#ohnospoilers

[corvidaelesbian]

Judith in NTN has like the all the shit that harrow survived in htn, but it happens a lot of times

"Where is Marta?" Breaks my heart in millions pieces

Also she is also haunted, but not by angry redhead, but by fucking Resurrection Beast

She even has her own tridentary to lovehate

Judith truly is weakest soldier fighting the hardest battles

[corvidaelesbian]

I honestly hate the idea of "objectively hottest person" in fiction

Because fuck stereotypes, everyone is beautiful, hotness is subjective and it is strange if someone looks attractive to everyone

But I give a pass Coronabeth

Because, despite being seen as hot by nearly everyone, she gets literally zero bitches

Except her sister, but it doesn't count

Gideon looks at Corona, thinks "hot" and instantly gets a crush on dying girl and goes deeper into her hatelove with harrow

Harrow looks at Corona, thinks "hot" and goes with her evil tasks

Pash looks at Corona, thinks "hot" and then flirts with Cam

Judith, being in love with Corona, still rejects her

Corona is hot, everyone agrees, but she is such a failure

[corvidaelesbian]

It only now occurs to me that I took the jod parts of nona at a face value

When jod is like, CEO of unreliable narrators

Catholic nun committing suicide sounds sketchy as fuck

[corvidaelesbian]

I know where the Wake is now

As Abigail said, the soul yearns for the body

Her connection to the sword is broken and the body of cytherea is broken too

What she has left?

Her own bones, preserved by the ninth

So the doctor sex situation, but the body is not buried and she has the insane willpower

So one skeleton on the ninth quietly goes rogue

And including the situation there, nobody can stop her

It would be so funny if Gideon and corona and Pyrrha teamed up with her

[corvidaelesbian]

Rereading gtn

What else, har?

What something else?)

Also they are flirting

100%

It is so good to see them like this I wish gtn would not end

Also yes, Gideon, that is your middle name, you are not aware for now how much it is true

[corvidaelesbian]

Thoughts while rereading gtn

How characters fight says a lot about them as people

Gideon at Canaan house fights with not her usual weapon ( not in her place), and doesn't think about anything except offense ( she is a action-first, caution-second kind of girl), but is smart in her use of unexpected moves(fence), and use hard blocks not parrying (every obstacle must be overpowered, not going around)

Baba fights like an ideal mechanism, very good in his role, likes to abuse weaknesses of others, but is not open to any unorthodox moves, so he get punched and stabbed in the back. He also is not familiar with real fight, not its polished version, and he is not familiar with real life

Jeanmary has a good foundation of a fighter, but wants to be open to world like Gideon, not forced in rules like babs

Magnus is not fast, mediocre in his abilities, and tbh I don't remember more I should reread waker fight to say something else

Cam gives her all to fight, is not afraid to get injured to win

While writing this a got an idea that cav fighting says a lot about their necromancer, like cam and pal

Gideon at the end of first book fights with greatsword,not playing roles, just being herself

She also fights more defensively, because now she has someone to protect

I want to see kiri in action, but I suspect she fights all offense , taking every hit on her body, because now, like at the Canaan house, she is not in her role, has nothing to protect and takes every punch from life

I will update this when I will reread htn, there is much to say about harrow, Ianthe, g1deon and Gideon

[corvidaelesbian]

Someone smarter then me probably will or even already done post about it, but

Names, renaming and choosing your own name in tlt as a sign of power

It first hit me when in htn har and ianthe were calling eachother by house's names as a treat

Houses are close to nations in culture sense, and stripping them out of it and forcing into the white and shiny First House is something of colonization

(Yes, native Australian kids forced to change their names to European and socialized without their culture or language, yes, thousand times yes it is)

But this is baby steps

John done this with all his resurrection

He wiped memory of everyone, and change their names to fit into his greek-roman fantasy, even his "friends".

I don't think you actually love people if you destroy their entire personality so they wouldn't be angry at you

(Sorry, I have a memory problem, sometimes I forget years of my life. This hits very close to home)

Renaming is the sign of how he destroyed culture of all earth to make his new colonial utopia

Kiriona Gaia. Name that Gideon doesn't like and don't even react to it.

Stripping her of her ninth past (nav) and all that complicated story of her birth (Gideon), making and ideal (and dead) emperor's daughter

But there is even more

After jod ate solar system, he renamed every part of it including the sun.

You know, how colonizers rename stolen land, rename rivers

Earth was the planet of humankind

First house is the planet of Jod, and only him

This is exclusive ownership

But we have different way

Boe

Self-naming with the cultural context is (self)liberating way

And here we come to Paul

Self-naming as a statement that you are more then sum of your parts, not combination of pal and cam, but someone new

There is of course trans analogy, like choosing your own name is a liberating act that bigots hate

But , yeah, colonization

[corvidaelesbian]

I am in tears

Break vow of silence for your crush?

Fuck no

Girl you hated your entire life gone missing? It is time to speak

The kid is crying? Fuck the vow

Her priorities are very good and very gay