#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

[me-myself-and-eyes]

cam and palamedes are going to be the death of me

"i keep turning around to find you, and nobody's there"

im SOBBING

[scalierpepper]

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

[lesbianmercymorn]

i've seen some posts like this before but i, personally, think gideon and john have way more of a relationship than some of yall think

like first of all i am firmly team Kiriona Is Gideon - maybe gideon with a little bit missing from the reverse lyctorhood and definitely Depressed Gideon, but there's nothing to suggest she's a wholly new person and not just the same person, who has undergone radical change within the last few months. in fact, there's WAY more evidence to suggest she is the same gideon we have seen before, but bitter and depressed and in different circumstances.

second of all, theres not much evidence to the contrary. while the majority of this book's readership are certified John Antis (with reason!) and are likely to project those sentiments onto gideon, we have no evidence that she actively detests him, or anything of the sort. she certainly has reasons to dislike him (everybody does), but at least in the short glimpses of htn and ntn that we get of their relationship, she doesn't seem to act upon them. she thinks of him as her father.

and also, this is gideon we're talking about. gideon, who has longed for parental & familial affection for her ENTIRE LIFE. gideon, who followed around her mom's skeleton for years bc she was that desperate for that sort of connection. and here comes dad who also just so happens to be god, i don't think she would immediately give up trying to have a relationship with him. plus theres the vindictive prideful part of it, too: 'you all treated me so badly and you didn't even know i was god's only kid, how's that feel' moment. she actually brings that up a lot.

[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?

[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.

[99pm-e]

was rp with 2 friends, yall never guess the context

[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

[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