harrow’s soup kitchen

good soup. please ignore the questionably sourced bones. not a minor

[uninformedpolls]

Guys, I have NO idea what the Locked Tomb is - @unfavorableinstigation - this one’s for you!

What’s inside the Locked Tomb?

My hopes and dreams

Affordable healthcare

Bees! Oh god SO MANY BEES

Canon Destiel?!?

Perry the Platypus

Voting ended onFeb 6

[uninformedpolls]

“The Locked Tomb is a critically acclaimed science fantasy series by Tamsyn Muir featuring lesbian necromancers in space, known for its mix of gothic horror, dark humor, and complex, puzzle-box narratives.”

I’m sorry?????? I’ll take twenty!

@unfavorableinstigation you’re a genius

[unfavorableinstigation]

Holy shit

Just sitting here like

This is the best day of my life

I have never read the Locked Tomb series either but it's on my dash a lot, so I have started the #locked tomb fandom fandom to gawk at their goings-on. You are cordially invited! The rules for a fandom fandom (according to me) are:

1) You may not ever interact with the source material.

2) You may not Google anything about the source material. You can make an exception for a cursory search for their actor, if it's a TV show.

3) You may interact with as much fan material as you like, but

4) you must immediately stop reading the fan material if you sense you are about to gain too much Context.

A good candidate for a #fandom fandom is a franchise that feels ubiquitous on Tumblr, with tons of focus on fan-favourite characters you darkly suspect are probably not nearly so featured in the actual source material. It helps enormously if characters get killed off regularly and occasionally also get brought back to life with great ceremony. For example, I'm proud to report that I had no idea the protagonist in Teen Wolf was supposed to be Scott, nor do I have any idea which, if any, of the teen wolves is actually still alive by the end of the series. They are each, to me, a unique and beautiful Schrodinger's Wolf. Anyone who attempts to collapse the waveform on me will be caught and shot.

It's an enormously fun recreational experience and I was so excited to see this blog living my joy.

[mitrakats]

your spirit, my voice | in one combined | the phantom of the opera is there | inside my mind

[fawntastic]

people on twitter have noticed but uh. I feel like Reactor may be gearing us up for a cover release oml

[celestialhouses]

I know it's most likely just a hehe funny but I can't stop thinking. What If

[pine-rhyme]

Dream Ball Colab with @iroismart. They did the sketch, I coloured. You can find her companion Gideon here.

[iroismart]

Me and @pine-rhyme did a Dream Ball Griddlehark collab where we rendered each other's sketches! They did the sketch for Gideon and I rendered it! You can find Harrow here!

[harrows-soup-kitchen]

yes caesar on a tv screen by the last dinner party is literally about my good friend julius caesar, but it is also about my close personal friend ianthe tridentarius, gender fuckery and all

think on this.

[tomorrowandtomorow]

This could very well be unintentional and me making connections where there aren’t any, but I keep thinking about how in gtn palamedes was ignored by “dulcinea” who acted like she did not know him (their first physical meeting after years of letters), and in htn when he reunites with harrow in the river a year-ish after his death she also acts like she does not know him.

And then i ntn when he is physically reunited with camilla (after 6 months of swapping tapes and notes) he tells her

And her reply is:

[blackbearmagic]

one time I saw a photo of a skinned whale/dolphin flipper on reddit or something and I've just never recovered

there's just. A paw in there.

[gallusrostromegalus]

One of the most spiritually profound moments of my life was when I was sixish and at a natural history museum with my parents that had a whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling.

I remember my dad picking me up to sit on his shoulders (possibly one of the last times he did that because I was getting too big to hold there for long) so I could be close to it's flipper because he wanted to show me something. He had me hold up my arm parallel to the whale's, and explained that we had the same bones, pointing to it's scapula and humerus and radius and ulna and so on while poking the same bones in my skinny little arm, all they way down to the tips of my fingers and it's own.

And in that moment, I could suddenly see how the whale and I were the same animal, just stretched and shrunk into different proportions by nature. There was an entire exhibit with skeletons of different animals and we went through all of them, picking out the hands and faces of all of them on myself.

I had never felt such a profound connection to the world around me before as I realized on a visceral level that not only was I related to all these creatures, they were very literally my distant cousins, and that in a way, they were me from back then and I was them from now, and we all were others still from the future.

Every living thing on earth is your cousin. The most distantly related humans are your 50th cousins. Chimps are your several thousandth cousins. An octopus is your 25 millionth cousin. Trees are your billionth cousins. You and I are surrounded by family. And that makes me feel profoundly loved.

So thanks dad, for pulling your shoulder a bit to show me that I am part of the universe. I love you too.

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

So I was rereading Nona. The part where they infiltrate the imperial base and, you know—Nona goes underground to a secret place. Where there's something that's dangerous to the Emperor. And destroys a bunch of very dangerous wards using a divine power she doesn't realize she holds. And then goes into a room where there's a corpse lying down. A corpse with golden eyes. Whose hand she touches, and which she kisses.

… DOES THIS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING

ANYTHING THAT FAMOUSLY NONA'S BODY MIGHT HAVE DONE OVER NINE YEARS AGO

WITH NONA'S SOUL IN THE CORPSE

these books is2g

Gideon finally found a way into the Harrowhark/Alecto love affair by becoming the chilly weirdo in question.

[k-ngpinz]

this scene gnaws at my brain and it's not even real

[procrastinationaccount]

Huge shoutout to whatever the fuck Cam and Harrow had going on

[swordrogue]

I'm imagining what it must have been like to be Cam and Palamedes trying to figure out who Nona was. And they assumed it was either Harrow or Gideon for good reason but also because they didn't know either of them enough to be able to say she wasn't them!! Like Pal would say "she can't read Cam what does that mean." And Cam would record herself with a short silence that he understands perfectly and he goes "well Harrow I'm pretty confident could read but you're right I...I can't remember if I ever actually saw Gideon read? I just assumed she could but scientifically I suppose we aren't certain so I'll put a check mark on her half..?" meanwhile the soul of the earth is in the bedroom eating linens but maybe that's just what they do on the ninth

[swordrogue]

@dont-give-money-to-jkrowling agakdjdkdlfl holy shit your mind. They must've been desperately throwing bleach on their notes after the reveal to erase any evidence

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

I just keep thinking about

This was Nona’s only task, except for being dressed as, pretending to be, and answering to the name of Harrowhark Nonagesimus. Cam had told her that her main job was to be a Distraction. Nona asked if Harrowhark Nonagesimus had been a Distraction in life, and Cam said it always was the quiet ones.

Cam??? What do you mean???

[doorp]

ortus and harrow my beloveds their duo is so underrated harrow hate memorizing the noniad and experiencing emotional and physical pain whenever ortus takes his stupid little preparatory recitation breath, the solemnity and chill as they walk into the room as the reverend daughter and cavalier of drearburgh, the most disgustingly stereotypical examples of their house the nine houses have ever seen.the facade crumpling immediately as the giant bone hefting cavalier begins reciting poetry in the most disgustingly stereotypical and clunky metre you’ve ever heard, the reverend daughter throwing her head back in a long suffering groan of petulant disdain - immediately revealing this ridiculous pair to simply be a 17 year old girl eternally embarrassed by her uncle brother’s lameness. It appears to be a calligraphic S milady. How are we meant to understand potato? As your closest living relative. Pent is a marvel. I will write songs for pent - oh shut up and MOVE . Harrow I have come to the conclusion you were never mad. I should have offered you help I should have died for you I was and am a grown man and you both were neglected children . KILL ME

[harrows-soup-kitchen]

and she never even got to say goodbye…

[harrows-soup-kitchen]

that awkward moment when you get forcemasc-ed by the vengeful spirit of your flamboyantly heterosexual bodyguard, whose soul you consumed by force after your twin sister (allegedly) stabbed him because she was jealous you didn’t want to consume her by force instead. that awkward moment when you’re trying to uphold space fascism but god keeps shagging all his subordinates and making your job very difficult. that awkward moment when your only friend in the universe is gods girlfail bastard child who is a literal corpse and also has the same ex-that-you-never-dated as you (who, as far as you know, did not actually want either of you on account of you not being one very specific corpse.)

this all happened to my good friend, ianthe tridentarius naberius

[harrows-soup-kitchen]

I was just reading the comments of this post and someone mentioned how Alecto was seemingly defrosting over the course of htn and I was struck with a truly terrible vision…

TAMSYN MUIR WHEN I FUCKIGN GET YOU!!!

[leftbooblover]

It doesn’t matter

(Full comic under the cut 💖)