the thing about gideon the ninth is that it should not work. the whole thing sounds like a fucking disaster. you look at it on paper and it seems like a word salad made into a novel. there’s bible shit. there’s space shit. there’s whodunnit shit. there’s Human Anatomy and Physiology BIO 2102 and Lab shit. the characters have names like Williambert Decaheptagoneronagus. there’s internet memes for some goddamn reason. none of this should work. and yet somehow it all ends up not only working as a coherent novel and series of books, but being an incredibly profound piece of art on themes of grief, love, and human nature itself. it doesn’t pull any punches, even if sometimes the punches are protonjon quips from 2007. thank you tamsyn.
I’m convinced you guys are just making up The Locked Tomb series at this point. This has got to be another Goncharov. There is no way everything I’m seeing about it is true. You can’t gaslight me I know Martin Scorsese’s cult classic film Gideoncharov the Ninth isn’t real
something something the way that mercymorn and augustine are terrified of alecto’s eyes to the point they’re aghast seeing them on harrow. something about the fact that those eyes they’re afraid of are john’s original eyes but mercymorn and augustine have forgotten, the way john not only recreates everyone he knows in order to start over differently this time but has also ended up recreating himself. ship of theseus etc etc
[Alecto Font: (307): hey can you come unlock the basement door? I’m trapped in
here.]
@windmillcrusader Shut up!!! SHUT UP!! She’s different but she’s like them now but not enough like them they are all human except for her and they locked her up in the dark because she “struggled to pretend” and it all started when she asked them for help. Where is Anastasia? Can you unlock the door? I’m trapped in here. Where are you going?
The mystery of why Cytherea attacked the Fourth House but spared Gideon can be solved by realizing that, perhaps she did attack Gideon, but Gideon is immortal and just healed back up. She just… slept through it.
you guys i am so in love with this fandom. you people read 2 whole books about a solar system with 9 planets that is stated to have been the cradle of humanity and you are still surprised when it turns out that it’s like, THE solar system.
Just fully no thoughts, head empty, marinating in the lesbianism of the situation without a single neuron firing. i salute your dedication
I’m sorry but that moment in GtN where Gideon walks in to see Ianthe in the process of Lyctorhood while Coronabeth sobs over Naberius’ body, and her immediate reaction is like - aw fuck, she must be so sad Tern is dead, only for the reveal to be that Corona is weeping cause Ianthe didn’t kill HER…!!! raw. instantly iconic. completely recontextualizes their relationship and adds like six fucked up layers. love the tridentarii twins
