the strike, the pause, the message from God

Sideblog for The Locked Tomb thoughts. Friendly neighborhood lesbian, Nona enthusiast, and hopeful Mercymorn essayist. I follow/like from @rhythmofsnow. Icon is by haveyoumetmythief!

[memories]

I regret to inform you I’m #mercymorn the first trash.

[corvophobia]

saddest girl in the world

[hilbertslargepowerfulmagnet]

"Here's to Camilla Hect, yet another one of devotion's casualties." Was insane actually. Another one of devotion's casualties. Where is Tamsyn Muir I just want to talk

[elldritch-horror]

I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.

What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.

I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.

Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.

[griddles-bone-soup]

If I could directly implant this understanding into the brain of every TLT fan, by jod I would

[demiidevil]

Crown gaining weight after joining BOE btw.

We know that Jod’s empire reflects fascist white supremasict ideas, and I personally read Coronabeth’s inhuman beauty as being a facet of that. When you think about how the third house is the “mouth of the emperor” (ie. the political and celebrity types. The royal family being the crown jewel of such) and about how Corona is implied to have had her appearance altered by necromancy, it beckons the question: what was altered?

I think theres a good chance her weight/ fat distribution was altered to make her skinnier while acting as Princess of Ida. Thinness is a tool some women feel they have to use to gain safety in a hyper judgmental, individualistic, and fascist society. And then, when you combine that with the pressure for her to be a “matched set” with her sickly necro twin, I think it’s pretty plausible that she had some issues with her weight.

And so, I like to imagine that after she joins BOE, and she learns what it’s like to be herself in her own body around other regular humans, she puts weight back on!

[vampire-apostrophe]

Modern Au where Coronabeth and Harrow are roommates and they both think the other is the hot mess roommate.

Harrow is doing great. She’s completely socially incompetent and also tragically orphaned but she likes not having parents to answer to. Coronabeth is the life of the party the girl everyone wants and no one actually knows.

Essentially Harrow gets someone to forcibly socialize her but Corona doesn’t mind when Harrow is a weirdo cause she is one too so it’s fine. Harrow goes from her strange cult attire to the more societally acceptable ultragoth (about 40% more femme then she’d choose but she doesn’t really care). Coronabeth has someone who also gets the weird gender stuff, does not care about how hot she is, and will tell her when she’s being pathetic. She also is great at verbally eviscerating fools and Coronabeth loves watching that.

It’s all great until Ianthe flirts with Harrow Once and Crown decides she needs to get Harrow a girlfriend Now. So naturally she dolls herself up, goes to the local gay bar, and finds herself a nice butch who might be Harrow’s type.

Loser virgin Gideon Nav gets invited to the apartment of the Hottest Girl Ever and then forgets to actually flirt with her cause she’s too busy sniping at the beautiful woman’s weird roommate but it’s so fun she finds excuses to keep coming back. .

[hilbertslargepowerfulmagnet]

"Here's to Camilla Hect, yet another one of devotion's casualties." Was insane actually. Another one of devotion's casualties. Where is Tamsyn Muir I just want to talk

[pyaarisms]

reading isn't enough I need to swallow the book whole

[matrose]

watch this [walks into the ocean and the saltwater fills the hole in my chest cavity]

[pomegranatefae]

Can we talk about how fucking insane Nona the Ninth must've been from Gideon's perspective?

Like, she spent all of the previous book trapped in a walled off portion of Harrow's subconscious and thinking that Harrow hated her bc she refused to properly eat her soul. Then in the last like thirty minutes of the book harrow's soul goes on holiday and Gideon's now in her body fighting fucked up bug things and she still thinks Harrow hates her but also she's going to do her best to keep Harrow's body safe but definitely not because she cares about Harrow, just because she's her cavalier and that's what she's meant to do.

Then offscreen she got resurrected by god—kinda sorta we'll find out I guess, pyrrah seems to know what's up but is not sharing with the class—who she learned five minutes ago is her dad and was going around doing her tower prince thing with ianthe tridentarius who I'm sure she had a very normal and not at all weird relationship with. Idk maybe they bonded over wanting to fuck Harrow (not that Gideon would ever admit that of course).

Then while Gideon's being all corpse-y in her off time, who does she see but Harrowhark fucking Nonagesimus. Who immediately kisses her. Gideon then learns that said body that she definitely has only very platonic feelings about, antagonistic feelings even, is being piloted by an autistic six month old. Whose one really good skill is reading people and who kissed her because the second Nona walked into the room she read her like a fucking book and saw that Gideon really wanted to kiss Harrow('s body).

Gideon proceeds to be very normal about desperately needing to know where Harrow actually is. Not because she's in love with Harrow obviously, that would be crazy, she needs to know so that she can, uh, point and laugh at whatever predicament Harrow's in, yeah that's it. Only to learn that Nona doesn't fucking know.

Then, at the end of the book, Gideon learns that Nona is actually the corpse that Harrow's had a crush on since she was a kid. And also said corpse wakes up and kisses/bites Harrow right in front of her.

[memories]

Incredible, but true: @secondsaint deserves to have a good day today.

[ancientannoyance]

f in the chat for cam having to third wheel yet another couple while stuck on the BoE ship (ft. hand!pal, who it amuses me to think has perfect font writing)

Panel 1: In the foreground, the larger figures of Judith and Corona are staring each other down. Judith is a dark-sinned woman in a red military coat with gold trim, and her hair is in braids with gold ribbons twirled into it. She is glaring up at Corona, a large woman with poofy blonde hair and a tanned and freckled face. In the background, Cam is sitting on a crate, watching this with no expression, her arms folded. Next to her Pal as a bone hand is suspended in the air, with a pair of glasses above the hand. Judith: You should be addicted to shutting the f*ck up. Corona, smirking: u wanna f*ck me so bad it makes you look stupid. Cam and hand!pal: Watching. Panel 2: Pal holds up a piece of paper with the words MY GOD THESE BITCHES GAY on it, as he turns to Cam. Without changing her expression or pose, Cam's (grey) eyes turn to him. Panel 3: Pal's sign now says GOOD FOR THEM GOOD FOR THEM. Cam simply nods, her eyes closed serenely.

[procrastinationaccount]

They were cultivating a really funny dynamic there for a second

[mollyjames]

The knight is doing her best to fend off the bandit ambush, so if the princess could please stop flashing her tits because it's "funny to distract her", that would be greatly appreciated

[atriusthewildhound]

Big Brained @procrastinationaccount

[pyxehastoomanyinterests]

Coronabeth vs. The World’s Most Clueless Dyke

[talleryn]

Found family is such a good trope but it’s objectively funnier when the found family fucking sucks

[cherishedboxart]

Another terrible party at the Mithraeum