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Hello!

To the folks that started following me: hello and welcome, this is a space dedicated to The Locked Tomb only. I picked up the series in March, spent three weeks reading the whole series via audiobook and it has not left my brain since so here we are.

I will be reblogging and posting 18+ adult content relating to TLT. If you don’t want to see that please filter out #nsft

If you have any content warnings you want me to tag feel free to shoot me an ask. I tag them like ‘#cw dogs' or ‘#tw dogs’

A bit about me:

Pronouns are they/them or bone/bones (neopronouns came years before I knew the series existed).

I’m 23 and based in Australia

Autistic disabled and 15+ flavours of queer

I go by Satanic on tumblr, my main blog is @satanicspeaks but you’ll see my like from my technically actual main All For The Game fan blog @satanic-foxhole-court

And I do not let minors follow me, they will be blocked.

#satanic says hi

nepenthean-sleep

first few months of alectopause: damn can't wait until atn comes out

2023 alectopause: you know it's ok we can wait. i got some fics to write

2024 alectopause: here is 30,000 words on how john's characterization as emperor and lyctorhood interplays with colonialism, imperialism, sexual assault, and misogyny, featuring a full bibliography, a reading list, and peer reviewed by three mutuals

2025 alectopause: gideon would not fucking say that

2026 alectopause: what is everyone's blood pressure headcanons for the characters. i think harrow is orthostatic and gets a regular 90/50

tired-fandom-ndn

Gideon put her arm around Harrowhark. She lifted her up off the ground just an inch and squeezed her in an enormous bear hug before either she or Harrow knew what she was about. Her necromancer felt absurdly light in her grip, like a bag of bird bones. She had always thought—when she bothered to think—that Harrow would feel cold, as everything in the Ninth felt cold. No, Harrow Nonagesimus was feverishly hot. Well, you couldn't think that amount of ghastly thoughts without generating energy. Hang on, what the hell was she doing.

"Thanks for backing me up, my midnight hagette," said Gideon, placing her back down. Harrow had not struggled, but gone limp, like a prey animal feigning death. She had the same glassy thousand-yard stare and stilled breathing. Gideon belatedly wished to be exploded, but reminded herself to act cool. "I appreciate it, my crepuscular queen. It was good. You were good."

Harrow, at a total loss for words, eventually managed the rather pathetic: "Don't make this weird, Nav!" and stalked off after Palamedes.

WHAT. WHAT WAS THIS. HUH???

nepenthean-sleep

first few months of alectopause: damn can't wait until atn comes out

2023 alectopause: you know it's ok we can wait. i got some fics to write

2024 alectopause: here is 30,000 words on how john's characterization as emperor and lyctorhood interplays with colonialism, imperialism, sexual assault, and misogyny, featuring a full bibliography, a reading list, and peer reviewed by three mutuals

2025 alectopause: gideon would not fucking say that

2026 alectopause: what is everyone's blood pressure headcanons for the characters. i think harrow is orthostatic and gets a regular 90/50

My new ADHD med isn't doing shit be I was gonna take a shower and then I saw someone call Jod Wake and the Lyctors a "six person polycule" and got in my head about whether they're one hexacule or two throuples and spent three fucking hours making this:

Also I guess it's a sequel to this thing

My attempt at a TLT shipping chart

I'm either the only person engaging with these books correctly or not getting it at all

Jod wiritng J+E in heart and then erasing the E and writing an AL and then erasing the AL and writing an H might qualifies him to be in this mess, but then I would have to include Augustine and Mercimorn, and at that point I'd feel obligated to add in Cytherea and Gideon the First, and that would force me to add in Commander Wake and Pyrrha, which drags in Camila and Palamedes and Paul, and if I'm doing Palamedes should I loop in Dulcinea? This series is so much

Harrowhark the First

reading john’s narration in ntn is INSANE bc he’s talking about how he incited a nuclear war and began consuming the souls of planets just to say some shit like “you and i went full fucking hungry caterpillar” excuse me WHAT

#me fr when I first read it

trigona-necrophaga

They make me sick

First post (wip)

It's hot here

"Now rise, Gideon Nav."

One of Harrow's hundred AUs for sure lol

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Inspired by the beautiful Gideon and Harrow cosplay photo by @anotherworld_cosplay on IG. Go see their cosplay! When I saw that photo I gasped and lost my mind! It's in one of the slides.

scolopendrisims

Alectotasia I made for a pfp but might as well post

griddlehark & their sad girl eyes

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.

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