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Rand Brittain posted:I feel like Gideon's remarks on "Nonagesimitis" in Harrow indicate pretty strongly that she is definitely romantically interested in Harrowhark, but thinks she has no chance, because she is alive and not dead. Oh yeah. Just the way she was able to empathize with Ianthe and the one thing that snapped her out of her initial ‘do everything Harrow hates so she gets mad and comes back to her body’ rage was her pretending how Harrow had a crush on her definitely pinged my “unrequited attraction” radar. And the fact that Harrow’s visions of meeting Gideon in a series of meet cutes hinted at a little bit of reciprocity on Harrow’s part.
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I think it's fine that there is subtext and I hope Muir doesn't feel the pressure to raise it into the text. It's good representation as it stands currently.
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DreamingofRoses posted:Oh yeah. Just the way she was able to empathize with Ianthe and the one thing that snapped her out of her initial ‘do everything Harrow hates so she gets mad and comes back to her body’ rage was her pretending how Harrow had a crush on her definitely pinged my “unrequited attraction” radar. And the fact that Harrow’s visions of meeting Gideon in a series of meet cutes hinted at a little bit of reciprocity on Harrow’s part. I think Gideon wants the reverse of the Urban Fantasy thread title. She wants more group (girls-only) sex and less necromancy.
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Nov 18, 2021 21:43
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That just sounds like the start of a witch coven
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Everyone posted:I think Gideon wants the reverse of the Urban Fantasy thread title. She wants more group (girls-only) sex and less necromancy. Fair. M_Gargantua posted:That just sounds like the start of a witch coven Accurate.
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FWIW, Gideon The Ninth is the book that made me realize “ohh, I get why people are into fanfic now”. Which is funnier after you read Harrow the Ninth.
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DreamingofRoses posted:Oh yeah. And the fact that Harrow’s visions of meeting Gideon in a series of meet cutes hinted at a little bit of reciprocity on Harrow’s part. I thought that Harrow's set of constantly revised "meet cute" visions in Harrow the Ninth were with Abigail Pent and her husband going "Cute. try again though", not that other person you mentioned.
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They were, but then she got served coffee by said person and they were like absolutely not!
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quantumfoam posted:I thought that Harrow's set of constantly revised "meet cute" visions in Harrow the Ninth were with Abigail Pent and her husband going "Cute. try again though", not that other person you mentioned. To be fair, there’s only one actual “meet cute” in the series where Gideon is the barista. The other two are basically dead-on romance book set ups which is why I really wish there was more about the marriage ball.
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mdemone posted:I think it's fine that there is subtext and I hope Muir doesn't feel the pressure to raise it into the text. It's good representation as it stands currently. I sincerely doubt that fandom pressure will be the reason Muir raises it into text, should that happen.
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Senerio posted:I sincerely doubt that fandom pressure will be the reason Muir raises it into text, should that happen. One thing that strikes me is that while Gideon might be (and probably is) attracted to Harrow, she's not attracted only to Harrow (she even hit Ianthe with a semi-joking marriage proposal). Meanwhile Harrow might well have some feelings for Gideon, but she's also still pretty "ride and/or die" for The Body.
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Everyone posted:One thing that strikes me is that while Gideon might be (and probably is) attracted to Harrow, she's not attracted only to Harrow (she even hit Ianthe with a semi-joking marriage proposal). Meanwhile Harrow might well have some feelings for Gideon, but she's also still pretty "ride and/or die" for The Body. I'm not sure if Harrow is actually interested in pursuing a relationship with the Corse of the Locked Tomb. I mean, what would that even look like?
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm not sure if Harrow is actually interested in pursuing a relationship with the Corse of the Locked Tomb. I mean, what would that even look like? Don't we see at least a little bit of that in Harrow the Ninth with Harrow's conversations with The Body? Maybe those are just wishful hallucinations by Harrow, but I think it's more likely that when Harrow breached the Locked Tomb (via having Gideon's blood on her) Alecto/The Body formed some kind of psychic connection or something with Harrow. If there's a connection between them, it could become a romantic/sexual connection eventually.
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I could not imagine the layout being different.
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm not sure if Harrow is actually interested in pursuing a relationship with the Corse of the Locked Tomb. I mean, what would that even look like? I think it’s far closer to a religious idolization/worship definitely. Edit to avoid double post: it’s the dumbest thing but I will never not laugh at the dumb barista/bari-star apparent joke build up in Harrow DreamingofRoses fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Nov 24, 2021 |
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Nov 24, 2021 03:32
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Three for the gleam of a jewel or an updoot
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The good news is we have a release date, AND A COVER REVEAL PROMISED FOR JANUARY, the bad news is the release date is nine (hah!) months from now.  https://twitter.com/TorDotComPub/status/1470868704321839105?s=20
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God damnit that's a long loving time
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There's also a summary:quote:Her city is under siege. Interesting that the people she loves includes Palamedes and not Judith.
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Get iiiiiin. Never been so hyped about a book, honestly. I'm gifting Gideon to my partner this Christmas to eventually get her to finally read it. She has a lot of sci-fi classics on her reading pile already and I don't have the right words (beyond repeating my endless praise and love for the books) to compel her to put it on top. But I hope she will get around to it next year and finally realize that space necromancy is glorious.
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My boy Sex Pal is doing fine
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Oenis posted:Get iiiiiin. Never been so hyped about a book, honestly. I'm gifting Gideon to my partner this Christmas to eventually get her to finally read it. She has a lot of sci-fi classics on her reading pile already and I don't have the right words (beyond repeating my endless praise and love for the books) to compel her to put it on top. But I hope she will get around to it next year and finally realize that space necromancy is glorious. It took me forever to pick it up because the cover blurb "teenage lesbian necromancers in space!" made it sound so incredibly puerile or exploitative. It took until I was bored and the library had a copy before I tried it.
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Entropic posted:The good news is we have a release date, AND A COVER REVEAL PROMISED FOR JANUARY, the bad news is the release date is nine (hah!) months from now. Well, I know what I’m asking for on my birthday. (Literally releases right before, happy birthday to me.)
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PupsOfWar posted:wait there's 4 books now? Yep, that was announced earlier this year.
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Notahippie posted:It took me forever to pick it up because the cover blurb "teenage lesbian necromancers in space!" made it sound so incredibly puerile or exploitative. It took until I was bored and the library had a copy before I tried it. Stross heard "write a blurb for Gideon" and thought they meant a blurb for Gideon.
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Resurrecting a dead horse here (but that’s totally in keeping): in my view re relationship between Gid and Harrow: I have no idea what you are all smoking: it’s a very classic romance, including that it’s massively unhealthy and codependent and all kinds of hosed up. I love it and want them all to be happy together and like have a hosed up marriage and sleep with other people and cope with the fallout, but then I love this kind of drama in fiction.
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Notahippie posted:It took me forever to pick it up because the cover blurb "teenage lesbian necromancers in space!" made it sound so incredibly puerile or exploitative. It took until I was bored and the library had a copy before I tried it. Yeah I think exactly this is what makes her hesitant too. I already tried to explain to her that the lesbian necromancer romance (which she cares little about, she's more into hard sci-fi) is not exactly at the forefront of this and it's more like a whodunnit in an incredibly interesting setting with, uh, ... ⁿᵉᶜʳᵒᵐᵃⁿᶜʸ ᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ ˢᶜⁱᵉⁿᶜᵉ.
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Notahippie posted:It took me forever to pick it up because the cover blurb "teenage lesbian necromancers in space!" made it sound so incredibly puerile or exploitative. It took until I was bored and the library had a copy before I tried it. smh i got my cousin's entire roller-derby team to read it using that blurb
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PupsOfWar posted:smh Between this and 90's Cringe Rock's comment I have a sudden image of a Locked Tomb AU where all the houses are rollerderby teams.
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Notahippie posted:Between this and 90's Cringe Rock's comment I have a sudden image of a Locked Tomb AU where all the houses are rollerderby teams. They're an important aspect of a mildly trashy shape shifter romance series and yeah that would completely work.
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Notahippie posted:Between this and 90's Cringe Rock's comment I have a sudden image of a Locked Tomb AU where all the houses are rollerderby teams. I guarantee you this exists on AO3
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Sharing this for the placeholder cover https://chillyweirdoinacoffin.tumblr.com/post/670971795801767936/more-non-spoilery-early-thoughts-from-an
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Entropic posted:I guarantee you this exists on AO3 There is and it is titled "Talk Derby to Me"
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