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OH MY GOD (or should i say Jod)

Mithra, the god whose temples were called Mithraeum, is the PROTECTOR OF CATTLE

I cannot BELIEVE the levels of foreshadowing the Tamsyn Muir is capable of.

(also guardian of the Waters sure could mean something important soon)

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I posted 2,113 times in 2022

361 posts created (17%)

1,752 posts reblogged (83%)

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I tagged 2,109 of my posts in 2022

#art - 475 posts

#the locked tomb - 435 posts

#nona the ninth - 181 posts

#my book reviews - 176 posts

#nona the ninth spoilers - 129 posts

#lotr - 80 posts

#book recommendations - 78 posts

#long post - 75 posts

#nonsense - 74 posts

#dracula daily - 58 posts

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Pour one out for Pyrrha Dve, who said First House uniforms looked like the military wing of the disco, who called Nona “Kiddie” and “Li’l Bits” and “Nona-Palona.” Who told John Gaius if they wanted to make him into a bad wizard, you should be a bad wizard, who mourns Cam like she mourns her necromancer (yet another one of devotion’s casualties), who uses lyctoral healing to shave her face. who was a cop a very long time ago and who always falls for landmine people. Who still remembers Gideon’s real name from ten thousand years ago.

pour one out for Pyrrha Dve, who lost her Gideon and Cam and Palamedes and Nona. 

541 notes - Posted September 26, 2022

#4

one of the very most facts we learn in Nona the Ninth is when Jod resurrected his dead friends, he took advantage of their memory loss to give them names that fit better with his necromancy aesthetic.

589 notes - Posted September 16, 2022

#3

something about seeing how fiercely principled Mercy was before she was a lyctor drives in the horror of those long ten thousand years. Ten thousand years ago, Mercymorn cared. And now she lives with a bitter and battered wreck of that caring. Infants as fists! Children as gestures! yuck, pfaugh...

593 notes - Posted September 16, 2022

#2

one of the things I especially liked about Nona the Ninth as an aro was how Muir handled Cam and Pal. they are, in many ways, the emotional center of Nona, with Gideon and Harrow effectively sidelined for most of the book. This is the Cam and Pal show. It’s about Camilla Hect (another one of devotion’s casualties). It’s about Pal banned from a life writing mediocre pornography because Cam’s Body is a Temple. It’s about Cam lying to Nona about Pal’s nurse kink. it’s about simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight. It’s about love is too long and life is too short.

But this is explicitly platonic.* And it’s given exactly the same weight as the romantic relationships. Arguably, given more weight than the romantic relationships in the space of this book, since we barely see any of them. It’s about queer relationships in a delightfully aspec way, where people don’t have to be paired up with their one true romantic and sexual partner. and hardly anyone ever does that. it’s about the recognition that Corona is attracted to Cam in a specifically platonic way. it’s about Cam asking, in the last moments, whether Dulcinea will recognize them past the River-- because it was never Pal/Dulcinea, it was always Cam&Pal&Dulcinea. 

which is to say, it’s everything I’ve ever wanted and I want more immediately.

*if anyone would like to erase canon platonic Cam&Pal for faintly incestuous mediocre het, it is technically a free country, but also you are Wrong. 

637 notes - Posted September 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

But cows watch sunsets, man. Cows have best friends and complex social relationships. Did you know cows recognize one another? Cows exhibit mourning behavior for other cows.

1,998 notes - Posted September 15, 2022

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