like, how would you kill me?

murderwives.

[mercyisms]

hi. this blog is currently my own personal locked tomb. i put my best thoughts in the tags, but you can find casual ficlets here, meta posts (essays, odd quotes and observations, or impressively long tag hijackings) here, and occasionally a doodle here. We’re liveblogging Nona the Ninth here and will be posting future art etc. with the #ntnspoilers tag, for all your blacklisting needs. Click at your own  peril!

[reimanticism]

have a corona

[katakaluptastrophy]

I went—not overseas, but by public transport—to Corpus to hear Tamsyn Muir speak.

The bad news: Alecto is not finished. It will hopefully come out "soon" and will likely be fast tracked with few ARCs when it's finished.

The news you may take differently depending on your preferences: It is not being split.

The good news: It is not all written in Ye Olde Alecto speak (it sounds like Harrow's POV will be fairly major, but there will apparently be several narrators).

A slightly random selection of things I frantically scribbled down:

The protagonists of TLT would make an "absolutely shit" D&D party ("Palamedes and Camilla would be fine")

We could have had horse plinko and begone thot, but for the anti-meme ministrations of her editor. She would love an edition that puts all of the memes back in.

On Catholic imagery and lesbianism: "you ain't seen nothing yet"

"Harrow is now a believer without a church"

She said that while John and Alecto's relationship is not meant to be a 1:1 analogue to Humbert Humbert and Lolita, there is the idea of a man fashioning (something he thinks is) a girl into a perfect partner (the question of whether that is a sexual partner apparently may be relevant to ATN)

She does not have a favourite House and would just be a regular person in the world of TLT (though she would last about 0.5 seconds)

The tension between the Houses' ostensible gender equality and the misogyny that still persists is apparently also relevant to ATN. "John has set out to make a society on values he holds dear and cherishes and in some ways he has done really well... And in some way he has fucked it up beyond comprehension" (Maybe not an exact quote. My auditory processing is questionable.)

The backstory in NTN was planned right from the beginning

Lyctors "are not truly human any more. They've crystallised themselves" and "They have lost themselves and the only thing they've been able to hold on to is what other people make of them". She said she would have liked to make the Lyctors more alien but had to balance that with them being relatable narratively.

She is dying to read TLT fanfiction once she finishes the series.

[astercanthe]

mercies morn

[watery-sun]

this isn't a new observation but every time something like this happens i'm reminded of the vast discrepancies in how fandom (typically white, usamerican / in the imperial core) views sexual violence vs. imperialist violence (as if these are mutually exclusive things that can never co-occur or inform each other). sexual violence is a real, tangible threat (true), therefore if there is sexual violence in a piece of fiction it's because (a) the author actually isn't writing about sexual violence because that would be Bad and you're reaching if you think so, (b) the author is Bad and condoning it, or (c) because the author is Stupid and doesn't understand the implications of what she's writing. but "war crimes" are funny and imaginary and so the "war criminal blorbo" in the text is just a value-neutral device being antagonized by equally-contextless "terrorists" / "bigots", and these are pre-discursive concepts that require no interrogation or curiosity of what the author could be trying to do with them. the scrunkly genocidal dictator isn't committing a "big no no" because war crimes aren't real, but also the multiple instances of bodily coercion and violation in the text either can't possibly mean anything or were an accident on the part of the Stupid author.

never mind that rape is regularly a tool of imperialist violence. never mind that tlt again and again places violence and coercion on the body alongside mechanisms of imperial power (the whole magic system of necromancy and lyctorhood, the cavalier class, john's violent creation of alecto ("I conjured up a beautiful labyrinth to house you in. I was terrified you'd find a way to escape before I was done."), john's creation of his puppet "dead kids" who we know of as his disciples who started the "sexy parties", the avulsion trial, the numerous assaults harrow experiences from her "brother" enabled by her "father", etc.). but it's all clearly just an accident, a mistake out of stupidity, or doesn't exist at all.

[milksockets]

'thorn necklace' by ted muehling, 1987 in one of a kind: american art jewelry today - susan grant lewin (1994)

[cobythinks]

Dead wife montage but it's all slow motion shots of your dead wife throwing grenades and doing backflips and oneshotting the enemy with their long range weapons

[ratcoffin69]

[mercyisms]

hey anyone want to read a beautiful gorgeous devastating fic about fisting your ex-wife?? (,:

[dreamstars]

Made by _canneo

[honeybee-arts]

Clack.

[blueathn]

Playing around with clip studio paint - im still trying to find brushes i like

[vividciggy]

TLT as tumblr text posts (pt. 1/?)

[aduck8myshoes]

I have no excuse for this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[celestial-fang]

Being a bisexual emperor must be the most stressful shit in the world. You go to the inner palace and all your wives are scheming. You go to the outer court and all the male concubines that you promoted to viziers through nepotism are fighting. Your wife just poisoned your favorite twink eunuch. There’s no peace

[albaharu]

god is a twitch streamer 

[billiamdoor]

vampire mercymorn vampire mercymorn vampire mercymorn vamp-