It's pronounced "Case"

let's face it. smut written by palamedes would have more footnotes than text

No one: Tumblr gif makers: *downloads a 70GB video file just to make one gifset of some blorbo that’ll only get 120 notes*

Others have said this but THEEEEE funniest scene in Nona the Ninth is when Nona says "I don't like redheads" and everyone fucking panics

alecto the ninth predictions with this laminated and stapled to the top

my top 5 harrow moments

the locked tomb au but instead of necromancy its just italian stuff

"we can only speak of my family's dark secret while submerged in marinara sauce"

locked tombstone pizza

the sixth can do cheeses because that requires some skill

palamacheese

the third for the gleam of a grape or a wine

bc ianthe was born to be a wine aunt

instead of john gaius he can be tony mario rigatoni

the thought of gideon nav forced to spend her summers working at harrow's failing family-owned pizza shop fills me with joy

"i wanna eat a cannoli"

harrow just keeps on being extremely catholic

"gideon nav, you are my only employee. i cannot conceive of a pizzeria without you in it"

#the amount of subtext one can fit in a single “Hey”

↑ i am constantly thinking abt this reply because it is deeply reflective of the general attitude i see displayed toward palamedes, and camilla too, wherein people seem to assume that they are inherently more rational and comparatively unbiased as a whole when compared to everyone else. they are treated as if they are comparatively free from the same confines of thinking that affect other characters; they are characterised as a shining example of a truly equal necromancer-cavalier bond, of loyalty and love, and are treated as if they are perfect geniuses who can do no wrong—an attitude i feel very much inclines people to romanticise their devotion & treat paul's birth as a victorious thing.

@dve i feel summarised this phenomena the best: "i think cam and palamedes are nowhere near as revolutionary as a chunk of the fandom would like for them to be". i'd even go as far as to say that, in their role as foils to gideon and harrow, they are meant to showcase just how damaging the necro-cavalier dichotomy is to the individuals involved. i've spoke on this before but the bond is explicitly modelled on the example of john & alecto—which is already not ideal—and was built on a foundation of deception, with john hiding the fact the lyctoral process did not necessarily have to end with the death of the cavalier: the sacrifice of the cavalier is baked into it, because the history of cavaliership is indelibly tied into the avoidable deaths of the first cavaliers.

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

ianthe-as-dominant-twin this, coronabeth-as-dominant-twin that. here's the real answer: it's push and pull. it's give and take. they're partners in crime, they're a one-sided obsession, they're a codependent clusterfuck. they take turns manipulating and belittling each other. coronabeth is the spoon flashed in front of your face so you don't see ianthe's hand in your pocket and they both think they're the brains of the operation. and they both think the other is so stupid and would be lost without them. and they're both right.

Catch me on Ao3 promoting unsafe sex, huge age gaps, adultery, and blasphemy.

I miss drawing them so much but uni takes all my spare time too 🥲

The first drawing is inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

#dirty minds worldwide

Beloved mutuals, we gather here today-

Once again thinking about Dulcinea's imagined life with Camilla and Palamedes. "It would have been very beautiful. Camilla would have had to cook."

She's thought about this. They were her best friends and she loved them and she thought about what their life together would have been like. She thought about who would do what domestic chores and what things would make them smile and laugh. I'm eating glass.