#Ninth User

[northernbluetongue]

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Passing on the mantle

[summergoodwife]

you guys ever think about how "alecto the ninth" being a title in-universe would mean alecto is the sworn cavalier primary of the ninth house? alecto, who canonically swore herself to anastasia's service?

y o u g u y s e v e r t h i n k a b o u t h o w t h e n e c r o m a n c e r c a v a l i e r r e l a t i o n s h i p a l m o s t a l w a y s b e c o m e s r o m a n t i c

y o u g u y s e v e r t h i n k a b o u t h o w a n a s t a s i a ' s d e s c e n d a n t s h a v e a n o r i g i n - u n k n o w n t r a d i t i o n o f s h a r i n g s e c r e t s i n s a l t w a t e r , w h e r e w e k n o w a l e c t o f e l t m o s t a t e a s e

[machoestofmen]

JoJortus

So, after seeing a post by @castellankurze about our good friend Ortus, I was... inspired.

Shoutout to @melikochan, @princesscolumbia and @summersong2262 for their support and enthusiasm while I was working!

[procrastinationaccount]

Something about Augustine cultivating a smoking habit to impress Pyrrha, Ianthe taking it up in his memory, and Palamedes having a drag in her mindspace right before he has to bid her goodbye. I wonder if Babs' mouth tasted like ashes...

[disgruntled-rat]

oh there's no fucking way

[somuchforstsg]

inumaki in the next chapter

[scaggisdrawings]

Really liked @flozazz ‘s interpretation of my temporary pfp, so I drew him =D

I think I got slightly better at digital, not as much compared to traditional just yet though

[epickiya722]

I was just about to ask "wasn't there supposed to be a recount" but I got my answer right on time. 😆

[ghostsandyoumightdie]

@ / silasoctakiseron Eighth House Posting save me

@ / silasoctakiseron Eighth House Posting

Save me @ / silasoctakiseron Eighth House Posting

[mirror-and-mind]

Just saw a post describing a character as "the perfect combination of rascal, (mostly) benevolent god, and slut," and all I can think about is the Medicine Seller.

[beguilingcorpse]

innocuous quotes that actually kill me

[bugzz-105]

I LOVE MY MUTUALS WITH THE SAME INTRESTS. Everytime I post something about a topic they post about I hope they see it and it makes me so happy when they interact with it like yes queen I hope you enjoyed. 🤭

[aftertheradar]

hi! sending out for someone who's more talented than me please? I have a fanart request. (If nobody wants to make this then i'll just wait till i have more money and commission it)

Also Spoilers for both The Locked Tomb Series, specifically Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth, as well as Parahumans: Worm. i've been rereading them both and noticed a parallel between two characters and i want to use this (half joking) request for fanart as a way to talk about it.

anyway here's my idea: can you draw John "Jod•Emperor of the Nine Houses•The Prince Undying•The Great Resurrector•The Necrolord Prime•The Man Who Became God And The God Who Became Man" Gaius the First and Eidolon drinking tea and eating peanuts together? Maybe while the Ressurection Beasts and the Endbringers destroy everything in the background?

I'm already writing the fanfic to match it don't worry

edit had to fix a typo because my autocorrect always changes book 2 to "Harris the Ninth"... which will be my next crack fic project naturally.

[sasha-rackett]

absolutely freaking out about the unwanted guest….if you even care at all

[iridescentoracle]

#when ppl say the worldbuilding in TLT is too confusing I laugh #I trained for this #this is NOTHING compared to the alchimeter

the other thing is that largely, The Locked Tomb is just written like homestuck. the drama, the jokes, the non-committal to its own chosen genre voice. it reads like Homestuck! Tamsyn Muir was (is!) a really fantastic hs fic writer, and she gets the tone spectacularly. it fundamentally carries over into The Locked Tomb. some of the funny turns of phrasing are just borrowed/inherited wholecloth from homestuck even

i know most locked tomb fans say “they wouldn’t touch homestuck with a 100ft pole” but the whole book is such a deep love letter to it that i can’t help but think you’re actually scared that you WOULD like homestuck. i mean, homestuck is so deeply injected into this text that you may as well say “i just wouldn’t ever put sugar in my body” while eating a donut.

give it a try. maybe you’ll see what Muir liked about it. maybe you’ll get the worldbuilding more (i see a lot of people calling it confusing, but the homestuck fans always seem to disagree!). maybe you’ll just have a richer understanding of your favourite book. literally what is the harm?

[wiishopwednesday]

longing for something you can never return to

[ID: a collection of images relating to nostalgia. the first image is a genius screenshot of the lyrics to car seat headrest's "famous prophets (stars)." the screenshot reads "We gotta go back/We gotta go back/We gotta go back/We gotta go back." the second image is the "we got the torture labyrinth tomorrow" meme template, edited to instead say "We got missing what we can never return to tomorrow/What?/We got the beginning of the rest of our lives tomorrow/Ohhhh/Okay." the third image is a discord screenshot, with the user's username and icon cropped out so that only the text is visible, and reads "Duuudeee you missed out on those 7 days where god created earth you are fucked LOL." the fourth image is a screenshot of a piece of text, which reads in bolder font "You can never leave home." underneath it, in normal text, it reads "You take it with you no matter where you go. Home is between your teeth, under your fingernails, in the hair follicles, in your smile, in the ride of your hips, in the passage of your breasts." the fifth image is a screenshot of a post made by tumblr user ryebreadgf, which reads "YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK! YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK! YOU CAN BITE AND SCRATCH AND BEG BUT YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK!" the sixth image is a screenshot of a piece of text that reads, "YOU KILL YOURSELF AND IMMEDIATELY WAKE UP AS A CHILD ON YOUR PARENTS BED. YOU'VE BEEN ASLEEP FOR HALF AN HOUR. THE SUN IS SHINING." the seventh image is a picture of two uneven dark yellow boxed next to each other on a off-white background. the first box reads, in handwriting, "I'm terrified of change." the second box reads, "I'm terrified of staying this way forever." the eighth image is a screenshot of a post made by tumblr user dakotajohnsongf, which reads "women be looking at pictures of their childhood selves and trying to find a way back to them." the ninth image is a screenshot of a post made by tumblr user bestofgentleearth, containing a screenshot from a forum of some kind. a line of text reads "(16 hours ago) butterfly said:" underneath, an indented section of text reads "today, the world looked beautiful again. i'm starting to remember what kept me alive last summer." the tenth image is another tumblr post by user cursedsuggestion, which reads "the friend you miss comes home for good. you never see another mirror. it's summer forever and that terrible thought you keep having finally disappears." the eleventh image is a screenshot of a reddit post, with the original poster's username and icon cropped out so only the text is visible. it reads "I'm not sure how to word this, but I constantly go through this deep sense of loss. I feel like I terribly miss something I love from the bottom of my heart, but I don't know what it is, exactly. Nothing in life satisfies me, nothing makes me content, but l wouldn't say I'm depressed either. There's just this endless search for something, and at times I feel I can catch a glimpse of it - different sceneries pop into my head at times, like of a particular beach at night, and I'm moved to tears. Or I remember a dream and all the feelings that were stirring while I saw that dream, and feel entirely connected to them." the twelfth image is a screenshot of a tumblr post, but the original poster is cropped out so only the text is visible, which reads "wait i wasn't ready. i never finished that game of tag. i still need to learn how to do a cartwheel. my friends and i never finished making that bridge over the creek. i want to go back. can you carry me to bed one last time? and maybe i'll wake up tomorrow in my childhood room with my pink walls and we'll laugh over this dream at breakfast." the thirteenth image is another tumblr screenshot of a post by user heavensghost, which reads "uhhh yh sure u can go back but no one will be waiting for you there."

the fourteenth image is a screenshot of a reddit comment, with the user's information cropped out so that only the text is visible, which reads "HIRAETH (heer-eye-th) 'A deep homesickness; an intense form of longing or nostalgia for a place long gone, or even an unaccountable homesickness for a place you have never visited. A pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost.'" the fifteenth image is a collection of 3 rows of black boxes, with 3 boxes in each row. the first box has a white, vague form of a human. the second box pictures the human form stretching its arms and legs out. from the third box onward, the human figure starts to dissipate into white dots until it has completely disappeared and only dots remain. the sixteenth image is a tumblr post by user n1ntendos, which reads "I AM HAUNTED BY A PAST I CANNOT GO BACK TO !!!!!!! anyways." the seventeenth image is a screenshot of text that reads "I cling to everything - CDs that skip, rings that turn my fingers green, the dead ends of my hair, old love notes that turn my stomach over and over. And I'm not proud but there are still boxes under my bed. And I'm not proud but my closet is still running out of space. And nostalgia is a fucking waste of time but my heart is full with it. Tell me I won't hold this forever. Tell me there will be a day where I let gloriously go." the eighteenth image is an image of larger text that reads "It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world." the nineteenth image is a photograph of a large white dog standing in a dark, flowing river surrounded by a dark forest and green trees. the dog is facing away from the viewer with its mouth open. the dog appears to be glowing, likely due to a lens flare of some kind. the entire picture feels very melancholy and nostalgic. the twentieth image is larger text that reads "Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met." the twenty-first image is a screenshot of an instagram dm, with the user's username and icon cropped out so that only the text is visible, and it reads "well the time passes anyway so I have to." the twenty-second image is a screenshot of the spotify lyrics for gerard way's song "action cat." the lyrics read "Hey/Do you miss me?/'Cause I miss you/Do you miss me?/'Cause I miss you/Do you miss me?/'Cause I miss you/Do you miss me?/'Cause I miss you too." the twenty-third image is a screenshot of text that reads "YOUR CHILDHOOD DOG IS ALIVE. YOUR DEAD BEST FRIEND WANTS TO GET COFFEE. YOU HAVE BEEN KIND AND GOOD. THERE IS NOTHING CHASING YOU. YOU CAN SLEEP. WHAT DO YOU DO?" the twenty-fourth image is a continuation of the lyrics from car seat headrest's "famous prophets (stars)" that were pictured in the first image. these lyrics read "We've gotta go back/We've gotta go back/We've gotta go back/(Don't spend too much time on it)." end ID.]