2023-06-03 17:22:20 ¶ ● ⬈

gideoncav69:

> Gideon at Canaan House vibes

2023-06-14 13:25:27 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

addamii:

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> Nona having a swimmingly good time with deadly jellyfish

> Available as a print here :)

2023-06-17 23:01:13 ¶ ● ⬈

beguilingcorpse:

> # rating ways to advertise the locked tomb

> “lesbian necromancers in space”: 5/10. technically true, except that gideon isn’t a necromancer and for the most part they aren’t in space. can also be tonally misleading; implies a fun space opera adventure and fails to mention the impending emotional devastation. that being said it is iconic and (mostly) effective

> “murder mystery in a haunted gothic castle”: 8/10. MUCH better at capturing the tone and plot of the first book, but still a little off. imagine picking up the book because of this blurb and then watching gideon nav make a mean girls reference in the first 20 pages. the whiplash could kill you

> “a locked tomb mystery”: 5/10. nondescriptive and a little misleading, but i can’t give this any lower than a 5 because the pun is very good. gideon would love this one and that should count for something

> “gay goth among us”: 10/10. i’m not even going to pretend like this one doesn’t nail it. try and argue against this. you can’t. captures the murders, the space-y setting, the queer characters, the tone and aesthetic, AND the contemporary humor. chef’s kiss

> “enemies to lovers ‘i hate everyone but you’ slow burn”: 1/10. true if you squint. the relationship between gideon and harrow would make booktok weep

> “catholic homestuck”: 9/10. this means nothing and explains everything

> this tweet by tamsyn muir:

> [Image ID: A tweet by “tamsyn should be writing” @tazmuir: “sure, I edited from 12 o'clock to 4.30, but how much of that time did I spend on the discovery that the basis of my novel is 'what if these two were… teenage girls’”, followed by an image of Skeletor and He-Man. /end ID]

> 10/10. conveys the pop culture savvy of the series, the complex dynamic between the main characters, and the humor of the writing style all at once. also makes me laugh every time i think about it

2023-06-17 23:02:44 ¶ ● ⬈

vampiremotif:

> i’m not gonna say im surprised but oh my fucking god

2023-06-17 23:40:00 ¶ ● ⬈

rosiefingereddawn:

> One thing that was really fun about Nona was it’s commitment to unreliable narration as seen through a child. Nona is perceptive and clues in on a lot more than others want her to know, yet there are hints of shit going on that Nona doesn’t really get. Like some of it becomes plot relevant so you do get answers but I’m talking about the stuff we don’t get to see again, like what all Camilla and Palamedes’ night missions entailed. If they are trying to save necromancers, did they? And where would they put the escapees? I still wonder why Pyrrha had the job she did and if that was also something important. The fact that Pyrrha was maybe fucking Cam and Pal off screen. Same with a lot of details about New Rho, why was the building Nona lived in so bad, why shouldn’t you leave the house without a jacket and mask, etc etc. New Rho itself is a bleak wasteland where you can’t buy a lot of food but who cares bc Nona doesn’t like most food anyways. I’m OBSESSED with the way we find out BOE is burning necromancers alive is through children who are attending public executions, debating if they helped kill someone the same way you might debate if someone actually did a cartwheel. These are all things Nona takes for granted, as long as her loved ones are safe, they don’t register as noteworthy, that’s just how things are, right? I have so many questions but Nona can answer none of them but she can tell me if Noodle was a good boy today

2023-06-17 23:40:17 ¶ ● ⬈

bearkunin:

> # New Rho Under Siege

> CW: discussion and a few images of urban conflict some may find disturbing. I’ve tried to avoid any actual depictions of death however.

> The Locked Tomb series receives a lot of gushing praise (quite rightly) for its intricate and complex depictions of relationships and love, sexuality and gender. But something I’ve seen less praise for (though I’m sure it exists) is the incredibly rich depiction of what an urban environment during warfare and civil strife looks like.

> One of the unfortunate facts of urban warfare is that civilians are almost inevitably present, even in the most dire circumstances. Take the Bakhmut as an example. Despite months of fighting, thousands lived on in the city and region right to at least the very closing moments. This is despite the city being essentially entirely destroyed.

> 👆 civilians still lived through these conditions.

> New Rho in Nona the Ninth feels incredibly lived in. The city supposedly contains ~9 million people, and you can believe it. There are all sorts of people, there are different groups and socio-economic areas, people have different responses to the situation they find themselves under, but they all living complex lives. This goes well beyond the key characters or even the side characters, but is captured by the existence of a barter economy, background vigilante and militia groups, the daily grind of workers desperately seeking ad hoc jobs.

> > They walked alongside all the other workers - the ones who didn’t get picked up in the morning in the worker vans, or didn’t have a job that merited a worker van, or didn’t have a job but lived in hope - and they all trudged slowly through the street in clusters, parting only when a truck ground through, the driver leaning on the horn if someone didn’t move out of the way quick enough.

> I reckon some of the super fans here could pull out all sorts of fascinating little details in the world building of New Rho to discuss here.

> [A civilian woman with a grocery bag walks through a levelled market in Grozny, Checnya during the Chechen War]

> The Irish Troubles produced a number of iconic photos showing the dichotomy of urban conflict amongst civilians.

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> Perhaps one of the best parallels would be life in Palestine, particularly the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip, with a population of >2 million has lived under blockade for many years with frequent intervention/incursion by Israel.

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> [Aftermath of Israeli strikes in Gaza City, 2021]

> One of the interesting parallels with Palestine is the plethora of different actors and resistance groups, just a fractious and secretive as New Rho’s Blood of Eden and other militants, and who often seem to spend more time fighting themselves and civilians rather than their main enemy.

> The Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) gave us the splinter groups PFLP-SC (Special Command), PFLP-GC (General Command), PFLP-EO (Executive Order), Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and had complex intertwined relations with groups like the Black September Organisation, Palestinian Liberation Front, Arab Liberation Front, Palestinian National Salvation Front, the Abdul Nidal Organisation, Fatah al-Intifada, Vanguard for the Popular Liberation War - Lightning Forces, and dozens of others. On the Islamist side there is similarly a plethora of groups, from Hamas, to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade (Islamic State in Gaza), the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the Army of Islam, and Jund Ansar Allah. It’s almost comical to write them out.

> New Rho itself is home to many refugees and “re-settled” peoples, which is somewhat reminiscent of Palestinians and the related conflict spilling into Lebanon, Jordan and other neighbouring areas. The complexity and number of groups involved skyrocket.

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> [Shatila Camp, Lebanon during the War of the Camps]

> Rarely is war as simple as “Good Guys vs. Bad Guys” or even “Bad Guys vs. Bad Guys.” There is almost always a vast number of interest groups and competing organisations at stake, even in some of the more black and white wars like WW2. Muir just hits this nail right on the head in my opinion.

> You could also make similar parallels to the Syrian Civil War, which has an equally complex mix of militants and groups. Despite all of that, of course, life still goes on. School kids still attend school, even in bullet ridden buildings.

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> These kids are your Hot Sauce and Honesty and Kevin and Beautiful Ruby.

> Typically the books I’ve read depicting a place under siege or at war (at least in sci-fi / fantasy) have a focus on the main characters leading the war effort. There may be issues of water or food shortages, but they’re largely somewhat abstract political complications being dealt with by key rulers or the like. Often times war is simply sanitised completely (think Star Wars), or it is portrayed through a military lens, or when it deals with civilians it focuses on the destruction and death of civilian life.

> I just found Nona wonderful in depicting the mundanity, the boredom, the regularity of life in a war zone, as well as the sudden shocks of change and turmoil and fear, and then as well the glimpses of joy and pleasure that humans still experience. I’m just really quite blown away by Tamsin Muir, and I wonder if she had a specific conflict as inspiration for her writing here.

2023-06-17 23:42:55 ¶ ● ⬈

texts-from-last-ninth:

> [Ianthe Font: (631): i doubt you are even in possession of a crowbar.
> Camilla Font: (1-631): I suggest you not find out the hard way]

2023-06-17 23:43:23 ¶ ● ⬈

felineempress:

> No one:

> Nona trying to invite all of BoE to her birthday party

> Might color this later

2023-06-17 23:47:09 ¶ ● ⬈

scalierpepper:

> Nono and Cam

> lineart under the cut bc i just like how it looks a lot

> Keep reading

2023-06-17 23:54:46 ¶ ● ⬈

rapace-mordace:

> Just some Griddlehark in a band AU setting!

> Where are the instruments, you say? Are those J’S fake? Good questions!

> This is an outfit study, I made sure to give Gideon and Harrow the sluttiest and the sleepiest of the looks, respectively >:D

> Also, Harrows skelly hoodie :3

2023-06-17 23:56:25 ¶ ● ⬈

puffywiz:

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> “It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away.”

> - Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

> 💝 Thank you for 1k. Special thanks to my lovely friend @sessjudoodles for helping sketch the line work for the Albertaceretops :)

2023-06-17 23:56:55 ¶ ● ⬈

plintoon:

> Finally did some Nona the Ninth sketches (only months after I finished the book)! Noodle is my absolute favourite and Nona is My Girl!!

2023-06-17 23:57:07 ¶ ● ⬈

lockedtombmemes:

2023-06-17 23:59:43 ¶ ● ⬈

kelly-kirstein:

> I had the best time at the Locked Tomb meetup at Holiday Matsuri. Is your favorite character in here?

2023-06-18 0:00:03 ¶ ● ⬈

addamii:

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> Happy earth day! Here’s a Nona to celebrate! (Don’t look at the day shhh shhhh it’s earth day shhh)

> This is up in my print store now :)

2023-06-18 0:01:14 ¶ ● ⬈

lockedtombmemes:

2023-06-18 11:51:08 ¶ ● ⬈

addamii:

> Breakfast impressions with Pyrrha

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2023-06-18 11:52:01 ¶ ● ⬈

asparklethatisblue:

> Nona is about to go all ice lolly bimbo Barbie. Or chew some pens. She hasn’t decided

2023-06-18 11:53:53 ¶ ● ⬈

stringcage:

> coffee shop au’s evil twin

2023-06-18 11:56:03 ¶ ● ⬈

eemolu:

> i can’t believe tamsyn muir fucking said this. i can’t believe how right she is. i want to take her out for tacos and have an emotional affair with her that ruins me for all other dinner partners.

2023-06-18 15:18:44 ¶ ● ⬈

litzis-art:

> quick drawing of the most loving girl out there and her family