mercy killed john cleanly. he did not die in pain, she did not disrespect his body; she killed him quickly and efficiently and that was it. john killed her brutally!! he mutilated her and covered someone else with her gore and only then killed her with a tap to the back of the head. he ripped a dead woman’s cloak from her body and touched her corpse with his bare foot to prove a point!!
all this to say: necromancy is disrespect for the dead under the guise of reverence, and john isn’t even bullshitting respect for the dead anymore in Thee most obvious way. god’s mercy is finite and he has none left; i suspect that his “i’m just a little guy :)” act is at its end and we are about to see more of the man who claims that guys like him don’t make mistakes.
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"We're talking low prices."
It's Alecto, in her favorite t-shirt that she never got to wear from another life! I do hope there's still some Nona in her somewhere, but I also fully support her on her quest for revenge. Come on, Barbie-- let's go party.
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griddlehark is like what if we were orpheus and eurydice but we took turns because it’s only fair. what if we kept torturing ourselves with how long we can go without looking back in order to save the other like a fucked up psychosexual game of chicken <3 this is a very normal and healthy way to cope with loss as a cult-raised lesbian btw
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part 2 of my portrait series :)
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Wait hang on you guys, you know when Nona dies in Ntn how her body and organs split at the seams and her skin kinda starts to slough away? That’s like strikingly similar to what happens to people with acute radiation poisoning i.e. nuclear weapons. Irradiated soul Alecto causing Harrow’s body to fall apart?
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when you finish nona the ninth and realize that harrow the ninth was just this the whole time... every scene with the body is 100x funnier
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comprehensive list of Ianthe's crimes:
looked really hot that one time she wore leather pants and also Bab's body
bad at making soup
being a freak and a creepy weirdo (but who isn't!)
when she cut open Harrow's hand in the horniest possible way (the object lesson)
saved John from the river vs Augustine (doing otherwise would kill everyone in the 9 houses due to the sun collapsing if John dies)
gave Harrow a makover (could have gone better!)
grew out Harrow's hair (not her best moment)
gave Harrow a lobotomy (consensual)
that one time she stabbed Camilla in the gut (not great but still incredibly sexy)
not giving a shit about what anyone else thought of her various terrible Mithraeum outfits and leaning into Looking Like That
killed and ate Babs (real crime)
did not kill and eat her sister (heart crime but only to Crown literally no one else is upset about this)
fell in love with Harrow (literally who can blame her for this)
insane gender outlaw (hot)
space imperialism
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