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[bellarteem]

Taking care of each other

[leftbooblover]

Girl whatever

[love-is-a-revenant]

'Time's up,' [Palamedes] said. 'Give this to Cam for me, will you?' [...] [And when Nona] lifted up Camilla's hand to press her mouth to it, all Camilla said was, 'Thanks.' And she almost didn't flinch. — NONA THE NINTH // Ch 5

so if you don't know, there's different counting methods and the duodecimal finger counting has a base of 12 and allows you to count to 144 with your two hands.

your thumb is the pointer to count the bones in your fingers (i.e. 3 bones in 4 fingers, a total of 12) and you keep track of each full set with your other hand in the same way.

the way i remembered it as starting with the top digit of your index finger and go down and then across to the next finger — but when i did some quick research, i also saw starting from the top of the pinkie going down and across, and others starting from the index and going across the top digits,,,,,, soo. idk i suppose it depends on the orientation of your primary written language i.e. you read left to right so you count left to right and whatnot.

ANYWAY!!! the way i remembered it means that the base of the second finger is number six babyy thank you for coming to my ted talk this book didn't make me insane

🧍‍♂️ 🔴

also what if when palamedes was tied to his hand bones, camilla brought them out when she was alone, a lonely cavalier with the remnants of her necromancer, and maybe one time she holds the bones like he's there and has his hand out and she kisses the second knuckle

and then when he transfers to camilla's body and he kisses nona's second knuckle to pass on as a message, camilla bluescreens because he truly was there in the bones truly aware truly remembers,, what then??

[beroebluejeans]

Whenever I am thinking very hard about The Locked Tomb, I find it important to remind myself Tamsyn Muir did compare the series to the KFC Double Down.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/muir_interview/

[cheetopuffpaws]

Never NOT reblogging this every time I come across it

[maezanilla]

Gideon! Gideon! Gideon!

[bellarteem]

Griddlehark wip

[lindahousephd]

ok but like how reasonable are they really though?

[maezanilla]

Our most beloved Reverend Daughter 💀

[maezanilla]

Gideon Nav, the first flower of her house.

Inspired by this

[bellarteem]

Them them theemmmmm

[bellarteem]

[Gideon the Ninth spoilers]

She was utterly beautiful and entirely terrible. Whole, unhurt, untouched by anything that had happened to her. — A memory flashed up through the haze of adrenaline: ”Do I look like I’m in the queendom of my power?”

Devastatingly beautiful scene. Beautifully devastating writing.

[enilehtnorevol]

(1/2)

[bellarteem]

Sky shenanigans feat. my dear friend

[annacaffeina]

I'm stealing this from Twitter

Here's the link

I am a high-definition gateway drug body double!

[homunculus-argument]

Slopestyle metrosexual flesh-eating disease.

[yuniemaki]

I'm a transphobic gender-fluid blue screen of death...

[bellarteem]

Aromantic 7-hydroxymitragynine cell phone lot…

[normally-blue]

The Emperor's Reason

[shigaeru]

One flesh, one end, bitch.

[bellarteem]

Light

[bellarteem]

Haikavehs i never shared