#abigail pent

[may12324]

Gideon The Ninth- mock dustcover

I draw book covers for freelance all the time. I feel pretty lucky to do so, and wanted to create one with all my free will and spare time, to make just for me. Well, and for you lot as well. But mainly, for me.

I will be drawing book 2 and book 3 as well. And potentalially have prints of them later this year.

(For cover commissions email me at [email protected])

[cav-core]

Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they're just both very true.

[katakaluptastrophy]

For a supposedly gender-neutral society, it's fascinating how the only mortal woman over the age of 30 that we meet at Canaan House is persistently framed by other characters' expectations of domesticity, despite being one of the most powerful people in the system and famous for her professional achievements.

Gideon describes Abigail's confident and unsettling demeanor, before adding "but she was wearing an apron and it was hard to feel intimidated by her."

Later, Cytherea asks her about children, and Abigail has to "bracingly" steer the conversation back to her work, and the manuscript which she has been "married to longer than I have to Magnus". When later confronted about murdering her, Cytherea dismisses that work as a "hobby".

It's not until Harrow the Ninth that Harrow - a narrator who spends much of the story being unwillingly bracketed into the Mithraeum's horrors of familial domesticity - offers a perspective on Abigail that doesn't focalise her primarily as a cook, wife, barren hegemonic foster mother, or unwholesome hobbyist.

[moonssnail]

In another life

(Closeups under the cut)

[honeybee-arts]

This isn't how it happens.

[notedchampagne]

each house gets one rendering style the economy is dire

[utenapilled]

this took me a month Rereading Gideon made me wanna design all of the Cav/Necromancer pairings from the Canaan house!

[junegoose]

I just finished HTN and one of the more innocuous lines that hit me like a brick to the chest was Abigail saying to Harrow “Jeanne said to tell Gideon hi.” I keep thinking about Jeannemary in the River, dead and still worrying about the living, wanting Gideon to know that she doesn’t blame her. It’s such a little thing but it completely cracked me open.