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based off a voiceline

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Did anyone order a ginger butch on her knees looking up at her necromancer while said necromancer is grabbing her face?

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old mob art that has been collecting dust in the art folder

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reverend daughter gideon and harrow nova are rotting my brain (happy late halloween!)

bonus under cut

the first drawing is based on this doodle of pal i made at like 3 am

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The Sun

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just wait till he discovers she got that influencer money

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miss Nav.. i miss her 🧡

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laurie 😔

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Quick little piece to keep this account alive

tried drawing this wet cat with a mary statue as reference cus... yeah just because

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She's learned to lock the fuck in, but it still keeps happening

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Researcher

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time to be dramatic, time to be goth, halloween is near...

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Currently fixated on the concept of Urban Fantasy Clickbait

"With The Cost Of Groceries Skyrocketing, Many Young Adults Turn To Vampirism To Manage Household Expenses"

"An Answer Today's Housing Crisis? This Single Parent's UnusualDeal With The Fair Folk"

"A Hairy Situation! Down On Her Luck, This Druid Turns To Scavenging In Beast Form- Terrifying Suburban Homeowners"

"Buried In Debt? Local Leprechaun May Have Hacked The System"

"Boggart Or Poltergeist? Top Ten Warning Signs You Need To Know!"

"Elementary Student Raises 15k For Revenant Research After Grandfather Is Raised From The Dead"

"Heartwarming! After 20 Years In The Wild, This Lost Familiar Is Reunited With Their Witch"

"You Could Be Making This Mistake! Experts Warn Against Using These Common Sigils In Your Wards"

"An Incredible Victory! This Seelie Fae Wins Custody Battle For Two-Year-Old Boy"

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My favorite quote from Palamedes Sextus is weirdly enough a quote from early on. Canaan House, to Judith Deuteros, "God help you when you understand."

Because by that point, even with the few keys he had and tests he checked after someone else got the keys made him understand what was being asked of him to do to/with Camilla, and he understood it was leading to a megatheorem, the Eightfold Word, and he understood that there had to be a better way. He was in the process of finding out a better way when he inconveniently (to him) had to die.

In death he even asks Harrowhark, "Tell me you did it right." Because he knew there was a right way, maybe even figured out the right way but his body was lost so he couldn't perform it the right way. The closest he could do was merge, to make Paul.

But my God, if Palamedes was given more time alive, he would have performed perfect lyctorhood and become just like John and Alecto, albeit in a smaller scale since Camilla isn't a fucking planet, so perhaps less powerful than God, but maybe be a god, lowercase. Could you imagine.

This insanely brilliant and cautious and idealistic man, who understood what was at stake and that there had to be another way. But then there was his foil, a myriad-old witch disguising herself as his not-girlfriend. How rude

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Something I love about the romance in The Locked Tomb is how Gideon as our first POV narrator is like "this is Harrowhark Nonagesimus, she thrives on scorn and ambition and death" and as a seasoned enemies-to-lovers fan, my first reaction was "I love it, I support women's rights and wrongs, and I can't wait to see this cold evil character discover feelings eventually" but then the plot twist is actually that Harrow is a pathetic desperate emo who barely needs an excuse to say the most romantic shit imaginable. Which is already a good payoff and the characterization is superb, but then you see inside Harrow's head in the next book and discover that despite her trauma and 35 mental illnesses, she is so much of a fucking soft marshmallow simp that not even her DIY lobotomy can keep her from indulging in a coffeeshop AU (?!?!) to soothe her yearning soul. Which makes rereading GtN delightful because now you can read between the lines and realise like "oh wow, she was down bad the whole time and Gideon just didn't notice". It gives so much lesbian Pride and Prejudice that you can only fully appreciate during a reread. I adore it.

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love love love how tactile palamedes's expressions of affection are. hugging harrow so wildly he lifts her off the ground. touching his forehead to camilla's. holding gideon's hand after she recounts her traumatic past. kissing harrow's forehead, cam's knuckles, dulcie's hand. he might be the only man ever