#ntn paul

[patient-779h41-n7]

Imagine being born. Imagine you didn't exist one minute ago and now you exist and you are on fire (!) and there's a lot of people staring at you. You are naked and you have the memories of two people in your brain and everybody was expecting them to save the day, but they died of codependency and left you at the helm. Also outside it's raining huge insectoid monsters. Nobody wants you there and they are mourning the people whose memories are now yours. Despite being born like 5 minutes ago, you have to drive a huge truck into the afterlife and save a bunch of people. Oh, and you have to persuade the spirit of the Earth not to commit suicide killing you and the aforementioned bunch of people in the process. Also everybody hates the name you chose for yourself.

For some reason, you are in a good mood.

I must hand it to Paul: they might have a terrible name, but I really, really envy their "working under pressure" skills.

[lineelunari]

My whole life, yes. Yes, forever, yes.

[afearsomeartisan]

Guess what I read in the last 2 days

[missmolsa]

*she should've been at the club voice* they should've been. Having a normal Saturday at the beach

[puffywiz]

"It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away.”

- Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

💝 Thank you for 1k. Special thanks to my lovely friend @sessjudoodles for helping sketch the line work for the Albertaceretops :)

[zombie-bait]

happiest girl in the whole entire world

thinking about my favourite kind-hearted eldritch horror trapped in the body of my favourite traumatized goth girl

(+ purple variant)

[hadalzonee]

ending of nona the ninth got me like

[mayasaura]

hey remember back when Tor had just chummed the water by dropping a few excerpts of Nona before the release, and we were coming up with all those fun name blenders for tagging the Palamedes-and-Camilla system. Calamedes Hextus. Sex Cam. (we can't call them "sex cam" we'll get the whole tag nuked)

And then the book came out. and fucking. PAUL?????????

[lilliankillthisman]

God... she says this to him and by the end of the same day he and Cam are gone forever. Perfected, complete, graceful. And singular.

[rat-studio]

I don't like confrontation but I'm staring at the sun I won't quit until my eyes go red I'll finish what's begun

Verse 2! I really liked the idea of Nona being sooo annoyed at Varun-- pretty much exactly like this post-- so I tried to make her look as irritated as possible here. Song: Unsweetened Lemonade by Amélie Farren

Verse 1 Verse 3

Version without lyrics, timelapse, and reference/symbolism explanations below cut.

[ancientannoyance]

happy new year the grief is never-ending but the good news is so is the love (x)

[palamedeeznuts]

So I made an Alecto the Ninth bingo card.

By the way, Paul's BOE name is And Then a Plank in Reason Broke and I Dropped Down and Down A Trian n-Aill Oc Imbirt Ḟidchille My Heart It Pounds Yeah You Got Me.

[Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"; a line from the Táin Bo Cuailnge, Old Irish for "[he spent] a third [of the day] playing chess"; "Tik Tok" - Ke$ha]

Reason for short.

[wofworld]

yeah so sorry your boyfriend and i fused into a whole new person. yes it was consensual and it represents our agency as characters who refuse to be doomed by the narrative any longer. yes we picked a new name. what is it? uhh

[henreyettah]

Warden and Scholar

[a-decrepit-house]

Harrow in her own body for the first time in months being like “Strange, I feel stronger somehow. I have a strange absence of pain in my abdomen. I can stand up quickly without throwing up. And my mind and senses are so much sharper. This must be Alecto’s doing”

And Paul’s gonna have to be like “It’s because we made your body eat, sleep and exercise regularly for the past six months you’re fucking welcome”

[pencildragons]

literally inconsolable about cam and pal and paul btw. what do you mean you loved each other so much you ate each others souls and consumed each other so utterly that in that instant the two of you were destroyed and made anew as one. like what the fuck man