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I JUST FINISHED NONA IM LOSING IT IM LOSING IT IM LOSING IT I NEED TO TALK TO A GAY PERSON. GAY PEOPLE COME
just met paul and crashed out
almost done with nona and i still have zero idea whats going on. like at all. and thats fine, at this point its a shock if i know about something or connect the dots because its almost unheard of for me 🤓☝️
(HELP?????)
the tantrum scene actually clicked something in my head. Nona reminds me of my younger self before going through Occupational therapy for my Autism. I have had tantrums similar (not going berserker mode lol) and felt the same rage the book details.
Very good art ol. Captured my autistic rage :]
nona the ninth spoilers and tw for violence and blood
nona tantrum scene :)
Camilla Hect my beloved
Bugs when you lift up a rock
Decided to make Coronabeth’s eyes more purple. Ianthe’s eyes are the same color and not her lyctor colors because i think it would be cool if occasionally the lyctor’s original eye colors could still be seen in glimpses
Gideon the ninth doodles
I'm feeling things about dood like I feel things for Nona. Both of them are just little things with love in their hearts and they've been suffering unjustly and just oh. Oh man.
Drew everyone’s favorite lesbian, Harrowhark^^
While I love and personally feel very seen by the allegorical* butch transfem/gnc/non-passing rep we get from Pyrrha, the circumstances that lead to her current gender situation somewhat muddy the waters on this imho….
Functionally*, Pyrrha becomes a butch trans woman who works dig-sites to feed her found family. This is entirely due to G1deon dying to Varun and leaving her behind in his body though, so whether this is her preferred presentation can’t really be called here.
Before lyctoral consumption, Pyrrha was head of intelligence for the Cohort, and a cop long before that. She’s great with guns and swords, and falls for people capable of burning empires down single-handedly. Classic femme fatale shit historically, but slightly gender-fucky given the cavalier dynamic.
On the other hand again, she calls her family “daddy’s treasures” after coming home late one night, and leaves her/G1deon’s hair cropped. 🤷
So in short.. Pyrrha is a woman who died alongside her nerdy polycule in a nuclear apocalypse, got resurrected as the bodyguard of her best friend, got killed again and magically consumed by said best friend, spent the next 10,000 years give or take intermittently regaining consciousness in his body after having part of her soul eaten away, and now lives in his body full time while undercover in an active war-zone. Anyone got a niche gender label and pride flag for that?
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*While I wouldn’t want someone in these books to just say “Hi! I’m trans and go by -/-” as this would clash with the subtler baked-in queerness of the post-resurrection world building, there are other ways to write explicitly trans characters that don’t require the plot hoops that Pyrrha had to be thrown through in order to be classified as representation.
my daily mental exercise is trying to determine where pyrrha falls on the butch-femme scale
Nona the Ninth: The book in which half the cast dies and/or comes back wrong to the shock and horror of the rest 🤣😭
Paul - just Paul
Paul (HectSextusHextus) seems to have some sort of deal about insisting strongly that they are NOT Camilla or Palamades and do not necessarily maintain any of the emotions, opinions, or relationships of Cam or Pal. While I understand that, and it is totally fine if that's how it is for Paul going forward, I feel like they are a little insensitive with throwing it around while their friends (and their sweet little dying Nona baby) are in full crisis, and grieveing on top of that. Like they specifically say "Camilla and Palamades loved you" not "I love you" and "Cam remembered that", not I remember that. And they say this all so casually, and it just adds to the pain, because everyone is watching, hoping, thinking, let me see a moment of either one of them still being alive, please, please, please. And Paul is like NO I PAUL NOW. so so soooooo excited to see this character going forward and how they act, and how other people act around them. Because even as I read this back I realize it's completely unfair to be annoyed at Paul for not being Cam or Pal, but I feel it is one of the natural emotions to result from this scenario. and I want to see everyone react. but Nona is dead so- wow okay I'm sad now
Locked Tomb: Darkest Dungeon Edition
what if……. tlt as silly game….
For me a lot of the horror lies primarily in the fact that the culture, traditions, and tactics of the nine houses stem almost entirely from the mind of one eccentric depressed nerd with a (literal) vengeful god complex.
Like, John lives in a space station where the walls are coated floor to ceiling in the corpses of people who have died serving him over the span of 10,000 years, one of his houses is a literal army of cloned child soldiers sent to the frontlines like a slaughterhouse conveyer belt, and the entire toxic necro/cav dynamic is based entirely around him being unable to trust his closest friends to stay by his side without emotional manipulation.
This entire universe is built on the hypothetical what-if of what would happen if someone was allowed to reshape the universe to their liking at the expense of everyone else, and that someone happened to be terminally online.
It’s like when authors jokingly say they’re terrible people for what they put their characters through but in this case, John’s fanfic is real. It’s like if Paul Atreides had a Tumblr account.
For me, I guess, the locked tomb is really superficially a good story and has lots of aspects that are good in isolation and appeal to a wide variety of queer readers but I think this series would have been better and more satisfying if Ms Muir had leaned more into the gothic and away from the internet humor. In my mind there’s no reason why each House wouldn’t be entrenched so deeply in things we consider taboo and repulsive that it’s unpalatable to most readers. Instead it’s like if Homestuck 2 was good
masc lesbian save me...save me masc lesbian
what brand of mentally ill are you? based on what you think of first when you see tlt
your honour i'm in love with them
the love triangle in TLT is so funny because it's not even a true love triangle. it's like a shape that hasn't even been invented yet. first you've got Ianthe, who thinks Harrow is totally into her but isn't. and Harrow is into Gideon but also this really sexy corpse. the sexy corpse was maybe probably in a relationship with Gideon's dad who's also the leader of the solar system. he hooks up with his officers sometimes and has hooked up with his best friends over the last 10,000 years because they were bored. Ianthe also has this weirdly borderline incestuous relationship with Coronabeth but Coronabeth is in love with Judith who had a crush on her now-dead cavalier. the only ones who've got a semi-normal relationship are Camilla and Palamedes and even then they had a weird poly thing with Dulcinea even though they never met her in person. and they have another weird poly thing with Pyrrha but by that point they're sharing a body. then they decide to do a mutual suicide/soul binding ritual and become a whole new person in Camilla's body. also they're second cousins. oh Pyrrha also had a weird poly thing with her necro and Gideon's biomom/the leader of the rebellion who's fighting against Gideon's biodad. I don't even have time to unpack all that and that doesn't even cover half of the shit happening here. there's also the whole Cytherea thing
Name ten female characters you like, you get zapped if it's jsut a male character you call a babygirl or other feminine nicknames because I can't see people calling Lestat coquette again
made some diagrams to help my friends fully grasp the concept of the River in HtN and NtN
Guys I need to stop having ideas that I don't have the time or artistic skills for. I'm sitting at work thinking about how cool (and undoubtedly heartbreaking) it would be if there was a tlt animatic to Vulture by Bear Ghost and I'm like 5 seconds from going insane because of it.
Like this song has made me a little feral since it came out last year (I think. Time is an illusion) but I just listened to it for the first time in a few weeks and oh my god. I might come back to this post later and write an essay about it because the locked tomb has consumed my life even more so than it did when I was actually reading the series.
John Gaius shortly before eating the solar system to kill some useless bastard billionaires, creating the creatures that would hunt him and his friends down for the next 10000 years and also the Barbie that will (hopefully) lead to his downfall in the process.
sometimes i wonder what it's like to he mentally stable. anyway *resets the universe* this time it's gonna work out for sure
Me liking 38426274950 posts about the locked tomb at midnight because I can't stop thinking about those fucking weirdo loser characters
you will ALWAYS catch me being pathetic on tumblr.com
I think Nona would very much like the speech at the end of Minecraft. Especially the last few lines, I think.
I have more thoughts on this but I just spent far too long in the end and my brain is fried. Feel free to add on if any of you also have thoughts on this.
Amen
character with HUGE LIAR written in his forehead: waughh i am so sad...nobody like me
audience: waaaugh he is so sad...nobody likes him :(
This is a side blog for my side project.
What am I doing?
I am creating a necklace for each of the nine houses in Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb.
Why?
Short answer, because I have ADHD
Long answer, because beading and the locked tomb both set off the good chemicals in my brain. Quietly beading in a corner while occasionally muttering about symbolism is a good way to be a roomate. Pacing back and forth while trying to express my love for camilla hect is Less Well Received.
Also I want to create fan art but 2d art is got my strong suit.
Also my adhd goblin brain likes pretty necklace.
What will I do with them when I am done?
IDK wear them. If Tamsyn Muir asked, I'd give her one.
Will I post instructions?
Sort of....
Some of the necklaces I will create instructions for.
Some of the patterns are really about a technique. If you understand, the technique, then recreating the necklace will be strait forward. I'd rather link to a good tutorial and give material and dimensions than try to write a bad tutorial.
Also, I have a small neck, so some of them may need to resized with math.
Will I go in order?
No.
Do I have rules?
Yes, so many.... my adhd Brain wants symbolism! It wants meaning out of chaos. It wants ART! So here are the rules, or at least the Internal logic
Every house gets a necklace. 1st though 9th.
Every necklace will include size 11 seads beads, though they can also include other beads
Each necklace will be made with house colors
Each necklace will have the number of unique beads related to house number. (Ex. 2nd house is made with 2 colors of red size 11 sead beads)
Findings are not counting against the unique beads count, but should reflect the house number if possible.
Only houses I think would attend a sexy party willing get metallic beads. But what constitutes shiny beads is left up to my discretion.
The construction of the necklace will be thematically appropriate. And something that I can imagine a member of the house wearing.
The value labor+materials will be thematically appropriate. So rich houses will be bigger and more complex than poorer houses. Except for the 9th house, will will include animal bone beads which are expensive.
Each necklace will have a gold "One flesh, One End" charm on the clasp.
Will I post updates?
Yes, though a lot of it will be bitch about the 3rd.