#Gideon the ninth

[froopa-coopa]

love a canon (?) coffee shop AU

[kayleerowena]

i will never dig a hole two fingers beneath this sternum to bury myself / holy, holy, holy, holy

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[chicaneryatelier]

[saintharrowhark]

it’s actually sick and twisted that harrowhark nonagesimus isn’t the most famous fictional character in the world. no one has ever had the same amount of creepy lesbian swag and no one ever will

[maeirys]

The First Flower of the Ninth

[ooctlt]

do you guys live near the tridentarii siblings/naberius? what do ya'll think of them?

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you are encouraged to note the details in the background and see what you can glean and prompt from them!

[notedchampagne]

hello ladies

[sudoscience]

Disadvantages of audiobooks: hard to pay attention to sometimes, can't always understand everything that's said, no idea how things are spelled

Advantages of audiobooks: this

God bless you, Moira Quirk.

Transcript:

"No," said Dulcinea. "Oh, no no no. Stay awake."

Gideon couldn't say anything but blearrghhh, mainly because blood was coming enthusiastically out of every hole in her face.

[toranstarfall]

One thing I find interesting in the Nine Houses is the weaponry. All of it real, Renaissance-era stuff. But you only see one polearm, G1deon's spear, which he uses as an offhand(at least when in the Mithraeum, he probably only uses his rapier as a sidearm when doing solo missions). Harrow knows what it is, so it isn't a foreign concept, but the weapon of a soldier in the Cohort appears to be a zweihander, a large, two-handed sword, referred to as a longsword in the Houses, which was a weapon meant for frontline soldiers to deal with enemy pikemen, not for formation fighting. Cavaliers use rapiers with an offhand of choice, yet rapiers never saw battlefield use IRL, and if defending the necro is the purpose, wouldn't you want a shield, especially with many enemies the Houses face using firearms? Also, the Houses don't have any firearms, even the ones that were used at a similar time to other weapons they used, but are fully aware of their existence. They also have small shields like bucklers and targes, so it probably isn't a case of not knowing what shields are.

[screaling]

Thinking about the wedding in Alecto the Ninth

Thinking about how Alecto is awake and the lyctors are dead

Thinking about John going to Alecto and saying, "look what I have done for you, behold I have slain my lyctors and my fingers and gestures are dead, by feeding them to your siblings and by my own hand. Good morning Annabelle Lee, everyone who has fucked with us is dead."

Thinking about John Giaus telling Alecto that now everything can be perfect, they can be his perfect family with their two children, one necro and one cav

All eternal, all immortal, everything he's ever wanted. His perfect family to play pretend with

I think John Giaus, Jod emperor of mankind, is going to try to marry Alecto

And I think Alecto is going to tell him "No, now I know what real love is"

[yourironlung]

mind if i cough in your ear all night? / mind if i resent you for a year tonight?

[antifa-terra]

Homestuck/The Locked Tomb Part 1 (Image ID will be in the reblogs later)

[jaewul]

I'm pretty sure it has already been discussed, but the whole rapier thing in tlt that bothers me very much.

See, a rapier has an average weight of about 1kg (2.2 lb). I've had the occasion to play around with a VERY light one (about 700g I think) for about two hours last week and boy you do feel it after a while. The guy I was sparring with had a 1.5kg exemplary, which is not all that uncommon from what I've seen (it really depends on your size actually, you want your rapier to be proportional and I'm bite sized) (also it means that Gideon-sized rapier would be ridiculous in Harrow hands).

Anyway, a longsword has a weight ranging from 1 to 2kg, most exemplary being around 1.5kg. Now, there's a very important distinction between a rapier and a longsword : the longsword is used with both hands. I cannot understate what a difference it makes.

So it makes absolutely no sense to give a rapier to someone with 0 muscle, they will get less tired using a goddamn longsword.

(I think what happened is that Tamsyn Muir mixed rapier with foil (a very light sword for sport fencing weighing under 500g, 18oz, so basically a very long needle) and longsword with zweihander (the LONGEST sword, ranging from 2 to 4 kg, 4.4 to 8.8lb), but still, it's confusing)

[stringcage]

i'm simp

and i'm scheme

the ninth house brothers

[ooctlt]

Crazy party! Who's hosting?

harrows not the one that needs an eye kept on

part 1