#lemon liveblogs

[lemonandpie]

No amount of "Armand's turning is basically a wedding" could have prepared me for how much of a wedding this scene is

[the-king-of-lemons]

shoutout to everyone else who cant escape this fucking building

[lemonandpie]

Especially wild considering in TVA Armand is having a breakdown in this moment because he realized that his mother is dying. Marius, you are so dumb.

(Also the 'wicked thing' Armand refutes doing is converting to Catholicism. So I am cackling).

Marius desperately trying to convince himself Amadeo doesn't care about his mom is even funnier than his one-sided beef with Ivan actually. like I wonder why it bugs you so much that Amadeo has a maternal who expresses her love for him and lovingly accepts the gifts (specifically the wedding rings you gave him) that he offers to show his own love and offers a culturally specific gift of her own. i Wonder.

[lemon-bread-slice]

average queer friend group on halloween + someone's little brother they had to take with them

vvv larger group shots below the cut vvv

"...She's right behind me isn't she?"

Fwhip and Joel show up, Pearl mysteriously replaces Lizzie (reverse limlife)

Plot twist it's turned into an Empires school reunion (shout out to the gap between Jimmy and Lizzie lol)

[lemon-natalia]

Nona the Ninth Reaction - Epilogue

what in the biblical language is this, it’s such a contrast to Nona’s narration. love a good TLT epilogue shift to a completely different perspective and narrative style

Alecto’s first word is ‘You’, which presumably connects to the end of saying ‘i still love y-’ in the poem at the beginning?

HARROWHARK NONAGESIMUS is back baby!! my girl is finally in the same room as Gideon for the first time in two books. i cannot wait to see Harrow’s reaction to Kiriona Gaia in AtN

‘I only die in longing for thee’ ok so the language here is definitely coloured by Alecto’s narration style, but i love that Ianthe’s response to Harrow calling her ‘bitch’ is to apparently say something extremely romantic

THEN PERISH

pfff and Alecto just tosses Ianthe aside. the last third of this book has not been great for Ianthe’s ego 

ok so the the attitude of Alecto to Pyrrha here is very interesting to me, specifically the mention of ‘appeasement’ - Alecto says that John ‘laid [her] down’ to appease ‘them’, presumably the Lyctors, which fits with what we know about the situation of Alecto being put in the tomb already. but what stands out as slightly odd here is that Alecto also says ‘he fed you to them as an appeasement to them’ - the Lyctors seemed more upset by the whole ‘consuming the souls of their cavaliers’ thing, rather than ‘appeased’. again i think there’s a lot more to the original ascension than the reader knows yet

‘and now all he has done is teach me how to die’ well that’s ominous. and also horrifically sad that this is clearly something learned as Nona, who had accepted her death, in contrast to Harrow’s assertion in John 5:4 that the only thing that scared Alecto was death

between Ianthe and Alecto Harrow just seems to be extremely kissable 

also Alecto biting Harrow as her understanding of a kiss vs Nona having an innate understanding of body language … its so sad. i miss Nona so much already

‘Get in line thou big slut!’ listen that cannot be anyone other than my girl Gideon!! i have a feeling that Alecto being in service to Harrow is going to cause Tension in the next book

‘At which John awakened and said, Annabel, good morning’ WHAT. what the hell is going on right now

that is one hell of a line to leave the book on, and pretty fitting given that the book has essentially told both of their stories (Alecto as Nona, John via Harrow’s dreams), and ends with them actually being on page together for the first time. also it is just like John to be totally, annoyingly chill about his kinda ex stabbing him in the chest smh

[kadextra]

LETS FREAKING GOOOOOO FEDERATION LORE

[mandareeboo]

Are you. Are you implying "phantom" is a slur???? Because that would make Danny Phantom infinitely funnier.

[lemontartyellow]

Y’know what. That Buck and Tommy moment was cute.

[tielleic]

I think that dono was wrong. I think that Bad did break Ron. But with the kindness he showed him. He didn't expect it and couldn't handle it and so he started to tell Bad everything he knew when he hadn't said anything under torture. Like I get what they were saying but Bad did totally reinvent Ron to like, the fundamentals

[iminyourbookshelf]

The fact that Ron gets richer everytime anyone visits is comedy gold to me.

Yes, he is just a little guy who was shoved in a basement. But now he lives in a fucking mansion because Bad felt bad for toturing him.

[sharpened-kris]

It’s sad because Bad really didn’t have to do all this. Tubbo found out about all of the hierarchy stuff by just talking to the workers as friends and investigating. He’s implicated himself (and now baghera) and hurt someone for nothing.

[lemonandpie]

Having a South Asian Armand raises so many extra implications considering how much fucking orientalism is in this book

[zitronenmeer]

saw @lil-shiro s template and thought it was too cute to pass up 💜

[lemon-bread-slice]

Swedishbeans continues

Iskall is now the ambassador of both the 'Fuck Around and Find Out' club, and the 'Fuck it, we Ball' association, congratulations.

If you're not up to date, let me fill you in:

His new big idea to officially say goodbye to Joel (not that he hasn't done that like 3 times already) is to dig a stereotypical 'Tunnel of Love' under his own base, trick Joel into a boat with promises of a silly new fishing glitch, and drop him into it. They'll then ride through it while listening to a custom record disk of Iskall singing "When We Were Young" by Adele, acapella, with dispensers that fire flowers and fireworks. Finally (possibly) they'll enter separate boats at the end to figuratively and literally 'part ways'.

The tunnel itself is straight, bare, TNT-bored, and decorated by occasional spams of various pink, magenta and red blocks though it's 80% stone. The ceiling is covered in cherry leaves hiding froglights (bought from Etho's shop).

There have also been discussions of various custom paintings, including but not limited to:

Edits of him and Joel

Him and Jimmy (at the end of the ride, to show he's moved on)

Lizzie and/or Etho but crossed out

A quote from Iskall: "Do i ever go too far? No. If anything I should go further-"

May I remind you all that this man has several hundreds of diamonds of housing investment for flats that he has yet to build?

I love minecraft youtube

[lemon-natalia]

Nona the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 25

Pyrrha really is committed to mentioning that she found Gideon’s mother attractive in every conversation that she has with her, i admire the dedication 

haha what the fuck is this. Kiriona Gaia Her Divine Highness

MUMFUCKER PRIME ngl the bad jokes are mostly the only reason i’m pretty sure this is actually Gideon and not some doppelganger. idk whether its all the trauma she’s built up over the last two books or just having to be in the general proximity of Ianthe and John for an extended period of time, but something is up with this gal

'Judith Deuteros for some reason’ i relate to this on a fundamental level given i genuinely didn’t realise that Judith was here until this moment

as much as it pains me that two of my favourite characters immediately Do Not Vibe with eachother, Gid being a dick to Nona makes sense given Nona is currently occupying the body of the person Gideon cares the most about in the world, who is themselves god-only-knows-where rn. props to Tamsyn Muir for making the bold creative choice to have her protagonists all just fucking loathe each other at some point

okay there is no way in hell that Gideon actually wants to go back to the ninth for nostalgia. unless it's nostalgia for dunking on Crux

‘it was not a very friendly smile [...] there was something a little bit hungry about it’ haha what the fuck. really said let’s dial up the ‘came back wrong’ trope to eleven here. what in the Jason Todd is this

well miss ‘I am the Emperor’s construct’ has come a long way since ‘Go to hell Pops’, this was NOT what i meant when i said i wanted more of Gideon and John interacting this book 😭😭

tamsyn muir really said ‘oh you want Gideon back? i’m going to give you what you want in the most painful way possible’ huh. this is uh somehow worse than her dying actually :)

Gideon actually knowing anything about necromancy is the most disturbing part of all of this. what happened Gid i thought you and me were on a team of this ‘necromancy is confusing as all hell’ thing. can’t believe you’d betray me like this smh

also given we last saw Gid finding out she was born as a ‘bomb’ to open the tomb, and how much she hated everything about the Ninth other than Harrow, i am very concerned about why she suddenly wants to come with to open the Tomb

the saddest girl in the whole world is Gideon??? GIDEON?? the presence of Noodle in this book lulled me into a false sense of security so that i forgot just how much this series loves breaking my heart over and over again 

i know everyone already knows from the broadcast (and possibly before if Pyrrha told them) but i do wonder how Corona, and Pal & Cam etc. reacted to finding out Gideon was God’s daughter. imagine having to deal with the revelation that the deity you are becoming increasingly disillusioned with has a kid that spent much of the time you knew her making terrible sex jokes

[kadextra]

ron is living it up!!!! a fridge, television and everything!! (there is nothing in the fridge. the tv is not connected.)