Armtistry

Tlt sideblog | Anna | she/her | 20s

[tulipseason]

thinking about how harrow writes to herself “look upon me as a harrowhark who was handed the first genuine choice of our lives; the only choice ever given where we had free will to say, no, and free will to say, yes”. gideon thinks that harrow's refusal to eat her was refusal to be beholden to anyone else, and we know gideon is wrong. but isn’t it insane that while the choice wasn’t to achieve freedom (as gideon believes), the choice itself WAS freedom. to harrow, choosing gideon IS freedom. the first real freedom she’s ever known

[armtistry]

Something I find interesting about tlt (gtn specifically here) is that when traveling from the ninth to the first, it is specified that the “rapid travel” takes about an hour. Now, as we know, the ninth is (both vibes-wise and based on the materially longer solar day - ergo harrow is confused about darkness happening so quickly) Pluto. The ABSOLUTE minimum distance Pluto can be from earth is 2.6 billion miles. 2,600,000,000 miles per hour is, like, 3.9c. And that’s assuming they travel in a completely straight line, which seems pretty unlikely given that the velocity of earth is nearly six times that of Pluto. Most of the time, if you “went straight there” eg by accelerating radially inward rather than using a hohmann transfer or “warping”,whatever that means in practice, Earth would just fling itself away from you at (shockingly) planetary speeds. Approximately 50,000 miles per hour, to be specific. And then due to you still moving at the speeds ordained by keplers second law, you would probably just fall into the sun. Admittedly most orbital mechanics work differently at relativistic speeds but like. Damn they have space travel DOWN. Even without the steles! I guess with enough thrust anything is possible.

[tanis-zed]

We know that FTL travel was discovered pre-jodpocalypse, and BOE has long-range FTL in the modern day, but it requires pretty big engines. Given that all the Houses are on/orbiting different planetary bodies, and the Ninth regularly receives shuttle deliveries, it’s probable that short range FTL (interplanetary rather than interstellar) is a well established, commonly used technology.

[armtistry]

100%! It’s not like it’s something that can’t be handwaved - most sci-fi “warping” or general ftl travel is EXTREMELY handwaved: it’s just interesting to me that it does take time! This is not wormhole travel (like, for example, steles sort of are), where you enter a wormhole at a speed relative to it and exit at a proportional velocity to its presumably also moving “other side” . The target of travel imparts its velocity through space onto you. I cognize this like being near-instantly transported to the - in this case - stele and then holding on real tight until it (which is heavier than you, and is probably bolted to the floor) accelerates or decelerates you to the speeds which your surroundings are moving at.

Instead, it’s not at all instantaneous: larger distances take longer to cover, meaning that FTL travel involves genuine movement through space at a speed greater than the speed of light. This, of course, is not possible for something with mass, but neither is necromancy, so whatever. I think it’s fair to assume that there’s a technological reason that we’re not turning our astronauts into a paste on acceleration or deceleration, but I just find it really interesting how they dont seem to need transfer windows and also are able to rendezvous without aerobraking.

At relativistic speeds I would assume that for the 3rd/6th houses, they’d need to wait for earth to be nearly directly aligned with their retrograde vector so that when you accelerate towards it you’d end up going roughly the same speed as the planet; and respectively for the other houses it should be directly prograde. Maybe there’s a time where this is true, not sure how common that would be… but I’m guessing not very.

Regular shuttle deliveries would be consistent with a transfer window explanation, I think, but the idea that the lyctoral summons allows delegates from each house to arrive at roughly the same time kind of turns that idea inside out. Unless it happens once every thousand years and Jod was waiting to recruit until it was possible. But that seems a little over his head. I kind of like it as a timing explanation, though.

Alternatively maybe I’m crazy and am wrong about my understanding of the effects of relativistic speeds on orbital mechanics. That would not shock me. Who knows lmao.

[armtistry]

Something I find interesting about tlt (gtn specifically here) is that when traveling from the ninth to the first, it is specified that the “rapid travel” takes about an hour. Now, as we know, the ninth is (both vibes-wise and based on the materially longer solar day - ergo harrow is confused about darkness happening so quickly) Pluto. The ABSOLUTE minimum distance Pluto can be from earth is 2.6 billion miles. 2,600,000,000 miles per hour is, like, 3.9c. And that’s assuming they travel in a completely straight line, which seems pretty unlikely given that the velocity of earth is nearly six times that of Pluto. Most of the time, if you “went straight there” eg by accelerating radially inward rather than using a hohmann transfer or “warping”,whatever that means in practice, Earth would just fling itself away from you at (shockingly) planetary speeds. Approximately 50,000 miles per hour, to be specific. And then due to you still moving at the speeds ordained by keplers second law, you would probably just fall into the sun. Admittedly most orbital mechanics work differently at relativistic speeds but like. Damn they have space travel DOWN. Even without the steles! I guess with enough thrust anything is possible.

[pepsinister]

tw: broken frontal bone tw: broken left parietal bone tw: broken right parietal bone tw: broken left temporal bone tw: broken right temporal bone tw: broken occipital bone tw: broken sphenoid bone tw: broken ethmoid bone tw: broken mandible tw: broken left maxilla tw: broken right maxilla tw: broken left palantine bone tw: broken right palantine bone tw: broken left zygomatic bone tw: broken right zygomatic bone tw: broken left nasal bone tw: broken right nasal bone tw: broken left lacrimal bone tw: broken right lacrimal bone tw: broken vomer tw: broken left nasal conchae tw: broken right nasal conchae tw: broken left malleus tw: broken right malleus tw: broken left incus tw: broken right incus tw: broken left stapes tw: broken right stapes tw: broken hyoid tw: broken left scapula tw: broken right scapula tw: broken left clavicle tw: broken right clavicle tw: broken sternum tw: broken left rib 1 tw: broken left rib 2 tw: broken left rib 3 tw: broken left rib 4 tw: broken left rib 5 tw: broken left rib 6 tw: broken left rib 7 tw: broken left rib 8 tw: broken left rib 9 tw: broken left rib 10 tw: broken left rib 11 tw: broken left rib 12 tw: broken right rib 1 tw: broken right rib 2 tw: broken right rib 3 tw: broken right rib 4

tw: broken right rib 5 tw: broken right rib 6 tw: broken right rib 7 tw: broken right rib 8 tw: broken right rib 9 tw: broken right rib 10 tw: broken right rib 11 tw: broken right rib 12 tw: broken cervical vertebra 1 tw: broken cervical vertebra 2 tw: broken cervical vertebra 3 tw: broken cervical vertebra 4 tw: broken cervical vertebra 5 tw: broken cervical vertebra 6 tw: broken cervical vertebra 7 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 1 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 2 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 3 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 4 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 5 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 6 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 7 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 8 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 9 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 10 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 11 tw: broken thoracic vertebra 12 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 1 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 2 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 3 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 4 tw: broken lumbar vertebra 5 tw: broken sacrum tw: broken coccyx tw: broken left humerus tw: broken right humerus tw: broken left radius tw: broken right radius tw: broken left ulna tw: broken right ulna tw: broken left scaphoid bone tw: broken right scaphoid bone tw: broken left lunate bone tw: broken right lunate bone tw: broken left triquetral bone tw: broken right triquetral bone tw: broken left pisiform bone

tw: broken right pisiform bone tw: broken left trapezium tw: broken right trapezium tw: broken left trapezoid bone tw: broken right trapezoid bone tw: broken left capitate bone tw: broken right capitate bone tw: broken left hamate bone tw: broken right hamate bone tw: broken left metacarpal 1 bone tw: broken left metacarpal 2 bone tw: broken left metacarpal 3 bone tw: broken left metacarpal 4 bone tw: broken left metacarpal 5 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 1 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 2 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 3 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 4 bone tw: broken right metacarpal 5 bone tw: broken left proximal phalanx 1 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 2 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 3 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 4 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 5 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 1 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 2 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 3 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 4 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 5 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 5 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 2 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 3 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 4 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 5 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 2 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 3 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 4 tw: broken left distal phalanx 1 tw: broken left distal phalanx 2 tw: broken left distal phalanx 3 tw: broken left distal phalanx 4 tw: broken left distal phalanx 5 tw: broken right distal phalanx 1 tw: broken right distal phalanx 2 tw: broken right distal phalanx 3 tw: broken right distal phalanx 4 tw: broken right distal phalanx 5 tw: broken left innominate bone tw: broken right innominate bone tw: broken left femur tw: broken right femur

tw: broken left patella tw: broken right patella tw: broken left tibia tw: broken right tibia tw: broken left fibula tw: broken right fibula tw: broken left calcaneus tw: broken right calcaneus tw: broken left talus tw: broken right talus tw: broken left navicular bone tw: broken right navicular bone tw: broken left medial cuneiform bone tw: broken right medial cuneiform bone tw: broken left intermediate cuneiform bone tw: broken right intermediate cuneiform bone tw: broken left lateral cuneiform bone tw: broken right lateral cuneiform bone tw: broken left cuboid bone tw: broken right cuboid bone tw: broken left metatarsal 1 bone tw: broken left metatarsal 2 bone tw: broken left metatarsal 3 bone tw: broken left metatarsal 4 bone tw: broken left metatarsal 5 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 1 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 2 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 3 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 4 bone tw: broken right metatarsal 5 bone tw: broken left proximal phalanx 1 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 2 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 3 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 4 tw: broken left proximal phalanx 5 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 1 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 2 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 3 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 4 tw: broken right proximal phalanx 5 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 1 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 2 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 3 tw: broken left intermediate phalanx 4 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 1 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 2 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 3 tw: broken right intermediate phalanx 4 tw: broken left distal phalanx 1 tw: broken left distal phalanx 2 tw: broken left distal phalanx 3 tw: broken left distal phalanx 4 tw: broken left distal phalanx 5 tw: broken right distal phalanx 1 tw: broken right distal phalanx 2 tw: broken right distal phalanx 3 tw: broken right distal phalanx 4 tw: broken right distal phalanx 5

tw: bruising

just had a bad accident

[vexcite]

[ravensloane]

guys i just heard a minecraft cave noise in real life

[quinquangularist]

change your settings to peaceful it'll be ok

[ravensloane]

k hold on

[ravensloane]

where are my parents

[talleryn]

TLT does kill your gays but like. In a sexy way. They’re haunting the narrative you can’t stop seeing them in the corner of your eye you can’t live without them they’re integrated into your soul but in such a way that they’re gone forever. Where do they end where do you begin. It doesn’t matter because you’re all dying anyway

[beguilingcorpse]

also re:people assuming that the thematic implications of tlt are unintentional. this pops up soooo much with the way that social prejudices and strictures are held up within john’s empire. like yes on the surface things are cool and neofuturist and liberal - same sex relationships are normalized! women are political leaders and scholars and swordfighters and revolutionaries! this guywoman calls herself a prince! - but there’s also significant evidence of the continued existence of misogyny, patriarchy, strict gender roles and generally binary gender presentation, etc etc etc. gestures emphatically to everything relating to mercymorn. and it seems that john is not only complicit in these social systems, and not only an active participant in them, but at times even the font and root of them. gestures even more emphatically to everything relating to mercymorn.

and instead of examining what muir might be trying to say by having these seemingly at-odds ideals present in the same universe and stemming from the same father-god-emperor-king, tlt fans are so quick to write off all of this as “well, the world building just isn’t that thorough” or “it’s probably muir subconsciously writing women through a lens of internalized misogyny” or even “who cares, it’s a sci-fi fantasy series about bones, it’s not that deep”

it is. it is that deep. engage with the text. PLEASE

[peniswizard69]

Harrow: Be more cautious around the House of the Sixth, Girddle. I do not trust your friend Palamedes.

Gideon: note taken. what about my pal friendamedes

[runasulienadanika]

ah yes, my favourite tlt characters:

200 dead children

literally Joan of Arc

First Flower of the Ninth House, the Best Cavalier They have Ever produced, Their Triumph, the Best of Them All,

guy with the worst surname ever

[forgotaboutnoodle]

RIP gideon nav you would have loved clicking tongs while you barbecued