Frontline Fanta of the Fourth

#tlt #TheLockedTomb

(Hat tip to
https://bsky.app/profile/kathryntewson.bsky.social/post/3mp3gm7o2u226)

Gideon Nav’s Vore Lore

The Locked Tomb is a book series that pitches itself with a clean, simple premise: lesbian necromancers in space. That is what it offers and that is what you get. It is a premise that delights me not because it’s just pithy but because this is a series of books that seems intent on screwing every single aspect of meaning it can out of those four words. This is a book where there are lesbians, and those lesbians are presented in a variety of different ways. There are normie lesbians and there are messed up lesbians and there are creepy lesbians and there are uncertain lesbians and there are naive and possibly even asexual lesbians. They are necromancers, and every different type of necromancer a reasonably competent Dungeons & Dragons player could come up with when desperately trying to find an angle the Dungeonmaster hadn’t thought of. And space? Yep, outer space is a big part of the story, both in how big it is and how things being in a particular position or location are important to the story.

But there’s that other word.

That little word.

In.

Because oh my, this is a story that does a lot with ‘in.’

I’m going to have to talk about The Locked Tomb’s world and things in it which means necessarily if you’re spoiler averse for a series that starts with a mystery novel, then you should go read that first, then come back to read this weird article that will, inevitably, wind up talking about vore. That is where it started in my notes and that’s where it’s going to end up.

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who would win
20 years of suppressed goth urges
one ginger idiot with a sword

#TheLockedTomb

Late Night at the Pool by Griselda_Gimpel - The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series... https://archiveofourown.org/works/85891431 via @ao3org

While posing as Dulcinea, Cytherea asks Gideon to meet her at the pool at night.

#FanFiction #TheLockedTomb

Harrowhark Is A D&D Dork Right

Okay I may need to explain that one a little better.

Oh, and spoiler warning, I’m going to mention some details of what’s in Harrow the Ninth. But no need for a big content warning for this one, I’m not going to bust out any weird or existential horror here (I don’t think).

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I finished my re-read of #TheLockedTomb series yesterday.

Still excellent.
Less confusing than the first time through (as Muir has written something very layered, with lots of details, references, characters etc.)

I don't find myself more confused, but I definitely picked up more connections and poignant moments the second time around, and so am stewing about this world and these delicious characters all over again.

We are all still waiting for the final book to be published so it's just limbo-hell right now.

What to read now?
Should I try to get through #RedRising again for the 4th time?

#NoSpoilers #AmReading

Locked Out Of The Tomb

Tamsyn Muir has remarked that one of the challenges of having made The Locked Tomb as a lifelong participant in fandom is that she cannot participate in or even look at the fandom that she created. That is, she is responsible for the existence of a fandom, and has chosen – for perfectly good reasons! – to avoid it.

I don’t think this is an abnormal activity, for any given author. Right now we live in a world where authors perhaps have to represent themselves in social spaces, and how they engage with that space largely up to the individual. I’ve dealt with a few successful authors on social media, but none I think of as being as successful as Muir is, and Muir has had dealings with the internet that seem to have led to her retreating from it.

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