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hey my name is carys. i like reading, rancid women, & reading about rancid women. storygraph | hockey | star trek

[carys-the-ninth]

A SUGGESTED READING ORDER FOR TAMSYN MUIR'S SHORT FICTION FOR LOCKED TOMB FANS

1. The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time. 5k. It's short, it's the very first thing she published, it's sweet, you can think CamPal thoughts while you read it.

2. The Magician's Apprentice. 4.8k. Let's get into it. Simply one of the best things she's written, has all sorts of echoes for the Locked Tomb and altogether a barn burner. (tw: grooming)

3. Chew. 3.7k. Zombie fiction set in WWII. (tw: sexual assault)

4. Union. 5.5k. I love Union and think it doesn't get enough hype. Deeply, deeply Kiwi and also quite unsettling. A great follow-up to Nona.

5. Princess Floralinda and The Forty Flight Tower. 216 pages. A novella, get it from your library or as an ebook, alternatively, Moira Quirk does a great job with the audiobook. This is a fairy tale satire, as pointed and black-hearted as you can imagine. A main course & a must-read.

6. The Woman in the Hill. 3.9k. I'll be honest, I think this one is skippable, but then you can say you've read them all. Lovecraftian horror, told in an epistolary format between settlers in the New Zealand bush.

7. Undercover. 59 pages. Plop your money down (or find a pirated version), it's worth every penny. A undercover cop risks her life to investigate rumors of a ghoul in a gangster's speakeasy. Blood, devotion, deceit--everything you could want in a TMuir story.

8. The Deepwater Bride (links) Dessert. Available through hoopla, your local library or several ebook anthologies. Teen Hester Blake, from a family of seers, determines that blonde, Converse-clad Rainbow Kipley is destined to be the bride of an uncanny god. 22 pages and it'll change your life.

BONUS: self-published webcomic APOTHECIA, illustrated by Shelby Cragg. Space monsters, teenage girls & corruption, oh my.

[wyllora]

Make a meal. Read a book. It's the little things...

[navigesimus]

locked tomb fandom! please help! where is that one interview that tamsyn muir did where she mentions that jod has/might have a specific grecoroman hero he's modelling himself after? i would like to read that

[carys-the-ninth]

Interview with In The Margin [archive link]:

[carys-the-ninth]

I'm leaving for fieldwork on Monday very early and in front of my vision there's just a flashing red countdown timer while a TO DO list scrolls behind it on infinite loop

[carys-the-ninth]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

[carys-the-ninth]

everything is fine.

[scared-cr0ws]

situationships so dire you become the angriest and most annoying people in the world respectively!!! /hj

[carys-the-ninth]

I'm leaving for fieldwork on Monday very early and in front of my vision there's just a flashing red countdown timer while a TO DO list scrolls behind it on infinite loop

[carys-the-ninth]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

[weepingwidar]

Alberto Regueira (Cuban, 1994) - Reborn (2022)

[ashoss]

“word hashtag my word #myword” has done irreversible damage to my vocabulary

[boundwithpurple]

“Think of all the Djuna Barneses we could have had if not for slashfic.” new funniest sentence

[boundwithpurple]

for everyone in the tags saying “she’s right” do you want to look me in the eye and say that the writer of your average heated rivalry mpreg fic would be writing experimental modernist lesbian fiction instead if not for ao3 dot org. do you truly believe this.

[beroebluejeans]

oh my god I am halfway through Diplomatic Immunity and why am I genuinely so worried for my good friend Bel Thorne??? I guess if you survive years of spaceship battles and evil bioengineers and have settled down with your beautiful wife it feels unfair to have someone come to your peaceful home and try to murder you??? I was so pleasantly surprised when Bel Thorne showed up in this book!! And with Nicol!! I just want my good friend Bel Thorne to live happily ever after with Nicol and their beautiful children 😭

[beroebluejeans]

thank u @necromycologist exactly 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[ot3]

a piece of media being written by a woman doesn't actually make bizarre gender opinions therein more tolerable because i think the opinions themselves are better, it's just that i know that no matter what other opinions a woman may have about gender she kind of categorically has to understand that a woman is a whole entire person in a way many male authors are not burdened with.

[yuck-pfaugh]

News for enjoyers of unhygienic woman detective geniuses and the sad wet bisexual boys who run their errands and (sometimes) (not often enough) bring them drugs! An Ana & Din short story entitled The Lion's Tusk will appear in the forthcoming Amazon-only fantasy anthology Magic & Mystery, due out on the 28th of July, 2026.

(No sign yet of an ebook of The Fallen Master. I asked Subterranean Press months ago and they told me they don't even HAVE the ebook rights. 💀 Does anyone know anything? I live in hope.)

[11thfempachi]

Girls just wanna have fun

[markovchaingang]

hey you. teenage girl writing in her diary. quit talking about the boy you have a crush on and start writing about the current political situation, the valuation of currencies, and the level of technology your people hold. your diary might be the only piece of evidence our society existed after nuclear war fries all of our data backups. future historians don't need to know about damian, they need at least a secondhand accounts of the great water wars and whether or not your leaders truly did worship a deity called "the free hand of the market"

[mothnem]

Keep writing about your crush Teenaged Girl. About your clothes, and how that other girl wore the same dress as you. Paint me a picture of what you were like.

[enchantedlantern]

Historians are going to hear about Damian and they're gonna LIKE IT

[therealbeachfox]

Make those future Historians reverse engineer the socioeconomic hierarchies of the 21st century from dreamy descriptions of Damian's current fashions. It's giving them enrichment.

[vaspider]

Talk about the things you want to talk about. You never know what mysteries your diary might solve in future generations bc you are the only person who talks about something that other people thought was too obvious to talk about, like whatever that third condiment dish that used to be on the table with salt and pepper was for.

[beatrice-otter]

It was mustard. There's actually a decent number of advertisements and household guides and so forth that give details.

[sallyisdrawing]

Ninth Saint

[carys-the-ninth]

I'm leaving for fieldwork on Monday very early and in front of my vision there's just a flashing red countdown timer while a TO DO list scrolls behind it on infinite loop

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Machismo: A Love Story