Special Interest Central

Dan, 24, they/them I love my friends and nerd shit and my nerd friends

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[redstonedust]

when you think about it a rollercoaster is probably safer than a car. i mean you crash any vehicle going over 60mph and youre likely to be gravely injured so id rather be in one thats stuck in a tested loop and not driven by my road-rage prone mother. this is why im about to make a bold new proposition for public transport,

[redstonedust]

and you may say "if you want transport that goes on a predetermined on rails route you want trains" and thats true i do want trains. but i want trains that do sick loops and make me vomit. its an improvement for nobody and it would be awesome.

[redstonedust]

when you think about it a rollercoaster is probably safer than a car. i mean you crash any vehicle going over 60mph and youre likely to be gravely injured so id rather be in one thats stuck in a tested loop and not driven by my road-rage prone mother. this is why im about to make a bold new proposition for public transport,

[redstonedust]

and you may say "if you want transport that goes on a predetermined on rails route you want trains" and thats true i do want trains. but i want trains that do sick loops and make me vomit. its an improvement for nobody and it would be awesome.

[redstonedust]

when you think about it a rollercoaster is probably safer than a car. i mean you crash any vehicle going over 60mph and youre likely to be gravely injured so id rather be in one thats stuck in a tested loop and not driven by my road-rage prone mother. this is why im about to make a bold new proposition for public transport,

[redstonedust]

and you may say "if you want transport that goes on a predetermined on rails route you want trains" and thats true i do want trains. but i want trains that do sick loops and make me vomit. its an improvement for nobody and it would be awesome.

[redstonedust]

when you think about it a rollercoaster is probably safer than a car. i mean you crash any vehicle going over 60mph and youre likely to be gravely injured so id rather be in one thats stuck in a tested loop and not driven by my road-rage prone mother. this is why im about to make a bold new proposition for public transport,

[redstonedust]

and you may say "if you want transport that goes on a predetermined on rails route you want trains" and thats true i do want trains. but i want trains that do sick loops and make me vomit. its an improvement for nobody and it would be awesome.

[themoonandmyman]

therapy should just be One Session where they just slough off all the Goo and then you’re done. Will someone please take my Goo

[kaijuerotica]

..........and is there a mr communication?

[guiltfactory-moved]

this lamb keeps trying to sacrifice itself even though no one really needs or wants it to do that

[taxinealkaloids]

horrible children who are. so so mean to each other

[overqualifieddog]

[ID: a painting from the shoulders up of Gideon Nav from The Locked Tomb. Gideon is a brown skinned woman with orange hair shaved short on the sides, her face and neck are painted white and black like a skull, however the makeup is sloppy and her skin peaks through. She wears a black cloak, sunglasses and is smiling slightly, looking off to the right. /end ID]

I’m normal about the lesbian necromancy book in case anyone wanted to know, I will be drawing more context art abt it later I just wanted to do a study to figure out how I wanted to play in the face paint and glasses space. Fun fact, re photo I grabbed as a reference for this is straight from the collection of reference images Tommy Arnold posted in a blog post about drawing the cover of Gideon the Ninth, single-handedly rekindled my need to get a career illustrating book covers

[faithsweird]

We do bones, motherfucker!

[kyotospartyart]

Harrowhark Nonagesimus herself!!

For these portraits (I already finished Corona and Ianthe) I'm picture them at the beginning of the first book. They were meant to be the type of portraits you find in the big halls of a noble house but since that kind of thing doesn't really suit Harrow or the Ninth House at all...this one is more allegorical.

I prefer it when people come up with their own interpretation of my work but just in case some of you are curious here's what I was thinking when I painted this:

Harrow is the very young (and malnourished) heir of a dying house, hence the traditional headpiece and veil being torn apart by moths. Behind her, the withered nuns that populate Drearburh watch expectantly, putting all the weight of keeping the house alive on her. She is their miracle after all, the one who is supposed to save them.

Part of the background is covered by embalming bandages. They're just there, for now, but they're slowly covering everything up. They're running out of time.

However, the fabric of the veil she's holding vaguely resembles the shape of two wings. A small, subtle message of hope.

[sleepysnailart]

breaking news: sad gay bone goblin girl somehow gets sadder and gayer, more at 11

[ydteus]

The Sixth House | Book One

Camilla Hect | Palamedes Sextus

[matimatti]

Is it gay to kiss your mortal nemesis on her forehead in a pool while her 1537 skeletons bodyguard the room

[sir-se]

Back from the dead and I've got space lesbians this time (couldn't decide which gideon I preferred so have both)

[beguilingcorpse]

one of the genius things about the way gideon the ninth (and the locked tomb as a whole) is structured is the way that it continues to emphasize gideon as the pov character. we see the world through her eyes. we interact with characters only as much as she interacts with them. and when she blatantly misses things going on. she has no interest in the politics that are occurring and no basis for any of the existing relationships between the scions of the other houses. her priorities are (1) piss off harrow, (2) let the hot old sick girl flirt with her, and (3) sword. and that is mostly it!!

so especially during the third act, gideon - and by extension, the reader - is hit with WAVE AFTER WAVE of epic climaxes and denouements to plots that she literally was not aware were occurring. she stumbles into the aftermath of a bloody and lethal confrontation between teacher and the second house. she trips into babs’s murder and ianthe’s ascension into lyctorhood. she nearly ruins the crucial pull-back-the-curtain reveal between palamedes and cytherea because she literally tries to run into the middle of it to apologize because she didn’t know that she had been flirting with his almost-fiancée.

when you read the book for the first time, all of these things feel as overwhelming to you as they do to gideon. the uptight military commander is injured and the slightly less uptight military lieutenant is dead?? that prick with the quiff got cannibalized by his evil stick figure bully??? harry potter BLEW UP???

and then you go back to everything on reread, knowing the context for where things will eventually go, and go ohhhhh. all of the information was there the first time. you just never had any reason to care about it. it’s such a brilliant way to hide information in plain sight and play with an unwittingly unreliable narrator