#post nona the ninth

[dabblingreturns]

I think I've said it before but I really hope that kiriona packs up the ninth, comenders a ship and mails them all on a one way trip to the sixth....

The rock had been rolled away, the tomb is empty and the basement is filled with zombies.....

The only thing lefted to save is the niners themselves.....maybe 200 surivers of a personal apololocype and 500 more who were given a second change after and even greater one....

What culpability any living niner has for the treatment of Gideon pales in comparison to gideons promiss to guard the ninth....if if she can't guard the tomb the only thing left is the people.

Also I want to see a scene were we see someone folding skeletons into a suitcase...

[podddcasttt]

Friendly reminder that if you talk about how representation is important and how there's not enough diverse media, I implore you to seek out the media that already exists. And if you live in an area with a public library, go to see if they're available at your public library. And then go check them out.

As a librarian, it is demoralizing to see how low the circulation statistics are on lgbt+ books and books by BIPOC authors. I include them in displays and readers advisory, but people still don't check them out as much. Libraries only have a finite amount of resources, including space. We don't get a book then keep it forever. If not enough people check it out, we have to get rid of it to make room for more books. And when James Patterson Book #69 gets checked out 30 times in one year and cool, subversive Sci fi novel with a Black trans woman main character has never been checked out once, the librarian (me) has to make a hard decision.

If you're looking for something tangible and easy to do this pride month, look for lgbt+ books (there are millions of lists online that you can find. It's easier than it's ever been to find diverse books) and check them out from your library.

No time to read? Look for a short story or poetry anthology and just read as much as you have time for. Or just check out a book cus it looks interesting and read as much as you can. We have movies too.

As cool as it would be for me to just keep the books I want and get rid of the ones I don't, I have to listen to the community on matters of collection development. And the community tells me what books they want by checking them out and leaving the ones they don't want on the shelf.

If you think this doesn't apply to you because you live in a progressive area and obviously the books are being checked out, you're wrong. I once worked in a community with a large lgbt population. Those books were not getting checked out. If you want to tell me you live in a conservative area and your library doesn't have any diverse books, you are legally obligated to check the catalog before replying to this post. I currently work in a conservative community and we have lgbt+ and bipoc books. And if you still cannot find any, you are legally obligated to see if your library has a collection request form that patrons can fill out before replying to this post.

[angrylesbianbutch]

Straight romance books:

Rose likes John, but oh no, Rose also likes Mike

Lesbian romance books:

Rose has asked her toxic coworker, who kinda has a crush on her, to give her a lobotomy with an Icepick so she can forget about her situationship, who she killed and canibalized, and focus more on the love of her life: A corpse that is at least a few hundred years old.

[nona-gesimus]

i wish camilla and palamedes were a garnet situation in the sense that they could unfuse and both have their own bodies simply because i miss palamedes and yes he was in nona the ninth but it’s not the same because he was in cam’s body. the scene where cam goes and sits in the empty bathtub because nona kisses her hand in the same way that palamedes did is so gut wrenching to me. life truly is too short and love truly is too long

[theriverbeyond]

It's sooooo interesting how in Harrow the Ninth, Harrow is constantly noting all the ways Ianthe is failing at femininity: the awful frilly nightgown, the clothes that don't fit (in the bust, in the hips), her hair, her attempts at flirtatious behavior, the specific way she is sucking up to Augustine etc. And like, this is a weird house for Harrow to be throwing stones from, sure, but I think it makes way more sense after The Unwanted Guest gave more context to soul permeability wrt the status of Naberius Tern, because it is now arguable that Ianthe is essencially being forcemasc'd throughout the entierty of HtN -- we just dont know about it bc Harrow dgaf. And this is doubly interesting to me because when we next see her in Nona the Ninth, she is now Ianthe Naberius, a Tower Prince in masculine dress and leather trousers and boots, and she no longer has any of that sort of gender failure going on.

[muppetebbtide]

I think often about the heavy irony of John laughing at Wake's name and mocking BOE's naming systems. BOE are trying to preserve lost Earth culture, but clueless of context, their fragmented merging of high and low culture comes across as silly to John (and us. But it's a noble attempt to preserve everything, even the stuff that wouldn't necessarily seem 'worth' saving. But what does John rename his friends? Pyrrha and Cassiopeia and Ulysses and Augustine. He also names almost everything after Earth culture, but it's literary/religious/historical 'high' culture. BOE is scrabbling to save everything possible, but John has the privilege of context and memory, and so he picks and chooses what's 'worthy' of being used or shared. Low culture is reserved for his little jokes with himself— though honestly, a lot of his references to earth culture full stop seem to be inside jokes at the expense of others. I doubt Cassiopeia knew she was named after the infamously vain ancient queen, for example. John also quotes things at people without explaining what he means, like when he quotes Shakespeare and Hans Christian Andersen at Harrow; he's not really sharing it, he's mostly using it to isolate the other person in the conversation, or make himself seem unknowable and superior. It's honestly very telling that when given the choice John will name most things biblically or classically. It does partially feel like he's desperately scraping to preserve something of his childhood and the home he destroyed (especially with the renaming of Gideon to the Māori translation Kiriona, but... well, he literally renamed her and made her into a walking corpse teenage soldier so :/), but when you look at how he deploys earth culture on the whole, it usually becomes weird and imperialistic and weaponised. He's not really preserving lost art, he's selectively using it for his own agenda, and he's often using the two biggest things that were ever co-opted by conservatives and imperialists, the classical world and biblical convention.

[autism-swagger]

Me reading GtN and HtN: what a fascinating universe! It's an odd mix of futuristic and almost medieval, wherein they have incredibly advanced technology like space travel, but at the same time humanity seems to have regressed to a rather archaic level!

Me reading NtN: oh okay the nine houses are just freaks.

[alectopaws]

[s-aint-elmo]

the theme is same faces

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bonus + design notes:

sparknotes:

tridentarii: the building block was "lions" (corona's mane of hair and king vibes + ianthe's scar lionking swagger) but i think i lost that plot at some point. regardless peep the earrings for symbols of their twisted mutualism. also they have dimples <3 bc on corona they're perfect and on ianthe (when she smiles wide enough) they're sickeningly dissonant

the nonas: harrow has curls bc i think the only thing funnier than saddling a nun who's been shaving her head since infancy with fast-growing hair is for that hair to be horrible messy springy curls that are barely spared from frizz by the sheer grease #bathingisn'tsafeformern. please also applaud my restraint in adhering to canon and not giving nona dimples. she deserved them

the sixth: came to me fully formed honestly. palamedes calls camilla beautiful enough for the alexandrites so i just let my heart and sapphism take the wheel here. for pal when i first read gtn i visualized him very differently but other artists made such a compelling case for scruffy pal that now i can't see him any other way

the second: also let my heart take the wheel here. wanted to draw a man carved out of hardwood so i did <3 at the caliber of necromancer that g1d is i know he probably wouldn't have so much scarring but the heart wants what it wants (cool factor). in my head and in my heart they're from wake

naberius: i don't have anything to say in my defense. i rewatched teen beach movie, found the perfect face claim and set the wheels of fate in motion. i think babs is hot the way a ken doll is hot, y'know? it takes yanny piloting his flesh mecha for him to be gender (<- testimonial from my masc nb friend)

[mysticallilac]

do you ever think about corona and gideon. how ianthe and harrow respectively refused to consume them. how they took it as a sign of rejection when it was a symbol of love. or are you normal.

[space-knight-dummy]

lyctor chappell roan be like you can slit a hundred throats of stars

[future-crab]

Harrowhark Nonagesimus has suffered more than Jesus. But maybe not more than her girlfriend, Lesbian Jesus.

[rosenkranz-does-things]

“You said, ‘What have you done to me? I am a hideousness.’”

She said— “What else did I say?”

He said, “Where did you put the people? Where did they go?”

She said, “I still love you.”

He said, “You said that too.”

[1010lilfoot]

I read the Locked Tomb series! Here's fanart for all the scenes that grabbed me by the skeleton

[henreyettah]

First tlt comic pls be kind to me

Edit: made a very minuscule change. Might take a trained eye to see it (hint)

[theriverbeyond]

aesthetically I think Kiriona looks best in white and gold but THEMATICALLY I think the choice to put her in white and silver is good, specifically because it really doesn't fit. she has gold eyes. she has red hair. she was practically designed in a lab to look good with warm tones and yellow metals, and silver does not fit her in the same way that, inherently, being a Tower Prince does not fit her. she's dead and depressed and all her dreams have turned to ruin, and it should show in her outfit too. saddest girl in the whole world :(