#alecto my babygirl

[skydaemon]

thinking about wake and alecto. tazmuir really said i need two sexy virgin marys in my fictional universe and i need them STAT

[camplease]

for TEN THOUSAND YEARS

alecto loved john, alecto loved humanity so much that she gave him a part of herself, of her vast, life-giving divinity, and he used it to destroy her, to destroy others like her, and to trick her when she trusted him and TRAP HER ALONE (besides anastasia who died, who she had to WATCH DIE) for TEN. THOUSAND. YEARS

nona shows us all of the joy and all of the love that alecto is positively overflowing with. and john and his original lyctors broke her. they called her a monster, but she wasn’t a monster because she was different, she’s a monster because they made her one

[nikkicafeina]

Not enough art of Wren covered in blood. Do I learn to draw things covered in blood so I can draw her covered in blood? Perhaps...

[procrastinationaccount]

Hey can you explain how wake got in the sword? And how wake did the whole revenant thing? Her storyline after her and johns baby is sooooo confusing to me

I'm not the best person to ask about this tbh I'm sorry 😭 My thought process:

We know that she went directly from her bones to the sword (HtN 469), that anything strongly associated with her life or death will work, including anything that touched her murder weapon (172); however, Wake was kicked out of an airlock (so G1deon's boot and No Air) and Gideon's sword was still wrapped when she got it (418), so that seems like a dead end. We know that Gideon's sword is of the Drearburh stock, which are traditionally not touched without gloves or bled on by anyone who isn't the owner (323), and it's at the very least the same type of sword Alecto used, but she didn't overlap with Wake's timeline, so that also seems like a dead end.

On the other hand, we have Nonius forming a revenant link through Ortus' "sheer passion" (453) for him; Gideon certainly had passion for calling her mother to her in spades, so I wonder if she could have done it by accident? There's also the emphasis on blood wards being transferable through the blood of direct relatives, so maybe thanergetic links work the same way and Gideon bleeding on the sword at some point let Wake use it as a vessel. My final, least textually supported guess is that at some point Gideon fought a skeleton that included her bones and damage to them still counted as interacting with her thalergy/thanergy, especially since her revenant was still in them. Idk idk.

Things become more clear-cut going into her HtN plotline. Since Harrow killed Cytherea with the sword she was in, she had a thanergetic link to her corpse and was able to use it to spook Harrow, alternately have sexy times and try to kill Pyrrha (and/or G1deon), and get her audience with Jod at the end. She also had access to Harrow's head, presumably because Harrow washes the sword down with her arterial blood every night (59 - babygirl whyyyyy). Then Abigail and Magnus successfully exorcised her from Harrow and the sword, and Pyrrha destroyed her last corporeal anchor by destroying Cytherea's brain (confirmed on 455 and 472)

Presumably she's currently in the River living her best afterlife. I mean, even if she has no way of knowing this in the end G1deon died surrounded by comrades, her niece successfully nepotismed her way into one of the most important positions of her organization, her bomb got the tomb open, and Pyrrha is stuck technically working under said niece while caring for a parade of casualties of devotion. Honestly she's the closest thing this series has to a girlboss winning.

[paleio]

dude.... DUDE...... DUDE

OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY

FIRST WATCH HIGHLIGHTS/GENERAL EMOTIONS

> the attic looks IDENTICAL to how i imagined it in my head. i literally screamed and punched the arm of my chair

> every single thing percy says to the oracle. the halloween decoration line made me go hee hee.... that is my boy :)

> OH AND THE VOICE CRACK...... IM GONNA THROW UP HES SO PRECIOUS TO ME

> love love love the way they split the prophecy into 2 scenes. fucking cinema

> annabeth trying to hide her excitement when percy immediately picks her. the quiet pride in her eyes. this twelve year old girl really does think shes THE shit

> GROVER TALKING TO..... BLACKJACK???? I KNOW NOT EVERY SINGLE BLACK PEGASUS HAS TO BE BLACKJACK BUT LIKE. WHYD THEY MAKE THE HORSE SPECIFICALLY BLACK WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY COLORS A HORSE CAN BE. YA KNOW

> grover not believing percy actually chose him and then how much it affects him when he realizes its not a joke... oh boy... i will be making multiple posts exclusively about my beloved g man. aryan you CANT be doing this to me you are irreversibly altering my brain chemistry

> "that's bees" GROVER!!!!!! 💖💘💖💖💕💕💖💘💘💖💕

> different monsters being able to smell different aspects of a person FUCK THATS GENIUS. THATS GONNA BE RELEVANT FOR THE REST OF THE GODDAMN SERIES. i wonder if it will connect to the fatal flaws thing..... i wouldn't be surprised but i would be delighted

> consensus song 🥺🥺🥺🥺 and... like.... the way all of them interact with each other. the way you can see their entire personalities, the way they were raised, their weaknesses, just in the way they talk as a trio. im really emotional thinking about

> every second of annabeth in the gas station. you know what im talking about. yeah. fuck you and your evil mean fucked up foreshadowing mr richard riordan and jonathan e steinberg

> the babygirls!!!!!! (furies) (im so faceblind i cant figure out which is which

> the second she started talking to annabeth i fucking CLOCKED IT. i was like OHHHH.... this is a SHOW. these are EPISODES. they have contained ideas and conflicts. there are episodic arcs WITHIN the seasonal arcs WITHIN the series-long arcs. goddamn it now i have to personally kiss every writer and producer and director on the mouth

> im in love with the trio dynamic because it fucking sucks. there weren't many communication issues or interpersonal conflicts between any of them in the book. even percy and annabeth got along for the most part, despite the awkwardness and bickering. here, though, annabeth is bossy as FUCK. she's acting like this is her quest. percy is whiny and impatient and he deflects every time he's questioned. grover is an ineffective mediator and is clearly uncomfortable being around both of them at once. the vibe feels so beautifully off the whole time and it makes the eventual reconciliation SO much more impactful and compelling

> medusa hot. awooga and all that.

> i like that they all realized immediately who aunty em was. im sad they abandoned the pseudonym so quickly but it makes sense that they'd understand seeing as they all know a good amount of mythology. i think it would've been a scream-at-your-tv moment otherwise

> this is exhausting why am i doing this on my phone

> the plan they came up with is fantastic. i audibly gasped. once when the hat came out and once when i realized they were gonna kill alecto with the head. SMART AS FUCK even though it's not quite a perseus reference anymore

> grover crying over uncle ferdinand.... i can't decide if im sad they didn't make it a funny moment because it's so iconic in the book, or if im glad they played it straight because it gave us a SAD GROVER MOMENT AND ALSO FORESHADOWING. not that i like seeing grover sad... i just like seeing him. i like to look at his haunted eyes and go damn boy... you are one sad boy. good luck with your feelings of inadequacy and trauma repression <3

> writing this is draining my sanity. cmon almost done

> HE SAID THE LINE HE SAID THE LINE HE SAID THE LINE!!!!!!! i am impertinent. top 5 percy jackson quotes of all time. i feel sick just thinking about the other 4 in that list.... im not gonna survive

> cue drive from tlt musical as they leave aunty em's

> oh hey thats lin manuel miranda. im sure he wont be crucial to the overarching plot of the series

> i will be honest the vibe IS kinda perfect. he does look like an emotionally immature divorced dad who complains about his job all the time but constantly works overtime for no reason. its just that he also looks like lin manuel miranda

> love the song choice for the credits

> i will talk about the ep4 preview in a different post im too tired

FINAL (very sleepy) THOUGHTS:

best one yet by far. the more screen time our trio gets the better. grover is a dork and id die for him. its so cool that we get to see the story and characters from a slightly more omniscient perspective, even though i do miss percy's narration. i cant fucking believe this show is real and that they made it just for me

I AM IMPERTINENT!!!! AND IM ALSO GOING TO BED!!!!!!

[liesmyth]

do you have favorite jod fics you'd recommend? i love your tlt opinions and am also a filthy john understander, but totally new to the fandom's fic scene

HI. YES. This is the rec list I was born to make. My shitty little meow meow. My insufferable babygirl. I do have fics. They're good :)

Written for me (ME!):

(I sat on this ask for a couple days so that I could acknowledge the authors on these fics that just revealed today. They cater perfectly to my tastes and everyone should read them.)

and my mouth isn't filled with blood, it's victory wine by @widespindriftgaze; John/Ianthe, pre-NtN, rated E, gore

You like forcing yourself to do gross things. This is called having character. Ianthe gets haunted, makes a power play, and smokes a cigarette.

Sex Education by @theriverbeyond; John & Gideon, pre-NtN, rated T

In which God explains condoms, consent, and how babies are made, and Prince Kiriona Gaia considers the pros and cons of being jettisoned out into the vacuum of space

(John gives Kiriona "the talk")

Other faves!! These are John & Gideon:

A Mild Sort of Resurrection by sigaloenta; Bari Star AU, rated G

In all the extensive special briefings and all-hands bulletins and strict sets of orders preparatory to the Emperor Divine's inspection tour of the Avernus, no one had considered that God might desire to fetch Himself a coffee.

"Fuck it, I'm adopting her," said John Gaius, not knowing the paperwork wasn't necessary by @naamah-beherit; John & Gideon AU, rated T

Gideon, a highly distinguished Cohort lieutenant, saves the day—and the girl—and then gets stuck in the lift of The Erebos with a man feeding her peanuts as if they have all the time in the world. They don't, but if he doesn't mind, then why should she?

now that you're sleeping by elijah_was_a_prophet; John & Kiriona pre NtN, rated M for mega dead

After-hours blues

John + Alecto, after the end:

moving upon the face of the waters by bittybelle; Alecto/John, rated M

You kissed John like the animal you had become, and he responded with the fealty of a child, and then with the force of a god, and then with the passion of the abandoned.

so I open the window to hear sounds of people by @sunderedstar; Alecto & John, rated T

He misses the beach. The real beach. The current one is mostly soil with a lacy veneer of nuclear ash, clammy and streaky and hilariously radioactive, which is a real bummer when he thinks about it too hard.

Some gen fic!!

recognize them by their fruits by ceruleanVulpine; Ianthe & John post HtN, rated T

John and Ianthe deal with the fact that his only remaining Lyctor is the one he never liked much. Maybe they can bond over the fact that they're both egotistical manipulators who lie like breathing? No? Also, God sees ghosts. Ianthe doesn't help.

John 25:12 by @halfeatenmoon; Pre-resurrection gang, John & G1deon

John and his friends escape the cow fortress to spend Christmas Day at the beach. With beer, salads, pavlova, and the corpses of a million fish killed by nuclear weapons testing.

Assorted lyctor shipfic:

choking on your leash by @augustmourn cult era John/A- , rated E + dubcon

He wanted to fuck John because he cared about him, even if he couldn't say it out loud. He didn't want to fuck John as a convenient way for both of them to have a better orgasm, like they always had; he didn't want to fuck John to stop him from killing off another hundred cops. But he would do anything for John. He'd known that in his bones for a long, long time.

colder than empires, and deader too by cadmean; rated E, dubcon + some gore

Drenched in the blood of his oldest sister and staring death (God; but really, where is the difference?) in the face, Augustine makes a different choice.

nature/nurture by Marenke; John/Augustine pre NtN speculation about the memory wipe. Rated G

There’s a little movement Augustine does - a flick of his wrist when he lits up a cigarette - that, some days, feels like the only reminiscent of him before he died.

This War of Attrition by @seven-syntheseas; Augustine/John/Mercy longfic, rated E (30k, complete)

attrition (n.): 1. sorrow for one’s sins stemming from a motive other than that of the love of God; 2. friction.

Or, put simply: Dios Apate. Major.

Self promo corner! I'm not above self reccing, so here are my jodfics. (Surprisingly, they reflect my tastes perfectly.)

John & Kiriona + John & others, post-HtN fic about God's upcoming midlife crisis: towery city amongst the stars; rated T

John & Augustine with shippy vibes, pre-canon: dreams of the ones who came before us, rated T

John/G1deon, pre-canon: dead and old and always hungry, rated E

Alecto/John, after the nukes: sign my death with your teeth, rated E + gore

Primarily a Ianthe fic but John is in there and it was very fun to write: after me, the flood, rated E, horror elements, Ianthe/Augustine + Ianthe & John

Kind of an ensemble fic but John's in it (and he's the only one having a good time) HtN AU: Housing Crisis! at the Mithraeum, rated T

[jennyandvastraflint]

Xena Reactions S3Ep1! We're baaaack! I got to watch some Xena, partly as recovery from stuff.

Heyyy, Gabrielle is on the DVD cover now yippie!!

O///O I start episode and there is woman dancing...

Ngl they're pretty hot

EW ARES JUMPSCARE

I don't like the voyeuristic character of thiiiiiii IS HE GETTING A LAP DANCE

Alecto??? Are those the Furies??

Uh oh... Guilty?

Ares ur gross. Fuck off.

"Cool" sdhfhd

Gabby's top changed. The clothes top I mean.

Awwww, Xena wants food

AHAHA GABRIELLE CHEATS

"Okay maybe cheating is an overstatement"

YIPPIE THEY BEAT UP GUYS

Uh oh. She's lost her mind. The comedy sound effects

"I didn't mean to do that" gives him his sword back dhfhdd

"I love the smell of warrior sweat and in the morning" 😭

SHE'S JUGGLING

Did she call her Manes???

"I can see where I've been" 😂

"HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU LOST YOUR VIRGINITY" SJDHFHDHD

Please, she's hungyyy

Xena is a pouty kid, and Gabrielle is like Please for me? And Xena, ok 😘 (Vastra is like that too XD)

Awww, she's putting daisies in her hair

Gosh she wakes up and is so frightened for her gf

NOOOOO

SOMFT TOUCH "Xena they're afraid of you" btw is she naked. I guess if the people died they'd at least have seen Xena naked XD

Awwwww, Gabrielle is so gentle with her gf 🥺

"Then take it it's driving me insane"

Father? Gosh, like the one Ares pretended to be?

OUGH SHE PUSHED GABRIELLE AWAY...

Noooo, BABYGIRL! She ran off

Gosh poor Xena

Bad CGI :D

CALLISTO??? OH IT'S GABRIELLE

Nooooo poor Gabrielle!

I mean... Xena tying Gabrielle up? 👀

Her hands not behaving

SPIN PUNCH. Holy shit.

This is just me stimming honestly

Her mummmmm. Aw poor Xena

WHAT. PLOT TWIST??? I mean. Good for you Cyrene

TO SACRIFICE HER TO ARES OMFG???

I love the composition of that shot of Xena focused in the foreground and Cyrene in the background.

OH A CYCLE OF HAAAATE

and now the same shot with Gabrielle

"That life is a joke" Ough

"Lunatic with lethal combat skills"

Aj aj aj, Xena leaves...

OH. IS THIS A CALLBACK TO S1 WHERE SHE BURIED HER WEAPONS AND WAS ABOUT TO KILL HERSELF

Urgh. Fuck Ares

Oh ffs he wants to turn her into a brutal killer again

Yuck, Ares, yuck

"I'm crazy, I'm not stupid" REAL

Her just yelling at Ares. As she should

OI! DON'T YOU DARE INSULT GABRIELLE

Yes well DUUUUH he didn't regain his sanity like that...

Ares, stop grabbing Gabrielle

"Cos you're my father" dhfhdhdbdvd

"Do the bargaining"

Please the way they WIPE THE FLOOR WITH ARES

Alecto is funky XD

"Hey come on you two, you're nog gonna get it on AGAIN are you" please

Oh what a nice callback to the very first episode and Xena's fight with Draco

Not the gravity-defying kick back

"I'm gonna use you as a shield, Gabrielle. Just kidding" 😂

ROTTEN FRUIT

"I still don't get what you see in her" WELL I DO, PISS OFF, ARES.

Gosh poor Cyrene... 😢 No one blames you, love

HANG ON SO WHEN ARES PRETENDED TO BE HER DAD IN S1 😭😭😭 I mean... I don't think Ares could get it on with Cyrene. She's too good for him. But ah well

Yesss hug Cyrene!

[the-dashing-miss-ollandre]

Hello hi we’ve never talked and I must say that I’ve never read tlt however Alecto is my babygirl and I’ve been thinking about her this morning. how might you be

you are so fucking right. also thanks for breaking the silence because i genuinely love seeing your username in my notes but i usually work on vampire rules with regard to talking to people

[oupydogcity]

Um fandom is hades the game hades

hi babygirl

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most) - meg ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ i like her

scrunkly (my "baby*, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped) - HYPNOS MY SILLY GUYYYY THE GIGGLE SHAPED LIKE A BOY

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/ underappreciated fave) - alecto i loveeeee her her teeth are pointy and she is silly to me

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and Iwon't shut up about it for a week) - the shade #theshade

poor little meow meow ("problematic"/ unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave) - asterius is a poor meow meow if you really think about it

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason) - thanatos is quite tormentable. whats wrong w him. like why did they just make him tsundere.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell) - zag because hes bisexual which is cringe to me also because you (mason) like him more than me and im yandere

[alethiometry]

top 5 elden ring bosses (if you want to answer 😌)

AKHDKSJS i was gonna ask you that LMAO

i'm bad at this game and still haven't made it past castle sol/fire giant so i'm basing these primarily off of vibes

1. astel, naturalborn of the void. i love love love love love its design, i love the arena, i found the fight reasonably challenging but not discouraging! i briefly considered getting a sleeve tattoo of the weirdo space bug lol. also shoutout to wing of astel for co-carrying my pure int astrologer build (alongside meteor staff/rock sling lol), prettiest weapon in the game!

2. malenia whom i've never actually fought but again i love her character design (both the blade of miquella and the goddess of rot forms), her movesets are super cool, and i think she's one of the most intriguing and tragic characters in the game.

3. morgott the omen king. if we're going to talk about tragic figures then obviously i have to mention to my boy morgott. he has some of the best voice lines in the game imo, his backstory breaks my heart, and just like astel i found his moveset the perfect balance of challenging and rewarding to learn! also his 2nd phase attacks are very pretty

4. rykard, lord of blasphemy. he's my special little evil wizard. he's my mallgoth babygirl. he's the embodiment of middle child syndrome. he's a fucked up irredeemable little critter i want to stick inside a jar and study. his skull fireball attack is delightfully camp and made me scream with equal parts laughter and terror the first time i encountered it. hot topic WISHES it was on the same level

5. godskin apostle (divine tower of caelid). i hated every moment i spent navigating that fucking tower, but i love the long noodle boy and the bossfight music absolutely slaps

honorable mentions: godrick the grafted, tree sentinel, black knife mommy alecto, horse girl loretta

[skydaemon]

One thing about me is I love fridged women. I hope she has some cheese in there

[idolshineitai]

been going absolutely insane about this all day i literally can’t stop thinking about valentine the ninth what the fuck do you mean it’s an epistolary what do you mean it’s called VALENTINE what do you MEAN they’re GIDEON’S LETTERS and she’s BAD AT THEM please please i’m begging i need more of my babygirl’s narration she is the love of my life. she would be so fucking funny. PLEASE. AND IT MIGHT NOT COME OUT EVER?!?? AND CERTAINLY NOT BEFORE ALECTO IN FUCKING FALL????? WHWHWHHW

[ajaegerpilot]

harrow: gideon is the best of us the flower of my house i would give anything for her to keep living even if I could never see her again i have tried to crush her and she is my only friend i am undone without her

gideon: i want to die for her I want her to consume me, that she doesn't want to use me for everything i'm worth means she doesn't care about me, i hunger for her preoccupation, when she hated me at least i had her attention

[corpsesoldier]

trying to work out gideon’s motivations at the end of ntn got my brain chugging like a steam engine

obviously she can want two things at once, but I’m trying to sort out how much of her desire to get into the tomb is her stated reason—kill alecto and become god’s cavalier—and how much is directly related to harrow’s well-being/getting harrow back.

her being there because john is manipulating her into opening the tomb by using her desire to belong to someone makes sense, but did john actually “send her”? she says twice she snuck onto ianthe’s shuttle which was headed to new rho; how did she plan to get to the ninth from there? did she know ianthe was going looking for harrow?

she claims herself as john’s child and heir and states her desire to be his cavalier, but the moment harrow’s body starts falling apart she drops all (if any?) pretense. her priorities shift instantly. she tells paul to take all her blood if they have to; she tells them to kill her, if that will open the tomb and get nona’s exploding soul out of harrow’s meat. but even before nona starts bleeding, right after ianthe accuses gideon of kidding herself, she calls ianthe out for only caring about herself and, specifically, not about harrow—“don’t open the tomb, leave harrow to die, mneh mneh mneh.”

I guess my question is: does gideon even know what she wants? she’s obviously deeply, cosmically miserable about her situation, and yet she probably does believe that if she can make herself indispensable to god then she’ll finally have the security and even love she’s always wanted after losing literally everything else that’s ever mattered to her. but how much does she buy that that’s what she really wants? how much is she lying to herself and how much is she lying to everyone else?

[liesmyth]

feel like harrow’s trauma—all of it—isn’t talked about enough. maybe because she doesn’t show it/it isn’t obvious as much as gideon. anyways. can’t wait to be proud of my babygirl in alecto 😊

ok my first thought was, I actually can't relate because I think Harrow has been the fandom's meow meow for years — I feel like I've only started to see Sad Girl Gideon as an Accredited Fandom Opinion after NtN came out... then I realised that actually NtN came out a year and a half ago. Maybe you're on to something

anyway! fandom trends are cyclical and it all really depends on the circles you hang out with, I'm sure someone out there IS whumping Harrow like she deserves. Or you can be the change and spam us all with Sad Harrow content, that girl has lived with a lobotomy since 2020. It's time

[nikkicafeina]

Can't believe Camilla Hect waited until the back end of book three to drop the arc words for this series:

Love and freedom don't coexist.

What a star. The single most codependent thing I've ever heard. Succinctly sums up that there is not a single person in this universe who knows how to love in a healthy way.

Hope someone figures out that death is natural, separation is necessary, and boundaries are essential. Failing that, I hope Alecto has a lot of fun bringing about the end times and eating everything in sight, because my babygirl deserves it.