tazmuir really said what if the earth was a girl. what if the soul of a planet was a little girl who wanted a birthday party by the ocean with all her closest friends because she loved them all so, so dearly, and her love was a force of nature, so much that it could swallow bullets through her skull and hide her memories away long enough for her to have a real family, a family that shouldn’t have been but they just couldn’t help loving her back, they couldn’t stop. tazmuir said what if a dead planet was alive in a girl and she didn’t know how to do anything but love.
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really the tragedy of Nona is that by the middle of the book you KNOW she’s going to die. Doesn’t matter if she is some sort of Harrow/Gideon amalgamation or something new In Harrow but she is going to die. She loves everyone and she loves being alive and she’s six months old and she’s going to die. She knows this and you know this and she still gets to you as a kid in a war zone even though she’s not really a kid because she kind of is. She’s a kid and she’s going to die. There’s no saving her.
sometimes a family can be an illiterate 19 yr old, a scary lady, a dead librarian inhabiting the body of said scary lady, an ass joke addict with muscles for days, and Noodle
harrow’s little alternate universe fantasies are so so important to me because it showed how important gideon is to harrow, how much harrow loves her. she’d love her if they’d still known each other all their lives but gideon is the necromancer and she’d love her on sight if gideon was the emperor’s heir (surprise!). but she’d also love her if gideon was just a normal girl who made coffee for a living. she’d love gideon no matter who she was, no matter how important she was, no matter her relationship to harrow. and gideon doesn’t know any of that.
camilla and gideon chill out and talk about weapons and fighting styles while harrowhark and palamedes scream and throw chairs at each other over the minutiae of necromantic theory in the background
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I think about Pyrrha Dve and I want to scream a little. Imagine, being eaten by your best friend and then living in the back of his mind and in his body for thousands of years, during which you meet a beautiful woman hellbent on your destruction and let yourself fall in love, in fact you’re ready to raise her daughter if she’d ask you to, and she just up and dies. Then fast forward to ntn, you finally get the domestic bliss you’ve been waiting for in the form of nona (a different person in the body that you spent a year watching your best friend try to kill) and camilla (another one of devotion’s casualties) and palamedes. And you make breakfast for them, and you do nona’s hair and walk to work with them and look for radio stations with music on them because nona likes them. But slowly you can see camilla, a woman you don’t quite love but could see yourself loving in the future, get more and more lost in palamedes, losing herself to her necromancer . And you see them both fall victim to the total loss of self and codependancy that you saw so many of your old friends fall too, and you lose them both. Now they’re a stranger in a body you recognise. And then Gideon, the child of the woman you loved, the child you mightve raised in another universe, being the saddest girl in the world and a reanimated corpse, a puppet for the empire that killed her (and yeah, you guessed it! She died for her necromancer). And then, just when you think it can’t get any worse, there goes Nona. Nona, who loved being alive and loved to love things, literally dies in your arms, and is now in the unrecognisable body of someone who is the pinnacle of cavaliers being mistreated. They’re all gone, but Pyrrha is still there, right where they left her. She remembers everything, she remembers that she was happy, if only for 6 months.
tiktok necromancer: “i’ve received a few concerns lately about where i get my materials from, so i just want to assure you all that i always make sure my human remains are ethically and responsibly sourced, and all reanimation i do is 100% consensual :)”
“UPDATE: so i’m sure you’ve all seen the callouts by now. okay, i admit it. i did rob a few graves and even kill some people to make the throne of bones in my living room, and the fingerbone crown i’m wearing right now. but i did all the intensive labor of desecrating burial sites and murdering civilians personally myself. and it’s not like they were using their bones! it’s eco friendly, like recycling! you’re all just haters because you’re jealous of my horrifyingly cool interior decor”
“FURTHER UPDATE: i may not have honor. i may not have integrity. i may not have morals. i may not even have brand deals or collabs lined up, thanks to the callout posts about me circulating across multiple social media platforms. but you know what i do have? an undead army. let’s see your ‘woke mob’ try to cancel my legion of skeletons.”
theres something so incredibly painful and meaningful about nona deciding to live just because a dog is in the truck. just noodle, this weird little six-legged dog that nona only knew for a handful of months in her already short life that she loved so deeply. tazmuir goes to painstaking extents to illustrate all the horrible things that come as a result of love (paul, jod’s backstory, pyrrha/g1deon/wake, ianthe and corona, gideon and harrow, etc) but this little, pivotal moment illustrates the beauties of it. nona is all about love, she loves without reason, she loves her little life and her little family and her school and her friends and noodle. noodle, who is just a dog, who can’t speak or express his love like humans do, but shows it nonetheless. because noodle is a dog, and dogs love without reason, just like nona (just like the earth). when everything and everyone that nona loves is falling apart, when she’s lost in all those horrors of love and chaos and destruction and her brain is breaking down and she’s losing what it means to Be Nona, noodle is still there, loving her regardless. and because she’s still nona, she loves him back. and she lives for love, even for just a few minutes longer. for a dirty little six-legged dog that wasn’t even hers, because she can’t let what she loves die if she has the choice (the power, for once). it’s beautiful and heartbreaking and the last decision she ever made was to live with her horrible, painful existence so that a dog (who couldn’t choose) wouldn’t die.
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tlt but JUST from ianthe’s perspective would be hilarious. you (necromancer) go to canaan house with your sister (who you trick people into thinking is a necromancer) and babs (your walking jerky stick). there’s a bunch of weird people and a hot nun but whatever. you sneak around and are Smart and u put things together. some people die, whatever, u get on with ur Sneaking and Smartness. you figure out how to become a lyctor (you have to kill babs). you kill babs, eat him (his soul), that’s all par for the course for you. and congrats, youre the first new lyctor in a myriad!!!!!! and then the rest of the weird people who are still alive decide to go and attack you about it. oh turns out ur predecessor has been hanging around, you get in a tussle and she slices off ur arm. ouchie. and she goes down at the hands of the hot nun so at least there’s something good going on. later you and the hot nun get picked up by god, u don’t know where ur sister is but hey! the hot nun is now ur built in bestie for the rest of ur eternal lives. but nooooo she’s depressed because her other nun friend went and died on a fence and boohoo she got ate just like babs. blegh. she asks you to crack her skull open which seems like a good time so you do, and now she owes you a favor and can’t remember the nun friend so things seem kinda dandy. and you get a sloppy lil makeout sesh later too. on ur all expenses paid vacay to god’s house his old friend/fuckbuddy takes you under his wing. swords suck because of ur arm but you get a front row seat to the most interesting and fucked up sitcom in history. the hot nun is There and yeah she might be having some brain issues but u get to play dress up with her and she also makes u a shiny new bone arm. u ALMOST get another kiss after god starts getting fucked in the dining room by two of his besties but the hot nun has it out for the other bestie that’s been trying to kill her for months so u don’t get to have that fun. eventually ur fight with a cosmic horror gets interrupted and the dead nun takes over the hot nun’s body and u witness the death of god. but he comes back and in quick succession he is out of besties and u saved his ass from mega hell. in the next few months you watch god fall into his newest depressed slut era but at least he makes u a new bestie out of the dead nun (who’s his kid?????) and her corpse, u guys even make friendship bracelets and have a handshake. u get to pilot babs’ corpse around on another planet and finally see ur sister again and kiss her on the lips through the jerky body. and the hot nun is back too!!!!! but some of those people from wayyyy back are still there and they take over the jerky body and u have to race them to god’s ex’s unbreakable tomb. and then god’s ex wakes up and beats ur ass and then gives the hot nun a sloppy kiss. what is a girl to do.
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