#alecto would flip lmao

[yonemurishiroku]

Imagine when Hades finds out that his family heirloom has fallen into the hands of a descendant of Apollo, of all people.

[transmutationisms]

saw in your latest ask that you just read the locked tomb series and i’d love to hear some of your general thoughts on it! for me it’s pretty cogent thematically and exhibits occasional brilliance (harrow the ninth in particular comes to mind; it’s very technically deft imo) but there are issues wrt execution that i can’t overlook, no matter how much i love the series.

yes i am a locked tomb enjoyer >:) i started gtn on a whim at 3am when i couldn't sleep in surgery recovery lmao and then got pretty sucked in around the halfway mark. readmore so i don't have to worry about spoilers.

honestly my main gripe prior to nona was that i was concerned muir was just going to elide a lot of the imperial violence that her worldbuilding implied. having now read ntn i'm much more enthusiastic about the whole series. i've gathered from seeing some Posts that nona did not get a universally positive reception jfdjshfjd but i really liked it. obviously there's a lot that muir needs to pick back up in alecto, and i agree that harrow had some extremely banger technical moments, but also, nona had the john passages, so....

anyway. it's hard for me to be concise here because there's a lot going on in these books and their intertexts. i think to me the centrally clever thing muir has done is use necromancy, the necromancer/cavalier relationship, and lyctorhood (really just the higher expression of this same relationship) as interpersonal representations and echoes of imperial violence. to me this is what makes nona so good, and even allows nona to re-contextualise harrow and gideon in retrospect. if lyctors are "half-dead cannibals," then so, in some sense, is the empire itself and any imperial subject. death is then not a stopping point of violence but a necessary production of empire; also, there is a really fascinating essay to pull together here about the use of cannibalism as a metaphor in discussing political violence (i'm thinking especially of the french long nineteenth century; invocations of 'bloodthirst' eg during the first revolution; and the social role of butchers and butchery, in relation to tlt's necro-bio-politics and use of the body as a locus and articulation of violence.... yum).

problems-wise i would say the comedy doesn't always land for me. i think muir is trying to do something with memes and internet jokes akin to how cervantes used high/low language and humour in 'don quixote' (obviously a major intertext for both dulcinea and ortus, and arguably also harrow's bubble universe in the river), but sometimes i just don't like it lol. also, i saw a post circulating recently that said ianthe was pre-written for fanfic tropes, and like... true lol i find her mostly uninteresting except for the incestuous and abusive implications (maybe just explicit text at this point) with corona. also i'm interested to see whether muir is intending to do more with race in alecto.

in general, though... yeah i'm really excited for alecto; i think muir has potentially set herself up well. that shift from essentially the limited perspective of a marginal but still imperial subject, to the hints we get of the broader empire on the mithraeum, to actually opening up blood of eden and the process of conquering people (not just harrow flipping planets) was well done. also to do that in nona through alecto's eyes, which are of course physically the eyes of a teenage girl...! and i didn't even get to her own body being modelled on a barbie that she hates. like i said, there's a lot to say about these books lmao. i love you pyrrha dve and i'm dying (haha) to know what muir is planning to do with kiriona.

[thalsrph]

about the mun.

nicknames: thal, thals ! 

zodiac: aries

height: 1,65m :) 

time: 11:08 am

favorite band / artist: uhhhhhh there’s too much musical gold out there to define it with solely ONE band/artist but I loveeee cro, vanessa de mata, lianne la havas, joe arroyo, masego, j cole and many more !  

song stuck in my head: ..... do re mi from blackbear 

last movie i saw: a simple favor 

last thing i googled: whether it’s liechtenstein or luxemburg next to switzerland and austria (I always mix them up) 

other blogs: just two muse blogs aka. clectocrrw (alecto carrow) & jmspottcr (james potter) which are part of a rpg 

do i get asks: I get a couple of requests and every now and then lovely messages which make my day :) 

why did i choose this username: because I didn’t want to change my username ??? like if it’s my name and what the blog is for I have no reason to change it ! 

following: 867 woOps

average amount of sleep: like 3-4 hours yikes

what i’m wearing: a sports bra and leggings (my go to look at all times) 

dream job: owning a cute little vegan restaurant in the ass of the world on some hidden beach in thailand or indonesia (still figuring out the where) that turns into a cute bar at night :) 

dream trip: hiking up mount nyiragongo in the congo and seeing the lava flow at first light !!! 

favorite food: this really depends on who makes the food ... like I have a lot of favorite foods BUT idk some variants of the meals are just shit bec the person cooking it doesn’t care to make it good ya feel ? I’m a picky shit ... 

play any instruments: lmAO I have no talent in reading notes. my mom tried SHE REALLY DID but like I can’t learn like that... soooo I can still play one song on the piano and that’s it. 

eye color: greeny brownie goldie idk it changes constantly passport checks are always fun.

hair color: well my natural hair color is dark brown with a reddish underglow BUT ya girl is trash and died it a while back so now the ends are sorta light brown/blondie and it’s a mess. 

languages you speak: german, spanish, english, and i’m currently learning portuguese and czech. I also understand dutch (thanks granny) and a bit of afrikaans (again thanks granny) 

random fact: I don’t have a home ? I was without a nation for a whole year because I was born outside of my birth parent’s home country, and then I took on my adoptive parent’s nationality BUT LIKE I lived in their home country only for like 2 years and it’s not my home? Idk what my home is buT ONE DAY I’LL FIND ONE. 

describe yourself as aesthetic things: a half packed suitcase always open on the floor, the smell of a freshly cooked meal lingering in the kitchen, waking up at ungodly hours, white converse and flip flops, polaroids scattered around the apartment, hands and arms covered in paint, sitting on windowsills, planning trips I do not have the money for, smoking cigarettes out the window and putting name tags on plants. 

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