#alecto tlt vibes

[fortjester]

have you considered that im happier here 'cause he told me i should be? oh? you're so handsome when i'm all over your mouth(WHEN IM ALL OVER YOUR MOUTH WHEN IM ALL OVER YOUR MOUTH--) I TRIED TO BE GOOD AM I NO GOOD? AM I NO GOOD?? AM I NO GOOD??? WITH MY MEMORY RESTRICTED TO A POLAROID IN EVIDENCE!!!! I JUST WANTED TO BE YOURS! CAN I BE YOURS?? CAN I BE YOURS??? JUST TELL ME IM YOURS!!!! IF IM TURNING IN YOUR STOMACH AND IM MAKING YOU FEEL SICK!!!!! AM I MAKING YOU FEEL SICK???????

[homeofwyrm]

Have to try for Alecto now. This Barbie is gonna stab God.

[nonas-third-tantrum]

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[appalesbian]

angsty lesbians who won’t talk about their feelings get put in the kissing locket until they figure it out

[dorkfruit]

shessss the mannnn in the box !! and i think in AtN she should get to rip john's head off as a little treat

+ the full body sketch that i couldn't be bothered to paint in its entirety

[kyoukoswife]

rereading tlt and doing silly little sketches at the same time is always fun

[liesmyth]

I appreciate that TLT fandom meta going around that's like "you're all so smart but let's remember the sins of hubris of the bbc sherlock fandom" because yeah! Good reminder! Theorizing is fun but also sometimes you connect the wrong dots! Sometimes the curtains are just blue!

Personally. I'm ready to have every single theory and headcanon I ever conceived personally debunked by Taz. I'm fine with it. I've accepted it.

EXCEPT for Vagina Dentata Alecto. Sorry to say. Unless AtN includes a very detailed first person POV of Harrow eating out earth barbie pussy and confirming firsthand with her tongue that there are no teeth down there, I will keep believing that she has teeth down there. I simply am perceiving the truth.

[going-loud]

III - THE EMPRESS

honestly i really knocked this one out surprisingly fast, i've been feeling pretty motivated the past couple of days and i would've finished it sooner if not for my ipad having to charge :). to be honest, something feels a bit unfinished on this one to me, but i also feel like it'll get too busy if i add anything else so... it's gonna stay like this for now until i revisit it lol

The Empress is none other than miss Alecto herself, bodyguard and cavalier primary to The Emperor (spoiler alert for my next card). The Empress is a representation of fertility, femininity, and Mother Nature. She is decorated with pomegranates as a symbol of that fertility, although in my depiction Alecto appears crushing that fruit in her anger at being destroyed and remade in John's image. (side note: i didn't realized until i finished this card how similar my background is to The Arcana Tarot Empress card... so i will put the disclaimer here as always that my series and interpretations are largely influenced by that book!). Upright, the Empress conveys "selflessness and acts of service", an integral part of Alecto's personality she couldn't abandon even after trying. Reversed, the Empress is concerned with an imbalance in how much one is giving of themselves and receiving from others. Alecto gave John infinite power to save her, and in turn, was destroyed and confined for 10,000 years. Alecto continues to give more and more of herself out of love, and often is hurt for doing so. For these reasons, I chose Alecto as The Empress (and John as The Emperor, of course).

in a less serious note, i've been struggling recently comparing myself to other artists online... being a freelance artist nowadays unfortunately means being a content creator as well and honestly i'm not good at it LOL. seeing other people's fanart and the success people have online...it gives me hope in a way, but makes me insecure in another. i'm trying to remind myself that digital art is pretty new to me in this capacity, and i need to give myself room to grow. but anyways, if youre still reading, thank you for checking out my art and if you want to see a print of this work lmk in the tags! i have a print of THE HIGH PRIESTESS on my etsy already!

[harrowharkwife]

an "i'm not the stepdad, i'm the dad who stepped up" arc for pyrrha (re: gideon) has GOTTA be at LEAST top 3 on the list of things i'm crossing my fingers and hoping tamsyn will give us in alecto the ninth

[technicolorxsn]

hm. mixed feelings

[pancakesforamber]

songs that are forever recontexualized after reading The Locked Tomb, number 1

seriously I cannot get over how the visuals, language, and hell even direct lines can be applied to The Locked Tomb

if I had any artistic talent, y'all better believe I'd have made an animatic set to this song already

[socksandwitches]

Earth raised up her head From the darkness dread & drear, Her light fled, Stony, dread, And her locks covered with grey despair. Prisoned on watery shore, Starry jealousy does keep my den Cold and hoar; Weeping o’er, I hear the father of the ancient men. Selfish father of men! Cruel, jealous, selfish fear! Can delight, Chained in night, The virgins of youth and morning bear. Does spring hide its joy, When buds and blossoms grow? Does the sower Sow by night, Or the ploughman in darkness plough? Break this heavy chain, That does freeze my bones around! Selfish, vain, Eternal bane, That free love with bondage bound.

Earth’s Answer by William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience  (published 1794)

[youaremysunshine-court]

Oh btw blossoms by the amazing devil is going to be The alecto the ninth song trust me

[lady-harrowhark]

my spotify top five had an 80% hit rate for songs from my locked tomb playlist lmao

no one dies from love by tove lo (”no one dies from love... guess i’ll be the first!” - gideon nav directly before getting railed)

LUCID by rina sawayama (the sole top five outlier, an immaculate bop but i will concede that, being from the heartstopper soundtrack, it is still on theme in being from a media-related playlist)

hallucinations by PVRIS (do i even have to say it? this song IS htn)

heart2 by umru & petal supply ft rebecca black (that slippery discordant synth-y stuff at the beginning just SOUNDS like panicking whilst dropping into the river. also lyrics could apply to any number of unwholesome htn character configurations)

play destroy by poppy ft grimes (THE alecto mood)

[psyche-reads]

Yeah so this is heavily based on a previous meta post I made about the lyctoral cavs and the Resurrection Beasts that went into some parallels I found but can’t fully explain:

The whole thing about them fighting each other comes from something Varun the Eater says when possessing Judith

It’s very vague, just “I saw your cavalier…I saw them all—they hurt me,” coupled with some offhand comments from Harrow the Ninth implying that Resurrection Beasts have a specific fixation on cavaliers that have been consumed. Plus all the stuff about the Tower, wherever the Stoma led, and the “Harrow in Hell” title implying that there is ~somewhere~ that characters go after they sort-of die, so theoretically the RBs and the dead cavs could still be intact there, especially if (as I theorize) they’re each partnered up in one way or another.

It’s all speculation based on very shaky ground, but this is a pet theory I’ve been nurturing for some time

The first act of Alecto is Harrow descending into hell. There are nine circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno. There are nine dead lyctoral cavaliers. There are nine resurrection beasts. Nona the Ninth implies the cavaliers are fighting the resurrection beasts Somewhere. Theory: in Alecto, Harrow will encounter each dead cav/corresponding RB one by one, liberating their souls a la the biblical harrowing of hell, culminating in her reuniting with the fragment of Gideon’s soul she consumed in a manner not unlike Dante’s Beatrice. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk