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Character: John Gaius

Series: The Locked Tomb

Fear: The Extinction

Also idk if we can submit propaganda in these but he literally ends the world in the books. What more do u need

Technically, you aren't supposed to put propoganda in the asks, but this is pretty short, so I'll let you away with it. If it's long, I usually make a post separate to the ask and paste propoganda to the comments.

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is wet&wild liquid eyeliner part of the male dungeongoer starter kit or something

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Every time I remember that Pyrrha has never seen Palamedes’s face I suddenly want to jump into a trash compactor.

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nothing more sobering than realizing you'd been assuming a cover of a song was the original...like oh phew if the wrong person found out about that i couldve been killed

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Recently started watching White Collar! More interesting than its reputation gives it credit for, but if the network were being at all honest with us, Mozzie would be trans and either a furry, a drag queen, or both

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donation comm for @silasoctakiseron. just little guys

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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both versions because i liked them

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office mug

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Well, she is, as far as we know, the only person who has ever looked at what it takes to be a lyctor, shrugged, and then murdered and eaten someone she knows in cold blood. That wasn't at all normal, not even a little bit. Not even by the parameters of the world she lives in.

You're right about her not being that bad in Harrow the Ninth, though she is implied to have some machinations under the table. There's just a certain pall hung over it by the previous murder and cannibalism, especially as you get to know the other lyctors, and it becomes apparent that no one else has ever done it like that. Every other lyctoral cavalier with a known cause of death volunteered for it, and every other lyctor still regrets it.

I think my main takeaway from reading TLT is that I have interpreted Ianthe's character much differently than she is usually presented in fandom. Like sure, she's not a good person but she's not .... THAT bad? Am I crazy? Did I misread this? In context, in character, most everything she does seems quite reasonable, especially in HTN when she's having an almost equivalently bad and confusing time to Harrow. She does not seem like an evil mastermind, she seems like a miserable 22 year old really suffering the transition to lyctorhood. Idk. at least based on the parameters of the world she exists in, Ianthe does not strike me as being uniquely terrible or morally bankrupt, or even really that unhinged. she seems to have very clear motivations for doing the things she does, even if those motives aren't readily apparent to the people around her, and at times she is even actively helpful and sympathetic to other characters in her own creepy-ianthe way.

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it's always Nova hours

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Terrible, horrible metafan comic based on Kate Beaton's Poe shortie at Hark! A vagrant featuring the worst possible space lyctor ship; please enjoy

I'm also going to include a detail shot because this was my proudest moment

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Your moral ocd is lying to you and tumblr is lying to you. you do NOT have to reblog any post you dont want to and you dont need to justify it and youre not prejudiced against a certain marginalized group if you dont reblog an Upsetting Post about a Current Issue said group is facing

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