phryne

"Not right now, princess. Dada is very stressed."

BERTIE CARVEL as BAELOR TARGARYEN

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

i have no one to talk to about this…

he looks delicious every time he wears a turtleneck 😔

and are you seeing this shit? is his hair longer in the back? he looks so yum yum

i gotta ask two experts about this matter

hm. ok. so the queen’s thief is about a trickster who wants to go down in history but as soon as it starts happening he’s like NO NOT LIKE THAT. and also about the people he befriends against their will :)

it’s an ancient greece/byzantine era-inspired world that starts off very focused on one person and then as his significance grows it zooms out to show you more and more of what it becomes increasingly clear are history-making events of this land, gradually gaining perspective and quickly gaining layers and layers of political intrigue, all of which is connected on thematic levels to the mythology of this world

...but it all starts with a grimy teenager sitting in prison because he got busted for bragging about how good he is at stealing

you should read it if you love mythology, courtly intrigue, and ruthless politics being no match for the saving power of trusting those you love. if you don’t love slow, classic fantasy quest road trips maybe don’t start with the first book tho

featuring characters such as:

a thief who wants to be famous. what kind of thief wants to be famous for being a thief. gen that’s so dumb

a pure beam of sunshine who will commit acts of international violence

a guard who is having a very bad day

an accountant who is having an even worse day

a queen whom i love and adore with all my heart

a queen who has murdered many people whom i also love and adore with all my heart

many tired old men

at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we're not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child