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I genuinely think the "that's what she said" in gtn is just the joke version of convergent evolution. It's not that original of a joke and it wouldn't be unbelieavable to think gideon just came up with it on her own. But the much funnier interpretation is that Jod saved some things from the old world, after all the nukes, and one of those was The Office. And through 10.000 years michael scott saying "that's what she said" survived in the minds of the houses.

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love when artists draw ianthe covered in blood. as she should be. this is her natural state. freak. (affectionate)

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i love u mercymorn

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Harrow's necromantic power includes the ability to create underlighting whenever it's necessary.

Bonus:

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it's kinda crazy to me that I think Gideon the ninth is the worst book in the series so far. Not because it's particularly bad, but because each book after just gets better and better.

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Never realized that the first thing Gideon does when she’s in Harrows body, the first thing she does as a character since her death, is un-impale herself. Harrow had been skewered through by Mercy just like Gideon was by the fence. Tamsyn fucking Muir.

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I love how in tma Elias' spooky allies were all very much like, from domains that deal with mental warfare and schemes, like the lonely or the web. But Lena just straight up has a poppy playtime demon in her payroll that she seems to exclusively use as a hitman to brutally murder people that stand in her way. And, honestly, she's so real for that.

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Oh Ianthe...

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harrowhark nonagesimus is the character of all time. she weighs 6 stone soaking wet. she doesn’t sleep. she’s 200 dead babies. she puppets her dead mum and dad. she’s a nun. she’s in love with a frozen corpse. she gets a headache when people talk about sex. she wants to die. her bodyguard is in love with her. her weird colleague is in love with her. she gave herself a lobotomy. she’s being piloted by the soul of the planet earth. she loves bones. she wants to live. she makes soup. she watched god have a threesome. she looks like a ferret. this is all canon

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I love how artists all draw Palamedes a little different from eachother but always draw camilla the exact same way. Is there a cannon pic of camilla somewhere or is her vibe so strong that everyone just like, gets her.

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I love how artists all draw Palamedes a little different from eachother but always draw camilla the exact same way. Is there a cannon pic of camilla somewhere or is her vibe so strong that everyone just like, gets her.

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I wonder what commander Wake would think of Gideon's dreams of joining the cohort. Would she even consider Gideon enough of her daughter to care about her choices, or would she see Gideon as just another goon standing in her way? Would she take into account that a child raised inside the nine houses has little to no perpective on what enlisting actually means? Would she feel sorry for Gideon? Betrayed, maybe? Or even angry.

I don't have a good read on Wake but I really hope we get to see the her and Gideon interact somehow.

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There's this joke at the early parts of Gideon the ninth where Gideon is making fun of necromancers, as one does, and she says some dumb joke about bone studies with Doctor Skelebones. And on a fist read I was like "haha gideon is a himbo, very silly." But then throughout that chapter the narration keeps bringing up Doctor Skelebones and i'm like "This joke isn't worth that much page presence what's going on."

I was on the verge of being actually annoyed with it until I realised: it's not the book that thinks "bone studies with Doctor Skelebones" is a such an amazing joke that it deserve a call back every two paragraphs, it's fucking Gideon. Gideon is so fucking proud of this pun that it keeps bouncing around in her head for the rest of the chapter, probably because she can't actually say it due to the whole vow of silence thing.

I think that was the moment that got me hooked on tlt. I don't think it has the best prose or the best worldbuilding, but the characters are absolutely amazing. Not only they're incredibly interesting in their personalities and interactions, but they feel almost alive as you read the books.

In the end bone studies with Doctor Skelebones was an amazing pun and it did deserve all that screentime.

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At the point of my life where I see a blonde with a rapier and go "IANTHE???"

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The little saint and the dead prince

Something possesed me and this came out, I don't have much explanation for this one, just yearning griddlehark. There is some symbolism going on but it's up to interpretation!

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It always baffles me how Tamsyn Muir writes the locked tomb series as if it's a fanfic. It's such a weird feeling, but I don't in any way mean it as an insult.

When you're reading tlt series there's always this presence of the author that you don't often get on other published books. Like, she'll make in jokes and references as if she's part of the fandom. Right when you're getting immersed in the world she'll pull out a "That's what she said" or "Jail for mother!" and suddenly you remmember that this is a book, with an author, an author really fond of puns and internet memes.

Tamsyn Muir writes like she's writting fanfiction to a small, nieche fandom where all the authors all kinda know eachother, and they've already deviated from canon so much that the stories are their own thing now.

It used to bother me a lot on my first read but now I'm just fascinated by it. It feels like you're reading a work made by a peer. A peer who is really good at writting, but a peer no less.

Maybe it's just that I grew up and have written some stuff myself, and now I can see things I couldn't before. But idk, it just really interests me the way Tamsyn just fucking writes shit like she's just trying to amuse herself or her friends. I came to respect it a lot.

I'm not as good of a writter so there's no conclusion to this really. Just postulating to the void like I'm Palamedes Sextus.

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Laura "Doot doot doot doodoot" Bailey sending a message that's 5 words long is the true plotwist of campaing 3.