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this started as a joke but then i started actually thinking about it and now im really annoyed that IDs have this one letter that doesnt mean anything for cis people and is a huge pain in the ass for trans people when we could instead have literally lifesaving information so emergency medical services could just check ur wallet to see which blood to give you so you dont die or whatever But No

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I mentioned to a friend I’m lending Gideon the ninth to that in Nona there is a chapter called the Tower Princes. And that that was not a spoiler because she could not possibly guess who they are or why.

Her guess? Jesus Christ and a small sickly Victorian boy.

She has no idea how correct she was and I’m dying.

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Did we do a whole mini photoshoot?

Yes.

Is this random picture we took in the bathroom of the restaurant we ate at afterward the best picture?

Absolutely.

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hi locked tomb fandom.

so, the other day i was thinking that i really need to reread the whole series, and that i need to pay attention to detail in the text bc there is So Much in there.

you know how there's those exercises for bible reading? where you take a passage/chapter and read it, contemplate it, reread it, reflect on it, pick out specific sentences etc? well, what's more biblical than the book of our savior gideon the ninth??

anyway i thought i could make a discord server where we do these slow, detailed readings together. it'll be pretty slow and encourage ppl to go at their own pace. and since it's for RE-reading, spoilers for all of tlt will be allowed through the whole thing.

this is an interest check to see if roughly anyone would want this. if you want to be tagged in the case of the server happening, please rb and tell me in tags so i know who to tag!

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Me Fr 😔💔

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I'm not talking "to people who know you well" I'm talking "a stranger is checking your id"

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You know the hyperfixation is real when you start taking notes (Bonus Drawing of my favorite goober, Unobstructed under the cut)

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Brainrot about them being in a band together. Might make a comic of it (or seven)

Made a color version i didn't like as much, added under the cut:

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i booped so many people while trying to get the second badge in the last 5 minutes (unless tumblr keeps boops which i hope it will) that it kicked me out of the app help

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how do u think tlt characters would respond to boops? i feel like Gideon would love it and Harrow would opt out and then throw her phone into a lake

gideon would be so into it omg, and she'd make harrow turn the feature on so that she could spam her (causing harrow to get annoyed and do the aforementioned phone throwing).

the sixth would immediately start gathering data lol, like they'd be the ones to catalogue the different messages the boop counter gives you and discover the evil boop etc.

ianthe wouldn't boop anyone except harrow and corona and then she'd get upset when no one booped her except her sister (and the randos who follow her but she doesn't care about them and they don't count).

corona would be drowning in boops and i feel like she'd just be having fun with it lol, booping as many people back as possible.

jod would make the lyctors create accounts so that he could boop them when he wanted something.

mercymorn would send one evil boop to everyone she knows and then delete her account.

nona would spend the entire day booping literally every blog she could find. the dreadful teens would be doing the same thing but mischievously.

ortus (poetry account with 14 followers) boops the gang but none of them notice and he gets no boops.

dulcie is booping everyone and everyone boops her back and it just keeps looping bc she's too nice to leave the other person hanging.

abigail and magnus do not have tumblr and are busy eating homemade quiche and then going for an evening walk.

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Please Reblog This If It’s Okay To:

Send questions about yourself

Ask questions to/about your characters

Ask about your headcanons 

Send questions about your works (fanfics, art, music, RPs, etc) 

Ask about popular ships/headcanons

Ask about plot ideas you’ve had but haven’t acted upon yet (snippets of AUs, a scenario you wish to write/draw but haven’t gotten to yet)

Questions about other ships/headcanons that aren’t as popular or are rarepairs

Questions or comments about favorite tropes, headcanons, characters, foods, weather, or anything else you are okay in answering!

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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The Pool Scene in Gideon the Ninth is both Lesbian Sex and a Christian Baptism

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My theory of what The Message is

AIM mentions that the message "It's too simple for humans to understand.". My guess is that it's data stored in the form of DNA sequences. Most people think of DNA as just genetic material inside the cells, but for years now scientists have been studying it's application in other areas.

With DNA you can storage a lot of information in a very small volume using nitrogenous bases A, T, G, and C (or U instead of T for RNA). This information can be preserved for myriads and wouldn't degrade like our normal methods of preserving information does (paper, HDs, SSDs, tapes, print, etc.). As long as there are humans that can read and write genetic codes, we will be able to decode it. (https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-could-store-all-worlds-data-one-room)

This explains why BOE picked a veterinary, because they have the knowledge to read and decode a DNA sequence. We know that Blood of Eden has the technology for that, and I think that it's mentioned that they had a project to clone Wake.

While this seems to contradict that it's "too simple for humans to understand", I think it's like the "you can't enter a door that you don't have permission" riddle. We can't understand ATGACGGATCAGC...just by looking at it, but it is what defines life on Earth. We understand it by decoding, which require our mind and memories that work on proteins, so there is level of separation already.

I think they are carrying information about life on Earth (and also maybe, other planets that they inhabited) in the form of DNA. Kind of like a Noah's Ark, but with also all the history, music, literatures, internet memes, etc., that humanity produced. That's why the BOE names are all pre-resurrection references.

My theory on how The Angel carries all this DNA information is that someone modified their body by making them like a chimera (with necromancy it seems). That's why they said to Palamedes that "My dead body is designed to deny you answers.". So if he were to examine them, he would find what looks like a bunch of puzzle pieces, each belonging as if to a different puzzle.

By this point I can't help but think of Teacher from the first book. The Angel was presented to us a teacher too, and they refer to themselves as "we", so like Teacher, they are a form of construct (with what I came up). Maybe Teacher is one of the parts of The Message? Cassiopeia was the one that created him and  there is this speculation that she helped create BOE, so AIM being like another construct made by her would make sense.

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Shamelessly stolen from Discord.

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It's occurred to me that although many Locked Tomb characters have died and still managed to hold on to their positions as major onscreen characters (or gained a new position as a major onscreen character after death, e.g. Ortus) it's not really a "death is cheap" universe like Homestuck was for example, where every single character has died at least once and it was all no big deal. But it's clearly also not a "death is final" universe. So I want to propose a new category for the Locked Tomb: "death is expensive". That is, if your blorbo dies, there is still a solid chance that they will reappear onscreen at a later date, but you will have to pay a hefty fee of body horror and/or self-destructive codependent body-sharing or equivalent value for that privilege

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Don’t wake the Sleeper

Thank you @theriverbeyond for letting me use your cosplay pictures as a reference, and for creating such an awesome Wake cosplay! The moment I saw it, I knew I had to draw it.