#nona rambling

[99pm-e]

More RP art dump !!!

Engie training Mimi at 3 am on his pj's

Mimi that's not what you think–

Engie seeking for confort after a certain french old fart broke his heart.

[tina-rocket]

Uh oh it’s the problem women!

[featherbreak]

USE ME. (a cinematic Camilla Hect cosplay music video)

notes & TWs:

TW for fake blood. heart crimes abound. I filmed all of this during 3 days of intense hyperfixation in October/November 2023, and after much Life Happened, edited it all together in June/July 2024. it is a labor of love, an embarrassing love letter to the more-unhinged-than-she-lets-on codependent cavalier exemplar that is Camilla Hect, and an intense appreciation for the "psychosexual mess of roleplaying and bad meals" that is Nona the Ninth.

i hope you enjoy it. i have more thoughts & stills to share, but i need to fling this into the internet before i continue to overthink it and utterly lose my nERVE AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS AAJFSkdhgfdhg

[scalierpepper]

The locked tomb wiki is perhaps my favorite fan wiki to be on and it's because of this:

[lishenkaaa]

i think something we sometimes ignore when we talk about tlt's themes of love is its incredible focus on familial love, like the books' romantic and sexual themes are very clear but also it truly is a series that questions what a family is from the very beginning. gideon's lack of both a biological and chosen family (at least in her eyes) and harrow's almost decade-long attempt at maintaining the illusion of one in gtn. the fifth and the fourth, filling in the missing parts of their own families with each other. coronabeth, ianthe and even naberius' entire deal. the focus within silas and colum's dynamic of their biological compatibility as a necro/cav pair. john's desire for a daughter in harrow and then discovery of one in gideon, as well as pyrrha's desire to find out why her kid had to die only to find out 1) not her kid, 2) didn't die originally, 3) still died in the end. nona and pyrrha and pal and cam, which tazmuir herself has specifically highlighted we should question if it even counts as a family at all, but has also made sure we know they loved each other anyway. kiriona as her mother's daughter and her father's son but ultimately neither and how it kills her even as a corpse. and anastasia, the series' godot who despite making no appearance is felt in its every corner, who pyrrha painted a nursery with and who started the lineage that opened the legendary tomb.

can't wait to see how this is all explored in atn, especially when nona's family is only a "dress rehearsal" for the real horrors of love.

[99pm-e]

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[fandom-oracle]

I appreciate a lot the way that Nona is intellectually disabled. She cannot read, is consistently incapable of matching the intellect of fourteen-year-olds. And yet, Nona navigates the world with no major curtailings of her personal autonomy by her family, aside from the occasional coercive encouragement to eat. Nona is treated with a degree of kindness and respect that is rarely found in the world today regarding intellectually disabled people. Her friends adore her, her family loves her despite the tragic circumstances of their arrangement re: Harrow being unresponsive and Nona’s death being necessitated for Harrow to wake up, her surroundings find a place where she can be active and feel fulfilled while respecting her limits. HOW often do you see an intellectually disabled character be given this level of empathy, of humanization by a narrative?

[elfieafterdark]

An AU where everything is comfy and everyone escapes the nine houses and Gideon is with Harrow, and Nona somehow has her own body and she actually gets to be a baby and grow up properly and go to school and fall in love with hot sauce.

Pyrrha is mom, Cam and Pal are still around. They live on a free world and eat takeout and go swimming and live in peace and comfort and gay bliss.

[sofipitch]

Thinking about body horror in The Locked Tomb, specifically how the bodies of the dead are treated. Wake's skeleton tilling the fields, using her to feed an empire she hates even in death. Abigail's death not having anything to do with her but more just the inconvenience that she was there, evidenced by Cyth stashing the key in her as if she were a box. Protesilous is particularly good because you meet him as a person after you have seen his corpse used against his consent in the first book. After Cyth tells Palamedes she tossed his girlfriend and her bodyguard in the garbage she says "Don't look at me like I'm a monster". How ppl's remains are treated matter, when Crux threatened Gideon he threatened her with just that, being treated as parts.

I just have specific feelings about dead bodies and how they should be treated. I could never do anything involving cutting them without thinking this was someone's grandmother, or lover, or best friend. I distinctly remember what did this was going to see The Bodies Exhibit where you get to see a lot of preserved organs and such. I thought I would be fine, I was even super excited, I liked anatomy and physiology. But I remember looking at a sagittal cut of a head and torso meant to show off the brain and spinal cord and Idk why but I turned my head side ways and got level with the display and there was the man's face. That horrified me more than anything, his face mostly hidden so you don't remember this was a person. The ppl in this exhibit never consented to be a part of it, they are unidentified persons, no one came to get their body so it meant anyone could do what they wanted with it. Even worse popular myth for a while was that these were the bodies of prisoners, as if that made it okay to treat them with disrespect. There was writing on the wall as we left saying the bodies had been handled with respect but I would never want to be put on display in a museum, so how could we know they didn't feel the same? I also wouldn't want my index finger on display at the Vatican museum. I understand it's meant for worship but there also seems to be something rude in the piecemeal display of saints.

I feel strongly about respect for remains and idk how Muir does but there's something particularly good about Gideon being aware of her remains after death. The argument for a lot of bad treatment of corpses is "the person isn't going to know". So Muir created a character that becomes BOE's body farm experiment, until finally she has to go back into and haunt her corpse, embarrassed at her wounds and the way others can see her meat. Her first interaction is objecting to someone sticking her corpse with a needle, even though she can't feel

[newnamesamecharlotte]

My favorite The Locked Tomb book is always the one I’m reading at the moment

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

didn't scroll tumblr for like a week cus i was hella busy and rereading @derinthescarletpescatarian curse words in what spare time i could wrangle from my schedule (great story, highly recommend btw) and i realise now that i haven't missed tumblr at all. maybe i will dip again

[99pm-e]

was rp with 2 friends, yall never guess the context

[chaos-has-theories]

You know those children's books with see-through pages where you can like. Layer a shark together to learn anatomy?

I kind of want one that goes

The murdered soul of planet Earth

The hollow shell where 200 dead children used to be

The body of an underfed suicidal teen

Six layers of stolen toilet paper

One rude t-shirt

[ambient-arena]

what if the narrative wasn't so horrifically fond of gideon. what if instead of the lobotomy harrow just straight up tore herself apart trying to pry gideons soul away from hers. what if she resorted to the same violent, animal desperation john did when trying to consume the earth but instead of trying to destroy she was trying to recover. what if harrow in an unimaginable fit of despair forced her entire soul and necromantic capabilities to their intense limits but it doing so inadvertently rendered the task she was trying to complete impossible. like trying so so hard to use necromancy to give gideon's soul back that she accidentally ended up cementing its place inside her as an eternal furnace even more. and then what if she just lived like that with gideons soul and memory inside her and it was terrible and everlasting. yeah what if also my brain is rotting out of my skull

[featherbreak]

y'allllll I'm going to Dragoncon! for the first time! I wiil have RIBBONS for EVERY CHARACTER because I HEAR THAT IS WHAT YOU DO and also I like gifting/barter cultures, and I am very stoked to share these with folks.

here's when and who to find me as:

Friday: TLT MEETUP TIME! I'll be there as Canaan House version Cam - with my best beloved Pal! (we will be So Matchy.) & a bevy of friends - come trade for a Go Loud ribbon & have a brainrotting good time with us.

Saturday: I'll be running around all day as Nona with a ... uh ... variation on Noodle. it'll be very silly. please come find us.

Sunday: VERY excited to debut this cosplay that only 2 other people in the entire con will recognize, but I'm pleased with how it turned out - everyone's favorite grudge-holding swordswoman Pali Avramapul no I don't have a type idk what you mean from Victoria Goddard's Nine Worlds universe, best known for The Hands of the Emperor and many other stories.

*(I may be there on Monday as well, but have zero planned cosplays.)

I'll post the ribbons after the con, but in the meantime, it'll be a fun side quest! I hope to see folks there!

[margo-mania]

I just realised, a week after finishing ntn, that harrow doesn't know the love of her life girl of all time is the child of God