings Who Sit Really Stupid; here's the OG
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So I started reading the Queen's Thief series and uh
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i’m playing around with a new style rather than writing my midterm
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Since I can’t help myself-
The Queens Thief books as John Mulaney quotes:
The thief
The Queen of Attolia
The King of Attolia
A Conspiracy of Kings
Thick as Thieves
Return of the Thief
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Kiss (Your Queen)
I tried adding certain Symbolic Elements (and removing other elements such as A Hand) to match the characters and the theme of the series more.
I started working on this more than 2 years ago and then stopped because I couldn’t get it right, and also didn’t feel like drawing the patterns on the clothes haha 😆
I remembered about it during my vacation and decided to finish it quickly. I’m not 100% satisfied with it but at least it’s finished now! ☺️🌸
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meme i made for my coworkers :3
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a path, but not a plan
Sophos and Irene in A Conspiracy of Kings, a gift illustration I made for @alecjmarsh as part of the @hamiathesgiftexchange
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i'm halfway through the third book of The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner and i think they're really fun, big recommend if you like plot twists and suspense and vaguely Grecian fantasy and authors who don't let the audience know nearly enough. Gen is my worstie
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Started reading The Queen's Thief series and let me just say that I've not been able to read a physical book in months! I've been living off audiobooks. But this 300 page complaint from a bitchy little thief has me HOOKED! I'm speeding through it, it's so good!
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"I thought we were Immakuk and Ennikar."
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Won’t name names but I read kind of a disappointing political fantasy book and it has me pining for the BEST political fantasy books, Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series, naturally
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"Irene---"
"Don't call me that."
"You were the princess Irene the first time we met."
"It means 'peace,'" Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?"
"That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested.
The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty has started a war.
-The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner
Revisiting the Iliad made me think of this exchange with the most important Helen of my heart. One thing I love about the Queen's Thief is how MWT threaded in these sparing links to existing mythology, so that even though all the pantheons and legends are made up, the story is placed in a greater context. It makes the worldbuilding feel so huge and real even while the struggles are intimate and contained.
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