#and i wholeheartedly agreed because i get the vibe that ragne has absolutely no concept of gender whatsoever

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who's in your profile pic bestie??

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Okay you cannot believe how happy this ask makes me, but in my pfp, is one Junior Prefect Emeric Conrad, (please click on the link I promise you it's not a Rick Roll, I would never disrespect Junior Prefect Emeric Conrad like that) drawn by the one and only @/terriblenerd aka Margaret Owen, author of Little Thieves (my all time favorite book, which is saying a lot because I read a lot of books) herself

What is Little Thieves about you may ask? Or maybe you didn't but too bad because I'm going to tell you anyways, Little Thieves is about one (1) feral gremlin child named Vanja Schmidt who was adopted by the Goddesses Death and Fortune (who are low-key implied to be together? I mean idk you could raise a human child together with your bestie but they're definitely in a QPR or something in my humble opinion) before being sent to work as a maid to Princess Gisele Von Falbirg

Except Vanja gets tired of being treated like less than dirt, decides to eat the rich, steal Gisele's identity and start robbing from all the rich people she can find, which she gets away with for a solid year, until she steals from the wrong set of nobles and gets cursed by a goddess to return everything she's stolen or else turn into gemstones all before the full moon

Which, plot twist, just so happens to be in two weeks! Which is also when Gisele's asshole creepy fiance dude Adalbitch (nickname thanks to a delightful conversation with @mysticalninjaearthquake ) suddenly wants to get married out of the blue

Vanja is given a feral shapeshifting sapphic demigod named Ragne to protect her through this ordeal and must find a way to break the curse while trying to steal enough money to hightail it out of the country AND not get caught by my beloved sanctimonious coatrack Junior Prefect Emeric Conrad, who is getting closer and closer to unmasking the culprit (*cough cough* Vanja *cough cough*) that's been targeting all the rich people

It's an incredibly entertaining read, the main character and the love interest are both CANONICALLY demi (hence the Emeric with the demiromantic flag in my pfp because I love him and we're both demi <3) there's some chaotic gays, lots of twists and turns, characters with so much trauma that have realistic reactions to dealing with said trauma and like... Not always perfect coping mechanisms but like that's what character growth is for because if they knew how to healthily cope then there wouldn't really be a story would there?

There's also demon horses, mind trippy poisons that show you the truth, mirrors with butts drawn on them, at least two enemies to lovers romances (although one is kinda in the background) and a hilarious scene involving poor Junior Prefect Emeric Conrad my beloved and Vanja eating breakfast

You can read more about it here aka a sappy post in which I gave minor spoilers for the book in order to highlight how it made me feel seen as well as on a multitude of places on Margaret Owen's blog

AND! For like the next 24 hours only, US and Canadian residents can get their very own preorder prints (the majority of which are linked throughout this post) despite the book already being out, which are all done by the author herself?? Because she has so much talent?? I have the preorder prints and they are absolutely gorgeous, the art is featured in the book itself but it's in black and white and the preorder prints are in color, you can find a link to submit your receipt here if you purchase before the end of the day on the 13th (which I think might be Vanja's birthday? I know it's sometime in December, I need to draw something for that) and while this is starting to sound like an advertisement for Little Thieves, because it is, it truly is my all time favorite book now, so much so that I started a meme page called @little-thieves dedicated to the book and you should go follow it because I need incorrect quote submissions even if you've never read the book, just go write the prompt and I'll fill in the characters

And yeah, that's my very long drawn out answer to who is in my pfp