[henreyettah]

At least I’d had your full attention.

[firespunalchemy]

"We are one flesh." "I am your end."

[tsukkinami]

i was gonna make a post about how the alectopause has spoiled us because whatever alecto the ninth is will not be the same as whatever the fuck the fandom has predicted. but then i remembered the entirety of harrow the ninth. the audacity to make it mostly second person. harrow's lobotomy. ianthe saying choke me daddy. god's tumblr jokes. and remembered that we don't know the inner workings of muir's mind and i should stay humble

[forgotaboutnoodle]

Hopeless lesbians

[stargzrrr]

Ianthe come home the kids miss you..

Nvm she’s too busy lobotomising Harrow. Also fun fact- Ianthe means violet flower in ancient Greek

[hilbertslargepowerfulmagnet]

I am rereading Gideon the Ninth and one of the funniest scenes in the whole book gotta be the scene where Gideon (has never had a hot beverage in her life) knocks back half a cup of boiling tea. And then just stands there suffering in silence. Imagine being Jeannemary Chatur or someone and seeing the super cool and mysterious Shadow Cultist from the Ninth House just absolutely SHOTTING a cup of piping hot tea. and then trying to play it cool. I would lose it.

[tooturtly]

Rereading gtn and Im stuck on Colum's missing finger. What happened to it?

Was it a battle injury? Do the Templars truly live up to their name and see actual battle?

This, to me, seems incredibly risky. To go through all the effort of getting one heir with a matching cav and then risk them both potentially dying in combat, after going through the trouble of making three potential cavs to get a blood type match, is just not worth it. I mean, Judith, heir to the official military house, hadn't ever seen actual combat. And Isaac was going to join, be we know the fourth uses stored genetic material, and is an appendix of the fifth, so his personal survival didn't matter as much. So if it wasn't likely a battle injury, and cavs of the Eighth need to be a blood type match, I have a second theory.

What if Silas ate it? (Or, at least, has it)

I admit, it seems waaay too much like something heretical for the eighth to do, but, they're also soul siphoners. What if the necro having tasted/consumed a small part of the cavs flesh allows them to call them back easier? Maybe this is why a blood type match is so important, because the flesh is more involved than it would appear. We know Ianthe uses a similar practice to boost thanergy, and while the others think it's gross it's not said to be openly heretical. And it's an essential part of the Lyctoral process, a requirement to merge souls. And we know that souls, to return from the place beyond the physical, need a link back. The link to the corpse is the strongest.

So even if Silas didn't eat it, it's not ridiculous to think he wouldn't at least have a preserved Colum finger on him. Or somewhere on the Eighth. To make it easier for Silas to "bid him return"

(This line is so specific too, and the way he mentions how long it took Colum to come back... hmm... the things we don't know)

Im not sold on this theory, personally. Im not putting all of my eggs in this basket. There could be plenty of other explanations. I think it's reasonable that Colum could once have gotten into a scuffle meting out the "Emperors Justice", but would it not be mentioned? The detail of his missing finger keeps jumping out at me. And I likely missed a line about it. But it's like a gap in my teeth.

[katakaluptastrophy]

I fear I've always gently assumed the Eighth take a rather Gileadean approach to justice and perhaps Colum was rather more exuberant in his youth...

Though I could be over-reading into the fact that we learn that Colum is missing his middle finger and that the Houses use giving a middle finger as an insulating gesture in the same paragraph: "at least one finger on his left hand was a gross-looking stump, which she admired" and later, that's specified to be his middle finger: "is “your kind” people who aren’t nephews and who have middle fingers?... If it had been Crux she would have given him the finger."

It would certainly add an interesting dimension to Colum watching this hot-headed kid chafing against expectations.

[butchbrav]

ortus died for the ungodly

[nymphwood]

the lament for gideon

i haven’t done a master study in a while, this was so fun!! based on the lament for icarus by herbert james draper. obviously, i had to make it griddlehark

[mouldybrie]

[mouldybrie]

choripan camilla

[vividciggy]

Domestic doodle

[micahulrichdraws]

Every kings end. (Ink on paper, 2025.)

[jugglingjujube]

considering Mercymorn worked with John for 10,000 years she's actually doing fantastic. I would have started killing wayyyy before that

[lizanthropy]

truth over solace in lies

finished one of the most amazing reading experiences in my recent memory! these two are my very favourites.

keep the notes spoiler-free! thank you!

[dillusion-art]

- Nona loves the beach.

ig: d.ill.usion

[naberiusternt]

mostly harrow the ninth is about meeting your in-laws