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Love imagining that someday on the Ninth there’s an acceptable skull mask called “flower of the Ninth” and it’s just. Sunglasses.

Okay, because I’ve seen a couple floating around, and I just made it for my partner who’s reading them for the first time + I know a good few of you follow me for tlt stuff: Here is The Recommended Reading Order for The Locked Tomb

1. Gideon the Ninth

2. The glossary and “a little explanation of the naming system” from the end of the GtN

3. “A sermon on cavaliers and necromancers” and “cohort intelligence files” also from the GtN paperback

4. The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, which you can read for free here:

https://reactormag.com/the-mysterious-study-of-dr-sex-tamsyn-muir//

5. Harrow the Ninth

6. The HtN glossary and the “Blood of Eden Memorandum For Record” which is included in the Harrow paperback

7. (Here’s where you face a choice, because after Harrow, you can either

A) go back and reread Gideon the Ninth, which I highly recommend, or

B) read “As Yet Unsent” from the Harrow paperback if you just want to keep going.) if you do A, just do B afterwards

8. Nona the Ninth

9. “The Unwanted Guest” from the Nona paperback

(Note: This assumes the reader has the current US paperback copies, but if you are listening to the audiobooks [which I highly recommend]/have a different edition, [I know, for example, that libraries prefer to generally have hardcovers when they’re available] this is a series where I think owning/reading multiple formats is worth it, but you can probably find most of the supplemental materials online, and if worst comes to, most of the bonus material is short enough that you could probably read it while in the bookstore pretending to think about buying the book. And, if you just want to read the novels/don’t care that much and just want to see where this goes, you can always just read the mainline books and come back later, but that’s not really the point of a full reading order.)

SHES ZORO

The sky needs something, but idk what????

Gideon nav please save me save me Gideon nav

🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴

this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????

RIP Gideon Nav. You would have loved bbno$.

the girls

And she’s correct.

nav be like “can’t read. sword heavy. harrow mean. vibes off. arms huge. tits out. moving on.”

started reading gideon the ninth! 🦴🦷

Sevika 🤝 Pyrrah Dve, not the father but the dads who stepped up

colouring practice that morphed into knight!gideon

"explain your favorite book but terribly"

Dumbass bitch wielding a sword goes to a murder mystery party and thinks lady who wants to kill her is hot and inevitably dies for her childhood nemesis because she doesn't know what normal affection is

Alecto having a Nona-esque personality vs. Alecto essentially being the personified wrath of the earth presented in ye old english are both great interpretations but a combination of both is just supreme.

*Alecto enters battle, sword swinging with unstoppable force*

"Thou art my enemy and I shall destr- HI DOGGY!"

*tosses a frightened cohort soldier away to pet said dog*

LOOK AT THEMMMMMM 🦦🦦🦦

Let’s be shown off by mama

kids these days being like “i need chat gpt to write an essay that would normally take 12 hours in 2” but back in my day i did that all the time by using a little technique called “writing some absolute bullshit.” and yet i still walked away with a better essay and more critical thinking skills than i would get if i used chatgpt. return to tradition: write a bad essay that you started on the day it was due, but write it yourself

I'm 50 pages in and already inspired to draw \o/

Full framing below cut

Bimbo!reader this, bimbo!reader that, how about reader that's just a dumbass. Confidently looks left when someone tells you to look right. Absolutely mispronounced colonel because you'd only ever read it. Ate 4 bananas in one sitting and doesn't know why your tummy hurts. Answers any trivia question anyone gives you with perfect accuracy but though "Citizen Kane" was the guy's first and last name. It is anyone's guess what you know at any given moment, it is both endearing and absolutely terrifying. Can give the atomic weight of hydrogen off the top of your head but you've never heard of the hindenberg. Fucking astonishing

a non-exhaustive list of butch literature

a (very ad-hoc) list of butch reading and writing, (mostly) by butch authors. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. additions, addendums, and commentary welcome :)

(you can find my list of femme literature here)

general/literary fiction:

mrs s by k patrick

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg

boulder by eva baltasar

running fiercely towards a thin high sounds by judith katz

tipping the velvet by sarah waters

a crystal diary by frankie hucklenbroich

godspeed by lynn breedlove

cha-ching! by ali liebegott

the ihop papers by ali liebegott

greasepaint by hannah levene

lucy and mickey by red jordan arobateau

the bull-jean stories by sharon bridgforth

development by bryher

notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin

america is not the heart by elaine castillo

the slow fix by ivan coyote

the swashbuckler by lee lynch

old dyke tales by lee lynch

sci-fi, fantasy, and horror:

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

the unspoken name by ak larkwood

vermilion by molly tanzer

metal from heaven by august clarke

scapegracers by ha clarke

the unbroken by cl clarke

fire logic by laurie marks

the seep by chana porter

these burning stars by bethany jacobs

feast while you can by mikaella clements and onjuli datta

non-fiction, memoir, and autobiography:

hijab butch blues by lamya h

gender failure by ivan coyote and rae spoon

fun home by allison bechdel

butch is a noun by h bear bergman

female masculinity by jack halberstam

burning butch by rb murtz

when we were outlaws by jeanne cordova

leaving isn't the hardest thing by lauren hough

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman

another mother tongue by judy grahn

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky and madeline davis

the persistent desire ed joan nestle

persistence: all way butch and femme ed ivan coyote and zena sharman

dagger: on butch women ed lily burana

The thing I was thinking the most while watching Conclave was actually a classmate I had in uni who is a nun. She talked about the role of women on the church and how there should be a woman pope. And like, years ago she was given a scholarship to study philosophy in Rome, except she couldn't. Because the nuns had to perform all the domestic labor for the priests and the workload was too big, add to that stuff like how no one could leave the dinner table before the archbishop and he liked to talk so sometimes he would make everyone stay until late at night and ofc the nuns had to clean up after that, or when the priests wanted to give the nuns an easy day they would decide they would have a picnic, but the nuns still had to prepare their picnic. My friend just couldn't find the time to study, so she dropped her scholarship and came back to Mexico.

And Conclave does such a good job of making this work visible, even when if only Sister Agnes speaks, there is always shots of nuns working. For everything the priests do, it's always shown how the nuns make it possible. Benítez standing out early on for being the one person to thank them. The film ending on a seemingly unrelated shot of nuns walking.

It's a very poignant statement given how reproductive labor is often invisibilized.

i love when ppl say “that’s so you” it feels good to know i exist and have a vibe

If Kiriona and Harrow fuck

it's possible to get pregnant from scissoring but only if the relationship is dysfunctional enough and one or both participants are scissoring with ill intent, if these conditions are met the spirit of Fuck You! More Problems may enter

Kiriona Gaia is a transgender woman butch lesbian. Gideon Nav is a transmasculine nonbinary butch lesbian. They each possess the other’s swag.

When I was a kid I was “darn I just love when female characters pretend to be dudes for whatever reason” and the reason will not shock you in the slightest