[transcaster]

Hi! My name is Banjo

Anderswasright on tiktok and Bluesky! I’m not active here much but go follow my active blog at @orionlancasterr for dragon age, fallout, fc5 and literally whatever else I feel like :)

[sunsetbuddie]

when you say something awkward and stupid in a social situation that probably no one will remember except you for the rest of time

[clown-guitar]

[no beers in] do you think im ever going to belong somewhere

[simoneashley]

#bro was flabbergasted New clip from Interview With the Vampire Season 3

[burnoull]

Party Banter 🍻🍾

[doghawke]

(guy whos doing normal mentally) I need to replay dragon age 2.

[muravny]

huevember day 14

[muravny]

huevember day 14

[shovel2-deactivated20151204]

truffle hog truffle dog comparative

[micromontage]

shout-out to all my friends i like youj

[transcaster]

I could treat Maura isles right.

[orionlancasterr]

Last thing I’m going to say about it is that there was a school shooting one state over that killed two teenagers and there were somewhere around fifty school shootings in the United States during 2025. This does not include the countless other instances of gun violence not on school campuses.

Yet only now that republican sweetheart Charlie Kirk gets shot in the neck (after echoing transphobic and racist rhetoric to hundreds of people) do republicans and democrats alike get on the news and spew bullshit about “Political violence has gone too far” and “this is not the America I grew up in.”

If you only start caring about gun violence because a hateful, bigoted man gets shot and not because of the hundreds of other people who have been killed or hurt because of it then I don’t know what the fuck to tell you.

[passionpeachy]

me when it’s dark and miserable pouring thundering rain outside

[dijon-mayonnaise]

Davrin comm :)

[quaintpanic]

my special spaghetti dinner

[orionlancasterr]

[panicawa]

All 4 Pearls together, by popular demand!

[beguilingcorpse]

anyways the genius thing about the way john gaius has set up his empire - and the genius thing about the way TM has structured the books - is that there are multiple ways to view him. gideon the ninth starts by painting him as this unknowable and inscrutable god figure - the King Undying, the Kindly Prince of Death! - and through most of that book he is more of an emblem than anything. a symbol of dominicus, the patriarch of the nine houses, the divine being of whom the eighth house has a massive fucking portrait for some reason, and ultimately the key to what sets this version of the solar system apart from our own.

harrow the ninth strips him down. he’s not just a god anymore. he’s a cool god. he makes shitty jokes. he eats peanuts. he fucks his friends on the dining room table. he tells our main character that he sees her as a daughter figure. he shows emotion; he makes mistakes; there are things that he cannot do. if gideon the ninth introduces him as the wizard of oz’s huge and intimidating head, then harrow the ninth is john pulling back his own curtain to show the man behind it. see! he’s kind of pathetic! he’s Just Like You!

and both of these images of john ultimately serve the same purpose, because they both play to his favor. whether you fear him or you woobify him, you have fallen into the trap he has set for you. because nona shows us an even truer john, a john who doomed the world and fucked it all up, a john convinced he was in the right even as his friends killed themselves in front of him. if harrow pulls back the curtain, nona peels off his face.

it does make me wonder whether there is a secret, smaller, fourth john gaius that will be explored in alecto the ninth. alecto is the only being in the universe who really and truly knows him. she knows what he’s done and why he did it. she chose him for a reason. beneath the god and beneath the god pretending to be a man and beneath the man pretending to be a god - is there truly just a man? is there anything left?

tl;dr version: john gaius is like an onion. john gaius has layers too