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What's cool about Gideon I think is that she's actually, in-universe non-conforming, rather than just being "butch" or "masc" to our sensibilities but relatively passé within the universe. We read Gideon as masculine, yes, but it's not like Gideon acts like Ortus, or Mortus, or Crux. Nor does she act like Aiglamene, for that matter. The Ninth to me presents a kind of monastic androgyny - everyone shaves their head, everyone wears baggy black robes, everyone paints their face. Gideon, with her "ridiculous" hair and aversion to skull paint, is therefore non-conforming to the gender of Ninth. She's also non-conforming to the gender of cavalier, it's not something she was raised in, it's something she struggles to "pass" as. Gideon is basically transcavalier. And I think that's cool! I've seen a lot of people posit basically "what would it even mean to be 'butch' in a post-gender society" and I think Gideon solves that equation nicely by being "butch" to us in the real world and being decidedly nonstandard for both Ninth cavalier and a cavalier in general within the text. You need to look beyond what we consider arbitrarily "masculine" and "feminine" in order to effectively analyze gender in tlt, and I for one think that's very interesting

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The concept of Gansey making a surprise visit to Harvard is one I enjoy immensely for a lot of reasons but the funniest one is the concept of Crying Club meeting Gansey and witnessing his dynamic with Adam and Adam is ofc spending these interactions going *they will know I am an imposter they will clock the fact that I'm wearing a Gansey skin suit -- I mean lightly borrowing from him here. They will witness Gansey in his golden, glorious splendour, the way his smile would make the sun and stars feel dim and want to do his bidding, his effortless beauty and charm, and know I am a pretender". Meanwhile the crying club isn't thinking of that at all and is doing what any normal queer friend group would do; clocking the homoeroticism on sight, doing their best to get as many details as possible, spends the next several months after Gansey leaves privately talking about and theorizing about what went on with them, and mercilessly tease Adam about it when Gansey is not around.

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quick kevin sketch i did a while ago

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hey wait! i know you! we used to be chained next to each other in the cave! wow, so good to see you, how are ya? man. remember how we used to talk about the shadows on the wall together. gosh that was a long time ago. but hey. sure is one heck of a sun out here, right? it's good to see you.

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Call Your Mom by Noah Kahan, but it's Gansey about Ronan after his (assumed) suicide attempt (the mom is Declan)

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I saw something very cute and got inspired. The kevjerejean groupchat is perpetually on my mind

Inspired By

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blue sargent is a hypocrite

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This part-

They ruined me forever

I still haven't finished the third book but I needed to draw that scene

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CAUGHT MY LOCKED TOMB POST AT 6699 NOTES

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astonishing how good it can feel to get some chores done sometimes. you’ll be sitting there like damn i am some type of horrid little smeagol like creature who should be crushed to death. but then you do some laundry and you’re like wrow. im actually gods most fuckable soldier.

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relistening to Nona and god i cant stop thinking about alecto. The one thing nona is good at is people. she loves people. she cant read, she hates food, she doesnt like that she has hands, she eats pencils but she can know people better than any person ever could. she can tell camilla and palamades apart immediately. she knows pash by the way she moves her bones. she knows every language if she can just see it spoken and she knew kiriona was the saddest girl in the world by sight. alecto never knew how to act human, was never meant to have a body, but when shes nona all she knows is humanity. going insane.

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Thinking about how in Gideon's narration she employs 206 anatomical names for bones but Harrow doesn't know the difference between a hilt and a pommel. Something something cavaliers being expected to respect/understand/integrate into necromancy while necromancers are not expected to do the same for caveliership. Is this anything.

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mind if I come over and behave somewhat like a scared animal before I adjust

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"tumblr humor is only funny to tumblr users" NOT true. those bitches on pinterest love us.

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