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Final Round: Baru Cormorant (The Traitor Baru Cormorant) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb series)

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Toxic Lightning Round 2: The Locked Tomb

Pelleamena Novenarius vs. Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity (Commander Wake)

Why they're the Worst (TM)

Pelleamena Novenarius

Killed 200 children (the entire child population of the planetoid she ruled) in order to give birth to a supernecromancer, emotionally abused the resulting supernecromancer daughter including making sure she knew she existed because of the deaths of 200 children, when said daughter committed a horrible blasphemy mostly by accident at 10 she and her husband killed herself and tried to get her daughter to kill herself with them

Couldn’t conceive so she murdered 200 children (an entire generation of the population of her planet) to use their life source to conceive a child. Told said child about how she was conceived from a very young age, causing the child to feel immense guilt about the deaths of all the other children and an extreme pressure to be worth it.

Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity (Commander Wake)

Commander Wake conceived her daughter specifically to sacrifice her in order to kill God and destroy the solar system. Wake further only refers to her daughter as Bomb throughout the entire pregnancy and the only reason that she did not manage to actually kill her daughter is because she died before she was able to do so. Wake then proceeded to haunt her daughter's sword as a revenant in order to attempt to invade the mind of her daughter's best friend.

Had a baby specifically to kill her in a blood ritual to release a “monster” believed to cause the apocalypse. Failed.

Had a child for the sole purpose of killing it as part of a ritual to open the door to the locked tomb. She refers to this baby as “the bomb” throughout her pregnancy.

mod notes: what in the everliving hell happens in these books...

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the ninth house being called the house of the sewn tongue. the sewn tongue, a ritual quite unlike any other form of necromancy that prevents the subject from speaking on a certain topic. the sewn tongue, which appears to be at least part flesh magic, something very much not typically associated with the ninth, and the only way to subvert it being to remove one's entire jaw. harrow kissing ianthe to confirm the sewn tongue was still in place. alecto kissing/biting harrow and verbally identifying her as the blood of anastasia. anastasia, who believed she had perfected lyctorhood, only to "fail" and "force" john to kill her cavalier to "save" her when she tried. anastasia, who in all likelihood had to be forcibly prevented from speaking the truth. anastasia, who then founded the ninth house to guard alecto and made some arrangement with her. the ninth house, which at terrible cost ensured that the blood of anastasia lasted those ten thousand years. the ninth house, the symbol of which is a jawless skull

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tamsyn please i can’t cope

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immediately, i love dulcinea septimus.

so i assume she will either be the victim or perpetrator of one of the worse upcoming atrocities, yes?

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I've seen a huge diversity of opinion, and I'm curious! So, in your opinion....

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Going into Alecto, I think it's important to expect that the series won't conclude with a clear lesson. Either about morality—what makes a good person, evil getting their just desserts, ect—or a thesis on decolonization. It's not that kind of story.

Deep down, this series is two drunk girls bearing their souls in a dark corner of the bar. An hours-long conversation that wheels wildly through pop culture, past trauma, theoretical physics, dreams and aspirations, global warming, hairstyling, friends, family, gender, personal insecurities, world history, favorite foods. It has a lot to say, and a lot of it profound, but it's not trying to teach anything. At the end of the night, the point was how fucking cool that girl was, and the potent electric potential for something lgbt to happen

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Source: The New York Tattler, July 8, 1909.

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anyway i love this scene

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thinking about Aiglamene. Like, so

a child crash lands in town. mystery where she came from. the mother is dead. this tiny redheaded thing has no one in the world. the town takes her in because what else are you supposed to do with a orphan dropped on your doorstep, but they don’t love her. the reverend family needs an heir, so they kill every single child on the planet- wait, scratch that, all but one. this one kid is alive, she’s alive, against all odds. so naturally, everyone’s scared of her. everyone hates her. out of all the children to survive why was it the one no one cared about. but they move on, everyone does, and the kid grows. and she starts asking questions. you start answering them. you start telling her stories, and it’s nice to be listened to, even if the kid is just a twerp. you start teaching her, she’s a natural with a sword, but you don’t tell her because it’ll go to her head. you’ve never had a maternal bone in your body, you aren’t mothering her… but she’s got nobody. and neither do you. you train her, you teach her, you tell her she can get out, get free from this place, if she works hard enough, fights good enough. she works hard. she fights well, better than you ever did at her age. she tries to get out. she gets caught. she tries again. and again. and again. and eventually, there’s a chance, a real chance. you’re the only person in the world who could get through this kid’s thick skull, and you tell her: this is your chance, this is it, you’re getting out, you’re leaving me, you’re never coming back, you’ve going to live, you have to get out now. and she goes. she goes, and she doesn’t come back. she doesn’t come back, and then she does… and she’s dead. she’s dead, and she’s back, the two things you prayed wouldn’t happen. she’s back and she’s dead and this is your child, you raised her, and you sent her off, promising a bright future, and it killed her.

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First tlt comic pls be kind to me

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🌼 Maybe - Flower Face

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fansong about gideon’s Misery during harrow the ninth 🥰

beautiful art is by amphibily!

lyrics:

take me in your mouth

i need to be inside of you right now

come set the table

throw a cloth over the wood

and lay me down

should i take the leap?

i’m sorry for what i’m about to do

i’m on the fence about it

going and i’m gone

will you do what i ask of you?

it was something in the way you treat me

i was someone who you’ve always hated

all i wanted you to do was eat me

you swallowed me down, swallowed me down

we coulda lived in holy matrimony

all we had to do was consummate it

all i wanted you to do was eat me

you swallowed me down and you regurgitated

you opened up your head

and cut me out of everything you knew

you drowned me in the well

you left me at the altar

you rolled the rock over my tomb

so fuck one flesh one end

i’ve given all my flesh to you

i’m rotting on the table

stop playing with your food

my death is a labor of love

consume me, body and blood