the moment you die will feel exactly like this one

Ahem

No, of course not

kindle app, i cannot emphasize enough how much i am still thinking about that book

They could demand satisfaction, and you’d end up a mausoleum centrepiece!

tazmuir could simply rerelease gideon the ninth over and over again but from the perspective of all of the different characters at canaan house and i would be tuned the fuck in. like the drama of all of their different expectations and relationships…. coronabeth living her hot girl summer… judith experiencing Sapphic Hell…. isaac and jeannemary on the world’s weirdest family vacation…. palamedes living out a deeply repressed regency era romance…. silas filled with loathing for every single person there…. delightful. canaan house drives me crazy. it’s like if love island was survivor

Also who put Gideon the Ninth on the cosy fantasy table. Absolutely nothing about Gideon could be mistaken for cosy

“You know everything will be alright in the end” this is the cruelest thing you could do short of intentionally exposing an 8 year old to anime

"The lights are broken" "it's night you tool" remains the funniest scene in tlt for me.

Reading The Locked Tomb series at the recommendation of my friends, just finished Act I of Gideon the Ninth, and I just

Gideon digging for every negative adjective possible to describe kids four years younger than her

this sucks so bad i need to [realises that only a lyctor can beat cytherea and harrow is almost out of juice and camilla is wounded and ianthe is missing an arm] fall on a fence

@fandomtrumpshate gift for @theriverbeyond!! no text version below the cut

Reading The Locked Tomb series at the recommendation of my friends, just finished Act I of Gideon the Ninth, and I just

gideon nav is really smart actually dot jpeg

gideon nav was too busy going ass over tits for femmes to realize that the perfect woman (camilla hect) was already in front of her

riddle me this! did Gideon nav impale herself on an iron spike as a self sacrificial act for harrows lyctorhood or did she do it bcz she found out the little freaks type ((basically) a dead girl) 🙄

It's very funny when people reading Gideon the ninth for the first time comment in confusion about how little people talk about "Dulcinea" but like. Actually we DONT talk about Cytherea enough.

Cytherea - who was dying for 10,000 years! Cytherea the miracle worker who was brought before God and he LIED to her and he told her and her friends they were doing the right thing and he WATCHED as they killed each other and he is DOING IT ALL OVER AGAIN. Cytherea who is trying to get God's attention but who is also trying in her own monstrous way to be kind. They all have to die because /the only other option is to become what she is./ Of course Jeannemary and Isaac have to die. Isaac has to die because she can't let him kill Jeannemary. Jeannemary has to die because she watched Isaac die and Cytherea knows there's no coming back from that. Dulcinea HAS to die because the only other option is to suffocate slowly in her own cancer for 10,000 years and Cytherea /can't let her do that./ The fifth and the fourth and the sixth and the ninth - they ALL have to die because if she could go back that's what she would have wanted. They don't know it yet, but in 10,000 years, they'd want it too. She didn't take her chance to die when she had it. They don't know how lucky they are.

And Cytherea who put on airs of being petty and selfish meanwhile she gave herself away until there was nothing left. Cytherea who hated God because he took everything she had without blinking twice. Cytherea who said over and over "me, I will" and whose sisters and brothers died around her and who wouldn't let them forget about Loveday - who loved Loveday when they all hated her.

Cytherea who held Gideon in her arms while she was dying during the siphoning trial and told her "remember this feeling. Remember how much it hurts. And if anyone ever asks this of you, you have to remember and say no." Gideon, who reminded Cytherea so much of Loveday. Cytherea, who /asked that of Loveday./ And Gideon, who went out and /did it anyway./

Cytherea, at the end of everything, who NEEDS to kill Gideon and Harrow because they love each other and she can't let them get it wrong like she and Loveday did, who sees the skull they're hiding in open and sees Gideon's body and sees Harrow pick up that sword and has lost despite everything, and who finally gives up and lets them kill her.

love that ianthe finally Won and was so proud to do her big villain monologue and explain how actually she'd been the world's most specialest girl the whole time and she was the best and her beautiful charismatic much beloved sister was just an unworthy facade of a person and she was the final boss most important real deal. only to then immediately be upstaged completely by cytherea's villain turn. and then spend the last twenty pages of climactic denouement passed out on the ground.