i do think it’s kind of crazy how both cristabel and mercymorn function as sacrificial lambs that absolve their respective quinque of his sins… augustine can only ever blame cristabel for something that she and alfred did together so he can forgive the part alfred played in it. and john punishes mercy for a sin that she and augustine committed together — she “really pissed him off” — but john is able to extend an olive branch to augustine in spite of the part he knows he played. they’re both finding scapegoats in the women who founded the house that will eventually give way to cavs named after sacrificial animals. like, what the hell
okay whatever while i am posting stuff from 2022. here is experimental headshots of harrow & wake i did back then that i still kind of like. pretty accurate to how they look in my head… ish
I know Abigail saying Ianthe was “never quite the thing” is probably meant to reference some kind of political beef between them, but I just have this mental image of 14 year old Abigail being handed baby Ianthe at whatever the evil necromancer equivalent of a christening party is and just immediately deciding that this baby’s vibes were weird.
everyone’s like oh the arm scene is sex oh the arm scene is an abortion but NOBODY talks about the dagger scene can we not acknowledge how fucking hot THAT is huh
the moment in nona the ninth when ianthe and kiriona show up like Attention Bajoran Workers We’re a Lil Transmasculine Now but Don’t You Worry About It
this is so fucking funny did this person not read the books. amiguito did you read noina the ninth. what did you think was going on for that whole scene
imagining the mind of someohe who would read this novel and be like ‘ugh nobody ebtter make any incest fanart of this’
i personally believe the twins did this to babs all the time
babs was 5’ 5’’ and covered in bitemarks and stunk of fucking hair gel & every day one of two 6’ 4’’ women would pick him up so they could thrash him around in their jaws & chokeslam him into walls. he was such a cunt due to having shaken cavalier syndrome. ianthe straight up ate one of his fingers once whole and had to regrow it for him & at no point did he cry even though at the time he was only 17. chew toy of a man