#gideon the ninth spoilers

[cosqf]

so pick me from the dark and pull me from the grave cause

[thenightetc]

actually LOVE how we're introduced to Coronabeth and Ianthe by being told that Ianthe looks like "the starved shadow of" Coronabeth, "smaller", "insubstantial", "bloodless", "anaemic" all being used to describe her and her features. Coronabeth is vivacious, strong, lively, radiant; Ianthe is wan, physically weak, mummy-like, washed-out.

and then at the end we find out that only Ianthe was actually a necromancer.

and then we find out that being a necromancer, having and using thanergy, drains you and makes you weak.

like. OH. it was right fucking in front of us from the first moment we saw them!

and nobody noticed.

[hauntedkeys]

I finished Gideon the Ninth Yesterday and when I explained it to my dad, he went “So it’s about cannibalistic lesbian necromancers in space” and I went “yeah basically” and he looked at me like her regretted teaching me how to read.

And then he offered to buy me the next book.

[artfullysinful]

i like pain (drawing without reference)

[the-boring-distopia]

I don't have many wishes about Alecto the Ninth but I really want to see Judith punch John. Babygirl deserves it. I hope she will have a major role in his downfall and that she gets to fuck him up, directly or indirectly.

She needs to wake up and be on that "this is not what Marta died for" grindset.

[karlathewitch]

How ppl in the Locked Tomb think about their love situation with Harrow.

Ianthe: Oooooh, I am stuck in a love triangle, but I'm pretty sure I can beat Gonad easily, and Harrow will be mine.

Gideon: News flash bitch! Harrow doesn't love either of us. She's in love with a frozen corpse.

Harrow: My beloved Gideon is dead, just like the lovely lady in the Locked Tomb. Also my coworker is acting very weird for some reason.

[recklez]

until death tear pierce us apart

[cutetanuki-chan]

too sad to look at

[dangerouslyhungryprocrastiner]

Saw the meme and i just had to do it. Might do a switched version as well since for these idiots it works both ways

[ydteus]

The Seventh House

Dulcinea Septimus | Protesilaus Ebdoma

Spoilers below

The truth, revealed.

Dulcinea Septimus | Protesilaus Ebdoma

[ari-larsen]

This illustration was so frustrating but I think I’m basically done with it

[cannibalgender]

i'm begging tumblr users who couldn't name an evil woman to read the locked tomb because in just a short list of the insane amount of characters in these books there is (out of context spoilers ahead)

butch who's never experienced any affection so she becomes willing to do anything to be needed including becoming a fascist regime's specialest little boy

200 dead babies, trying to justify killing 200 babies to make her by brutally suppressing any weakness or vulnerability in herself

the incest twins from every problematic 2000s anime played entirely straight as to how fucked up both of them would be

woman who has a baby for the purpose of bashing its head against a rock and using its blood to kill 9 planets occupied with people

girl who lied to her boybestfriend, who shares her body, about his existence kind of eating her soul so they won't have to be apart

weapon with which to kill 9 planets filled with people, representative of 10 billion dead people and unceasing rage. Who looks like Barbie.

woman who stole g-d's sperm

woman who used her boybestfriend's body to fuck genocidal baby mama without said boybestfriend's knowledge (he was also fucking her)

cancer patient using her make a wish to kill g-d

[sermna]

"I've lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you."

pool scene pool scene pool scene (Redraw)

[the-velvet-worm]

the love triangle in TLT is so funny because it's not even a true love triangle. it's like a shape that hasn't even been invented yet. first you've got Ianthe, who thinks Harrow is totally into her but isn't. and Harrow is into Gideon but also this really sexy corpse. the sexy corpse was maybe probably in a relationship with Gideon's dad who's also the leader of the solar system. he hooks up with his officers sometimes and has hooked up with his best friends over the last 10,000 years because they were bored. Ianthe also has this weirdly borderline incestuous relationship with Coronabeth but Coronabeth is in love with Judith who had a crush on her now-dead cavalier. the only ones who've got a semi-normal relationship are Camilla and Palamedes and even then they had a weird poly thing with Dulcinea even though they never met her in person. and they have another weird poly thing with Pyrrha but by that point they're sharing a body. then they decide to do a mutual suicide/soul binding ritual and become a whole new person in Camilla's body. also they're second cousins. oh Pyrrha also had a weird poly thing with her necro and Gideon's biomom/the leader of the rebellion who's fighting against Gideon's biodad. I don't even have time to unpack all that and that doesn't even cover half of the shit happening here. there's also the whole Cytherea thing

[sunfloowerlatte-art]

birth of a saint

[the-boring-distopia]

Even if you don't like Ianthe Tridentarius, you gotta hand her one thing:

She is so unapologetic in her bullshit. No doubt, no remorse, no hesiatiton. She took one look at the trials, she saw people die and she went "Yeah, I get that you died but I'm built different". She stepped up to fight a Lyctor with nothing but Babs' half eaten soul and the power of audacity. She performed a lobotomy on a traumatized nun and the only question she asked was "what is your price range?". She was so ready to open a can of whoopass on Camilla, the fact that she failed does not negate the fact that she is a cringe girlfailure who really thought she was cool there.

Her situationship? More like dictatorship. With who? The resurrected ex of the girl she tried to date. Her boss? God. We know that she is as pleasant to look at as a H. R. Giger painting. She tried the " and there was only one bed" method on Harrow and it didn't work. She is in love with her literal sister but acts comically disgusted towards necro-cavalier relationships (Knowing her sister wants to be her cavalier...) like she is morally superior.

She is one of the characters of all time.