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FuturePastNow posted:So just where is Harrow's personality while her body is being occupied by whatever it is It's being stored in the region of memory usually allocated to pokémon encounter rate lookup tables
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Chernobyl Princess posted:Because Alecto and John share a soul this makes it possible for John to occasionally speak directly to present-day Harrowhark Relatedly to the dream chapters in Nona, it's still not clear to me whether or not real present-day John is aware of or connected to the events of the dream chapters, or if dream-John was effectively an instantiated figment. However, given the enmeshed nature of John and Alecto's souls, the former seems likely to me, which has implications for both the reliability of the memories presented in NtN and John knowing quite a lot more about Harrow's soul-swapping with Alecto, and thus being more prepared for Harrow, Alecto and Paul's mission against him.
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Reading all of these spoilers and theories, I'm realizing that I've missed/forgotten more than I'd like. I want to do a reread, but had hoped to wait until closer to Alecto's release. Give us a daaaate!
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Sekenr posted:And Jeb's death? There's a lot in this post that is worth engaging with but mostly I just want to edit a map of the solar system with 100% of the Houses reporting for JEB!
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OK we need the new book STAT, I go on vactaion for a week and come back to the thread trying to loop in Power Rangers lore.
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Sep 11, 2023 14:05
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It's not our fault the author has clear influences! I like when Jod says "kumbaya", that was well executed.
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Actually, as readers who understand memes, it is in fact our fault. Everything is our fault.
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silvergoose posted:Actually, as readers who understand memes, it is in fact our fault. Everything is our fault.
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Goddamn the references are thick as gently caress in Harrow Jod says Jesus and/or Christ There are four lights!
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Was this animatic ever posted here? I didn't remember seeing it when I went the thread a few months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hRRtKfJdhI
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Lol so I'm on my first re-read of the series, and even the first two chapters of Gideon are full of some choice lines: "Your Lady would stone-cold eat a baby" She did! At least the soul part anyway. I guess she also wasn't given much choice... Gideon marvelled that someone could live in the universe only seventeen years and yet wear black and sneer with such ancient self-assurance. Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's the necromantic power of 200 dead children. "My parents should have smothered you" They tried! 'Gideon, here's a bed of writhing babes'
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Just finished Nona the Ninth. Liked it a lot. I'm not sure I understand how Alecto's perspective in the next book is gonna work out. I have the impression that I'm not nearly as online as Tamsyn Muir, or even the thread in general. But it's been pretty entertaining to catch the occasional reference. I'm about the same age as Tamsyn and there were a couple things that I remember stumbling upon (often literally with stumbleupon.com) back in my late teens. I hope that we'll get a bit more detail on what The Nine Houses were actually told about the resurrection and why it was necessary, compared to the version described in NtN, which gave me the impression that John accidentally gave the unfiltered version of events The audiobooks are some of the best productions I've ever heard. A bit of the name symbology got lost, because I tend to parse proper names in my first language instead of english, so anything with a slightly advanced pronunciation got a bit mangled.
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I am pleased to announce that my partner has finally started reading Gideon and is enthralled.
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Hawgh posted:Just finished Nona the Ninth. Liked it a lot. I'm not sure I understand how Alecto's perspective in the next book is gonna work out. I feel the same way, I'm pretty online and meme knowing...but I'm very sure I do not know half of what she snuck in. And yeah Moira Quirk is an absolute gem, the audiobooks are top notch. Kesper North posted:I am pleased to announce that my partner has finally started reading Gideon and is enthralled. If you post their reactions you know everyone will be very happy 
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Harold Fjord posted:Goddamn the references are thick as gently caress in Harrow I assume someone has done the work to document at least 95% of the references in the series so far, does anyone have a link to that work? I’m 2/3 of the way through a reread and would like to see what I missed this time.
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Do we know why Anastasia is not named as one of God's saints in the opening of Harrow?
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She never quite ascended, she went back to the ninth rather than become sainted.
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Ah. Thanks. And she was transporting/interring A.L.s remains with the half her worldsoul God couldn't finish? I just got to the part where Augustine describe Jods cavalier "even she was significantly more lucid than you are". And it's really got my wheels spinning this time. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 20:21
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Just got to the "giddy-gone" joke in Harrow, which completely flew past me the first time.
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Haha and it's such a terrible awful lame joke too. Like this is someone he's known for 10000 years
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That ones important because the brain damage doesn't autotranslate it
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Yeah that joke absolutely rules both for being terrible and for the plot ruining it
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Y'all are always talking about stuff that I realize I didn't even catch, and I'm 2/3 through second read
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mdemone posted:Y'all are always talking about stuff that I realize I didn't even catch, and I'm 2/3 through second read When I keep saying this series rewards rereading, I don't mean just once.
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Each book gets better and more interesting on reread with every book that is released after it. Fractally re-readable. I can't wait to finish Alecto and then immediately start the series again from book 1.
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cptn_dr posted:Each book gets better and more interesting on reread with every book that is released after it. Fractally re-readable. I can't wait to finish Alecto and then immediately start the series again from book 1. Yeah like seeing the ninth through Gideon's eyes then nonas then Gideon's again
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Harold Fjord posted:Do we know why Anastasia is not named as one of God's saints in the opening of Harrow? Remember, Jod interrupted her attempt at Perfect Lyctorhood by murdering Samael mid-process, so she never became a Lyctor. According to him this was to save her from botching it, but since John rarely tells the truth I think most of the fandom assumes this was bullshit and she had in fact cracked it. Anyhoo, my read is that she was persona non grata with him (and also traumatized) after this episode and is not widely celebrated or talked about outside the Ninth. John considers the tomb completely unbreachable, so it's fair to think of Anastasia's custodianship of the tomb as an exile for Anastasia moreso than a job he entrusted her with
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PupsOfWar posted:Remember, Jod interrupted her attempt at Perfect Lyctorhood by murdering Samael mid-process, so she never became a Lyctor. Who was it that said Anastasia’s tomb cult was never supposed to exist? Mercy?
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silvergoose posted:If you post their reactions you know everyone will be very happy "You can just smell the decay that permeates the Nine Houses - philosophical, moral, intellectual, infrastructural, all kinds of decay. This is a moribund society. Where is everyone?" She instantly hated fake!Dulcinea and knew she was bad news. She's not quite sure what to make of the Third, aside from the fact that they are "bad news" and this Ianthe seems like a shady character with control issues. She's not sure, but she thinks Dominicus might be Earth, on account of nine houses, nine planets. "Sex Pal. Of course. Oh, Gideon." "The poor Fifth. There goes the best food around." --- That's the latest 
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Luigi Thirty posted:Who was it that said Anastasia’s tomb cult was never supposed to exist? Mercy? Silas.
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Kesper North posted:"You can just smell the decay that permeates the Nine Houses - philosophical, moral, intellectual, infrastructural, all kinds of decay. This is a moribund society. Where is everyone?" Very good predictions/reads!! Like, all around!
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Though I think Dominicus is the sun, presume she means the planet
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silvergoose posted:Very good predictions/reads!! Like, all around! She's definitely Sixth House. sebmojo posted:Though I think Dominicus is the sun, presume she means the planet That's actually a transcription error on my part, I'm exhausted. She said she thinks Dominicus is Sol, not Earth
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In that case yes. She should read the mysterious study of Dr sex next
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Luigi Thirty posted:Who was it that said Anastasia’s tomb cult was never supposed to exist? Mercy? One wonders if perhaps Anastasia didn't realize what Jod had done.
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silvergoose posted:Silas. The 8th is Mercy's house after all. She had some choice nasty comments in a similar vein. Danhenge posted:One wonders if perhaps Anastasia didn't realize what Jod had done. I think she did, given the last few paragraphs of NtN. Also given our new totally correct Rita Repulsa theory.
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Now my partner is cataloguing each meme she encounters as she builds a case for this book happening in our deep future  Classic Sixth.Also Gideon and Harrow just found a (ten thousand year old) note mentioning Gideon (the First, but she doesn't know that yet) and she says that is "spooky".
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"This is the gothest book I have ever read. Possibly the gothest book ever written."
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Kesper North posted:"This is the gothest book I have ever read. Possibly the gothest book ever written." Listening to my friend's commentary as he also got progressively drawn into the books was great. I love hearing this happening for others, too.
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