#the body tlt

[dangerouslyhungryprocrastiner]

Does being part of a lyctorhood qualify you for custody rights?

Yes I am determined to make all of the dynamics in this book as awkward as possible…to be fair I don’t really have to try that much

(Btw I haven’t read Nona yet so no spoilers in the comments plz)

[pdalicedraws]

“I finished Harrow and I’m still processing” shitpost doodles: Gideon’s Parentage Edition

(Alecto in the tee shirt was @chaoticcreaturehideaway‘s idea, thank you Lizzy I’m still laughing)

[naomistares]

this one part from harrow the ninth always made me really upset. so i made a four page comic out of it!

[green446004]

the saint of joy

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[finiel]

the body ever-watching

version without the texture:

[c-rowlesdraws]

"We're talking low prices."

It's Alecto, in her favorite t-shirt that she never got to wear from another life! I do hope there's still some Nona in her somewhere, but I also fully support her on her quest for revenge. Come on, Barbie-- let's go party.

[homeofwyrm]

Nona sketchies

[vvienne]

knowing what we now do about pal's ideas about the permeability of souls casts this interaction in a fun new light

[rapselsstuff]

This is what Pyrrha looks like on her way to work every morning btw

[civetside]

i FINISHED NONA LAST NIGHT witch means i can finally look at the tlt tags on socials and such without fear of spoilers and i did it i survived (not unharmed my heart is broken and ill never recover)

[tooturtly]

Daily reminder that Alecto didn’t have to be a woman*. John could have made any body to shove the soul of the earth into. He could have picked a man, or a child, or literally anything. But he chose a woman.

And not just any woman! He specifically chose a barbie doll. An object. An object with heavy sexual and white beauty connotations. A doll which holds so much cultural weight and meaning for so many different people.

He could have chosen his mother or grandmother!!!!He could have depicted her as an actor or other real living person. But he chose a doll which had been part of his childhood expression (in both the complicated gender, sexuality, and power hierarchy meanings of that).

Which is so fascinating! It says so much about John as a person that in a moment which he himself describes as a level of insanity, he chose Barbie.

And I think we can say multiple things about that: he was physically manifesting his own complex relationships to gender by turning part of himself into a female form; he was upholding traditional gender norms by making her a woman; he was upholding white beauty standards of womanhood by picking Barbie; he recreated aspects of Christian creationism; he was insane and returned to the things he had been taught most basically.

And all of those different interpretations can be simultaneous! What John thinks he was doing (what he tells himself), what others think he was doing (how Harrow interprets it), what the reader interprets him as doing (see above), and the potential experience on Alectos part can all be different and bring new perspectives to the scene without there existing an “objective truth”.

What Johns experience says about himself, the reader, and our world that we live in is so fascinating. (The fact that he chose a human figure at all says a lot about how we as a collective value humans above all else) And I find him such an interesting character to analyse.

*I’m sidestepping the issue of defining woman, pls don’t ask me. It’s so complicated I couldn’t even begin.

[lemonade-jelly]

IM BACK! i finally had my computer fixed so i immediately made some tlt art (after some oc art ofc)

the style is inconsistent but oh well. her curls arent as defined cus *Trauma*

[pyrrhadves-hole]

One day this fandom will be ready to discuss how TLT is a commentary on gender and patriarchal violence. And not just "look at the tower princes and harrow and pyrrha and many more, tazmuir has fun with gender!" (although i love these takes), but also "the actions that set this story in motion are the culmination of patriarchal violence."

John kills the earth and feminizes it to control it. Under the patriarchy, control and domination are feminization. John killing the earth and stuffing its soul in the body of a human woman is the ultimate act of control and possession. It is not a coincidence that John imprisons the earth (the only resurrection beast John is able to imprison) in the body of a woman.

The body of a hyper-feminized, westernized human woman. That is the prison the holds the soul of a planet. That is the locked tomb. For tamsyn, thatis the ultimate prison. That's her commentary on the patriarchy. That a hyper-feminized, westernized, built-by-a-man, barbie doll body, is a fucking prison.

I also have more thoughts on John and his role in perpetuating patriarchal violence and being a narcissist but i need to stave off the tlt brainrot until i finish finals lol.

[cicadascribbles]

Wait hang on you guys, you know when Nona dies in Ntn how her body and organs split at the seams and her skin kinda starts to slough away? That’s like strikingly similar to what happens to people with acute radiation poisoning i.e. nuclear weapons. Irradiated soul Alecto causing Harrow’s body to fall apart?

[deathbycoldopen]

Gideon Nav can take a compliment so so well, guys.

[ID: A six paneled comic with three scenes from Gideon the Ninth, showing Gideon becoming more and more flustered from compliments. The first shows Aiglamene saying "If she satisfies you, you must let her go," to which Gideon lightly blushes, looking bemused. The next scene shows Dulcinea saying "Oh, singular" as she examines Gideon's eyes, to which Gideon is blushing furiously. The third scene shows Harrow looking at Gideon fondly and saying "You are something else with that sword." This compliment appears to break Gideon, who is blushing so hard it melts her paint, and she has steam exploding from her ears. End ID.]

[interactiveglobe]

can someone who's better at art and/or photoshop than i am add ianthe's skeleton arm in here 😅