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Gideon protects!

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Gideon Nav somehow has a 20 perception and a 6 insight and idk how she did that but God she notices everything and interprets it entirely wrong every time

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one of the bookmarks that went with the t-shirts

both Nona and Corona won by people's vote on whom to draw

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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The popularity of Letterkenny and Shorsey is absolutely bizarre to me and I can't keep it to myself anymore.

I live in Northeastern Ontario, and I'm gonna let you in on a secret. Some people here are just, 100% like that. Those shows are an absolutely dead on portrayal of how a certain kind of person just, is here. I can walk out my front door and with very little effort find someone who talks and behaves exactly like that.

The places they reference? They exist, it's not fiction. The shows both take place in a city called Sudbury, which is an absolutely real place that is *exactly* like that.

"The Soo"? That's Sault St. Marie, another absolutely real place that we just call The Soo.

Hearing and seeing these places on TV is bizarre to me because basically nobody lives here. We *never* get mentioned, for good reason, nobody frikin lives here.

But it's the slang and accent that gets me more than anything, because here's the thing. That accent, that slang, is again just exactly how some people here talk. It just sounds normal to me.

But that's a fraction of a fraction of people.

Northeastern Ontario is very under populated. The town I live in has less than 10k people, and we are considered on the bigger side. Take that, and consider that it's far less than half the people here that talk or sound like that, and basically nobody in Canada talks like that.

But because of those shows, I'm noticing it's becoming a new stereotypical Canadian accent, which I cannot stress the bizarre-ness of enough.

I don't really have a point with this, I just can't sit on how absolutely bizarre this feels anymore.

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the arm scene but it’s gideon’s heart

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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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CATRADORA PROBLEMATIC SHIP DISCOURSE??? OK MY DASHBOARD???? IN THE 25TH YEAR OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM????? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU

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tlt tumblr: here’s a 52-page treatise on how john’s vision of his empire references the first and second crusades, cross-analyzed with the modern trend of liberal apathy and a layered examination of the complexities of a man from a colonized people becoming a colonizer. almost didn’t post it here because it feels too obvious haha

tlt reddit: can someone remind me who ‘cam’ is?

tlt twitter: guyssss i don’t know if i can finish these books 😭😭 i wanted nice lesbians in space but this relationship is lowkey toxic???

person in real life: hey man how’s it going

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I'm re-reading HtN again, and struck again by Muir's skill at hiding things in plain sight.

Harrow is confused about reality. The narration is chatty and sassy, in exactly the way Harrow has gotten used to being sassed.

And so when John's first full scene with Harrow involves him negging her in almost every statement he makes, it's easy for the cruelty not to register. It's kind of normal, you know? And then when he realizes that saying a particular word is doing Harrow actual, physical injury, his response is *curiosity.* Curiosity and repeating the word a couple more times to see what will happen.

But the reader doesn't understand what's happening, and Harrow definitely doesn't understand what's happening, and the narration continually informs us how kind and gentle he is, so we're encouraged to think--maybe this is just how he shows love?

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here's a fake interview about my me & my girlfriend that i transcribed from my head. enjoy!

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Harrowhark Nonagesimus Unholy Trinity of Suffering [aka Harrows Hat Trick]

She's Schizophrenic. Real. Grounded. A condition many people the world over struggle with and can relate to.

She's Haunted. Supernatural. Spooky. Adds ambiance and flavor.

God wants her dead. Personally. I mean who among us hasnt felt that

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The fucked-upedness of everything in The Locked Tomb pretty much doubles if you read it with Jod saying, "Come on, love. Guys as careful as me don't have accidents" in the back of your head.

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I still can't get over the fact that nobody corrected Harrow or even asked "what the fuck are you talking about". can you imagine being Gideon The First and hearing some fuckass 18 year old that you've been instructed to murder call you Ortus all the time. nobody knows who that is except for Harrow, so it's not like Ianthe could've explained it.

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Where did Gideon get these superpowers? She's hard to kill, she's good with a sword, she's ridiculously strong.

It's because she's the emperor's daughter, right?

But John's not genetically special. Even those eyes, which Cytherea and Mercy respond to with the phrase "Lipochrome. Recessive," are not genetically his. His eyes were brown; they turned yellow when his powers kicked in.

In another series, we'd handwave that. He's powerful, Gideon inherited it, fantasy monarchy magic, done.

But these books are obsessed with the mechanics of reproduction, and HtN is particularly invested in the particulars of how Gideon came to be. Why are we told (twice!) that the eggs all died? Why discuss John's immortal sperm? And why, when John hears Harrow tell what her parents did, does he lean in and discuss the craft of it?

Why does he describe it as a kind of resurrection he's done once before?

I put it to you that he made Gideon that way on purpose. That at some point in the 500-year build up to Dios Apate, Major, he picked up on the plan.

And John "guys as careful as me don't have accidents" Gaius thought, "unlocking the Tomb? I'm in! And you want it to be your fault, not mine? Choice. Feigning ignorance is my middle name, man."

But he couldn't resist tweaking the plan a little: he wanted a custom baby (so she'd survive and be the ultimate cavalier? So she'd be a better bomb?). That's why the reader needs to know the dummies died and the sperm lived: because it's a telltale sign of the hand of God.

I bet Wake self-inseminated and smelled like lemons for days.

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MASSIVE locked tomb spoilers under the cut

I can't believe I fell for the deceptively simple tagline "lesbian necromancers in space" when The Locked Tomb is actually:

The whole goddamn rainbow trapped in the most heart wrenching murder mystery, but no one is aware that it's a murder mystery. Also it's narrated by a dumb jock who accidentally becomes an older sister figure of sorts to two high school aged child soldiers. Also this jock doesn't care enough about the world she lives in to learn what's happening around her so if you wanted to know what's going on, tough luck.

A scrawny, mentally ill teenager hallucinating the dead body that she's in love with while being haunted by the dumb jock's dead mother while also being bullied by her mean coworkers, narrated by the dumb jock whose soul inhabits the body of the scrawny teenager, who loved her too much to consume her. Also god is there and he makes references to modern-day shit posts. Also god is the dumb jock's dad but he didn't consent to becoming a father nor did he know the dumb jock existed.

A literal six month old baby trapped in the body of the scrawny mentally ill teenager, being raised by two codependent nerds trapped in one body and the soul of a dead woman trapped in the body of the man who loved her too much to consume her. Also this organization that's probably a militant cult of some sort with unclear intentions keeps butting into their life. Also god and his dumb jock daughter are both alive and making people miserable. Also the six month old is the trapped soul of the long-dead earth that god came from. And they return the soul to the body (the same one the scrawny mentally ill teenager is in love with and was hallucinating about in the previous book) and the first thing we learn about her is that she's a really bad kisser.