#Nona the ninth

[fawntastic]

Tlt sketchpage. Mostly from Nona the Ninth

[harrowharksboner]

[jthulus]

That one Ethel Cain photoshoot is so Ianthe coded it’s not even funny

[eumorpha]

"I'll disgrace you. I feel like I was born to it. I'm naturally demeaning." -Gideon Nav

Acrylic on canvas

[verifiedbyai]

#it is

I made a meme. Idk if it's funny or not

[ohwhatpiscese]

im reworking this print and methinks it needs something, but what... hekp

[the-boring-distopia]

I love The Locked Tomb series because even if someone else was the main character the story would still be crazy weird.

If we got the narration of Gideon the Ninth for example from Judith or Palamedes, Palamedes' codependence with Camilla or what the kentucky fried fuck Judith has going on with Marta still would've made the story entertaining and confusing.

If Ianthe narrated Harrow the Ninth the clusterfuck of "wait, what?!" would be off the roof. Ianthe falling for Harrow while being a struggling girlfailure, checking under her bed for dead bodies would be a sideplot next to whatever tridentariicest plagues Ianthe's mind.

In Nona the Ninth we could see narration from Corona or Pash even and we still would've gotten a compelling story of fredoom fighters and runaway princesses on spaceships with necromancy.

What I'm trying to say is there is not one normal guy in this fantastic series and I love Muir for that. She wrote all of them in a way that makes me want to read entire books about them.

[verifiedbyai]

I think Nona the Ninth is really what I need again right now.

It's about every horrible thing happening and still choosing radical love. Unreasonable love. Loving people who don't deserve it, don't want it, don't know what to do with it. Loving yourself. Loving when others love themselves.

THIS SCENE MAKES ME CRAZY. IMAGINE for 2 full books we see harrows body and face described as dead, screwed up, too sharp, unsightly. Nona not letting anyone tell her she isnt beautiful, holding onto her vanity, makes me genuinely so emotional. She is beautiful. Everyone has beauty, to nona.

[karlathewitch]

In Nona the Ninth there's a part where we find out that Pal-Cam already knew Harrow has a crush on Gideon. And with how things are in this book, let's assume everyone knew about it (except Gideon of course). So the question is, what did they thought about it?

Second House: Judith slowly observes every part of Gideon, then briefly glances at Martha: "Yeah, I can understand"

Third House: Full night of gossip in the bed (Babs is on the floor), they dissect every part of it. Corona thinks they would make a cute couple. Ianthe claims Harrow can find a better partner (for obvious reasons)

Fourth House: They canonically thought they were dating.

Fifth House: Abigail is wondering whether she should tell Gideon about it, or let her find out herself. Magnus is already looking up Ninth House marriage traditions, and is wondering if they can get an invitation to the wedding.

Sixth House: Cam and Pal are making bets whether they fcked already, or Gideon is truly this oblivious.

Sevent House: "I had a nice girl once" *proceeds to break down* (seriously, she planned to make Gideon hers)

Eight House: "OF COURSE THEY DO THAT! EVERYTHING THE NINTH DOES IS BLASPHEMY!"

Bonus: Jod (if he ever finds out): "So you're saying that the daughter I want to adopt is in love with my daughter I never knew about?" *sips some tea*

[lateralmaxillary]

i'm not happy with the color (i tried to merge nona's descriptions and htn's descriptions of g1deon/pyrrha's hair color and it unfortunately looks like neither) but pyrrha practice

[dioneyesuus]

Knowing that there’s a wedding in Alecto the Ninth has had me REELING

I keep imagining Alecto looking at Harrow, seeing her boiling in adoration and gratitude, and deciding right then to tie the knot as a gift in some weird fucked up way

I imagine Harrow on their wedding night, and the two of them tripping through the motions of intimacy. Harrowhark, conjuring skeletons to shut and lock the door. Harrowhark, thinking back to the skin mags hidden in Gideon’s cell back on the ninth. Maybe looking at Alecto and thinking: ‘Is this the kind of girl Gideon liked?’

I imagine Harrowhark having sex with the Body, but thinking back to Gideon. ‘What would Gideon do?’ she’s thinking. ‘Is this like those vulgar things Gideon use to say?’

Harrowhark on her fucked up wedding night, in her fucked up marriage bed and consummating the deed with a fucked up god, and still only able to think of Gideon Nav.

[asongoftearsandfandoms]

I love the beautiful symmetry of Gideon and Harrow stabbing themselves in the place they think best of themselves, to save each other.

Gideon thinks she's the most alive thing in all of Ninth house. She feels brimming with life and doesn't want to waste away in the dead skeleton bones place, with the deathly inhabitants. And to save Harrowhark, she throws herself onto the spiked garden fence that stabs through her heart.

Harrow thinks she's smarter than everyone. She's the best necromancer in her generation, best alive, possibly best ever. Her potential is limited only by her imagination and if how long it takes her to solve a problem. And to save Gideon, she throws herself to Ianthe's mercy who stabs her brain at her behest.

[articulately-composed]

I just absorbed the entire Locked Tomb series in less than 3 weeks, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Have some scattered thoughts:

(Spoilers under the cut, but also the people who say the series is unspoilable are right)

There are a few moments in there that would make great musical numbers. Not saying it would be easy or possible to condense this series into a musical of watchable length, but Ianthe’s rise to lyctorhood? That definitely sings. Or a sequence of Harrow’s fanfic AU delusions sung by Abigail? Or an extended sequence of Jod’s backstory??? (What can I say, I love an extended sequence song)

Last night I had a little cry after reading the end of Nona, where she wants to die before she stops being able to love. It’s the same emotion as when you’ve had a really rough day and you’re on the train, and you see a baby with such zest for life, and you tear up a little because you wish you could have that zest for life, but this time it’s you watching the POV character you’ve been following for 500 pages anticipate losing that zest for life all at once

Everyone who said these books are unspoilable are 100% right. Even though I was actively scrolling through the tags the second I finished Gideon, the writing still managed to surprise me with how it approaches things (which feeds into my theory that spoilers can only ruin bad media. If the enjoyment of media comes from a surprise and not how it gets to that surprise, it’s probably doing it wrong). Also, I had heard the cow wall existed through stray tumblr posts ages ago. I had no idea that THAT was what the cow wall was.

I know Tamsyn Muir has said that everyone in this book is kiwi, but I am American, so I imagined everyone with an American accent. I saw a tiktok joking about Ianthe with a valley girl accent and how cursed that would be, but they’re right. The Tridentarii definitely have valley girl accents. Ianthe is a Vriska, which means she gets a Vriska accent.

it’s probably a red flag that the POV character I find most relatable is Harrow, but eh, what can I say, I too feel the urge to work myself to death to make up for the burden my existence has caused the world, and also wouldn’t be opposed to eating soup made of human bones.

I definitely have more thoughts, but these are the ones coming to mind on this train ride.

[eumorpha]

Our Lady of the Ninth

ink and white posca on toned paper

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

ok so one of two things is happening with Aim's name in nona the ninth.

a) when hot sauce overheard something she didn't understand, what she overheard was someone referring to aim poetically as "an angel," probably because "angel" means "messenger" and hot sauce took that and ran with it, or

b) hot sauce overheard someone calling aim "the messenger," she and the others all call her that, but when they say it, nona hears "the angel." either because nona's universal translator glitches like that sometimes, or because when they say "messenger" what they really mean is "angel."

thoughts?