i'm literally not active here at this point @jennydyn - Tumblr Blog

that one screenshot of anthony bourdain taking valium on a plane and tweeting about applejack being a lesbian belongs in the louvre

pallidprincess

culturally significant work

#reblog

banepenis

perish the thought, dude. *playfully pushes you by the shoulder* haha, like, cease these peculiarities. *becomes extremely violent and starts hitting you with heavy fists without provocation* disabuse that fucking notion

#reblog #me tbh

podcastwizard

when it comes to secret organizations in works of fiction eye imagery is woefully overused, bordering on cliche. unfortunately it’s also dope and cool, as well as sick as hell. this is the ultimate struggle of the modern author.

#reblog #this is true frankly of eye imagery as a whole

low-empathy-advocacy

don't say "empathy" when you mean "helping others."

don't say "empathy" when you mean "moral values."

don't say "empathy" when you mean "taking people's problems into account."

don't say "empathy" when you mean "stand up for people who can't stand up for themselves."

don't say "empathy" when you mean "sense of justice."

don't say "empathy" when you mean "doing right things."

#reblog

rubyleaf

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

#reblog #yes very true. i love nerds and losers and awkward little dudes. because ultimately everyone has been that person at some point

toonfinatic

Niche fanfic AU: character A is a Finn on a booze cruise to Tallinn, character B is an Estonian SuperAlko cashier

#reblog #suomitumblr #tää on real #questions to ask gay couples instead of who's the man and who's the woman

haahka

mitä jos suutelisimme... senaatintorin kulmalla...

#reblog #suomitumblr #ja olisimme molemmat ratikoita.....

iibislintu

tiedoksi kaikki lepakot, meitä tarkkaillaan

#reblog #suomitumblr #jotain jotain panopticon

pinsque

kuivamustekala

Finns are disappointed in streaming services and have started pirating again - "This is not how society works", scolds copyright collective.

"Well fucking boohoo", says an expert.

#reblog #no vittu yhyy #ite ainaki piratoin niinku melkeen kaiken mitä katon #suomitumblr

mayasaura

It kind of confuses me when I see people talking about cavaliers as if the Nine Houses have established and normalised some radical social role of human sacrifice. It really doesn't seem to me like the role of a cavalier is that simple. The only members of their society we've seen who weren't horrified by the idea were the Tridentarii.

The career soldier, who was born into the military class and trained for that role since birth, believes no necromancer should ever have to see their cavalier die. The other child soldier was killed while putting himself between his cavalier and danger. The heirophant of the Emperor's law who draws on his cavalier like a battery—a level of exploitation the other Houses condemn—turns against the will of his God when he witnesses the sacrifice expected for lyctorhood.

The deliberate sacrifice of a cavalier is not normalised. Not even in the front lines of their military. The role of a cavalier is exploitative, of course, and that's where the interesting part begins. Is it any more exploitative than a king whose knights are trained to die in battle? Than employees who are forced to work or starve? Than the existence of a noble class, or capitalism?

Human suffering exists in any society, and in most societies I know of, much of that suffering we inflict on one another through exploitation. The Nine Houses are not unique in this respect. I am very much in awe of the worldbuilding in this series, tho, that it has managed to defamiliarise human suffering and class dynamics as to show us their grotesquerie plainly without ever tipping over into anything as straight forward as direct allegory.

cemetegee

What I find interesting in this context is, that Ianthe actually didn't murder Babs herself. Really, it's not even a theory, it's quite obvious if you think about the blood spatters for a second.

The blade has come through his back and the blood squirted out on the opposite side (his chest)...

Why in hell is Ianthe covered in blood then? From where she should stand if she had murdered Babs (behind him, with a rapier in his back), the blood couldn't have hit her. That's only possible if she stood right in front of him when it happened. And then she couldn't have murdered him.

(The paradoxical thing is, that in this situation the person NOT covered in blood is by far more suspicious.)

PS: and the setting is super suspicious anyway. Ianthe shall have used a rapier to kill him? That's strange regarding the fact that killing someone that precisely requires PRACTICE (and by that I mean MUCH practice) especially given the necromancer weakness (which should make that impossible anyway.) Could you kill a human being with one stab first try? I could not.

PPS: Why should Ianthe even do that? She has very working flesh magical techniques for that, why would she take such a risk? (She's nothing but pragmatic.) Really, the only reason to assume that she did so is her (unreliable) claim it has been that way (she is an unreliable character).

WHAT I WANT TO SAY BY THAT is, that not even the Tridentarii believe in this sacrify thing. (Neccessary, I mean, maybe it was a conspiracy and they do, but it doesn't have to be that way.) Ianthe says so, but that doesn't make it true. And she doesn't sacrify her true cavalier (Corona.) What means that it's even more complex and the Tridentarii doesn't even neccessary believe in the deliberate sacrify of a cavalier.

summersong2262

Oh man. Ianthe even said that she didn't kill Naberius, right? She ate him, sure. But in hindsight, it's suspicious. And it's also fascinating from the POV of someone who clearly has a very complex relationship with him. For someone that talks such fantastic shit about viewing him as disposable and trivial and clownish, The Unwelcome Guest definitely shows her as being less that disconnected from the guy. There's also a bit in GtN where Gideon observes them having silent conversation, or something close to it.

They were a lot closer than either of them were comfortable with. And Tern CHOOSING to elegantly kill himself for HER sake is exactly the sort of thing that would really mess a girl up. But if that WERE the case, why was there that much internal fighting over her body, post-Eightfold Word? The narrative makes it seem like Babs was fighting her the whole way down her gullet. Deeply suspicious, all of this. And definitely something we'll see in Alecto, along with whatever the heck Ianthe was trying to do with those Apples, and what her Plan with Corona is.

shayminlucario07

Here's the other thing- WHY did Coronabeth kill Naberius? What would Corona have to gain from killing him? If she knew how lyctorhood worked- or at least, how Ianthe and the other lyctors thought lyctorhood worked- she would know that killing him would be a bad thing, since it opens up the option of using his soul for the ascension. So, she'd have to have another reason. And, I don't believe that she didn't know- she's a LOT smarter than anyone gives her credit for, including and especially Ianthe herself.

mayasaura

So Ianthe does say she killed Nabrius. She says it the moment the others arrive in the room, before Gideon has even noticed Naberius' body. Before anyone can come up with any other theory of the crime. When Silas turns to ask Corona if she can confirm Ianthe's confession and account for her own actions or inaction, Ianthe cuts him off to drop the big reveal about Coronabeth not being a necromancer, concluding with: “Corona couldn’t’ve stopped me becoming a Lyctor.”

She says nothing about Corona's involvement or lack thereof in Naberius' murder, and no one ever gets around to asking for Coronabeth's version of the event again.

In my opinion, Coronabeth killed him because she knew how lyctorhood worked. She was trying to force Ianthe to choose her by eliminating Ianthe's other option. This would be her last chance, now that Ianthe had all the pieces she needed to reconstruct the process. If she killed Naberius then and there, before Ianthe was ready, then Ianthe couldn't kill him later to use in the ritual. She gambled on Ianthe's quickness and ability to roll with the unexpected, and lost.

That might be another reason why Ianthe struggled so much with integration, in addition to Naberius' unwillingness. She had only just put the whole theory together and wasn't quite prepared to take the plunge, but she was forced to improvise.

Ianthe does say, “This is not how I had envisioned this,” when everyone finds her in the lab. She may have meant more by that than just her audience arriving early.

#fuuuck wait this makes a lot of sense #the locked tomb

tchaikovsgay

had a locked tomb nightmare the other night that atn was dropped and it ended up being the entirety of gtn from babs perspective and i still havent recovered

tchaikovsgay

the worst part is that the narration sounded exactly like my immortal

theriverbeyond

Hi my name Naberius Tern and I have short hair done up in pompadour and I'm from the Third House (that's how I got my name). I have blue and brown eyes like river stones and I'm the cavalier primary to two necromancers, Coronabeth and Ianthe Tridentarius (AN: if u don't know who they are get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to Mattias Nonius but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm a cavalier (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly purple. I love Abercrombie and Finch and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a purple dueling jacket with matching knickers and also had my rapier and offhand, a trident knife dagger. I had just arrived at Canaan House. A lot of dykes stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

#the locked tomb

ardentbonkers

Gideon and her sunglasses featuring smol angry Harrow in the background and Coronabeth

#the locked tomb

menacevessel-deactivated2020083

Crop top that says "met god," with singe marks around the bottom edge implying it used to be a full t shirt with additional text

dipterrah

kratt09

people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

kratt09

thats not the word I meant to use

sapphling

it fucking sucks that getting impaled """kills you""" they should at least give you one freebie. i would look soooo sexy and boyish getting martyred on the spear

#the locked tomb