*Bob Ross voice* Hi, glad you could join us. Today, I thought we’d do a painting on a black canvas, which I’ve covered here in a thin, even layer of liquid clear, and I thought today maybe we’d paint a little door to the Locked Tomb,
now this old Tomb is shut up pretty tight, and that rock is right where it oughta be, not rolled away, and that which was buried - that’s right, it remains insensate with closed eyes and stilled brain. I’ll have them run the colors you’ll need across the screen, let’s have some fun
The fact that we get more about the non-Dominicus universe from one chapter and a fragment narrated by an amnesiac than we have from the whole of the first two books….
i’m just supposed to, what? go to sleep tonight knowing that Nona knows she’s living on borrowed time? i’m just supposed go to work with the knowledge that Nona appreciates being alive with such genuine joy and fervor while a sword of damocles hangs above her head? i’m expected to be productive in society while thinking about how Nona’s birthday isn’t just some cute thing but rather a celebration in the face of certain death? am i supposed to not be thinking about how Harrow/Gideon and Nona can’t all live without one dying?
happy pride to girls who didn’t know that women could be nice to you, inscrutable polycules, straight people in forbidden marriages, body snatchers who kiss their own reflections, poets obsessed with long-dead warriors, predatory cougars, lesbians who are in fact the problem, and girls who are in love with a corpse
put me in charge of the locked tomb screen adaptation i have Ideas
it’s ridiculously high budget but the set is designed to look like a stage play from the 80’s. the bone constructs are all massive animatronic puppets à la dark crystal. every meme is recited with gut-wrenching emotional gravity. coronabeth is 6’2 and you can always see her nipples for some reason. harrow is 4’7 and this fact is emphasized by the camera angle skewing downward every time she’s speaking. cam and pal spend the whole first act walking around in ominous gray robes like the twins from the shining. there’s a reoccurring bit where every time gideon returns to the ninth house’s rooms she bumps her head on a new elaborate bone decoration