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The Queen's Thief

@fuckyeahqueensthief / fuckyeahqueensthief.tumblr.com

A fan blog dedicated to the book series The Queen's Thief.
Icon credit goes to emilybeemartin on tumblr.
Sidebar credit goes to minuiko, gilaniath, lettherebedoodles, and roserayne.
NOT SPOILER FREE.
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Since we can do pinned posts now, I’m gonna make a post to pin with a lil FAQ.

What is the reading/release order for the series?

  1. The Thief
  2. The Queen of Attolia
  3. The King of Attolia
  4. A Conspiracy of Kings
  5. Thick as Thieves
  6. Return of the Thief

So Queen of Attolia is like really screwed up right?

Yeah it is!! I read that in 7th grade and it Changed me, and a lot of people, I imagine. If you’ve only read the thief, please turn back now and read the rest of the series so you don’t get spoilered!! (Unless you really love spoilers in which case, go wild)

You haven’t reblogged my post yet, I wonder why?

There’s a host of reasons, but the biggest ones are that

  1. There’s like 20 possible ways to tag the words “the Queen’s Thief” and I don’t check every one of them every day so there’s a decent chance I just haven’t checked that tag in a few days. General turnaround for reblogging, assuming I haven’t gotten sick or bogged down with homework and disappeared for a month, is about five days, though it’s often a shorter time period than that.
  2. It hasn’t shown up in a tag bc tumblr is a hellscape and I don’t know if things get dropped from the tags more often for qt or if I just notice it more bc I’m constantly in the tags, but it’s a regular occurrence and nobody has any idea how to fix it, certainly not tumblr.
  3. I am on here very sporadically for a lot of reasons unfortunately and there’s a chance i just missed it.

Its been a week and you still haven’t reblogged it, so I’m thinking tumblr ate it. How do I make sure you’ve seen it?

  1. You can @ the blog. Its what the @ function is for and you’re making my life a lot easier, so don’t feel guilty for using it! You can use the @ either in the original post or reblog it with an @, whatever you like best.
  2. Submit the post as a link or send an ask telling me you posted something. Most people send an ask because it’s easiest and that’s cool.

What is Queen’s Thief Week and how do I know when it is/what the themes are?

Queen’s Thief Appreciation Week is a little celebration this blog runs every year. The tentative plans and dates are here but its still up in the air. Watch this space for more info!

What is UP with the tags?

The ' and the ‘ are two separate tags and your keyboard on a desktop defaults to ' but the iPhone defaults to ‘ so it causes lots of confusion. More on that here.

I heard something about short stories?

Yes, there’s six total, one of them is free on MWT’s site, the others were extras in various releases of the books. You can find more information on that here.

How old is Gen/Helen/Sophos/Irene/literally anyone?

🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ MWT is Not Telling but we can of course guess from context clues to the ages. There’s a few posts floating around that go in detail.

How do you pronounce Eugenides?

Just feel it in your heart and go hog wild bro that’s what I did when I was 10 and that’s what I’m sticking with.

I noticed you are not super active on here. Why is that?

Lots of reasons but I do try! If you are interested in helping me run this blog (even if it’s just to reblog stuff in the tag for me), feel free to send an ask on this blog or contact me on my personal blog here!

Are there any other fan sites dedicated to the queen’s thief?

Yes. I do have a twitter but considering the Elon of it all that’s probably toast soon. Otherwise, there is a discord (not run by me, but the people that do run it are lovely and have helped me with this blog. one of them is even our lovely moderator who mostly lurks in the tag to reblog stuff for me, everyone say hello!). Discord is here:

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eponymiad

Limited-Edition Hardback Queen's Thief books on sale!

Fairy Loot has made special edition hardbacks of the first three QT books. Link to buy the books (and more description) here.

Seems like there are plans to do the second half of the series too.

From their site:

- Royal hardback editions - Exclusive covers with a colorway change - Foil on the hardcovers - Artwork on the endpapers - Digitally sprayed edge - Solid sprayed top and bottom edges - Book one will have a digital signature

The signed versions sold out within 20 min of the general on-sale, so not sure how quick the unsigned ones are going to move!

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weirdthetag

It is March 1st, 2024, and The Queen’s Thief fanworks challenge Weird the Tag is now live! The collection is open and will remain so until April 1st. There will be a one-week anonymous period to try to spot your friends, and authors will be revealed April 8th.

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Weird the Tag is a writing and art challenge (not an exchange), with a 100 word minimum for fics, designed to motivate people to expand their creative horizons through Queen's Thief content. This includes fanfiction, fanart of all mediums, video and audio art, filk, podfics, and fan crafts.

What do I mean when I say "weird?" I mean that I started this event because I was inspired by MWT's encouragement to "make bad art," and I want to motivate the fandom to share things that are imperfect or unserious. Create for the joy of it, whether or not you think it's good, canon-compliant, something other people will get, or using techniques you're confident in. Try new things, get a rise out of your friends, share things you're psyching yourself out of posting or are afraid nobody else will be interested in, and embrace tropey fun. Experiment!

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Ao3 collection, with full information: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WTT_QT/profile

This blog, with handy links and Moderator contact: https://weirdthetag.tumblr.com/

This year's optional ideas document, if you want to play and need inspiration, with more than 220 suggestions from the fandom: It's a long ugly link to a published Google doc.

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Happy creating, one and all! The mole god is cheering for you.

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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! ☺️🌸

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So, this has been a tough secret to keep.

The first three books in hardcover, Hodderscape's beautiful covers, illustrated endpapers, gorgeous cases, glorious sprayed edges. Available from Fairyloot.

Huzzah!

Oops, should have included:

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"Irene---"

"Don't call me that."

"You were the princess Irene the first time we met."

"It means 'peace,'" Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?"

"That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested.

The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty has started a war.

-The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner

Revisiting the Iliad made me think of this exchange with the most important Helen of my heart. One thing I love about the Queen's Thief is how MWT threaded in these sparing links to existing mythology, so that even though all the pantheons and legends are made up, the story is placed in a greater context. It makes the worldbuilding feel so huge and real even while the struggles are intimate and contained.

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weirdthetag

The Queen's Thief fanworks challenge Weird the Tag will return March 2024! This challenge welcomes both fic and visual and audio art.

Schedule: Collection opens for submissions March 1 April 1 works due and works go live for viewing April 8 author reveals

Ao3 collection, with full information: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WTT_QT/profile

This blog, with handy links and Moderator contact: https://weirdthetag.tumblr.com/

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Finals

Eugenides is the god of thieves from Eddisian mythology, fantasy Greek style pantheon mythology of the little peninsula of the book series’ nations (description provided by a submitter)

Eris, is the goddess of discord in Greek Mythology

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Semi-finals

Eugenides is the god of thieves from Eddisian mythology, fantasy Greek style pantheon mythology of the little peninsula of the book series’ nations (description provided by a submitter)

Jesus was a Jewish preacher and religious leader. For Christians, he is God the Son, the savior announced in the Bible.

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mothsartart

haven’t drawn in nearly two months, so here’s this, skipping straight past any sort of warm up. i present my Wild West AU

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