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transbutchbluess · 6 months

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Thoughts : Harrowhark Nonagesimus and Gideon Nav from TLT as a Hades and Persephone parallel.

I thought about this at exactly 4:30am and it’s 8am now, which means I haven’t yet figured out if it’s interesting or completely stupid, so bear with me. It’s probably bullshit but who knows.

Harrow as the god of the dead (but not of death) makes sense. Bones and shit. Also she’s the Reverent Daughter of the Ninth, and the Ninth is Pluto, and Pluto is Hades’ Roman equivalent.

Now : the equivalent of Persephone’s kidnapping by Hades is Gideon being forced to serve the Ninth and then being forcefully taken to the First House by Harrow. She makes it very clear she’d like to be anyway but there. (Also during her childhood she keeps daydreaming of her mother and saying her parents will come back to help her. Mh. I can’t see any parallels between Wake and Demeter, but John as Zeus makes sense.)

Then, there’s the fact that Gideon considers herself married to Harrow. Her last words to Harrow were wedding vows. (When she tells Camilla ‘Marry a moron and die. I get the urge.’)

When she is resurrected, she isn’t resurrected fully. Her body is still dead and Harrow ate a part of her soul : she is a new person. (Persephone ate the pomegranate seeds (a metaphor for marriage, the fruit being associated to Hera) and she goes back to the surface but will always be tied to the underworld and has to go back every year.) Her name is changed to reflect that, from Gideon to Kiriona (from Kore to Persephone).

Another thing : when she is resurrected she meets her dad, the guy she kept daydreaming would be very important and get her out of the Ninth. And he is important ! He’s God. He also doesn’t really help her at all since he is the one who only resurrect her partially, letting her body dead. (Zeus is the one who agreed to Persephone going in the underworld and still being tied to it.)

It’s very likely that my brain is just desperate to create more links between my hyperfixation and my special interest but I thought I’d share. I’m aware that Gideon doesn’t seem to ever have a period of innocence/happy childhood, unlike Kore.

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #tlt series #tlt analysis #greek mythology #greek gods #ntn #kiriona gaia #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav

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the-ghost-bracket · 9 months

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Commander Wake propaganda:

"She's the angriest woman in the universe, she's so dedicated to get revenge that she survives as a ghost haunting a sword for like 20 years"

"One of the main characters' birth parent, she's so dedicated to her cause that she stayed attached to her skull, then her daughter's sword, then manipulated the other main character to stab a dead body so she could inhabit it."

"Spends a LOT of time killing people in a dream using guns, in a series where no character had even mentioned guns existing up until that point. Possesses the protagonist of Harrow the Ninth and manifests mostly as hallucinations of all-caps ranting about her two lovers, one of whom murdered her. Possesses the corpse of a saint and maaaybe has sex with one of those lovers, as a corpse?

More importantly she tries to put God on trial for crimes against humanity. While possessing the corpse of a saint."

"First of all, yes that’s her name. Commander Wake for short. She was killed 20 years before the events of the books and is the mother of the main character. She possesses her daughters sword and uses that to get around. To avoid describing half the plot of the first book I’ll just say that the sword and daughters girlfriend (and daughter but not daughters body which is dead rip) end up on Gods spaceship where he swings with the older saints. Wake possesses the girlfriend and uses that to stab a corpse with the sword so she can possess the corpse and get around. While in the corpse she crawls around trying to kill god, kill her ex who killed her and make out with her ex who didn’t kill her (this made difficult by the two exes currently sharing a body). While in her daughters girlfriend she essentially acts as the villain in a psychological horror movie except she has a gun also. She is trying to kill her daughters girlfriend so she can take over her body and use it to kill god. She is eventually defeated by slam poetry. I’m not even kidding. "

"WOW THIS PERSON WON'T LET GO

-leader of a terrorist organization, dies on her most important mission (bringing a baby to pluto to kill them, which will open a door leading to the ghost of the earth)

-her ghost refuses to come when summoned, only eventually showing up to scream angrily and disappear

-didn't actually disappear, instead haunted her own bones for years

-eventually her daughter Gideon (the baby she only referred to as ""bomb"") is old enough to have a sword and she visits Wake's bones regularly, then Wake moves to haunt the sword for years

-Gideon sacrifices herself to save her necromancer Harrowhark, but Harrow tried to save her back so now Gideon is haunting Harrow's brain while Harrow is left in possession of the sword

-Wake uses the sword to possess both Harrow and the body of a saint Harrow and Gideon just killed, meanwhile Harrow accidentally made her memories a bubble full of the ghosts of everyone she met in the previous book

-Wake rewrites Harrow's already rewritten memories further by trying to murder all the memory bubble ghosts

-simultaneously, Wake uses the body of the saint to resume her relationship with the ghost possessing the saint who killed her, then drags that person to an incinerator and leaves both inhabitants of that body to die (again in the ghost's case)

-in the bubble Harrow and the ghosts eventually resort to summoning the ghost of a famous swordsman from Harrow's house to have even a chance of defeating Wake, which only removes her from Harrows mind while she's free elsewhere

-Wake in the dead saint's body insults the emperor while he questions her, her ex in the other saint's body bursts in and shoots her in the head

-not convinced she can't come back again, she's too tenacious to re-die

TL;DR: Wake has been dead for 20 years and is an expert at haunting multiple people simultaneously, killing people, and not staying gone

Also she's a complex character, at first seems like she's heartless with the way she plans to murder Gideon and leaves her ex to die, but it's revealed that she deeply loved her sister and niece- she's capable of caring, she just doesn't when it comes to the characters we care about

Also also, her entire name is a massive F you to the man/emperor/self-proclaimed ""god"" she dedicated her life to destroying, and she made him say and think about the whole thing when she interacted with him"

"One of the worst mothers ever. Stole god’s cum in an intergalactic plot to end the greatest form of imperialism. Referred to her baby as “the bomb” and died while trying to get it to the destination (one of the enemies (who she was also **entangled** with) kicked her out an airlock) and eventually started. Haunting her kid’s sword. Total mess. Terrible woman. I love her."

"She died to save her newborn baby who got named after her murder. She possessed her daughter’s sword to haunt the woman her daughter died to save. Then she possessed some people and killed some people. Iconic"

#ghost poll #ghost bracket #propaganda #awake remembrance of these valiant dead #commander wake #the locked tomb #tlt

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liesmyth · 10 months

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thinking about john and kiri having drunken daddy-daughter nights; kiri tearfully confesses that she's always wanted to have harrow's babies so harrow could never leave her (john nods along and thinks abt eggs)

MORE EGGS IN MY INBOX HAPPY MONDAY TO ALL

Ok listen. I see your vision re: John but I can't see it re: Kiriona. She isn't the baby-trapping kind. On the other hand, Harrow spent her teenage years going out of her way to come up with Clever Plans to thwart Gideon's escape attempt plans because HOW dare my Griddle run tf away from Pluto?

So if anything, Harrow is the one who wants Gideon's babies so that she can never leave. The babies in this scenario are, like, Gideon's sword or something. Maybe bones.

#Anonymous #ask #elle tlt posting #tlt

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skullfacedfruitcakee · 1 year

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Thinking abt “I pray the tomb is shut forever” bc Harrow dedicated her entire life and everything that she is to the ninth house and being the reverend daughter, already bc she’s the genocide baby, and then esp. when her parents offed themselves bc of her actions, leaving her (ft. Crux and idk others) the ruler of an entire planet (Pluto, population: like 30 ppl, no kids btw) and the prayer that represents the ninth house and all that it stands for she has to always recite “I pray the tomb is shut forever”. Bro is she the antichrist???

#the locked tomb #idk if this makes sense #harrow I love you so much #tlt #gtn #nona the ninth spoilers #gideon the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus

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chaos-has-theories · 1 year

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Sat down last night and in a fugue wrote a 3500 word outline about overcoming generational trauma and Gideon returning to the Ninth after a decade in the cohort, only to find a new kid with too-small robes and a too-big sword.

And I love my outline, don't get me wrong, but what I really learned from it is that even in the best of circumstances, the Ninth is a terrible place for a child. Tish is fine, that's the whole point: Ortus loves his daughter, and Harrow has gone into cool-aunt mode reading every book about child psychology she could get her hands on. Ortus takes his paint off in the afternoon so she gets to see human faces; her rooms are full of color, and everyone loves her. Not like Harrow, who was held up as an example; not like Gideon, who was trampled underfoot.

But... it's still an abbey on Pluto. It's still full of rules and devoid of anything but rocks and bones.

There still aren't any other children.

I started the outline, thinking that in a way, everyone gets what they wanted. Harrow swallows her pride and asks the Sixth for help in renewing her house. Gideon finally pays back her debt to the Ninth house, but realizes that she can't fully leave it behind as long as Harrow is alive.

Drearburh continues, but is filled with life again, as it might have been when there were 200 children roaming its halls.

But... it doesn't work. Here's Harrow, having to decide whether she can bear to do to more generations what was done to her and Gideon; or whether she can bear to leave the Body unattended. Here's Gideon, having to recognize that the cohort may be brighter and louder, that her skills are appreciated as they never were before; but that in the end, it takes and takes just like the Ninth did.

(Here's me, having to figure out how to end the fic.)

#idk just got maudlin thinking about it #I definitely won't figure it out before finishing Nona (almost there!)#the locked tomb #chaos writes

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pawtistics · 1 year

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Hiiiiiii Rapunzel ❤ Whats The Locked Tomb About? Consider This A Gush Pass >:3c

HI I LOVE THIS ASK AND I LOVE YOU EXCEPT I DONT KNOW HOW TO FUCKING. ANSWER.

each book is very different from the one before it,, and it has so many themes and concepts that PROBABLY SHOULDNT GO TOGETHER BUT THEY DO? Uhm uhmhm.

there r two major Kinds of Guys, necromancers and the cavaliers tht protect and support them. there r also several flavors of necromancy but rly only one traditional type of cav. this takes place in space after society fucking got Killed Dead BY GOD! a guy that MADE himself god, CALLED himself god, by killing the earth (and transforming her into a living doll and then locking her in the tomb the series is named after) and i hate him so much ^x^ !

our solar system got faqing resurrected (by god. his name is john) but theyre numbered and all inhabited now, the first house thru the ninth house. we focus a Huge Amnt on the ninth (pluto! 💙) bc this is where Our Girls come from. thats where the locked tomb (😱) is. god summons each house for a chance to become lyctors which r like super pawerful beings that serve him. saints.

There are two (2) young people on the decrepit Ninth, and those r gideon and harrow! harrow is the daughter to the leaders of their house who were……………… 😒 tbf harrow can also be that way BUT ITS. ITS. NOT THE SAME. She is also a skilled necromancer !! All of this puts her in a position of power whereas gideon very much Is Not, bc she was just a random baby dropped onto this planet by.. ‘accident’. Theres a lot that causes the rest of the house to dislike her but still none of it is any fair bc shes literally a kid being abused.

gideon is not harrow’s cavalier at FIRST, tho she is a swordswoman (🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰). due to uh Circumstances she does become harrow’s cav. Important to note: they hate each other really badly‼️‼️ they do NOT treat each other well at first but it’s also like. they hate each other in lieu of hating themselves. they’re utterly devoted to each other . one doesn’t exist without the other, no matter how violently they express it. they travel to the first house to pursue lyctorhood;; bunch of fucked up shit happens;;;;;;;;;; and they get a lot closer — expressing secrets … and affection — just to lose each other :3 and a certain girl reacts Really Well to this and spends an entire book (the second one!) making herself really really fucking sick about it.

i will not discuss THAT further and i will not even Attempt the third book. I DONT KNOW HOW TO …… talk a normal amoooooooount i hope this described Something. thank you 🥹

#🍎#ask to tag #i didnt even get into the themes of suicide. i love talking about . Them. The. FUCKING. THE FUCKING #tlt spoilers

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cultofcreatures · 2 years

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My Top 10 Thriller Films of All Time

These are the most thrilling films I personally have ever seen. I love all types of dark, scary cinema, so I sort of lump thrillers together with horror in my brain. I ranked them based on how much I like them and how thrilled I was lol, so this is 100% not definitive.

10. Fight Club (1999)- Amazon Prime

Subgenres: Drama

A disillusioned office employee’s life gets a little more interesting when he meets a strange soap salesman who introduces him to the world of underground fighting.

TW: alcohol, blood, body horror, self h*rm, violence, guns

I’m sure many of y’all have seen this one. This one is more just good and classic than thrilling. Don’t get me wrong; it definitely has its moments. The end is still so good all these years later. I just couldn’t not have it on this list.

9. Se7en (1995)- Pluto TV, HBO Max

Subgenres: Crime, drama

A veteran detective is paired up with a rookie in order to solve a string of elaborate murders.

TW: Blood, body horror, gore, alcohol, violence, guns

I get the vibe that this inspired Saw a little bit. It’s extremely brutal and pulls no punches. You just never know where John Doe will pop up next. I found myself a little bit...excited? to see John Doe’s next kill? The kills are very expressive and almost artistic. And it’s sort of a rollercoaster from start til finish, too. Truly thrilling til the end.

8. I Am Mother (2019)- Netflix

Subgenres: Scifi, apocalyptic

Following a mass extinction event, a maternal robot raises a teenage girl in an effort to repopulate the Earth when one day, a stranger arrives at their door.

TW: Violence, medical scenes, blood

The journey Daughter goes on to uncover the truth about Mother is so harrowing to me. The slow realization she had gives me the chills just thinking about it. Also, the acting is top notch (duh, Hilary Swank) I really can’t say too much more without spoiling it. You’ll just have to trust me on this rec ;).

7. Revenge 2017)- Shudder

Subgenres: Action, r*pe revenge

A young woman is ass*ulted and left for dead on a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend. She then embarks on a quest for revenge.

TW: SA, guns, body horror, gore, blood, violence

Like I said on Letterboxd: This film has strong symbolism, good throwback music, strong camerawork, good stylistic choices, and good talent. It all adds up to one very thrilling package. You just know she’s got this because she has a fire in her eyes, but you’re still not 100% sure she’s going to make it because of how disadvantaged she is in this situation. That’s where the tension comes from. Especially when she lets her fierce façade slip.

6. Promising Young Woman (2020)- Hulu, HBO Max

Subgenres: Dark comedy

Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is busy living a double life when an encounter with someone from the past gives her a chance to right some wrongs.

TW: SA, su*cide, domestic violence, alcohol

This one I found to be on the less thrilling, but more enjoyable side. I think it was a little difficult to tell if we were supposed to be rooting for Cassie or not throughout the film because we aren’t certain of what she’s up to. Maybe that’s why I found it to be a little less thrilling. But that end reveal (? I guess you could call it that?) is SO dope. It ties a thrilling, satisfying bow right on top of the feminist package.

5. Coherence (2013)- Pluto TV, Tubi, Crackle

Subgenres: Supernatural, existential, scifi

A group of friends is gathered for a dinner party during an astronomical event that causes weird things to start happening.

TW: Alcohol, drugs

This is what I wrote on my last post about this film:

“This film excels at disorienting you by making you question the characters and their true intentions. It even makes you question whether YOU are a good person or your own evil twin. What are we capable of that we didn’t think we were? There are other movies that do this, but this one is subtle and makes you think you know the answer before turning it on its head.”

All of that, yes. I am continually impressed by what filmmakers can do with a slim budget.

4. Behind Her Eyes (2021)-Netflix

Subgenres: Psychological, supernatural

A single mother enters a salacious world of mind games when she begins an affair with her boss and a friendship with his wife.

TW: Su*cide, alcohol, drugs, pregnancy problems

You can tell Adele has some weird shit going on from almost the get-go. Thinking about her vibes is giving me chills. The writing is so good; it gives you little hints throughout the story, which added to the mystery. Themes of jealousy in the show also make it feel a little bit more salacious and dangerous.

Based on what I’ve seen online, it seems like people either love or hate this limited series. More specifically, the ending. My. Head. Exploded. I LOVE the ending. It absolutely wrecked me lol. I couldn’t recommend this show enough. You might hate it, but you will NOT be bored by it.

3. El Hoyo (The Platform) (2019)- Netflix

Subgenres: Scifi, dystopian

In the future, there is a prison with vertical cells, down through which a platform of food is served. The people at the top tend to gorge themselves, and people further down starve.

TW: Food troubles, starvation, violence, SA, blood, gore, su*cide, racial slur

The crown jewels of this film are the acting and writing. The thrills come from the character development and the dire situation our protagonist finds himself in. I always want to try to analyze why this film gets to me so much, but I can’t really ever pinpoint it. Maybe it’s the denial of necessities and watching what people will do when they get desperate.

2. Greenland (2020)- Hulu, HBO Max

Subgenres: Apocalyptic, existential

John (Gerard Butler), Allison (Morena Baccarin), and their son get several notifications that they’ve been chosen to go to a bunker in Greenland for an imminent mass extinction event, and they must fight everyone in hysterics to get there.

TW: Violence, guns, blood, explosions, gore

From my first entry on this film:

“This film is more of an existential terror. You will see that I generally find realism to be the scariest, and that rings true here. This film really felt like it was probably how this situation would be handled. Everything from the woman begging Gerard Butler to save her child to the US government flying its most important people to an underground bunker for safety. You will find yourself rooting for Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin to make it through this truly harrowing and emotional ordeal, from which escape seems impossible. There’s just a relentless feeling of dread and desperation throughout the whole film.”

1.Oldboy (2003)-Hulu, HBO Max

Subgenres: Mystery, revenge

Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik) is a belligerent drunk who gets kidnapped and held prisoner in a single hotel room for 15 years. When he is finally released, he seeks out his mysterious captor for revenge.

TW: Blood, gore, violence, su*cide, SA, guns, inc*st

I think this film is the one that made me realize I actually like cinema as more than a casual viewer when I watched it for the first time in 2009. It is thrilling to watch Dae-Su fight his way to the person who abducted and imprisoned him. It all comes together so deliciously. Revenge on revenge. This ends in a similar way to Behind Her Eyes. It’s very shocking and unexpected. One of my all-time favorite films, for sure.

I know there are some repeats, but that’s only because those films legitimately belong on both lists, imo. Let me know if I missed any trigger warnings, and I'll add them. What did y’all think? Do you agree? What are your top thriller films? Hmu!

I’m thinking of making these lists into videos and/or turning this blog into a horror blog (I don’t have time to run multiple blogs). What would you beautiful folx think about that?

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bookphobe · 3 years

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PLUTO AS AN IMAGINED NETFLIX SERIES + (PARTS OF) TITLE CARD

tina can you please actually write instead of avoiding it by making graphics and daydreaming did anyone hear something?? no ?? ok good.. anyway... ive been seeing amazing netflix mockups of wips lately and decided to give it a try for pluto!

read below the cut for more info + taglist !

template i used for the netflix bits here. & if anyone's curious, the font i used for 'Pluto' is called NoMark

Here is pluto: the netflix series!!!!!!!!!! everyone close their eyes and imagine it... and pretend it's there and that it's good. okay. alright. i imagine the title card & credits bit to be more sophisticated- that's only a rough idea of how i imagined it hehe. writing scripts for shows & film is actually one of my writing dreams! visual media has been something i digest much easier than novels nowadays (just stating facts 😔 creating this blog is a part of my process of trying to get back into reading and Literature in general) and while things like shot composition and other aspects of filmmaking i'm less knowledgeable on, screenplays i find really interesting

Episode List

1. MORSE — Javi takes in a runaway. A young writer recounts his harrowing ordeal following his recent arrival to the town of Fell Island.

2. SWALLOW'S EDGE — Elsa adjusts to her new life, but her past keeps a tight grip. An experienced hiker finds themselves in a rocky situation.

3. WHAT'S IN A NAME — An odd presence visits the diner. A park ranger investigates a rumour surrounding the woods.

4. WONDERLAND — A chance discovery makes Javi question his decision. A determined mother shares her story and searches for her missing daughter.

5. FROM THE WOODS — Elsa tries to get closer to Nico, but her intentions are not what he thinks they are. Cosette puzzles over what she saw.

tv pluto is a bit different than book pluto in that book pluto is, in my head, much shorter than how i imagine tv pluto to be (about 2 seasons, 8-12 eps max?? 😗), and so there would def be more content added that focus on the interpersonal reationships in tv pluto. things like storylines etc would have to be shuffled around & adjusted as well because tv and word are different mediums after all. also pluto employs the framing device - there's an outer story, concerning the customers & employees, human and non-human (wink wonk), and then they spill their tales, the inner stories; the idea of exploring that concept on tv pluto, especially with the added advantage of visuals, is cool!! and ,,, a little bit ambitious tbh since the outer story is also complex-if not more-than the inner stories. that being said the tales told during the episodes are pretty short and won't take too much of the episode time so actually hmm there'll be enough room for everything i imagine. the show would have the same vibes as these images

(CURSED™️). lots of scenes would b framed as if you were just looking in, a bystander watching these people, or watching thru the pov of the town itself as it watches its organisms' every move. notable songs in this soundtrack (i will post a link to the spotify playlist soon 🤪🤪) include strange fruit by billie holliday, and you are my sunshine, sung by johnny cash (after seeing annabelle: creation that song has not ceased in reminding me of demons LMAO). i'm a big fan of innocuous enough songs being turned into songs being paired w things that r the complete opposite of its original vibe u kno it's so Unsettling

❤️ pluto taglist @carlyiswriting @berinswriting @nightmares-and-fireflies @aetherwrites @oasis-of-you @odysseywritings @haldimilks @chloeswords @isherwoodj @avi-burton-writing @themillionthdraft @ryns-ramblings @kitblogsthings @writingbyjillian @pamsdrabbles @piyawrites @bijouxs @ravens-and-rivers @spencers-tomes

#i imagine... a show would work too for tsonr #as for gods returned #if GR were to turn into a show it'd be animated definitely #atla-style or netflix's castlevania-style #wip: pluto #netflix #myedit #writeblr community #atlastracking #etherealcove #writing #writeblr

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leona-florianova · 3 years

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Can I get a rundown of the Locked Tomb Trilogy? I know I could read a summary on Google, but like, wanna hear it from someone corporeal

*googles the definition of "corporeal"* aw shoot and this is the thing i strive against...

Yeah anyway... so far I have only read Gideon the ninth and Harrow the ninth and there might be more but im not sure whats going on cause im not entirely invested in the fandom and whenever anything new from the series conveniently appears for free i will read it.

I dunno how to summarize the series without too many spoilers + im incredibly bad at puting thoughts together..

so im just gonna say that...first and second book are VERY DIFFERENT...and there is no point in summarizing the second one really if you havent read the first...

Gideon the Ninth is about a butch sword wielding lesbian jock (Gideon), who lived her whole life cloistered on a horrible death cultist space station on some terribly moribund planet (that might or might not be ex Pluto) and would like to leave... The only other teenager on the whole planet is a 17 year old nun necromancer supreme (the reverend daughter Harrowhark) And they hate each other with passion so very very much...for REASONS.

One day Harrowhark is asked to participate in some event that might result in saving the planet from its total moribundnes moribundussness...

N its required of her to bring a bodyguard, but because stuff happened with her original bodyguard, she has to do with Gideon, who lacks any manners whatsoever.

Anyway... the event is a fun treasure hunt inside an abandoned floating city... with murder mystery peppered in for extra tension

There is like 15 or how many other participants... Both necromancers and their bodyguards from... 7? other planets.. i cant count.. just bunch of people... And nobody really knows whats the point of the whole event, but there is definitelly something fucked up going on....

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Oh yeah and there is some wlw stuff.. which is cool but cause i rarely pay attention to relationshippy stuff I was more interested in the whole clusterfuck of fantasy/scifi laws and worlbuilding this series has going on...

in this universe:

- Necromancer is an umbrella term for person able to shape either body or soul... With no regard to laws of physiscs as we know it.

- The more sickly n moribund the necromancer is the stronger they are... or if more death n decay happended around them... So I imagine they all look kinda sh*t.

- One thing that took some getting used to while reading was the... use of recent expressions used in memes... Which is initially weird considering the scifi setting.. but hey... we also sometimes use whole sentences from classical literature, right? :y

- I dunno whats the general idea of how the characters n settings look cause I havent really looked at the cover art nor looked much at other fanart..

But I like to imagine its all very... both baroque and goth(ic) n still very sci-fi/fantasy... combination of the aesthetics of Darksouls and Event Horizon... art of Juan Giménez, H. R. Giger and Jan Blažej Santini (the author of the ossuary in Sedlec..)..and bunch of others

wow this is quite long...

anyway its interesting read

#also highly recommend if you like characters that are just..the worst #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #thoughts #text post #long post #damn i cant think #like at all #my head is stuffed cuz im ill zzzz #their space ships work on power of death and shitty electronics just think about that...thats metal af #spoiler alert the treasure is the relationship with bodyguards the necromancers made along the way

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eyo-captain-blue · 2 years

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Griddlehark from my Locked Tomb PJO AU!!!!!!!

I'll post more about it soon 💖✨✨

Happy Halloween!

#griddlehark fanart #lgbtq #the locked tomb #percy jackson #locked tomb pjo au #locked tomb #gideon nav fanart #gideon is the daughter of Prometheus #harrow is the daughter of pluto #camp jupiter #takes place 18 years after blood of Olympus #the lethe is lobotomy beware I'll break your hearts one day #fanart #harrow nonagesimus #gideon the ninth #harrowhark fanart #harrow the ninth #griddlehark #Theyre codependent gays

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robot-singularity · 3 months

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Alright so, hear me out, locked tomb/doctor who crossover

(my original thought was Ten and Donna at the start of Gideon the Ninth, but it could probs work other ways)

(like Canaan House would probs make more sense plot wise, bc that's a whole ass haunted house castle, but also "hey let's go check out Pluto! Wait what's w the skull cult? I wonder what's in this locked tomb in the depths of the planet?")

(continued under the cut bc I ramble a bit)

Anyways! Gideon would jump at the chance to get the hell off the Ninth (tho I'm not sure as of yet how Harrow would be persuaded to go with them)

Time travel besties adopt a couple of plutonian goth teens

The various interactions between all four of these characters is also really fun to consider

(Ten and Harrow: two scrawny mfs studying each other like bugs, Ten and Gideon: for the love of God please stop chucking yourselves onto the railing, Donna and Harrow: tempted to throw hands w this 17 year old bone nun, Donna and Gideon: red head squad :) (what do you mean you've never had tea?))

Also, new outfits from the tardis's wardrobe (aka Gideon somehow makes an outfit gaudier than Six's lmao)(also, Harrow (begrudgingly) in five layers, including an oversized nine inch nails hoodie she can hide bones underneath (the face paint stays on tho))(also also! Gideon picking a less gaudy outfit, and coming out in Nine's leather jacket (and Ten winds up explaining regeneration earlier than he canonically did lol))

Also, based on Harrows first night at Canaan, she tries to map the TARDIS, and it doesn't make any logical spacial sense. (She hates this, vehemently.) (Welcome to non-euclidian geometry, Reverend Daughter.)

Ten mentions his Christmas sword fight, and Gideon asks him to spar ("and if you get injured, you can patch yourself up, since you're a doctor and all!" "Weeelllll...") (Anyways, predictably, Gideon "best swordswoman the Ninth has ever produced" Nav immediately disarms Ten and decks him. Bitch went down lmao)

(also Gideon and Harrow doing their normal trying to beat the shit out of each other thing, Donna makes an aside like hey should we break this up or? And Tens like, nah, that's just, normal childhood best friendship, ya know? And Donna's just like, mate wtf are you on about???)

Basically, just a whole lot of Harrow and Gideon getting to be somewhat normal teens (or at least pretend for the most part)

(also, fun whump consideration: Ten (post Journeys End) 🤝 Harrow (post gtn/during htn): what losing your ginger better half does to a mfer (⁠´⁠;⁠︵⁠;⁠`⁠))

I have so many thoughts on this but I need to go to sleep gn

#doctor who #dw #the locked tomb #tlt #gtn spoilers #htn spoilers #thought i should collate my thoughts on this matter somewhat #(and also somewhere where others could possibly see lmao)#all of this brought on by me binge watching through nine and tens runs and procrastinating on finishing ntn #as well as waiting for both the new series to come out and any alecto news lol #long post #daughters of pluto au

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bewaretheidesofmarchyall · 3 years

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POG ok so elevator pitch lesbian necromancers in space but theres so much more to it

the story takes place in a post nuclear disaster (probably?) Our solar system with earth being the first house, mars being the second, etc... to the ninth house which is pluto. In this world, necromancy exists. It runs off of thanergy (life i think) and thalergy (death i think) and its got three types: flesh, bone and spirit. Its not exacly necromancy in the normal way? But still. Also god is a real guy and his name is john and he used to have a buncha saints but most of them died and he wants more so he calls on all of the best necromancers from the nine houses and their cavaliers (knights, basically. they all use rapiers for some reason even though theyre like. Not Very Good For Self Defense) to go to the First House (aka Canaan... you see the religious imagery going on here) and our main character is Gideon Nav, a sarcastic butch lesbian who is our other mc Harrowhark Nonagesimus' cav. They are both from the ninth house who is basically a cult that draws skulls on their faces and worships a tomb with an unimaginable evil in it (the locked tomb... tlt... book title!) that must stay locked forever (i pray the tomb stays locked forever, i pray the rock is never rolled away). They are all bone adepts there and Harrow is the most powerful and also the reverend daughter so of course she goes BUT her parents the reverend mother and father are DEAD so she has to lock them away or something and let the planet die. ALSO she and nav hate each other but in an enemies to lovers way. So they go to canaan and nav has to take a "vow of silence" which is basically just harrow telling her to shut up. People get murdered it gets bloody and also all of the women are 😳 ok please dont read it if you get triggered by religious imagery graphic depictions of violence or like gross things ig idk i can compile a trigger warning list if you want but how does the book sound also its a murder mystery in the first book then ~weird and experimental~ in the second one but how does it sound

that sounds incredible

to be honest i was sold from necromancers in space, let alone lesbian necromancers in space

and then it got cooler

also i have very little issue with violence and/or religious imagery, i'm eagerly waiting for season two of the Silt Verses

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I would like to request the director's cut/commentary of And the Knife that You Twist when You Say You Always Win please :)

aaaah thank you!

and the knife that you twist when you say you always win, 4k, rated M, Gideon/Harrow, Harrow Nova AU

“So you want to be my cav,” Gideon said. “Okay. Prove it.” The thing was: having the hots for a stuck-up cavalier? Totally not as fun as it’d looked in the mags.

My contribution to the Harrow Nova renaissance! This fic is like 60% the fault of @augustmourn who doesn't even know it (now she does) who had many truly delicious ideas about Reverend Daughter Gideon and her dynamic with Harrow Nova (yes I lurked on your CIEx exchange letter) + planted Ideas in my head about sexy knifeplay.

Anyway. This is a fic about being a horny repressed teenager and there's only another girl on Pluto, and you're inescapably tied together and caught in a vicious cycle of feudal loyalty and resentment. And also you have a big fat crush. It's also an exploration of my Reverend Daughter Gideon headcanons. I have MANY! I think she'd be a cocky dick with eldritch jod-adjacent chaos powers.

(I absolutely want to write a long Harrow Nova AU at some point but I think I want to wait until AtN is out to keep the speculation to a minimum. BUT I made this fic part of a series bc I also have plans for pre-canon one-shots that are mostly about teen griddlehark in this 'verse)

Title from this absolute banger: hatefuck by Cruel Youth

#writing tag #and the knife that you twist when you say you always win #thewonderfulsticherofoz

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dweemeister · 3 years

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Best Documentary Short Film Nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards (2021, listed in order of appearance in the shorts package)

NOTE: For viewers in the United States (continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawai’i) who would like to watch the Oscar-nominated short film packages, click here. For virtual cinemas, you can purchase the packages individually or all three at once. You can find info about reopened theaters that are playing the packages in that link. Because moviegoing carries risks at this time, please remember to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined by your local, regional, and national health guidelines.

A Love Song for Latasha (2019)

On March 16, 1991, Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African-American girl, was murdered by Soon Ja Du at Du’s convenience store in Los Angeles. The murder, which occurred almost two weeks after Rodney King’s beating at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), contributed to the start of the 1992 LA riots one year later. Directed by Sophia Nahli Allison, A Love Song for Latasha is an avant grade film that intercuts statements by Latasha’s friends and family about the young girl they cared deeply for. Alongside reenacted scenes of childhood, of black girls frolicking on the Californian coastline and the streets of Los Angeles, the film serves as an intimate eulogy for Latasha – one delivered as memories about her become less immediate.

Whatever justified rage the Los Angeles rioters might have felt in 1992 is not the dominant force in Allison’s film. A Love Song for Latasha is foremost a cinematic lament rather than a political polemic. With the reenacted scenes edited and appearing as if it resembling a home movie, this piece appears like a visualization of the memories that the interviewees are recalling. When Latasha was murdered, she ceased to be just a daughter or a friend. A Love Song for Latasha, thirty years on, seeks to reclaim those distinctions for those who knew her best – something, given the significance of Latasha’s murder in history, that may never happen.

My rating: 6.5/10

Do Not Split (2020, Norway)

From Norwegian documentarian-journalist Anders Hammer comes Do Not Split, a street-level glimpse into the protests against the 2019 Extradition Law Amendment Bill (ELAB) that inspired the passage of the 2020 Hong Kong national security law. The events depicted in Hammer’s film include the Hong Kong police’s sieges of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in addition to small-scale clashes between protesters and police, as well as mainland Chinese instigating confrontations. Hammer’s footage is harrowing material, a collection of violent imagery with few moments of individual revelation or introspection outside of the presence of Michigan-born activist Joey Siu. Do Not Split decides not to attempt a dialectic of why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) are pursuing these changes and are brutalizing the protesters, depriving this film of the context that less knowledgeable viewers might need. For those who have been keeping at least superficially aware of events in Hong Kong, there is never any question on which side Hammer is on – despite Hammer’s journalistic background, this is not a piece of objective journalism.

Yet this is not agitprop due to the politics left mostly unexplained, and none of Do Not Split’s flaws take away from the rawness of the protesters’ desperation and the cynicism of the police and government officials enacting the crackdown. Despite the repetitive nature of the footage by the time it reaches the final stages of its thirty-five-minute runtime, Do Not Split contains excellent, crisp hand-held footage that makes immediate sense of the space and time of the depicted violence.

My rating: 8/10

Hunger Ward (2020)

For Pluto TV (some cord-cutting television service I was not familiar with until I started writing this) and MTV Films and directed by Skye Fitzgerald (2018 Oscar-nominated short film Lifeboat), Hunger Ward follows doctor Aida Al-sadeeq and nurse Mekkia Mahdi as they treat malnourished children in the midst of ongoing the Yemeni famine. The famine, directly related to the civil war that began in late 2014, has seen almost a hundred thousand children die in what UNICEF describes as, “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.” Fitzgerald film works best when focusing on Al-sadeeq and Mahdi, as they describe the heartbreak conditions of the hunger ward and their experiences since the famine began. However, much of Hunger Ward’s footage is too in-your-face with footage of the mothers’ grieving and the last moments of several children. It appears almost as if gawking at the desperation and death that occurs every day in this hospital.

This is not to say that there is no revelation in the image of a child with their eyes glazed in lifelessness or the unearthly wails of a mother overtaken by grief. Fitzgerald edits and shoots their film in a way that makes this process – a child in their last moments of care, a declaration of death, a shot of the child’s corpse, a cut to the mother inside or arriving to the deathbed, and the echoing despair – occur tediously in their movie. Hunger Ward never breaks from this tedious formula. The film is redeemed only by withholding its slings and arrows until some text prior to the end credits, correctly assigning responsibility with Western nations that have enabled and abetted the violence in Yemen.

My rating: 6/10

Colette (2020)

Colette Marin-Catherine is in her twilight years and, upon first appearances, one might not predict the incredible life story that she has to tell. She was a French Resistance member, and French Resistance narratives tend to be sidelined in favor of those depicting Allied soldiers liberating France instead. But Anthony Giacchino’s (the brother of composer Michael Giacchino) film, distributed by British newspaper The Guardian and made for an extra feature of the virtual reality (VR) video game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, decides to linger on the memories of Colette’s murdered brother, who died at Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Germany, instead. At the urging and with the assistance of the young historian Lucie Fouble, who is interested in telling Colette’s story (although technically this is not Colette’s story), Colette travels to Germany to visit the site of Mittelbau-Dora so that Colette can… spill out her feelings?

It is self-evident that Colette does not see the academic or personal value of such a trip, but the irascible subject of this short film will nevertheless humor Fouble – her intentions genuine, her approach questionable. Colette, who cannot forget the loss of brother but has not been dwelling on his death, is emotionally vulnerable throughout the trip to Germany, and the audience learns little about Colette, German atrocities, or her brother. Even in these moments, she remains a compelling figure on-screen, but this movie is a disservice to its eponymous subject – one who deserves more credit as a member of the French Resistance, as someone not defined by the worst thing that had ever happened to her.

My rating: 6/10

A Concerto Is a Conversation (2020)

Distributed by The New York Times and executive produced by Ava DuVernay, Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bower direct a deeply personal documentary short film to bookend this slate of five. A Concerto Is a Conversation contains a conversation between Kris Bowers (composer on 2018’s Green Book and 2021’s The United States vs. Billie Holiday) and his grandfather, Horace Bowers Sr., before the premiere of Bower’s concerto at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. What follows is a disjointed film with sketches of Jim Crow-era America from Horace’s past to the anxiety-laden self-questioning of Kris’ present. Kris, as a black man, is questioning his place in the classical music world – which has, justifiably in some ways, been seen as staid and white. If A Concerto Is Not a Conversation can bridge the differences between Horace and Kris’ stories, it barely does so thank to the scattershot editing.

Yet Kris and Horace’s conversation is wholesome, admiring, loving. This is Kris’ way to show his appreciation for his grandfather and the struggles that he endured for most of his life. The out-of-focus background makes A Concerto Is Not a Conversation seem almost like a dream, a meeting that almost should not be happening. And in honoring Kris’ profession and the piece that is set to debut, the film is divided into noticeable thirds – just like a concerto’s three movements. A Concerto Is Not a Conversation might not make for the most cohesive viewing, but it is a celebration of a profound bond, tied together by forces that defy even the most eloquent words: music and love.

My rating: 6.5/10

^ All ratings based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog (as of July 1, 2020, tumblr is not permitting certain posts with links to appear on tag pages, so I cannot provide the URL).

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

From previous years: 88th Academy Awards (2016), 89th (2017), 90th (2018), 91st (2019) and 92nd (2020).

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