what if alecto released and in the first chapter it’s revealed that ianthe used her lyctoral body magic powers to swap her and kiriona’s hair colors forever. and then they just never switch back. would that be fucked up or what

Does this count as Griddlehark

The necrolord prime, emperor undying, king of nine renewals...

(albeit one with a list of war crimes as long as your arm)

alecto go activate brachycephalia

Dying as a Skill Issue

I just made a post about Ianthe's "Dying is for suckers." quote and now I realized that "Dying as a skill issue/dying as failure" is actually an essential part of her character.

In the psychogram story The Unwanted Guest she talks about it even more. She presents several deaths of known characters to Palamedes and tells him why they have died in her opinion:

Ortus did not die because Crux was an asshole and killed him, but because he was too sad.

Abigail did not die because Cytherea murdered them, but because she brought her husband to Canaan House as her cav. (This point is especially random. As if Cytherea wouldn't have slaughtered Babs as well...)

(It's by the way interesting that she doesn't mention Jeannemary and Isaac here. Maybe even she knows that that would be hella tasteless. Ooorrrr she has a different reason.)

Dying is for suckers in her opinion and dead people died because of a lack of skill.

That even partly explains why she wants to become a Lyctor (and likely a God or even more than a God) so much: Dying would be a personal failure to her.

That whole philosophy really reminds me of a conversation Harrow had with the Body in Harrow the Ninth.

Death as a mistake, death as a personal failing.

Harrow is afraid to die because she fears her death would be a waste of the resources invested in her life. I wonder why Ianthe is afraid to die. What kind of failure would it represent.

Shout out to Gideon Nav, I've never been so motivated to exercise or been participating in exercise out of my own free. She died so I could have 1% less osteoporosis as an old lady

Hello again! You might remember my illustration of the "Last Supper" featuring characters from "The Locked Tomb". Right now, I'm working on illustrating all of "Harrow the Ninth" (it's my favorite part of the series). My skills have improved over time, and I'm excited to bring new artwork to the fandom. Please follow me so you don’t miss out!

(Sorry for my bad English)

I’d also like to show you my Ianthe cosplay. For it, I sacrificed an arm and asked Harrow to grow me a new one.

Photographer's Instagram: @achem.ph

the locked tomb series is really like. maybe love doesn't conquer all. maybe love is not pure and good and holy. maybe love is not a white dove come to save you from yourself. maybe it won't fix you. maybe it'll make everything worse. maybe love is dirty and ugly and terrifying and awful. maybe it'll kill you. maybe it'll warp you into something unrecognizable. maybe love is a parasite and by the time you realize it's there, it's too late to tear it out of you, no matter how badly you might want to. maybe it's a cordiceps fungus, tangled up in your nerves, making you do things you'd never ordinarily do. maybe love is a dog with its jaw locked on your arm. maybe love is an angry ghost. maybe love is a brain hemorrhage, a seizure, two weeks of sleeplessness and cracking open your own tibia unanesthetized in a bathroom. maybe it's the ocean you'll drown in. maybe it's poison. maybe it's scary and filthy and difficult and bad for you.

so what now? are you going to stop? are you even going to try?

no. of course you aren't.

it's me and my emotional support "got resurrected but came back wrong as an allegory of jesus" characters against the world (kiriona art by cabramso)

Ortus says: psychotic disorders are on a wide spectrum and don’t make you less capable of thinking. Hallucinations often have perfectly reasonable roots and are not a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of a person under excessive strain finding creative ways to survive.

relistening to the Avulsion scene and Cytherea is putting her whole pussy into this performance... she was rlly like I'm gonna kill all you freaks in the most sadistic ways possible but FIRST ☝️ I need to read romance books on the patio be waited on by a hot butch teenager and perform an oscar worthy bit for an audience of nerds

god i wish i could wipe my memory and reread gideon the ninth like for the first time again. the moment dulcinea appeared on page in the shuttle landing scene, i went down on my knees with bated breath like oh god i hope she is manipulative i hope she gets worse— and man my girl did not disappoint

did Cytherea even knew how to crochet

or she was doing whatever with that yarn on the veranda and Gideon barely ever saw crocheting in her life before

The Mystery of Canaan House

I don't know if it's occured to anyone else but! have you ever thought about... how strange Canaan House and the first planet in general are?

Canaan House is the Earth, right? But Alecto is the soul of the Earth, isn't she? But... the planet couldn't live without a soul... So it must have a soul... (or has it, really?) The Earth apparently never has been destroyed like the other planets. (Only completely radioactively contaminated.)

So... what happened to the Earth? Did John just pull the whole soul out of the planet and let it die? (But it's alive since 10.000 years, so probably not... ?) Is... still a part of the soul of the Earth in the planet?

The planet is obviously coming apart at the seams. It's often stated that Canaan House is run-down. (I also kinda remember that it's said that Canaan would be dying but I can't find a fitting quote).

Apparently... parts of it... have been ressurected. It would explain why Teacher mentions the resurrection (the quote above) and it would also explain, why different parts of the building have different ages (if you remember Palamedes question).

But... how? Ressurection isn't possible without a soul that's about to be ressurected, right? Does that mean Canaan House has a soul? *What* soul? Is there a rest of Alecto's soul in it because it was to big? Or did he put it in? Is it maybe a completely different soul? (Or multiple different souls?) Has he... I don't know... just put a Ressurection best in there? (That would at least explain the creatures and ghosts in the cellar of Canaan House).

But isn't it strange?

That's so true because they still have fish and crops at Canaan whereas other killed planets lose all ability to sustain life over a few centuries... much less than the thousand years. Maybe it's because Alecto is still alive, just in status and trapped far from her "body"?

"The soul longs for the body"...