[trigona-necrophaga]

They make me sick

[lemondoddle]

[ID. A section of text from gideon the ninth. Two lines of harrowhark speaking to gideon have been underlined, "Nothing stands between myself and lyctorhood/ and you are not a part of the equation." Above this someone has written "haha". End ID.]

[light-camera-bitch-smile]

the thing about John referencing tumblr memes is like. They don’t have the internet post resurrection. Which means John has been making the same handful of jokes for like ten thousand years. I too would become mercymorn if I had to hear the same ten jokes for TEN THOUSAND YEARS PLUS

[johnnotgaius]

Omds they’re good and I use them in situations only where they apply they’re FUNNY and WVERYONE laughs and tells me they’re funny

[light-camera-bitch-smile]

johnathan, name ONE time during a ten thousand year holy war that it would be appropriate to reference the three weed smoking girlfriends

[johnnotgaius]

Me introducing cytheria to mercymorn cristabel and cassiopeia

[katakaluptastrophy]

Another reminder that the Mithraeum probably looks even weirder than you think, this time courtesy of the relics of St Munditia in Munich.

All those "shining bones" and "gilded and bejewelled skeletons...dressed in gold and green robes...with amethysts and topazes and emeralds for eyes".

[milene-with-an-e]

[pois0ncandy]

first base: psychosexual obsession

second base: torture

third base: holding hands

[griddles-bone-soup]

“Wait, you’re telling me there’s a THIRD base?!?!” - the entire Locked Tomb canon

[sallyisdrawing]

Ninth Saint

[wolfycoffee]

sweet girls ^^

[runasulienadanika]

Camilla and Palamedes making notes every time Nona mentioned boobs because it might've been be a sign she's Gideon is so funny to me because if i remember correctly Gideon never mentioned boobs aloud in gtn so either they just clocked her so well or it was painfully obvious at what she was looking at, even with sunglasses

[clubconsent]

One of our sources about GreekMyth!Palamedes is Defense of Palamedes, by Gorgias. (Gorgias was a Sophist, and Plato hated his guts so much he wrote a dialogue about it.)

Most of the text is Palamedes defending his innocence after Odysseus framed him for treason. And an argument he makes repeatedly is that you can't know things from being told them. You can only know things you've perceived yourself with your own senses. This is partly because direct experience doesn't lie and people do.

I read that and then laughed when I remembered how Muir introduces us to LockedTomb!Palamedes: he's prodding directly at the physical world, then worrying aloud that he's being "systematically lied to on a molecular level."

[cranecarlisle]

And an argument he makes repeatedly is that you can't know things from being told them. You can only know things you've perceived yourself with your own senses. This is partly because direct experience doesn't lie and people do.

I love this so much, and also it lends new, insane dimensions to The Unwanted Guest. "You can only know things you've perceived yourself with your own senses" is basically Ianthe's rebuttal when Pal first tries to debate her about the permeability of the soul. While Pal's point is that perception isn't serving Ianthe in this case as it might elsewhere because the timescale of the change in question is too crazy-big to comprehend in the time she's had so far:

And then, of course, his later point that her perception of what change might be happening is also skewed because the soul absorption process is messing with her ability to be objective:

I am not a Classics person but this is all making me want to try, dammit. And now the way I interpret Pal's character is shifting again...

[helenecoffeesnob]

Thoughts on Griddle fanon characterization:

It is very important to me that Gideon Nav is seen as a Losergirl. Seriously, she isn’t suave. She THINKS she’s suave, but she isn’t. She IS funny, especially when she’s the one narrating. Gideon is, in canon, a homeschooled teenager from a religious backwater planet and has canonically never touched a titty that wasn’t printed on paper or attached to her body. Don’t get me wrong, she is The Character of All Time.

But we all need to remember that this motherfucker blushed and stuttered when an older woman so much as batted an eyelash at her. She’s got as much game as Luke Skywalker going to Toshi Station to pick up some power converters. She’s amazing. Losergirl representation.

[primodialchaoswizard]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Griddle…….

[evilphrog]

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

Lieutenant Crown Him With Many Crowns: hi Nona I think you're a soul fusion of two people I knew once who had something psychosexual going on and I just want you to know I think you're a living miracle and I envy you more than anyone in the universe

Tower Prince Ianthe Naberius: hey Sext fyi you stick your “grand lysis” up your ass

[runasulienadanika]

"Lyctors are the Emperor's gestures"

the gesture: 🖕

[peniswizard69]

Oh so when your mom puts a little bit of her heart in every meal that's fine, but when I, Harrowhark the First,

[musdswo]

this is about how it's sort of implied that they wash clothes entirely by hand on the houses (using constructs) which means camilla saw a washing machine for the first time ever on new rho

[vividciggy]

How I imagine Camilla cuffing Harrow went

[light-camera-bitch-smile]

[sleepexpert]

i KNOW that Gideon in face paint and full ninth robes was one of the hottest things Harrow had ever seen. stalking around Canaan just wanting to bite Gideon and shake her around like dog toy.

[liesmyth]

#harrow (no ulterior motives): and you MUST paint your face every day. in front of me. @theriverbeyond