#lickedher

[phalangemedes]

once Paul arrives on the Mithraeum, bets on John asking where Ringo and George are (re:tower princes) because he is, even in the thick of it, a loser

[phalangemedes]

It just struck me the Lyctoral summons were on ACTUAL paper, signed, spell checked or at least touched by the Maori Pink Panther himself, and Palamedes' nerd niche is psychometry.

We HAVE to assume he fingered that paper silly for the novelty, for intrigue and because he's incorrigible (also because Cam is used to him being tacky to the touch from sensory lube.)

So between the letter and getting neti potted by Cif Citrus Blast ala Kiriona.. By holding Nona in their arms, by healing her, by loving her and the part of her that is tangled up with John... Paul has felt God up a lot.

And it really didn't take a lot for Pal, a mortal, a man, a single brain cell with pretty RBF, to cradle a Lyctor's cancer in his necromantic phalanges and turn it up to 11.

[phalangemedes]

this came to me in a dream

[phalangemedes]

trying to explain John to someone and thought I summed it up pretty well:

'I'd argue John isn't necessarily a villain in the trad sense but in the "Greenpeace, have successfully ended whale hunting! ... By poisoning every tin of ocean caught fish with Novichok before puppeteering the dead through a (well received) production of I,Claudius--" kinda way. Like I Get It and mostly agree with the end goal but fuck me dude what the hell you made them costumes and everything that's kinda fucked up???'

[phalangemedes]

Just absorbed the knowledge Alecto had to watch Harrow… flip planets???

As if it wasn't bad enough watching John groom Harrow into his next protege because she was, too, a mausoleum (albeit by force over choice), she had to see her do what he'd done to her again and again and again. A PERFECTED version, murder over consumption, destruction over melding.

I hope she gets to have a nice birthday party when everything is done, with an oreo cake so it's a bit like dirt but actually digestible. They can put gummy worms in it, I think she'd like that

[phalangemedes]

Matthias Nonius with a tonsure to prove his humility as a Cavalier Primary of his house, and his devotion to the Tomb

OR

Matthias Nonius with a fuckboi undercut and a top knot because he's Ortus' blorbo and it's a canonically historical haircut

[phalangemedes]

sobbing why is it every time I go on the reddit there's the funniest cold take I've ever seen

'The first few chapters (of GtN) aren't so important to the plot'

GIRL, EXCUSE ME??

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I'm going to end up deleting like.. 80% of this because it's only the background of an immense rabbit hole I've fallen down.. But it feels unfair when it took me so long (thematically and physically)

This is the tower in the River!! It's Babel, it's if you explained the whole history of human architecture to an alien and made them recreate it having never actually seen it themselves, it's the ninth, it's the naive pen and inks of Constantinople, it's if you ran age of empires through a mantis shrimp, it's non euclidean Escher shite, it's modelled after the bones of a cow, it's overtly catholic, and I think it's kinda neat!!!