basileus

who else up thinking about how calf love doesn't usually survive amputation?

love men who fall into "my girl is mad at me i hope i die" category but who also regularly do things to piss their girl off. duality of man

Guy who coinflips every morning to see if he should kill himself and inexplicably has gotten “live” each time

i’m not gonna say it’s all fun and games for irene’s attendants but it does have a certain flavour to it. like if i was one of ten people in the palace who knew that the king was sleeping in the queen’s chambers and i saw his oblivious attendants squabble over who gets to sleep on benches outside his empty room???? the rush must be unparalleled

desperately need irene’s attendants’ perspectives on her marriage to gen actually. need a lady of the court to commiserate with costis on the amounts of unhinged intimacy she has accidentally witnessed in the course of doing her job

Guy who coinflips every morning to see if he should kill himself and inexplicably has gotten “live” each time

the dynamic between two people who love a third person so much and come to understand each other because of that is so important to me. you would put them first, and so would i. you understand why we have to save them from themself. i trust you with their life, and so, that means more than if i trusted you with mine. the love doesn't have to be the same, but it's powerful enough that you understand why you're not the only satellite drawn into their orbit.

skimmed the crenellations scene the other night just to read something before bed and was almost immediately compelled to read koa from the beginning just to really feel the pay-off. the extent to which mwt was On One CANNOT be overstated

#myattolian #mycostis #myfriend

idk at what point in the writing of king of attolia megan whalen turner was like. actually i should write almost the entire book from the pov of a guard that doesnt know what the fuck is going on, but it was the best point and im very grateful for it. literally unrivalled, hilarious, incredible. every single chapter costis is like. god i hate my stupid idiot king who doesnt like his wife and wants only to rule the country and can barely lift a sword and doesnt know whats going on ever and then the pov will shift for three paragraphs to someone who does know whats going on and theyre just like. Eugenides Is The Scariest And Most Capable Bitch Alive And Hes Up To Something. And He Loves His Wife.

one thing I love about gen and irene is that when gen adopts costis, irene very much goes okay that is going to be your dog, not my dog. I am not going to be doing one ounce of work for that dog. and then three years later she’s like I will personally die for costis’s right to make reckless and borderline suicidal decisions for the slimmest chance of being reunited with the love of his life. doth any here dare fail countenance mine word? and no one does <3