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The best quality a fictional man can have is being deeply, pathetically, wretchedly in love with someone, I think

#:) #holy terrors

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This might be a dumb question but is the guard that sees vanja working on the lock at the end of little thieves Emeric? Or a real guard?

Spoilers under the cut!

The one at the gallows who "catches her" with a hairpin? Definitely Emeric, haha. That's how she gets it back!

#little thieves #baby's first sleight of hand

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People are gonna die in Holy terrors?! Nooooo not my gremlins not my gremlins :(((((

I’m legitimately scared for my favourites now

pleasedontberagnepleasedontbevanjapleasedontbeemericorgiseleorjozinaor-

I mean technically, they all die*

#*eventually

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Hglp I searched little thieves to see if there was a fandom on here found out you have a tumblr and it suddenly explained everything hsdjdiwd anyway really good book 👍just finished reading it. I have new mental illnesses now

Wait I also have a question are Death and Fortune gay married, gay divorced, or some secret third thing

I think there has never been a more apt use for "secret third thing." Like, to me, they're together, unequivocally and exclusively. Whatever the Low Gods' version of being married is, they're it. Is that the same as the human concept of marriage? Almost certainly not, haha. But they are partners, they are both Vanja's mothers, and they love her and each other very much.

#little thieves #there's a joke in the current draft about them trying to feed Vanja a plate of hair combs #isn't that what kids eat??

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Do you know whether Illumicrate, Macmillan, or another service may offer a special edition of Holy Terrors, whether as a pre-order edition or after it's released? Or even the trilogy as a set? I just found out Illumicrate had embellished editions for Little Thieves and Painted Devils last June and am bummed to have missed it; it was so pretty :(

Alas, even if I knew, I could not say until it's officially announced! One can only hope.

#little thieves #special editions #the default edition of HT will have the usual b&w art though!

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I have a question about the pearls - I thought they were just an illusion, but Vanja keeps talking about their effect on people, especially Emeric, who often seems to have his legs swept out from under him.

Do the peals have some effect beyond an illusion of beauty that makes people take notice? Emeric implies they don't work on him the way Vanja expects/they do for others. What do they do to him? What does he see?

So there are two concurrent things playing out with the pearls! Spoilers under the cut.

1: The pearls don't just physically transform the wearer, they essentially are souped-up pretty privilege. If you are romantically attracted to women, you'd have a crush on the wearer. If you aren't romantically attracted to women, you'd want to be their companion, confidante, accomplice. It doesn't override every other emotion, it just puts a thumb on the scale.

2: Our junior prefect has two things working for him. First, he has the glasses that show enchantments, so he knows what effect Vanja expects the pearls to have on him. And second, he's demi, so at first, all he gets is the inclination to be friends. In the first act, he's playing into Vanja's expectations so she underestimates him; in the second, he's mostly neutral to her in the pearls. In the third act, you can actually pinpoint when he's officially caught feelings, because Vanja puts on the pearls and is like "wow he looks like he got run over by a mack truck, never seen him do that face before............. WELP IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME SURELY."

#little thieves #this is partially what makes vanja a fun narrator #doing crimes? meditative. healing #self reflection? accursed. despicable

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AM reblorble!!

Fourth story in The Fallow Year is here! Bon appetit!

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Fourth story in The Fallow Year is here! Bon appetit!

#little thieves #the fallow year #some old faces and new in this one :)

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ICYMI: a gremlin is reaching her final form 🗡️

✨be not afraid✨

Preorders:

Third Place Books • Bookshop.org • B&N

(And don't forget to turn your preorder receipt in here for the next Fallow Year story!)

#little thieves #holy terrors #this baby can hold SO many corpses

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✨be not afraid✨

Preorders:

Third Place Books • Bookshop.org • B&N

(And don't forget to turn your preorder receipt in here for the next Fallow Year story!)

#little thieves #holy terrors #what's that carl #oh i'm hearing actually we should be very afraid

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may want to check back here in about 25 min 👀

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i have not booped half of you as well as i would have liked, and i have booped half of you half as well as you deserve.

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did I, a grown adult with a job, throw on megalovania and smash the boop button a solid five mins to get all the lil kitty cat paw badges??? yes, shut up

#the mystery of how to send an evil boop endures

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FYI, y'all have my blanket permission to spam me with as many boops as you need to get those cute badges :3

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Happy April Fools Day/Boop Day! How's the little thieves gang celebrating the day? (Have some boops for your cats 🐾🐾🐾)

Joniza is in the camp of "not even once" and having a self-care day.

Gisele is helping Ragne, who thinks today is about giving people unexpected presents. Thus far she has given out five cookies, a hurdy-gurdy, and seven thousand dollars.

Vanja is acting completely normal.

Emeric is living in fear.

#little thieves #emeric is right

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You have been booped by this empty wrapping paper tube.

Reblog to boop all of your followers with it.