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more and better ideas for what the powder offhand could be:
printer toner
sour candy coating
laundry detergent
rat poison
cinnamon
miralax
powdered milk
instant coffee
dry shampoo
crushed up adderall
forgotten nature valley granola bar from the bottom of a backpack
The meme version of Edward Cullen as a man who is obsessed with snails and moss is infinitely more interesting than the version of him in the actual twilight books.
If Edward Cullen was a man who was obsessed with the small intricacies of the forests of Washington state and enjoyed foraging and taking pictures of snails he would actually be the most unique and interesting vampire character in modern literature but instead he’s an overprotective bitch whose main personality trait is that he hates himself.
Bella would also be way more interesting if she was watching this guy swerve the car over to the side of the road to take a picture of some cool moss and chewing on poisonous herbs like gum because his vampirism makes him immune and going “oh I can’t not fuck him”
Where can I see that? Or is it just you hallucinating Edward's?
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what would you do if two months into dating your girlfriend turns to you one day and tells you that she’s “finally memorized your attack patterns”
show her my second phase
gothic horror is when there's a location. cosmic horror is when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing. folk horror is when you're outside.
This is just the three books in The Locked Tomb series
men and women are not opposites. men and women are not enemies. men and women are two parts of a broad coalition which fights against a mutual enemy: inkjet printers
Even better, the comments to this Twitter post were an absolute FIRESTORM of mostly dudes explaining to her that dials can’t only have 2 positions (not true) and that it wasn’t a very good piece (not true) that she was being disrespectful to her teacher (don’t care) and that it was a sign of her stupidity/rabid feminism/intellectual laziness/misandry/etc. that she couldn’t see any “middle ground.” It became, in its way, a performance piece. I was absolutely mesmerised, even as I wished I could cock-punch people through the internet.
Personally I hope that knob goes to 11 and stays there.
“Dials can’t have only 2 positions” is also missing the point. Even if it doesn’t have only 2 positions, the point stands that getting less of/farther away from “raging feminist” requires getting more of/closer to “complicit in my own dehumanization.” You should always be at 0% having to be complicit in your own dehumanization.
god bless tamsyn muir for making her fantasy academics have humanities divisions
I appreciate that Abigail Pent is a humanities scholar in the contemporary sense, with her ten books and eighty-six articles, and ongoing bureaucratic dispute about archival access to primary sources, but is also out there doing the humanities like an Elizabethan gentleman (collecting weird relics from the apostles, complicated friendship with a guy who writes strangely erotic devotional poetry, and doing necromancy to try to talk to archangels).
God and his STEM PhD could never.
Horribly worded, but wondering why John did just stuff Gideon's soul into her dead body instead of fully resurrecting her. Maybe so no one could kill her or get her blood to open the tomb?
people better-versed in the lore can answer 100x better than this but i believe the tl;dr is he can't actually do that [with nuance]
That's right! Or rather, he has the ability to do that, but not easily, and he is not willing to pay that cost again right now, let alone for one person, no matter who it is. Resurrection is not an on-off switch.
To start, even someone like Harrow at the peak of her worship when she thinks the 500 newly-Ninth are freshly risen words it as "You've committed Resurrection", like committing a crime or a horrifying act. John corrects her there and clarifies these among others have been Resurrected but in stasis (a necromantic version of cryostasis!) since The Resurrection. There has only ever been the one.
This is referred to elsewhere but especially spelled out by Harrow-with-Alecto's-memories in the dream; we don't have to rely on John's word, Alecto knows so Harrow knows. Resurrection is different from waking up. He Resurrected a lot, but first woke only a few thousand, then some hundred thousand, then millions, but never more than millions, and all those he's never woken have been in reserve ever since.
When in that first instance Harrow asked why he hadn't done it since, he says the cost is too great. Later, when he learns the full details about her parents and her birth, he says they committed "a type of Resurrection." So let's examine that. If the Reverend Parents were willing to murder an entire generation to keep their bloodline going, wouldn't it make more sense to leave just a few kids alive, perhaps 2-3 of each sex, barely a difference from the total but just so Harrow would have a few options / spares if some of those didn't make it to adulthood to produce further heirs down the line? The only way it makes sense to sacrifice every last kid except the one required for the House to function is if they weren't sure 200 would be enough.
And that's further supported by Teacher, the priests, and the Hideous Corpses! As indicated by the pinboard, it takes 3 or 4 souls to power the simplest of those just-fancier-skeletons. (I say "or" because we don't know if the white pin represents the skeleton with its original soul or just the physical skeleton. The smallest clusters have 3 colored pins around one white pin.) Some of the skeletons take more than that, and it takes hundreds to power Teacher and the other two priests, with the 500 total souls between them and 47 skeletons effectively acting as a hivemind.
Magnus has also told us that the common belief in the Nine Houses is that souls wait in the River "for our Lord's touch on the day of the second Resurrection" (which itself lines up with a lot more references John makes to wanting to Start Over). He plans to do it again, in a way, eventually, but he won't do it until then.
We don't know all the details, but all evidence suggests it takes many souls to Resurrect one, and that he never could have brought back all ten billion even if he'd wanted to. There could also be additional layers we don't know yet, but whatever the case, it's not as simple as him choosing not to flip a switch just because.
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Bonus theory! Language seems to have power in some way in this world. Steles need to be covered in dead languages and those carvings need to be kept clear of build-up and bathed constantly in fresh blood. (TL;DR my theory on those is they appeal to the ghosts of the ten billion and use their power to warp time around ships rather than technically making them move fast but not the point here.) So with that in mind, it's interesting that every single instance of Resurrection and even Gideon's pseudo-Resurrection comes with a name change. There isn't a single exception.
And more than that, the first time John ever makes Ulysses and Titania move, even if still dead, is when he introduces them by their new names for the first time. And I mean, a point is made about how much John hates change, and Tamsyn Muir has mentioned before in interviews how he falls back on systems because they're familiar, even when he's actively struggling not to. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy to make himself relearn everyone's name just for fun, does he?
So I think it's entirely plausible that Resurrection in this world inherently involves a sort of reinvention. Mercy used to be M— but Mercy was never quite M—, etc, in the same way Paul used to be Camilla and Palamedes but isn't either anymore. The old you is dead, and nothing will ever change that, but you-slightly-to-the-left—a legally distinct you, if you will—that person can still have another round at life.
(Which if true could suggest some surprisingly hopeful things about John giving Gideon her own name back, just transcribed as it would be in Te Reo Māori. But yeah!)
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All that said. No idea if he could have done the same thing to a living body or not; it'd have really interesting implications for the limitations of his powers if he couldn't. But if he couldn't or even just not as well, I mean, making her body indestructible BOTH so no one could take her blood AND so no one could take her away from him after he'd just lost damn near everyone and everything else all at once may not have been the primary goal, but I'm sure it was on the list of pros for him for sure. 😭
Yup. The workings of the universe seem to be such that thalergy (life juice) decays to thanergy (death juice), which then either dissipates (?), or is used by a necro (it is unclear to me whether using thanergy to e.g. heal a wound means some of it converts to thalergy or, more likely, that you use thanergy to put tissues in place to the point where the body's thalergy can just take things on from there).
I have wondered it's there's any chance thanergy can convert into spirit energy, or spirit energy is where thalergy comes from. But this is very unclear. Spirit seems to work differently—there's only one single mention of “spirit energy” in all three books, actually, when Abigail asks if it's normal for Ninth people's “spirit energy” to be so diverse. Ianthe and then Augustine, when describing the River, say it's “a liminal space formed from spirit magic”.
We do know, however, that siphoning produces (or rather summons) energy by displacing the soul, and: “when Master Octakiseron siphons his cavalier, he sends the soul elsewhere and then exploits the space it leaves behind. The power that rushes in to fill that space will keep refilling, for as long as either of them can survive.”
What power is it exactly? Is it thalergy? Is it thanergy? We never get to know how G1deon's “thanergy void” works, but I imagine it's similar to the siphoning challenge, where the death field was half “senescence” (which means getting old, so presumably thalergy -> thanergy, which then always dissipates) and “entropy” (ensuring it dissipates fully and quickly, rather than remaining in the bones for a long time as thanergy tends to do).
Also, uh… I think it wouldn't be too crazy if the Reverend Parents DID commit resurrection, and they specifically brought back Anastasia's soul into the fetus that turned into the person we know as Harrowhark Nonagesimus.
“...So I dropped to my knees here, right … I scooped dirt into my mouth … ate until I vomited. I gathered up the bloody earth … I realised you were too much for me. This is the problem, the incorporation, this is the hardest part … It’s the human instinct, to take. When you burn your thumb, you stick it in your mouth, right? And there was still too much of me that was just a human being.”
- John 1:20, Nona the Ninth
Comic I had the opportunity to do for @thelockedtombcfp and @theriverbeyond! Thank you <3
I think as your job satisfaction gets lower and lower you should gain access to an increasingly broad and powerful suite of forbidden magic
idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.
'Time's up,' [Palamedes] said. 'Give this to Cam for me, will you?' [...] [And when Nona] lifted up Camilla's hand to press her mouth to it, all Camilla said was, 'Thanks.' And she almost didn't flinch. — NONA THE NINTH // Ch 5
this was written 100 years ago but it reads like a post i would make on my tumblr blog in 2026
You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still
Free my girl she's never overreacted a day in her life