Monstrous purrings in the dark

callie sadecki shipman

The impression I get of Lottie is that she says that, especially as an adult, but all the hearts she happens to have been attracted to have been in girls' chests. Simone Kessell agrees with you, though.

gideon the ninth video game adaptation where you play as cytherea. it alternates between a subtle game of psychological manipulation where you have to be very careful not to reveal information you’re not supposed to know, a horror corridor-exploration game, and a fighting game. there’s a side panel where you control protesilaus. and obviously, since you’re a lyctor, you’re completely op and you can see all of the npcs’ stats at all times.

and im also imagining that it could deviate from the book and bring in information/plot from the rest of the series. you have the option while you play to explore canaan house and the labs at your leisure, and there’s enough information planted there that you learn at least some of the backstory john tells harrow in nona, as well as more information about boe and the war. maybe you’re even able to communicate with the other lyctors and john himself if you wish. you also have the opportunity at any point to reveal yourself to any of the other characters and/or ask them questions, collaborate with them, etc. so there would be multiple endings, with different subsections of characters dying and ascending for each, and for different reasons.

ohhh right i forgot about those

you go to purchase cytherea’s haunted mansion and the gamestop employee hands you a multi-page exam about tlt that you have to pass before you can buy the game. you flip to the back. there are essay questions.

Sir Geraint and the Lady Enid in the Deserted Roman Town by Walter Crane

this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny

people love love loooove to go on and on and on about whiteguy #135336843’s internal torment and the nuances of his writing and then when it comes time to talk about women it’s all um actually she can do no wrong and holds the braincell and babysits the boys like a mother hashtag feminism. i hope you fucking blow up

"bUt i tHiNk mAKeUp is fUn" that's nice. i would like to be allowed to exist without it without being socioeconomically punished for that choice but what's important to focus on here is that you're just having the funnest time ever

This doesn’t happen unless you’re so ugly that you need makeup to look normal (in which case this post is a bit of a self-own)

cool misogyny! i forgot that being beautiful is the only moral way for a woman to exist. what an Epic Own on behalf of a multibillion dollar industry!!!!

@itsallwearecalledtodo

So you know how at the end of Nona the Ninth, Harrow doubts that John is god and goes off into the River to find god, who is maybe Alecto?

It turns out we had a clue right at the beginning that John is not the metaphysical engine of the universe of The Locked Tomb...

When Teacher gives the assembled scions at Canaan House a highly selective history of the OG Lyctors, he says:

Remember that John is, in the theology of the Nine Houses, the "God who became man and man who became God." It's never entirely explained what this means to them, but it's clearly intended to riff on Jesus, the 'Word made flesh' (John 1:14), "born in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:7).

But here's the thing if you're going to be a Catholic-flavoured god: Catholicism has some quite specific terminology for leveling up in terms of heavenly power.

Jesus, who is God, goes up to heaven after the resurrection. This is described as his "ascension" - it's an active process. He is ascending, going to his heavenly throne. He can do that, because he's God. He *is* the rules of the universe and metaphysics. If he wants to fly up into the sky and transcend into another dimension, he can do that, because he's God.

But there are three other people who are understood to have gone up to heaven bodily: Jesus' mum Mary, and the prophets Elijah and Enoch - for all three of them, this is described as their "assumption": it's a passive process, which they aren't doing under their own steam, it's being done by God. In art, this has historically been depicted by showing them being propelled skywards by a writhing mass of cherubs.

So let's get back to Jod.

You know, the man who became god, etc etc etc? The one who resurrected his Lyctors who then "spread his assumption across the blackness of space"?

Either John wasn't paying quite enough attention when going through Catholicism for Dummies or Teacher is being a bit sly here.

So this is a nod, right at the beginning, to the fact that John isn't actually the metaphysical power of the universe that he claims to be.

i love gideon the ninth because i think readers will naturally take what a narrator says at face value, because that is what we are conditioned to do. but gideon says so many blatantly incorrect things confidently because she doesn’t know better, or is outright lying, and it makes for SUCH an interesting reading experience.

25 aprile 1945, Liberazione d’Italia dal nazifascismo