joy (acidic)

thinking about palamades going “good morning gideon” when she stops him from taking the blood sample in ntn and how that parallels john going “annabel good morning” in the epilogue

#we really really don't talk enough about the john and pal parallels tbh#there are so many jesus figures but those two (and paul) do it in a very particular way#nerds who devoted so much of themselves to academia and research and get so angry when others act unfairly#despite being willing to break the rules when they deem it for the greater good (one of them a better judge than the other)#end up fusing souls with a woman or feminine entity they'd devoted their lives to#with her being the most important thing in their universe but it being extremely nebulous if it's at all romantic#both also being romantically involved with another now dead woman who they feel like they miserably failed (Dulcie and M—)#having a complicated dynamic with a woman who is ultimately a facsimile of the original. and who they ultimately kill. (Cyth and Mercy)#(also John gets A— and Augustine in a similar role that's neither quite the same nor has a direct parallel but still)#zealots who only ever wanted good and truth and who care so much#one who's done heinous things for a myriad in pursuit of ends that justify his means. one who's not blameless but still has such promise#hell even the short nondescript brown hair and strong jawlines#John has brown eyes in the beginning and Pal has them (Cam's) at his end#John ends up with sunlight gold (and later solar eclipse) eyes and Pal starts out with clear bright moon silver eyes @oh-jod-dammit

ok when i said i pray the tomb is shut forever i didn't mean with the fourth book still inside

Apparently the speaking event at Cambridge was canceled "due to circumstances outside of our or Tamsyn Muir's control," for anybody waiting on an update on that one.

thinking very hard about Palamedes' short tenure as Thing. We aren't talking about this enough was he skittering around you think

Someone did draw this lovely picture of him! :)