Lyctor? I hardly know her! @nav-ix - Tumblr Blog

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

kayleerowena

we walk back out of the cave

krahlerdraws

Book: The danger was vanquished, the goal was reached, lessons were learned, love was found, all is good 🥰✨

Book:

#LITERALLY

undonehomework

the luminous dead is one of the only horror books to make me feel a horrible sense of dread all the way through reading it

serdunkthelunk

Em taking control of Gyre's dying suit to drag her to the cache and insert a new battery is a sex scene. To me

#YEEEEPPP

aurpiment

my expedition director told me caves keep eating her cavers so I asked how many cavers she has and she says thirty-five originally but twenty-seven died so she just goes to a shelter and gets a new caver afterwards and I said it just sounds like you're feeding cavers to caves and she went quiet on the line

notavalidblognamebut

"I asked Chatgpt-"

Yeah well I asked my boss what could possibly warrant sending 27 people to their deaths and she injected me with sedatives

vividciggy

Avulsion trial sketches

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

Sometimes I think about how one of the few things we know about M— was that she was an ardent supporter of reproductive rights. Even when the investors had already dismissed the possibility, she was insistent on creating a form of cryosleep that would not force anyone to terminate their pregnancies. Even 10,000 years and a memory wipe later, when it became necessary to steal John's genetic material, she still provided her own eggs for the child that would break the wards on the Tomb.

The Eighth House is the house of justice, the house of conviction. The house of a woman who demanded complete bodily autonomy, and another woman who was willing to die to save humanity. But Mercymorn and Cristabel Oct had nothing worth fighting for, just the lies of a would-be God and his endless, pointless quest for revenge. And so the Eighth House, Keepers of the Tome, the Forgiving House, have become empty zealots, fanatics of an empire. Fanatics who use the bodies and souls of their cavaliers as batteries without consideration or consent.

I wonder how Mercymorn feels about soul siphoning. I wonder if sometimes, right before she wakes, she remembers what it was like to believe in something true.

#ok. ok

leftbooblover

☀️☀️☀️

#THIS GETS ME EVERY TIMEEEE #i’ve never read what the text said before :’’(

junegoose

Ohhh it makes me so mad how John treated Mercymorn. How almost everyone treated Mercymorn, by the sounds of it. Mercy who did not live up to her name, unloveable, unfeeling Mercy — G1deon was literally trying to murder Harrow, he was driving her crazy, and no one suggested he was incapable of empathy. Augustine was just as uncaring most of the time, but no one commented on his callousness. Mercy was labeled defective because she failed to meet expectations of femininity, she failed to be maternal and sympathetic and quiet. Cytherea —before, well, you know — was able to fool John and the other lyctors because she made herself fit the mould, she was gentle and caring and delicate. But the real Cytherea is the one we see after Palamedes’s confrontation: cold and bitter after many centuries of pain. John was fooled by Cytherea because he believed her facade of femininity, and he was fooled by Mercy because e believed her too defective to ever fool him. Ohhh John Gaius when I get my hands on you

camilla-rekt

Too good to leave in the notes:

clockedtomb

Mercy is a monster but she is my monster and they made her like this by reminding her over and over again that the most powerful woman ever to exist, the most knowledgeable woman to ever exist, the highest ranking woman to ever exist is always and still just a woman.

I bet she had a ton of nice in her once. How long did it take for her to cut it out? Was it before or after she ate someone?

#before or after she was MADE to eat someone??#god. at least she got to explode him before she died #even if he was fine