#third read

[locking-the-tomb]

Third Read Notes & Soundtrack

I wallowed for about 14 hours after finishing my Nona reread and decided to start over again and write myself some summaries during The Wait.

Gideon the Ninth Chapter 1

In which we learn Gideon is a goob but we love her.

Gideon is escaping. She stole a security cuff key but left the cuff on until the morning of. She's taking her sword, her "shoes" - later called steel toed boots- , and her smut mags. Her clothes are all synthetics. She has enough hair to brush. She knows about chocolates and fancy hotels, somehow ... from mags? From Wake/mom's niche is 22 flights of stairs up to the landing field, which is still at the bottom of a deep tunnel. There are lamps on but they're low. She's kicking apart lumps of "rubble" but that's not further described. She eats porridge from a plastic bag then throws the bag over a rail somewhere. There's a balcony area. Skeletons with red eyes go to pick snow leeks.

There are white castle doors at the bottom, "three bodies wide and six bodies tall". She talks about the figures carved into the area above the doors and remembers screaming as a kid about them creeping her out. I wonder what they are, maybe related to the killed generation? How much trauma from a two year old survivor of all the kids dying?

Muster call (20 Bells) calls back the skeletons.

That's when the Marshall/Crux stomps in to accuse her. Gideon says, "say my shuttle exploded, I died and it was such a shame". 😳 (Crux thinks great idea, will do) Introduces Frontline Titties of the Fifth. He calls her chattel. He wears a big knife over a shoulder.

He gives an impressive number of threats. Gideon wasn't bothered by Crux's threats. But then he invoked Harrow and her "palms prickled". He leaves and Aiglamene enters. Gideon says she's tried to enlist 33 times. Aiglamene has a badly repaired missing leg and a scarred face.

Gideon lists what's happened when she's tried to leave before: jammed in lift, turned off heat frostbite in three toes, poisoned. She clarifies that she's indentured not a slave and claims she's not of fiscal use there. She says she will "you can quote me 'do my duty to the ninth' ". Gideon goes on a rant about "your lady" with a host of great insults, then gets slapped.

"Nobody had ever loved her in the ninth". Aiglamene was the reason she got to have a sword and training. "I'm naturally demeaning". Aiglamene walks away and Gideon falters a bit but sticks.

"Nav was a Niner name". Mentions the prison as a bubble halfway up in the atmosphere. At the end of the chapter we get the limited story of day-old Gideon being in a bio container plugged into the suit of a braindead woman who had fallen in a suit down the shaft 18 years ago. None of the Ninth necromancers could get her ghost to do more than scream Gideon three times then she fled.

"They chipped her, surnamed her, and put her in the nursery". I don't think they mention the chips again, interesting. She was kid #201. Where did the kids come from? Had they been harvesting gametes and growing them? Because the "old" people going into the doors were heavily outnumbered by skeletons. Then two years later it was just her, Harrow (who still hasn't been directly introduced as other then Lady), and Ortus. By 10 she "knew too much and that she could never be allowed to go". Of course. Because that's when Harrow had opened the tomb and her parents had died. She had started trying to escape when she was 4.

Thoughts. What's up with all the plastic? Isn't plastic from petroleum? How would Pluto have petroleum?

[reinbouxsworld]

twisted wonderland × kimetsu no yaiba (au!)

based on this post here.

I this this on a a japanese song only playlist and a wave of hiperfixation. So heres the context: Yuno (Yuu) and Leona were newly married and lived on his family’s land. On the night after the Town Below festival, Yuno returned home to find not only her husband’s family dead but also her younger brother, Grimm. Leona was the only one still alive, but as she tried to lead him down the mountain, she discovered that he was no longer human.

Silver, a demon slayer, confronted Leona. However, after witnessing him protect Yuno, he chose to spare the newly turned demon’s life, and send the couple to his master, Lilia.

Vil and Rook are the Tamayo and Yuuchiro of this universe. Vil lived more than 300 years only on serving face and hate, nonetheless showed kindness by helping Yuno and Leona after their encounter with the Demon King.

Ace and deuce are both slayers, one ranking above yuu. The three met during a mission, and the two decided to stick by her side from that point on.

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

[insert poetic title here]

fun fact: this did not start out as isat fanart

(rambling in tags)

[mitchmotch]

been really into dandadan lately

[daily-odile]

heard it was valentines a few days back bonus:

[blondie-drawings]

working on some silly tlt memes for my friend's bday and I liked how this one came out 🥲

[stump-not-found]

Second or Third Contact

part 1 /part 2 / part 3 / part 4

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and they never ever had any problems ever . the end

[sirenetica]

May I request 3rd life desert duo? :3c

Sure

[may12324]

Eadaz and her queen

[a-pile-of-contented-ravens]

forever abnormal about young vetinari in night watch. He's 18(?). He failed his stealthy movement module because the teacher never saw him in his classes. he taught himself to stand still. He hid four copies of "some observation on the art of invisibility" in "anecdotes of the great accountants, vol. 3" and manipulated Downey into burning the fifth. He won't shut up about keel to his aunt. "I think i saw a genius at work" "he stares into shadows. Interesting." He killed Lord Winder in the middle of a crowded room. When he saw keel "die" he killed four men with a lilac held in his mouth. He becomes the man who implements the reforms the glorious Revolution of the peoples republic of treacle mine road fought for. "Do it now or receive an aunts curse!"

[locking-the-tomb]

Third Read Notes

Gideon Chapter 4 & Soundtrack

In which a cavelier is created

Situps and magazines. Harrow shows up after a week.

Gideon is sulking in her room, cuff back on.

"Go choke on a dick"

"I have a job for you"

"Nonagesimus. The only job I'd do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it." Then she continues on with a few more graphic but less foreshadowy suggestions. Then Harrow uses a bone stud turned into a hand to undo the lock.

Harrow takes Gideon to the catacomb. Gideon has to wear her "church gown". Why? Because of the cold? They get in the lift. They go down deep into a level where there were cages with machines "that nobody knew how to work anymore". Aiglamene is there sorting through swords. She says Ortus was a terrible swordsman. She and Harrow disagree about offhand weapons, Harrow likes powder or chains. Gideon doesn't catch on quickly to what's happening. She cracks up when Harrow explains. Then "Like hell I will, Nonagesimus".

Harrow tries to offer riches.

"You don't own me". "Oh Griddle, but I do!".

Gideon points a sword at her head.

"I. Will never. Trust you. Your promises mean nothing. You've got nothing to give me."

Remember that for the later discussion of earning trust.

Then Harrow goes for the guts.

"Oh, I have hurt your heart"

"I boo-hooed for hours"

Then the kicker: "It won't be the last time I make you weep" At this stage in first read I took it for the shallow face. With a recent reread behind me, this one stings. That damned splinter again.

Aiglamene yells at them, then tells Gideon to take the deal, then vouchsafes the deal. Then says to Harrow, "If she satisfies you, you must let her go". Another one that seems shallowly plot relevant but is meant for rereaders. Harrow nails that down saying Gideon can be anything she likes, have all the glories, preferably on the other side of the universe from where she is. 😳

I'm imagining this song in a tennis match style duet.

After Harrow leaves, Aiglamene lets Gideon know the Ninth House is in big trouble, "I think we're waiting to die". And reiterates that she thinks Gideon should do it. Hidden in there is an amazing compliment about Gideon being "the best swordsman that the Ninth House has produced, maybe ever".

This chapter gave us the quest to drive the plot away from the Ninth House. It let us know how good Gideon is, that she's not just a buffoon (because so far we only saw her lose to skeletons and without the scope of film we can't see the scale of it). It gave Gideon a moment to be vulnerable (boo-hooed for hours) and Harrow a chance to stay hard and mean which she does.

[nidbaesenpai]

Dare you say this love could just save you

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[callalyst]

totally normal about her btw

[grey-viridian]

Based on hollow mind by @crows-murder

Thanks for the inspiration and a lot of pain)

Here is a version without a shield (it doesn't make sense but I just like it. You can see the fear in Leo's eyes much clearer>:3)

Aaand the original sketch (which I also like so I'm showing it to you)

[asparkinhereyes]

one of my fav headcanons for damian is that he's one of those kids who graduates high school early, and i just think it'd be funny if he was going to college at around the same time tim is, for the sole reason that it would drive tim batshit insane.