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Parker prepping a bag for Maggie because "it's your first time being a fugitive" is literally so sweet ❤️❤️❤️
I like that Parker asked if they could kill a guy and Eliot just went Yeah of course I can do that for you :) no worries I've got it
Feeling normal about Nate snapping his fingers to direct Eliot to knock out a guy. Luckily it doesn't make me so hard I nearly pass out when an extremely dangerous man lets himself be ordered around like a dog 🥰
The dynamic between Eliot and Damien is truly so charged. Like, do we think they explored each other's bodies, and if so, has anybody written fic about it? 👀asking for a friend ofc ofc
Eliot buying flowers for Sophie/Parker & making Nate/Hardison take the credit for it is so sweet for no reason. Like he literally didn't have to do that, but he did and I love that for him
How am I supposed to cope with Eliot taking it as a given that he's sticking around Hardison and Parker's restaurant in the mythical After The Crew times
Hardison really saw Eliot flirting and went, "You know what would be the perfect cover story? Boyfriends :)". Love that for them
when i first read gideon the ninth, my main speculation with regards to the contents of the locked tomb was that it might be a nuclear waste storage facility.
this was a thought primarily fuelled by the fact that since i was a young lad and learned about nuclear waste, i have intermittently gone through brief but intense phases of fascination with the concept of long-term nuclear waste storage—not the technical details, but the importance and the impossibility of ensuring that storage facilities remain undisturbed tens of thousands of years into the future, being particularly fond of the conceptual message proposed by the sandia report ("this place is not a place of honour") and the atomic priesthood proposed by thomas sebeok.
for obvious reasons, the ninth house and its holy duty of protecting an unknown, catastrophic danger which must be kept locked away (but not destroyed) for all eternity invite the comparison.
additionally, the theme of linguistic decay is quite prominent in the books, i would say: not only with the names of the blood of eden rebels (quotes passing into oral tradition without retaining their context) and the survival of meme phrases in house vocabulary, but also, for example, with the names of the house inhabitants which are, yk, sort of recognizable as current-day names but remixed and warped over the millennia.
again, this to me is very reminiscent of the difficulty presented by designing a warning to still be recognisable after an arbitrary amount of time, particularly under the consideration that the nine houses are already unbelievably culturally stable due to jod's influence, and have nonetheless accumulated this degree of cultural drift.
