alright then, keep your secrets

lizzi | they/them | 27 | mostly tlt posting

[greengalaxies]

I'm so sorry this is all I can think about now

[wishgrub]

let’s go nonaheads!!!!

[utopians]

It's crazy that I used to live without the saluting emoji

[mitrakats]

fool (book 2)

[cimtee]

I know what you are.

[cowswatchthesunset]

I really need everyone to sit with the fact that John Gaius is not a millennial nor is he even Gen Z. He is, at the absolute oldest, Gen Alpha

[cowswatchthesunset]

Okay so doing the math — Hollywood Hair Barbie came out in 1992.

So let’s say the absolute earliest year his mother was born would be 1982, but likely much later (because usually 10 year olds are already out growing their dolls), so really 1985. I feel like the furthest year she would be born is probably around 2000.

So if she had John at 25, that puts his birth year around 2008 at the VERY earliest. 2010 is the cut off in theory for Gen Z but it is much more probable that he is solidly Gen Alpha (unless she had him quite young)

So let’s say his mother was born in 1985, he probably was born between 2010-2020, and if he’s in his 30s or 40s whilst the world was ending, that would put the day he destroyed the 2040s - 2060s

Much to think about

[katakaluptastrophy]

There's a few other datable details that complicate this, though:

John was drinking underage at Parachute music festival. The NZ drinking age is 18, and Parachute's final year was 2014. Which would apparently suggest he couldn't be born after 1997. (That gives a rather bleak window of time in relation to his mum's 1992 Holywood Hair Barbie, though I suppose plenty of tweens still collect dolls.)

He also references an advert from 2007. This could be because it's become something of a Kiwi meme, but could again suggest he was young in the late 00s/early teens. So many of his meme references are from this period.

The population is 10 billion. Depending on which population projection you use, that's likely to happen between 2050 and 2080. Which would apparently suggest he was born in the 2020s-2050s.

Then there's the tech. There's a Mars colony, which I suppose we could have within that timescale. But there's also apparently a shell world being built around Uranus, which is some seriously far-future sci fi technology that would seem to place us well beyond 2080!

(And all that's without getting into the little details like whether the history of the 20th century was quite the same in this timeline...)

My general take is that he's sort of spiritually-adjacent to a zillennial and the events of the John chapters are set now-ish, but that it's an alternate timeline where we can't necessarily situate any of the references quite the way we expect.

[annabelle--cane]

the thing about ortus nigenad is that he has to be muscled to all hell, right? if his look is "broad tall fat man in his mid thirties" and the one thing he has going for him as a ninth cavalier is his ability to lug around absurd amounts of bones then that sounds like classic a strongman's build. ortus "depression" "momma's boy" "brought rpf to a gunfight" nigenad logically has to be yolked as fuck and the only reason the text never explicitly states that is because we only ever see him through the eyes of two teenaged lesbians who view him as their lame ass older brother. ortus very possibly might have been hot this whole time.

[wildgeese98]

I've always imagined Ortus looking kinda like this type of elite powerlifter guy but gone to seed a little bit. Pic from this YouTube video of these guys trying to lift a 207kg stone in Scotland.

I feel like he kept up with training to maintain appearances but as the years went on he started skipping out on it more and more in favor of his writing. But even so he's still yoked from a lifetime of training to carry around two backpacks full of skeletons.

And yeah if we weren't seeing events through the eyes of young lesbians we might have had more ackowledgent that he is hot.

[11no1ideas11]

[srayalin]

Harrow wip thats eating me alive

i love her so much why does she have to suffer so much in the book i dont like this. She deserves so much, everything even.

[g0ddamnb0x]

Isaac doesn't get enough credit for being the one who came up with the term "megatheorem"

[landminepeople]

until i read this panel from fun home by alison bechdel, i always thought that cam calling pyrrha a chicken hawk in the campalpyrrha goodbye scene was just a general insult, while pal’s accusation of “old roué” was more openly flirtatious BUT THEY’RE SAYING THE SAME THING!!! the last thing they ever said to pyrrha was to call her old and make fun of her for having controversially younger partners AND THEN SHE HAD TO OUTLIVE THEM BOTH

[butchloser]

Pyrrha: please. Don’t do this it’s the worst thing that could happen to you. Don’t do it. I love you both so much

Cam and Pal, about to do it anyway: ok cougar

[zeepia-tu]

redraw of an earlier fool sketch + a lil fitzy fitz

[vividciggy]

Their beef will never not be funny to me

(Based on this meme of course)

[chocolunee]

“but nona loved the blue sphere as much as she loved everything else. she, and nobody else, could hear it sing.”

[featherbreak]

"Camilla had looked at her, and then she had gone away to sit in the bath by herself in the dark for almost an hour, even though there hadn’t been any water in the bath." - Nona the Ninth

Camilla Hect (New Rho/book 3) + photos: @featherbreak

[vividciggy]

Nona doodles 🪼

[bodyintheriver]

Wip. I think the resurrection beasts are cool.