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[angryshortstacks]

So the Unwanted guest has given me Pyrrha thoughts that makes me so so emo. If souls are permeable and the lyctor takes from the cavalier over time until parts of them eventually can’t be separated, then that means the person G1deon became was because of Pyrrha. He became Gods attack dog because of what he absorbed from Pyrrha!!

In the John chapters in NtN G1deon feels very different, still loyal to a fault but, he seems less hardened a little more squishy. The same could be said about Pyrrha. Pre-resurrection she was a cop and almost every example of her behaviour she’s yelling at someone, calling them out, telling them they need to toughen up and get thicker skin. Pyrrha also said in HtN that G1deon absorbed more of her than Harrowhark did Gideon.

So this means G1deon took the hardest parts of Pyrrha, the parts that were ruthless and determined. The stuff that made her the perfect soldier. Than when he dies at the end of HtN Pyrrha is left alone, in a body she didn’t want, as the softest version of herself. She felt so much harder for Wake, Nona, Palamedes and Cam, and those feelings of love scared her so bad. And I’m Ntn she’s trying so hard to be that old person and hold it all together, and she feels like she’s failing, but really she’s just succeeding at loving and taking care of people as best she can. Pyrrha is the loving person we know her as because G1deon took the worst parts of her and left her at her best and I’m going to scream.

[ao3cassandraic]

A substantial and well-argued piece of meta, even if I don't agree with every word. I DO think the ball as comment on Sodom and Gomorrah is completely on-target.

If you're here, Leah Schnelbach, I salute you.

[to-lost-futures]

A visit to the sci-fi/fantasy section of A Room of One’s Own in Madison WI tonight was like seeing the Book side of Tumblr in person, where just one corner display included:

Martha Wells / Murderbot series

Alexandra Rowland / A Taste of Gold and Iron

Tamsyn Muir / Locked Tomb series

C. L. Polk / Even Though I Knew the End

Everina Maxwell / Winter’s Orbit

Naomi Novik / Scholimance series

Sue Lyn Tan / Celestial Kingdom duology

10/10, the rest of the bookstore was equally delightful as always.

[chillyweirdoinacoffin]

ATTENTION ANY LOCKED TOMB FANS ATTENDING NEW YORK COMIC CON:

There will be a group cosplay meetup photo / hangout session on Saturday, October 8th at 12:40PM at the con.

It will be outside on the Level 2 South Concourse/Inner Roadway – closest to “Green Entrance South” (if you walk out the door, this is to the right of the food trucks!) Come hang out with some fellow TLT fans from tumblr, reddit, and twitter! Cosplay not required! 💀🗡️

[kathylbrownwrites]

Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys: A Book Review

New book review At Kathy L. Brown writes The Storytelling Blog: Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys. Stylish Cold War Era spy story meets ritual magic and eldritch horror. The Deep Ones side of the Innsmouth Incident.

Winter Tide—The Innsmouth Legacy #1 by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor Dot Com, 2017) I ran across Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys as I explored, for my own writing, diverse, modern takes on the problematic Lovecraft mythos. Like many “New Weird” writers, such as Matt Ruff and Victor LaValle, Emrys has turned icky tropes on their heads. Winter Tide places the Lovecraftian Deep Ones at the center of their own…

[only-when-i-write]

Tor.com Short Fiction Newsletter just dropped into my inbox. Included is a story by @seananmcguire

Guess I´ll spend my evening reading good fiction.

[99percentprocrastination]

[preacherboyd]

Spartacus: Blood and Sand | Mark of the Brotherhood

[vardasvapors]

petition to rename all of the ‘x of y and z’ snowclone fantasy book titles to ‘she x on my y til i z’

[opold]

i just don't think there's a reason why any successful author should be on social media but especially not successful authors who respond to fans . literally you have so much money . what else are you hoping for . put the phone down .

[coquelicoq]

i shared a post from you (https://www.tumblr.com/coquelicoq/735428280237309952/i-cant-take-it-anymore-please-help-me-what-the?source=share) w my mom before Christmas & she bought me All Systems Red - it arrived late but I'm keen to start it when I have time due to your (& a couple of my mutuals) Murderbot posts 😅

omg have fun!! i'm honored to be part of your tmbd journey <33

[nepenthean-sleep]

a tlt tv adaptation wouldn't work TO YOU. i could do it right though

[ghosts-and-you-might-die]

There is a Tor intern having a blast rn

[starblaster]

so it was brought to my attention that the post calling the locked tomb series “homestuck fanfiction” was misrepresenting some things about the books, and that the point of view transitions between books and now that i’ve been given a better synopsis (than the marketing-brained “lesbian necromancers in space” i see people parroting nonstop as if that is at all a good way to recommend a book), i can certainly understand that the style of the narrative voice is written like that (presumably) to ‘cut tension’ but, like, if the books contain heavy subjectmatter, why is that the way the author has decided to cut tension or add comedy? like, i do want to know why. what is the utility of that language, that tone, that style? marketability...?

i'm not sure which characters, if it's even first-person pov at all, the example excerpts from that post are the narration of but, as far as i’ve been made aware, gideon and harrowhawk are eighteen year olds (since both example excerpts came from gideon the ninth, i assume that's gideon's point of view) and, if that’s the case, and their immaturity (and potential inability to take heavy issues seriously in their own minds) is the point of that style, isn’t there some better way to write that than what is ostensibly dated meme-speak? is there a contextual reason why this character know what "resting bitch face” is? if not, how isn't that an anachronism? genuine question. if there are fans following me who want to explain that, i would encourage it.

[erstwhilesparrow]

i need to, like, write an essay and then be viciously mean to myself in the editing annotations. that would fix me.