The Queen's Thief

The Queen's Thief fandom is small but persistent.
==Canon==
The book names are often abbrieviated as follows
Title 	Acronym
The Thief 	TT
The Queen of Attolia 	TQoA
The King of Attolia 	TKoA
A Conspiracy of Kings	ACoK
Thick as Thieves 	TaT
Return of the Thief 	RotT
===Megan Whalen Turner===
The author's policy on engaging with fandom is "Not Telling", which has since become a fandom meme.
A fan gifted MWT a pair of handmade socks with "Not Telling" on the soles, which she has worn at conventions and book signings (?) https://www.tumblr.com/bookishbabe10/183769285559/be-careful-what-gifts-you-leave-at-the-alter-of?source=share.
===6th Book Homophobic Response ===
* homophobic amateur reviews on sites like Amazon and Goodreads criticizing the Relius/Teleus relationship being confirmed in rott
==Fandom Activity==
:See Timeline of Queen's Thief Fandom for a chronological breakdown of the fandom growth.
All ratings of fic are common, and fic tends to skew to short oneshots.
* It is often nominated for Yuletide
===Fandom communities===
The fandom used to be overwhelmingly on LiveJournal, specifically on the Eddis, Attolia, Sounis group(the "Sounis" group the author references in The Return of the Thief is located there). The fandom also has an active Reddit. More sparingly, fan content can be found on Twitter, YouTube, DeviantArt, or TikTok.
Some activity takes place on the Geninsula fandom discord, which rose in popularity after the decline of LiveJournal.
While the fic has been around for a long time, a tiktok going viral in 2022 lead to the paperback copies getting entirely sold out through America, showing the power of booktok for older books (25years, at this point!).
====Interactions with other Fandoms====
* Fandom war with Captive Prince on Tumblr (?)
===Fan events===
* Hamiathes' Gift Exchange (2017-present)
* Yuletide
* The Queen's Thief Appreciation Week
===Fan activities===
====fancasting====
==Popular Tropes==
* Wedding night of Eugenides/Irene
* romcom tropes like Fake Dating with Costis/Kamet
==Shipping==
* Eugenides/Irene -- Eugenides and Irene (Attolia)
* Eugenides/Costis or Eugenides/Costis/Irene
* Costis/Kamet
Costis is usually the fandom bicycle.
===Early Fandom Ships===
While the books were being released, other pairings had brief moments of popularity:
* Costis/Brinna, called "Sandy" before the fandom knew her name or gender, just that there was a cook sanding Gen's food.
* Costis/Aris
* Helen/The Magus; this ship's popularity was ended pretty thoroughly by ACoK
===Ship Discourse===
* There used to be factions about the scene where Gen kisses Relius's cheek in the infirmary because people thought it meant Relius was in love with Irene, or Gen, or both, or neither. ("Jealous, Relius?")
==Reviews and Fandom Primers==
* Spotlight on: The Queen's Thief/Attolia series by Megan Whalen Turner on r/Fantasy, Reddit, in 2021
* The Thief Review | Megan Whalen Turner | The Queen's Thief 2023 review with spoilers on booktube
==Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
* Queen of the I-75(Original Tumblr Link (2017))(Ao3 repost by Indigo_Night_Wisp and its sequel, something of a cult classic
* on hairpins (2013) by Lirazel for arianrhod for Yuletide
* Ere (2019-2020) by audreycritter, 35k
* if you'll be my bodyguard by jediseagull, 14k (Yuletide 2014)
* In the darkest hour of night, a computer screen’s light by pomelo_pomegranate
* Half of What You Think of Me by storieswelove
* when the night falls, my lonely heart calls by Blyth3
===Fanart===
* "war, then" wrathful Eddisian pietà with floral symbolism by plantagenista
* The Sounisian Game of Telephone by lostsheepdog (banananutmuffin)
* 2 in one inktober by blurb-brain
* by saessenach
* Character Portraits by shrimpchipsss
===Meta===
===Fanvids===
==Other Fandom Links==
* The Queen's Thief Wiki
==References==
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