new game is to type one through ten in your tags and see what comes up. i think my favorite of mine is ‘my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once’ but ‘gideon the ninth motherfucker’ is a close second

I love how Tamsyn Muir was like, in this world everybody’s totally cool about gender and sexuality, but there’s a new invented binary that’s culturally and religiously defining and dictates who people are allowed to love and/or fuck and the roles they play in society.

They’ve written volumes and volumes of religious texts about how to conform to these sacred binary roles and filthy porn about people fulfilling or breaking the stereotypes of these roles. The role a person fulfills is determined before they’re born and dictates every aspect of their life. Once in a while someone who’s supposed to be on one side of the socioreligious binary is born more suited to the other side and has to hide it all their life (Coronabeth). Sometimes people fall in love in a way the socioreligious binary declares blasphemous and they decide to love each other openly anyway, and it shocks and scandalizes people no matter how wholesome and lovely and mundane their relationship is (Abigail and Magnus).

And these sacred binary roles are not equal, oh no, as much as the religious doctrine crows the importance of both roles, one is supposed to sacrifice endlessly and unquestioningly for the other, body, mind, and soul. And these binary roles have existed for ten thousand years and were created by God and underlie the whole structure of the universe! But here’s the secret: there was a time before this sacred binary existed, and God is just Some Guy who made this shit up.

Acrylic on canvas/digital

We do bones, motherfucker. <3

My favorite little gremlin

I made this for a Secret Santa for a workmate who I knew was also a fan of these books.

Self-drafted (fonts largely borrowed from Lord Libidan, then modified); skeletons courtesy of my husband’s Warhammer hobby, in the geekiest collaboration I’ve participated in.

It’s about 8cm across, on 32ct black Belfast linen.

I recently took a dynamic sketching class and decided to do a visual map of Gideon the Ninth as my final project! I'm really happy with how it turned out!

Medium: micron pen, grey toned comic markers, and white gel pen on toned paper

Dimensions: 12x18

Here's a link to buy prints if you're interested!

Did you know? The time to give people you love presents is coming. If that person loves The Locked Tomb there's no better way to celebrate the darkest time of year than with... bones!

You can find these various designs in my Threadless, Redbubble, and Teepublic.

Sales support and delight a broke queer art student.

Gideon looked over her shoulder at her, and caught the Reverend Daughter’s smile. There was blood sweat coming out of her left ear, but her smile was long and sweet and beautiful. Gideon found herself smiling back so hard her mouth hurt.

The glorious moment we found a giant skull 💀

Gideon the Ninth

***Contains GtN spoilers***

We Do Bones, Motherfuckers!

What I would give for Gideon to be well and whole and sassy again.

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it”

— Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

I’ve been chipping away at this piece for four months now, with the first concept posted on my page way back in November!

The constellation has only continued to grow, perhaps one is in order for each house? ✨

Check below for individual close ups and lineart!

Just thinking about these idiots again 💀

I fucking saw the real Harrow! I fucking kissed the real Harrow! 💀❤️

I finished the first book and have to do fanart to cope