also remember how before NtN dropped we were all speculating about the end of Harrow — who was giving Gideon CPR? was Alecto really there? what about Frontline Titties? — and then NtN picked up 6 months later and BoE lost Gideon’s body and gained Pyrrha and amnesiac Harrow completely off screen
In that vein. What would be the most chaotic possible beginning to AtN, picking up months later with 0 thing explained? Place your bets
-Alecto, Harrow, and Paul are breaking into an Imperial palace
-full on battle with Blood of Eden going on
-They burst into a palace with Harrow yelling “I object”
-God is marrying Kiriona and Ianthe to eachother
-he asks on what grounds
-Paul says he’s pregnant, and it’s Kiriona’s kid
-John asks “are you telling me a ginger bred this man?”
-chapter ends, next one has the title “9 months before the wedding”
you ever read a story where you and the protagonist share such a specific brand of mental illness that you feel like you’ve been smacked with a mirror and you just gotta sit there with wet eyes as it lists all the ways you need to fix yourself. stories that say “this you? get help lmao”. stories that equal six months of therapy. self recognition through the other? shoot that shit up my veins all day every day
this video is genuinely incredible - the framing, the sunset, the single street light, the sound of traffic and cicadas in the background, the video of the sign capture imperfectly by (presumably) a phone camera. it’s a work of art and a perfect encapsulation of 21st century america
People arguing Harrow isn’t a failwoman is so funny to me like the girl is bleeding on everything all the time the girl is constantly trying to come off as cool and dramatic and failing miserably (see her getting into the pool in the pool scene and also the reveal that all her sneaking around was useless because she clinks when she walks and everyone knew where she was).
The ONLY reason we think she has any of her shit together is Gideon is narrating and gideon has a massive gay crush on her
She spends the entire second book having back to back brain aneurysms. Her “early contributions to lyctorhood seemed to be finding new and different ways to puke”. She is the “saint of emesis”. She is a wet tissue personified. She is this cat
Aggressively thinking about HtN being about Harrow getting what she wants (God saying “I’ll carry this sin for you” re:200 dead children souls inside her tiny body) and NtN being about Gideon getting what she wants (glory, medals, child of someone super important, gets to swing a sword, you know the girlies love a ginger in a white suit) and still NEITHER of them are HAPPY because ALL THEY WANTED was EACH OTHER
“I watched it happen, Feat,” said Bless The Lord O My Soul, a dark misery etched into every line of her face, “I saw the demons erupt from the boiling ribcage of my only brother.”
“We can’t worry about such things,” replied Passion Of The Christ 2 (2016) Feat. Bo Burnham, “the space catholics of the darkest dread are inches away from burning down the entire building with the souls of the orphans.”
Nona had no idea what was going on, but it reminded her of when her friend at school, Cinderblock-Flavoured Mousepad, had told her about how he ate a whole live bird once.
in gtn, magnus is relating casual nepotism on behalf of his wife and says that he’s ‘cavalier primarried’ and gideon nav, lover of terrible puns, makes a ‘mental note to write down the joke so she could use it herself later’.
gideon. when would you use that joke. in what context. in which situation. when would you say you are cavalier primarried. forget ‘gideon’s dying words were wedding vows’, she was planning to presumably marry harrow and then make jokes about it in chapter eleven
