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THEY MADE NOAH DO THE CRAZY TOGETHER SCENE FOR THE AUDITION.............. what is byler doubt, i dont know her!!!

insane how this also means that they wrote it before season 1, meaning they really were planning byler from the beginning <3

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Give me Steve that doesn't give a fuck about the ndas

What's the gov going to do kill him? Worse things have tried and failed

It's not like anyone would believe him anyway

Post season 3 pre season 4 Eddie runs into Steve while he's carting the party around and asks how exactly he came to know his newest sheep

Steve just shrugs and says fighting monsters

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So here's a question. What does it mean that the Message has two parts left?

When I first read this, my mind seized on "The name for this part of the message was 'Aim' when the message was passed to us through ny forebear Emma Sen." From this I inferred two things. One, the message is passed from generation to generation; a human chain, stretching back millennia, like Wake says about her name. I also am very convinced that the Message is meant to function like aboriginal Australian oral history, which has remained accurate for millennia. Two, that tazmuir is very funny ("Emma Sen"/MSN, get it, ha ha).

But if the Message is only carried by one person in a generation -- if there's only one Messenger -- then what does it mean that there are only two parts left? Does this mean the Message is only meant to last for one more generation? And if so, why is it that we are reaching the end of BOE's notion of history?

Alternatively, it could be that there used to be many keepers of the Message in any given generation, but now there are only a few. Specifically, now there are only two keepers, or two parts, at a time: the Messenger, and Noodle.

We have a lot of hints that Noodle is extremely important in his own right. In the dramatis personae, he is described as "king of dogs in secret". In chapter 20, We Suffer describes the Messenger by saying, "All you need to know is that they are the one with the little arboreal dog who is elderly" -- implying the Messenger is defined by the dog in some way. In chapter 18, the second Palamedes asks Aim about the implant, "Noodle had gotten up from the basket and the hair right at his flanks was standing up as though it had been electrocuted, and he was growling. Nona had never heard Noodle growl before." In this interview, tazmuir says Noodle is "the most important dog in the universe."

I don't think Aim is the next-to-last Messenger; I think Emma Sen passed a task related to the caretaking of Noodle, and Noodle's message, on to Aim, and they're currently the two remaining pieces of the Message. I think it's possible that the implant connects Aim and Noodle, rendering them "they," the last two parts of the Message.

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Strange Names in Nona the Ninth

Nona’s gang of kids, plus the Angel, all appear to have weird names because they are Nona’s transliterations of their names in their native languages into the language of the Nine Houses.

Hot Sauce nodded. Nona guessed again, “Born in the Morning.” “You mean Born in the Morning,” said Hot Sauce. “That’s what I said,” said Nona.

There are seventeen local languages (according to Ianthe) on New Rho. Nona can speak all of them, without really understanding what she’s doing, so she understands the names she hears and the meaning of these names to be synonymous.

Nona understood everybody, and could speak back to them so that they understood her, and nobody ever said she had an accent. This confounded Palamedes. When she first said that she could speak back by watching them talk and making her lips look like theirs, it confounded him so much more that it gave Camilla a headache.

(I think the same thing’s going on with The Building that Troia cell lives in; I think it’s a word in another language that means building and is used as an official name for the building, but I have no guesses as to what that could be.)

I believe Nona is able to do this both because she is Alecto, who plays the role of the Holy Spirit in Tamsyn's Catholic Trinity 2.0, and the Holy Spirit gave the Apostles the gift of tongues during Pentecost, and because she is the soul of Earth. The languages spoken on New Rho presumably came from Earth, so of course she can speak all of them!

This is my attempt to reverse engineer all of these names into House / English.

The Angel / The Messenger

BOE calls Aim "the Messenger" and the children and Nona call her "the Angel.”

We Suffer: “Usually you both meeting up with the Messenger, whom you call the Angel, would have been very bad.”

When the Angel first appears, her name is playing on the meaning of “angel” as a caring and godly being – the reader gets that it would make sense for children who love her to see her as an angel, so this remark flies under on the radar:

The Angel was what they called the nondescript, washed-out, dusty-haired personage who came to teach the Hour of Science. Why they called her the Angel was unclear.

But it is clear why they call her The Angel! It comes from a word with two meanings: the Greek word “angelos” originally meant “messenger” and later took on the meaning of “angel” or “messenger of God,” so all names originating from this word have both of those meanings.

Names originating from “angelos” include Angela (English, Spanish), Aniela (Polish), Aingeal (Irish), Anděla (Czech), Andjela (Serbian), Angèle (French), Angiola (Italian), Anzhela (Russian), and diminutives like Angelina.

The name is intended by BOE to mean Messenger, because of her societal role, but Nona is translating the other meaning of her name, Angel, because that meaning is what makes more sense to her given the way she sees and loves the Angel.

It's also possible that BOE has a more formal version of this name as a title for the Messenger and the children's "the Angel" which Nona hears as distinct from "the Messenger" is a diminutive or less formal version of the same name.

Born in the Morning

This name could be Sabah (Arabic), Akinyi (Luo from Kenya), or Asa (Japanese), all names which mean “morning” and more specifically “born in the morning.”

Honesty

This is a bit more difficult and I’m really not sure about any of these. There are quite a few boys' names meaning “honesty.” There are even more names that mean “honest” or “truthful,” but for strictly the noun “honesty” we have these names:

Pheakdei (Khmer, from Cambodia); Satyam, Onnesha, and Sachh (Hindi); Zaka and Sadaqat (Arabic); and Onestà or Onesto (Italian).

I don’t speak any of these languages, so I can’t comment on which name is most likely, and there are probably also way more possibilities that I missed in my deep dive into 457 baby name websites and dictionary translations!

Edit: I've seen "Frank" suggested a lot as a potential name, but I don't think this is likely, because "Honesty" is a noun, and "Frank" is an adjective. I think if Tamsyn intended the name to be a transliteration of "Frank" she would have used the adjective "Honest," not the noun "Honesty " – she doesn't seem the type to overlook something like that.

Beautiful Ruby

I think this name is probably just two names, in an unknown language, one meaning “beautiful” and one meaning “ruby.”

Unfortunately, there are millions of possibilities here and I can’t find any combination that particularly jumps out. If you have more thoughts on this please let me know!

Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce, of course – as a delightful choice that only serves to confuse the reader more with respect to all of these names – is literally just named Hot Sauce. You CAN put it on rice and you CAN put it on bread!!

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Why are there photos im not aware of yet

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I have a bed bug

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MICHAEEEEEEEELLLL WHEEEEELEEEEERRRRRR

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Eddie, stuck on a song for months

Steve, walks up humming the song Eddie’s been working on and just continuing with a few new bars unconsciously

Eddie, jumping up to grab his guitar to go see the guys "You're a brilliant man and I want your brain on my shelf." Kisses his head and runs away

Steve, bamboozled, newly bi and in love. "Oh."

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waiting for bts this year has actually been so fun and now i’m going to have to find something else to invest my time into whenever the show ends?? ridiculous

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"i just feel like boys are easier" -- parent who is going to emotionally neglect their amab kids

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enjoy those stupid little photos

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i just had one of the best fanfic experiences of my entire life mike was JUST about to come out and out of all 101 songs on my playlist smalltown boy came up just as i was reading the line and i was like woah holy shit

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Utah's most special guy, the Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle, only occupies a 1800m x 300m area in the state park of the same name. This guy is NOT going places!

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stevey's got a little liquid courage

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hm...wonder who Steve is with 🙃

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Steve assuming he's doing something wrong when Eddie matches his energy in the relationship

No one's ever put as much effort into it as Steve had so he assumes Eddie thinks he isn't putting enough effort in

It gets out of hand very quickly