hey so you know all the symbolism about miles wearing a spider-man costume for most of itsv because he didn’t feel like he was living up to what spider-man was supposed to be. you know how his real suit is so important because it represents his confidence in himself. hey did you know that after miguel tells him he’s an anomaly and a mistake, miles’ suit glitches back into that spider-man costume.
i’m listening to the gtn audiobook while traveling (so i don’t have access to my written copy, sorry for the lack of actual quotes)
and it strikes me how cytherea’s first conversation with gideon, on the terrace, must be the product of dulcinea’s final moments, knowing she is going to die, lying through her teeth.
not only does cytherea pull the sympathy card that we know dulcie loathed—“ohh, i am sooo weak and fragile, i need a handsome cavalier to move my chair for me”—but she describes wanting to be a ninth nun when she was thirteen because she could die, paraphrased, “all alone and beautifully”
this cannot be cytherea talking about herself, because the ninth house did not exist when cytherea was thirteen. dulcie must have told her this was her dream.
if anyone who had known dulcinea had heard this conversation, the jig would have been up! in “the mysterious study of doctor sex,” dulcie laments that protesilaus’s family is shushed around her. she says she wants to live in noise and activity, not stagnate in tranquility as she slowly expires. her real letters contradict her bullshit story entirely. cytherea doesn’t know this. she believes she is pulling off her dulcie disguise perfectly
but no one hears this story but gideon, who has never met the real dulcinea. dulcinea fought so hard, not just for her own life—she knew she had no chance against a lychtor—but to save the other house representatives. she did everything she could to warn them, and save them, but it was not enough. by the time palamedes had enough evidence to confirm that dulcinea was not there, most of the massacre had already taken place. but GOD did dulcinea make a good attempt of it.
got bored on the plane and i drew these mock covers for gtn and my dad made me stop drawing because he was like “thats an awful lot of red. thats a lottttt of red”
i’m sorry but the visual of harrow actually eating pieces of gideon to complete the eightfold word is actually really fucking funny. like bitch is chewing and swallowing while cytherea stands there like 😐. cam is in the corner 1) bleeding out 2) grieving 3) watching the reverend daughter chow down on the still-warm body of her cavalier while shaking and sobbing incoherently. exactly how much of gideon did harrow ingest? was it like a tasteful mouthful, or did she just sort of… go to town? did she tear chunks out with her teeth or her hands or a mysterious third method? what exactly happened there. tamsyn. hey tamsyn. tell us about the cannibalism tamsyn.
