#roof content

boys on the roof! Everything is fine. 🙃

"Why were these the only dances you knew?"

"Because no one would dance with me. Thieves are never popular. ... My mother taught me. We danced them on the rooftops of the Megaron."

Queen Thief dances safely on the roof with her husband, son, and god, for @cartograffiti and @hoeratius as part of @hamiathesgiftexchange

Which iconic Queen’s Thief scene are you? 

Off to dreamland - and don’t tell ’em who sent you, because nothing would induce you to say it out loud.

Today is World Sleep Day, and we’re going all out for this celebration!

What is World Sleep Day?

World Sleep Day is a global call to action about the importance of healthy sleep, celebrated every 5 years (on average). The focus of World Sleep Day is to bring awareness to the importance of healthy sleep and to a certain amount of fraud in the reports of poets.

In partnership with gods such as Eugenides and Shesmegah, we are asking you to pull out your mental list of schemes and check off “ALMOST FALL OFF & GO TO BED”

How can you help to make this our biggest celebration yet?

It’s really easy to participate - TWO SIMPLE STEPS:

For kings:

TAKE SEVERAL TEETERING STEPS BACKWARD, RECOIL FARTHER, STEP OUT OVER THE ABYSS, AND HANG THERE, SUSPENDED, OVER THE OPEN AIR

GO TO BED

For guards:

KNOW THAT YOU AND THE KING AND EVEN THE STONE UNDER YOUR FEET ARE NOTHING BUT TISSUE, TRANSPARENTLY THIN

GO TO BED

Need a little bed-spo, spo, spo?

We recommend moseying over to @love-an-ood and @the-knights-who-say-book for some soothing sounds to put you in the mood to snooze and stopping by @meganwhalenturner for the largest collection of enigmatic content. Let’s count some sheep, Ornon.

Dear anyone else who has been concerned about Ornon, Aulus, and Boagus: They’re doing great, I saw them on the roof!

@sweet-cynicalstrain recently finished the books and said I should draw “anyone dancing with anyone on the roof,” so I went with these three. The line dance seems to be done in partners rather than a very short chorus line, and it may have been too cold out for those tattoos to be showing, but I stand by my choices. 

background roof dancers from my plans for this drawing!

a. Moira and Pheris - including various interpretations of their heights. The right image is the only sketch I liked after I colored them in ... shoutout to her shawl! I love them.

b. Kamet and Costis - There are two options here. One is that neither of them have any idea how to do Eddisian line dances, because why would they (maybe from watching others dance at court dinners?), but they still have fun. The other is that Costis does know them for unspecified or Thief reasons, and they did have lots of time together to practice... Both options are pretty cute.

c-f. The kings and queens! - Drawing the combos mentioned on the page (and subconsciously putting Gen and Helen in Gen and Irene’s pose from Emily’s sketch) just made me want to keep going with Irene and Helen / Sophos and Gen, plus all their dances with gods and other characters ... soon? The ones in the final piece are Helen and Gen / Irene and Sophos, although Gen and Helen look too small even for Gen and Helen.

g. Teleus leaning against a crenelated wall - Everyone else made me very happy to depict; this made me sad! Hang in there, my friend.

Oh, for you I’d leave it all

It’s ... Eugenides and Eddis, accompanied by lyrics from Budapest! As @storieswelove has shown me, this song fits multiple relationships and arcs in the series, but here I wanted to tie it to the love and trust between my absolute favorite duo. Their lives have changed so much since they were kids (and Gen’s thefts have gotten more political), but they’re still there to support each other, often on the roof. Which is also my favorite.

can’t believe this ms paint art I made in 2011 predicted a certain scene