I saw a poem on Tumblr the other day, and as I read over this portion of it again today, with Queen's Thief very much on my mind (as usual), I thought of The Queen of Attolia:

Please: take my wavering shadow, wrap it around your
knuckles, tuck in its end with your scarred, nimble thumb.
Wind it into your warm palm and cast it out behind us,
next to ( Read more... )

I've been posting a lot of fanarts on Tumblr, but I haven't shared them here yet. So here are a few of them. Hope you like!

( Beware, the large file sizes. And TaT spoiler. )

MWT saw the hegemonic patriarchal, traditionally binary stories of old and flipped them around upon their heads. Saw duality and gave us the spectrum of all infinite possibility and Oneness in its place:

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This is quite possibly the greatest fanfic of all time: http://archiveofourown.org/chapters/478457?page=2&show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_111179967Read more... )

So, Checkers and I felt we were getting a tad disorganized with our discussions of TaT and overwhelming ourselves, so here's a little order in the chaos. Below are all current Sounis spoiler-y threads for discussing TaT. I will add new ones as we go along. Feel free to start your own thread. Just remember to hide spoilers under an LJ-cut with a ( Read more... )

After considering Gen as an introvert in the QoA read-along, with regards to the Winter of Whining/Healing, I thought it might be fun to pass the last two days before Thick As Thieves by assessing the Myers-Briggs Personality Types for all four monarchs.

I know: I have a weird sense of fun. If you haven’t, don’t click the link XD

( In which four fictional characters are taken (apart) far too seriously... )

As a spiritual, non-religious person the divine elements of MWT's Queen's Thief Series have touched me on more levels than I had ever though possible. MWT's fascination with the Greek gods and goddesses flows abundantly off her pages. While these tales of said gods and goddesses I left behind in grade school without much thought beyond their ( Read more... )

Section notes - from "The long summer's day was ending" to "He is an Annux, a king of kings ( Read more... )

Welcome to April, the month before the month of Thick as Thieves! This week, we’re reading from “The stool hit the wall with a satisfying crash” to “Costis returned to his room, freed himself of belt and breastplate, and fell, otherwise fully dressed, onto his bed.” As always, these discussions are spoiler free for “The Wine Shop,” “The Knife Dance ( Read more... )

This week we’re reading from the beginning of the Prologue, "The queen waited..." through the end of Chapter 5, "...knowing himself entirely guilty of what the king had not condescended to assume him of."

Prologue + Chapters 1-5 of The King of Attolia

These discussions are spoiler free for the new short stories, “The Wine Shop” and “The Knife ( Read more... )