#but specifically

[templeblade]

What a horrifying ordeal it is to read a book that feels like staring into a mirror

[alienfailboy]

i'm scared to be an adult what if i don't have a coworker that perfectly matches my freak

[charlunday]

"who will sing your songs now?"

I was feeling really emotional about these two, so you guys get this 🩶

commissions open!

[dellinkou]

[ Kakashi and Obito sure look cool today... ] @kkobweek || day 6: fashion choices

[hound-and-bear]

Why must we invent blondes where there are none?

[talesofsymphoniac]

I’ve heard the take that Spy X Family is conservative propaganda trying to trick people into having kids. And to that I say, actually, Spy X Family is queer. The main setting is so explicitly conservative and totalitarian that unmarried women past their mid-20s and kids with single fathers are seen as suspicious. No, Spy X Family is a story about the blurry lines between social roles and authentic expression.

Does Yor Briar learn to cook because she herself wants to be a good cook? Because she wants to be able to take care of Loid and Anya by helping with household duties? Because the “good housewife” she is pretending to be would be good at cooking?

Does Loid Forger take Yor on dates because he must be seen as a good husband “for the mission” or because her happiness is important “for the mission” or because he wants her to be happy for its own sake?

This is a story about two adults joining together to raise a child for the benefit of their mutual household. While I would be shocked if the story doesn’t end with Loid and Yor becoming a romantic couple, as it currently stands, the romantic tension in their relationship is almost entirely a product of the social role they are being forced to fill by plot contrivance. In practice, all three of the Forgers form a perfectly functional platonic marriage and child, and would each risk their lives to keep their family together, all while the adults think of their family as something “false.” (Anya, fortunately, is the smartest of the three in this regard.)

[reallyveryhuman]

Just finished my HtN reread and it made me realize that there was a line that literally told us Nona’s identity before NtN even started

Okay so

In the very end of chapter 52 Gideon is kinda fading out of consciousness and losing control of Harrow’s body; here she says this: “The final thing I saw was a great sunshiny light: a blurred figure, hazing in and out around the edges. At first it looked to me like a woman…after the last word, the last strike, the last drop of blood in the water—your bullshit dead girlfriend had come to claim you.” (p. 500)

(There was also a bunch of description of Alecto in that line but I skipped over it cause it was long and unnecessary for my point)

When I first read this I assumed that it meant claiming in the romantic sense (since these are bullshit romantic space lesbians and I am a griddlehark shipper first and a person second) but upon reread I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s referring to claiming Harrow as in claiming control of her body. Especially with all the body swapping going on in that last hundred pages of the book specifically in regards to Harrow with both Gideon actually having control of her body, Wake trying to gain control of it, and Harrow debating wether or not to reclaim control of it.

Also in chapter 53 Harrow decides firmly not to go back to her body and then in the epilogue we open with Nona asking if Cam’s figured out who she is yet. So if you’re really digging I think you could’ve figured it out then.

But if not then then in the beginning of NtN when we’re given the first physical description of Nona and it’s very clearly Harrow’s body.

Put all this together and you can figure out very clearly that it’s Alecto in the body.

(Which I think is what Gideon did which is why she so quickly realized who Nona was and asked her if she loves Harrow when she’s interrogated her)

Point is, you could’ve figured out Nona’s identity from the end of HtN/beginning of NtN

And maybe it’s just me who wasn’t paying enough attention on my first read so I didn’t notice this and this is common knowledge but I haven’t seen anyone bring this line up so maybe this is something