#gideon is a himbo lesbian

[gideonnah]

Happy pride month to (basically) everyone in the locked tomb series.

God loves gays.

God is gay.

[asthedeathoflight]

I think the thing that feels really revolutionary about Gideon Nav's lesbianism is that she's not a lesbian in opposition to anything. She doesn't like women instead of men. It's just that her entire sexual world is female.

A lot of time having a gay character seems to necessitate a scene in which they confirm emphatically that they do not like the opposite gender. Gideon doesn't need to do that. She just talks about women all the time (and, lesbian character who is openly and unashamedly horny and actively pursuing women in general outside of once-in-a-lifetime romance, that's its own post entirely) and the absence of any mention of men makes it obvious that she's not interested in them.

And, as a queer person constantly having to explain WHY I don't want this or that, it's really refreshing to see a queer character who is so totally focused on what they DO want and not what they don't.

[kangaruthi]

[sailor-zoo]

My Gideon the Ninth cosplay <3

Been working out/HIMBO TIME for this forever. So proud of how it turned out! DIY includes:

First time cutting/full-on styling a wig from a bowl cut to Giddy!

Handmade bracers from foam

Tailored my own removable sleeves/buttons

Knuckle knives

HANDMADE HIMBO BUFFNESS

We do bones, motherfucker.

[thatneoncrisis]

sometimes ill see a post endorsing the locked tomb and think this is worded in the exact kind of way that would have flat out stopped me from reading the books

[abhorsenkatiel]

Poor Gideon was not prepared to see Girls out in the real world

gideon the ninth you will always be famous 

[parttime-creative]

GIDEON NAV,

Griddle, first flower of the ninth, possibly the greatest cavalier the ninth has produced in possibly ever, himbo lesbian and the saddest girl in the whole wide universe

A very dear friend of mine got her hands on my Gideon-Photos and GOD DAMNIT SHE MADE ME LOOK GOOD. All the love and credit to my dear <3 (her instagram)

[twiixr4kidz]

PRAYING YOU GIVE US SOME THE EVIL EXES X A DUMBASS S/O PLEASEEEE

Like they're so dumb it's not a joke- like imagine Roxy asking her s/o about the menu at a restaurant they're going to and they go "babe....I'm a lesbian." And it takes a full FIVE MINUTES for them to figure out what she meant

OMG YES i am a certified dumbass so this was very easy to write

matthew patel:

listen....... he gets it

he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed

it's like when you're around each other, your brain cells disappear

most discussions end in the two of you looking at each other, very confused, whatever conversation you were having being long forgotten

he doesn't mind re-explaining thinsg to you if you don't understand them

he thinks it's kinda cute honestly

lucas lee:

he is the himbo-est himbo to ever himbo

honestly most of ramona's exes are dumb but in different endearing ways

i can tell you for a fact that he'll tease you for one thing and then proceed to do it immediately after without even realizing

OR HE'LL TRY TO LIKE SHOW YOU WHAT YOU WERE DOING WRONG AND HOW TO FIX IT AND THEN HE MESSES IT UP HIMSELF LMFAO

"babe, that's not how you do a kickflip. THIS is." (he bails and breaks his board)

todd ingram:

todd is probably one of the most confused people you will ever meet

sometimes you say things that completely baffle him

im talking something so dumb his jaw is hanging wide open and he's rendered completely fucking speechless

and you're confused as to why HE'S confused because you thought you explained what you were saying really well

but you very much did not

there are so many conversations you have with him that are cut short because he doesn't know how to respond

"hon... look at me... what?" "huh?" "did you hear a word you just said?" "wait... what did i say?"

roxie richter:

she thinks it's cute!!!

most of the time

other times, she's genuinely concerned for your sanity

"so... whatcha wanna eat?" "babe, im a lesbian" "...what?" "what do you mean what?" "i know... you're a lesbian... i was asking about the food..." "OH"

you cannot hear apparently

she thinks it's funny whenever you do that thing where you hear her but you don't process what she said so you go "what" and then you cut her off when she tries to explain cuz you finally have an answer

she thinks it's HILARIOUS

kyle katayanagi:

he thinks it's hysterical

like you know this motherfucker is the ultimate tease

you don't know the answer to a question? you say something that sounds dumber than you intended it to?

you know damn well he's getting on your case about it

and honestly he loves it

he knows he's smart but he's fascinated by your sheer stupidity

he doesn't mind explaining things to you either

but you aren't getting out of an explanation without him calling you, and i mean this in the most affectionate way possible, a dumbass

ken katayanagi:

he's ALSO very fascinated with the fact that none of your millions of brain cells work

even when it comes to what he thinks is a simple concept, it takes a lot of explaining for you to understand

this is explaining that he doesn't mind doing

maybe his knowledge is just a little TOO advanced

he can never tell if he's the one whose too smart or if it's just your natural dumbness

it confuses him

he's enamored

literally say one dumbass thing around him and he's gonna have you pinned to a wall in the most intense makeout session of your life

gideon graves:

listen... gideon isn't as much of a douche as everyone makes him out to be

he thinks you being dumb is adorable

something about his weird thing for control and how he loves to explain things to you

he doesn't wanna control in a toxic way, let me just get that out there

he just loves how you never seem to know what's going on

god he loves it HE LOVES IT

[favcharacterpoll]

ROUND 5 MATCH 15: INV/ENOT VS. GIDEON

Inv/Enot from Rainworld faces Gideon Nav from the Locked Tomb. Who do you like more?

Inv/Enot Propaganda:

"They're so silly,,,, their entire campaign and character is a joke they put in the game but they managed to become a favorite of a few people (I am one of those few) The dude is so determined to get a date that they had to add a dating simulator at the very end of the super difficult joke campaign that he is from Also it would be funny if this silly creature made it past the first round"

"Clinically insane and vaguely horny. that's just Tumblr, but in slugcat form. Need I say more?"

Gideon Propaganda:

"Lesbian swordswoman in space"

"gideon is too stubborn to die she was supposed to never be born. she was supposed to die as a baby. she was supposed to die at canaan house somehow she's still alive and kicking ass and making the worst puns"

"gideon nav is one of the most infuriatingly likable characters to ever exist butch himbo jock with a love for all things tacky and/or horny her sense of humor is puns and dick jokes she is the light of my life"

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Mini ship tournament 3

Feel free to vote even if you don't know the characters

Previously featured propaganda:

Gideon/Harrowhark Gideon and Harrow have one of the most fascinating, deliciously complicated, unbelievably fucked-up relationships in any piece of media I have ever encountered. Their obsession with each other stands out as uniquely weird even by the standards of a story that the author herself has described as being about "the horrors of love."

They have tried to kill each other, and each has tried (and mostly succeeded) to destroy herself for the sake of the other. They know each other more intimately than anyone else could ever come to know either of them if they tried, but also each have so many Problems that they fundamentally do not understand how the other thinks, let alone how mutual their feelings are; they are both desperately ravenous for someone to love them, and do not realize the degree to which they have that in each other.

They are inextricably tied together down to their very souls, and though the final book has not yet come out, every indication is that their bond will be the key factor to fundamentally changing the entire universe.

Nina/Matthias 1. They both looked at the term "Enemies to Lovers" and went "aight, bet"

2. Just so well written.

3. Himbo x Badass

4. They're just so squishy i cant siofjsofjsdiojfao

Leafpool/Mothwing cute lesbian doctors and also kitties

[gideonnah]

my mom doesn't like the objectification of women even if it's coming from another woman, but gives gideon a pass bc she's proud of gideon for finding enough braincells to form a complete thought (which usually consists of either boobs or swords).

[boy-in-the-stars]

The Seven Evil Exes: Would I date them?

Ranked by a professional man lover and woman respecter

I will be ranking from least dateable to most dateable (personality, looks, et cetera). These are only my opinions pls do not hate bro.

7. Gideon Graves (Gordon Goose)

He is a textbook male manipulator. I do not trust him with any of my emotions. I do not like him. He would literally chip me. ew ew ew.

6 and 5. The Twins

I literally have no opinions on them. I’m pretty sure they’re pedos tho so i’m not into that.

4. Matthew Patel

I just don’t find him attractive. He is quite dorky and I go for a more sophisticated man- ykwim (Wallace Wells). I do appreciate his love for the theatre and beating people up, this is always good in a man. I appreciate a thespian from time to time. I just don’t see myself dating him now- maybe when I was 12 and discord dating was a thing.

3. Roxie Richter

I may be gay but I know an attractive woman when I see one. She would treat me right and I would treat her right. 10/10 woman, Ramona did her dirty. Let’s go lesbians.

2. Lucas Lee

First of all he’s really hot. Also he’s funny. I like a himbo. I enjoy a good himbo. I suspect he would treat me like shit but it’s fine. He’s hot.

1. Todd Ingram

He is literally so fine. I love a man who plays an instrument. He would be obsessed with me. He also has a nice personality, and I like the whole aesthetic he has going on bro. I just really appreciate him.

[madonnamadeofasphalt]

All this talk about how Gideon the Ninth is “genre-busting” but I’ve just read it and the only thing it’s busting is medium, because it’s a very by-the-book jRPG (or at least, the first act of a larger jRPG) written as a novel

opening on an obvious fighting tutorial and an unwinnable boss fight

immediately after that, Gideon gets an obvious downgrade (switch from longsword to rapier) to justify why she’s suddenly level 1 despite having studied the blade her whole life

the entire middle section of the novel is a straight-up dungeon crawl with a series of elaborate puzzles and boss fights, interwoven with dating sim elements up in the Canaan House

the relatively chill high school AU atmosphere gets abruptly broken by people starting to die horrible and mysterious deaths

despite all the dramatic historical magic shit, the subplot you actually end up caring most about is the slowly evolving romance between the jackass himbo protag and the mysterious tsundere deuteragonist

multi-phase final boss fight with a heroic sacrifice downer ending and a post-credit scene that teases the sequels (they never found the bodies and Harrow serves God now, oooo!)

judging from the spoilers I’ve read, it’s very probable the entire series will culminate in one team of anime lesbians or another fighting and killing God (for good this time), probably with more heroic sacrifices

[gaterrechinha]

I'm only halfway through Gideon the Ninth and I can already feel the brainworms setting in. I am in love with The™ himbo sword lesbian of all times.

And as a lesbian myself it is immensely refreshing to read her thoughts, compared to other books with female leads. Yes, Gideon, I too think about tits a lot. I too want to impress and please pretty women. I too appreciate hot blonds oogling my arms.

I've avoided these books for so long because I thought they must have been overhyped but unfortunately tumblr was 100% right this is the exact perfect combination to indelibly imprint itself in my brain matter. I can feel it creating new wrinkles in real time.

[dykenav]

honestly can I be vulnerable and admit that before reading gtn I had SUCH a hard time finding wlw media I related to. like idk what it was but I feel like almost every f/f ship in popular media is like SO bland and always fem4fem but not even in an Actual Lesbian Femme way, but in like a Normal Straight Girl Who Happens to Be Gay way. obv there’s some exceptions but I honestly thought there was something wrong with me for not being able to Relate to fictional lesbians as much as like fictional gay men or like it was some internalized lesbophobia or something. but actually it turns out it’s just because all the lesbian media I’ve engaged with Sucks and all I needed was my Butch Dyke Himbo Gideon Nav Awakening

[microchive]

either cam or gideon for the character thing!!!

GAH!!!! picking gideon because you already did cam also i want to talk about gideon nav my best friend gideon nav

favorite thing about them: how do i even begin.... i love that she isn't a hero and doesn't become one through the narrative, i love that she is so blatantly posturing all of the time and she builds herself up to be this big confident sexy funnyman because she needs that to keep herself afloat but what she is in reality isn't any lesser! she is funny and she's shy and nervous and she's so powerfully butch to the bone in a way that avoids all negative stereotypes but still manages to highlight the pitfalls butches find themselves in. she has so many layers and people reduce her to some kind of himbo when in reality she's objectively both too mean and too intelligent to be a himbo. i love that you can sense from the very beginning that she is sitting on a massive broiling lake of sadness and for all of her posturing she is both incredibly delicate and one of the strongest characters in the story. i love that she sucks so bad and died a virgin like christ jesus and even missing half her soul she remains consistent not in her outward personality but in her ability to shield her soft underbelly through some sort of performative attitude but EVERYONE can see right through her except gideon herself because everything she does is loud and annoying. she's impulsive and passionate and. incredibly annoying. i hate her and she's my favorite person ever

least favorite thing about them: probably the war crimes but it's not like she's passionate about war crimes she just doesn't gaf. this is just what a lesbian situationship will do to a guy

favorite line: literally all of them man everything she says makes me laugh.... here are some standouts though: - "If my heart had a dick you would kick it" - "I have lots of fealty in me. I fealt the Emperor with every bone in my body. I fealt hard" - "You've got two short minutes left before I punch you right in the butthole" - everything she says when talking to ianthe

brOTP: her and camilla ooooohhhh..... also her and pal. gideon works so well with the sixth house because they're just as annoying and generally peculiar as her they're just more lowkey about it

OTP: i'd have to say griddlehark because i have never stopped thinking about them ever but i do enjoy gideon x camilla (i forgot their ship name) because the cav4cav shit is so good godddd they're just two sides of the same coin, the same story with different upbringings they would help each other out

nOTP: not a huge fan of gideon and corona just because i think corona needs to chase someone who doesn't like her for enrichment purposes and gideon's schoolgirl crush on corona probably doesn't translate well into an actual relationship (let's be real though none of these relationships are going "well") but it is an interesting dynamic

random headcanon: i think she is really gross. genuinely. she picks her nose and doesn't wash her face and harrow gets on her ass about it which i guess is reasonable. also more intense but i definitely think both gideon and harrow have food issues but while harrow copes by being intensely picky gideon has some textual evidence of binge eating which makes sense to me character wise and also would explain why she developed muscle on planet malnutrition

unpopular opinion: i don't really have any once again?? i guess i like to imagine she isn't as attractive as she thinks she is but a lot of people write and draw her as a lesbian adonis which i understand because thats how she describes herself lmao. i think she's kind of cute in a weird way and tamsyn describes her as boyishly pretty so in my mind she's the kind of hot a straight man would never agree with. she is still the hottest person in the world to me

song i associate with them: I HAVE SO MANY. main ones are: father by the front bottoms, dance in room song by sipper, bodysnatchers by radiohead, suffering jukebox by silver jews, knife in the coffee by car seat headrest

favorite picture of them: this fanart: (this artist does such a delicious gideon ohhh i need her.) https://www.tumblr.com/bastardnoodle/741903153830723584/im-in-the-middle-of-reading-harrow-and-i-miss-her?source=share