~ this isn’t how it happens ~

the locked tomb makes me insane (formerly thepurpleumbrella)

[greatsilverini]

judith & dulcie & a self indulgent harrow :3

thank you to dear friend @h0perest0rat1onpr0gram whose ref images I used for harrow and dulcie!

[runasulienadanika]

i'm searching for physical copies of the locked tomb series and EXCUSE ME

gotta teach them young i guess

[katakaluptastrophy]

Harrowhark "Harrow" Nonagesimus is the cleverest bone witch her age — maybe even the cleverest bone witch in the whole empire!

If she can solve the puzzles at the mysterious Canaan House, she'll get to meet the Emperor and become one of his super powerful Lyctors.

But it turns out Canaan House is a group project, and Harrow has to work with her worst enemy ever, Gideon Nav, who likes swords and comic books, and thinks bones are yucky. Can the girls work together to solve the puzzles...and maybe even become friends along the way?

(Includes bonus vocabulary list of wacky bone words!)

[light-camera-bitch-smile]

i love palamades sextus because it's like. he's "the greatest necromancer of his generation". he's jealous of an eighteen year old. he's in a codependant relationship with his cousin. he's writing erotic wlw fanfic on the wallpaper of his hallucinated River bubble. he rewrote known necrophysics. he was homewrecked. he finds those little outfits that nurses wear and strong work ethic and high test scores sexy. he's been in love with a woman seven years older than him since he was eight. he gave an ancient saint turbo cancer. he blew himself up. he's dead. he's alive. he's banned from selling erotic wlw fanfic he conceived in his necrophysically impossible River bubble. he's taking care of the dead soul of the earth in the body of a girl who lobotomized herself. he never forgets anything. and he isn't even technically the main character. NO ONE is doing it quite like him.

[oh-jod-dammit]

He isn't even technically the main character AND!! He's the ONLY character to technically appear in EVERY SINGLE novel and short story. (By which I mean. He doesn't have a direct role in As Yet Unsent, but he IS attached to his bones and there IS a point made of Cam carrying them and fighting people to keep them. He's technically there. And every other work he plays a significant role, with even his very brief appearance in HtN being a huge turning point.)

He also dies in every single book. I love him so much.

[procrastinationaccount]

Sextus would come out as trans and Harrow would largely be respectful but say something privately about how confounding it is that someone of her caliber has time to waste thinking about gender at all and then two weeks later quietly start using they/them

[runasulienadanika]

someone fucking shoot me.

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[cuntpunkop-ed]

catheters

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

[seraph1c-mo0n]

- canes

- service animals

- noise cancelling headphones/ear defenders

- wheelchair attachments

- fidgets

IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH YALL

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY DISABLED AND TAKE UP ALL THE SPACE AND TIME YOU NEED!!!!!

[codes-and-stuffs]

i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it

[theerraticace]

Please reblog if you think that “they/them/theirs” is a valid set of pronouns.

[possums-against-cops]

this post must be reblogged by everyone

[vanguardecshepard]

1000000000%

That is all.

[luna1star10]

As some one who uses them absolutely

[chaotic-alien190]

yes.

[mikefrankscigarettes-deactivate]

as someone who uses those, YES

[yuiokami]

Yep

[sen-rinthelynx18]

YASSSSSSSS

[alcedovoir]

My pronouns is not someone else’s debate topic! They/them/theirs are VALID pronouns!

[floatingsavageryoutcast]

100%

[fightingbymoonlight]

Seeing people I know and like using AI is making me understand the protagonists of those old time sci fi dystopia's.

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

Youdidn'twriteit.Youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.

[gender-affirming-screwdriver]

i made a tlt zine!!!

i’m really proud of it :) ask me if you want to see the entire thing

[runasulienadanika]

GRIDDLEHARK AND CAMPAL ARE OPPOSITES BUT ALSO PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER AND IT MAKES ME SO INSANE

6th House is on mercury and 9th House is on pluto so they're on the opposite ends of the dominicus system

9 is 6 uspide down and 6 is 9 upside down

the Ninth House and the Sixth House are religion vs science

Gideon and Harrow are (were) childhood enemies, Camilla and Palamedes are (were) childhood friends. Gideon and Harrow had a hard time trusting each other, Camilla and Palamedes trusted each other with everything.

Gideon and Harrow are all about forgetting ("But I don’t even remember about you most of the time", the whole lobotomy situation), Camilla and Palamedes are all about remembering ("I’ve carried you, Warden. And I’ve carried your memory … I’d rather carry you", "Palamedes remembers everything: That was his problem. I always remember him. That’s mine")

Gideon and Harrow are water (the Pool Scene, Gideon being in the "well" in Harrow's mind, Harrow deciding to stay in the River and Gideon "dying" in the River), Camilla and Palamedes are fire (Palamedes's first death, Palamedes and Camilla's lyctoral ascention)

in griddlehark's case the necromancer carried their cavalier's soul, in campal's case the cavalier carried their necromancer's soul

Gideon and Palamedes sacrificed themselves, Harrow then carried Gideon's sword even though it was killing her and Camilla carried Palamedes's bones even though boe electrocuted her for it

Gideon and Camilla are both "devotion's casualties"

Harrow and Camilla risked permanent brain damage to save the souls they carried

Gideon barely had any training for her position and Camilla trained her whole life, but they both didn't normally use their rapiers and were both set on fighting rather than on traditional duelling

the 6th and the 9th are both poor, underestimated, dying houses. Harrow and Palamedes have been leading them since they were very young and they do anything to try to improve the situation

Harrow fell in love with the Body when she was 10, Palamedes began writing to Dulcinea when he was 8. both into old dead chicks (as Gideon phrased it) while also loving their cavaliers

Camilla watched Gideon impale herself to force Harrow's ascention, Gideon watched Camilla light herself on fire during her and Palamedes's ascention

"This was your shell but it was all filled up with me" & "It's not you. It's me wearing you"

"I keep turning around to find you, and there’s nobody there." "I know the feeling." & "You’d touched that letter, and I—you know it was killing me twice that you weren’t there, right? You must know it was destroying me to be there in your body, trying to keep your thumbs on, and I couldn’t even hear your damn voice?"

"Kiriona Gaia was staring politely at the side of the truck, as though there were something really interesting on the paintwork" & "Even Camilla, who had turned away to politely investigate something on the opposite wall, wasn’t there"

"It was just her and Harrow and Harrow’s bitter, high-boned, stupid little face" & "Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn’t speaking to anyone else in the universe"

AND

AND

AND

AND

there's probably more, that's just from the top of my head. but yeah, they make me insane and i'm foaming at the mouth.

[the-boring-distopia]

You just have to respect Camilla Hect's ability to have the narration's "camera" pan to her and for her to be doing some out of pocket shit. In the first book she casually walks through a door while handcuffed to Harrowhark "kill everyone now!" Nonagesimus. In the second book she is just there on a random ass empty planet, decked out with the whole rambo surival outfit. The entire third book is just an endless loop of found family drama and flashbacks until Camilla is like "aight, let me pull a Joanne d'Arc real quick".

In the next book Harrow will be fighting her way through hell and she will turn around to find Camilla just standing there with a snowcone because why not at this point.

[peniswizard69]

Oh so when your mom puts a little bit of her heart in every meal that's fine, but when I, Harrowhark the First,

[scarycatipillar]

just been reminded of the fact that harrow and gideon haven’t seen eachother in 2 years, which is the longest amount of time they’ve spent apart their whole lives

[finderheart]

I can't believe it took me this long to post these I finished this like nine months ago

An idea I had for Blood of Eden propaganda/recruitment posters featuring some of our favorite guys - combo of digital-print cyberpunk graphic design style with oldschool Saturday Morning Post covers like you'd see Leyendecker paintings on

I was gonna post these ahead of tabling at a small con and selling prints of them but ended up not tabling because turns out grad school is hard

maybe next year... figured tumblr would like though

[firstfloweroftheninthhouse]

Crackpot Theory on Nona's identity

It’s pretty clear that Nona isn’t just Alecto. We’ve been told that Alecto can’t lie and we’re shown that Nona can. She does not speak or behave like The Body. We see Nona reference top and bottom thoughts which I’ve seen people attribute to fragments of Gideon or Harrow, but I’m not entirely convinced. I don’t see much of Gideon or Harrow in Nona - she's so childlike. I guess this could be attributed to soul fragmentation, but I suspect that this element of her personality has another source. What if Nona is Alecto + the 200 dead children of the ninth?

Nona exhibits behavior that ranges the ages of the ninth dead. Tantrums like a toddler, acts like preteens are her peers, and she’s preoccupied with what's sexy like a teenager. Nona also spends a lot of time being incredibly grateful for the time that she gets to be alive - I wonder if this appreciation is a result of their original lives being cut so tragically short. 

There is some potential supporting evidence in HtN as well. Abigail notices that the kids have imprinted on Harrow’s spirit: “I’ve counted up to one hundred and fifty signatures contributing to you” (HtN pg 147) so obviously they’re still linked to her somehow. If I remember correctly they’re described as partial reventants. Also throughout HtN Mercymorn is consistently incorrect about Harrow’s age, the obvious implication here is that Lyctors are so unfathomably old that they’re completely out of touch with mortality but knowing Tamsyn I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a double meaning here and Mercy was never all the way wrong.

[cassandrasqueerkandi]

bro the US government is bullshit rn we need to overthrow the government

like completely deadass we need like several million people to storm the fucking white house like what do you mean that PEDOPHILES run the system. we have a TERRORIST group arresting people for speaking spanish when the US government has NO OFFICIAL LANGUAGE. there shouldn't be trillionaires. there shouldn't be billionaires. and you shouldn't need to be a millionaire to own a fucking house. and the reason we have homelessness isn't addiction, it's the fact no one can get a job. and homeless addicts usually only become addicts because the way the system is set up, they need to relieve stress that way. how come no one has fucking done anything? it's been 2 years. and im pretty sure everyone fucking agrees by now this fucking sucks. calling for someone to form a nationwide group that gathers people up to overthrow the establishment. and don't fucking say "be the change you wish to see in the world" im a fucking teenager. I'll join the cause, if there's a march on the capital I'll join, but I can't create it because I simply don't have the power or platform. so someone create something, I'll join it. im not standing on the sidelines twiddling my thumbs. im screeching, hootin and hollerin the truth to my audience of like 4 people on Tumblr. so for those people, reboot this shit until someone with a platform sees this and is inspired. they gotta scroll through my long ass post. and I won't tag this since people are going to filter political tags, but if you reblog please tag this post. reaching multiple different audiences. this will probably be scrolled past by multiple people. this will probably gain no traction. but im saying this because it needs to be said: even of you're the most bigoted, asshole piece of shit, you can still agree this government isn't functional. I AM NOT CALLING FOR DEATH, im calling for ANARCHY, meaning collapsing the system and creating a better one.

i would normally trigger warning everything here, but we can't shelter people anymore. if you are emotionally affected by this, good. do something to make this government a system that doesn't trigger you with what it's doing. use your emotions to do something. staying sheltered will hurt you more.

and while I have the stage, be authentic. if a nationwide march does occur, tell your parents you're queer. wear whatever the fuck you want. as long as being yourself doesn't harm other people in ANY way, fucking do it. find your family. find your people. they will take care of you.

and if you plan on going back home, go back if it's safe. if it's not, your found family can take care of you.

if a march occurs, gas masks exist. bedazzle it and shit. wear a bulletproof vest with your Tumblr handle written in cursive. serve cunt and serve the people. stay safe. keep self defense tools on you. fuck, put metal plating in your fursuit head. do whatever.

im losing the plot here. ANARCHY MOTHERFUCKERS!