[lazarusawaken]

Random Nona thoughts

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

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— No but really, what medical(?) secret did Nona tell Hot Sauce? Will it ever be revealed?

— As someone who doesn’t speak Māori and is not familiar with the phonetics, I was 100% sure that “Kiriona” was a play on “Kyrie”, as in “Kyrie eleison”. Still not sure Tamsyn didn’t put the same connection as a second layer of meaning (because we’re talking onion layers of meaning with tlt)

— I absolutely love that the pre-ressurrection chapter is so NZ-centered

— Kinda feel that the main problem with Paul is that both Camilla and Palamedes have very strong presence and vibe, which was played beautifully in this book. With Paul, we didn’t get a strong introduction of character’s personality and at the same time it’s hard to imagine a melange of Cam’s and Pal’s personalities because they are so different.

— I normally don’t enjoy heterosexual romance in books, but even if we read Cam’s and Pal’s relationship as a platonic romance, they still have a place in my broken heart

— Still waiting for Crown to reveal herself as badtwin. So far she’s just very indecisive and tries to have all at once when it’s obviously not possible.

— Messenger????! Message?????!!!

— Was very intrigued by the nameless nun, but it’s very hard for me to keep track of ALL the original Lyctors (thanks God Tumblr exists for people to explain tlt to me), so didn’t catch Cristable but MY GOD, SHE.

— I really hope there will be a better explanation on how and why John’s powers manifested rather than “it just happened”. I mean, it wouldn’t ruin the series for me if it just stays, but I think it was not the usual level of, erm, logical basis?

— OG Lyctors, you bunch of horrible enablers.

— The cow refrain. My god.

— No but the cow wall. The “accident”. The way John’s arc was almost redeeming until it wasn’t.

— I personally did feel that NtN works perfectly fine as a separate book. I feel like a lot of criticism on that comes from a bias as we already knew that it originally was supposed to be a part of AtN.

— I really hope that we’ll see Nona integrated into Alecto’s personality.

— I’m still curious whether Pyrrha made up the mustache t-shirt or really bought it.

— Somehow Nona’a tantrum was really scary. The finger. Ouch. Oh.

— Is there some connection between Alecto wielding a two-hander and two-hander being Gideon’s favorite sword?

— I’m kinda happy that I’m not the only one confused by the whole BoE inner feud. At least it’s not me being dumb lol

— Genuinely enjoyed the domestic part of the book because it felt very much like grasping at tiny shards of happiness amidst hell knowing that something even more horrible is coming and everything will end soon, and I wish I could relate less.

— I kinda think the pacing was similar to the previous two books? The long slow beginning and a chaotic last third — at some point I almost walked away from GtN because of how slow it was? So happy I didn’t though.

— Reading tlt is like talking about your pain and trauma with a very compassionate listener. I don’t know if I can elaborate.

— Mercy appreciating the fierceness of teenage girls. Yes please. John getting a bunch of babies as Lyctors. No please.

— No but Ianthe in leather pants.

— Naberius was the last character I expected to have a comeback. Sort of.

— Alecto starts with Harrow in Hell — and seemingly picks up where HtN ended, Harrow-wise? I’m curious whether the Harrow John was talking to was Harrow at all? I was going into ask whether we’ll get a glimpse of what half a year in the River was for Harrow but we sort of already did?

— I love Tamsyn’s love for the most clueless characters as narrative focus.

— The Tower feels like the Tarot Tower. Like, a lot. I think there’s actually more of Tarot symbolism in tlt, but I’m not entirely sure.

— there will probably be more thoughts later, but it I don’t wrap up now, I will simply never stop

[lazarusawaken]

Why don’t I see people screaming about the LITERAL SEXY PIRATE outfit Ianthe gets when she finally shows up?

SHE WEARS LEATHER PANTS

COME ON

[lazarusawaken]

She was no longer languid, but breathless, alive, and resembling nothing quite so much as a malign fairy.

I don’t normally draw fanart and don’t normally draw in anime style idk why it happened

[lazarusawaken]

My last post here was 472 days ago.

Am I breaking nearly 500 days of tumblr silence to weakly shriek about the Locked Tomb not-a-trilogy-anymore?

Abso-fucking-lutely.

Also the Cohort report is delicious. Never have been really into the Second house, but well, I am now.

[tmunniz]

The Mabel podcast is making me feel a lot of things, idk about that

Gonna keep listening to it tho, it’s my whole aesthetic and the sound design is absolutely amazing

@mabelpodcast

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

Mabel Martin aesthetic

[memoriam-victoriam]

Lovers

[inland-delta]

Erik Desmazières, The wind blows where it wants, 1989

[yesterdaysprint]

Reading Times, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1925

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

summer in china

[lazarusawaken]

I just miss China badly

[deadlyart]

Alexander Berdin-Lazursky -  Armored Heart

[this-is-sar]

I made a rule for myself: I would not include anything that human beings had not already done in some other place or time, or for which the technology did not already exist. I did not wish to be accused of dark, twisted inventions, or of misrepresenting the human potential for deplorable behaviour. The group-activated hangings, the tearing apart of human beings, the clothing specific to castes and classes, the forced childbearing and the appropriation of the results, the children stolen by regimes and placed for upbringing with high-ranking officials, the forbidding of literacy, the denial of property rights: all had precedents, and many were to be found not in other cultures and religions, but within western society.“

Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale in a 2012 interview  (via this-is-sar)

[leirelatent]

[bleaqblog]

(via Magical (fashion) editorial photography by Ekaterina Belinskaya)

[cerinthefyrmagne]

Joan of Arc

Jeanne d’Arc

[fymodernflapper]

Edwardian warrior.

[ffoart]

[fymodernflapper]

The Fitzgeralds (Just an optional title for this wonder)