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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