[the-boring-distopia]

Even if you don't like Ianthe Tridentarius, you gotta hand her one thing:

She is so unapologetic in her bullshit. No doubt, no remorse, no hesiatiton. She took one look at the trials, she saw people die and she went "Yeah, I get that you died but I'm built different". She stepped up to fight a Lyctor with nothing but Babs' half eaten soul and the power of audacity. She performed a lobotomy on a traumatized nun and the only question she asked was "what is your price range?". She was so ready to open a can of whoopass on Camilla, the fact that she failed does not negate the fact that she is a cringe girlfailure who really thought she was cool there.

Her situationship? More like dictatorship. With who? The resurrected ex of the girl she tried to date. Her boss? God. We know that she is as pleasant to look at as a H. R. Giger painting. She tried the " and there was only one bed" method on Harrow and it didn't work. She is in love with her literal sister but acts comically disgusted towards necro-cavalier relationships (Knowing her sister wants to be her cavalier...) like she is morally superior.

She is one of the characters of all time.

[gospeldog]

[brotherconstant]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2x02 | Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death What makes you think Paris is a woman?

[hello2heaven]

hey guess what i finally started and am already obsessed with

[queer-characters-in-periodpieces]

Congratulations, Claudia!

Winner of the Queer Characters in Period Pieces Tournament 🥇

[ldpdlarchive]

[friedwizardwhispers]

The fact that Pyrrha is now a main character and we still don't know why there were two rapiers in their room and why the name of the experiment was hers and not Gideon's or even how she died (the second time) makes me want to scream.

[twitterwiththevampires]

[supervoiid]

day 4 of loumand fest: “you caught the soul he was hiding” an exploration of identity (imposed and stolen)

[industrations]

Nona the ninth art/spoilers🔽

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

No more FERNS, FUCK OFF ARMAND. 😂

This is how they avoided Lestat for all those years.

[katakaluptastrophy]

I feel like there must be a...dense and varied...tradition of debate in religious jurisprudence in the Houses, given how often everyone is citing imperial displeasure, but no formal censures, to support their necromantic practices or decry others.

Beguiling corpsehood is "not entirely allowed" (per Cyth) and "unholy" per Silas, but Cyth then retorts that soul siphoning is also unholy.

"the Emperor himself never bothered to speak out against beguiling corpsehood, but he did say that siphoning was the most dangerous thing any House had ever thought up, and ought only to be done with the siphoner in cuffs."

And M. Bias can't cite any formal condemnation of necro/cav relationships, only that "there have been those who have argued eloquently that it is traitorous to the ideals of the Necrolord Prime."

There are evidently codified ideas of what constitutes a "necromantic act of transgression" and set penalities involved in "meting out the justice of the tome". Silas talks about how the Third have "defiled" Abigail's corpse and specifically refers to the actions as a "sin", and excessive violence against one's serf and oath-breaking are also specifically referred to as sins. (As, in a rather different order of magnitude, is Harrow's creation).

But you get the sense that John is rather unwilling to wade into the disputes between different necromantic schools or Houses about just who is offending him by Doing It Wrong.

[spacesmoss]

the crazy cult leader deserves long hair

[userarmand]

i like this little househusbands moment

[ldpdlarchive]

[heraldofbooksthethird]

I pray that the book is open eternally. I pray the rock is rolled away. I pray that that which is buried becomes unburied, in perpetual joy, with open covers and flipping pages. I pray that it lives. I pray that it releases

[shuploc]

Louis painting 🚬