#commander awake remembrance of these valiant dead

[pencildragons]

thinking about how gideon understands wake's conversation with john so she must have been speaking her oppressor's language to her oppressor. thinking about how wake's full name is italicised, a literary convention indicative of foreign words. thinking about whether wake even knows the meaning of her name at all or if it is just about keeping it alive at this point. thinking about if she knows any of the destroyed languages of the planet that her ancestors escaped ten thousand years ago before they were erased entirely. thinking about wake and how two thirds of her name is derived from anglo/western culture just so the devastating impact on indigenous people of the erasure of their traditional knowledge and culture could be contextualised in a way muir's (predominantly) white, anglo/western audience could understand. thinking about wake and how she was angry enough at the imperial systems of power she spent her whole life fighting against to exist as a ghost for twenty years after the fact of her death. thinking about how all augustine offers her efforts twenty years after the fact of her death is belittlement of her people and a toast. thinking about [a giant shephard's crook emerges from the wings and yanks me sidestage]

[yuck-pfaugh]

Ooh, look, I remembered how to do an indent!

"Good girl," the voice was saying. "Oh, good girl. She's got it, Gideon! And I've got you ... Gideon of the golden eyes. I'm so sorry. This is all my fault ... I'm so sorry. Stay with me," the voice said more urgently, "stay with me." [...] She reached out one last time to skim a hand over Gideon's forehead. She whispered archly: "Nice hair." (GtN, p. 227-9)

Also I think I may be the last person to realise that noted cav fetishist and Blood of Eden source Cytherea Loveday had by this point deduced both halves of Gideon's genetic heritage, having presumably met Commander Wake (to discuss steles?) and knowing her to be the only ginger involved in the Ninth House operation. Well. No wonder she was eager to use the avulsion trial to test the strength of this new-model cavalier, half terrorist and half god, the unwitting key to her father's ancient lies. Gideon really must be the most piquant thing to have happened to her in millennia.

[fortjester]

everyone PLEASE take a look at these tlt pieces I got commissioned by @b1cr1ptic for my dead cav club au and please also weep for how awesome they are

[scarletteflamerald]

Wanna hear something that just occurred to me?

I haven't actually read the unwanted guest yet (gotta get on that), but I've seen lots of people discussing the whole "permeability of souls" thing, and one post in particular about how maybe Alecto dislikes gingers bc John's spent the last couple decades hating Wake. So I had this thought: Gideon has hated Harrow as long as she can remember, and only starts warming up to her when they go to the First House. This also happens to be when she is forced to largely stop using her two-hander and regularly spend large amounts of time away from it—the sword which we now know was being haunted by her mother's vengeful spirit. Could that be a coincidence? Absolutely. But, I think it's interesting to consider the possibility that Gideon's perception of Harrow over the years has been colored by her mother's hatred of necromancers.

Anyway now I want to reread the first book and see if this holds any water whatsoever lol

[i-must-confess-i-am-an-idiot]

OH MY GOSH I DIDNT REALIZE THIS BUT

NOT TO BE THAT GUY BUT

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

[monakisss]

old woman yuri and wake doodles

[the-velvet-worm]

has anyone in this fandom ever acknowledged the fact that harrow believes with 1000000% certainty that she was able to unlock the tomb because she's a Super Special Magical Girl (she is, not the point) and has no idea that it's only because she had gideon's blood/skin under her nails when she opened it

like what the fuck is learning this going to do to her chopped up little brain. it's going to destroy her. it's going to completely ruin her sense of self. the only reason she kept LIVING was because she was able to open the tomb and look upon the girl inside it. and to learn that it's NOT because she's The Necromancer Divine, that it's actually her life-long feud with gideon that allowed it to happen? that gideon is the biological child of the Emperor Undying? never mind all the other information we learn at the end of HtN while harrow is fighting gideon's bio mother in the river (she also doesn't even know that wake gave birth to gideon lol)

anyway I think harrow is going to feel very normal about all of this (she's absolutely not)

[notedchampagne]

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[mangotastic97]

Hello TLT fandom

i am *checks notes* contributing

[theriverbeyond]

"You sent me out there to kill a baby and open those doors. Whose baby didn’t matter on my end. Do you know, I gave that thing a nickname, my whole pregnancy? I used to call it Bomb.”

Wake: me!

Photo: @wyyrdplayy w/ fog machine assist by @cassylvan

[wubbelwubbwubb]

Don’t wake the Sleeper

Thank you @theriverbeyond for letting me use your cosplay pictures as a reference, and for creating such an awesome Wake cosplay! The moment I saw it, I knew I had to draw it.

[twink-with-an-agenda]

THE ONLY THING OUR CIVILISATION CAN EVER LEARN FROM YOURS IS THAT WHEN OUR BACKS ARE TO THE WALL AND OUR TOWERS ARE FALLING ALL AROUND US AND WE ARE WATCHING OURSELVES BURN WE RARELY BECOME HEROES.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

two characters having a biological daughter with each other despite having never had sex, being on opposite sides of a war, and really only seeing each other as representations of ideologies they disagree with was one of the choices ever made in tlt. perhaps even the choice ever. an anti-ship of sorts. not even divorced couple energy, not even lovers who hate each other energy, absolutely zero sexual or romantic tension between them. just two people who hate each other and have a child together. while having never fucked each other. beautiful

[fortjester]

rip commander wake you would've loved second century warlord by eminem

[keplerspacecraftofficial]

imagine ur doing 90 in a 55, ur water just broke, u arent even trying to get to the hospital about it youre trying to get away from your ex man (who is also your girl) who is also the fucking traffic cop trying to arrest you for speeding and also some unrelated stuff (the only reason he hasnt called a full on car chase is because he thinks you're pregnant with his kid) (its not his kid, you specifically picked his boss as your sperm donor to make said boss’s life hell) and you have a pretty good idea about what the last couple hours of commander wake's life was like

[2plolo]

Dealer: j got this new strain 💯 it’s called, “thanergy link to your daughters longsword” 😳🔥 gonna be blitzed off your titz

Me: whatever man I don’t feel shit

5 minutes later: dude I swear I saw some bitch in a hazmat suit at the bottom of that glass coffin

My girl Harrow, pacing: the eggs you gave me all died and you lied to me