The Emperor, The Empress And The Actually Lord Chancellor Emperor's Secretary

The private study scene from "The Hands of the Emperor"

"One moment each morning in which you spoke as a person to another person, and was greeted as a person by another person: on such did the entire machinery of apotheosis stutter to a halt."

Hi, hello, I finished reading The Hands of the Emperor and started the little companion novella Petty Treasons, which is the Emperor and Cliopher's first meeting from the Emperor's point of view. It does not disappoint.

Not even the gods can help you with that, brother

“Cousin Kip! Whatever are you doing here? Are you with the sky ship that came last month?”

“Yes. I am in attendance to my lord.” He gestured discreetly at his Radiancy, who was smiling more sardonically than benevolently and thus did not look exactly like the state portrait hanging directly behind him.

The Hands Of The Emperor, by Victoria Goddard

aka that one time HR was trying not very hard not to be this picture:

i think the last emperor of astandalas artorin damara would be fixed by kissing a boy

I think the united states of america would really benefit from being under the rule of His Imperial Serenity, Emperor Edrehasivar VII

The target audience for my art is myself

i like aphrodite's matching makeup with ares :)

The problem with rereading the goblin emperor is that I’m gonna finish it at some point and then it’ll be over. Unless of course I reread it, again.

— Franz Kafka, The Castle | The Lovers of Valdaro