take a hike

HtN p. 58 // NtN p. 429

spinning this in my head at high speed...... the work relies on your continuance. the most important thing you can do is live.

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

"I've lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you."

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i finished Gideon the Ninth yesterday, and oh boy. that ending 😭 please no spoilers for the rest of the series, i am going in blind and i'm very excited

Has anyone else checked out that Locked Tomb animated show? EDIT: I added an explanation to the comments as well, but before I get too many people disappointed - the original post is tagged as unreality, but I'm already seeing confusion in the notes. Sorry folks, this is fanart! I had the silly idea to make a few high quality gifs about half a year ago and compile them into a gifset like this - unfortunately there is no official animated show (as of now)

would you let me dislocate your jaw or is this relationship doomed

happy pride month fellow gay ppl on my screen!! have some griddlehark (figure skating au)

something about foreshadowing being more prominent the second time around reading a story but in a way that the meaning is changed forever and you can never view a story the same as you once did before. do you know what i mean.

literally so insane how you can never go back to the innocence of it all. you see all the signs coming and you know how it ends. but there's nothing you can do to turn a blind eye to it anymore. it hits you and you just have to keep going.

Memes for when you are reading Harrow the Ninth for the first time and have no idea what is going on:

i love being part of a fandom with so many smart people who can predict plot twists and make connections in the text, BUT

i need a little representation for those of us who had a blank screen with a loading bar running in our brains for the entirety of Harrow the Ninth!!!

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bonus for Nona:

truly i am feeling so validated by the tags on this post!! thank you, it’s good to know i am not alone <3

in conclusion:

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[Image description: A digital painting of Harrowhark and Gideon from The Locked Tomb. They are both wearing hoods, and their faces are painted with skull patterns. Harrow is in the foreground, scowling as she glances at Gideon. Gideon bares her teeth and cocks her head. Gideon wears sunglasses. End description]

[ID: person missing the point meme. The person is looking at the locked tomb trilogy and saying “Wow! Imperialism cannibalizes and perverts every aspect of the identity until it can conform to and further the will of the governing power,” and “Twitch streamers are going to nuke New Zealand” is going over their head.]

Mercymorn!! My awful queen 💖

Harrow is like if you stuck an 1800s gothic heroine into sex in the city and SHE was the protagonist through which normal problems of career and love life were filtered and voiced. It’s like.

IANTHE: Aw man! My dress is totaled! And prom is TONIGHT!

HARROW: I’m not going to prom because the rotting woman I see in the corner of my eye told me not to.

IANTHE: buzzkill much? Geez!

HARROW’S INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: I will kill ianthe. I will rip her into separate pieces I will make sure there is nothing to mend I will part bone from flesh and I will ruin any dress she could possibly wear.

convinced that my understanding of mercymorn is fundamentally different from most of society’s because i’m pretty sure if you put a strap on that woman it would be like when you put a leash on a cat and they don’t know what to do so they just lay down

heavy are the hips that wear the strap and neither she nor her departed cavalier have done the strength training necessary to do so

i know this has been said before but it still blows my mind how frequently the Baru Cormorant books are recommended as a follow-up to the Locked Tomb. oh you liked these wild, funny books with where everyone is intrinsically queer? here's a book where homosexuality is punished by death or castration xoxo

#the best follow-up recommendation for the locked tomb series is gay sex #it's a little derivative and lacks those cherished subtle nuances at times but we can't have everything tags @hummerous

of course you can read necros and cavs as a parallel to the gender binary bc A) you can do whatever you want forever and B) yeah there's plenty of textual evidence comparing the necro-cav bond to a marriage. however one thing i think many of these discussions keep missing is the fact that most people in the nine houses are not necros or cavs and do in fact exist outside of this binary. which would make it. not really much of a binary

I'm sorry but I want this on my blog