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nona the ninth

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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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Palamedes got the bonus of getting to be one of the girls, gays, and theys by becoming Paul.

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happy alectopause day 999

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Felt it was time to post this one here

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Gideon raised by Wake Au!

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The Reverend Daughter

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now that most of t-shirts reached their destination wanna post the art itself :D

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IN REGARDS TO THE 999TH DAY OF ALECTOPAUSE...

...a challenge has been issued!

an ao3 collection is NOW LIVE with the aim of showcasing the fic, art, etc. inspired by spending nearly one thousand days in alectopause. all work is welcome in the collection, BUT i'd like to particularly encourage work that highlights relationships or characters that are often overlooked or not focused on. if you've been looking for an excuse to write about ulysses the first/admiral sarpedon, or to make that fanart of sister aisamorta - now's your chance!!!

all work is recommended to be submitted by june 8th, the 999th day of alectopause. happy creating!

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Vi and Caitlyn s2

You can see more art and wip on my Patreon 😁

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felt like noodles tonight :3

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#can we make this a real thing??

I've been working on this on and off for about a year, but I dusted it off when I started my gt9 reread. I've always wanted to do fan covers for the books, but I struggled to pull off the idea I had in my head for a long time. I decided to let the piece change from my original vision, and it turned into something with a sort of gothic syth-wave vibe. I ended up really liking where it went! I have plans to do Harrow and Nona's books too, which I hope will be easier now that I've got this new plan of attack ^^ I also have an inlking of an idea for the Alecto cover, but I'd prefer to do that once I've read the book.

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Hey I know you haven't really done anything TLT in a hot minute but how do you think John changes as a character raising Gideon in your Heiress AU? Thx!!! :]

You sent this ask like 80 years ago, I’m so sorry. But to answer your question, I think he would love his child… But I’m afraid he’ll always be John.

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just some subtle lore drop

Pyrrha logic: Okay, we are in a life or death situation and seconds matter. I should only impart the most critical information to get us out of this mess.

Pyrrha: I fucked your mom.

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pinning this for myself

A SUGGESTED READING ORDER FOR TAMSYN MUIR'S SHORT FICTION FOR LOCKED TOMB FANS

1. The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time. 5k. It's short, it's the very first thing she published, it's sweet, you can think CamPal thoughts while you read it.

2. The Magician's Apprentice. 4.8k. Let's get into it. Simply one of the best things she's written, has all sorts of echoes for the Locked Tomb and altogether a barn burner. (tw: grooming)

3. Chew. 3.7k. Zombie fiction set in WWII. (tw: sexual assault)

4. Union. 5.5k. I love Union and think it doesn't get enough hype. Deeply, deeply Kiwi and also quite unsettling. A great follow-up to Nona.

5. Princess Floralinda and The Forty Flight Tower. 216 pages. A novella, get it from your library or as an ebook, alternatively, Moira Quirk does a great job with the audiobook. This is a fairy tale satire, as pointed and black-hearted as you can imagine. A main course & a must-read.

6. The Woman in the Hill. 3.9k. I'll be honest, I think this one is skippable, but then you can say you've read them all. Lovecraftian horror, told in an epistolary format between settlers in the New Zealand bush.

7. Undercover. 59 pages. Plop your money down (or find a pirated version), it's worth every penny. A undercover cop risks her life to investigate rumors of a ghoul in a gangster's speakeasy. Blood, devotion, deceit--everything you could want in a TMuir story.

8. The Deepwater Bride (links) Dessert. Available through hoopla, your local library or several ebook anthologies. Teen Hester Blake, from a family of seers, determines that blonde, Converse-clad Rainbow Kipley is destined to be the bride of an uncanny god. 22 pages and it'll change your life.

BONUS: self-published webcomic APOTHECIA, illustrated by Shelby Cragg. Space monsters, teenage girls & corruption, oh my.

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#gideon is THE chosen

doodle of Chosen Gideon inspired by a tweet on the hell app

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#she also invents coffee shop AUs with her (secret) second love interest she very much does not remember when she is living the AU

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