#zombified-queer

[diosapate]

☕️ what d'you suppose mercymorn and augustine's plans for society were post-john?

a couple thoughts on this:

i don't actually think Mercy had any plans for society after killing John — she's motivated almost entirely by her own sense of justice, which is vengeance — and her lack of commitment to recovering society is pretty clearly demonstrated by what she says to Augustine after she kills John:

“Augustine, you promised me that after we did it we would go somewhere and drop into the nearest sun—”

and even though she does say that they "planned for a mass evacuation", given what we see from her throughout HtN, this seems to never really have been a priority for her. she's exacted her vengeance on someone who's hurt her, and it certainly didn't heal her, so she's waiting on the green light from Augustine to reenact the suicide pact that gave them lyctorhood in the first place and close the loop.

on the other hand, Augustine seems to have actually planned out what his plan was (and even waxes poetic about it, the old drama queen that he is):

We’re going to go round up the ships—everyone who’s left—sue for peace as best we can—get the Edenites on side. And then we’ll find a place to fulfill the old promise … Somewhere out there exists a home not paid for with blood; it won’t be for us, but it will be for those who have been spared. Babies always get born. Houses always get built. And flowers will die on necromancy’s grave.

(with "the old promise" here, i believe, referring to Mercy's "you promised me" wrt their own deaths)

he actually seems interested in doing work as some sort of, i don't know, repentance for the horrific lives they've led. but he's also adamant that this new "home" isn't for them — actions that frankly seem uncharacteristically unselfish for him of all people, but given A—'s involvement in John's cryo project and his responsibility for getting people off of the planet to supposedly save them, i think it does check out for who he was before he was beset by, y'know, horrors of unimaginable magnitude.

Mercy wants to die, but Augustine — at least for a time — wants to live and do better (and only with her!! everything he's just wrenched from his heart and put up on the table goes completely out the window when John kills her) before he's satisfied with the both of them finally being able to die.

(i'd love to ask Tamsyn if she's intentionally referencing Voltaire here, given the striking parallels/refutations to 'make our garden grow' or if i'm connecting dots that aren't there, but that is neither here nor there)

logistically, Augustine was banking on just getting their people out of the house system, assuming Dominicus was going to collapse. he wants their people to be able to start over without the necromancy that has fueled imperialism for 10000 years, and imho, without imperialism as a whole given what he says to John about stopping and giving up the mission.

necromancy operates under the guise of being reverent of death, but has ended up being a gross disrespect of it since John first discovered his powers and started puppeting corpses. necromancy has been preventing things from their natural cycle of life and death — the corpses didn't rot! — he posits that maybe, maybe flowers could finally die upon necromancy's (as well as his and Mercy's) grave.

#zombified-queer #answered #augustine the first #mercymorn the first #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #aust.txt #tlt

[parasitic-saint]

showgirl's break (wip)

#the hotel podcast #howner #the hotel pod #hotel en español #thank you zombified-queer for the inspiration on outfits although i changed them so much lmao #ended up making them showgirls #FINALLY FEMME X FEMME HOWNER #maybe this would look cuter as a full body #seeing the owner in tippy toes because madam hotel is way taller #and showing their peacock like back pieces... #for now zoomed in #and thrown into the wip pile

[mairen-marionette]

❄️Share a snippet from a WIP of your choosing.

Thank you so much for the ask! Hehehehehe I'm so happy- here have a more recently tweaked snippet from the last bumaroion wip i shared in the server:

Bumaro gazes upon Ion, unconscious in his arms, alive and breathing once more and all the worse for wear, the marks of their brutal death ages ago at Bumaro’s own hand scarring their pale skin, and he fears that he will not be able to kill them a second time

:)))

#Thanks for the ask! #zombified queer #mairen's writing tag #i have thoughts on them i have so many thoughts #scp #robert bumaro #grand karcist ion

[links-destiny]

#Currently in love with these two idiots #and how queer coded af they are #TF #TFP #Transformers Prime #Knock Out #Starscream #Soundwave confiscated their singular shared braincell #That's why they spent the majority of this episode screaming and running from zombified cons

[paper-carnation]

HAPPY DAY OF BIRTH!!!

Thank youuuuuu!!!

#gif #paper asks #Woohoo is my birthdayyy #Thanks for the ask #zombified queer

[riris-dock]

Nothing to do at work guess it's time to doom my self insert

#infiltrate and destroy from inside #riri speaks #had thoughts abt Current Era Honky insert being zombified but retaining her humanity... so basically OPM Zombieman comes back to life but #cant rlly be around people cause of honksi infection. so joins World Serpent becomes their person when #needed. and then ofc angst w the ER crew cause looks like miss chef from PE #ah and friends w raven because i am a little queer actually

[muppetebbtide]

LOCKED TOMB CHARACTERS X CLASSICAL REFERENCES

explanations for parallels come from here and here

I know I spelt pelleamena wrong and missed off juno zeta btw but it was getting a bit crowded. I could also probably extrapolate more but it can stay like this for now

EDIT: BITS WOT I FORGOT AND ADDITIONS FROM TAGS:

@mayasaura makes a fantastic point about the treatment of gideon's body by BOE being almost identical to the treatment of hector's by achilles, down to animals refusing to touch it and it not rotting or tearing because of divine intervention. hence there should be a light blue line between gideon and hector. this hadn't ocurred to me is and is v cool, here is their post on it (the original asker's point about harrow and priam is also v good)

@iamanoccasionaldoodler points out that Pyrrha is named after Achilles directly, given the 'Achilles taking the name of Pyrrha while on Skyros avoiding the war' thing; I did just forget to draw the line here sorry lol it was in my post! also the tags about camilla and hector... no you're right. they feel so similar, there has to be something.

@zombified-queer mentions I left out dios apate; bugger it, so I did lmao. I was focusing mostly on characters but that's such a big one! in the iliad it's the deception of zeus, hera's plan to distract him by seducing him so that the greeks can regain the upper hand. in harrow the ninth, as we know, it's... not dissimilar! both times in fact it is very similar!

I did also forget Juno Zeta I know, but as it currently stands I don't really know if it has any narrative significance...? Maybe.

I also realised I forgot Protesilaus, god damn it

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #priamhark noniusvianus #pelleamena novenarius #alecto the ninth #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #pyrrha dve #parallels #my post #ik this is crazy but I made it for a friend fhdjd

[loremaster]

oh yeah. so i’ve been rewatching a playthrough of rain code with my partner, and this line from vivia’s second gumshoe gab really got me:

now, it’s implied that all the gumshoe gabs take place before chapter 1… so i wonder… given what happens in the story and to whom… has vivia changed his tune about this at all?

of course there’s a lot to read into with this scene, vivia’s being coy about the idea that he is immortal (which, I wondered the same thing as yuma for the same reason in the beginning), being his usual secretive self. it’s also clear he’s thought about this hypothetical a lot, what you would do if you lived forever, and how it’d all eventually lead back to craving death in the end

we now know that vivia is not immortal, he’s just extremely fixated on death for other (understandable) reasons. he is absolutely able to die and kinda… lives his life on that edge, however long it may end up being. but even though ghosts, spirits, and the afterlife have been part of his reality for his whole life… immortality has not

it sounds like it’s straight out of a story. a fantastical idea that could only be real in someone’s made-up world. romantic, not in a relationship sense but in a thoughtful, poetic sense. for vivia, someone who craves (eventual) death, the idea of craving a death you can never have, that yearning… of course it’s very romantic. it makes one’s heart flutter, the thought of feeling anything that strongly… forever.

to him at this point, it’s a fantasy. it’s a story. it’s fictional. an idea to mull around in his overactive head, yet another escape from reality.

but as we find out later… here? it’s absolutely real. it’s real and it’s everywhere and it’s everyone.

when does that fantastical yearning for death cease to become romantic and instead become horrifying?

it’s only been three years since the people of kanai ward were replaced with immortal doppelgängers, so we don’t really know for sure… will they still die of old age? of sickness? or, if left unchecked, will an imperfect homunculus go on to live forever?

they can die, sure. but not in the way that vivia is so intimately familiar with. the homunculi leave no ghosts behind, instead their bodies keep walking - forever, while their minds remain shut down. it’s unclear really but it seems as if their spirits are trapped within their bodies but unable to control them. to die without being able to move on to any sort of afterlife is the exact opposite of what vivia yearns for. his whole life, he’s been connected to this other world, to people who have moved on from his life to that world, and one day wishes to join them there. but being held in this interminable jail between either world must be hell to him. too terrifying to be called romantic… and yet

we still have to talk about yakou.

yeah that’s right, you all thought it, this is why you came here to read this post

of course with vivia being as secretive as he is, it’s hard to say definitively whether his feelings for yakou are romantic in the relationship sense… (i personally do believe so, i’m going to cling to whatever scraps of queerness i can get) but they absolutely for sure are in the poetic sense. yakou was able to help vivia back up from his lowest point and give him something - and someone - to live for. gave him a place to call home. sounds like it’s straight out of a story.

and yet after inspiring vivia to stop chasing death, he immediately resigns himself to his own as soon as he gets that letter, in order to reunite with his wife.

yakou, as an imperfect homunculus who has died (through his own machinations), is now trapped in that zombie hellscape. no ghost, no spirit, no rest for the dead. he is, at least according to vivia’s definition of it, Unable To Die. …sounds like it’s straight out of a story…

yakou’s body is just a shambling husk now. and even with a potential cure for zombified brain cells thanks to his wife… what next? that still doesn’t solve the immortality problem. he’s still gatekept from the everlasting peace and quiet of the afterlife. he’s still separated from his beloved. he’s still Unable To Die. and in his current state he’s even unable to form enough semblance of thought to yearn for his own death.

so vivia has to do the yearning for him.

how romantic.

#rain code #rain code spoilers #viviakou

[mangoagate]

Here’s some motel for ya, inspired by a @zombified-queer post

#agates art #the hotel podcast #art #the hotel herself #traditional art #the manager #motel #the managers black dress with blue highlight returns!

[spectrojams]

"A hard worker. Professional. Middle-management, if I had to wager a guess. Sending off those last minute reports before his work is well and truly done. People are counting on him. A shame, then, he’s checked into our Hotel."

Fic fanart of @zombified-queer's "Nameless Iridescence," a Concierge-focused work in ver series of New Crew rentals. I love this one so much, I'm such a sucker for weird, capital-c Cosmic horror and I love how it fit the Concierge's character, imo. From the setting to the guest and everything...all very symbolic all very fun to rotate in my mind, so I just had to draw some of it!!

I wanted to draw more but that might have to be for another day. For now, if you haven't already, go read Kwiyatsi's work!!!

#my art #the hotel podcast #the concierge #i hope my handwriting isnt too inscrutable agh #anyway [stirs your concierge into particles]

[smokedapplecores]

Drew him originally when @zombified-queer said ve wished there was more fanart of him and I heard about the pinup calendar. Fished him out since I'm writing an interesting take on The Hotel for Nanowrimo and The Concierge is featuring way more than I thought he would. That piece of writing will not see the light of AO3.

Enjoy, Cierge fans!

#the hotel podcast #the concierge #merry christmas zq #I'll make sure to draw him more in the future

[mistpodfics]

Serrated written by zombified_queer | @zombified-queer

A The Hotel Podfic performed by mistbornhero, @aliteralgarbageheap, Avanie with a cover by Amanita_Fierce for VoiceTeam filling the challenge 3 Minute Masterpiece

Madam Hotel can be really fun. The staff just needs to learn to trust her.

Podfic Length: 02:10 minutes

#The Hotel #Podfic #VoiceTeam #VoiceTeam 2024 #not my cover

[parasitic-saint]

second coming of christ? if he's with me there's gonna be even a seventh and twelfth

#the parasite talks #jesus mention #nsft #for everyone's sake just take my internet away #christposting #<- new tag idea by zombified-queer #so you can also block that if needed

[mairen-marionette]

13 and 37 for Hedwig and Trunnion

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

13- Stay home/go-out? What are their date nights like?

They go out for date night. They almost always go out for date night, and always in the physical world as Trunnion refuses to be retrofitted for anything digital ever.

Their date nights consist of them being close and just, well, being with each other. Enjoying the other's company, having a nice time out.

A lot of walking typically, and usually at night too. Long walks at night, talking and holding hands. Especially when they're somewhere where they don't have to hide what they are and can just be together, as they are. No hiding. No fighting. Just them.

37. Who wanted to see Oppenheimer; who Barbie? Did they switch opinions after?

I genuinely do not know. I'm not sure Trunnion would even have interest in either, but love is compromise, after all, and so they end up going to both either way. And it's mostly for the meme on Hedwig's end.

It likely softens Trunnion to movies a little more after that. Not sure about Hedwig though. And I haven't seen either movie so I really can't say lol.

#Thanks for the ask! #scp #saint hedwig #legate trunnion #zombified queer #they mean so much to me #aaaaaaaaaa I love them

[strabbyshortcake]

I said I would do a fanfic rec post for other people since I did one for my own fics, so I’m finally getting around to that.

Make sure to heed the individual warning tags on these. A few of them contain body horror or non-explicit sexual material, so take care when reading. Quite a few were also published pre-bigsnax so there may be inconsistencies with what we know now.

Snaktooth’s Last Secret by @snaktooth-journalist

As far as I’m concerned this is THE postgame bugsnax fic. It thoughtfully touches on every character, and the way it recontextualizes Filbo’s actions ingame single-handedly made him a far more fascinating character to me.

The Roots We Keep by SinsterSugarCookie

A visceral, disturbing story about Eggabell and Lizbert literally trying to rebuild their life on Snaktooth, that’s nonetheless rather bittersweet in parts.

An Arm and a Leg by Brokenpitchpipe

This is a beautifully-characterized look at Floofty and Chandlo coping with their grief in the wake of Snorpy’s death on  Snaktooth.

Grambarn by @cloverlady

The body horror is off the charts in this Silent Hill-inspired short, based off an AU by my friend @hyper-fixator. In a seemingly-abandoned Snaxburg, the journalist investigates the creaky old barn at the edge of town... I actually wrote a sequel to this one myself. And honestly all of cloverlady’s fics are fantastic and you should read them.

Homestyle Gigglefunny Soup by @twilightprince101

An incredibly sweet tale of Gramble bonding with a young grumpus in his neighborhood, and the power of a meal prepared with love.

Seeker of Truths by @snorpington-fizzlebean

Chandlo hasn’t returned to the cabin in days. Snorpy goes looking for him. A sad, horrifying short that will tear your heart from your chest, while also really making you want s’mores.

That Hour No One Knows by @zombified-queer

Centered on the ancient grumps of Snaktooth, this focuses on one observer who records the slow descent of their society as they fall to the bugsnax.

Dancing in Festival Moments by Inganno

Honestly I have mixed feelings about this one, but I’m putting it on here because it really does a great job with its characterization, and it was a huge inspiration for me when I wrote Monarch Sunrise. I don’t personally care for relationship drama and infidelity worries, which comprises about half of the fic, but the second half is an extremely well-done mystery that builds to a terrifying climax, so I feel like it’s important to include it because it’s quite an old fic and I think it deserves attention from newer fans.

#bugsnax #fics #OOPS almost forgot one

[madamrynodm]

Oh, you're evil booping me, @zombified-queer ?

#boop #boop o meter