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Camilla Hect my beloved
Bugs when you lift up a rock
Decided to make Coronabeth’s eyes more purple. Ianthe’s eyes are the same color and not her lyctor colors because i think it would be cool if occasionally the lyctor’s original eye colors could still be seen in glimpses
Gideon the ninth doodles
gideon the ninth / harrow the ninth
i read gideon last night and could not put it down!! (i am in love with these girls.) picked up harrow from the library today & am very excited— i haven’t read this much at once since i started university! full reviews to come when i finish harrow ♥︎
Oh, YES, PLEASE
Fortiche please. Fortiche I’m begging-
Imagine you wake up one day, and your day gets interrupted by the funeral of your coworker, who went batshit insane over her gf's death, leaving you with your two other coworkers, who you hate. One of them drops the biggest, worst news (we all gonna die), and your boss, whom you try to tolerate, introduces the new interns to you: A weird, one armed blonde, and this weird nun, who wears a pillowcase mask, randomly starts to bleed from every orifice, and throws up. And people are suprised why you are angry all the time
You're Mercymorn, Saint of Joy.
Drew everyone’s favorite lesbian, Harrowhark^^
Locked Tomb: Darkest Dungeon Edition
what if……. tlt as silly game….
For me a lot of the horror lies primarily in the fact that the culture, traditions, and tactics of the nine houses stem almost entirely from the mind of one eccentric depressed nerd with a (literal) vengeful god complex.
Like, John lives in a space station where the walls are coated floor to ceiling in the corpses of people who have died serving him over the span of 10,000 years, one of his houses is a literal army of cloned child soldiers sent to the frontlines like a slaughterhouse conveyer belt, and the entire toxic necro/cav dynamic is based entirely around him being unable to trust his closest friends to stay by his side without emotional manipulation.
This entire universe is built on the hypothetical what-if of what would happen if someone was allowed to reshape the universe to their liking at the expense of everyone else, and that someone happened to be terminally online.
It’s like when authors jokingly say they’re terrible people for what they put their characters through but in this case, John’s fanfic is real. It’s like if Paul Atreides had a Tumblr account.
For me, I guess, the locked tomb is really superficially a good story and has lots of aspects that are good in isolation and appeal to a wide variety of queer readers but I think this series would have been better and more satisfying if Ms Muir had leaned more into the gothic and away from the internet humor. In my mind there’s no reason why each House wouldn’t be entrenched so deeply in things we consider taboo and repulsive that it’s unpalatable to most readers. Instead it’s like if Homestuck 2 was good
masc lesbian save me...save me masc lesbian
what brand of mentally ill are you? based on what you think of first when you see tlt
your honour i'm in love with them
Gideon: Harrow just gave me a get better soon card
Palamedes: aww that’s cute
Gideon: no, i’m not sick, she just think I can do better
Hark & Nav, leaders of the Locked Tomb gang, house Escher, and some minions
the love triangle in TLT is so funny because it's not even a true love triangle. it's like a shape that hasn't even been invented yet. first you've got Ianthe, who thinks Harrow is totally into her but isn't. and Harrow is into Gideon but also this really sexy corpse. the sexy corpse was maybe probably in a relationship with Gideon's dad who's also the leader of the solar system. he hooks up with his officers sometimes and has hooked up with his best friends over the last 10,000 years because they were bored. Ianthe also has this weirdly borderline incestuous relationship with Coronabeth but Coronabeth is in love with Judith who had a crush on her now-dead cavalier. the only ones who've got a semi-normal relationship are Camilla and Palamedes and even then they had a weird poly thing with Dulcinea even though they never met her in person. and they have another weird poly thing with Pyrrha but by that point they're sharing a body. then they decide to do a mutual suicide/soul binding ritual and become a whole new person in Camilla's body. also they're second cousins. oh Pyrrha also had a weird poly thing with her necro and Gideon's biomom/the leader of the rebellion who's fighting against Gideon's biodad. I don't even have time to unpack all that and that doesn't even cover half of the shit happening here. there's also the whole Cytherea thing
made some diagrams to help my friends fully grasp the concept of the River in HtN and NtN
Like... I was so prepared for the story to be even more of 'everyone wants to, has or will kill each other'. I was not prepared for the 'all these immortals have fucked each other' part to also become important to the actual plot??
Hyperfixation induced lazer focus pulled me through the second book in one sitting and I was managing just fine processing all the new information being thrown around, but absolutely nothing prepared me for the force of being launched back into real life by reading "Hi, Not Fucking Dead, I'm Dad."
cringetober - 1 day - heterochromia
я не помню как выглядят их черепушки...
Alrighty here goes nothing. (No spoilers)
I finished Nona the ninth, and just like harrow the ninth I was very befuddled the entire time. I do have to admit I have fallen deeper in love with the characters, or at least the ones that have been confirmed to be them in the previous two books. Honestly this shit is so confusing idk who anyone is, but regardless I LOVE it. Did not expect the Ace Attorney reference, I think I screamed and sobbed but I don’t remember lol
ALSO
Where is Alecto the Ninth??? I finished Nona the ninth, in tears naturally, fully expecting to jump to the next book only to discover that it wasn’t out yet. My balls (I’m a chick) were cut, my lunch=gone, my heart=paradox of full and empty.
So after that I’ve been wandering around my house and starring at walls like I got a lobotomy (lol)
Call me the Saint of Impatience, this shit wack and I need more asap
Ok ok ok
WHO was gonna tell me the bat shit craziness of The Locked Tomb series? (no spoilers)
I admit I took a lil break on Gideon the Ninth but in my defense I had school. But as per the usual during exams I have to do anything BUT actually study and write my essays.
I finished the book in like a week. The ending girl… mind BLOWN right open. On the floor screaming crying throwing up.
Obviously I couldn’t stop there, no no no, so I instantly get the next book THAT day and in 24 hours I finished the second book. I think I might just drop out of college at this rate. Harrow the Ninth??? Gagged. Felt like I was drowning in my own tears cause girl wtf was that. The ending??? Gone
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
Ok ok ok
WHO was gonna tell me the bat shit craziness of The Locked Tomb series? (no spoilers)
I admit I took a lil break on Gideon the Ninth but in my defense I had school. But as per the usual during exams I have to do anything BUT actually study and write my essays.
I finished the book in like a week. The ending girl… mind BLOWN right open. On the floor screaming crying throwing up.
Obviously I couldn’t stop there, no no no, so I instantly get the next book THAT day and in 24 hours I finished the second book. I think I might just drop out of college at this rate. Harrow the Ninth??? Gagged. Felt like I was drowning in my own tears cause girl wtf was that. The ending??? Gone
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
Guys I need to stop having ideas that I don't have the time or artistic skills for. I'm sitting at work thinking about how cool (and undoubtedly heartbreaking) it would be if there was a tlt animatic to Vulture by Bear Ghost and I'm like 5 seconds from going insane because of it.
Like this song has made me a little feral since it came out last year (I think. Time is an illusion) but I just listened to it for the first time in a few weeks and oh my god. I might come back to this post later and write an essay about it because the locked tomb has consumed my life even more so than it did when I was actually reading the series.
The TLT brainrot is real because I saw this image:
And immediately thought of making it into a HTN shitpost. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Sadly, I am in the trenches with homework and therefore unable to be funny enough to follow through on this idea.
...does Harrow even know what "death first to vultures and scavengers" means? Or was she just sitting there thinking "well, I have to say something, and I know Griddle's going to make a fool of herself, but I can't just stand by and let the eighth get away with this. I'd better say something fitting of the ninth house."
Like. Do you think she said that, then immediately thought to herself "what the fuck was that?"
Do you think Gideon was laying in bed later that night thinking "what the hell did she say? Was it some obscure ninth saying I never bothered to learn? What the fuck?"
Do you think the other houses were there thinking "what did that strange little nun say? Was it a spell? A curse? Am I cursed now?" Or did some of them think "pfft, why did she say that? Was it a lame attempt at sounding cooler than all of us?"
I dunno, I finally have time to work on some TLT tattoo designs and this has been on my mind the whole time.
"Death first to vultures and scavengers" is such a hard line I wish that there were scenarios where I could use it in my day to day life without eventually having to explain that the quote was said by a scrawny teenaged(?) nun in response to what is essentially a dick measuring contest run by a bunch of idiots who have no business being unsupervised for that long anyways.