#Alectopause

[fawntastic]

you should draw alecto! if you feel like it mayhaps! your drawings are very cool

(To the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) ANCIENT RAGE-FILLED MURDER BARBIE

I drew her eyes a different to how I usually do here because I took inspo from @notedchampagne’s Alecto! I love their hc that her eyes are flat and look almost uncanny. True apex predator moments. Shes like an Amur Leopard to me…

[tooturtly]

Thinking about how the soup incident was actually John’s first time eating a person.

For all the other Lyctors, cannibalism reminds them of their cavaliers. Of the worst moments of their lives, killing the person closest to them to ascend. In some cases having the choice made for them, watching them die so that they could live, feeling their bodies go cold as they ate their souls.

But John killed everyone. He did Grand Lysis before Alecto had a body. He ate the earth and tasted his own blood. But he never tasted another person before then.

I think that’s partially why he is so disgusted. He has just partaken in the taboo which he forced upon everyone else. And he’s never even done it himself!

[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!

[athunderstryke]

them as this:

[foxy-alien]

Alecto the terror and the sublime

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[addamii]

Me day one of Alectopause: oh gee I can’t wait for the next book!

Me now, rocking back and forth covered in sweat and blood probably: I think we’re all sleeping on the fact that Honesty’s name could be Frank

[saiintofawe]

has this been done before

[catrasfreckles]

I tried to find every hint about Alecto that Muir has given in interviews! I recommend reading through the full interviews bc they are all delightful to read.

On Canaan House:

On Gideon and Harrow's relationship:

On Harrow:

On Gideon's soul:

On Ianthe:

On Alecto:

On resurrection vs.rebirth:

[foxy-alien]

There are almost no beautiful things left