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does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man's neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for "curly hair in medieval paintings". it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it's so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don't wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something

trupowieszcz-moved-deactivated2

Download uBlacklist for Firefox. Blocks sites you specify from appearing in Google search results

okay i found one! it works! everyone come get your blacklist 👍👍👍

cutabello

I made a list of as many ai sites i could find to block with ublacklist, just copy and paste them in ublacklist's options menu

ao3topshipsbracket

Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - Quarterfinals

Castiel/Dean Winchester (Supernatural) vs Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

Castiel/Dean

Gideon/Harrowhark

Voting ended onMay 11, 2024

Griddlehark art by Rocio Sogas

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

lesbiancientforesttroll

We're so close!!

#griddlehark #polls #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt #no spoilers

chekhovs-tantrum

All of the kisses in the Locked Tomb series thus far, organized chronologically and described accurately

Inspired by @wifegideonnav's post on Tamsyn torturing us:

Suicidal ten-year-old makes out with corpse; gets possessed

^Same kid gets eyebrow kissy and baptism from hometown butch who she's definitely killed a few times

^Same kid sticks vomit-covered tongue into throat of vicious socialite immediately after lobotomy to forget dead girlfriend

Honorable mention because it happens offscreen: Dead Girlfriend's Mom (haunting same kid) (different haunting) vent-reminisces in memories about her unholy thruple-with-two-bodies

Socialite delivers averted cheek kiss with a womp womp womp

Sloppy bisexual thruple (different thruple) fuck God after lemon queen's ex-husband takes her cannibalized nun-wife's name in vain

Dead planet baby feeling herself; kisses own reflection

DILF distributes daddy forehead smoochies

Dead planet baby perfectly mimics dead bestie's knuckle kiss to codependent bodysharing cousin

Honorable mention because there's plausible deniability: "horrifying noises" made by twins upon reunion

Dead Girlfriend sees girl who owned/tortured her for years, stares longingly; dead planet baby rolls with it

DILF gives real kisses to members of thruple (different thruple-in-two-bodies) before besties mutually explode in death-by-codependency

Dead planet back in second body. Bite.

chekhovs-tantrum

A massive thanks to those of you who filled in a glaring omission:

Mom and Dad have one (1) normal wholesome kiss. POV character is horrified.

I deliberately did not include "newly adopted sister walks in on DILF (or possibly DILF's body sharing bestie, or possibly both of them jointly) balls-deep in the corpse of last book's antagonist, which turns out to be possessed by their ex." I omitted this because in my imagination, they weren't kissing, DILF was smashing it up on top in cowboygirl position (wow, another cow). Probably they kissed at some point but in my mind their joint bodies were forming the fourth panel of Loss. Hope this helps.

And now without further ado, I’d like to present @mortifyingordealof with the Best Tag award:

corvophobia

griddleharlectostasia brainrot hours

chekhovs-tantrum

All of the kisses in the Locked Tomb series thus far, organized chronologically and described accurately

Inspired by @wifegideonnav's post on Tamsyn torturing us:

Suicidal ten-year-old makes out with corpse; gets possessed

^Same kid gets eyebrow kissy and baptism from hometown butch who she's definitely killed a few times

^Same kid sticks vomit-covered tongue into throat of vicious socialite immediately after lobotomy to forget dead girlfriend

Honorable mention because it happens offscreen: Dead Girlfriend's Mom (haunting same kid) (different haunting) vent-reminisces in memories about her unholy thruple-with-two-bodies

Socialite delivers averted cheek kiss with a womp womp womp

Sloppy bisexual thruple (different thruple) fuck God after lemon queen's ex-husband takes her cannibalized nun-wife's name in vain

Dead planet baby feeling herself; kisses own reflection

DILF distributes daddy forehead smoochies

Dead planet baby perfectly mimics dead bestie's knuckle kiss to codependent bodysharing cousin

Honorable mention because there's plausible deniability: "horrifying noises" made by twins upon reunion

Dead Girlfriend sees girl who owned/tortured her for years, stares longingly; dead planet baby rolls with it

DILF gives real kisses to members of thruple (different thruple-in-two-bodies) before besties mutually explode in death-by-codependency

Dead planet back in second body. Bite.

lesbiancientforesttroll

I'm howling. This is too good.

ao3-shenanigans

But I don’t want to go to bed- I want to stay up all night ruining my carefully put together sleep schedule in order to finish rereading my favorite fanfic 🥺🥺

frost0wl

thinking about the iconic Gideon-line "I'd died knowing you'd hate me for dying" and how at the same time Harrow is screaming "she died because I let her, you don't understand" Harrow doesn't hate Gideon for dying; she hates herself for letting Gideon die

lesbiancientforesttroll

Oh. Break my Heart.

#griddlehark

voyaging-too

John is an unreliable narrator, and we can never be quite sure how much of what he says is real. My current interpretation is that in NtN, John probably imagines that he’s telling the truth, and he’s mostly telling most of the truth about most events. He’s not lying, not lying-lying, he just gets really vague and really short on details whenever there’s a chance he might look bad or incompetent, which is almost all of the time. Nobody, not even Alecto is there to corroborate key parts of John’s story, which means that we only have his word for it, and worse, he only has his own word for it. The story he tells us is a story he has been telling himself for millenia, and thus it is bound to be full of shit.

The biggest, most obvious problem with the story is John’s motivation. John opposes the FTL project from day one and claims that there’s something wrong with it, and then it turns out he’s probably right, the FTL plan will betray humanity and only rescue a select few. But John didn’t know that on day one, didn’t know that when he started fighting! All he knew is that the cryo plan, his own plan, was shut down, and the money went to the FTL plan, which investors considered more feasible. At the beginning, John wasn’t acting on a certainty that FTL won’t work, he was acting on personal resentment that someone else got the funding, that someone else would get to save the Earth. He calls the inventor of feasible FTL travel ‘some poor dipshit geek,’ which is beyond rude, and reeks of petty professional jealousy. He consistently calls the leaders of the FTL project ‘the trillionaires’, handily reducing them to this nameless faceless cabal of evil. To simplify things, he conveniently pretends that the group he opposes is composed solely of investors, even though a huge number of his fellow scientists and other professionals must have been involved in a project that size.

Before the resurrection, John had a lot of personal incentives to think that there’s something wrong with the FTL project, that it’s corrupt or that it’s not going to work. After all, it destroyed and replaced his own project, his life’s work. And after the resurrection, John has even more incentives, all the incentives in the world, to believe that the FTL project betrayed humanity, that they were never going to build more ships, that they were never going to come back for the rest of the people. Because if the project was legit, he killed humanity for no reason.

I choose to mostly believe the broad strokes of John’s narrative until proven otherwise. After all, it’s utterly plausible that a small group of rich people would be willing to sell out the rest of humanity just to save themselves. And yet, the man telling us how it happened is a proven liar whose entire sense of self (and also his ten-thousand-year space empire) hinges on him having been right in a situation where he had clearly been wrong.

g1deonthefirst

guy who definitely wants to do the right thing:

katakaluptastrophy

It's not that it's incorrect to say that John cared deeply about what was happening to the world, that he wanted to save it. But that's the thing. He wanted to save it. His plan, his action, his involvement became so enmeshed with his sense of the earth being saved. How can it not be both, because the two became so fundamentally entwined for him.

And that's a very human impulse. People have done plenty of awful things because they can't separate their own involvement from their cause. It's not wrong to see John do that and feel sympathy and frustration. But it doesn't absolve him.

John is called out on this explicitly by C-. He talks as much, if not more, about how personally slighted he feels, how angry and disrespected he feels, how unfair it is that he does not have a seat at the table, than he does about what is happening to the planet.

John is so confident that he can solve the situation - that his apprehension of the situation is the correct one - that he will bet other people's lives on it.

And ultimately, everything we know about what he did is his explanation to the literal embodiment of that hubris. The enmeshment of John's plans and saving the planet come to a head in his violent merging with the screaming soul of the planet itself and kicks off 10,000 years of her power underpinning him being right and everyone else paying for it.

You're meant to feel for John. He's funny and likeable and a very realistically textured fallible human being. He's living at the end of the world, slowly becoming an unfathomable eldritch thing, and being at turns enabled and villainised. It's not unrealistic to point out that very few of us would aquit ourselves well under those conditions.

But this is a horror story. It's about the horrors of love. It's about the choices people make in their love. And John's own narration calls attention to the very specific choices that he makes, even before we consider the world shaped by his choices that we have spent the last two books inhabiting.

All those classic John lines - "guys as careful as me don't have accidents" - come when John's sense of himself, of what he's doing is shaken. And each time, he refuses to acknowledge that things are not as they should be. He digs in, the costs are sunk, he is in blood steeped in so far, he meant to do that.

And eventually, John being right becomes the right thing. Becomes loving the earth and wanting to save it. Becomes 10,000 years of justified vengeance.

g1deonthefirst

i think this is exactly right, and i also think that john gets so caught up in saving the earth his way that, whatever he insists to alecto and to harrow aside, he loses sight of saving the earth at all. there's a reason that he starts the story with the cryo project getting shut down, rather than with his initial idea for the project or even with the development of his abilities. this is not, to john, a story about saving the earth. it's not even really a story about the end of the world. from the beginning, it's a story about the trillionaires fucking him over and escaping their way.

after this exchange with c-, john goes on to talk about how his concerns about the FTL plan weren't being listened to and how the trillionaires fooled everyone, which in turn is the impetus for him to start a proper cult. he digs his heels in! he chooses stopping the FTL plan over saving the earth. when everything escalates, it's because john is trying to stop the FTL ships from leaving. he nukes the earth because he was trying to stop the FTL ships, and he "puts his hands around [the earth]'s neck" and kills the earth and eats the solar system because he was trying to stop the FTL ships.

even if, in his own mind, john thinks that stopping the FTL ships and saving the planet are the same thing, it's pretty clear that not everyone around him is on the same page. c— continues to suggest that he try to stabilize glaciers, trap atmosphere, prove that he can fix the world. just saving the earth or saving humanity was never what john wanted; he wants them to do his cryo plan, to save humanity his way. and c- sees through this! she calls john, "quite the most appallingly vindictive man i've ever known."

and to me, this is one reason why saying that anyone would have done what john did is a misunderstanding of what muir's trying to say. there are people around john telling him not to do this! the fact is that sometimes the people who get power aren't the best people to have power. sometimes the people in power are vindictive and self-centered and painfully human. and you can be sympathetic to them while also recognizing that what they've done is beyond the realm of "what anyone would do in his position."

like yes, john was scared and under pressure and only human. he was also vindictive and obsessed with his cryo plan and unwilling to listen to the people around him. he was also so certain that he was right that he turned himself into a god. and he is also so set on vengeance that he is still trying to get it ten thousand years later — and he still hasn't saved the earth.

howelldaniel

There’s a fic on fanfiction(.)net that I’ve kept tabs on for years to see if it’s been updated or not. While I’m no longer even in the fandom it’s written for, it just has one of the greatest storylines I’ve ever read. Last time it was updated was 2011.

The other day, I decided to reread the entire thing and leave a very in-depth review of what I thought of each chapter. I also mentioned how I started reading it when I was 13 and am now 21, but always came back to see if it was ever finished because I loved it so dearly.

Today, said author sent me a private message saying that her analytics showed that the story was still getting views even after all these years, but no one ever bothered to leave reviews other than “update soon!!!”, so she never felt motivated enough to finish it. She said that me reviewing every single chapter with lengthy paragraphs made her cry and meant the world to her. She also mentioned that she felt encouraged to write the two remaining chapters needed to complete the story and that she would send me a message the night before she updates the fic.

I’m literally sobbing. I’m so excited :’)

Please always remember to leave a review when reading fanfiction!!! It means a lot to a writer.

thesparkles59-deactivated201811

Seriously, this is what keeps us going; YOUR COMMENTS.

ashleyfanfic

And you think my ranting about it is just being salty! It’s not! Reviews can mean the difference between feeling motivated and feeling out of place.

library-ghost-adjacent

i’m very curious about beauty standards and potential fatphobia in the nine houses in relation to necromancers vs cavaliers. I would imagine that since necromancers are the more powerful members of society, they would become the standard for what’s considered most attractive, but we also see them being described as not only thin and petite but often almost sickly (depending on who’s describing). are there fat or large necromancers experiencing crazy levels of dysphoria because they’re surrounded by waifs? and for house citizens that are neither necromancers or cavaliers, are there social pressures to be thin in order to align more with necromancy ie appearing in god’s image? or perhaps cavaliers with their physical prowess are considered to be the ultimate beauty standard? i want to do a deep dive in the books specifically for beauty/appearance related language. especially because if it seems that there is social pressure to appear more like a necromancer, it’s yet another example of john accidentally recreating pre-resurrection prejudices and attitudes even as the framework for those attitudes is completely destroyed. (shoutout to john gaius for ruining literally everything almost 100% of the time)

lesbiancientforesttroll

This is an intriguing question. Right now, signs point to necromancers not being the beauty standard - at least not as they really are.

Gideon's magazines depict them with "necromantically uncharacteristic cleavage" rather than as they really are, in order to make them more attractive.

Necromancers who skew more robust than average - Judith, who can run a ten minute mile, and Abigail, who only has a hint of a necromancer's build, tend to get more favorably described.

Ianthe and Coronabeth look alike except for Ianthe's necromantic thinness and pallor. Coronabeth is widely considered exceptionally beautiful, while Ianthe is not.

Ianthe herself confirms this isn't just the Gideon filter. When Augustine compliments her, she says "You should see my sister." When Mercymorn says she isn't as goodlooking as Cyrus, she says "It's like being home with Mummy." Ianthe regularly talks about what a beautiful bimbo Corona is and how she looks great doing things, while Corona only ever compliments Ianthe on her mind. They agree Ianthe will look even peakier in white than Babs's corpse. Even Palamedes confirms - he tells Nona the things she likes about Crown (pretty hair, big breasts) are things most redblooded people like.

lesbiancientforesttroll

Think about Harrow's AU Bubbles

Thinking about Harrow's AU bubbles, not as fanfic references, but as expressions of her subconscious fears and desires, is so fascinating.

The Harrow Nova one is pretty obvious. Harrow's parents were obsessed with her being a necromancer, were willing to kill for it. It's only natural she'd wonder, "What if I hadn't been?"

And the answer Harrow gives herself is: Your parents and everyone would reject you (except, wildly, for Crux). Also they'd be alive cuz you'd never opened the tomb, and you'd be an unpopular orphan they'd abuse (Just Like Gideon). And you'd still be just as devoted to serving the Ninth with a blade. There's a lot there. But the other really telling bit is her relationship with Gideon. Harrow Nova professes to hate the reverend daughter even as she seeks to (re) create the necro-cav bond with her. But that hatred doesn't seem to be mutual. And the bit about the daughter intervening when Harrow was whipped…

That's Harrow's subconscious saying if their roles had been reversed, "Gideon would have treated me better than I treated her. Gideon would have protected me."

The Ball AU also seems like a reasonable extension of Gideon's childhood query: "What if my other parent is the most important guy in the universe?" Answer: Emperor Dad would throw a big party.

But also… it's a bride-finding ball! That's so very telling. It could have been anything, but Harrow invents another scenario where she's fighting, competing to get to Gideon, to be awarded the role of her sworn partner (first cav, now bride), while outwardly claiming not to want it.

Now The BARI Star AU often gets described as a "coffee shop" one, but it's actually set in a cohort cafeteria. And normally I wouldn't split hairs over that, but I think the cohort setting is actually really significant. The Cohort was Gideon's dream, and also Harrow's rival for Gideon's attention. It's what she kept trying to leave Harrow for.

So now Harrow dreams that she's left Drearburh to join the cohort and will meet Gideon there. Not fight or compete for a role where they're bound to each other, but just meet her there. That feels like yielding. Like compromise. It makes me think Harrow's subconscious has matured past trying to keep Gideon with her always and is instead looking for ways that SHE can be with Gideon. Meet Gideon where she is.

(Also this may be a stretch, but I always find it low-key funny that Harrow imagines Gideon in the cafeteria… I like to think her brain is skimming lists of hypothetical military jobs like... what sees the least action... ah, coffee-adept, she'll be perfectly safe there...)

immoloiser

I think it’s interesting that crux is shown through passing references to care deeply about harrow (taking care of harrow when she has a breakdown in htn flashbacks, taking aliegmene’s role in nova), however neither Gideon nor harrow directly address this relationship.

I wonder if aliegmene would bully harrow in nova to take crux’s role

lesbiancientforesttroll

I don't think so. Aiglamene is mentioned in Harrow Nova - she praises Harrow for standing "like a monument" while criticizing Ortus. Harrow's father sounds like the worst bully - Gideon has to intervene to stop him whipping her.

kinkhsarsm

lesbiancientforesttroll

This is so wonderful! I love Harrow's face so much!

the-text-doctor

philomurphy-deactivated20230323

in case you wanted your sword to be a different colour other than purple:

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chaos-canary

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☆Rainbow Sword☆

google-searchhistory-official

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the-arcade-doctor

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[ J:\\ GLITCH SWORD. ]

13thsinnr

o()xxx[{:::::::::::::::::::::::::::> trans sword ✨

blairpuffs

o()xxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>

bisexual sword

surdus-magus

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A lightsaber

gayvampyr

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lesbian sword

gracebeth3604

this has probably already been done but:

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minecraft :3

dogin8

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for the dagger users amongus

pippins-place

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CHAINSAW

raccoon-hybrid

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mf theres no yellow

brain-empty-deactivated20241210

o{}×××[]::::::::::::::::::::::::> <- tiny sword

summerblademoontime

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BIG ASS SWORD

lesbiancientforesttroll

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BIG ASS + SWORD

winepresswrath

The princess told me that she had felt for a long time that the Cohort movements didn't make sense to her. She said what would be most economically productive was intermingling with these people, allowing immigration and absorption into the Nine Houses; that shepherd planets got more costly the further the Houses extended themselves, and that instead of creating long-lasting industry we were doing little more than slash-and-burn trading. Scattershot, she said. Notwithstanding the moral issue. She said she and her sister had always been interested in the way the Houses were being run, and that lanthe had encouraged her interest. She had always thought we were being wasteful... Afterward she said it was much more than theory. She said she had groomed herself for something and all it had done was make her unfit for the purpose. What purpose? ... I told her she wouldn't understand. When she asked me why not, I said I was just an administrator; she was a princess. A king. ... The princess turned to me then and took my hands. I kept my balance. She said, Jody, if I offered you that sword, wouldn't you take it? I know how to use it. I know what it would mean. Lieutenant Dyas is dead. My own necromancer wouldn't have me. Won't you let me be your cavalier? Here, now, at the end of the world? Save me, Jody. Bind me to you, or who knows where I will go? What throne will I mount, if you don’t bind me down?

- As Yet Unsent

“But we’re closer to the goal than ever before.” “Of course we are, you perfect genius,” said Crown, lovingly, and she took the dead gloved fingers, and she kissed them. Every single dead soldier’s fingers twitched. Prince Ianthe Naberius raised hers, an involuntary movement almost, and that waxen, handsome face was an expressionless mask, with only the cool grey eyeballs moving in their sockets. Then Crown said quietly, “We can do good work, Ianthe. I know people who need us.”

-Nona the Ninth

- The Unwanted Guest

Corona recoiled from Gideon and looked up at her, her golden hair smeared to her forehead with sweat and tears. “She took Babs,” she said, which seemed fair enough. But then Corona started crying again, big tears leaking out of her eyes, her voice thick with misery and self-pity. “And who even cares about Babs? Babs! She could have taken me.”

-Gideon the Ninth

Emphasis mine, excuse my dreadful formatting I'm just excited because every time we learn more about the Tridentarii's schemes I remember again how Coronabeth (Crown) wants to be eaten and knighted and bound, but also possibly be god-king of the universe, allegedly on the grounds that Jod's forever war is morally bankrupt and economically likely to lead to bankruptcies.