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emilybeemartin · 3 months
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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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selkieskies · 7 months
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"Phresine," the queen said without turning her head to look at her attendant, "I can read your mind."
Phresine moved her hands, stilled during her thoughts, back to their tasks. "Then you know there's no harm in old Phresine," she said.
-Queen of Attolia
Finished this gift for @lechatelierite for donating during @fandomtrumpshate They requested Phresine from the above scene and I, glutton for punishment that I am, decided to not only include Attolia, but a mirror too.
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emerydraws · 1 year
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finally finish this drawing from way back early last year, love these dudes
going to have to reread soon
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shrimpchipsss · 4 months
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oh well
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Eugenides (about Irene): I can fix her
Eddis: you are literally worse
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ardenetoile · 9 months
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The king of Attolia
It wasn’t what the king saw that was important
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cartograffiti · 10 months
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Links starter kit for Queen's Thief fans
...for folks checking us out from Reddit and other fans looking for something new.
First, did you know the author herself is on Tumblr? Megan Whalen Turner keeps an active blog, and reblogs lots of interesting art, as well as posts about her own books: @meganwhalenturner
Emily B. Martin, a longstanding fan who was commissioned to make the wonderful promotional character portraits in 2020, has a blog here as well: @emilybeemartin
Many of the artists who have done cover art for the series are easy to find on Instagram, if you're also exploring over there. On Tumblr I've only found Antonello Venditti, who did the stunning Italian editions of The Thief | Il Ladro and The Queen of Attolia | La Regina di Attolia. He's here: @vendittiantonello
A good fan blog to check out first is the collaborative @fuckyeahqueensthief. Look through their archive to find many fan artists and other fans to follow!
If you're interested in fanworks events, the Hamiathes' Gift Exchange is planning to announce their 2023 schedule soon! They're on Tumblr for information at @hamiathesgiftexchange, with works to be posted on Ao3.
And if you'd like to look beyond Tumblr to meet people, look at the long-running LiveJournal group Eddis, Attolia, Sounis (often just "Sounis," to whom Return of the Thief was dedicated). They're here: https://sounis.livejournal.com/. On Discord, there's The Geninsula (Gen's peninsula): https://discord.gg/JYJufae. Both groups are some of the best their respective sites have to offer, imho.
And if you didn't find this post because you came from Reddit, go check out r/queensthief! I love those folks, too. And did you know there's MWT-approved official merch for the series, now, too? OwlCrate sells it.
Feel free to add more favorites in the replies!
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artbymyth · 6 months
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“Do not offend the gods.”
I have been working on this one for months! Bunch of fun hidden details throughout. Falling scrolls, feather pens, golden cups, oranges, and wooden swords. Earrings and signet rings and coins. Embroidery of the knife dance on the tunic hem, griffins of eddis, lions of sounis, and lilies of attolia on the neck line (also one earring each)! Oranges from the garden on the blue cape and Hero’s earrings. And that’s only some of it!
This piece is a labor of love for one of my favorite series of all time. Go read the Queen’s Thief you haven’t already. You won’t regret it.
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crocordile · 1 year
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Young queens Helen who is Eddis and Irene who is Attolia 💕💕💕
Art for @the-knights-who-say-book on the @hamiathesgiftexchange 2022!
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doodlesonly · 3 months
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I ever tell you guys The Thief is one of my favorite books
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sassystudent-me · 1 year
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Arguments, propaganda, etc in the tags or comments.
Thanks!
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i was watching a youtube video about the three main character deaths you can use in a story (physical, professional & psychological) and consequently the three main threats that can hang over a character’s head, and i realised one of the reasons eugenides’s arc is so interesting in the queen’s thief is that he suffers all three.
the physical aspect is fairly self-evident (*insert hand pun*). obviously, he never actually dies, but the threat is ever present and he does suffer quite a lot of physical harm which deeply affects the plot and his character arc.
this goes hand in hand (i swear i wasn’t actually trying to insert a hand pun) with the professional death, because the loss of his hand means, to him, that he can never steal anything again. he overcomes this, but it’s terribly hard, and he goes through a lot of development because of it. then he gets himself into a “disaster”: he becomes king. and he can’t be the thief anymore, not like he used to. he can’t be independent, he can’t do whatever he wants. even though he can still work in the shadows, he’s in the light and everyone is looking at him, and all those eyes expect things from him. the king of attolia is about him reconciling his identity as thief and his identity as king, about him stepping into his new role.
of course, he’s not just a thief, he’s the thief. in the last book, the figure of the thief acquires a darker meaning. it’s threatening, and terrifying, a slippery slope. gen is always at risk of tripping, of falling, of completely losing his humanity. he suffers a lot psychologically through the series, but i’d say this is the main psychological death looming over him. and he doesn’t die, because a lot of people love him, and a lot of people are ready to catch him. “saved him from what? saved him from becoming the thief, the murderous figure sitting alone with his dead.”
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nineofneals · 9 months
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watched Nimona. "Arm chopping is not a love language" these people have clearly never met the Attolians
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emerydraws · 1 year
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grgh.
starting my reread of KoA tonight ! miss these bastards
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shrimpchipsss · 1 year
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gold light shining
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zirconbaker · 11 months
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In honor of the QT merch drop I want to share another patch I made because I love these books more than I can handle.
Hamiathes’s Gift the way I imagined it with the help of a geology degree and the letters on the third(?) edition of The Thief.
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