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iosagol · 4 months

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Got Return of the Thief for Christmas, immediately cracked it open to that lovely blank page between the intro and the first book of Pheris and did this on that page

#return of the thief #the king of attolia #the queen's thief #queen's thief #meghan whalen turner #eugenides #irene #sophos #Helen #Costis #Kamet #watercolor #DONT offend the gods Aight #my art <3

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emerydraws · 11 months

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Kamet and Costis

#digital art #my art #original art #artists on tumblr #character art #fanart #queen's thief art #kamet #costis #thick as thieves #megan whalen turner #gay art

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emilybeemartin · 2 years

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One of my favorite recurring details in the Queen's Thief is how the gods show approval by wounding characters in meaningful ways.

Obviously this one in The Thief:

I was quite certain I'd have a feather-shaped white scar. Getting across the makeshift bridge had been well done, and the god of thieves agreed, although some might not recognize his sign of approval.

But especially this one in Thick as Thieves, when Kamet decides to go back to the well to look for Costis:

I stretched my neck and turned my head, listening for any sign of life, and impaled myself on a splinter of broken wood.

"Monsters of hell," I whispered sharply, pulling away from the splinter that was sticking into my skin perilously close to my eye.

Immakuk, who lost an eye to Unse-Sek, approves.

#queens thief #the thief #eugenides #magus #sophos #thick as thieves #kamet #megan whalen turner

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kareenvorbarra · 3 months

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when i read Thick as Thieves, i didn't come away with the impression that Costis was having a great time for most of the book. he does seem to be more in his element than he was during The King of Attolia (not a high bar!), and clearly feels more at home when he's fighting and hiking and hunting vs. being a pawn in court intrigue where he has very little control over what's happening to him

BUT. while Kamet was definitely the more stressed of the two during their road trip for a variety of reasons, i think Costis was also pretty stressed out at times! he finds out early on that his charge cannot physically defend himself! he has to fight a lion! he gets captured by slavers! he almost dies of a fever! Costis does a pretty good job of staying calm for Kamet’s sake but no way he wasn’t internally freaking out at least a little when he had to give Kamet stitches, or during any number of other dangerous situations they find themselves in

i also think it's easy to overestimate how close Costis thinks he and Kamet are at the beginning of the story. he can DEFINITELY tell that Kamet thinks he's a complete dumbass at first (they literally talk about this), and i'm sure he can also tell that Kamet is wary of him and does not trust him initially! he and Kamet are definitely not on the same page about things for much of the book - we know that Costis feels betrayed when he learns that Kamet kept so much from him - but i'm also certain their relationship changed over time in Costis' mind too

#he handles many things better than kamet does but that doesn't mean he's having FUN all the time #he also wouldn't be nearly as competent as he is in this book without being aware of how much danger they are in #costis ormentiedes #kamet #queen's thief #elizabeth beware

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ilikelookingatthings · 1 year

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Imakuk and ennikar patron saints of bros being bros ,dudes being dudes

guys being guys

#queen's thief #the thief #the conspiracy of kings #thief #gen #king's thief #costas #kamet #ennikar #imakuk

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sharki-leftishark · 1 year

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Kamet and Costis in bed

(from In Bed, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892)

ID: A digital painting of Costis and Kamet lying in a bed and gazing at each other, based on the painting In Bed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Costis’s arms are crossed over his head; Kamet has an arm tucked under his head. The shadows are orange and blue.

#queen's thief #the queen's thief #tqt #costis #kamet #costis ormentiedes #kamet kingnamer #my art #sharki

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bloody-wonder · 1 year

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trying to understand costis/kamet family situation post canon makes me feel like the conspiracy guy meme

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mlichaelm · 9 months

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screw romance, i want friendship. the kind where you understand the other person’s ins and outs and behaviors and thought patterns. where’s the Costis to my Kamet? the Ar’alani to my Thrawn? the Tenar to my Ged? y’know? anyone wanna volunteer….

#someone come and take this introspective lonely little intj and latch onto me pls #costis is really just A Guy. and so is Kamet honestly.#and Thrawn and i share an mbti type which checks out lmao #friendship #thoughts #costis #kamet #ar’alani #thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #tenar #the earthsea cycle #ged #the queen’s thief #star wars

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mothsartart · 1 year

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that feel when you wake up and panic because you’re not in your little bed, but a big one and the sheets are so soft, and someone warm is holding you, and then you remember that actually, you’re safe and that’s your big buff boyfriend, and life is the best it’s ever been. and then your big buff boyfriend helps you calm down by laying on top of you

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#megan whalen turner #qt #mwt #queen's thief #thick as thieves #costis #kamet #my art #they’re just gay #this isn’t how i wanted this to come out at all #but oh well

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tenebrius-excellium · 7 months

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Which tqt book and/or plot reveal surprised you the most? And which twist did you see coming?

Received a similar ask by @nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui

Hey, I don't know what sort of Queen's Thief asks you're looking for, but here's an attempt! Since the series is (in)famous for its surprise reveals and plot twists, do you have - any favourite plot twists - any reveals you figured out before they came - any reveals that didn't work for you?

Thanks to you both!!!

Well, of course Eugenides having Hamiathe's Gift and being the Thief of Eddis was a surprise! But I think that was impossible to foresee as this was the first book and I wasn't used to a fictional universe in which kingdoms have official court Thieves. I think it's a little hard for readers to define what exactly the function of such a Thief is supposed to be until we see Gen deliver the stone to his own Queen. This very act is kinda the formal introduction to Gen's job, isn't it? For the last part, I was able to suspect that Gen hid the stone in his hair. But I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't sure!

The greatest plot twist of course was that Gen would marry Attolia. That was not to be foreseen either. It felt quite random, but acceptable considering the nature of the world they lived in. I can't help but still struggle to guess what they see in each other, although it cannot be denied that they are a power couple once married. I am not quite able to follow their process of 'courtship' lol.

As for the later books, I knew it was Gen who made friends with Kamet in the kitchens and I also knew it was him who visited Pheris at night. It made me smile a lot! :)

I do have to scold myself for missing out on the fact that Nahuseresh was never dead in TaT. I feel foolish and sheepish because I believed Kamet. There were signs for doubt towards the end. But I never questioned the beginning of his flight because of Laela, whom he trusted. Later, Kamet and Costis were so preoccupied with evading slave traders, with the author entangling the reader in the smallest details and tiny worrisomes, that the fact that there was no state-arranged display of mourning for the Mede ambassador got fully buried beneath the subplots and Kamet's narrow experience.

At last, for the most fun plot twist: That stupid figurine of Prokip.

Gen, you VIPER! :DDDD

PS: I forgot about the part where the King and Queen kissed on the stairs and where Gen ended up in Attolia's bed. That was the best, most satisfying twist EVER. And I knew there was a pending assassination attempt as soon as Costis arrived in the courtyard with the loose dogs, and I merely hoped that Gen, who had gotten used to playing the lazy fool by that point, would still have his wits and reflexes about him so that he could fend off the attackers. O_O It was never a question of skill, more of situational awareness in that moment.

Thanks for asking, this was awesome!!!

#tqt #the queen's thief #ask #asks #nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui #silver-and-shadow #wherethekitethought #nahuseresh #tqt fandom #the queen's thief fandom #kamet #kamet kingnamer #sorry my replies tend to get long-ish #I hope ppl will still read all of this lol!

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stitchlingbelle · 1 year

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Costis and Kamet

Ok, last post on Moira’s Pen for a while, I swear. This one has nothing to do with Gen and Irene’s kids. It’s about Costis and Kamet’s.

I read a lot of posts that were upset that “News from the Palace” seemed to undermine Costis and Kamet’s relationship and queerness, and since this is the Overthinking Things Fandom, I thought I’d share the way I read it, which was pretty different.

Background assumptions: canonically, Costis and Kamet are both attracted to women, making them bi or pan. And MWT, much as we love her, is from a generation where queerness is always subtextual because for most of her life it was literally illegal.

With those assumptions in mind, I absolutely read “News” as confirmation of Costis and Kamet’s queer, romantic relationship.

First off, as others noted, MWT deliberately does not mention the names of any of the children’s mothers. And while her world is one in which sexism exists, she has not made other female characters invisible in this way-- see how many of Irene’s handmaids are named, etc. Omitting the women in this short story is deliberate, which to me served to de-emphasize them-- in favor of Costis and Kamet.

Likewise, the specific mention of Costis having had children by multiple women, while viewed by some as confirmation of heterosexuality, again struck me as a tactic designed to de-emphasize. Costis did not marry One Woman he Fell in Love with, to whom he is devoted, instead of Kamet-- which is absolutely the implication we would have gotten out of a singular woman. Instead, it is implied that the local domestic arrangements are Complicated.

So what do we know about their domestic arrangements? That Costis and Kamet are a unit. (And living in an extended-family setting with, at least, Costis’s sister’s family.)

It’s made clear that Costis and Kamet come as a distinct set with that larger family arrangement. The only mentions of either man singly in the story are when referencing a genetic tie, i.e. “Costis’s sister”. Every, and I do mean EVERY, other mention of them is as a unit. “Your father and Kamet”, “All the papas”, “either Costis or Kamet”, “Kamet and Costis”.

And crucially, that unit is invoked in regards to Pheris’s errand. He is here to speak to Costis and Kamet about Timris and his future. Not “Timris’s parents” or “Timris’s mother and father” or “Costis and his wife”. (And we know perfectly well that no one raised in part by Attolia Irene would dare overlook the importance of a woman’s opinion.)

Pheris needs to speak to Costis and Kamet about Timris because they, together, are his parents.

“Tell me how you see Kamet... and Costis nowhere in his story?” “I can’t.”

#mwt #queen's thief #costis #kamet #costis and kamet #ironically I wasn't sold on this ship until rott but I've now embraced it fully #moira's pen

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ruhurevan-tr · 2 years

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