#Alectopause

[sleep-well-dearest]

TLT SPOILERS!!

Just wanted to point out that I think it's funny that Gideon got to kiss Alecto before Harrowhark did

Also that Ianthe took so many L's in NtN- my girlfail really wasn't having a great time

Also you know your life/death is going really wrong when, suddenly, hanging out with *Ianthe* starts to sound like a good idea-

[summergoodwife]

I just posted a thing mentioning this, but I'd like to make it its own post too, since it really interests me as a writer:

What do you think of Nona and Alecto from The Locked Tomb being disabled rep? You can say you don't think they are, I can totally understand that point. Especially interested in what other disabled ppl think especially people with very different disabilities from me (the holy A trinity, autism ADHD anxiety, I don't need much support and can mask without too much difficulty).

My thoughts are that Nona is a very wonderful depiction of a neurodivergent girl who needs a lot of support from people around her. She feels real, and for the most part, her ways of being aren't out of the ordinary for real neurodivergent people. The most fantastical part of it all is the cause of her neurodivergence, which, for my part, I don't consider a big problem if the rest of the rep is good.

[tooturtly]

If you like the Locked Tomb, I think you would like the transformers IDW comics (specifically More Than Meets The Eye). (Yes, this is propaganda).

Do you like complicated stories that intertwine in ways that will have you taking notes? But that are still overt and funny enough to draw you in? Do you like found family working together? Do you like, what the author described as “a ship of problematic faves” constantly being thrown into life threatening situations? Do you like queer characters? A funky non-human gender system? Planets that turn into gods? Characters with comical size differences? Fighting? Trauma? It’s got it all!

More reasons under the cut:

1. If you like Ianthe Tridentarius levels of body horror, look no further, one of the first arcs is about literally getting torn apart, a recurring theme for robots who can survive terrible things. If you don’t like that, it’s not a constant theme, just a little treat sometimes.

2. Do you like funky little guys? Noodles? Nonas? I give you Tailgate, Swerve, and every single cybertronian that transforms into an animal.

3. Lesbians, and they’re all this species’ equivalent of being trans (these robots all use he/him, but that’s their default, non-gendered position)

4. Homosexuals, the robots can get robot married, pieces of their souls literally merge, and they will destroy you emotionally :)

5. A semi-malleable concept of death, if you like a character who died, chances are you’ll see them again!

6. Stakes! Have a character you don’t like, well, let’s just say, they won’t be a character for long

7. Gay cultist sword robots (Drift my beloved), and a Captain who’s a bit like Babs if you squint

8. Dealing with the repercussions of millions of years of war, and the impacts that it leaves on people’s emotional well-being

9. War criminals dealing with their emotions! And the fallout of their actions!! And coming to terms with it!!! (I am imagining John and Megatron having one singular conversation)

10. A series so skillfully put together I guarantee that you will go from a fluffy issue smiling so hard your cheeks hurt to a devastating arc that has you sobbing in only a few issues

11. An ending that is both devastating and hopeful

[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

[kaytivity]

[claudiatherelentless]

Unreliable Narrator: Not Paying Attention

Unreliable Narrator: Actively Hallucinating

Unreliable Narrator: Six month old Infant

Coming soon in the Unreliable narrator series! Ancient Rage Barbie!

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[athunderstryke]

them as this:

[foxy-alien]

Alecto the terror and the sublime

[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

[unreachedgalaxy]

some anastasia the first for your tl today. i have always thought anastasia's was the first tongue to be sewn and her jaw-only facepaint is why the ninth house skull is jawless. anyway can't wait for alecto the ninth to release and prove me wildly incorrect

[lifetooshortlovetoolong]

Nona as a character is so fascinating to me when you consider her as a foil to Alecto’s history. Because, when you get down to it, Alecto was Nona all those thousands of years ago.

Consider Alecto, who rose from the shattered remains of the Earth, whose body was new and massive and unwieldy, who only existed because of her creator’s cosmic overindulgence and still knew love. Love!! Knew it so well that she chose it, even to her detriment, every single time. In response, the world around her —the Lyctors especially— rejected her for it because they saw her devotion as stupidity. And Jod, who claims to love her, locked her away, entombing her because he saw his love as a weapon to be used against him. And from what we see of Alecto when she’s awake in the Locked Tomb (especially when she bites Harrow) she’s grown sharper and crueler because of these rejections.

Similarly, Nona, having been slammed into a body that was not hers, with no memory and no faculties ALSO chooses unyielding love. But where Jod and his disciples rejected such “foolishness,” Cam, Pal, Pyhrra, and Nona’s Gang all accept it with open arms. They plan a birthday party for her and make silly jokes and check in on her and always say “I love you” back. They spend every day nurturing her the best they can.

Even in Nona’s final moments, these people tell her, “we love you. We will always love and remember you. That’s what matters.” And that’s what gives Nona the strength to make it to the Body, to do an act so terrible it will erase her. She does it because she is loved.

And now Alecto lives, ancient, undying, and so unloved.

[beguilingcorpse]

i understand the urge to want to wait until all of the locked tomb books are out to read them but like. alectopause is so fun. i promise there is no badness here. we are definitely not all slowly going insane. join us. join us. join us join us joij us join us join us join us join s joun us join us joun us join us join us joun us joun us jouns ys sjoun usgs joujs uusv joiun usgs sjiujbsusys

[inkdragon1900]

Based on what Tamsyn Muir said about Alecto “hopefully” being the last book. I wish I could tell her directly “Do it. If the story needs to be longer do it. Hell make an entire book about the Harrow Nova au cause it ties into some later arc. Take up space. Dominate the genre.So many male writers make 5-8 books about some fantasy/Sci-fi world cause they feel like they have the audience’s attention to do so. And to be completely honest Tamsyn Muir has my attention like no other. Like yes girl make me read 3 more books consisting of 500-600 pages. I am sat.

[wifegideonnav]

sealing a tomb with wards that only respond to the emperors dna call that a johnlock

[griddleharkbrainrot]

I’m currently thinking about how John and Co. refused to call Alecto by her name. They named her fury and vengeance but could not acknowledge what made her thus. They call her Annie Laurie, reducing her to her looks, those so inhuman and frightening yet beautiful all the same. John gave her the name Annabel Lee, naming her existence as a tragedy in that she was his love lost. In both instances the literary references reduce the woman mentioned to nothing but set dressing for the man of the story and it truly betrays John’s thoughts on Alecto for as much as he claimed to love her, he sees her only as the stepping stone for his own story. “For John so loved her that he had made her she. For John had loved the world.” And that is the crux of the matter, John had loved the world but she is not the world, she is its fury. John wanted her to be calm beaches and lapping waves, he wanted a wife, sister, mother, and daughter all in one, but instead, he got 7 million silenced voices crying out in agony, furious at the injustice done to them. I think subconsciously he understood that when he named her Alecto, fury of wrath from Greek Mythology. But even if he had called her Gaia she would still be furious, for was it not Gaia who gave her children the scythe to kill her husband? Was it not Gaia who roared and shrieked to the depths of Tartarus when her children were torn from her arms? The first bearer of prophecy was forged from the grief and rage of an anguished mother; the earth has always been furious. John’s fatal flaw was that he could not comprehend that the rage was for him. He who promised love and safety but cut and stripped her soul stole her children and butchered her corpse. John could never truly comprehend that what he deemed his perfect creation could resent him the way she did. He took her away and reforged her into something she could never be. John denies the resentment Alecto feels for him and we can see this reflected in how he refers to her. John is the sort of man who thinks that if he sees a woman as nothing but her looks, he can make her lesser. To him, she is Annie Laurie of beautiful bust and a personality nonexistent; To him, she is Annabel Lee, a woman so pure and lovely that the angels stole her away from him. Subconsciously, the lyctors have adopted this as well, calling her these names out of fear and not realizing the implications of what they are doing. Even in writing, she is A.L. to them because somewhere deep down they know that to name her wrath is to invite it and invoke it. John believed that if he could compress the Earth into a beautiful shell then he could control it. The Earth has been around for far longer than he could ever truly comprehend, and she is furious.

For @commanderbabygirl thoughts?

I did not realize just how many opinions I had on this until I started typing

[kafkaesquetwink]

something i really appreciate about the locked tomb is that there are so many little details that make it clear tamsyn muir wanted you to have even more fun every time you re-read it. like throwaway lines or descriptions that become tragic or funny or foreboding only after you’ve read them before.