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I mean that was obvious enough already, but damn, this is just right up there with Protesilaus aka Johnny Quickdeath, huh?

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99% of repressors give up right before they successfully don't feel anything. Don't stop shoving it down. You can get through this unscathed

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Stede "but we both love Ed" Bonnet vs Izzy "if I wanted to be ignored in a threesome I'd go fuck Anne and Mary again" Hands

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Thinking about her 🥰 I hope she’s doing okay 🥰

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Give me back my broken night My mirrored room, my secret life It's lonely here There's no one left to torture Give me absolute control Over every living soul And lie beside me, baby That's an order! Give me crack and anal sex Take the only tree that's left And stuff it up the hole In your culture Give me back the Berlin wall Give me Stalin and St. Paul I've seen the future, brother: It is murder Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world Has crossed the threshold And it has overturned The order of the soul When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant

john gaius anyone

(leonard cohen - the future)

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something very important to understand about coronabeth tridentarius is that she's not Cool. she's hot, she's audacious, she's intoxicating, but she isn't Cool.

she likes the worst fucking puns in the entire world so much. she isn't good at comebacks. she's obsessively codependent with her creepy and wet twin sister. she has the fucking audacity to call someone else a nepo baby and think she made a point. she wants anyone who doesn't want her. she wants camilla to hug her and hold her the way camilla hugs and holds nona. she asks people's opinions about her and then gets upset if they say anything too honest. she wears such gaudy jewelry with everyday outfits that she bypasses "fancy" and wraps straight back around into "playing dress-up." she cried when her sister didn't kill and eat her. she's not good at pretending to be a necromancer, but her true love is the sword, but she's not particularly good at that either. she's down bad for judith fucking deuteros.

if everyone wasn't so distracted by how hot she is then the truth would be more obvious, and the truth is that coronabeth tridentarius is deeply lame (affectionate).

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every piece of media needs more cheating, divorce, and a sprinkle of internalized homophobia #true

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nooooo magnus stop adding to that conversation the other person is clearly trying to exit

what tlt has done to my brain is when I get embarrassed my brain goes tinyvoice like noooooo magnus don't resurrect my old fandom obsession posts by liking them

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what tlt has done to my brain is when I get embarrassed my brain goes tinyvoice like noooooo magnus don't resurrect my old fandom obsession posts by liking them

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the problem with watching buffy the vampire slayer for the first time when you're 13 is that it will fundamentally reshape your brain chemistry to the point where literally all fiction becomes buffy the vampire slayer in different fonts. "watch another show!" you might say, and believe me i have! i promise i've watched many other shows since i was 13. but the problem is that all those other shows as well as films, books, podcasts etc. are simply deviations of buffy the vampire slayer to me. it's the holy text, the primary source. everything else is just commentary.

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THE LOCKED TOMB PERSONALITY QUIZ OF ALL TIME

TOOK US A WHOLE YEAR TO MAKE

INTRIGUING AND ORIGINAL QUESTIONS

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something i love about tamsyn muir is that she can conceive of so many types of people, right? there are so many characters with such weird shit going on, and somehow all of them are well-written. a blood-crusted former princess who sainted herself in the desperate hope that someone might finally love her. a scholar who's dedicated his entire life to the much-older pen pal who refused his hand in marriage. a nun who pledged her soul to a beautiful corpse and whose existence is spent desperately trying to atone for the fact of her birth. a woman who has spent ten thousand years in horrible pain and would kill herself and the whole universe if only she could take god with it. a girl who's spent her whole life so irrationally hated by everyone around her that she thinks the only way to be loved is to be eaten. a group of children growing up in a warzone. a commander who would do whatever it took to free the universe. god's most loyal saints, long since driven to murder and only waiting for their moment. the angry ghost of an entire world, puppeting a mannequin which they tell her is her body. ozymandias if he was a twitch streamer. i could go on.

but she has never, not once in the entire series, written a character who wasn't attracted to women. that, alone, is inconceivable.

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i love daydreaming about story structures and not writing a single word of prose

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Fellas, is it gay to be 2 different souls in one body and get freaky with another person who is 3 different souls in one body?

Pyrrha and Paul my beloved 🫶🏻

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HE IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE

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Harrow the Ninth, Aus, and power imbalances

I have this whole week been thinking about the AUs Harrow imagines as she's spinning out during HtN. What I've found so fascinating, and something that has clanged through my head again and again, is the power dynamics Harrow puts herself in during her imaginings.

Obviously, all of these AUs are pretty firmly in romance territory. Even Harrow Nova has pretty clear elements of Gideon, even just indirectly referenced, caring about Harrow more then Harrow wants to admit. The party has Harrow getting hot under her dress and being convinced she's terrified, the Coffee AU has so many tropes piled on top of each other its like a lacquering paint but its also incredibly romantic.

and yet, all of them also put Gideon in a position where she has power over Harrow. It's in fact the primary element of all of them. AND all of them play on necromantic power for Gideon as well.

Harrow is powerless before Gideon in Nova. Gideon is a prodigy, a star, someone who took Harrow's place because Gideon is so good and Harrow is so powerless. In the Royal Princess AU Gideon is the first child and the chooser, but we can probably also presume Gideon would have necromantic powers (or is at least faking them ala Corona) since she's so central to the first house in it. Even in the Coffee AU she is a coffee 'adept', the terms for necromancy being co-opted to assign power to Gideon.

Of course, Harrow is all about power dynamics. No one in the story (except maybe Pal and Harrow, but even then) has a relationship where they are an equal with another person. Everyone has something over someone else, clear hierarchy valuing one over the other, clear power over others. Harrow as well has had her dynamics flipped. She was pretty clearly one of the strongest necromancers of Gideon, and always had the ability to stay above it all until near the very end. Now she is the lowest of the Mithraeum. (Does this power dynamic switch make her wish she had Gideon to fall back on, unconsciously? Or does she wish Gideon could decide for her again? Just before the AUs we have Ianthe observing that someone like Harrow either has to be holding the reins or have them taken from them, and doesn't want them back if they're taken. hrmm.)

It's so fascinating that Harrow applies her own societal expectations about who has power in a dynamic, then consciously puts herself *below* Gideon in all of her imagined worlds. She must be below Gideon, she must serve Gideon, Gideon must be more experienced and above Harrow even in the smallest of ways. Gideon is established in the cohort, gideon is the prince who controls the flow of the betrothal ceremony, gideon is the heir of the ninth house.

It's all so goddamn sad, is what it is. At no point do I think Gideon wants to be above Harrow from what *we've* seen of her. Gideon wants to be a servant. Gideon would be content (or at least she claims later) to be the cavalier to Harrow's necromancer, with all that entails. And Harrow's idea of a happy relationship is just flipping that, not upending it. She cannot help but think that they have to still have an imbalanced power between them, but if she can't hurt Gideon maybe it would all go differently.

Poor little snot rags, the both of em. Cannot wait to see how this gets handled in Alecto. I don't think anything long term healthy can be in this dynamic, but I also think if you're looking for long term, healthy relationships in TLT you're barking up the wrong tree.