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are they... you know...? *makes a stabbing motion*

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One of my favorite things about The Locked Tomb is the diversity in gender identity and presentation, which got me wondering

*as in you look at them and feel some sort of comradery on a gender level / "same hat" etc

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Tove Jansson (right), creator of Moomin, and her life partner Tuulikki Pietilä (left), an accomplished Finnish artist

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nice argument unfortunately i have already depicted you as the arrogant and brash monkey king leaping an infinite breadth to the edge of the universe and myself as the enlightened buddha whose palm you have not escaped for I am the great sage equal to heaven

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you will not be spared, nor will what you love be spared

louise glück, october, 2006

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excited to someday get bottom surgery and become the world's worst pillow princess, because really quite a lot of the cunteating i do is a displacement activity

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The lesbian sex book. Wendy Caster, Julie May; 1993.

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A synopsis of the British mosses. 1873. Cover detail. 

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Buffy season 6 is insane. It’s like what if someone you loved died a meaningful and accepting death but you couldn’t live without them so you brought them back. And against all odds, they didn’t come back wrong, but they didn’t WANT to come back at all, and now they have to learn to live in this world again while resenting their friends and family for taking the death they willingly chose away from them. And existence is hell compared to death because in life they never get a break and never get to rest because they’re constantly needed by everyone. And they can’t chose to die a second time because they know what it would do to their loved ones who still never got over the fact that they died the first time. And also there’s a musical episode.

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opening paragraphs of all time

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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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

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The fact that there’s an actually functional website for the library of Babel is one of those things that fucks me up more and more the more I think about the implications.

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from dykes to watch out for #323 published in 1999

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ive said it before and will say it again but if you’re trans and a bit into your transition and suddenly become super vain, obsessed with your looks and think you’re fucking hot? GOOD. keep it up

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I am once again furious there isn't a dyke version of grindr

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if i lived in ancient greece times i would have been weaving and hunting all the time being like "god i'm sooooooooo much fucking better at this than athena and artemis lmao" shaking my big dumb boy hips trying to get angrily godfucked 24/7 until they got sick of it and turned me into a very bad new animal