I have never (until now) read a book written after 1900 that made me wish there were sparknotes but TLT has broken that seal

You ever finish a book and you’re like …. I’m a different person now

i love you tamsyn muir i love you space fantasy i love you necromantic sci fi i love you 'one flesh one end' i love you blurred platonic and romantic love so powerful it doesn't matter which it is i love you ridiculous meme references i love you everything ends but everything continues i love you post apocalyptic fiction that doesn't destroy hope i love you enormous unknowable unnameable threats i love you queer fiction i love you stupid jokes in the middle of emotional scenes that make me crack up laughing while the tears run down my face

There's nothing more satisfying than finally consuming a media and being able to remove all the blacklisted spoiler tags for it

Huevember day 4: The Penitent

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O corse of the Locked Tomb, I have loved thee all my life, with mine whole soul, and with mine whole strength. I would to God that I find grace in thy eyes. Destroy me according to thy word, for I love thee. ✨⚔️💀⚔️✨

alecto: I remember my vows. As I swore to Anastasia I swear to you. I am in your service until you bid me the favour, and whatsoever you appoint I shall perform, and consider the vow rendered. This is what I promised, until such a time as you deal with me as you see fit.

harrow: [heard “service” and got so hard she got nauseous] i think i hauve Covid

The Warden's Hand and the Warden's hand

thinking about alecto having experienced her one fear

My headcanon is that Ianthe dresses like an annoying ass tiktok influencer who's trying to sell you something. Also I didn't draw her skeleton arm because I am. Um. Lazy.

reading the locked tomb series is so interesting because it's all fun and games until suddenly it's an unsteady "griddle" and the end of a wedding vow and then it's "harrowhark, i gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it" and then i'm on the floor, sobbing

thinking about how harrow insisted that she can only share the ninth house’s secret with gideon if they are submerged in salt water. thinking about nona’s love of the ocean and about alecto being called a ‘saltwater creature’ on two (??) different occasions. also thinking about alecto’s favor to anastasia and the irony of the saltwater pool tradition being passed down through so many generations- but only on the ninth and with no real concept of where it started…

this is how i imagine john in his depressed slut era, drowning his sorrows in whiskey and sarpedon cock :3

So Nona is..... Harrow and Gideons lovechild?

harrow literally performed amateur open brain surgery on herself and bled out of her ears whenever the name gideon was mentioned for an entire book so she wouldn't destroy gideon's soul by absorbing her, considered sacrificing herself to the river or infinite madness instead of returning to her body just so gideon's spirit would remain intact even without any hope of ever resurrecting her, and gideon is still like ohhhrrr but she didn't even like me like that she was just into her freezermeat girlfriend

stupid lesbian trope up to the max

the narrative: and then they returned to where they started, but they were too irreversibly changed and it was all too different than how they left it so they could never truly go home ever again

me literally every single time despite the fact that like straight up 80% of all stories in human history do this