#tqt

[captain-hooks]

Attolias! I've never managed to pin down designs for Queen's Thief characters, and I'm not sure I've got it yet but Momma didn't raise a quitter

#she did raise an unreasonable perfectionist though so #Sisyphean torment etc etc #the queens thief #tqt #megan whalen turner #queens thief #the queen of attolia #attolia irene #fanart #my art

[everywaythatmatters]

Attolia broke an amphora once…

#the queen’s thief #tqt #queen of attolia #my art #rereading this series means that I’m falling in love with every character all over again #oh gen… oh irene… #also wow it’s been a while since I’ve made any non-RotE art lmao

[cosmere-cat]

So I started reading the Queen's Thief series and uh

#tqt #the queen's thief #the thief #the queen of attolia #megan whalen turner #why is there such a sudden and complete shift ;_; #i totally went into this book like “so ready for more fun adventures with this whimsical character” #and was immediately swamped with BAM trauma trauma angst trauma

[mothsartart]

i’m playing around with a new style rather than writing my midterm

#irene attolia #qoa #qt #megan whalen turner #mwt #tqt #attolia irene #queen of attolia #a friend of mine suggested this could be in qoa when irene is sneaking down to check on the thief in her dungeon #love #my art #irene

[artino-c]

it's a running joke in this fandom that kamet is just an accountant while (as portrayed in thick as thieves) costis is this terrifyingly efficient killing machine but i don't think we talk enough about costis' 2-page-long internal monologue from KOA where he is doing math in his head to compare and contrast 2 different 15-year payment plans based on the difference between large and small gold cup prices, his annual salary, and how good his credit score is

#tqt #queen’s thief

[madivandoren]

Redraw of an old fan art of The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner. It’s crazy how much my art has changed!

Also, if you have a fondness for conniving little scamps, go check it out!

#my art #the queen's thief #tqt #the thief #queen of attolia #king of attolia #conspiracy of kings #thick as thieves #return of the thief

[vegetable-soup-wizard]

Since I can’t help myself-

The Queens Thief books as John Mulaney quotes:

The thief

The Queen of Attolia

The King of Attolia

A Conspiracy of Kings

Thick as Thieves

Return of the Thief

#tqt #qt books #the queens thief #the queen of attolia #the king of attolia #the thief #mwt #megan whalen turner #a conspiracy of kings #thick as thieves #return of the thief #attolis eugenides #gen #attolia irene #costis ormentiedes #sophos #sounis #Eddis

[ihamtmus]

Kiss (Your Queen)

I tried adding certain Symbolic Elements (and removing other elements such as A Hand) to match the characters and the theme of the series more.

I started working on this more than 2 years ago and then stopped because I couldn’t get it right, and also didn’t feel like drawing the patterns on the clothes haha 😆

I remembered about it during my vacation and decided to finish it quickly. I’m not 100% satisfied with it but at least it’s finished now! ☺️🌸

#queen's thief #irenides #tqt #the queens thief #megan whalen turner #irene attolia #eugenides #my art #gabi tries out new art styles #my post #i have one more qt wip i should finish it as well

[regretssweater]

meme i made for my coworkers :3

#megan whalen turner #attolis eugenides #the thief #the queens thief #tqt

[saessenach]

a path, but not a plan

Sophos and Irene in A Conspiracy of Kings, a gift illustration I made for @alecjmarsh as part of the @hamiathesgiftexchange

#the queen's thief #a conspiracy of kings #sophos #attolia irene #megan whalen turner #tqt #my art #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #procreate #fanart #digital art #title is from asaf avidan's labyrinth song #which suits sophos to a t #this was lots of fun to draw

[captain-hooks]

Won’t name names but I read kind of a disappointing political fantasy book and it has me pining for the BEST political fantasy books, Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series, naturally

#I was put on this earth to make content for the little fandoms truly #the queen's thief #the queens thief #tqt #megan whalen turner #the thief #eugenides #fanart #my art

[chimaerakitten]

I’ve been thinking today about off ramps in long running stories, especially book series.

By that I mean like, places where a person could stop reading and have a satisfying ending even if they’re not yet at the actual ending. (Someone tell me if there’s an established Tvtropes name for this I’m missing.)

Now, a lot of book series will have an off ramp at the end of book 1, because many first books are written without promise of a sequel. Like sure, there might be a sequel hook, but the actual second book is still up to publisher whims in most cases. So you can read All Systems Red or The Thief or A Madness of Angels and have a perfectly satisfying ambiguous-end sci-fi story or middle grade fantasy romp or inverted murder mystery revenge quest without ever picking up book 2. This is definitely an off ramp but it’s not necessarily the interesting or revealing kind because again. Whims of the publisher.

There’s also stories that have an off ramp after every installment. Leverage is famous for this—they had a philosophy of having every season be a satisfying ending, which says a lot both about the writers and about the story they were trying to tell.

But I think the most interesting ramps are the ones where by design or by circumstance, there’s a single off-ramp somewhere in the middle. One spot where unless someone tells you there’s more, you’d never be unsatisfied with leaving halfway through.

Sometimes these will be signaled in some way, where there’s a big timeskip after the off-ramp, or the series changes names or has a spin-off, or the POV changes, or after book 3 the author publishes a short story collection before hopping back in to novels, or the series suddenly jumps from being only novellas to a chunky 120k novel. (The Raksura books, Percy Jackson/HoE, Matthew Swift/Magicals Anonymous, and Murderbot all do one or more of these)

But sometimes off ramps aren’t visible in series order or marketing. Sometimes they’re organic to where a story happens to leave off at the end of an installment.

The queen’s thief has one of these after King Of Attolia. I know this was a satisfying ending because for seven years I thought it was the end. My local library didn’t have A Conspiracy of Kings, so I thought it was a trilogy. And you really can leave it there! KoA ends with Gen back in his element and recognized as king, the main internal threat to Irene neutralized, and peace on the peninsula. The Mede aren’t yet the immediate threat they are in the back half of the series, since up through KoA they’re mainly represented by the magus’s vague warnings and Nahuseresh, whom Irene thinks circles around. There’s no real reason to assume the Mede are a threat within the scope of the series. Now I absolutely prefer getting the whole story, but KoA is a damn solid off-ramp for anyone who feels like exiting there.

And that’s one kind of off ramp where the end you get is pretty similar in tone (mostly happy) to the one you get if you go on to the rest of the series. I’ve also read books where you can off ramp successfully right at the lowest point in the series and get a tragedy out of a series that ultimately ends happy, or leave at a high point and get a happier end than the main one, or exit at an ambiguous point and continue on with ambiguity. The Giver sequels make it pretty clear what happened to Jonas and Gabe at the end of the book. but you don’t have to read them or have that question answered if you want to.

I don’t have a really solid conclusion to draw here except that I think the positioning of off ramps says a lot about authors and stories, and choosing whether or not to take an off ramp says a lot about readers.

#I know multiple people who refuse to recognize the giver sequels #which has always been odd to me because I quite liked them and never thought Jonas died in the first place #meta #the queen’s thief #tqt #Murderbot #the kitten rambles #murderbot’s off ramp is after exit strategy if that wasn’t clear #Raksura’s is after siren depths #this post partially brought to you by #the realization that one can stop reading Temeraire at the end of book four #and get a tragedy where the horrors of empire cannot be stopped #and will crush anyone trying to change things

[mothsartart]

i have a million things to do so i redesigned The Queen of Attolia cover instead

#the queen's thief #tqt #qt #queens thief #eugenides #megan whalen turner #mwt #booklr #my art

[artbymyth]

“Do not offend the gods.”

I have been working on this one for months! Bunch of fun hidden details throughout. Falling scrolls, feather pens, golden cups, oranges, and wooden swords. Earrings and signet rings and coins. Embroidery of the knife dance on the tunic hem, griffins of eddis, lions of sounis, and lilies of attolia on the neck line (also one earring each)! Oranges from the garden on the blue cape and Hero’s earrings. And that’s only some of it!

This piece is a labor of love for one of my favorite series of all time. Go read the Queen’s Thief you haven’t already. You won’t regret it.

#queens thief #the queens thief #eugenides #tqt #megan whalen turner #attolia #art #illustration #digital drawing #art tag

[shrimpchipsss]

gold light shining

#wanted to render old sketches in this pixel style #age of kings by the mountain goats #the queen's thief #attolia irene #sounis sophos #eugenides #attolia #sounis #attolis #eddis #eddis helen #tqt

[adirectorprepares]

i'm rereading

(official art by Emily B Martin)

#tqt #queen's thief #queen’s thief