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step one of good media criticism is to remove yourself entirely from your interpretation of the text. step two is to insert yourself back in but in new and thoughtful ways
i love all the scenes where harrow is like “sextus is out of his MIND” and something eventually comes back to prove her wrong
observe:
and:
and most famously:
anyways this man was BUILT to be harrows best friend i NEED more content of them in alecto
okay adding onto this, even funnier than harrow losing her arguments with pal is when harrow had this argument with ortus:
and then nonius shows up like “yeah i fought a lyctor” and harrow is absolutely devastated by it
harrow absolutely has a migraine from this shit
TLT BROKEN TABLET!
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'Broken Tablet' is a game where one artist draws an artwork, then blurs it and sends the blurred image to the next artist, who draws what they see. And here’s what we’ve got! Here's a short post with my thoughts on the project's organization and progress. Thanks to all the participants for their wonderful work!
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John was educated at a school that had a child abuse scandal -> John said he only went to Parachute for the underage drinking -> A- and M- both assumed John was drinking and/or on drugs when he started to develop his powers -> Augustine knew that getting John drunk was a strategy he could use as part of dios apate minor -> After finding out about what was done to him during dios apate major, John starts drinking heavily enough that Kiriona and Ianthe are well aware of it -> There is a pattern here and I think it started when he was young.
It's amusing that griddlehark is obviously a way more fucked up and disturbing ship than harrianthe, but the fandom has made harrianthe's toxicity into a meme while giving griddlehark the sweet soft cuddly treatment. I am convinced this was entirely intentional on Tamsyn Muir's part.
#*part of the fandom#ily tombheads with critical thinking skills
I have critical thinking skills I just ignore them when its funny or hot.
The powder Ortus is 'allergic' to, and pretty certain is just bone dust, and not some form of explosive, like gunpowder, ive seen some folks theorise. Its what makes most sense. Bone Dust for the Adept to use. An ammunition carrier with saddlebags. It seems like the rest of the houses see a Ninth Cavalier as pointless with the way they talk. Which means.... the Ninth adept is probably the most fearsome on the battlefield and doesnt need much 'protection' outside of crowd control. If you are looking for the closest visual representation of Harrow's fighting style, I'd say watch Katara in the ATLA cartoon. Constantly moving, and on the offensive. A Cavalier would struggle to keep up with that. IMHO, the Ninth Cav is there as a last resort, and bulwark for retreat. Which Aiggie beautifully trains Gideon for (with Harrow's permission) with the Zweihander. Its exactly what its for. Keeping people at a distance with the charge behind them. It can crowd control either narrow corridors, or circular. I'd love to hear what the rest of you think.
No. no. Come back! you might be on to something.
No yeah this makes perfect sense. Esp since Harrow was insisting Gideon bring it. She didn't want to do anything more than the bare minimum to pass Gideon off as a cavalier, and she certainly didn't want her in any fights. So pack mule it is.
She was forced to eat 200 souls of the ninth house when she was conceived 💔 Griddlehark as kids
happy pride month.
in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.
it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.
it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.
this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.
cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.
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"Suzanne Collins gave Coriolanus Snow a tragic backstory and made him sympathetic!" So close. Actually, she put the reader in the POV of an extremely privileged character whose thoughts and views and morals still ultimately aligned with fascism, who constantly fell back on those philosophies no matter how many brief moments of humanity he felt for the Districts. She wrote a realistic human being who aligned himself with the status quo and benefited from it. She demonstrated a character who did not become kinder or more empathetic through his suffering, but instead became angrier at the indignity of it, and punished the ones he saw as "deserving" it sevenfold. She showed you, the reader, that those in power know exactly how much the oppressed suffer, and do it anyway, even if they briefly suffer the same.
If you want to see a handful of dumbasses who have no idea what privilege is, go into the tags and comments.
Mm worms in my brain
The Alectopause has gone on so long that we are all, in a sense, worshipping that which is unknown and unseen, and the infinite possibilities therein, so much so that the actual inevitable release for Alecto will feel like a kind of death. That is to say, we have made an idol of Alecto the Ninth, and should be cautious when the real thing comes, lest the anticipation mean more to us than the thing itself.
I pray the book is never published. I pray the cover is never revealed. I pray that which was TBA remains TBA, insensate, in perpetual rest, with text unedited and unprinted. I pray it lives, I pray it sleeps.
first few months of alectopause: damn can't wait until atn comes out
2023 alectopause: you know it's ok we can wait. i got some fics to write
2024 alectopause: here is 30,000 words on how john's characterization as emperor and lyctorhood interplays with colonialism, imperialism, sexual assault, and misogyny, featuring a full bibliography, a reading list, and peer reviewed by three mutuals
2025 alectopause: gideon would not fucking say that
2026 alectopause: what is everyone's blood pressure headcanons for the characters. i think harrow is orthostatic and gets a regular 90/50
The Ninth Saint to Serve the King Undying and her cavalier Ǫ̸̥̬̳̟̞̙̼̳͓̉͋́ṛ̶̠̰̘̤̯̹͎̫̈́̌̚t̸̢̡̧̢̛̛̘̘͎̝̪͉̅͆̈́̈̒̈́̿͘ú̴͉̳͊̀̇͠s̸̺̘̙͑̈̂͂̒̾͜ ̶̘̠͔͆̌Н̴̼͚̱͚̙̭̳̪̙́̐̄̈͌̚и̶̧̌̓̇͜г̶͔̲̼͖̙̳̒̀͌́͋͂͝͝е̴͓͈̲̌н̸̡̢̛̠͚̼̻͍̠̂͂͑̾̇͒̕͝͝а̴̠̪͌̈́̎̀̓̅̀̚͠д̵̭̬͓̠̫͓͓̝̹̍̾ͅ
worry about it kitten daddy fucked up
don't worry kitten daddy got it
start worrying kitten daddy fucked up
I don't care if the darkness is soon to arrive, just save me a place in the hungering sky
I don't mind if the dawn doesn't follow the night, I'll be safe in the place that you said was mine | x
pyrrha dve: look, kid. look at me. i know you're kinda reeling right now but before we're swallowed by cthulu i need you to understand that i did fuck your mother. yes i know you just met your father for the first time and hes god or whatever, but so you know you've always been a daughter to me, especially that one time when i killed your mom and also maybe you. it's ok she understood why i did it. all that said i think we should kill ourselves right now. what do you mean you don't want to kill yourself? your mother would have killed herself with me.