Literally just reblogging QT posts

Gay or Just Attolian, a parody of Gay or European from Legally Blonde the musical, written by @eeddis and performed by me, @eeddis, @goddessofgentlerain, @sounisiangutter, @cartograffiti, @artfrostedleaf, @huilian, @storieswelove, and @worldsentwined!

(feel free to join us in the queen’s thief discord server for more shenanigans like this)

my queen’s thief music tag

lyrics under the cut:

“I am so glad someone is pleased.”

Semi-spoilery sketch below the cut!

Keeping his own dear love in mind

he said, you are more beautiful

but she is more k—-

when it's a

My take on Return of the Thief’s narrator, Pheris. I should note this isn’t an “official” Megan-approved design— the official character lineup was commissioned about a year and a half before RotT released, which is why Pheris isn’t present with the other protagonists. 

I’m really grateful to Danielle Seybold and Chelsey Kendig for acting as sensitivity viewers for this design. Danielle offers services as a sensitivity reader for manuscripts with characters with cerebral palsy, so be sure to check out her website if you’re looking for feedback!  www.putafinishonit.com 

Queen’s Thief Appreciation Week, Day 3: Favorite Ship

"You are king now," she pointed out.

"Ah, but they say if the king dances, the entire court can safely dance with him."

"Spare me," said Attolia, "and my court, from dancing on the roof."

"It probably only works in Eddis."

vs.

Holding the queen's hand, he picked his way up the tiled roof of the ceremonial hall to the peak. Attolia, accompanying, was as surefooted as the king. Once at the peak, they waited for the music master to bring his players to order, and when the musicians began to play, Eugenides and Irene danced.

vs.

He'd seen her in a pale dress dancing in the moonlight, pretending an entire troupe of dancers danced the harvest circle with her, her arms open to embrace the sisters and friends who existed only in her imagination, and he'd never seen anything so beautiful or so sad.

vs.

[T]he king released Attolia and bowed as she curtsied. Then he descended to catch Eddis by the hand. Eddis protested, he cajoled, and together they climbed up the roof. Attolia, meanwhile, had taken Sounis by the hand and led him up as well. He looked far more anxious than the other three, but as the musicians played, the four of them danced gracefully to the music, and then they descended, each to select a new partner.

Everyone was dancing on the flat guard walks--Ion and his new wife smiling a each other, Celis and Lavia laughing. Phresine danced with Trokides. Baron Anacritus danced with his wie and then with his lover, while his wife was dancing with the king. Much to my surprise, Chloe had singled out the magus, who seemed very pleased at the attention. Costis was dancing with his younger sister when I saw Kamet approach Teleus, who'd propped himself up against a crenelated wall.

It's both funny and quite tragic, because I think the implication is that he doesn't care if he can swim or not, because maybe he doesn't see a future for himself past this proposal.

a small, incomplete collection:

No more needed to be said. They both understood that if Eugenides was King of Attolia, he would face difficult and painful decisions that he would make in the best interest of nations, not individuals, no matter how much he might love them.

- KOA

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“If I’d known that all I needed to do was hit you very hard with a stick, I would have done it months ago.”

- KOA

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The magus had used a riding crop, and holy sacrificial lambs, Gen had come off the ground like he’d been catapulted. It was as if he was a different person, some stranger who’d manifested in Gen’s body.

- ACOK

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“… Attolia is not wrong that my cousin inherited her country on the strength of my father’s right arm. He swore that she, and no one else, would be crowned.”

- ACOK

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“They won’t be angry at you,” Eugenides told him. “They will be angry at me.”

- ACOK

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“It was not her time. We will welcome her when she comes again.”

Return of the Thief REALLY followed up on the story that Phresine told Gen in The King of Attolia, and I really, really love the idea that Gen isn't this Christlike savior figure who always holds the reins of the situation. In King of Attolia, he's the planner, the schemer, someone to be deeply trusted. Costis is a very kind person, and that's what he sees in his king--because Gen is kind, sometimes. Radically kind, in ways that always suprise people.

But, as Pheris notes very quickly, that kindness is countered by cruelty. He can be genuinely terrifying. And, like the king in Phresine's story, sometimes Gen has to have people smash him over the head in order to remember to do the right thing.