#is it pyrrhas

[thatneoncrisis]

[nitpicking asshole voice] ALSO cam voiced that she was miffed she couldnt correct nonas stance/grip during their sword drills bc that would fuck with the data of any instincts that occured naturally. nona is NOT holding that damn sword correctly

[ruesttt]

more post-gideon the ninth reading sketches............

[cutetanuki-chan]

i can be your angle....or yuor devil

[future-crab]

I think there's something beautiful about the fact that "The Locked Tomb Trilogy" became "The Locked Tomb Series" because Tamsyn decided to dedicate a whole book to Nona. A whole book dedicated to the six months that Nona, Cam, Pal, and Pyrrha were a family. A book about how the love was there, and it doesn't matter how briefly it was there. It's over, it's finished, you can't take loved away.

[calliclassic]

I finished all three Locked Tomb books within this past week so now I'm feral.

[cosmicallydivine]

i love the way the way the locked tomb does gender. like gideon is butch, undeniably, but also can you really be gender non conforming when there’s no real image of gender to conform to in the first place? palamedes and pyrrah aren’t NOT trans in nona; their souls are trapped in different bodies, and those bodies ARE the wrong gender but also that’s literally the least of their problems. ianthe is pretty firmly in the box we would label “femme” and she’s simultaneously the princess of ida and a tower prince. but that’s also the least of her problems she’s literally puppetting a dead body around. nona experiences dysphoria about her body (harrow’s body and the barbie body) but that’s because she’s literally the soul of a planet trapped in a meat prison. any shaped meat prison would be bad.

like i wouldn’t call the locked tomb a “post gender” world, but they seem to all basically have the attitude of “i don’t have time for gender right now we’re trapped at the murder mystery dinner party from hell and someone stole god’s sperm we have bigger problems”

[notedchampagne]

each house gets one rendering style the economy is dire

[zombiebaybe]

Finished all the books, now i can jerk it in a more efficient and understanding way

[biracy]

Funny tlt thing I've noticed is that while people seem to have latched onto [Necromancer's name] [Cavalier's name] for the full name of Lyctors for some characters (in canon you have Cytherea Loveday and Ianthe Naberius, in fandom you get Mercymorn Cristabel), you never hear "Gideon Pyrrha" or "Harrowhark Gideon." Probably because Pyrrha and Gideon are characters we actually know and it feels weird to use their names that way, but that makes it even funnier that "Ianthe Naberius" is seen as acceptable. Goodbye white boy

[featherbreak]

POV you're Pyrrha and it's v easy to tell who's driving Cam's body

gee i wonder

brought to you by @anaeolist's legendary art post -

i just know pyrrha was working her butt off to woo camilla, meanwhile palamedes was throwing himself at her

(& its many excellent sequels)

Camilla Hect (New Rho/Nona the Ninth): @featherbreak Photos: @stingray_photos (IG)

[fawntastic]

Who gave commander wake Facebook access???? (Unblurred + OG under cut)

[astronomifier]

atn predictions:

gideon: *meets pash*

gideon: holy shit hot undercut dyke

pyrrha suddenly dropping everything and dashing across the room to intervene: "COUSIN! COUSIN. THATS YOUR COUSIN."

[saiintofawe]

nona the ninth will always be one of the most beautiful and most painful books in the world to me because. it is about love in its every possible form. it's about the love you have for someone who takes care of you and the love you have for those you care for. it's about loving someone after seeing all their rough edges and ugly sides and choosing to love someone even if it hurts and even if you know it might doom you. it's about not choosing to love someone, but loving them anyway because sometimes it's not up to you to choose. it's about loving the dogs on the street and the stranger you met at the park and the child that never speaks to anyone in class. it's about loving the creases in someone's face when they laugh and the way their hips sway and how they can't stand still. it's about your love for the sea and the pang of grief at the tought that it is being poisoned. it's about the immense pain that comes with the loss of someone you loved. it's about bearing that loss, it's about letting that cut burn because its presence means that there was love. and that cannot be taken away. you have loved, you have been loved, and you always will. and the fact that it hurts and it ends doesn't erase the fact that at the end of the day, it's always love at the core of it all. in its every form and expression, by turning into rage, or kindness, or utterly destructive force, it all starts and ends in love. you can't remove that. you can't take loved away.

[fillmargarin]

Her type is red strong prodigy girls

[thelockedchoom]

Nona is very funny because what if the meanest little bitch you ever met became a superhero, died (?), and then came back but now she's the sweetest little bug in the doomed planet you're being forced to raise her on.

Also "you" are a 10,000 year old ex-cop and a mid-20s soft butch being possessed by her dead twink boyfriend living in an apartment under guard by marxist futurists.

[future-crab]

I know I just made a post about it, but "You can't take loved away," fucks me up SO bad. Nona, who's known that she's dying for ages, facing the fact that regaining her memories is a form of dying that she hasn't prepared for. Nona, who isn't afraid of dying but is so, so scared of becoming someone who doesn't love Camilla, Palamedes, and Pyrrha. Nona, who is love - deep, vibrant, endless love, for the whole world but especially for her family. "I won't love anything... I won't know how."

And Paul. Paul, who's already done the thing Nona is afraid, or at least a version of it. Two people who Nona loved more than anything in the world died and became Paul, and Paul both is and isn't Camilla and Palamedes. Paul, who regardless of whether they are or aren't the people Nona loved, loves Nona. Paul tells her, "Camilla and Palamedes were loved by Nona. Pyrrha was loved by Nona. It's finished, it's done. You can't take loved away. We loved you too. Palamades and Camilla loved you."

And I'm just supposed to be okay after that.