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And no, not the country on the little peninsula, US! It's been 17 delightful years since this site was created and, boy, has it been a long-lived and welcoming place.

You all probably already know how I feel about

sounis and you all. Such friendly, smart people! Who love the same books!

There are other Queen's Thief places to visit, including MWT's Tumblr and the Geninsula on Discord, but my heart always comes back to you,

sounis. And now we have a brand new book to read!

Happy Birthday!

Don't forget to add your email to the list we're creating of Sounis members. Just in case something happens to Livejournal or our site. Just message me here on LJ or email me at checkers65477 AT yahoo.com. Only

ninedaysaqueen and I will hang onto the list so no worries about security.

Current Mood: giddy

checkers65477.livejournal.com

Hi folks. I adore our little

sounis community, but I wrote about some of my concerns with Live Journal a while back and have been meaning to put together an email list of all you wonderful sounisians, in case something happens to LJ and we need to regroup.

Here's what I'm thinking.

ninedaysaqueen and I will keep a spreadsheet with you all's LJ user names and email addresses, and I can promise you we won't ever use these email address except to maintain contact with you if LJ ceases to exist.

If you'd like to be included, you can send me an email at checkers65477 AT yahoo.com (obviously, add the @ in there). Or, if you prefer, message your email address to me here on LJ.

And, remember, we have a Dreamwidth backup of the sounis site. Bookmark it, and if we ever need a new home, we can migrate over there and still have all the old posts.

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Months ago, in the Conspiracy Room chats,

semperlego and I discovered that we live relatively close to one another. We've met several times since then at this lovely restaurant/bakery/coffee shop that has a beautiful outdoor seating area. in May, Semper was off to England and Scotland, and I was bound for Italy. We each had fantastic--and long awaited, many times delayed--vacations and, or course, those vacations involved hunting around for Queen's Thief books. So, when we met last week, we had gifts for one another!

I'm now the proud owner of The Thief with its beautiful new UK cover, and Semper has the gorgeous recent Italian Thief. And, hey, if you're ever in North Carolina, let me know and maybe we can all chat over a scone and chai latte.

Now, on to recent reading! Tell me what you've been reading lately. Semper and I exchanged the titles of lots of books the other wasn't familiar with. How about you??

checkers65477.livejournal.com

Hi everyone. I'm a bit of a worrier. I don't forsee Livejournal going dark or drastically changing, but since LJ is Russian-owned, I have downloaded the entire

sounis site to Dreamwidth as a backup. Bookmark it, in case

sounis was to suddenly disappear. I'll keep up with regular transfers, to keep the Dreamwidth current.

https://queensthief.dreamwidth.org/

And The Conspiracy Room is a different platform, so keep a bookmark for it, too: http://www.chatzy.com/339217442899

checkers65477.livejournal.com

Just a little background. Although LJ was created in America, it was sold to a Russian media company in 2007 and in 2016-2017 migrated to servers located in Russia. The LJ Terms of Service are in line with Russian law, which caused some previous LJ users to migrate to other social media platforms. It all hit home for me last year when I had to pay for my own persomal paid account in rubles.

For years, our mods and members looked for better sites that still allowed for the depth of posts/comments/discussion offered by LJ. The trend now is in more fast-paced, short posts that can be reblogged, rather than longer posts that can be created by and commented on by ALL members of a community. And convincing everyone to go create a login and move to another side would be impossible. So, we've stayed with LJ.

With the recent invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, I felt the need to tell you all this. Politics have never been allowed on

sounis (except for the politics of the little peninsula!) and so I'm not going to comment more, except to state my sympathy for and solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Over the past few years, LJ has censored the content of some journals and limited free expression. In case LJ might see fit to change or delete American-based blogs, I've been doing an occasional backup of the

sounis site to Dreamwidth. I refreshed the backup today, so it's all there on https://queensthief.dreamwidth.org/

Unless someone has a better idea, we'll continue to use

sounis as is, and thank you to those who have reached out to me about LJ and being dilligent about backups. Feel free to chime in and comment about any of this!

Current Mood: sad

checkers65477.livejournal.com

Our little

sounis community is all grown up. 15 years old, can you believe it?? We're old enough to act surly and roll our eyes, tear up our army enrollment papers, and go searching for Hamaithes' Gift.

This community formed just before King of Attolia was published and has remained active pretty steadily over the years. With the publication of the last book in the series, this may be sort of a last hurrah for us, although I think we'll be talking about RotT for quite awhile yet.

As a tribute to

sounis, I thought there'd be no better words than what Megan said in the virtual author visit last week. Here's a transcript from the part of her talk that touched on the dedication in RotT.

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checkers65477.livejournal.com

The author visit with MWT, Holly Black, and Marie Lu last night was great! There's a video of it on Old Firehouse Books' Facebook page, for those who couldn't make it. At one point, she talked about the dedication of RotT to

sounis, which was heartwarming to hear. That starts at about 35 minutes into the video. There were very few "Not Tellings," and a funny story about authors who cut off the hands of their characters. And it was fabulous to see the interactions between the three authors. Oh, and there was a bit of a discussion if Megan should feel gratfied or "slightly terrifed" at our fandom. The

sounis members DID get a little rowdy in the backchat, which was fun.

Edited to add: There were no spoilers for RotT.

This is a picture I snapped, but click on the link about to watch the video.
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puppeteergirl.livejournal.com

Is anyone interested in helping create a "timeline" of events for the entire QT series?

*SPOILERS WILL ABOUND*

I realize many of the events have no specified time, but I still want to get things as straight as possible. I looked into different timeline creators online, but most of them demanded actual dates and few of them would be collaborative. In the end, I decided it would probably be the most simple solution to create a shared google doc and just add events in the form of a expanding table.

Anyway, if you want to contribute, click this link:

Master Queen's Thief Timeline Project

freenarnian.livejournal.com

I've been an official part of this fandom since 2009 (I lurked for a while before that), and more good things have come of it than I could ever have imagined. (Thank you, MWT.)

I hope

an_english_girl doesn't mind me saying this, but her friendship is one of those good things. We've become transatlantic pen-pals with a tradition of exchanging fan fics on birthdays and gifts at Christmas. :) This year she gifted me (in addition to our usual trade of reading material) bee earrings, and I sent her goat socks! So fun.

Anyway, just wanted to give Sounis a shout-out, and thank you all for the conversation, kindness, humor, and general goodness you've generated via mutual love of books! The QT fandom is really special.

In keeping with the end-of-year theme, I've copied this questionnaire from Tumblr, in case anyone wants to share some of their bookish highlights for 2019! Feel free to pick and choose, or answer all of them!

( Questionnaire! )
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Happy new year, Sounis! May your book collection increase (and with it your shelving space) in the new decade!

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I was ~~lucky~~ honored (and rediculously excited) to get to spend some time hanging out with MWT and Bookish Babe during the NTTBF19 weekend, so here are a few other tidbits I gleaned from various conversations and a few questions I asked.

First, though, I want to say that it was amazing to meet and talk with another fan that I didn't convert. Don't get me wrong. I'm a ~~librarian~~ book dealer. I love finding the right people to introduce to MWT's work and watching them grow to adore the books. But meeting a member of Sounis IRL was wonderful.

In part, QoA was about turning a 2-dimensional character (one you don't really care if they die) into a 3-dimensional character (one you might really care if they die).
[This may have been part of a panel discussion and I just didn't get it written down.]

While MWT's typical answer as to the "correct" pronunciation of names in her books is generally "not telling," she did provide recordings of how she pronounces them to the narrator of the audiobooks. (I'm assuming Steve West; I missed the name.) However, the one name he did not ask about was her own. So he mispronounces "Whalen."

The god Anet's name is an acronym from the book that MWT read to inspire her poetry in TaT: Ancient Near East Texts

Q: I read in an interview that you found writing Greek-style mythology difficult. Was writing writing middle eastern-style poetry easier?
MWT: Yes. [And actually a fairly detailed conversation about how she really wanted to write in Mediveal sytle verse, but came to realize the the rhyme/rhythm just didn't work for the modern ear and no one would read it.]

Q: Are you a "Princess Bride" fan?
MWT: The book or the movie?
Q: Either, both?
MWT: I know a lot of people love the movie, but I prefer the book.
Q: Okay, then. I noticed that you use the phrase "As you wish" twice in QoA. Was that an intentional reference?
MWT: Probably. It's such an iconic line and I love to reference other texts.
[I think this was when we got into a discussion about the line between referencing a text and plagerism. MWT has a good anecdote about romance novels distributed through Amazon's author program. She expressed some concern that her use of other author's lines might cause her similar problems. Personally, I think the difference between referencing one line and basically copying entire passages wholesale is pretty clear. The former is an homeage; the latter theft.]

Q: How much time elapses between the end of KoA and the begining of TaT?
MWT: [shakes head] Not telling.
[I feel like an insider now. I got my very own "not telling."]

The other thing I learned is that as long as you're not asking questions that will result in a "not telling," MWT is actually quite talkative. Also, gracious, funny, and delightful.

checkers65477.livejournal.com

Our Livejournal baby is a teenager! And hopefully not a complaining, eye-rolling, smart aleck teen like Gen was.

Happy 13th birthday, Sounis! It's been a wonderful, fantastic 13 years--so far--spreading the QT love and discussing with all you crazy fans. Let's celebrate with all the Goatfoots out there.

via GIPHY

ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com

There's a pretty hilarious string of reblogs that have been going around the QT tags on Tumblr the past few days.

I am a totally innocent bystander in all of this, by the way.

( Never Throw Shade at MWT )

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agh_4 , in this post, showed us the block prints she'd done that were based on the countries in the QT books. Well, she very generously sent me copies of the prints and they arrived yesterday!

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Thank you, dear

agh_4. I'm going to treasure these.

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: harry styles - sign of the times

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Now that livejournal is no longer the watering hole that it once was, I've personally moved most of my blogging and activity over to Dreamwidth. There's been a pretty fun resurgence of activity over there in the last few months, so if you haven't been there in a while, you might want to check it out!

Fandom is much more disseminated across various social media platforms, but I would hate to lose track of friends and other Queen's Thief fans. So, in honor of that, I thought it might be nice to have a Dreamwidth/tumblr/twitter/goodreads/etc friending meme. If you're doing fannish stuff on any of these other platforms and you'd like to be added as a friend by other Sounis community members, post a comment with your links. I will definitely follow anyone from this community, since I know you all to be wonderful people with great taste in YA literature.

Here's my deets to get us started:

Find me on:

Dreamwidth: florianschild
Tumblr: florianschild
Goodreads: florianschild
Youtube: Florian
Twitter: Not using
Instagram: Not using

Friend me, and I'll friend you back! I miss seeing Queen's Thief posts in my feed!

filkferengi

http://www.tor.com/2017/05/24/rereading-the-queens-thief-series-megan-whalen-turner/

And

sounis gets a shout-out in the comments.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Emish--Remember These Bones

ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com

We're getting very close to the release of Thick as Thieves (only a matter of weeks!), so I thought it was probably time to discuss a plan to discuss. I've gone over the A Conspiracy of Kings tag, and was reminded that we broke discussions of the book down to a select number of chapters per post, meaning a handful of posts went live the day the book was released. Each one was devoted to four chapters or so.

The cons of the multi-post method-
Discussions can get a bit unwieldy when spread across many different windows.
If you want to discuss aspects of the books as a whole, there can be some confusion about where you should post.
It can get tedious to check all the different posts.

Pros-
No worrying about spoilers for later on in the book if you want to share your thoughts as you read.

An alternative would be to have one post in which I could place comment threads that everyone could reply to if discussing individual chapters. There's onlythirteen
chapters in the new book, so one comment thread per chapter? If you want to discuss the book as a whole, you can just reply to the post itself.

To summarize, the cons of this single post method would be-
Spoilers for the whole book in one post. (However, you should be able to avoid them by not scrolling down the whole way.)

Pros-
Better organized discussions.
You can break your thoughts down by chapter without having to load many different windows or just discuss as a whole

If you're planning to use Sounis to discuss the book, you're welcome to share any ideas on the matter. If everyone is planning to finish the book before they start discussing it online, the cons of a single post would be irrelevant. You can, of course, still create a post of your own to dicuss specific aspects of the book, ask questions, or post reviews.

Right now, I'm eyeing May 28th at the usual time for our first post-TaT Conspiracy Room chat to discuss the book. That should give most reprobates enough time to get a copy and finish it. If your copy is arriving later than that but you'd like to participate in a chat, let me know when you think you'll have the book and will be done reading it. Maybe another chat in June or July would be good for anyone waiting on their copy from the public library or slow Amazon shipping?

If you have an arc and would like to start discussing now, I do have a locked post set up on my personal journal called the Jamey Dodgy Society for anyone wanting to talk about the book now. Simply friend me and drop me a comment or a PM so I know to add you. Livejournal is not always emailing me when someone friends me. (bashes LJ) I will unlock that post on May 16th and everyone can respond to any discussions on the the JDS thread.

Sounis's spoiler policies are HERE and basically ask that all spoilers for new books be hidden under an LJ-cut with a spoiler warning till at least a month after the book comes out.

freenarnian.livejournal.com

Prompted by this post, I have created an aesthetic blog on tumblr inspired by the world of the Queen's Thief!

Visit Of Gods & Thieves on Tumblr!

My thought process was as follows: Crossposting is a Great Idea, and I'm all for spreading the Queen's Thief love, but my tumblr is composed mostly of Random Pretty Things, and I don't really use it for anything else. BUT, Tumblr has a secondary blog feature...and the Queen's Thief series certainly has boatloads of aesthetic quality and appeal...perhaps I could run with that? So I bounced the idea off Sounis and a few of you told me to go for it. I've spent the last few days setting it up and so far it's been super fun! I hope you enjoy it!

Sidenotes:
Of Gods & Thieves may be a placeholder name until I think of something better to call it. (Suggestions welcome!) I'm still sorting out links and navigation and trying to figure out how to make tags work well. (Feedback welcome!)
This is a secondary blog and so there are certain silly limitations I'll be trying to work around. For example, I believe you can follow the blog but any following back on my part will have to be done through my primary tumblr, quothshe. Tumblr can be a little quirky like that, but I'll do my best to make it function. :) Finally, I'm linking to other QT related tumblrs and websites, so holler at me if you'd like to be included. <3

checkers65477.livejournal.com

Hey, everyone! Lady Jane and I have beek kicking (see icon) around ideas to keep the activity on

sounis going, while doing all we can to spread the love of the Queen's Thief books all over social media. We think cross-posting news and media is the way to go, since there are so many platforms out there used by so many different people. Although a few years ago everyone was using just a few sites, it seems like now there are lots of different favorites.

dannybailey has come up with some great ideas--more to come from her (hopefully) later. In the meantime, if you are a Tumblr user, please follow our QT-related blogs:

eddis-attolia-sounis.tumblr.com

ninedaysaqueen.tumblr.com

I know lots of you have Tumblr accounts. Please feel free to cross post any Tumblr QT news/fanart here on LJ, or cross post any of our insanity on your own Tumblr pages. And if you leave a comment with your Tumblr site, we'll follow you, too.

If you all have other ideas about how to use other platforms to talk about the books, we'd love to hear them.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: one republic - let's hurt tonight

freenarnian.livejournal.com

Checkers told me it was OK to be greedy in this instance, while an_english_girl suggested the reverse-psychology of the title (and it struck me as a method Gen himself might employ to achieve his desired ends)...

So without further ado: Why I should [not] have an ARC!

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sounis is 11 years old, and Ornon's sheep are dancing!

Eleven years ago today Queen

rowana and the elusive

eddis started up this wonderful community, while we were waiting very impatiently for Harper Collins to finish knitting The King of Attolia. So much has happened over the past 11 years. We've grown up and grown older while getting to know other QT fans around the world who love Megan's books and want to share questions, answers, and insanity with others.

Sounis members have come and gone over the years. Some of us have been around since the beginning, and others are brand new. What has never changed is that this online community welcomes everyone. We're the nicest fan community out there!

So, whether you're a oldie or a newbie, it's time for introductions! Leave a comment and tell us

How long you've been a sounis member

A little about yourself, including where you live (country, continent, city, anything is fine)

How you found Megan's books

Which book is your favorite

Why you love the books with the heat of 1000 suns

Something you *hope* happens in Thick As Thieves

Or, anything you want to share. C'mon folks! It's been quiet around here for too long. Let's hear from you. Happy Birthday to us!

Current Mood: happy

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Entries tagged with sounis members

Happy Birthday, Sounis!

Let's compile a Sounis email list!

Tiny Little Meetup! And, What Are You Reading?

Bookmark this site in case Sounis stops working

Did you know Livejournal is a Russian-owned company?

Happy Birthday to Us!

Virtual Author Visit via Old Firehouse Books

Community "Timeline" Project

Reflecting with gratitude on a decade of fandom

NTTBF19 - MWT in conversation

Happy Birthday, Sounis!

In case you haven't seen...

QT Prints

Dreamwidth (and other platforms) Friending Celebration

Find me on:

mwt gets serious love on tor.com

Plans for discussing Thick as Thieves? Thoughts? And a reminder about spoilers!

Queen's Thief aesthetic blog

Crossposting ideas

Why I should [not] have an ARC

Happy Birthday, Sounis!

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