#laela

[sassaffrassa]

twitter meme redraws but make them john william waterhouse

(on ao3)

[lilyemberxiv]

A blushing bride.

[crocordile]

I stood there thinking of the Namreen hunting me and the rewards they would post. Or maybe they’d found my master’s plaque next to the slave dead under the rockslide and no one was looking for me at all." — Thick as Thieves, chapter 10

This work was a gift fot @kareenvorbarra and @artino-c for the @hamiathesgiftexchange!

After reading @kareenvorbarra's What We Are Allowed, I have been thinking a lot about how Laela must have felt when she heard Kamet was supposed to have died in a rockslide...

The bracelet is the one Kamet buys for her on chapter 1 of Thick as Thieves; the design is based on the description on the fic mentioned above.

[laelaxiv]

How I hunger for touch How could you say that I love too much?

[rosedevoir]

the winged girlfriends 🦋 Laela, fae fashion designer and Primrose, mothgirl seamstress

[kareenvorbarra]

Summary: I thought that my master’s return to the imperial court would mean a return to normal for all of us, but it soon became clear that the gods had other plans.

The events of Thick as Thieves from Laela’s point of view.

Characters: Laela, Nahuseresh, Ornon, Original Characters

Pairings: Laela/OFC

Notes: This one took forever to write, and it's SUCH a relief to be done with it!!!

Laela grapples with the events of the previous chapter, but it's not long before her entire situation changes once again. Now instead of "my best friend died and it's a relief to some people I care about," we get "my best friend is alive and I can't be uncomplicatedly happy about it."

[milarime]

Birthday gift for a friend)

[artino-c]

kamet finding that he cannot forgive laela for lying to him is such a great inversion of his characterization throughout the book. he obviously values mercy and forgiveness. we see this not just in the apology scene with costis, but in kamet’s final poem about ennikar and the witch of urkull, in his memory of nahuseresh forgiving him for dropping the statue, in his obvious affinity with shesmegah, goddess of mercy. he forgives (or at least admits to still liking) gen, in spite of himself. kamet forgives to a fault, and he doesn’t stop being this way even after he consciously reframes his feelings about nahuseresh: at the end of the book, he even scrutinizes his past behavior towards melheret, of all people, and regrets being rude when melheret didn’t deserve it.

but he can’t forgive laela, a person he cared for so much that gen-the-kitchen-boy could tell that she would risk everything to help him. it makes me think about pheris’ line about how people just don’t behave consistently. i wonder if kamet ever gives up the grudge, or if when they reunite years later he’s still angry with her on some level. my kingdom to have seen this conversation

[laelaxh]

Birthday drawing I did for @yenristar this year!

[durtycuntrygurls]

Laela Pryce in Texas Hoedown

[cassqween]

Enjoy shartwolf

[lilyemberxiv]

[crocordile]

Something lighthearted to celebrate Valentines Day with Samira and Laela from @kareenvorbarra's series "Are we leaving the city?", which I love to death 💕💕💕

[laelaxiv]

i wanted to do the meme

[green-word-deserter]

Desperately, he hoped they would not find her. He thought if he taught her to defend herself she would stand a chance in the outside world, beyond Golmore-- beyond his clutches.

[kareenvorbarra]

I’ve been thinking about my wish to see more of Kamet interacting with women and why I want it so badly, and I think it’s because there’s some potentially interesting gender stuff in his story that isn’t super explicit? There’s the way the oppression of women interacts with slavery. There’s the parallels between him and Irene (being underestimated, having to acquire power in unconventional ways, taking advantage of the fact that people sometimes overlook them) vs. the massive gulf between them because of Irene’s uniquely privileged position, which Kamet is also acutely aware of - he sympathizes with her, but he also recognizes how formidable of an adversary she could be.

Kamet's only two pre-canon friends that we know of were women, and they were both required to have sexual relationships with Nahuseresh. Kamet was so close to that kind of exploitation, so familiar with it even though it wasn’t happening to him personally. He talks about it in a very matter-of-fact way - in Marin’s story, in Laela’s, in the backstory he invents for Costis when they’re captured by slavers. He knows this could have happened to him if things had been just a little bit different.

And it’s pretty easy to infer that some parts of his relationship with Nahuseresh are probably similar to Marin and Laela’s: things like managing Nahuseresh’s temper, reading his emotions, anticipating his wants and needs. We see Kamet do all of these things, and there are hints that the dancers need to worry about the same things (Laela says “they’ll need to know that he’s in a mood”).

i have no conclusion except that I have been thinking about this all day and i want to read something about it