broke: inviting a girl to a swimming pool on the first date to see her naked and without makeup
woke: allowing your childhood rival to use you as a battery in order to complete a stupid challenge, bringing you to the brink of death/brain damage, but at least letting you see her face without face paint for the first time (also she's naked)
Camilla was crouched down, wiping her knives on one of their jackets. When she looked up, Nona was electrified. One of her eyes was a pale, pearlescent grey; the other one of her eyes was a deep, cool stone colour. Nona understood in a sudden shiver what she was looking at.
of all the plot twists in the locked tomb literally NOTHING hits quite as hard as the twist in GtN that the only reason gideon and harrow """hate""" each other is because they hate themselves and assume the other one has to hate them the same way and the second they both come clean about that they're immediately ready to drop it and die for each other in Grand Displays Of Dramatic Lesbianism. like it still fucks me up every time i think about it
what i love about the queer women rep in tlt is that so much of it is just like. gideon reading her titty magazines but getting zero action. ianthe trying to kiss harrow and getting rejected. harrow begging a hallucination of a corpse to have sex with her and getting rejected. marta turning down judith, judith turning down corona, corona unsuccessfully flirting with camilla. nona's one-sided attraction to corona and camilla. camilla’s third-wheeling (x3) and plain lack of interest in getting it on with anyone. gideon and ianthe fighting over harrow when they’re both losing out to a frozen ice bimbo. ‘but she never gave you anything. you never got anywhere.’ ‘did you???’ << honestly sums it up.
Do you ever think about how Gideon's most self-indulgent fantasy is Harrow acknowledging she's good with a sword and then like 50 pages later Harrow acknowledges she's good with a sword and Gideon just short circuits.
I can’t believe John’s backstory in Nona the Ninth predicted barbenheimer
imagining Gideon picking up Harrow like a guilty rat as she tries to fight someone. this energy, but pissed
rat girlfriend
I wish Canaan House had lasted long enough for everyone to see Harrow and Gideon fight.
Like almost no one really took Harrow as seriously as she wanted after the first couple of days, Palamedes was ready to make her matching friendship bracelets. But pretty much everyone, besides the sixth, was at least mostly believing that Gideon was … normal. They thought she was a cav that wasn’t trained to be a cav but still incredibly good at fighting- they had no way of knowing what her personality was.
And can you imagine Harrow and Gideon fighting in front of people that have never heard Gideon speak before???? Gideon and Harrow tend to argue like it’s a poetry slam /your mama contest, which while incredibly entertaining isn’t very dignified. Gideon has to have at least one insult based on Harrow’s looks (because she’s been looking) while Harrow calls Gideon an idiot even though Gideon’s been using incredibly articulate insults.
Hell, I would just love to see people hear Harrow call her Griddle !
tbh my favorite part about the drawer bread isn't even that harrow left it in a drawer. it's that her note said she left it in a drawer. at no point did she specify which drawer.
she really had gideon confined to their rooms and hunting for her dinner. enrichment for her enclosure.
Jude: When someone points at your black clothes and asks whose funeral it is, having a look around the room and saying 'Haven’t decided yet' is typically a good response.
i, personally, love to straddle that fine line between “fandom blog” and “record of complete psychological breakdown”
sorry for liking when women got blood all over em but i'm a feminist
