as a shadow smudged against the wall,

annihilated by light. icon art!・locked tomb sb

[gingerbug]

maternity shirt that says "IM SMOKING FOR 2"

[haplophrynemolliz]

in the throes

(ref: Butch Order, "Butch4Butch Shoot." Pimlico, September 2023; accessed from @/butch4butcharchives on insta)

[unholyblissafterdark]

[g1deonthefirst]

a while back in the discord server we were talking about the possibility of wake returning in atn and @katakaluptastrophy pointed out that we learn in HTN that revenants can attach to murder weapons and we get a very specific description of pyrrha pressing the gun against cytherea's skull when she shoots the body to kill wake's revenant — possibly creating an avenue for wake's revenant to jump into the gun.

then @eskildit pointed out that we get a clear chain of custody for the gun in NTN, so i wanted to highlight some of the passages where the narrative really seems to focus on pyrrha's gun. i thought it was particularly interesting that pyrrha's first priority is retrieving her gun even after camilla's just been stabbed, when nona describes everyone else as rushing toward camilla. admittedly this might just be because it has a herald bullet in it (which she later uses to shoot ianthe), but i thought pyrrha's fixation on the gun being because of wake's revenant was a cool possibility nonetheless.

[cred to @dve for the screenshots since i don't have the ebook tysm <3]

[beyoncesfiancee]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Slower, now. I can sip a slow breath. My heart can unclench its dizzy fist. I can grapple the container to me with an arm and both legs, fish a jump cable out of the suit belt to clip it to me. Payload won’t get away now. I can breathe; I can stretch out my biosupport as long as it’ll last, maybe get down into atmosphere before it runs out; maybe I can still execute the mission. If I can fight off a pack of mad skull-faced coffin-worshipping wizards with my cunt ripped open, asphyxiated half to death. But no need to count coup before the moment comes. I’ll raze that bridge when I get to it.

🚨🚨🚨 REVENANT WAKE FIC IS HERE 🚨🚨🚨

Explicit, Graphic Depictions of Violence and Major Character Death, Gen, 5,892 words

keywords: angst, brutal gore and tragedy, the cruel death and grisly afterlife of my all-time favorite blorbo, Blood of Eden animist ancestor worship worldbuilding, tone shifts, epic poetry, fragments & lacunae, (*dangles a piece of steak* surprise evilbaby Griddlehark!), can you tell I wrote the first poetry section in 3 hours in a fugue state halfway through reading the Iliad

didn't you ever think "wow, I love Wake's enraged notes in HTN, but I just really wish there were some sections in dactylic hexameter" ... yeah queen me too. points for commenting with all the Homeric Easter eggs you found tehe

there is so much I want to say about Wake's hamartia and her relationship to baby Gideon and her depiction in the fandom and the role that the classics play in Tamsyn Muir's construction of the necromantic empire... but in the end... I said it all with the story. so go read the story and then you'll know

νυκτὶ θοῇ ἀτάλαντος [like sudden night]: glut the river with corpses here!

[beyoncesfiancee]

since ao3 appears to be back up again... a promotional rebug. thank you everyone who has already read, liked, and/or reblogged it i love you very much and i can feel your love for me like the red dot of a sniper laser right over my heart ❤️‍🔥

[dve]

everyone get up we need to do more wakeposting

[runasulienadanika]

Harrow: i cannot imagine the type of mind that would hold on to that edge, and keep holding.

the humble Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity:

[thatneoncrisis]

remember: having a baby does not make you a mother❗❗

[werewolfbutches]

[nunyabznsbabes]

pyrrha-wake-g1deon has to be the most enchanting love triangle in literary history. what if St. Joseph and the angel Gabriel were best friends willingly(?) and half-unknowingly trapped in one body for 10,000 years and they were tearing through the universe at the command of a false god leading a bastardized roman empire. what if they were sent on a mission to assassinate rebel commander Mary and the three of them got bound up in the most insane murder torture twosome threesome politically problematic sexcapades known to man. and then Mary stole god's sperm to artificially inseminate herself so that she could suicide mission sacrifice the baby at the altar of genocide. so of course they killed her (for the first time, more to come) and accidentally dumped little baby Jesus figure on Pluto because St. Joseph (??) thought she might be theirs. and St. Joseph is a woman. tlt dares to ask. and it's set dressing.

[dve]

why are all my more recent posts about ianthe. love her or hate her she’s always on your mind…

[dve]

something something ianthe something something the vampire lestat uhhh

[dve]

harrow ianthe matching quarter zip sweaters

[dve]

i think marta would also rock the fuck out of a quarter zip tbh

[dve]

harrow ianthe matching quarter zip sweaters

[bloodbroox]

the coloured version of a sketch i made last week for the front page of htn's chapter 53 💀 i would love to be able to illustrate an actual book someday hheh

closeups under the cut 🗡 prints!

[dve]

saw a really interesting post about wake earlier that posited that wake is not vilified by the narrative and i would argue depending on how much we get from her in alecto that she is by. a few characters. in the sense that the characters that do speak of her in that way (john, mercy, augustine, even pyrrha to a degree) are speaking more broadly about her but that can also be laid out in reference to her pregnancy. hm hm hm. i'm throwing darts at a wall here not sure of how to say what i want to say.

[mercyslu]

Alecto prediction is thatit will have a narrator and break the fourth wall