anyway mom brought me home ALL FIVE queens thief books so i cant wait to begin That journey

#QTRR (mute this ht if u dont wanna see reread twts) man only megan whalen turner can set a whole book in first person and have it be good

#QTRR this the whole vibe of gen in the thief

#QTRR gen to himself: the small one (sophos) is useless
me: ok but…consider this…he’s Baby

#QTRR sophos is absolutely baby

#QTRR sophos, innocently: so was prison really that bad
gen: it was the fucking worst thing to happen to me ever in my LIFE
sophos:

#QTRR gen in the thief

#QTRR thinking about sophos innocently explaining the politics of eddis to his mentor while knowing shes gonna take him straight to wifecity, do not pass go, do not pay $200, in due time

#QTRR sophos sounis founder mayor and king of: Wifecity

#QTRR it’ll never not send me that the magus thinks gen is an uneducated moron. gen is prob sitting there like

#QTRR gen

#QTRR the thief is underrated i think…i will do a formal QT power ranking at the end of the Journey, but as always, i am thoroughly enjoying it despite the lack of romance the other four books have. its good! its even better on reread!

#QTRR its especially fun to come back to after a few years when you remember the major plot points but the little intricacies of the character interactions feel fresh since its been a while

#QTRR imo everyone should have seen ambiades being a traitorous asshole coming from a mile and a half away. just my opinion

#QTRR Fs in the chat for pol though…a real one who deserved better

#QTRR me when gen and irene have their business interaction in the thief knowing whats to come

#QTRR attolia: you could stay and be MY thief
attolia: haha jk
attolia: unless...

#QTRR “you are more beautiful, your majesty. but she is more kind”

#QTRR we are slowly getting to the point in the reread where i just tweet quotes from the book with increasingly unhinged memes attached in an attempt to verbalize how i am feeling

#QTRR ‘gen, the queen of attolia does not bear you any ill will / i think she does’

#QTRR the ‘gen is actually lowkey eddisian royalty / gen had the rock the whole time’ reveal still to this day has me like

#QTRR not sophos being like ‘are you going to marry eddis? because like if you do ill support you but also please don’t do that. don’t ask why. but please don’t.'

#QTRR sophos already packing his bags for his one way trip to wifecity

#QTRR meanwhile eddis like 'man i hope sophos drinks the puberty punch and becomes sexy'

#QTRR anyway...and that is a wrap on the thief! up next, i go fully unhinged when we cover the queen of attolia

#QTRR me reading the excerpt at the beginning of the queen of attolia where gen describes how beautiful but cruel irene is

#QTRR thinking abt how book 6 is called 'return of the thief' does that mean we're returning to gens pov?

#QTRR i know the queen of attolia is everyones favorite but my personal fave is king of attolia...that book makes me want to perform a simone biles level floor routine. just one straight minute of backflips.

#QTRR "she's going to make him pay for taunting her, leaving things in her palace to let her know he's been there"

#QTRR god i always draw irene in red but maybe i should consider drawing her in green

#QTRR now that she chopped off his hand, gen lives in irene's head rent free

#QTRR the eddisian ambassador to attolia: so...the thief survived his fever and is overall alive
irene, who has not been thinking about what that means going forward at all:

#QTRR gen when he decides he’s ready to leave his bed

#QTRR attolia, every other second: so…the thief? is he okay? i don’t care. when did i ever imply that i cared? anyway is he alive? awake? seeing anyone?
relius:

#QTRR nahuseresh: you know you could have killed him
attolia: no, keeping him alive was much more satisfying
attolia, internally:

#QTRR kamet

#QTRR irene reflecting on eugenides squatting rent free in her thoughts

#QTRR bitch isn’t even compensating her for the time she spends thinking about him, which is every waking moment of her day

#QTRR the way every bit of attolia pov opens with ‘what of the thief’ RENT FREE, I SAY

#QTRR gen when he shows his face in public after months of self imposed exile

#QTRR its sending me that eddis sent hot tabloid goss to attolia like ‘the queen of eddis and her elusive thief were spotted vacationing in the forest and they looked EXTREMELY close’ and attolia is like unspeakably jealous

#QTRR attolia throwing her copy of people magazine against the wall at the thought

#QTRR who in gen/irene is who in the 'excuse me she asked for no pickles meme'

#QTRR eddis watching sounis and attolia duke it out

#QTRR when gen is like 'i think i know how to eliminate the instability of the attolian queen' eddis and her court were certainly NOT expecting his plan to be 'take her out on a boat and confess his undying love'

#QTRR eddis's war council when they realized that gen spent his 10 day vacation spying on attolia

#QTRR go and steal the queen of attolia

#QTRR the way mwt writes this whole 3 page internal monologue about how irene has never loved or trusted anyone before in her LIFE and will then follow it up with gens dramatic boat confession…king shit

#QTRR the way gen left her a pair of ruby earrings when he was sneaking around her palace…do u know how that makes me feel

#QTRR theyre getting into the boat

#QTRR gen: i want to be king of attolia and marry you
attolia:

#QTRR there is an easier way for a man to become king

#QTRR "its the truth", eugenides shrugged

#QTRR the way gen is now unspeakably jealous of the mede…the way the mede is pressuring attolia to throw gen in jail even tho she doesn’t really want to…y’all this is mf ROMANCE

#QTRR the way attolia is like DELUDING herself into thinking she still hates him when all she wants is to buy him a one way ticket to wifecity…come on COME ON!!!!!!!

#QTRR attolia taking down nahuseresh still makes me want to do approximately 100 backflips at once

#QTRR god attolia truly fucking goes through it thinking about how miserable and upset she is that she let gen die before admitting her true feelings and how she’ll be #Foreveralone and eddis in the back like ‘lol he’s just sleeping'

#QTRR you have any mistresses and ill cut your other hand off

#QTRR i cant believe attolia, eddis, and sounis are united bc gen is reckless and horny in the heart and sophos glo-s up and becomes the perfect sexy gentleman. look at us! who would have thought! not me!

#QTRR i know that conspiracy of kings is most people's least favorite book in the series but sophos's glo-up is so important to me personally that i cannot help but stan

#QTRR the ending of this book dudes. the ending. every FCKING Time. every time. eery time!!!!! it just hits

#QTRR ‘and she believed him’ hits like a 100 ton truck and will hit like a 100 ton truck every fucking time

#QTRR anyway up next we cover king of attolia, which is just low key this meme

#QTRR starting king of attolia and god i love how ornon is just like 'yes...my sworn nemesis eugenides is being Punished with Responsibilities...'

#QTRR just thinking about ornon imagining gen having to do paperwork and cackling madly

#QTRR god i love costis. costishive rise up!

#QTRR theres normal people flirting and then theres gen and irene ‘i can kill you / you very much almost did!’ flirting

#QTRR thinking about one of the discussions we had a couple wks ago abt how irene is trying really hard not to be horny on main in KoA and its really enhancing my read of this book

#QTRR gen: offers a completely banal and uninspired take about the political goings on in attolia but with a smug smile on his face
irene:

#QTRR baron whatshisface: so my king what are ur thoughts on the weather and how it affects our harvest
gen: i have no thoughts and my head is empty
irene: ah i cant not fuck him

#QTRR thinking about how costis actively resents gen chastley kissing irene on the cheek every morning after breakfast...

#QTRR gen: pulls out irenes hairpins during their dance
irene:

#QTRR irene of attolia throughout the entire king of attolia novel

#QTRR i love how everyone watching this is like ‘omg do they FUCK??’ and phresine and ornon are like ‘bro they’ve Been fucking'

#QTRR phresine has been galaxy brained the entire time she Knows her queen is horny on main for the little eddis boy

#QTRR by the end of this book costis is the 'is he *breakdances* bothering u king' meme

#QTRR costis: the king...he’s injured
gen: i was stabbed
irene: im sorry you were STABBED?
gen: /lightly/ stabbed

#QTRR costis realizing that his queen has a name, a personality, hobbies, likes and dislikes, etc.

#QTRR costis, processing the concept of irene:

#QTRR costis witnessing this deeply intimate moment between his king and queen

#QTRR he didn’t marry you to become king, he became king to marry you

#QTRR guard my back teleus, and i will keep her safe

#QTRR this book is just. absolute magic.

#QTRR time for conspiracy of kings, aka the sophos sounis glo up power hours

#QTRR

#QTRR while everyone was off fighting in a war, sophos was enjoying life as a Common Man and getting swole...

#QTRR sophos's dad: you’re king now, bucko
sophos:

#QTRR sophos is the boy mayor of second life. the boy king of sounis life. the magus is totinos.

#QTRR the entire attolian court sucking in their breath when gen gently lays his hand on his wife’s and silently communicates with her

#QTRR i love big swole king sophos just sticking his leggy out and tripping gen in front of all of his attendants.

#QTRR i LOVE sophos eating gen’s shitty sand infested dinner so attolia won’t execute everyone in the kitchens for continuing to put sand in her mans food

#QTRR i kinda forgot how much background gen/irene content there was in conspiracy of kings but theres some really good shit going on in this one

#QTRR i love love love the way mwt sprinkles in her characters' given names in the quietest moments of intimacy…gen/eugenides shows up more often than the others but when a stray irene or helen shows up...

#QTRR my copy of thick as thieves that i took out of the library is overdue

#QTRR gonna hold onto it 'til i finish it tho!

#QTRR costis showing up to kidnap kamet

#QTRR kamet to costis

#QTRR is costis a himbo? discuss

#QTRR from kamet’s pov, costis is absolutely a himbo. kamets straight up calling him ‘no thoughts head empty'

#QTRR when kamet says 'so so so'

#QTRR god i love these gilgamesh and enkidu expies and i love how they are costis and kamet. mwt just does not miss!

#QTRR ok i think costis is like...himbo on the streets, savvy in the sheets. to the untrained eye, costis is absolutely a himbo. but get to know him and then u will realize,

#QTRR and not mwt like...essentially setting up the plot of thick as theives through her gilgamesh and enkidu expy characters? like she simply does not miss!!!

#QTRR kamet going back to help costis out of the well

#QTRR kamet, emotionally overcome when he touches costis’ big beautiful warm hand: man cant wait to give HIM the slip later

#QTRR goedekker being like ‘[shrek voice] this is the part…where u run away’ but instead kamet simply nurses his boyfriend back to health

#QTRR kamet like ‘rip to the other former slaves with opportunities to give their kidnapper turned love interest the slip but im different'

#QTRR ‘he is stealing me, but not because he loves me'

#QTRR ‘i thought we were immakuk and ennikar’ costis…..thats gay

#QTRR kamet realizing that gens good at his job, actually

#QTRR thick as thieves is so fucking good dudes

#QTRR the ending of this book is jst. megan…….how are u going to top this on tuesday

#QTRR the river knows its time……...

(SRRY THIS NEEDED A MEME!!!!!!!!! I NEEDED AN IMAGE TO PROPERLY CONVEY HOW THIS MAKES ME FEEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

#QTRR costis looking at immakuk and ennikar memes on r/themedeempire and sends them to kamet like ‘its us'

#QTRR well i will be returning to this thread on TUESDAY when i (responsibly, carefully tagged and possibly in rot13???) livetweet RETURN OF THE THIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!