#the uninvited guest

[artfoli]

The Uninvited Guest, 1906, and The Deceitfullness of Riches, 1901, by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945)

#The Deceitfullness of Riches #The Uninvited Guest #Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale #painting #1900s #1900's #18th century #english #england #english art #english artist #artist #artists #artwork #art history #paintings #art #art history blog

[quantumcartography]

Daniel and The Uninvited Guest

PALAMEDES     (As if reciting) “And her body was like the chrysolite, and her face as the appearance of lightning, and her eyes as a burning lamp: and her arms, and all downward even to the feet, like in appearance to glittering brass.”

I was writing about something else entirely when I dug into the context of this quote and it rocked my whole socks. Context for those who don’t remember it: in this scene, the Voice that Palamedes has been talking to finally reveals herself as Dulcinea. After admitting his love for her and promising to find her on the shores of the River, he asks to see her “for the first time and the last.” He then has a light shone on him and he recites this quote from Daniel 10:6. After that, she asks if she was cute and Pal responds “You’re perfect.”

I am, needless to say, obsessed with this scene.

Now, the book of Daniel is one of apocalyptic prophecy (apocalypse here meaning a truth being revealed to a person by way of a divine source.) At this point in the Bible, the Jews have been captured from Israel by the Babylonians and have been displaced into Babylonian territory. The book recounts the visions of prophet Daniel that allude to the eventual restoration of the Jewish people to their homelands under the reign of Cyrus the Great. In Daniel 10 specifically, Daniel is mourning for Israel by fasting for three weeks when he is visited by an angel who tells him that he is fighting to return him and his people to their homeland. Daniel 10:6 is a description of this angel, who in the passage isn’t called an angel but vaguely referred to as a “certain man.” Only Daniel can see this certain man but all the men around him are gripped by fear and run away and even Daniel was terrified throwing himself face down and trembling at the sight of this certain man.

As a quick aside, I learned something from the magnificent Dan McClellan, a biblical scholar who is very active on TikTok and YouTube, about angels in the Old Testament. He recently posted a video discussing this in detail but I will try and do it justice. The theory among biblical scholars is that many instances where angels are present in the Old Testament were originally instances of God themself appearing before a person. That’s why these excerpts have people seemingly talking directly to God and why these angels inspire such fear because it’s assumed the only time a person would see God is when they die.

So this quote in this context, is when Palamedes is stuck inside the body of Naberius Tern and fighting against Ianthe’s soul for control. The reason why he’s doing this is to hopefully find a safe place for the Sixth House after spending months being held by Blood of Eden as political captives. While in this fight with Ianthe, he’s helped and supported by the soul of Dulcinea who he describes looking like an angel. Not an angel in terms of beauty or grace, but as unassailably powerful, perfect and righteous as dawn's first light, a face made of precious gems that cannot be cut and a body made of brass like the finest armor. This is a form untouchable by flaw or fault.

The two narratives have clear parallels. They are stories about a people's restoration and salvation. And since this takes place in the middle of Nona the Ninth, the connotation is clear that he will live to see his people saved and returned home. And he does, he becomes Paul and they guide their people back to the Dominicus system. But this also underscores just how much he loves her. He loves Dulcinea like an angel. He loves her like a homecoming. He loves her like a vision of rapture in the wasted desert of his enemy. He loves her like the promised end of death itself. He loves her like the indelible weight that love brings on one's soul.

#tlt spoilers #nona the ninth #ntn spoilers #gtn spoilers #the uninvited guest #the uninvited guest spoilers #htn spoilers #palamedes sextus #palamedes the sixth #dulcinea septimus #dulcinea the seventh #the locked tomb #tlt meta #listen i love cam and pal #but his devotion to dulcinea is inspiring #i want to love as deeply as Pal loves Dulcie

[nottobehornyonthemain]

Thinking about Them (the threefold Cavalier-Necromancer-Saint of the Third).

Thinking about how little effort Coronabeth put in at any point to try and pass as a necromancer at Cannan House. Going so far as to risk blowing their cover by trying to duel Gideon only to be stopped by Naberius, who promised not to tell Ianthe.

Thinking about that bit in the Harrow Nova scene where Harrow tries to challenge Ortus to a duel so she can take the role of cavalier primary.

Thinking about how Ianthe, according to Judith’s records, never preformed necromancy without her sister in the room prior to Cannan House.

Thinking about how Ianthe, evil, lying, cannibalistic, soul-eating weirdo that she is, denied killing Naberius even as she was happy to brag about her years of pretending to be two necromancers and how she surpassed all of them to become a Lyctor.

Thinking about the man who said he should have stayed home and gotten married instead of dealing with this nonsense. Thinking about the woman who said she was going to marry Harrowhark one day.

Thinking about the permeability of the soul.

Thinking about how Naberius was killed with a sword through the back. Thinking about the Crown Princess of the third. The non-necromantic heir. Thinking about how if she was unable to fulfill her duties then Ianthe would become the scion of the Third.

Thinking about how Harrow didn’t remember how well the title “saint of awe” would have fit Naberius Tern. Thinking about how John said he picked the titles for the cavalier and not the necromancer.

Thinking about the deal with the devil made with a soul that was never her’s. Thinking about how the Third plots and plans and then acts.

Thinking about the Butterfly and the Moth and the Tern. About Cainabeth and Abella and the one named after a demon prince of hell. Thinking about the twin necromancers of the Third. About the two cavaliers.

I’m thinking about a murder, and an ascension, and a girl left crying on the floor because her sister, didn’t take her, and a girl who would stab someone over the implication that her sister was dead to her.

#the locked tomb spoilers #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon the ninth spoilers #harrow the ninth spoilers #harrow the ninth #the uninvited guest #cw: ianthe tridentarius #ianthe the first #ianthe tridentarius #coronabeth tridentarius #the tridentarii #naberius tern #ianthe naberius

[diodidathing]

In light of the confirmation of soul permeability a few things to consider:

harrow’s rage in GnN. what would she have been like if she hadn’t been soul melded with alecto for ~10 years?

is this soul melding the reason that jod speaks to harrow during NtN as if she’s alecto? he wrote in the sand J + E, J + A, J + H and says right before retelling the bombing “this is the part where i hurt *you*”

what this means about the 200 souls inside of her? i’d accept that the babies soul’s and personalities weren’t developed enough to affect her, but what about the teenagers? did this contribute to her schizophrenia? or alecto? or wake?

#the locked tomb trilogy #palamedes sextus #gtn #locked tomb series #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #locked tomb #the uninvited guest #tun

[mariaseelie]

Maid Ianthe being a peach 💜

Inspired by La Rosa de Guadalupe https://youtu.be/D4LA6hf0oSo?si=XwMEk74mwOS4u1pO

#ianthe tridentarius #ianthe my beloved #harrow the ninth #the uninvited guest #gideon nav #the locked tomb

[haltraveler]

Ianthe what the FUCK does that mean

#ianthe tridentarius #the uninvited guest #tlt spoilers #ianthe naberius #isaac tettares

[alostcuttlefish]

MORE POST-UNINVITED GUEST YELLINGGGGGG

It's just a whole fucking layer cake of foreshadowing and dramatic irony

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #the uninvited guest

[preraphaelite-wombat]

What is your Almond Room breakthrough please I need to know the theories

ask and you shall receive, mystery friend!

other people have likely worked this out too, but I’m thinking the Almond Room might be the amygdala? which comes from the Greek for almond, so...yes, obvious BUT STILL

one of its functions is memory processing and the connection of memory and emotion, so where better to begin to understand the transference between two souls, the amalgamation of discrete halves into a single entity, etc??? 

#do not ask me how many times i have misspelled 'amygdala' #i am also but a humble humanities person so if the science of the brain is wrong here that's on me #the locked tomb #the uninvited guest

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Uninvited Guest (1844) by Adolph Menzel

#The Uninvited Guest #1840s #Adolph Menzel #Death #spooky #scary #spooktober #Halloween #Miss Cromwell #spooky season

[hiddensquid22]

Finally got the chance to read The Uninvited Guest and I am not feeling sane or normal about it 😶

#tlt #the locked tomb #the uninvited guest #ntn #nona the ninth #truly a masterpiece

[writingpun]

Btw my favorite thing about the uninvited guest is the ace attorney reference

#tlt #the locked tomb #the uninvited guest

[heckyeahponyscans]

G1 My Little Pony comic #5, “The Uninvited Guest”

#My Little Pony #G1 #MLP #Halloween #Cotton Candy #Twilight #Sunbeam #Spike #Gusty #Medley #witch #comics #comic G1 My Little Pony #issue G1 My Little Pony 5 #The Uninvited Guest #fave

[snercksketches]

january 2022 - art made for game 100 of the siivagunner discord's non-vgm guessing game.

#siriusmo #the uninvited guest #album art #digital art #art #artists on tumblr #ms paint #pixel art #my art

[pablolf]

Film Journal

"El habitante incierto" by Guillem Morales

#el habitante incierto #The Uninvited Guest #film journal

[vpshot-halos]

#community #gab smolders #the uninvited guest

[prolix-principality]

The Uninvited Guest - entanglednow

This was super fucking adorable, wow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29916609

Good Omens: Aziraphale, Crowley 6 chapters; 20,625 words. ~ Aziraphale is used to spending long nights battling insomnia and repairing old and damaged books. But he's unprepared for his new neighbour to be quite so attractive, or to develop a habit for sleepwalking into his flat during the night. ~ Warning: nsfw, food, brief thoughts of possible deaths/spiders, first aid ~ Podfic Available - Djapchan

#gomensfr #ficrec #our own side #aufr #longfr #smexyfr #flufffr #podfr #humor #favefr #The Uninvited Guest #devdynfr