modern tlt au. what no alecto does to a mf

Character doomed by the narrative shows Earth a plant.

Riding home. hurts me each time to read Camilla get hurt... and OH MY GOD it's such a well written scene, I loved it so much.

the saint of devotion

I'm always thinking about how G— was an engineer. A damn good one: the sole engineer of the cryo project, good enough that of all the ten billion, the FTL project chose him to inspect their work, back when the project was still a pipe dream. He was a man from an immigrant family in an underprivileged area who became arguably the world's best engineer, which is impressive in its own right, but it gets me thinking... Pre-Resurrection, John says they can't grow food on Mars (and for all John's unreliability, that's pretty believable, given that the high perchlorate concentration in Martian soil is one of the big obstacles to carrying out a sustained Mars mission), and as silly as this might sound, the engineer and scientist divide is real, and of all the nerds that John resurrected, I can't imagine it was the artist or the contract lawyer or the medical and chemistry experts that made the Mars installation viable. Gideon made a House out of it, and one that accepts recruits from across the Dominican system! "Saint of Duty" is said to fit him, evident in his loyalty and commitment to the Cohort and fighting the Resurrection Beasts, but I have to wonder, how much of that was his commitment to making shit work? I can't shake the image of a couple million people awaking to a ruined world, and someone had to get the other Houses settled, figure out spacecraft and space habitats using what little supplies they have left, and what better candidate for that than the man who canonically engineered spacecraft twice?

ANON I love this so much. You're SO right, and you put into words something about G1deon and John's shared background that I've tried to articulate for a while. In the very first chapter, John says, "It wasn’t that they didn’t have the money for a bigger team; we were simply the only ones capable of what they were asking."

This was an incredibly elite team. They were a brilliant bunch of hyperspecialised nerds. And, like, among John's squad, A- and M- and everyone else started out as colleagues — very smart people he probably met in academic circles, where being smart was kind of a prerequisite. It was their research that brought them together to begin with.

G1deon, though! He was John's friend growing up. John knew his grandparents. They spotted each other spare changes for snacks!! Then John went on to Dilworth, then to university and then overseas, and G1deon had his own (probably different) academic path, and maybe they only stayed vaguely in touch, but when it was time to look for an engineer that could help them build spaceships constructed to provide life support to the whole of humanity for centuries — and G1deon was the guy for that.

The fact that two boys from similar underprivileged backgrounds individually made huge breakthroughs in their chosen fields, and got to work together on a project that was meant to save the world... I bet at the time it felt like a miraculous coincidence. I think they thought, if they'd made it that far, that they could do anything.

(yet another layer to the tragedy of what happened etc etc. G1deon torn between John and P—. John stopping G1deon's heart)

Thank you so much for all your thoughts about the Mars space installation, also — I wonder how long there was between Mars becoming the Second House (founded by G1deon! he and Pyrrha did the bulk of the work!) and the institution of the Third House, which doesn't have a named founder and might very well have been a shared project built on the blueprint of what G1deon set up. "the man who canonically engineered spacecraft twice" — my god I love this so much. It's G1deon emo hours today

Reasons to give oneself a lobotomy, according to Harrowhark Nonagesimus:

1. Your nemesis/only friend sacrificed herself for you and you don't want to permanently eat her soul

2. God maybe had a threesome with two of his Lyctors before

wild how harrow just gave gideon her body like it wouldn't be the most unimaginable torture. like imagine if u had to live in the body of the love of ur life. look in the mirror every day and see them. running their hands over their hair as u tie it back. feeling their skin but its not them anymore. having no idea if they're ever coming back. wow.

my crepuscular queen

Had way too much fun messing around with my nupastel so I had no choice but to draw harrow 🫶

pyrrha, cam, and palamedes in that apartment with nona

premetto che non sono soddisfatta da questo disegno e ho rinunciato a farci lo sfondo. ah! assolutamente non una scusa per disegnare Gideon nelle maledettissime AU di Harrow!

The Locked Tomb (Mithraeum gang) + Umineko

Sprites under cut!

Here is the deal. Nothing is the locked tomb except the locked tomb (and arguably homestuck) but I also generally discourage reading a book more than three times in a row without somthing in between. And sometimes in the dark of night on the toilet at 3am....I start to panic that no other story will rewrite my brain in such wonderfull ways.

But there are stories that do send a lot of the same juicy neurotransmitters though my brain.

I think the trick is that none of them are trying to be the locked tomb.....but they were constructed with the same thoughtfull care as the locked tomb

Please add your own on. I need more

The queens theif series by Megan Whan Turner. It's 5 books published between 1996 and 2020. The first book, The Theif won a Newbury award. But I'd say that the series is suitable for adults. The narration is intimate without ever being explicit. And it is amazing. It's best to go in blind and to read in order. It will make you feel all the feelings. You will howl and cry and laugh and gnash your teeth.

Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in dungeon by Ryoko kui. Read the Manga or watch the anime; both are stunning and funny and engaging. Then go back and think about what you have seen again. And dig into the extra material the author has put out. The world and charecters are consistent and clever and deep and you will love them. Ryoko loves her charecters. She loves her world. And she's kindly invited us into it. And the hours you spend thier will never feel wasted.

can’t wait for Pyrrha to be the Dad That Stepped Up in AtN

Kirianthe. To me

would you let camilla gingerly check you over for a botched lobotomy? i would.

I love the locked tomb cause you could tell me the most insane made up shit about it and I'd fully believe you no questions asked