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Babs/Colum Expectations vs Reality Poor Babs just can’t catch a break lmao

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Paul The Apostle (Redux)

Update of an old illustration I did of Paul from 2022

love never fails. but where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Saint Paul, First Corinthians 13:8

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average girl sleepover experience

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do you think Palamedes ever got slightly sad that Nona never even figured out that the bones she got to toy with were his?

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Alecto's like 'my body is so ugly, nose is too small, ears are too brief'

girl wants to be an elephant so bad

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I revamped this for Pride month <3

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“I told you before that the Second House would take responsibility if nobody else had the stomach for it.”

girl soon you're not gonna have a stomach anymore

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Aim and Noodle!

I was so surprised to realise that there’s basically no art of The Angel out there (especially since I’m fairly certain that they’ll turn out to be really important in Alecto)… so enjoy this drawing of Aim and Noodle :)

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*waits for alecto the ninth faster*

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Dead Dove With Left Grief: A Locked Tomb Dark Fanworks Fest

What is Dead Dove With Left Grief?

Welcome to the slaughterhouse! Dead Dove With Left Grief is a fest celebrating wretched, nasty, terrible darkfic, art, and other fanworks, by and for fans of the Locked Tomb book series by Tamsyn Muir.

Inspired by the HYDRA Trash Party ethos, Dead Dove With Left Grief is explicitly for lovers of fictional awfulness being perpetrated upon their beloved blorbos. From thoughtful explorations of dark themes to uncritical wallowing in filth (my fave, teehee), it’s all welcome!

The fest runs from November 16 to 23, 2025. The AO3 collection will remain open after the posting period ends—please continue to post to the collection and use the Tumblr tag #dead dove with left grief after the fest is over!

What can I create?

Fanfiction, art, podfic, fanvids, animatics, and anything else you can think of are all welcome! (All works must be created by you. No AI-generated works are allowed.)

Some themes and tropes that fit the vibe of Dead Dove With Left Grief: whump - rape/noncon - gore - torture - cannibalism - sexual violence - self-harm - abuse - horror - hurt/no comfort - major character death - bad endings… Generally speaking, if it crushes your heart a little bit, it’ll be a great fit for this fest. You are welcome to run the gamut from thoughtful exploration of dark themes to uncritical wallowing. Smut explicitly welcome.

Incest and underage sex are allowed; please tag appropriately. AUs, omegaverse, and crossovers/fusions are allowed.

If you’re not sure whether your idea is suitable for Dead Dove With Left Grief, ask yourself: “As a reader looking through a dark TLT fanworks event, would it make sense to me to see this work in the listing, or would I be confused to see it here?” If you’re still not sure, feel free to DM or anonymously ask the event Tumblr (that's me!) with questions.

How can I post?

The posting period runs from November 16 to 23, 2025. You can post either on AO3, or on your own Tumblr with the tag #dead dove with left grief. Or crosspost! Here is the link to the AO3 collection.

No minimum requirements for word count or art complexity (and no maximum either, for that matter).

Please tag appropriately, especially for potentially disturbing content. What makes you cackle with glee might upset a fellow fan. Conversely, this is not a “no archive warnings apply” event; what upsets you might be someone else’s heartsong. Be prepared to mute and block tags for topics that upset you. (Here are how-to guides for filtering, muting, and blocking tags and content on Tumblr and AO3.)

You’re welcome to post works anonymously if you like, especially if it will allow you to be bolder with the awfulness than you might otherwise be. :) Or post them on main! Whatever works for you.

Finally, don’t forget to comment on and rec your fellow creators’ works!

(Fun optional side quest!)

For a little snootful of fandom history, HYDRA Trash Party was a kinkmeme that spawned a tag explicitly about Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, getting brutalized and passed around like a party favor by the villainous HYDRA. It inspired the later pan-fandom tag “dead dove: do not eat.” Suffice it to say, it is the type of energy I wish to take into the TLT fandom.

So here are some TLT-specific trash party tags! This is a totally optional side quest and you can write about any characters and pairings you like for this fest, but if any of these specific concepts tickle your fancy, use the following tags:

Gideon or Harrow Nova getting brutalized by characters in the Ninth House: tag Drearburh Trash Party.

Gideon getting brutalized by characters at Canaan House (hi, Cytheon enjoyers!): tag Canaan Trash Party.

Harrow getting brutalized by characters on the Mithraeum: tag Mithraeum Trash Party.

I’m not a fanwork creator. How can I participate?

If you’re not a fanwork creator but want to join the party, check out the rec list post and make your own rec list to spread the good word about your favorite already-existing dark Locked Tomb fanworks.

And, of course, you can always comment, comment, comment!

I don’t like this event. How can I avoid it?

Thanks for asking, pal! <3

To avoid seeing posts or works from this event, block the Tumblr blog and/or add “dead dove with left grief” to your Tumblr or AO3 filters. (Here are how-to guides for filtering, muting, and blocking tags and content on Tumblr and AO3.)

Creators, please be courteous and tag appropriately, both for the event and for any potentially disturbing content in your works—both so that those who don’t wish to see it can avoid it, and so those looking for it can find it more easily!

What if I have more questions?

Message @deaddovewithleftgrief on Tumblr, either in inbox or DMs, and I’ll do my best to answer. Go forth and dead-dove it up, friends!

TL;DR

Locked Tomb dark fanworks fest

Fanfic, art, podfics, fanvids, animatics, whatever you want

No minimums

Post your works to AO3 and Tumblr November 16-23, 2025

Make rec lists of your favorite existing dark TLT fanworks

Comment and spread the dead-dove love

Tag appropriately

Dead dove 4ever!

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I stand at the mic and clear my throat.

“Gideon Nav with a tramp stamp”

Everyone starts whispering.

One person in the back stands and claps.

It’s Harrowhark Nonagesimus.

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While it's widely believed that the prohibition on relationships of a romantic and/or sexual nature between necromancer and cavalier came from the Emperor himself, there is no substantiative evidence of this!

Indeed, prior to the Synod of Menoetes in Y2008, we have a number of examples of attested romantic relationships between cavaliers and their necromancers, including in funerary inscriptions, fragmentary legal documents, and at least one reference in the Letters of Corporal Adamantia Dux, some of the earliest preserved personal correspondence by a Cohort cavalier (c. 15th century). And there is a growing consensus amongst scholars that the beloveds of the 12th century Romance of Paphos are intended to be a necromancer and cavalier.

That all Houses save the Fifth incorporated the decision at Menoetes into local canon law over the following two centuries suggests that it was responding to a widespread practice - as otherwise there would have been no need for the prohibition!

I would argue that the ongoing Fifth House practice shows that it is perfectly possible for a necromancer and cavalier to have an intimate relationship in a way that is both Emperor-honouring and historically vindicated.

The prohibition has been a source of a great deal of unnecessary shame and distress in the name of a discipline that the Emperor has never demanded.

Hope this helps!

This is all really interesting and important historical information but unfortunately somebody got murdered at Canaan house and I will have to step in.

And just to stop any arguments I don't have any "unnecessary shame" or "distress" about my "feelings" for my cavalier. That is blantantly untrue.

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You freaks are NOT getting these back btw

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ok. the compound is 2 acres, roughly 8000m². if we assume roughly circular (minimum perimeter) that's a radius of just over 50m.

we know the thickness is 3ft (around 1m) and it extends 6ft into the ground. what we don't know is shape - a dome seems obvious but it's also inefficient and we're being as generous as possible here. so instead let's call it a 5m high wall, which would extend from 1.8m into the earth to 2.2m above it (about 40cm, 1.5ft, above the head of the average man while standing)

the perimeter wall would then have a length of 320m and a volume of 1500m³. but we do know the compound is fully enclosed. the "ceiling" has an area of 8000m² but i'll assume it doesn't need to be as thick, perhaps 1ft, giving it a volume of 2500m³ for a total of around 4000m³.

john doesn't figure out how to generate additional volume until later so we need at minimum 4000m³ of biomass. I'm going to cite this source to say that a large cow has a volume of just under 1m³, which means:

at least 4000 cows.

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So Brian and I went to the Bristol Renaissance Faire today

(it turned out to be an amazing day for it, humid but only a little warm and with a very nice breeze)

And much to my delight, we saw multiple Gideons (Gideii?) of different genders walking around

Brian, being a well-brought-up sort, of course complimented them on their outfits when he could

And one of them, after thanking him, sidled up to him like “Here, I have something for you…er, I don’t know if it’s relevant to your interests, but—” and handed him this

{obligatory NSFW cut}

SHE HAD A WHOLE-ASS ZINE

A WHOLE-ASS NSFW QUEER LADY FANART ZINE

(Needless to say, it was very much relevant to both Brian’s and my interests. I think we spent a good five minutes standing there in the middle of the Faire laughing and exclaiming over the art.)

I fucking love fandom. The End.

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Souls are permeable-> The more you interact with a person the more it changes you. This is obvious when it's in friendship, and or it is a chosen change. But even if you don't want to change, knowing others will change you will regardless, in ways you may not be able to predict. That is the nature of all relationships, we are not static things. Yeah. That's it, just gonna think about this one all day

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“And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.”