this is a real fucking scene from this book. i am not exaggerating
i might have said this before but ive come to believe that the locked tomb series mostly gets presented as “lesbian necromancers in space” NOT because people think that alone is a sufficient selling point (in the critique’s worst form, “all people care about is LGBT representation”) but because it’s hard to describe the plot of tlt in a way that successfully conveys its appeal.
“lesbian necromancers in space” is just tlt’s version of homestuck’s “four kids play a game” or 17776’s “what football will look like in the future” or everything everywhere all at once’s “a chinese-american woman struggles with her taxes”.
One flesh, one end, you know the drill Edit: many of you wish these were bookmarks…and they actually are! They’ll be at kyotosparty.bigcartel.com very soon💕
what i love about the queer women rep in tlt is that so much of it is just like. gideon reading her titty magazines but getting zero action. ianthe trying to kiss harrow and getting rejected. harrow begging a hallucination of a corpse to have sex with her and getting rejected. marta turning down judith, judith turning down corona, corona unsuccessfully flirting with camilla. nona’s one-sided attraction to corona and camilla. camilla’s third-wheeling (x3) and plain lack of interest in getting it on with anyone. gideon and ianthe fighting over harrow when they’re both losing out to a frozen ice bimbo. ‘but she never gave you anything. you never got anywhere.’ ‘did you???’ << honestly sums it up.
“Ninth was my name,” said the new arrival. “Ninth was my hearth, and my homeland. Here have I come at your calling. None may return from the River unless he be bidden by blood-rite; tell me, why have I been drawn here?”
this just in: i am obsessed with unwell lesbians
Fidelity! Fidelity! Fidelity!
Edit: I fixed some of the value issues!
Me, reading GTN for the first time, biased for the Gideon POV narration: why everyone is so mean to Gideon why arent they befriending her when she is so cool???
Gideon most of the book:
“Gonna spend my time not talking and standing in the shadows full in black”
New Rho fam in outfits :)
The House of the Fifth always skinned itself over with such airs of civilization, with so many manners and niceties, but they were spirit-talkers, and speakers to the dead. And the dead were savage.
saw the new Barbie trailer and had to do it to ‘em
could you draw corona (or the 3rd house trio)? :0 & i love your art your interpretations of the characters are wonderful!!:D
Thanks a lot! Aniway, here you go :)
In here I imagined them as post Canaan House.
I ignored Babs cuz I’m lazy, and who cares about him aniway? but I’ll draw him too, sooner or later…no promises though.



















