Gideon The Ninth - Blog Posts

Not gonna lie at first glance I thought this was really strange Griddlehark art. But honestly? There are some parallels to be drawn between destiel and griddlehark starting with the whole "one has magic powers and the other is a dumb jockish type" and "neither one thinks that the other cares about them"

"Death first to vultures and scavengers" is such a hard line I wish that there were scenarios where I could use it in my day to day life without eventually having to explain that the quote was said by a scrawny teenaged(?) nun in response to what is essentially a dick measuring contest run by a bunch of idiots who have no business being unsupervised for that long anyways.

I love how these books are just a bunch of lesbians running around being gay and then there's Palamedes but I give him a past because he's in a codependent relationship with a lesbian which basically makes him a lesbian.

magnus and abigail hearing gideon speak for the first time to hit on harrow 🤝 jeannmary and isaac hearing gideon speak for the first time to make a sex joke

The first time Magnus and Abigail ever heard Gideon speak was when Harrow was making everyone participate in a coffee shop AU where she gets hit on by Gideon as a barista

First I love being on my ADHD meds

Second, fuck the FDA and the state I live in fir making all ADHD drugs so hard to get. I do relize that they can be abused by nuritypicals ....but there has got to be a better solution then this.

Anyways on to better news.

My medicated ass.had an idea this moring....for the 7th,

I was always going to do a big drape lacy flowery daisy chain neckas for the 7th, but I just realized that instead of a simple.drape pattern I could use chain to make lungs

Here is my breif concept drawing....

The large rings in the drawing are the large hammered silver(plated) rings. The black lines forming the lungs will be out of the silver and green modified daisy chain.

The dotted lines will be out of fine silver chain. I'll have to purchase that

Here is the rough draft for the back and sides all out of silver chain. I don't think I will be able to get the efect of inflated lungs unless I create a secondary anchor chain around the back like a harness.

So now I need to plot out the mesuments for the lungs.....

These lovely pictures give me an approximate location and a size ratio I can measure on myself.

I may have to lie down on the floor and have my sister use a heavy cord to map put the shape....or better yet I could do that on her.

The other option is to use all those years of math to map out the archs I want on the images I found, to get actual measurements

Jeasus christ.....I just realized I'm trying to reinvent hanahaki

Oh well....I like it, it's going g to be so much work.

And not at all I my colors....

I'm so excited

Did I just buy a 1st house skull Mason jar for $5 at target?

.....technically not. Technical my sister bought it for me.

If my sister realized this, she would be very sad

The teeny tiny roman numeral charms have arived!

And it's perfect! I'm about to mess up a perfectly good necklace by adding these little fandom flourishes.

I'm so excited

Edit: I just dropped it on the floor. I should have done this on the floor . But to be fair this is not the first time the second has had some trouble on a table

A moment of silence for design that didn't work out. Here is a failed 3rd and failed 6 design

This is a side blog for my side project.

What am I doing?

I am creating a necklace for each of the nine houses in Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb.

Why?

Short answer, because I have ADHD

Long answer, because beading and the locked tomb both set off the good chemicals in my brain. Quietly beading in a corner while occasionally muttering about symbolism is a good way to be a roomate. Pacing back and forth while trying to express my love for camilla hect is Less Well Received.

Also I want to create fan art but 2d art is got my strong suit.

Also my adhd goblin brain likes pretty necklace.

What will I do with them when I am done?

IDK wear them. If Tamsyn Muir asked, I'd give her one.

Will I post instructions?

Sort of....

Some of the necklaces I will create instructions for.

Some of the patterns are really about a technique. If you understand, the technique, then recreating the necklace will be strait forward. I'd rather link to a good tutorial and give material and dimensions than try to write a bad tutorial.

Also, I have a small neck, so some of them may need to resized with math.

Will I go in order?

No.

Do I have rules?

Yes, so many.... my adhd Brain wants symbolism! It wants meaning out of chaos. It wants ART! So here are the rules, or at least the Internal logic

Every house gets a necklace. 1st though 9th.

Every necklace will include size 11 seads beads, though they can also include other beads

Each necklace will be made with house colors

Each necklace will have the number of unique beads related to house number. (Ex. 2nd house is made with 2 colors of red size 11 sead beads)

Findings are not counting against the unique beads count, but should reflect the house number if possible.

Only houses I think would attend a sexy party willing get metallic beads. But what constitutes shiny beads is left up to my discretion.

The construction of the necklace will be thematically appropriate. And something that I can imagine a member of the house wearing.

The value labor+materials will be thematically appropriate. So rich houses will be bigger and more complex than poorer houses. Except for the 9th house, will will include animal bone beads which are expensive.

Each necklace will have a gold "One flesh, One End" charm on the clasp.

Will I post updates?

Yes, though a lot of it will be bitch about the 3rd.

My roommate has been translating Gideon the Ninth into Biblical Hebrew (and including notes that people like me, who do not speak Biblical Hebrew, can also enjoy)! And if you happen to be a scholar of semitic linguistics, I can put you in touch 😊

rereading gtn and it's so funny that harrow claims not to think about gideon only to be immediately disproven by revealing that she spent a full night planting bones under the landing field to make sure gideon can't leave

This is exactly how I felt after finishing Gideon the Ninth.

I’ve recently read a bunch of the wlw fantasy books like Crier’s War, The Midnight Lie, Priory, etc. and after reading those and how they are written it’s been a complete shock to read Gideon the Ninth which says things like:

Gideon had always known that this would be how she went: gangbanged to death by skeletons.

“Because I completely fucking hate you,”said Harrowhark, “no offence.”

and

“Go choke on a dick”

-all within the first few chapters and I love it

gratuitous gideon nav biceps in cutoff tank when she has canonically never been sleeveless is the breasting boobily of the tlt fandom. rabid dykes all of you. I shall reblog as usual

if gideon nav was around today she would be making tiktoks lipsyncing to the giver by chappell roan knowing damn well she has not gotten the job done once in her life

Tamsyn Muir: says Gideon Nav prefers to use a longsword that she wields two-handed, describes it as a standard cohort infantry sword, makes it clear it's bigger and heavier than a rapier but that's a low bar to-

Eight foot long Hungarian sword 14th century at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul: hellooooo lesbians. i am the reference image you're looking for. >:)

and y'know what? the fanartists are correct. spiritually. gideon WANTS to wield that sword. she's had it so rough. let her wield it. c'mon.

Hungarian swords, 14th century, at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. The middle sword is 8ft long

Not enough Pyrrha fanart imo