Milky Way & Airglow at Stirling Ranges, Western Australia
Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 2000 - f/1.8 Foreground: 15 x 20 seconds Sky: 47 x 25 seconds H-Alpha: 10 x 60 seconds iOptron SkyTracker
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Milky Way & Airglow at Stirling Ranges, Western Australia
Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 2000 - f/1.8 Foreground: 15 x 20 seconds Sky: 47 x 25 seconds H-Alpha: 10 x 60 seconds iOptron SkyTracker
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In America the arrival of night-time or periods of rest cannot be accepted, nor can the Americans bear to see the technological process halted. Everything has to be working all the time, there has to be no let-up in man's artificial power, and the intermittent character of natural cycles (the seasons, day and night, heat and cold) has to be replaced by a functional continuum that is sometimes absurd . . . You may seek to explain this in terms of fear, perhaps obsessional fear, or say that this unproductive expenditure is an act of mourning. But what is absurd is also admirable. The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
Jean Baudrillard, America
these are truly bad but I’m unleashing them upon the world anyway. sorry or you’re welcome idk
Dealer: j got this new strain 💯 it’s called, “thanergy link to your daughters longsword” 😳🔥 gonna be blitzed off your titz
Me: whatever man I don’t feel shit
5 minutes later: dude I swear I saw some bitch in a hazmat suit at the bottom of that glass coffin
My girl Harrow, pacing: the eggs you gave me all died and you lied to me
One really subtle, fun thing about the locked tomb is how they talk about “generalist” necromancy.
Judith says in Cohort Intelligence Files that Abigail’s necromancy is “generalist,” though we later find out her real skill lies with spirits. No matter how true it is, this is one of a few things in CIF that paint Abigail as a less-than-stellar necromancer (another one is the idea that her political power is what sets her apart from the others).
So “generalist” necromancy is seen as less advanced than a specialization, like Harrow’s in bone or Ianthe’s in flesh.
You don’t see a ton of that in fantasy media. In A:TLA, normal benders like Katara, Toph and Zuko are far less powerful than Aang, because he can bend all four elements. In Aurora (my favorite ever webcomic that you should all read), Erin has more prestige than any other living mage because he can do every type of magic. The Owl House shows wild witches like Eda, who do multiple kinds of magic, to be outlaws and outcasts. I could go on.
The reason fantasy authors do this is because they want to present magic as a skill/ability, whether it’s inherent or learned. It’s like sports or an instrument: the more you practice, the more things you can do, and the more things you can do, the better you’re considered.
And that’s the big difference between these examples and the Locked Tomb: instead of a skill to learn, TLT presents necromancy as an academic field.
In academia, specialization (like a college major, or being a specific kind of doctor) is common and expected. You’re encouraged to dive deep into one area of expertise, rather than being a jack-of-all-trades. That’s what necromancy is.
“Yes, Pent is a ridiculously powerful political force and talks to ghosts on a regular basis, but she’s a generalist. Not like Ianthe, who’s good at flesh magic!”
It’s really subtle, but it adds to the tonal blend of sci-fi and fantasy that helps make TLT so cool.
They both think they are the guard dog.
that being said I'm not actually always opposed to conflict free fluff I am just opposed to the characters having their claws filed down for it. you can stick them in a coffee shop au it should just still feel like you sat the two worst most insane people on earth in a starbucks
when i say i want a baru cormorant cafe au i mean that i want her to like. still be baru. she's still A Bitch and A Liar. and also her family is running like a small cafe but like starbucks is moving in to kill said cafe and all other non-franchise cafes. so like as part of her attempt to stop starbucks she has joined starbucks to try and kill it from the inside even though this is literally not how anything works. there is drama. there are tears. she is cast out of her family's community. another cafe not owned by her family or the starbucks is burnt to the ground and baru is partially to blame.
but also tain hu's not dead and she's like. ordering coffee and purposefully getting the starbucks size names wrong on purpose just to fuck with the hot barista because she knows it'd aggravate her.
when our backs are to the wall and our towers are falling all around us and we are watching ourselves burn, we rarely become heroes.
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this girl can fit so many girls in her.
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think my favourite part of Harrow the Ninth is that there's a bit where she gets hit in the face so hard she loses a bunch of teeth, then uses the fragments of her own shattered teeth to explode a man's eyeballs - and it never gets mentioned by anyone discussing the book because in a few pages there's a soup scene that is Very Much Worse.
I wanna say john must have been gay to lock a beautiful monster girl up for 10 thousand years but I know for a fact he was bisexual that whole time so all I can say is john gaius you fucked up you blew it you fumbled the bag and I would treat your girlfriend right