#im so normal about this book series

[keithsangstyass]

I think one of my favorite things about Gideon the Ninth is that, because we're seeing this from Gideon's perspective, we're inclined to more or less agree with Harrow's observations in the beginning, because Gideon knows that Harrow is smart, and Gideon assumes that Harrow always knows what she's talking about.

Then we get Harrow's confession after Jeannemary and Isaac die and we realize that she was wrong.

It kind of falls into place after that that all of Harrow's noted observations in the book (Coronabeth being the twin to worry about, the real threat in Canaan House, lyctorhood) are just the opposite. The observations are paired, it's one or the other, and Harrow makes incorrect assumptions on every single one of those. Every single massive reveal at the end of the book proves Harrow wrong.

IDK where I'm going with this, I just think it's fascinating, and I love going back to pick at all the foreshadowing.

[massiveladycat]

I LOVE YOUR ART

zombie boy

[beeneedssleep]

I loved reading Dark Heir, cause Marcus's diary had me SOBBING

Then like 10 minutes later Phillip says this

[caeliflammae]

a collection of me live-tweeting my experience w the locked tomb series to my friend who got me into it

[realbeefman]

very weird to be a show only iwtv fan because my fav is unambiguously louis so i have like. veryyy little interest in either the movies or the books because book!louis seems to be a hugemassive cunt who owned slaves. but also i cannot READ any of the fanfiction or half the fan theories because it’s all RIDDLED with elements from the book canon that will inevitably be brought up in the show/with reference to characters and character backstories i haven’t been introduced to yet which means i’m essentially balancing how deeply and passionately i want to see intelligent character analysis and fantastic fanworks people are making with how much of the next season i can stand being spoiled for me

[leojurand]

another part of the lymond chronicles's approach to sexuality/queerness that i'm fascinated by is how lymond reacts (or how he doesn't react) to the attraction men feel for him. and the attraction he feels for men, which is much harder to perceive, i think.

you could say the lack of homosexual romance in the series is due to the fact that 1. it was written in the 60s and 2. dorothy dunnett was an heterosexual woman, and that's probably all there is to it. but also i think it makes sense for lymond as a character?

we see throughout the series how lymond struggles to let people close to him because he wants to protect them, and his loved ones usually get hurt. but there's another reason, and it's that there's a power imbalance between himself and the men he commands. so, as much as those men come to care for him, there's a self-imposed barrier that lymond always keeps up in his every interaction with them. not every man in the series is under his command, tho. lymond thinks in checkmate:

In the wreck had died Diccon Chancellor the English navigator, who had been more than half-way towards becoming the friend he had never quite managed to find and keep, in terms of equality, except sometimes, in passing, with women.

so it makes sense if lymond wants to avoid, or even doesn't allow himself to have romantic feelings for the men around him, but he can have that deeper, more intimate connection with women, because he sees them as his equals.

jerott is a partial exception to the rule because, i think, they were childhood friends (or 'boyhood acquaintances' as jerott himself puts it. i love him so much) first, before jerott was under lymond's command. they were the same age and soldiers in the same army, and that created a connection before lymond had power over him, and so he shows jerott a more intimate part of himself he usually keeps hidden from most people. and he's open about his feelings to him on more than one occasion, too, which is rare.

and there's another male character who isn't under lymond's command and who is attracted to him, which is míkál. lymond notices míkál's beauty, and is very clearly flattered by míkál interest for him. the fact that lymond didn't want to have sex with him never was about lymond's lack of attraction to men, or that he doesn't have sex with men if he doesn't have a reason to do it, in my opinion. i always thought it was because of what happened with the aga, and because lymond just wasn't in the mood to have sex with anyone in that journey.

(yet another male character who doesn't work for lymond and is attracted to him is robin stewart and lymond was seconds away from letting that man suck him off, so you know. there's that lol)

i think i saw someone say that dorothy said lymond "would have chosen heterosexuality for himself" (paraphrasing and i haven't seen the actual quote tho!), and i don't exactly remember the context but i think it was something like, if during his time as a galley slave lymond hadn't been approached by or even sexually abused by men, he wouldn't have known about the attraction they can feel for him, and therefore wouldn't have had sex with men as a tool to get what he wants. i don't exactly know if that's what she was trying to say... and though i think that's interesting, i also don't really care? i admire and respect dunnett and i love seeing her thoughts about the story and characters she wrote, but i will always prioritize my own interpretation of the events of the series over whatever she said. so:

tl;dr: imo the lack of romantic homosexual love from lymond in the series could be because he distances himself from the men who are attracted to or have feelings for him because he can't ignore the power imbalance between himself and those men. and also, as is always the case with lymond: sexual trauma

[sciderman]

pls watch the interview with the vampire series it's so much better than the movie or the books...... and yes its actually gay

ACTUALLY GAY?? thank god. the only thing that can save the vampire genre, i think.

i am so chronically unable to commit to tv series though i am so sorry. everyone tells me the what we do in the shadows series is amazing and i have watched the first two episodes and love it but i am chronically unable to commit... my body is physically unable to sit still for longer than two hours without exploding and it makes watching tv series nearly impossible because once i break the streak i never come back... i'm cursed to an existence where i will never watch a series all the way through

[pulchrasilva]

I am soo mentally ill about marisa coulter you don't understand

[crunchycrystals]

im absolutely not going to be normal on december 20 by the way

[jtbb]

throws up i wanna go to camp halfblood sooo bad

[ritz-writes]

i havent read book omens yet, but im still not over learning that the first time we are introduced to crowleys eyes is during the shop fire. the most vulnerable moment in the entire novel.

i am unwell about this information.

[boygirlctommy]

ronans second secret was adam parrish. explodes and dies. badly

[quinnleyaeroraen]

I completed the Matt Cruse book trilogy last month and man...

The fandom is basically nonexistent, but ouuhhggg it's such a good series. I'm totally normal now about this steampunk adventure series about a cabin boy that was born on an airship and an aspiring zoologist girl that meet each other and go on crazy unexpected adventures and find new creatures that fully live in the sky, going higher and higher into the atmosphere until they're in space, still discovering new flying animals.

I now want to reread it despite having other books I need to finish 😭

[sewingkits]

holy shit cirque du freak MESSED us up so bad its amazing the best and also the WORST

THEY DID MY MAN SO DIRTY

"Id like to say thats what happened" WAS THE STUPIDEST WIRST THING EVER HOW DARE THEY nfjdbwbshidnmtnrjrndbdbhxkdbehcb

there is nothing that brings me more evil joy than seeing people go "NOOO" "oh thank god mika's here :)" "WAIT" whenever i introduce them to the series. i eat breathe & sleep that specific chapter. i also love breaking my heart repeatedly each time i reread it. author-darren was so real for that chapter and i need it tattooed onto my forehead

[ojirocardigansniper]

finished twtb reread. facedown on the ground dril motorcycle tweet style. i really lived for four years with just this, huh. man. man. [points at 17yo nasper thru 20yo nasper] They don't even know . They don't even know the shape of whats coming. They dont even know what to grieve in advance. [awful expression] BUT I DO

[shatteredsnail]

i’m suffering from too many things disease. theres too much stuff i want to do or read or watch right now but i can only do so much at once