THERE’S AN ENTIRE BOOK OF SHORT STORIES THAT I DIDN’T KNOW EXISTED?!?!?
Also!! Love Gen shouting ‘I can do anything I want!!!!’ For 6 books only for Helen to finally get fed up and go, “The full quote is ‘I can do anything I want BUT I SHOULDN’T’, you absolute MENACE”
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“What a piece of work he was. I don’t know why I like him as much as I do.”
-Kamet, being everyone who has ever met Eugenides
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Every time I reread the Queen’s Thief series it makes me want to eat the walls like a fucking termite
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romance is stored in the elephants 🐘🐘🐘
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The Eddisians: no sovereign but ours 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
Also the Eddisians: that Sophos is ok tho
Ooooo the end of Return of the Thief makes me CRY. Dancing on the roof with the gods!!! It’s TOO MUCH!!!
I love the country of Eddis so much. They confirm their ruler’s reign by beating them up. They toss babies out the window to prove they’re blessed by a god. They’re maniacs and I’m obsessed with every one
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WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon
“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”
Here is the actual clip, and let me tell you, Jolson’s delivery does not disappoint:
THE “IT WILL BE SO” SCENE IN THE AUDIOBOOK IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING HOLD HECK
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The whole tower window tug-of-war scene is jussssssssst
Okay, first of all, Gen being a little snot and singing Dite’s song insulting himself and Irene where everyone can hear INCLUDING IRENE
Sophos taking the initiative as one of the few people, politically and personally, who can dump Gen on his behind without consequences (see: ACOK, also Sophos’s general Baby Of The Group nature), to defend his Now Very Good Friend Irene and give Gen some consequences
The absolutely Buster Keaton physicality of the entire scene
Sophos turning back to the window to yell something rude down at Gen only for Gen to be in the window nose to nose with him like
and then the absolute insanity of the Annux of the Little Peninsula and the King of Sounis tug-of-warring in a position that would mean actual death or broken bones at any outcome
And everyone’s just having a grand ol’ time (except Pheris)
Another all-time favorite scene is when Gen sees someone kissing Irene and kicked everyone out of the room in a rage and everyone is standing there afraid he’s hurting her but actually they are just having the absolute filthiest sex
Every time the narrator of Queen’s Thief brings back Gen’s natural accent I wanna cry a little, he uses his Attolian accent for so many books and then his normal one appears in Return of the Thief and I’m like 🥺
Actually this is the first time I realized Gen has no problem fighting every single member of the guard cause that’s just. How they do things in Eddis. Boy was probably like “ah, FINALLY, some reminded of home!”
Costis at the end of King of Attolia: pick your battles. Pick fewer. Put some back. Wait you can’t fight every single guard- PICK FEWER YOU IDIOT
Truly cannot recommend the Queen’s Thief audiobooks enough. I’ve been frustrated all King of Attolia because I felt like the narrator wasn’t doing Gen’s voice right, it was different than it was before. And then there was a scene where it sounded like I remembered, and then Costis realized that this was his real accent and he’d been putting on an Attolian accent the whole time, and I was like YEAH OK CARRY ON
Costis’s narration starts calling him Eugenides instead of just “the king” right after he says “Could you act like a king for once” lmaoooo