#(Alecto)

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

obviously yeah they should kiss but also

and I wonder what this will mean once we understand the historical origin of the Ninth House icon, the “unfulfilled vow, the bloody teeth of the unkissed skull”, etc.

thinking about how Ortus wore the jawless skull and Matthias Nonius wore only the jaw…..

[foxy-alien]

Alectopauce Art Giveaway

PLEASE READ ALL THE RULES!! In honor of the 999th day of Alectopause coming up on June 8th, I am hosting an Alecto themed art giveaway.

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🚀Winner will be picked May 23rd at 11:59 CT🚀

🪼The Prize🪼

One person will be picked to receive a free commission from me. The only catch is it must involve Alecto + other TLT characters. I also reserve the right to turn down any requests if they are too NSFW or outside of my comfort zone...

I will pick the winner May 23rd, You will have 3 days to respond or I will pick the next person!!

Anyways have fun! Please share! And let's get ready for some Alecto fun!

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[sableeira]

2025 sounds like the perfect year for the release of a fourth and final book in a sci-fi fantasy tetralogy with lesbian necromancers in space and a beautiful, strong, and angry barbie titular character

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

Hmmm, I wonder how this plotline will intersect with Ianthe's plotline about figuring out the Resurrection and learning how to become God. :O

John has to die for a Second Resurrection

Okay, I just developed the most insane theory, but I'm sure I found out why John can't resurrect people anymore, (apparently not even his own daughter), but still dreams of The Great Cleaning. The key is to look at the first resurrection and the poem at the very beginning of Nona the Ninth. Warning: if I'm as right with my theory as I hope, it could tell a lot about Alecto the Ninth.

Thing is, and that is what brings me to this post, he obviously *wants* to do it in the future, as @thanergetic-hyperlinks pointed out here. If we look at the poem we'll see that indeed John implies a second resurrection. Let's put this first draft dream of mine to bed. This time will be the time we get it right.

He also mentions this opportunity (resurrection, new beginning) in his talk with Harrow, as if it was a possibility.

But how? And at this point, I can connect two points of which I always wondered how they fit together. The fact that John apparently wants to die ("Lie down beside you; die; and sleep the night") and the fact that he apparently plans to resurrect people (and houses) a second time. But I think I know found the answer.

To resurrect people for the first time (house population) he had to kill eight planets, Pluto and the sun. My point is, he obviously needed a whole fucking lot of thanergy (death energy to do that.) But that sun is gone, where will he get that thanergy this time? I would assume he can't just use random suns because it would produce a new wave of Resurrection Beasts (and because he would surely just do it, if he could.)

And he seemingly (as @dammit-tazmuir pointed out here) wants to kill Dominicus to start over. What else should he mean with "I'll kill the light"? He wants to sweep out his old solar system. But! The interesting thing about the Dominicus system is, that its death would create a great blossom of thanergy without creating any Resurrection Beasts that could become dangerous to him. Because he already controls it. He is the soul of the Dominicus system.

(Okay, I've seen the theory somewhere that in reality Alecto's energy holds Dominicus alive. But Alecto can't do necromancy so I think he is in any case the catalysator. The point is, that the Dominicus system depends on him.)

What would happen if God died? What he held together must fall apart. The solar system he powers would die. All people would die. It would create a gigantic mass of thanergy that he could use to build a new one. What he hasn't done so far because "the cost would be too great". Maybe because his friends were still alive? "When everyone we loved has gone or fled"

And yes, I see you say: "But John claimed he wasn't able to die."

But

It's John. (And it's even ome of his weird answers, where he not really declines something ("I can't die", "I did kill all those guys on purpose"), but merely implies the answer "I didn't get where I am by being able to die", "guys as careful as I don't have accidents")

He himself says in the poem that he will die.

Harrow (last one in the line of tomb keepers says that the tomb would house "the death of the lord")

And I'll go a step further. I think he really can't return to the Houses without dying. In the poem he returns to the Tomb and dies.

And I think it's his plan to do so. Return to the Houses, kill the system, make it clean. Create the big thanergy bloom that's needed for a restart. But... You'll now might say, what use could he have from doing that? He would be dead then!

But a) he doesn't need to stay dead forever, he only needs to do it for a few minutes, so the system can die. (As in HtN demonstrated maybe), and b) what happens to individuals that experience a sudden death in the TLT universe?

Dying would make him the Resurrection Beast of his own solar system.

[crtki]

gideon as a pirate / sailor

[raeyxarte]

Come on Barbie let's go party

[butch-gengar]

[fluffehwuffeh]

murderous barbie ✨

[trueblueboygenius]

this would catch a lot of you

[maalidoesart]

u have asked u shall receive 🫶🏻

[the-velvet-worm]

has anyone in this fandom ever acknowledged the fact that harrow believes with 1000000% certainty that she was able to unlock the tomb because she's a Super Special Magical Girl (she is, not the point) and has no idea that it's only because she had gideon's blood/skin under her nails when she opened it

like what the fuck is learning this going to do to her chopped up little brain. it's going to destroy her. it's going to completely ruin her sense of self. the only reason she kept LIVING was because she was able to open the tomb and look upon the girl inside it. and to learn that it's NOT because she's The Necromancer Divine, that it's actually her life-long feud with gideon that allowed it to happen? that gideon is the biological child of the Emperor Undying? never mind all the other information we learn at the end of HtN while harrow is fighting gideon's bio mother in the river (she also doesn't even know that wake gave birth to gideon lol)

anyway I think harrow is going to feel very normal about all of this (she's absolutely not)

[foxy-alien]

Sneak peak 4 ur patience

[homeofwyrm]

Homework but...you know

[addamii]

Feeling very normal about Anastasia so here’s this

More outfits under the cut

My headcannon is that harrow is just a little taller than Anastasia and has a squarer body type. Also I wanted to give Alecto a crazy Barbie body horror body.

[malwirevt]

Have another TLT WIP.

What if Alecto adored her reflection as the descendent of Anastasia?

“When she had been earlier born, and less self-conscious, sometimes she would rest her face against the mirror's face, and try to reach her reflec-tion. Camilla had caught her kissing it once, and had written about six pages of notes on that, which was humiliating.” —Nona the Ninth