#costy

[sassaffrassa]

It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead against the hollow of the queen’s shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.

hi, i'm very cool and normal about these books, don't worry about me

on ao3 here

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Costy Butter Rax, 2022

[janainaart]

Illustration made for A Dança da Floresta (Wildwood Dancing) by Juliet Marillier. Hardcover book edition by Editora Wish. 2021.

[shebsart]

Costis and Kamet reading ''Thick as Thieves'' For Hamiathes's Gift Exchange for @allcanonisrelative :) <3

aaand a secondary gift with Teleus and Relius

pose referenced from Salman Toor's beautiful piece ''Reunion''

[ihamtmus]

my work for this year's @hamiathesgiftexchange

the prompt was gen being sneaky – and what can be sneakier than putting some flowers on your wife's head while she's not looking? 🤭

[vegetable-soup-wizard]

Since I can’t help myself-

The Queens Thief books as John Mulaney quotes:

The thief

The Queen of Attolia

The King of Attolia

A Conspiracy of Kings

Thick as Thieves

Return of the Thief

[emerydraws]

a stumble on the road - kamet and costis for @shrimpchipsss for hamiathes gift exchange this year!

[nerves-nebula]

this book is so funny my mans costis just getting fucked left right and center

[kanerallels]

There are many reasons why the King of Attolia is my favorite book in TQT, honestly. It's just-- he's far from home but he's with the woman he loves. He's been forced into a role he doesn't want, but he's doing his best to learn everything he can about it so he can do it well. He acts like a fool and lets his courtiers make fun of him but he knows exactly what he's doing. Everyone thinks he's torturing poor Costis but he's actually making a friend in his own unique way, and finding an ally. It's this combination of "kid far from home looking for anyone as a friend and ally" and "genius plotter getting rid of his enemies and also winning the loyalty of everyone around him using the world's most convoluted plan possible" all while he's also navigating a new marriage

The second best part is Aulus and Boagus

[fredgolds]

costis gets sent on an international espionage mission purely because he is nice+fun. his king, a master manipulator, admits that there is no move he could have made in this moment that would have been more effective than simply letting his favourite guy have fun and be himself. kamet is enduring the most stressful months of his life in one of the most audacious political heists in history and costis is just getting some enrichment

[sassaffrassa]

twitter meme redraws but make them john william waterhouse

(on ao3)

[deadmomjokes]

Alright scroll past if you don't want spoilers for Queen's Thief book 3, King of Attolia, because I'm back on my bs with memes about it to keep from yelling

Y'all weren't kidding about the Best Boy Costis, huh? We stan a hotheaded ride-or-die himbo with more heart than sense.

He doesn't get paid enough for this.

Or THIS

Speaking of the newlyweds....

Was I misreading that scene? Or was that man propositioning her on the dance floor and she had to leave to cool down because she was this close to jumping his bones in front of everyone?

Honestly the juxtaposition between how everyone assumes they must hate each other and how they are in private is hysterical to me. He loves his hot girlboss wife so much.

Alas, it comes with Responsibilities.

Can we get an F in the chat for the man who didn't think this through past "hng love"

Loved the dynamics we got once he started accepting the necessity of it tho.

My mans may be king now, but he's still first and foremost A Problem.

And of course the moments when the gloves came off

Homeboy's an absolutely unhinged murder machine waiting to blow and it's both terrifying and so satisfying.

I have more, but this is long already and i worked hard on the ones I really want y'all to see, so stay tuned for part 2 lol

[emilybeemartin]

I'm re-uploading this as its own post, since tumblr cuts off threads now. A brooding Eugenides as inspired and referenced from this post of Belgian-Egyptian artist Tamino by user @taminoamirfouad

[Costis] stepped toward the doorway. The king sat with his feet on the chair and his knees drawn up to his chest, looking over them and out the window. So motionless was he, and so silent the progress of his tears, that it was the space of a breath before Costis realized the king was crying.

-The King of Attolia

[just-try-and-stop-mee]

The king of Attolia is so funny, Costis desperate for one wink of sleep as Eugenides is like “where is my comfort king’s guard??”

[ihamtmus]

okay so this is a work in progress from... 2-3 years ago? i never finished it 🙈 maybe someday i will 🙏

for now, enjoy my (almost complete) illustration of the best kiss scene in literature!

[artbymyth]

Entry two for #WinASignedSetofTheQueensThief2024 !

Main cast as of Thick As Thieves character design study 2019 vs Gen Attolis portrait 2020

I tried to do a round up of the cast and stretch my character design skills in the first one and while there are definitely some characters I’d rework (Sophos, Kamet, and Costis please forgive me) I really like how others came out. You can really see the features of my version of Gen solidifying. The right was my first attempt at a more realistic portrait style with an older and more stately and ruthless Attolis.