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What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t

by Anne Boyer

Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying “ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying “this is not your grave, get out of the hole”; sometimes being pushed, saying “you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave,” and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying “this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole,” all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there’s just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying “look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn’t!”

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in one of those phases of crippling existential self-doubt where the nervous horse that controls my productivity is just lying down in the mud and won't get up. the horse is asking questions like do I deserve carrot for big jump if big jump meaningless and is it wrong to be a horse. I'm trying to goad it with compliments and treats but so far the horse won't bite, it's too busy ruminating about the cosmic value of horses

#that 'ruh-roh' feeling when you relate too much to a post #that by all rights should be incomprehensible nonsense #i wish this did not make sense to me but unfortunately it does and even more unfortunately i am the one who has to do something about that

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So the new True Detective season is...good?

It has:

the return of the supernatural, thank god

the return of the humour, thank god

mysterious, dyatlov pass type disappearances, animals doing weird shit

Jodie Foster and Kali Reis facing off and Reis absolutely holding her own against Jodie fucking Foster

a plotline about missing and murdered Indigenous women that so far doesn't feel gross or exploitative

female mains that actually act like women and not men but then they switched the gender

environmental concerns

a ton of mixed race families, which is so common for towns like this but I think a lot of people from cities don't know that?

If you liked the first season of True Detective you should watch it, but I'd also recommend it to those who like arctic horror like The Terror or The Thing

#ICE CRIMES! #putting out the bat signal for people who love snow horror #they finally kicked the original male writer off the show #i mean his names still in the credits but you can tell he's not involved because the women have dialogue #true detective #true detective night country

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Scavengers Reign 1.12 "The Reunion"

#who is she!!! #scavengers reign

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Kiriona-centric Locked Tomb fics I want to read but not write.

1. The Emperor's Construct

Timeline: post-HTN pre-NTN.

Setting: Antioch.

POV: epistolary fic narrated by the Blood of Eden soldiers unlucky enough to have to fight against Kiriona- unkillable, furious, Saddest Girl In The World Kiriona who spent her whole life dreaming of serving the Cohort on the frontlines. Kiriona, whose incorruptible body was dropped in rivers, left out in the sun, given to the carrion creatures to eat. Kiriona who still looks like her mother, imbued with all the hideous blessings of her father, fucking-out-of-her-mind Ninth House Big Pissed Off. I would kill to read this fic.

2. The Crown Prince

Timeline: Same as above

Setting: Antioch, Ida, and/or aboard the Dead Fleet.

POV: Kiriona as a Byronic Hero, apt pupil of the ideology of decadence, material excess, and artificiality. First or third person narration by Kiriona on her off-hours, enjoying the tawdry privileges of her rank as Crown Prince, heir to all the hedonistic masochism and moral decay of the Nine Houses, sitting through endless balls and dinners held in her honor. And afterwards- Kiriona fucking her way through literal frontline titties of the Fifth, feeling Absolutely Nothing because her body is dead and that blood isn’t pumping anywhere anymore. It’s everything she ever wanted and she can't enjoy it. It's a 5 course meal and she can’t taste it. She doesn't want much of anything, anymore.

#the locked tomb #tlt #kiriona gaia #gideon nav #real talk: im pretty sure the marriage in Alecto is gonna be Gideon and Corona #i mean thats what Corona and Ianthe have been working towards this whole time right? #the crown princess marrying the crown prince puts them on the Throne right where they want to be #it would make me so happy if Palamedes' river bubble romance novel was foreshadowing #abella trine having to choose between the spoiled swordswoman (kiriona) and the tedious widower (judith) #at this point i have enough textual citations to make a whole other post so maybe ill do that instead of rambling here

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It's all "let women be flawed" until it's her

#op: your tags are correct and you should say it #the whole episode about sam going against his own self interest by building a nest for the parasite is the inverse of their relationship #kamen is the parasite #babygirl got herself infected with a spiteful shitty little man #and is now doing things she has no biological reason to do #i fully expect her arc to end the same way fiona's did #when the parasite (kamen) perceives itself to be in danger it will abandon the host for a more favorable candidate

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i love how the funky little xenobiota in scavengers reign will just see a human body (living OR dead) and go "hm. yeah, i can work with that." and boy do they! you could almost say those scavengers are reigning

#scavengers reign

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#scavengers reign #dark wild kratts show me the forbidden creature power suit #kamen #scavengers reign spoilers

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Scavengers Reign 1.01 "The Signal"

#scavengers reign

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I get it creature wife your thrall is being a little bitch, you gotta do everything around here 

#scavengers reign #hollow #kamen

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#scavengers reign #hollow #i love one (1) disillusioned psychic babyface quadruped #like i get it #sometimes you find a man so soggy and pathetic that you simply have to take him home #BDE but the 'd' stands for Disappointment #carry that man full term girl

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Scavengers Reign 1.01 - 1.03

#scavengers reign #wunmi mosaku #ihave no idea how this got funded but holy shit!

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Scavengers Reign (2023)

#scavengers reign #this show is so gorgeous and unsettling!

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The Reddit post linking The Unwanted Guest has been removed but don't fear!

I got the DocDroid link. And I downloaded the PDF if anyone needs it!

#now that my feeding frenzy has subsided i remembered i should probably reblog this #thank you so much OP!!!! #tlt #the unwanted guest

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*fist punches up thru soil* ianthe has new gay little outfits

#love that for her #ianthe naberius #tlt

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ok so my initial guess was wrong, and i didnt get the thing i was hoping for, but my god what a DELIGHT. i'm going to read it at least 5 more times tonight

#the unwanted guest #tlt #the locked tomb #i need everyone else on the internet to read it too so they can point out all the details i missed