#john/alecto

[commander--wake]

@bakapikananoda's brilliant lyctorhood theory:

lyctorhood is like a solar eclipse. john's eyes are a total solar eclipse, black on white on black. what defines the appearance of a solar eclipse is the blackness of the moon, as the celestial body closest to us, but the real power and glory comes from the sun which is being eclipsed by the moon. the moon's movement "causes" the phenomenon, as in, from our perspective the moon is what blots out/"consumes" the sun, but the phenomenon itself wouldn't be possible without the sun.

the sun is the cavalier. the moon is the necromancer. the solar eclipse creates a black void in the sky (lyctors are black holes even to other lyctors) created and delineated by the power of the sun, which has been vanished, consumed, and erased by the intervention of the moon.

[abhorsenkatiel]

Over-thought TLT playlist for Alecto! This is actually the first one I made about a year ago when I really wanted to get into my divine feminine rage feelings. It's more vibes-based rather than narrative-based, but I did spend a lot of time putting them all in a specific order, so listen with shuffle off for the intended effect.

Song list below the cut

FAITHFUL SERVANT AND FRIEND OF CHRIST, Lingua Ignota:

For when the human you chose to save you declares himself God.

SPITE ALONE HOLDS ME ALOFT, Lingua Ignota:

For when the humans you trust keep letting you down, and you have some centuries alone in a tomb to think about it.

I Feel Blood, Gazelle Twin:

For when the human you chose to save you ends up perpetuating the culture that destroyed you.

I Am Shell I Am Bone, Gazelle Twin:

For when you're 4.5 billion years old and you have to watch humans invent Caltholicism 2.0.

Stranger Than Kindness, Fever Ray:

For when the one who loves you is the one to destroy you.

Human Touch, Gazelle Twin:

For when you're a monster in a human suit.

No Dog, Epsen and the Witch:

For when you're God's cavalier, but you're also a feral creature.

BODY/PRISON, HEALTH, Perturbator:

For when he builds you a new body and it's hideous.

MAY FAILURE BE YOUR NOOSE, Lingua Ignota:

For when you're alone on the shattered corpse of your old body with the one who was supposed to save you.

DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR, Lingua Ignota:

For when you're the Death of the Emperor. (If someone had told me this was written for Alecto I would have believed them.)

Of Suns, Tar Blossom:

For when you fucking get him.

Concrete Mother, Gazelle Twin:

For when you're filled with rage, but also love.

A Million Julys, Hunter as a Horse:

For when you want another chance at life.

[cutetanuki-chan]

I finished reading Frankenstein

[sableeira]

2025 sounds like the perfect year for the release of a fourth and final book in a sci-fi fantasy tetralogy with lesbian necromancers in space and a beautiful, strong, and angry barbie titular character

[adizzyninja]

Thinking over The Locked Tomb books and I love how clear it is that Thanergy, the magical death fuel for necromancy, is an inherently unsustainable energy. It’s meant to be this transitory little spark, a quick byproduct of the transition to death. Analogous to the way an actual fire burns out.

But it’s being artificially extended and induced in the entire solar system by one guy whose massive distaste for change is keeping everything held together and alive even when it totally shouldn’t be.

Just really appreciate how “necromancy as a rejection of change” is apparent in even the basic foundations of how the magic works.

[notedchampagne]

each house gets one rendering style the economy is dire

[floweroflaurelin]

Lyctor? I hardly know her!

I painted Jod and his duplicitous sluts in the style of Byzantine art!! I believe we are approaching my annual reread of the series... ✨⚔️💀⚔️✨

Closeups and print link under the cut!

Prints are 10% off for the New Year!

[foxy-alien]

"Who is Eden?"'Someone they left to die,' said God wearily.

(2/13)

First|Next

[tio-trile]

@scorpling: *galaxy brains* someone should draw the TLT necromancers as their corresponding Sailor Guardians

Me: Oh that sounds like a great idea. Too bad I've actually never watched Sailor Moon tho

Me:

Me: Palamedes in a miniskirt tho.

[the-velvet-worm]

has anyone in this fandom ever acknowledged the fact that harrow believes with 1000000% certainty that she was able to unlock the tomb because she's a Super Special Magical Girl (she is, not the point) and has no idea that it's only because she had gideon's blood/skin under her nails when she opened it

like what the fuck is learning this going to do to her chopped up little brain. it's going to destroy her. it's going to completely ruin her sense of self. the only reason she kept LIVING was because she was able to open the tomb and look upon the girl inside it. and to learn that it's NOT because she's The Necromancer Divine, that it's actually her life-long feud with gideon that allowed it to happen? that gideon is the biological child of the Emperor Undying? never mind all the other information we learn at the end of HtN while harrow is fighting gideon's bio mother in the river (she also doesn't even know that wake gave birth to gideon lol)

anyway I think harrow is going to feel very normal about all of this (she's absolutely not)

[commander--wake]

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars To earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for me When we came. Death seemed my servant on the road, till we were near and saw you waiting: When you smiled, and in sorrowful envy he outran me and took you apart: Into his quietness. Love, the way-weary, groped to your body, our brief wage ours for the moment Before earth’s soft hand explored your shape, and the blind worms grew fat upon Your substance. Men prayed me that I set our work, the inviolate house, as a memory of you. But for fit monument I shattered it, unfinished: and now The little things creep out to patch themselves hovels in the marred shadow Of your gift.

T.E. Lawrence, "Dedication to S.A." from Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[saiintofawe]

nona the ninth will always be one of the most beautiful and most painful books in the world to me because. it is about love in its every possible form. it's about the love you have for someone who takes care of you and the love you have for those you care for. it's about loving someone after seeing all their rough edges and ugly sides and choosing to love someone even if it hurts and even if you know it might doom you. it's about not choosing to love someone, but loving them anyway because sometimes it's not up to you to choose. it's about loving the dogs on the street and the stranger you met at the park and the child that never speaks to anyone in class. it's about loving the creases in someone's face when they laugh and the way their hips sway and how they can't stand still. it's about your love for the sea and the pang of grief at the tought that it is being poisoned. it's about the immense pain that comes with the loss of someone you loved. it's about bearing that loss, it's about letting that cut burn because its presence means that there was love. and that cannot be taken away. you have loved, you have been loved, and you always will. and the fact that it hurts and it ends doesn't erase the fact that at the end of the day, it's always love at the core of it all. in its every form and expression, by turning into rage, or kindness, or utterly destructive force, it all starts and ends in love. you can't remove that. you can't take loved away.

[fawntastic]

Plot twist: they all have skills on-par with doctors but four of them dgaf and the last is potentially a hallucination

[cutetanuki-chan]

the gods have forgotten the song of their love

guess he didn't brush her hair and dress her everywhere

[future-crab]

What if you were Pluto’s most devout nun and you found out the only two people you’ve ever had romantic feelings for were God’s dead girlfriend and God’s dead daughter. Like what are you even supposed to do with that information.

[unreachedgalaxy]

some anastasia the first for your tl today. i have always thought anastasia's was the first tongue to be sewn and her jaw-only facepaint is why the ninth house skull is jawless. anyway can't wait for alecto the ninth to release and prove me wildly incorrect