#score: 4½

[misireads]

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

[ physical book, read in english ]

nona is the sweetest, funniest, most pure-hearted girl who loves life and (almost) everyone she meets despite living in a very violent, very dangerous city. she lives with three people whom she loves very much, and every day she goes to the near-by school to work as a teacher's aide and to spend time with her group of friends. nona is very happy as is -- but the people she lives with are insistent on trying to figure out who the hell she actually is.

(again, nothing but insufferable spoilers for this as well as the previous locked tomb books for the rest of this post)

❤️💤🧽

➕ nona! what a sweetheart. impossible not to love. i thoroughly enjoyed her character in its entirety, but i think my number one favourite trait (well, after the fact that she repeatedly tells the others she loves them, and gives them hugs, which melted my heart into a warm puddle every time) was her refusing to eat food and happily eating everything that's not food.

➕ nice to get confirmation that this series is indeed post-apocalyptic and set in our galaxy… well, sort of, at least. i guess the nuclear apocalypse started from australia in this case. kinda fucked up to read about places like australia in a locked tomb book

➕ wow. damn these fucking books. i said in my harrow the ninth post that i had no idea how the story would continue from there, well what i sure as fuck didn't see coming was a domestic found family story with a babyfied harrowhark('s body) being taken care of by the woman living in the body of the man who tried to kill harrow throughout the previous book, and camilla who now also contains palamedes's soul in her and they keep switching, and they all live together in a little apartment, and nobody in this family is just one whole person who belongs in the body they occupy. my brain was SO fried for the first couple of chapters, especially because we met pyrrha for like, five seconds at the end of the previous book and why exactly she's now in charge of gideon the first's body kinda escaped me there. i still don't really understand it tbh nor why palamedes and camilla switched eyes. so palamedes's beautiful grey eyes are now camilla's eyes but that's okay because

➕ HOOOOOLYY SHIIIIIIT I WAS EXPECTING MORE OF THE SIXTH BUT MY SOUL WAS NOOOTT PREPARED FOR A WHOLE NOVEL WITH THEM IN THE MAIN CAAASSSTTT ougghh guhggghhh i died so many deaths in a violent fit of love. i -- so -- [insert gurgling noises] -- yes i liked palamedes and camilla as a set from the start but this book? oh fuck. i am now ferally shipping them like my life depended on it. like i have not had a new OTP i'd be this crazy about in ages (and it's an m/f ship?!?! what the fuuuuuck who am i) this was just, wow, i really had to take a moment to get myself back together over the little scenes about their relationship sprinkled throughout. the fact that they aren't romantic canonically (and seem to be second cousins. according to the little short story about them, which i of course immediately rushed to read, and it was adorable) just makes me even more feral about shipping them because that's exactly how i am, i love it. so much. showing affection through forehead touches and kisses anywhere except the mouth? i. am. so. fucking. gone. like. seriously. call an ambulance im having a seizure as i write this. and throughout the book i was in a grand state of panic over whether muir would fuck me over again and separate them but thankfully she keeps dodging my expectations spectacularly and they instead become the perfect lyctor i guess? i have no idea what they really did there at the end, but it sure seemed like they fused perfectly and became a, well. they became a paul. which…. i mean i'm confused but can't say i'd ever before had a ship where the characters are so seamlessly perfect for each other that they literally just melt into a new person so that they can be as Together With Capital T as possible. so i guess i'm happy about that. wow. i need to keep digesting this for a bit. in the meanwhile i hope people have written a hundred college AUs about them

➕ since the first two books have all been necromancer&lyctor stuff and epic adventures in space like it's the most normal thing in the world, it was pretty fun having a story where we have ordinary non-magical people's point of view where they find necromancers pretty fucking freaky actually. it makes sense but feels bad because you love those necromancers.

➖ now, if i thought the previous book's plot was confusing, then i don't know what this is. i really really couldn't follow the blood of eden stuff so a lot went over my head. i had to go read a plot summary after finishing and some things hadn't clicked at all, including the resurrection beast speaking through judith and nona speaking back to it, and the dream parts with john i didn't even try to understand because i couldn't (his character continues being a fucking enigma to me but that's likely the intention, but i mean, this really truly didn't explain how he suddenly got magic powers, at all). so… it was a bit hard to enjoy the story on any deeper level.

➖ the ending scene on the ninth alleviated this a little but i massively missed the gothic horror aesthetic of the earlier books. this one was like… guns and political factions fighting in a filty ghetto. not really my favourite thing in the world. i mean space travel sci-fi isn't my thing either but it was easy to let slide in harrow the ninth because there's so much everything else. but here -- well, the city environment had its charm and set a very vivid and distinctive scene, but still, i just missed the locked tomb trademark gothic corridors with skeletons popping out i guess.

➖ ianthe was such an ass here, and even gideon was so… well i missed her being the nice, hot gideon that i love. because the story was so hard for me to understand, i continue being confused about why ianthe is such a villain towards other characters. shouldn't the necromancers and cavaliers all be on the same side?? idk man i still have things to figure out.

⭐ score: 4½ -- five for nona and me catching the palcam rabies, but this was harder for me to enjoy for those minus reasons for sure. a bit of a mixed bag, this reading experience. i have to admit i also horribly missed harrowhark. the fourth book ought to fix that, i figure. i also figure i'm not going to have camilla and palamedes ever again because we now have. um. paul. but WHATEVER IT'S OKAY THEY ARE TOGETHER NOW (I THINK)

[yippee-optimistically]

ii think i have . a crush. but u know i had to redraw tha panic attack scene 🗣️🗣️🗣️

+joy bc she is cute! and the og sketch for one of them bc shes so funny 2 me

inside out 2 was soo good i have a crush on maya hawke i thinkg

[charactercandyart]

♪ help you put on your lipstick ♪

♪ lean close, and help you ruin it ♪

[formulanni]

Dear lord please double Logan Sargeant’s misfortune and give it to the British this weekend 🧎‍♀️

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[mattymartin]

↳ TYSON JOST SCORES HIS SECOND OF THE SEASON | CAR v. NYI | 12.17.24

[elbiotipo]

Perhaps the worst game design choice in Skyrim is when you are told to go kill nameless bandits who you can't talk to and just exist as random enemies, and then when you're fighting one they yell "I yield" and you're okay, that's fair, I'm just here to get some random sword I don't actually want to kill you and after all, the game tips say that if they yell "I yield" you can sheathe your sword and they'll stop fighting

Then you find out that's COMPLETELY FALSE, the game does NOT allow you to do that, the nameless bandits like all enemies in the game are programmed to fight to the death, and that's what you do, you fight them to death, because they have no names no lives or anything, they are there to keep attacking you and fight to the death for a chest with 124 gold and boots with a bonus to enchantment.

Or what's worse, the game makes them yell "PLEASE NO MORE" or "I YIELD" JUST as you deliver the killing blow. It would be an interesting comment on violence in videogames if it wasn't just a fakeout because the nameless bandits aren't actually coded to do anything but to fight you to death.

Okay, that's a bunch of poor game design choices, not just one.

[seyvia]

It's giving 90s/early 2000s suburban hot mom in a sitcom right? RIGHT!?

default skin: cartoony skin by @somewhereinstrangetown

default eyes: soft eyes by squeamishsims

[wileys-russo]

good afternoon to everyone who celebrates victory

[skruttet]

them using snufkin's theme for the joxter is the best decision and also makes me want to lie on the ground and cry for the rest of time

[lynzishell]

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Transcript below the cut:

Spencer: Mom! Can I sleepover at Amy’s on Saturday night? Iris: Did her parents say it’s okay? Spencer: They said it’s okay if you say it’s okay. Iris: That’s fine with me. Just remember we have Aspen’s birthday party on Sunday, so I’ll pick you up at ten am sharp.

Spencer: Yay! Thanks mom! Iris: Hold on, come back here and give me a hug, I’m leaving. Spencer: Where are you going? Iris: I told you; I’m going out with a friend tonight. Spencer: When will you be home?

Iris: Late, probably after you’ve gone to sleep, but I’ll be here when you wake up in the morning. Spencer. Okay. Iris: Be good for grandma, and no tablet until you’ve done your homework and practiced your violin. Spencer: I know. Iris: Alright. Hug?

Iris: Love you. Spencer: Love you too.

Iris: I’m heading out. Megan: Bye sweetie, have fun! Alexander: Iris, will you send your brother in on your way out? Iris: Sure.

Iris: Hey, dad wants you inside. Asher: ‘kay. Where are you going? Iris: Out.

Asher: Ezra again? Iris: Yeah. Asher: Must be going well. Iris: It is. But I haven’t told anyone else about him yet, so keep your mouth shut, okay?

Asher: Relax. I’m not gonna say anything. Iris: Okay. I have to run. I’ll see you later. Asher: See ya.

Asher: This is beautiful, what is it? Alexander: You like it? Asher: I love it. Alexander: Good. It’s yours. Asher: Wha- Really? Alexander: Yep.

Asher: Atlas, c’mere. Are you hearing this? Atlas: What is it? Asher: It’s the score for our game.

[3416]

he looks so good i might die

[hypogryffin]

just a kuma kinda mooda

[whirlpool-blogs]

Q: Who do you think will score the first goal tonight? Jack: I’m gonna say… I’m gonna go: Matthew Tkachuk, or Jake Guentzel.

[samssims]

Bonus:

[morrigan-sims]

The Moon

upright: intuition, uncertainty, confusion, secrets reversed: fear, deception, anxiety, misunderstanding

[right-side-up version of the reversed version under the cut]

Of course I had to do a tarot card for Carrion, but I wasn't sure what one to do until my dear beloved friend Angel (who happens to play Valeska, the little warlock who has completely disarmed Carrion) suggested the moon.

Not only is this card perfect for Carrion, I love it because I get to play with and subvert the typical idea of a moon + transformation combo, a werewolf. (Carrion's transformation isn't tied to the moon, but yk.) For example, his "monstrous" form is pictured with the new moon, and his "normal" form is pictured with the full moon, which is the reverse of the typical werewolf lore. Which is fitting given that Carrion's "monstrous" form is the hidden secret.

The meanings of the reversed card are just so fucking perfect for Carrion and his transformation. He's dead set on killing his former mentor who left him for dead in chains. But the whole thing is at heart a huge misunderstanding, because Theodore really didn't have any other option. (He was duty- and oath-bound to protect the rest of the Order, and given that Carrion Reverence had just attacked a member of the Order, he had to choose between Reverence and the many other people he was sworn to protect. It wasn't an easy decision, to the point where he literally lost his divine magic because of regret from leaving Reverence behind, but from the perspective of a Knight Commander, it was the right one.)

And the fear and anxiety are pretty self-explanatory. People are afraid of Carrion's transformation, but he's maybe even more afraid of their reactions. He doesn't want to be experimented on or killed or locked away somewhere. While he hated his transformation at first because he thought it made him a monster (and he still carries more internalized self-loathing than he'd ever admit out loud), now he sees it as a tool, a weapon, a way to protect himself and keep himself safe from anyone who might want to hurt or capture him. (Ignoring the fact that without the transformation no one would want to do those things to him...)

[intriga-hounds]

the sauce is finally getting some appetite back…i’ve been feeding her primarily burger patties the past several days just to get calories in her, but today she finally chowed down on some puppy kibble and a can of wet food. i think i managed to get about 700 calories into her today, when it’s been a struggle to get her to do anything over 200 since day 21. by day 32 she was a pound lighter than she was the day she was bred—despite being pregnant. today is day 38 and the puppies should start growing rapidly now, so they need lots of fuel. relieved that we finally seem to be getting out of this morning sickness funk.