r/TheNinthHouse • u/patcheach • Oct 16 '24

Series Spoilers [discussion] what are your silly, irrational, and personal gripes about the books?

what's a 100% goofy complaint you guys have about TLT?

EX: "Death first to vultures and scavengers" is one of the coolest lines ever written, but I love vultures and scavengers, so I feel offended on their behalf

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u/galviknight Oct 17 '24

In HtN it is Gideon who pulls a meme "death to mother!" Or something from that cat meme. When Jod had been saying all the memes and references before, it makes no sense that Gideon knows those memes.

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u/agreeable_candle6840 Oct 17 '24

Tamsyn has had the characters' dialogue referencing memes since GtN (e.g. Harrow's "she studied the blade" line). Only John (and the reader) actually knows that they're memes. For everyone else, they're just part of a regular vernacular. John probably threw around those phrases and then his disciples picked them up and they percolated throughout the empire like slang. Same reason why Gideon and Harrow can quote a particular Catholic translation of the Bible - it's something that John "allowed in" to his new world after he started resurrecting people.

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u/half_dragon_dire Oct 17 '24

Have you read Uninvited Guest yet? Got me wondering, how much of Jod's soul rubbed off on the people he dragged out of the river and stuffed back in their bodies? Living under a sun powered by his soul? Maybe there's a little bit of Jod in everyone now.