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tamsyn wrote, "and then they kissed" after every homoerotic griddlehark scene and then laughed and deleted it

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cassy & nigella <33

i've been thinking about them a LOT lately, so here you go this is how i see them in my head

second (more evil) version:

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returning to my roots w a little harrowhark

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I do get it if I had a beautiful butch I would start fighting off all other girls who liked her and then lobotomize myself so she could live in my brain too. harrow's motivations are so sympathetic even though her methods are. Well.

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Art by "@_Ekokuku" on Twitter

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Ianthe the First, Saint of Awe

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the thing is I actually do believe babs was vital to the mechanism of the tridentarii, in the way that a pressure relief valve keeps your pipes from blowing up

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i saw this pic and i was like. this is the most 3rd house image ever. so i did a painting study of it

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Something really piquant in The Unwanted Guest is Ianthe's one line about what Naberius was like as a person, and the perspective that casts on the little we know about him from when he was alive.

It had never occurred to me before that, in the end, Babs' fatal flaw might have been trusting too easily and too much.

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rip 2 pookie -_-

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I think, ultimately, the big difference between Gideon and Naberius is a matter of perspective. As readers, we see Gideon as the more sympathetic character because we're in her head the whole of book one, we know exactly why she is the way she is, and we see Naberius as the more annoying character because we only ever see him from the outside, from the perspective of a narrator who's never given a reason to like him. But I imagine that, were their perspectives to be reversed, our general opinions would be reversed, too. Because if we got the story from Babs's point of view, we'd see how the things in his backstory that are hinted at or implied have shaped him. We'd see what it's like to be responsible for guarding two people who can't stand you, and bearing that responsibility since you were a toddler. We'd see the effect of being constantly cheated on, of wanting to get married but having every relationship fail before it can get that far. The isolation, the bullying, living your life as a sword more than as a person. And we'd see the Ninth House's lousy excuse for a cavalier, who can't hold a rapier but who still thinks this is her story, that she's better than everyone else. Who shows off her muscles at a dinner party of all things, who's so annoying on so many levels... and who is really not so different from our narrator, if either of them had a chance to see it...

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babsy boy receives dating advice (bad)

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babs and his jimmy neutron ass hair

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III; three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile

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third house initial designs from when i was in the middle of reading gtn and thought everything was going to be okay

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— More of the unknown book pages.

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the theme is same faces

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bonus + design notes:

sparknotes:

tridentarii: the building block was "lions" (corona's mane of hair and king vibes + ianthe's scar lionking swagger) but i think i lost that plot at some point. regardless peep the earrings for symbols of their twisted mutualism. also they have dimples <3 bc on corona they're perfect and on ianthe (when she smiles wide enough) they're sickeningly dissonant

the nonas: harrow has curls bc i think the only thing funnier than saddling a nun who's been shaving her head since infancy with fast-growing hair is for that hair to be horrible messy springy curls that are barely spared from frizz by the sheer grease #bathingisn'tsafeformern. please also applaud my restraint in adhering to canon and not giving nona dimples. she deserved them

the sixth: came to me fully formed honestly. palamedes calls camilla beautiful enough for the alexandrites so i just let my heart and sapphism take the wheel here. for pal when i first read gtn i visualized him very differently but other artists made such a compelling case for scruffy pal that now i can't see him any other way

the second: also let my heart take the wheel here. wanted to draw a man carved out of hardwood so i did <3 at the caliber of necromancer that g1d is i know he probably wouldn't have so much scarring but the heart wants what it wants (cool factor). in my head and in my heart they're from wake

naberius: i don't have anything to say in my defense. i rewatched teen beach movie, found the perfect face claim and set the wheels of fate in motion. i think babs is hot the way a ken doll is hot, y'know? it takes yanny piloting his flesh mecha for him to be gender (<- testimonial from my masc nb friend)