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my first favorite hobby is yapping. second is being extremely quiet and not talking ever at all ever.

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Zagreus is like to Gideon to me. They are both trying to escape hell, and their humor is similar. Also swords, gay, bone god daddy issues...

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"Kill them with kindness" Nah, fuck that, CRICKET BAT 🏏 🏏🏏🏏*SMACK* 🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏

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Found in the replies to a youtube comment about the type of parent who becomes upset when their son likes something pink:

robrob8500, purple-loving masculine boy from Donegal, Ireland, I would die for you.

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whoa look who just appeared in my hades 2 playthrough... crazy

#sooooo coool

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my mundane super power is being really good at picking out what strings of words can be sung to the tune of “teenage mutant ninja turtles.” this is primarily a curse.

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im pretty sure this is the writing flowchart Tamsyn followed.

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haunted

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Zelink, but in a t4t kind of way

#it’s the only way

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everyone can hate me for tjis but i started reading the locked tomb in 2018 so i have had more than enough time to realize i really find the fandom so so annoying and almost all my criticism for tm as a white author dipping her toes into writing about Maori people and their relations to colonialism have never been adressed after years and the fans still can only compare it to baru another speculative fantasy about colonialism written by a white author. the books are powerful but please i think there is something to be said of white authors making up genocides as allegories for real ethnic cleansings instead of simply platforming indigenous authors. i am willing to do a reread on baru to give it another chance and i love tlt. but i think a bit too much credit is given to Tamsyn Muir as an author for taking the typical approach of never confirming in text the race or ethnicity of her characters beyond a few vague mentions of skin tone and a tumblr post she made after the publication explaining things that should have been adressed straight on in the narrative.

and seth dickinson is clearly very educated and well-read but also my read of baru kind of had me thinking about how i never hear fans of the locked tomb raving about authors like Octavia Butler, Carmen Maria Machado, Andrea L. Rogers, Benjanun Sriduankaew, Jewelle Gomez or any other related fiction authors of queer stories born from their cultures and of their people.

as a white reader writer and creative, i want to encourage other white people to broaden your horizons and read lesbian and queer stories that weren’t written by white people and read new perspectives outside of your ethnicity. I have found deeper narratives that challenge colonialism here and without the need to invent fictionalized indigenous people and fictional brutalizations. Enough subtext ! Read something explicit!

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I think I'm on my 8th re read of The Locked Tomb help....

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I tried to find every hint about Alecto that Muir has given in interviews! I recommend reading through the full interviews bc they are all delightful to read.

On Canaan House:

On Gideon and Harrow's relationship:

On Harrow:

On Gideon's soul:

On Ianthe:

On Alecto:

On resurrection vs.rebirth:

#screaming