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Gideon couldn't help herself: "Are you asking me to... throw her a bone?" - [Gideon Nav,] Gideon the Ninth, chapter 2, page 31.

"I suppose you could say that I - ha, ha - cavalier primarried!" - [Magnus Quinn,] Gideon the Ninth, chapter 11, page 112.

"Hi, Not Fucking Dead," he said. "I'm Dad." - [John Gaius,] Harrow the Ninth, chapter 50, page 475.

Can you see it. Can you see what I'm fucking saying.

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kind of a delayed mermay thing

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Imagine being born. Imagine you didn't exist one minute ago and now you exist and you are on fire (!) and there's a lot of people staring at you. You are naked and you have the memories of two people in your brain and everybody was expecting them to save the day, but they died of codependency and left you at the helm. Also outside it's raining huge insectoid monsters. Nobody wants you there and they are mourning the people whose memories are now yours. Despite being born like 5 minutes ago, you have to drive a huge truck into the afterlife and save a bunch of people. Oh, and you have to persuade the spirit of the Earth not to commit suicide killing you and the aforementioned bunch of people in the process. Also everybody hates the name you chose for yourself.

For some reason, you are in a good mood.

I must hand it to Paul: they might have a terrible name, but I really, really envy their "working under pressure" skills.

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@fluxphage said "YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME GIDEON NAV WOULDN'T CALL HARROW 'THE BONER'" and unfortunately, they're correct.

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two of them

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kind of a delayed mermay thing

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"Pyrrha crossed over to the truck, to Nona, and leant heavily into the interior; Nona could see that she was sweating, in exactly the same way she had sweated after the bottle of bleach. She mumbled 'You knew this was happening. You knew this was happening months ago,' and when Nona put her hand on Pyrrha's, it was like Pyrrha hadn't even noticed her."

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day 42

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harrowhark gets her lobotomy at claire's: the aftermath comic

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So very close.

Yet a universe away.

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canaan house i miss you

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Me, reading GTN for the first time, biased for the Gideon POV narration: why everyone is so mean to Gideon why arent they befriending her when she is so cool???

Gideon most of the book:

"Gonna spend my time not talking and standing in the shadows full in black"

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In sotto voce:

"Nooooo, Gideon, don't say that she doesn't like you. She made you a sexy barista."

"Multiple AUs with you, Gideon."

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Babs, Ianthe, Corona.

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i dont know how to explain it but joining extremely small fandoms with only a few people in them feels like this

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When she griddle on my harrow till I hark. Is this anything

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camilla hect tries so hard to present herself as unflappable, which makes this scene significantly more devastating to me.

she sees gideon on the stairs, lurking in the shadows and dressed in all black, and she only narrows her eyes and explodes into action.

she fights cytherea “like her heart had exploded,” but her face is described as solemn and obstinate as she asks about palamedes’s last words.

she watches harrow sit up all at once after following the thanergetic links to palamedes’s river bubble and she doesn’t flinch. she tries to repress the intensity of her desire to know if he’s still in there, even though she ultimately can’t contain her feelings and harrow sees through it.

she has “a resolute, keen, utterly unmoved face” and nona remarks that she never flinches at loud vehicle noises or people shouting nearby through the thin walls.

when she’s lost so much blood that she’s breathing high and tight, she holds onto nona “unflinchingly” despite the pain (and, let’s be real, the terrifying experience of being nona’s passenger on a motorcycle, of all things).

she gets a second-hand knuckle kiss from palamedes, and THAT’S when her composure breaks. even after it’s a well-established routine — she almost doesn’t flinch.