Death First to Vultures and Scavengers

The Locked Tomb has fully rotted my brain and their is no turning back. 22yrs old. also a raging lesbian.

[ofthesewntongue]

“oh my love don’t forsake me, take what the water gave me.”

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composition? fucked. yuri? doomed. tomb? unlocked. i’m forcibly removed from tor publishing

[rosenkranz-does-things]

@theunwantedguestproject is now live!! a bunch of artists took part in illustrating Tamsyn Muir's play The Unwanted Guest. here's some cover variants I designed just for fun :') you can check out the project here 💜

[cutetanuki-chan]

finally drawing at least one pool scene

[lindahousephd]

gideon nav drawing time

[aubreyroseart1124]

Griddlehark x Saints by Echos

[drawerbread]

starting the year right with my faves

[nondelphic]

if you’re stuck, add a meal scene. nothing brings characters together like emotionally fraught soup.

[themirokai]

- Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

[themaniacisinthemailbox]

When reading the Locked Tomb books as an adult, there’s an added tragedy in recognizing how young all of them are. The idea of setting up a bunch of young people to become Lyctors, powerful but stuck permanently at the age one dies and the other eats them is so cruel.

It might not seem that way to readers in their late teens and and early twenties, but when you live long enough you start to realize you have so much more potential to change and grow. The Fourth are the most obvious examples of this as they’re like 14, but the saddest losses in my eyes are Palamedes and Camilla because within the story, they’re the slightly older, slightly more mature ones. Gideon and Harrow treat them as very competent peers. Nona sees the two of them as trustworthy adults. But they’re only like 21.

I remember being 21 and feeling like such an adult. But I got to live long enough to understand that no, the 28 year old girl who proclaimed that at 21 I was just a baby was right. And John is a bastard for encouraging all those young people to unwittingly die and stagnate themselves so early.

Even Abigail and Magnus. When Harrow laments what Abigail could have continued to do if she hadn’t been murdered, to me that’s one of the core themes if lyctorhood

[altrnvte]

Happy birthday, rockerboy

[barbedvvire]

“Through my body you can see the light. Bruise me up, I’ll eat all of my pride.”

The one and only.

[fankiiv]

i tried to lock in guys

[melspontaneus]

[elevenbenevolentmammoths]

So y'know how Gideon has a lot of the same character flaws as Babs, but to a lesser (and less irritating) degree--

So y'know how when Jod resurrected Gideon as Kiriona, he didn't have access to her whole soul to put back into her body because Harrow had absorbed part of it--

So y'know how Nona almost immediately finds Kiriona unlikable, and how she (Kiriona) is portrayed as sulky and snappish in a way that seems, while consistent with her aforementioned known character flaws, somewhat accentuated--

So y'know how Kiriona now has a Weird Relationship (tm) with Ianthe--

[elevenbenevolentmammoths]

Y'know how, when faced with certain ecological pressures and an empty crab-shaped niche, species that are not at all closely related to crabs will evolve into something that very much resembles a crab--

[ourg0dsal]

I love Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty so much cause what do you mean you can know you were betrayed and still want and do what's best for them.

What do you mean you can know you were betrayed and know it is a reflection of V if they didnt have Johnny or Panam or Judy, or any of their vast support structure, and therefore can choose to not harbor any ill will against the betrayer.

What do you mean you can choose penis and boob sizes.

All of these are very important and integral parts of the game.

[headspace-hotel]

i am kinda pissed about not being multilingual. WHYYYY DO WE HAVE TO HAVE A CRITICAL PERIOD FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING thats so cringe why am i already past the period of my life when language learning is most effective

[nephilidae]

Hey so I don’t usually comment on posts. But you mentioning this activated me like a sleeper agent, because even though I’ve now been out of the field for a few years, my doctorate is in psycholinguistics, and I was once a researcher. And my dissertation and much of my work was on spoken language acquisition, including in children.

And the one thing I would want you take away here is that there is no solid evidence for a critical period in human language learning. There is the theory that we have one, yes, but it is controversial, and the received view in my field, at least, is that there is no critical period in humans. It is certainly harder to learn a new language as an adult, but the mechanism isn’t physiological, and the distinction is important.

Some songbird species are believed to have a critical period. When these birds are very young, they are exposed to the songs of their conspecifics (or honestly even their population or immediate peers can have unique details to their songs, it’s wild). Anyway, the baby birds learn during this part of their development and then they mature to sing and pass those songs along as well. And if they don’t hear the songs to learn them in this specific period in their lives, they will never do so. They can’t. For reasons believed to be neurophysiological. This is what it means to have a critical period.

This is not believed to be the case in humans (yes, even the “feral children” case studies are controversial—that is a tangent I won’t bother with here). Rather, by adulthood, you’ve spent decades tuning your understanding of language to fit certain patterns of syntax and phonology. Any new language exposure you encounter must contend with that mountain of knowledge and expectation you’ve built for your other language. This is particularly true if you’re a monolingual for again, reasons I could write a whole other post about. But! There is nothing special here—you are not a baby bird, and it is not impossible for you to learn this new phonology (etc). You can do it. You need a lot of time, dedication, and importantly diverse exposure to the language, but you can do it. I hope that helps.

[headspace-hotel]

This is fascinating thank you, I didn't know the idea of a critical period was controversial and unsubstantiated that way. !!!

[ourg0dsal]

I see all these short tlt shitpost and then i look at mine. And even when im trying to be funny tlt plagues my brain with BIG THOUGHTS ™️ and I cant help but turn every single post into a 5 page essay about one small aspect of one of the books.

Anyways so onto the real topic at hand... what specifically was the noise that "embarrassed them both" in the pool scene? And here's my theories-

[notyournightsky]

When a mommy hates a daddy very much, mommy will conspire with daddy’s coworkers to discreetly steal his genetic material during a night of passion between daddy and his two coworkers who hate each other almost as much as they hate daddy, so that mommy can use daddy’s genetic material to create a living bomb that she will detonate to breach a locked tomb that only opens for daddy or a close blood relative, like a living bomb made out of one half of daddy’s stolen dna, that contains the death of daddy and his evil empire, and sometimes mommy will fail because one person in her ill advised polyclue, who is actually two people in one body but only one of them knows this and who are both daddy’s coworkers but not the ones who stole his dna, will push mommy with her living bomb out of an airlock during which she will die and fall down onto a decrepit planet that guards the locked tomb with her still alive and undetonated bomb. And that’s how babies are made!