Hell will break loose in Alecto the Ninth!
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Hell will break loose in Alecto the Ninth!
coming soon??
we’re locked tomb posting!!!
Enemies to lovers (sort-of?)
What if Baelor survived and they danced at the after-party 👀
A little Lyonel WIP
Can you guess who's he talking to? 👀 It's someone a bittt unexpected...
First drawing of the year in honor of Alectopause finally hopefully ending in 2026! Full colors incoming
Reblog to make Alecto the Ninth come sooner lol
i love your pyrrha art so much you capture her so accurately
Tysm 😭😭😭 i need to get to making more Pyrrha art asap
The Emperor Undying and His Saints.
Inprnt store here!
Makeup test for my first cosplay, Ianthe my beloved/beloathed
Everyday Harrowhark Nonagesimus wakes up, paints an eerie skull on her face, and goes about her day being withholding, supercilious, and often disturbing and completely unknowingly manages to makes multiple lesbians with something wrong with them become completely enamoured by her.
Who in the history of ever has done it like this?
I cannot stop thinking about Jod’s vague cryofreezing plan and how it is also lowkey realistically impossible but he was so fucking desperate for any kind of salvation for humanity that he hung all of his hopes on this Hail Mary. The trillionaires always knew this wasn’t functionally possible, surely the governments funding this also knew this. AND THEN after all of that shit, you know what he does to Alecto? He encases her in ice, for when his awful task is finished. I think a lot about John saying he hates change
I've seen people criticize this so many times but I never see anyone take into account the full details. Namely:
The plan was never to freeze EVERYONE. It was partly to REDUCE the population to buy more time and breathing room while others more qualified to work on repair efforts could be doing that, and partly to ship a significant portion of the population off to Tau Ceti to try to establish a new human world as well. -
A trained team of four taking five hours to fully prepare a patient was what they'd been able to achieve so far, with an extremely small team and an extremely secretive project. The odds that it would never have gotten better with more research are effectively zero. This was very new science still being figured out. -
The investors absolutely knew it could have done a lot of good, because they'd wanted to push it through when the success rate was at 70% for the average person and maternity was a nightmare. M— was the loudest advocate for taking more time but everyone stood right there with her. They'd gotten it up to a 92% chance of success without significant lasting damage for the average person by the time the plug was pulled. -
The fact that there was a kill fee on the project indicates they were working on commission and probably woefully underpaid, too, but like, that's just salt in the wound next to everything else. -
The funding wasn't pulled because the science wasn't working or even just because it was taking too long. The project had been top secret, and there was a leak with information about it that freaked out the population. It made it "real" to the general public, who had previously been kept in the dark about the state of things, that the planet really was in such bad shape that world governments were figuring out evacuation plans. "Everyone had a fucking opinion." Given John's wording that others could have bailed and gone to other projects but "I was irradiated" and the way he was turned into a scapegoat for the whole project, the way people questioned the ethics and the amount of controversy around it, and the issues they were going to have disposing of the bodies (and John's sarcastic "you would've loved that" to Alecto) and how fast the non-magic-touched ones "melted", the most likely implication imo is that they were working with radiation, probably because the frozen people being shipped off would need to survive the radiation of space. And I reiterate: 92% chance of success without significant lasting damage. But unfortunately, this is our world in about 10-15 years, and if people freak the fuck out over GMOs because that science Sounds Scary, I think we can all more than imagine how people would react to a secret government funded group of scientists being discovered with a bunch of irradiated corpses, even if those bodies were ethically donated and that had been a necessary step to ensure it would be perfectly safe by the time it was used on living people. The investors didn't pull funding because it wasn't viable. They pulled funding because it became Too Controversial, and they worried association would hurt their images and their wallets. And it doesn't tell us whether that intern cracked the FTL issue by finding a theoretical way to pull ships back out when they got stuck "doing quantum wheelies" in time before or after the cryo project was shut down, but given how quickly everything shifted, I'd suspect it wasn't long before. They saw a different option that they could focus more on themselves, and they took it.
The cryo project was never intended to be the one-step solution. It actively relied on not freezing everyone, there had to be people still around for clean-up, but ANY amount of breathing room would have been SOMETHING. If they'd frozen 5% of people to ship off to Tau Ceti and never did anything else, that would've been SOMETHING, let alone if they'd managed 20%, 50%, etc. Any reduction in pollution and energy consumption. Any chance for humanity to establish a proper home somewhere else as a backup. Any time at all bought, even months, weeks, would have been some additional chance for other people to figure out more ways to help stabilize things, too.
It just didn't matter how versatile the plan was, or that John could cure cancer on a whim (without even taking payment, while living in a building without power), or that he was trying so hard to Play By The Rules that he still hadn't even broken his NDAs by the time of the cow wall incident. Any one project or any one guy, no matter how powerful, was never going to be enough. The problems were too big, too systemic, and it takes collective action to fix collective problems. Any given person or group can only contribute so much.
This wasn't John thinking he had the holy grail and other people recognizing it as garbage. This was John trying to do his part and begging others to do theirs too, and everyone being too busy buying into propaganda or guarding their own ass first to step up and help.
So many want to imagine John as this self-absorbed Villain who always sucked, but I need everyone to remember, Alecto chose him. They looked for anyone with similar powers and there was no one. Alecto chose him for a reason. This was a good guy filled with deep love, good ideas, and good intentions. And good intentions don't always pave the road to hell, but, well... There's a reason we have a saying about it. It wasn't that the idea never had merit. It was that good ideas and good intentions alone are never enough.
Part of the horror is that anyone, even the kindest and most well-meaning of people, could become John in the wrong situation. He's multiple layers of cautionary tale. That's the point.
I don’t know how to embed a video on here, but this quote so poetically explained a concept I couldn’t put into words.
idk im really tired of 15-17 year olds who have never interacted with the gay community irl and spend too much time on tiktok trying to act like the authority on all that is lgbt+
mean this in the kindest possible way. if you are too young and unsafe to go to your gay community center or pride here’s some ways you can connect to gay history.
the oral history project from act up
the lesbian herstory archives
the transgender archives of the university of victoria
the digital transgender archives
glbt historical society (digital)
lgbtq digital collaboratory
since it was suggested in the tags
anything that moves
the bisexual manifesto
the Samuel Proctor oral history project
a masterpost of lesile feinberg’s works by @genderoutlaws
more to come
the queer zine archive
the dyke march compilation
paris is burning
how to survive a plague
united in anger: a history of ACT UP
one archives
new york public library lgbtq archives
for today’s update:
screaming queens
a collection of audre lorde’s poetry
the arquives
dykes to watch out for
the bi woman’s quarterly (1/2)
if you found this list of resources helpful, i implore you to help the lgbt you see on this website. especially right now when things are so hard.
my paypal. my cashapp. my venmo
PDF: transgender history, susan stryker (2017 updated edition via archive.org)
examples of archive.org lending books (accounts are free):
we both laughed in pleasure (collected diaries of lou sullivan)
trap door: trans cultural production and the politics of visibility
captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex
you can also find materials there using metadata search terms like “transgender people.” notably, there’s a series of long interviews with lou sullivan recorded shortly after his AIDS diagnosis, which i’ve found really interesting. (be aware that some materials will be redundant with other collections and using broad terms like “transgender” might also yield anti-trans materials.)
& if you ARE a young gay person who feels isolated in your current situation, queering the map might be a small comfort to you
Not to derail here, and while I’m absolutely positive there are other forms of media in here that are just as impactful,
Watch United in Anger: a history of ACT UP
There are videos, testimonies, pictures, real and extremely blatant examples of what life was like for our community during the AIDS genocide. Watch it, and understand what it means to be gay, do crime. I became a different person when I watched that video.
Nona deserved a really good birthday party. Commission for @bensavagae
i just know pyrrha was working her butt off to woo camilla, meanwhile palamedes was throwing himself at her
i love the way the way the locked tomb does gender. like gideon is butch, undeniably, but also can you really be gender non conforming when there’s no real image of gender to conform to in the first place? palamedes and pyrrah aren’t NOT trans in nona; their souls are trapped in different bodies, and those bodies ARE the wrong gender but also that’s literally the least of their problems. ianthe is pretty firmly in the box we would label “femme” and she’s simultaneously the princess of ida and a tower prince. but that’s also the least of her problems she’s literally puppetting a dead body around. nona experiences dysphoria about her body (harrow’s body and the barbie body) but that’s because she’s literally the soul of a planet trapped in a meat prison. any shaped meat prison would be bad.
like i wouldn’t call the locked tomb a “post gender” world, but they seem to all basically have the attitude of “i don’t have time for gender right now we’re trapped at the murder mystery dinner party from hell and someone stole god’s sperm we have bigger problems”
I think there's something beautiful about the fact that "The Locked Tomb Trilogy" became "The Locked Tomb Series" because Tamsyn decided to dedicate a whole book to Nona. A whole book dedicated to the six months that Nona, Cam, Pal, and Pyrrha were a family. A book about how the love was there, and it doesn't matter how briefly it was there. It's over, it's finished, you can't take loved away.
that time of the year, folks
official anti salvation army post
Everytime I pass the bucket I remember the several freezing nights I spent on the streets because SA turned me away for being queer and I instead donate to a local low barrier shelter.
"Would you like to donate to the salvation army?"
"No thanks, I'm gay."