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Old Testament God: *destroys the world because there were some bad people in it*

Old Testament God: Oh no. That was the wrong thing to do. I'm so sorry. I promise I will never do that ever again, no matter how many bad people there are, here is a rainbow that seals this binding pact I am signing with you about that

John Gaius: *destroys the world because there were some bad people in it*

John Gaius: That was perfect. Exactly what needed to happen. So satisfying, like a powerwashing commercial. My only regret is that I didn't quite destroy everyone, and some people managed to escape. Some day I hope I will be able to destroy them too. This one goes out to the Old Testament God, who taught me everything I know about how to be a God

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Me before COVID: Has minor undiagnosed asthma, enjoying that sweet sweet oxygen

Me after COVID: Wheezing, on the highest dose of steroids for my inhaler, denied that sweet sweet oxygen

#asthma #covid #covid 19 #actually chronically ill

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I agree

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I haven't yet seen a post about jod’s eclipse eyes. so I’m making one. bc I would love to hear any other interpretations or meta thoughts

(big spoilers after the photo for The Locked Tomb/Nona the Ninth)

jod’s eyes = black eye with a ring of bright white around the iris. total solar eclipse = black sky with a ring of white light around the moon’s silhouette

exhibit A: the eye in this photoshop job is a photo of the recent eclipse

[Detailed ID: A cropped photo of Taika Waititi, showing just one eye. The eyeball has been replaced with a photo of a solar eclipse. It looks just like the book’s description of John’s Gaius’s eyes: black sclera, black iris and pupil, and a white ring around the iris, i.e. the visible corona of the sun around the silhouetted moon. Some highlights added to make it look like a more realistic eyeball. End ID]

since realizing this visual parallel I have been certain this is why the eyes are like that. seeing as how they are actually the eyes of alecto’s soul

and like. our eclipses being a really unique phenomenon bc of the distances and sizes of the earth moon and sun. and it’s her view onto the other two celestial bodies most connected to her, the sun she orbits and the moon who orbits her

I have many unformed analyses of the thematic implications of this, and maybe I’ll come back with a proper reading, but overall I think it’s a really fucking cool answer to “what would the eyes of a planet be?”

much to think about

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😭 he brings all his friends to meals

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im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

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I would have said "Philomena The Ninth" but that wasn't as funny.

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I made the first page so long ago but hey, I finished.

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It seems like there's an upper limit by which necromancy would normally appear.

Gideon says "they knew by age five that she was not a necromancer" and Ianthe and Corona had been running their ruse from the age of 6, presumably as it would otherwise have become apparent that Corona was not a necromancer.

So perhaps necromantic education also begins around that age, or even earlier in cases where aptitude has become apparent earlier: Harrow remembers her mother teaching her necromancy with "her fingers encircling the fat baby bracelets of Harrow’s wrists", which makes it sound like she was very young indeed.

And obviously there is a level of horror that is simply normative in the Houses, and perhaps doesn't register as particularly unusual to children. But some of what we know, and some of the implications, are just awful.

How do you learn the Second's thalergy absorption? How do you scale up to a human? It's far too easy to imagine a young Judith priding herself on not being as squeamish as some of her classmates about absorbing the thalergy from a lab mouse.

It's easy to decry Ianthe's callousness at consuming Babs. But how young was she when a tutor first told her to take a bite of his flesh to help her with a tricky theorem?

The Fourth's specialty is thanergetic fission, which is a fancy way of saying they turn corpses (or themselves) into bombs. If he aspired to join the army at 11, what age did Isaac start to practice turning the dead into an improvised explosive?

Young Abigail was no doubt schooled in impeccable manners. How far did they help to cover up the effects on a child of first touching the veil between worlds and perceiving 10,000 years of feral ghosts?

Palamedes' necromancy may theoretically be more academic, but he was eight and trying to learn medical necromancy to cure his dying pen pal. And one can only assume the Sixth's approach to such things is very hands on.

Young Dulcie herself would have been learning how to harness the thanergy of the cancer that meant she was expected not to reach adulthood. She'd no doubt seen others die from it. Was her diagnosis celebrated?

When did Silas first siphon from the man who was engineered to serve him? How early did he begin to build up that childlike certainty that he would always come back to him? How long did it take to not feel afraid as Colum turned grey?

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Sokka's girlfriend looked great today.

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Ianthe definitely thinks she’s the main character, I think she still kinda does

i don't know jack or shit about the locked tomb series here's my impressions of the only five characters i can name. pictures were taken off the wiki pages, which i didn't read. godbless

#the locked tomb

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He tumbles!!

They are just like me forreal

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69 shitpost I forgot to post here

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If I had a nickel for every time I became enchanted by necromantic lesbians I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

#gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #dungeon meshi #marcille donato #falin touden #the intimacy of knowing the composition of another’s muscle and marrow just really calls the lesbians huh?

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get in line thou big slut or whatever

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was told I should post this on tumblr

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I think we don’t give Camilla Hect enough badass credit for making the vengeful eldritch soul of the earth do physical therapy and DBT exercises. she’s like the meme of Eddie Brock asking for two bagels when Venom says they want to eat the souls of the innocent. and then she snuggled with her at night.