i live inside my own heart, matt damon

lrb it's frustrating too because i feel that nona the ninth could've been a great avenue to explicitly portray characters who are. not even trans per se but at least belonging to cultures with different gender norms, given that these cultures are supposedly thousands of years and however many light years removed from us. and how that comes into conflict with the imperial norms being imposed by the nine houses onto new rho. but all we get is aim

it really really bothers me when artists give gideon a super anglo saxon nose. or even a skinny hooked nose. like technically one can argue that we don't have a whole lot of detailed description of her skin color and other features and maori people are certainly not a monolith. what we DO DEFINITELY KNOW is that she has a wide nose that nona describes as catlike and "the complete opposite" of harrow's one, ie probably not pointy. so why do i so often see griddle looking like tilda swinton?

I think one of Gideon's funniest moments is when she learns that Pal and Dulcie have a Thing and she's so distraught about it because she feels like a complete homewrecker. Like she just made one of her first ever friends, this weird little man whom she diagnosed as Bitchless upon first sight, and then she learns he actually does have A Single Bitch but it's the woman she's been flirting with nonstop since she got there. So naturally her reaction is to start mourning for him because literally, how was her new bestie The Most Bitchless Man Alive ever supposed to compete with her

So when Alecto kisses Harrow at the end of NtN, were they sexually assaulting 200 dead children—? BRB, checking the US penal code.

oh wow I had no idea she committed a big no-no. yeah I’m so sorry I never would’ve thought that fictional character was cool if I’d known she committed a big no-no.