#gentleman bastards

[galenti]

locke and jean doodles :3

[bookcub]

*in a series that has previously all been written by one person

[hinumay]

I was trying to sketch locke lamora but WHYY does he feel like Taryon Darlington instead.. ahhh xD maybe Locke's just cosplaying Tary to con Vox Machina

[castlehater]

I love that the arc of the books is everything goes right - everything goes meh - everything goes wrong - everything goes right again, whereas in Gentleman Bastards it's everything goes meh - everything goes wrong - everything goes WORSE - everything goes FATAL

[arterialbloom]

jean tannen and locke lamora: evidence that the best duo dynamic is in fact big murder guy + tiny scheming guy

[house-dimir-official]

I'm obsessed with the concept of things that are "beyond human comprehension" not because they are alien or eldritch necessarily but just because they are so damn old, in real life and in fiction.

Art and painting of things that no longer exist, tools made for a forgotten purpose, the Nazca lines, the Guildpact from Ravnica, random contraptions built by the Greeks that we still don't know the function of, Elderglass from the Gentleman Bastards (technically this one is also alien but if the aliens were still around presumably the technology would be less opaque).

And the best part is I think that one day this will happen digitally. At some point PDFs and .docx and .jpg will just be letters and numbers, modern computers won't be able to open them without an emulator, and then people will stop updating the emulators, and then those files will just be digital lost artifacts floating through cyberspace.

And idk I just think that's neat.

[cymae-mesa]

A thing I'm really enjoying about Gentleman Bastards: Locke is genuninely devout. He's a sham priest of Perilandro, but a true beliver in the 13th. He sacrifices things, feels compelled to do things which fuck up his plans, he makes life so much harder for himself because that's the will of his strange god.

There's religious characters in fiction all the time. But for the dashing rouge/charming conman character to have such strong religious convictions he outs himself as a theif in order to give a more honest funeral service is rare.

[thexgrayxlady]

Locke Lamora ruined fantasy heist books for me.

[actual22plus]

Shallan Davar and Locke Lamora, the friends you would be...

[rowan-is-reading]

Local studious axe-wielding bear and his homoerotic best friend the bisexual conman twink are on their way to rob the biggest fantasy casino in the fantasy sea

[mrkapao]

"Congratulations! We’re reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!" - Scott Lynch 'Red Seas Under Red Skies'

[jira-chii]

I reread the Lies of Locke Lamora while on holiday recently!

Here is Nazca making sure her pezon pays his taxes 💰

And here are some fake initiates of Perelandro stealing a corpse 💀

[leannbolesch]

Just finished the prologue for The Lies of Locke Lamora, which I don't know the premise of because I picked up the book on a recommendation from a stranger without reading the jacket blurb, and damn. I know I'm reading the fully edited version, but this must be what agents and editors are taking about when they say they can tell if a book is good in a single page. The writing is so good that I was excited to be along for the ride, whatever the heck that is, before I even got a vague sense for how enjoyable the characters are.

[professor-cold-ramen]

I think it's funny that in the 10th anniversary of The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott admits that it has flaws and wasn't the perfect debut every author wants but. like. I've read that book multiple times in the past year and I have yet to admit that it has any flaws. It's perfect. You can't change my mind.

[williamsssnakespeare]

Kvothe is basically a male Sabetha change my mind

[replicantapologist]

I was here minding my own business and then I remembered Nazca :(