I'm anxious and a baked good

I have opinions on things sometimes. These things include Dimension 20, Dracula Daily, Dead Boy Detectives, Discworld, D&D podcasts, Doyle Sherlock Holmes, and Da Locked Tomb. I have other interests, but they don't fit into the at first accidental and now forced alliteration and are therefore lesser. They/she.

[rivertalesien]

Don't think about how Jeannemary was 14 when she met Gideon, who was 18 and how Hot Sauce was 14 when she met Nona, who was 18, and they just admired them and how Hot Sauce misunderstood too much and how Jeannemary understood too little and how scared they both were and still wanted Gideon and Nona as their friends, and how you can connect that dot and it doesn't have to Mean Anything Except It Kinda Does and how Hot Sauce is still alive and Nona was a cryptic amalgamation of Gideon and Harrow, but probably mostly Gideon, because Alecto couldn't live in a human meat suit for long without killing it and how she had to suppress her memories of being Alecto to protect Harrow's body, kind of like Harrow had to repress her memories of Gideon to protect Gideon's soul and don't think about how once Alecto started remembering herself Harrow's body began to fall apart and the unique person that was Nona disappeared and how Paul witnessed this up close after Camilla and Pal decided to create their own unique person because they thought Nona was a real merger of two people and don't think about how Gideon, stuck back in her dead body and forced to play another round of Fuck My Life gets to stand on the shore of a strange tomb and watch as Alecto spirits Harrow away from her (again) and how, maybe, somewhere, in the River, Jeannemary is wondering if her biceps will ever grow now that she's dead and Hot Sauce is wondering if she'll ever see Nona again. Just don't think about that stuff and you'll be fine. Promise.

[muirin007]

This is one of the funniest scenes in gothic literature and the fact that this is verbatim from the novel is incredibly underrated.

[edw-lugh]

Daily affirmations:

No one will find the picture in your attic.

It's not your fault the person made of cadavers you sew together and you revived killed your family.

It's perfectly normal to enter your house climbing like a lizard.

The fact that you killed a man doesn't make you guilty, it was just your silly alter ego.

That raven who won't stop saying "nevermore" is an asshole, don't listen to it.

Your fiancé is definitely NOT hiding his mad spouse in his attic.

The big ass dog that killed members of your family isn't real, dw.

You deserve revenge for having been abused as a child, go back to moors and show them!

Go and kidnap that singer!

[fibulaegarden]

one flesh, one end.

Repost from before I had to shut down my blog for a while. If you’ve seen it before that’s why lol

Also this is STILL my phone background :,)

[greasefirekitchen]

kind of insane that we got canon murph pc yaoi and siobhan yuri in the same season…we used to pray for times like these

[science-is-witchcraft]

I’m fond of these two.

[henryjekyllspotion]

Jonathan’s fine dw

[only-alter-idem]

gideon: camilla understands me because her necromancer is overbearing too

camilla: i owe palamedes five bucks, these bitches ARE in love

[biannual-fixation]

Fuck it *turns your cavalier into a dollhouse*

(Inspired by working on @theunwantedguestproject )

[tiredartististired]

How it feels to start Harrow the Ninth

[miidniite]

edward and jacob went splat on the pavement so mitch and cody could kiss while bounding their way to kill right-wing blood mages

[bioloyg]

Wait lmfao. Wait, wait, wait. Darkness man’s entire arc kind of has the feel of a Hallmark holiday romance.

Overworked superhero coming from the big city to a small town. He’s exhausted by his old life and yearns for something simpler and more true to his ideals. Something closer to Omaha. Meets this really cute, calm dude that tries to get him to relax and take part in a local [monster] pastime. Takes him on a night hike. Asks him out for another in the future.

Cody isn’t the exact reason Darkness Man stays, buuuuut… he is a large contributing factor to Mitch’s happiness in choosing to stay because he gets another superhero partner to form a league with.

[rivertalesien]

It isn't enough that cavaliers in the Locked Tomb series must train to be excellent knights and defenders of their necromancers, but they don't even find rest in death.

Should one be consumed by their necro, they're just trapped in a cycle of defending and protecting (without voice or agency) that could last for thousands of years.

Neither Naberius Tern nor Gideon Nav had any idea what Lyctorhood would do to them. Gideon, in particular, resented being an indentured servant to the Ninth and sought escape. In falling on a fence, she had no idea she was about to indenture herself forever, with no escape (her unacknowledged love for Harrow made any qualms moot). Tern, on the other hand, had no idea his death would not be the "end." and we see him struggling against Ianthe in their shared body. He's not happy.

That Gideon was given a way out (an act of love she had no idea about), only to be forced back into service by her father, is a shattering psychic schism, while Tern and Ianthe are basically becoming a new person that Ianthe refuses to acknowledge.

Did any of the Lyctors who successfully absorbed their cavaliers realize they were no longer themselves after a time?

As a cavalier who escaped the process, how much of Gideon's soul *was* absorbed by Harrow and how will this affect Harrow in the future?

Further, in witnessing Camilla/Palamedes "suicide," does Gideon think of Harrow's parents and what *their* suicide made of their daughter? Paul is, for some intents and purposes, the child of Camilla and Palamedes and still an unknown quantity. They did it, much like Gideon falling on a fence, to save lives (getting everyone through the River required a Lyctor). Harrow did not call Gideon's sacrifice a suicide; I doubt she would have seen Cam/Pal's sacrifice as one, either.

But what about Gideon who has always sought escape and revered a violent death as her likely end (thanks to those Cohort comics)?

So many people had knowledge she didn't; an understanding of the world that she didn't; Gideon had no time to really learn much of anything and for all her struggles to be *herself* that person never got to emerge, fully. Like Tern, she was simply expected to obey and do her job.

If we could separate Tern for a moment, what would he say about it all?

There's a built-in cultural cruelty some of these folks are only now realizing or acknowledging, while someone like Wake has been fighting it all of her life. No wonder Augustine and Mercy joined her, ultimately. The grief and horror of understanding what they had helped build was a devastation that they couldn't ignore.

The lessons of this story, though, means John's reckoning cannot resemble John in any way.

What will justice look like?

It can't be the violence John and Wake have produced; maybe it will look more like the ease of forgiveness Gideon once offered Harrow.

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[the-muppet-joker]

Tump dies tonight while giving his speech in the hot hot sun. Like to charge, reblog to cast

[yearofdoodles]

Murderbot vs. captcha 🔫

Full view for better quality!

- Based on this post by @peri-hellion with comment by @brawltogethernow

[tlturl]

“ianthe has a secret plan” ok yeah probably but it’s funnier for me to imagine she fulfilled all her dark machinations by becoming a lyctor, and is now just desperately scrambling from book to book trying to stop everyone from blowing up the solar system and ruining it for her