#the locked tomb fancomic

[thechekhov]

Harrow's necromantic power includes the ability to create underlighting whenever it's necessary.

Bonus:

[empty-pizza]

thoughts on the start of chapter two of gideon the ninth

alright if there's one thing i know about the locked tomb, it's that is has gideon in it

if there's two things that i know about the locked tomb, it's that it has gideon and harrow in it

but the third thing is not, as you might expect in the titular sense, that it might potentially have nona in it. no, the third thing is that people like drawing art of gideon and harrow. i don't think i had many expectations for what their relationship would be like, just that it'd be something good for the cute or angsty fancomics.

all of that said, when the haughty, self-important Lady of the Ninth House showed up to be mean to Gideon, i did not expect that character to BE Harrowhark. this raises questions. i think the odds of this not being the only character named Harrowhark are pretty low, so that means that the nature of this relationship is probably? maybe? going to change drastically. we'll see i guess. anyway honestly she had a sick burn on gideon's kinda shitty escape attempt.

[to-fanartists-with-love]

Below are the main tags by medium and under the link to the tags, all the fandoms I've posted about in alphabetic order. The fandom and the characters that appear are tagged too but you're gonna have to look into my blog search function. You can also search the tags by canon art, gif, collage or doujinshi (for fancomics).

anime (aka. all animation bc I'm too lazy to modify the tag with the proper name)

blue eyed samurai, code geass, castlevania, link click, mawaru penguindrum, puella magi madoka magica, shojo kakumei utena, trigun stampede, yuuri on ice

book

all for the game, all of us villains, a song of fire and ice, bartimaeus trilogy, edas, greenwing and dart, kane chronicles, kingkiller chronicle, kusuriya no hitorigoto, les miserables, nine worlds, omniscient reader's viewpoint, percy jackson universe, silmarillion, the scholomance, the folk of the air, the locked tomb, the vampire chronicles, villains series, wheel of time

comic

dc universe

danmei

bing an ben, erha he ta de bai mao shizun, golden terrace, liu yao: the revitalization of fuyao sect, modao zushi, mo du, tian guan ci fu, tian ya ke, qiang jin jiu, qian qiu, scum villain self saving system, yuwu, zhen hun

film

dune 2021, star wars, the handmaiden

manga

akatsuki no yona, banana fish, berserk, bleach, blue period, boku no hero academia, bungou stray dogs, cardcaptor sakura, death note, detective conan, d.gray man, dungeon meshi, eroica yori ai wo komete, fullmetal alchemist, hetalia, hikaru ga shinda natsu, hikaru no go, hunter x hunter, jibaku shonen hanako-kun, jujutsu kaisen, kaze to ki no uta, kuroshitsuji, magic kaito, naruto, one piece, pandora hearts, ranma 1/2, rg veda, shaman king, showa genroku rakugo shinjuu, spy x family, soul eater, tsubasa reservoir chronicle, uruwashi no yoi no tsuki, vampire knight, vanitas no shuki, witch hat atelier, xxxholic, x/1999, yugioh, yu yu hakusho

original art

tv show

house of the dragon, interview with a vampire, nirvana in fire, the untamed, wheel of time, word of honor

video game

genshin impact, persona 5

webcomic

girl genius, homestuck

Enjoy! And remember it's always nice to like, reblog or comment if you loved the art!

[fishfingersandscarves]

*sees fish reblogging locked tomb fancomics* *starts foaming at the mouth* wow the gothic media you consume is very vibes very interesting and also same.

Thank u thank u

[bdor1995]

what if i make a multipage locked tomb fancomic of the deliquent au i made months back

[betatrolls]

Re: the locked tomb- the author also worked on the popular homestuck fanfic/fancomic "promstuck".

anon this does nothing but complicate things further. good to knowv i guess

[thewebcomicsreview]

If you look up “How to make a magic system” over on the Google, you’ll get a lot of advice. Make it “hard magic”, focus on the cost of casting spells, Think about the effects of magic on society, blatantly rip of bending from Avatar, etc etc etc. People will often say that the best magic systems are stuff like Avatar, FullMetal Alchemist, or Battle Anime where people spend thirty pages explaining their stand, with a very strong preference for Hard Magic, but as a general rule and especially if your protagonist is a spellcaster themselves. It’s one of those iron-clad rules of fantasy writing: The ability of magic to solve problems in directly proportional to the audience’s ability to understand magic. There are tons of writing guides that make it very clear that you can’t make a successful fantasy story where the main character can resolve issues with some nebulous vaguely defined and unexplained magical abilities, like using some kind of “guide the arrows to hit the target” spell that was never so much as hinted was one of his powers until the moment he uses it.

Audiences just won’t put up with it!

Prequel is a fancomic based on the Elder Scrolls series of games. This presents it with an issue when trying to tell a story of a girl who slowly becomes a powerful and heroic wizard: It’s magic system has to line up with a video game, one with a fairly generic “wave your hands and a spell happens and your MP goes down” magic system, where wizards can shoot fireballs, heal, walk on water, pick locks, summon monsters, summon pants, turn invisible, trap souls, move things telekinetically, etc. with no real underlying logic connecting it all. How do you make it interesting to learn about? 

One thing Prequel does that’s kind of clever is that it leans into the inherent “softness” and inconsistent nature of the Elder Scroll’s games and really digs into how fucking frustrating it must be to learn how to be a wizard in a soft magic setting.

Every single spell or magical effect in Prequel has an entirely unique set of rules for how that one spell works. Destruction magic is based on emotions, mysticism is apparently more of a logic and understanding, summoning is literally calling a tech support hotline....

Which is neat and all, but none of that really matters. What makes this so interesting is how all this magic shit relates to Katia, because she’s the protagonist and it’s her story.  And Katia’s got a bit of a problem that gets her into trouble a lot, an emotional boom-and-bust cycle that works like this:

Things go badly for Katia

Katia has an emotional crash

Katia tries to fix things (in this case by raiding a tomb to find treasure)

Katia has a lucky break

Having succeeded at something, Katia gets overconfident that her entire life has managed to turn a corner and that she’s transformed into a cool and successful new person

Things go badly for Katia

Katia has an emotional crash.

This is a enough of a repeated pattern that the above panel is where a lot of people apparently drop Prequel, convinced it’s just gonna be misery porn. Katia needs to get control of her emotions. She needs to learn to think more carefully. She needs to be able to change the parts of herself she wants to be different.

Anyway, we were talking about magic. The first spell Katia learns is powered by her emotions, taking her hurt feelings when experiencing racist micro-aggressions and channeling those feelings more productively.

Once Katia learns this ability, then the next time she has a big emotional crash-

Is the time where she manages to lot let her negative emotions control her.  And at no point does the comic explicitly make the connection between Katia learning to channel her negative emotions in magic and Katia managing to overcome her negative emotions and quit drinking.

I mean, yes, the act of refusing to give in to despair causes Katia to immediately get her fire powers super-charged, but because this is treated as a problem for her to solve (”Oh shit everything’s on fire!”), the connection is one of those things you have to put together yourself, or have a Webcomics tumblr point out to you. 

The second spell she learns is based thinking logically and realizing that things don’t inherently have to be the way they are.

In this case, the connection is reversed. Katia learns “to think like a Witch-hunter” and gains Telekinesis. 

And this causes her to do something she’s never really done: Make a plan. Once she learns to think like a Witchhunter, Katia does a lot more thinking generally, and doesn’t rush headlong into bad ideas nearly as often. 

The magic system in Prequel isn’t interesting because it follows rules or because it’s well understood in a way that makes it easy to slot your OC into it. It’s interesting because it’s tailor-made for Katia’s personal character arc.

And so while healing magic being a time of time travel is a cool idea (and one I independently had for Saffron and Sage before Prequel did it, for the record), what makes it really interesting is that the key is “believing in yourself harder”. The reason Katia can’t get a handle on how restoration works isn’t some worldbuilding lore, it’s because she hasn’t gotten to that point in her character arc quite yet. 

Because ultimately the worldbuilding exists to serve the story, and doing what serves the story is always going to be better than doing what some guide on the internet says is the “right” way to do something.

[godliath]

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[empty-pizza]

locked tomb liveblog time

It's time. It's what it says up there ^ so I don't think I'll have to explain much. I read the books, blind, for the first time. I post many reactions here. Hopefully it's funny and entertaining for you people who have read the series 1+ times.

What do I know going in? Not much, but through friends talking about it and seeing bits of fanart and fancomics I've definitely picked up some vibes. I know there's the lesbian necromancers, and even some outer space, but I also know that's not an entirely accurate impression. I know there's memes. And I know shit goes absolutely insane.

I have probably picked up random spoilers here and there that I mostly forgot the details of. So there's a chance I might get some twist and say "Oh shit I actually heard about this ages ago but I had totally forgotten." I don't think I know anything that will really affect my readthrough, and even if I did I think I'd still have a great time actually experiencing it.

Oh yeah, and I know that two of the series' inspirations were, to varying degrees, Homestuck and Umineko. Both of those stories are like, top 10 most influential works of fiction on my life. And both, despite major flaws, do some of the most insane metafictional genre-bending things I've ever experienced. So I'd say that's good company to be in. I don't know if Locked Tomb will even try to do the same kinds of insane shit those did, but if nothing else I hope to have fun spotting any references.

Hopefully I remember to tag all of my posts with #pizza reads locked tomb.