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i just need to make sure that everyone knows that, although i’ve made posts about alecto’s righteous vengeance, i do not love her for her moral righteousness, but because she is a big scary monster and also a planet and also nona and also a darling precious baby

if it turns out that she, too, has committed atrocities, this will not change <3

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Poor Gideon found out her father was god, watched him explode, and then saw him naked within the first 5 minutes of meeting him.

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what do you meaaaaaaan this is baby sturgeons youre lying to me.... you just Shrunk him

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Harrow, "Harrow", and Harrow(?) sleepover

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going insane thinking about the harrow and palamedes friendship. harrow, who has never met another necromancer her age forming a bizarro 3D chess rivalry while pal worries about her safety at every possible turn. harrow, who is up to her eyebrows in paranoia and secrecy, trusting the sixth house with gideon unconscious and hurt, letting them into the ninth house quarters unsupervised. if “i cannot conceive of a universe without you in it” is goth for i love you, “death first to vultures and scavengers” has got to be goth for i love you (platonic). pal’s first reaction when harrow comes into his bubble in the river is to scoop her up in a hug, and at this point she doesn’t remember anything about him because cutting out all her memories of gideon is impossible without cutting out memories of the sixth, but she still makes him a skelehand to inhabit anyway. when harrow’s memories are finally whole, she tells dulcinea she couldn’t face pal knowing that his pen pal girlfriend died on her account, but the next time she “faces” him, palamades’s soul is in someone else’s body and harrow’s body is full of nona’s soul. he spends six months protecting and caring for harrow’s body (and nona obv), believing in the possibility of bringing her back to it the same way cam believed in him. “god, do you know i miss harrow terribly.” and by the time harrow comes back to her body at the very end of ntn, pal is gone forever, fully pauled. the last time harrow and palamades see each other as their complete selves is in canaan house, alive and unlyctored. two of the smartest and loneliest people in the solar system meet each other in the worst of circumstances and spend the rest of the story dancing around each other as fragments of themselves, trying to care about each other in the interim but never fully meeting like they did the first time. a friendship made almost entirely of missing the other person. “do you know i miss harrow terribly.” god. i need to lie down

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Evil Stick | Ball of Sunshine

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There's going to be a day, when Hot Sauce learns that the dumb girl who took the class dog for walks was actually the immortal holy leader of an entire planet who's dating god's daughter.

She's not going to be particularly impressed by that, but there's still going to be that day.

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it's always Nova hours

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griddlehark, in bed the kiss

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A match made in hell ♥️

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The scene in ntn where Nona does such a spot on impression of Palamedes kissing Camilla's hand that Camilla has to dissociate about it in the tub has me wondering about the first gen lyctors' relationship with Alecto. Do you think that they were afraid of her because she wasn't human enough or because she was too human?Do you think that she worried her lip like Cristabel? Do you think she walked with Alfred's walk and laughed Pyrrha's laugh? Do you think they saw in her flawless imitation a mockery of their dearest friends and of their greatest sins? Do you think they said to John "it is a monstrosity, it is unbearable, send it away from us, Lord. We cannot look at it." Do you think he looked into the golden eyes of his own greatest sin and said "You are right, we should put it to bed."

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Always thinking about how TLT is in so many ways about cycles of abuse.... Mercymorn has spent 10,000 years being too emotional and too sensitive and wearing her grief on her sleeve (the feminine expression of grief versus Augustine's masculine repression of it) and she spends those 10,000 years being ridiculed for it. "Unlovable Mercymorn, critical Mercymorn" -- John denigrates her in front of her inferiors on the Erebos, Augustine has a constant, painted on expression of dismissal, etc until the point where Mercymorn herself just accepts it.

And then here comes Harrow, 17 years old and grieving just like her, and Mercymorn has a chance to help. She has spent 10,000 years as a live wire of grief, and she's given this broken baby who has torn apart her own brain, in many ways a mirror of Mercymorn's own grief, and she has the chance to help. But what does Mercymorn do?

She ridicules Harrow. She dismisses her. She perpetuates the violence that she herself has faced, and the cycle continues

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not enough fanart for this horrible woman. I love her sm

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Me: I just don’t get that whole Chain of Samael thing, Samael didn’t even get to see the Ninth be established

Also me: suddenly remembers that the weighted end of the chain is a Pelvis bone & that it is called the “relic of this long-dead warrior”. In catholic parlance, a relic can either be something that belonged to a Saint but is also very often a piece of physical remain of said saint. And such a thing is usually a core component of churches (legit for the longest time you could not have a catholic church without a relic it was MANDATORY). In ye olden days, there was also a HUGE catholic tradition of building cemeteries on top and around the graves of martyrs. And the Chain of Samael was kept in monument in the Anastasian, which is described as the sacred tomb of warriors and second most holy place on the Ninth.

Me: OH it’s not the chain of Samael it’s the chain OF Samael. It’s MADE with Samael!

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wow, ok, unfollowing now. was a big fan of his twitch stream where he cured cancer, had no idea he constructed a giant flesh wall out of a herd of cows

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Empty’s just another word for clean.

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if you're still taking drawing requests... alecto doing something nona-ish maybe?? (i firmly believe she's still very loving underneath all the Rage)

Puppy love was different, it just made you want to open the puppy’s lips and play with the puppy’s teeth.