2023-08-08 0:48:18 ¶ ●

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Hey I have only read TLT through my library but love it so much I want my own copies to reread. I saw that the additional short stories come out at the same time as the paperback editions, but are there versions that include them? Like Dr. Sex at the end of GTN? I ask bc I was looking at paperbacks in a bookstore and didn't see the short stories included but if it exists I'd rather buy those

hello anon! so I think this will depend on your country of residence. in the USA, paperback copies are released ~1 year after publication and for TLT, include a glossary and extra short story (GTN: sermon on cav and necros; HTN: As Yet Unsent; NTN: The Unwanted Guest). I believe the Ireland/UK paperbacks include the short stories and extras as well

however! I know in Australia, the paperbacks are released on the same day as the hardbacks, and so the short stories are not included. Not sure where you are located but this may be why the bookstore paperbacks near you don’t have them?

(Also, Dr. Sex is an online-only short story at this time, and I believe is not currently officially printed anywhere. Hope this helps!)

2023-08-14 23:39:59 ¶ ●

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what if you had just confessed the curse of your birth to me in a saltwater pool so i grabbed you and pulled you underwater and you thought you were being ritually drowned but i was actually only giving you a hug. and also we were both rats

2023-08-15 20:57:36 ¶ ● ⬈

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> what if you had just confessed the curse of your birth to me in a saltwater pool so i grabbed you and pulled you underwater and you thought you were being ritually drowned but i was actually only giving you a hug. and also we were both rats

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what if your necromancer challenged my necromancer to a duel via a clumsy intimidation tactic she assumed would end with me in disgrace and but my necromancer was confident that i would win so accepted the challenge. and also we were both rats

2023-08-16 8:28:58 ¶ ●

It really is all about the teeth in this series…. the teeth in Kiriona’s chest. The teeth in the roses John grew for his friends’ wedding, the teeth in Column’s eyes, the teeth lining the stoma. Teeth and love and eating. John on his knees, shoveling dirt into his mouth at the end of the world. Coronabeth, sobbing because she saw herself as a meal refused, Cam and Pal eating each other up and knawing on the bones. Harrow, on the terrace, cornered into consuming Gideon’s soul because otherwise it would have all been for nothing. Loving someone so much you eat them, you eat each other, you forcefeed yourself to them as they scream. Loving someone so much your love grows teeth. Crunch.

2023-08-19 1:52:43 ¶ ●

have you ever considered baby gideon nav with her favorite pillow. her favorite blankie. like u know no one in that house was hugging her so like. imagine baby gideon curled up under her one thin blanket on that terrible cot hugging her single, very lumpy pillow. oh my fucking god.

2023-08-20 23:22:35 ¶ ●

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I, Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier // Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

2023-08-21 19:43:32 ¶ ●

wire mother this cloth mother that. have you ever considered SWORD mother? provides no food nor comfort but can cause great injury to you and others 👍

2023-08-22 4:26:46 ¶ ●

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hey good evening, as a keeper of TLT knowledge, do you know if anyone wrote a post detailing the personal pronouns used in the japanese translation? it can say a lot about a character but I haven't been able to hunt it down myself. I need to know if Gideon is a boku or an atashi person to the translator. it feels like too much to hope for ore even though that would annoy Harrow the most.

looks like according to these posts on reddit [source], the japanese translation uses atashi!

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for context, atashi s is a personal pronoun (like “i” or “my”) in japanese that is usually used by a person wanting sound more feminine/by women [source]. From a western understanding of butchness, this does seem like a bit of a miss by the translators, BUT!!! as someone not familiar with Japanese Butch Culture™ (or, frankly, Japanese culture in general) I would hesitate to pass judgement without knowing how butches/masculine lesbians in Japan refer to themselves/what they think of this.

(If anyone reading this is more familiar with Japanese butch/lesbian culture and wants chime in, I am interested to know how this reads to you!!)

2023-08-23 3:41:39 ¶ ●

Gideon Nav terrible fashion sense is so important to me babygirl has never been free to dress herself in her LIFE and i firmly believe that if she did have that freedom she would wear just. the most dogshit outfits. socks with slides. neon colors. shirts that say TITS with an arrow pointing down. outfits so bad every woman she meets is begging to take her on a department store makeover episode. outfits so bad you wonder if she got dressed in the dark upside down picking her clothing items by chaos potential. outfits so bad they wrap around to being sick as hell before winding back and punching you straight in the face

2023-08-25 10:36:38 ¶ ●

ok so I’m obsessed tonight about THIS John&Gideon parallel here:

NtN John 1:20 ->

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John and Gideon both begging and pleading to be USED, to be taken, to be a conduit for greater things. and this was originally going to be a “girls when they are like their father” kind of post but the thing is, what immediately follows each quoted section is where Gideon DIVERGES from John. John begs to be used, and when there is no answer he lashes out. he gives up

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he *lets go*, he lashes out, he hurts her, framing the rest of this sequence like it’s NOT his fault when it 100%, absolutley definitely IS. “one little nuke” like there even is such a thing. and nefarious use of the passive voice here, like all these nukes just… happened, like oh well. SAM sites opening up like wildflowers and not humans making decisions. he’s throwing in the towel!! nukes into nukes into nukes, like it wasn’t his fault the first one fired!!!!

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which is UNLIKE, of course, Gideon, who when Harrow did not come back, did NOT lash out. she did not give up, instead reaffirming her devotion and drive to protect Harrow, even when she wasn’t there. even if Harrow may never come back. even if she still felt thrown away and betrayed.

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and yknow, I’ve posted before about how Gideon’s suicidal devotion to Harrow is bad for her and it truly is SO bad for her but also like. she is already dead here. anyway Gideon Nav is her father’s daughter in so many ways but she is not like him in this!!! she is BETTER!!!! like what if John didn’t give up. what if in his rage and pain and grief he was able to do what his daughter did. what if he said ok, beloved, I’ll keep the home fires burning. what if he let the trillionares go. always your sword. whenever you’re ready.

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2023-08-26 9:49:05 ¶ ●

some part of me must have died - Raxheim - The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir [Archive of Our Own]

> When the time comes, it’s almost… anticlimactic. The knife goes in, the blood comes out, the baby dies. And the rock remains unmoved.

my contribution to @tlt-monthly-prompts AUgust theme!!! what if Wake survived long enough to bring her newborn child to the tomb, and killed her. And then the baby did not die.

ft: Canon Typical Unkillable Baby Gideon Nav, Wake entering the ring as a strong contender in Worst Parents TLT Edition, and Gideon having perhaps the most horrible first 48 hours of existence one could have but like what if everything after that actually turned out better for her.

Rating: M (for violence) | 1.2k

2023-08-27 19:46:59 ¶ ●

tamsyn muir gives her most homoerotic of storylines to her most heterosexual of couples

2023-08-28 7:25:30 ¶ ●

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2023-08-30 4:47:45 ¶ ●

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# Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, by pipstrelle/ @neornithes

Endpaper art: Grody Maritime Necromancy by @iris-of-the-lambs

> Being the journal of Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus, chronicling the journey of the Emperor’s warship Cenotaph on its hunt to slay an immortal Resurrection Beast.

or: THE MOBY DICK AU!! This fic has been an all time favorite of mine for so long, I am so excited to finally have been able to bind it!

- Title font: AquilineTwo
- Body font: Garamond
- 333 pages
- Faux leather cover (Skivertex) with hand-embossed gold foil

Progress pictures/process under the cut!

The concept behind this fanbind is based on this specific special edition of Moby Dick by the Easton Press:

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I did a TON of things for the first time on this bind much of it largely by winging it.

making the hubs (bumps on the spine)

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first time rounding and backing (ft secret other binding project I can’t show yet) + printing it off in the library

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installing the FANTASTIC endpaper art (SOOO nervewracking), plus a close up shot of how I got the center crease to land JUST to the left of Harrow’s face, which I’m super proud of.

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foiling for days!! using the Easton Press edition as a guide, I mocked up a cover in MS Paint, then printed it off so I could foil it down. my hand was cramping but it was SO worth it!

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and finally some unboxing pictures from the lovely writer!! so happy it arrived home safe and sound

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2023-08-30 18:57:32 ¶ ●

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2 types of Black Vestals