#just thinking abt ecocritical suppositions of like.

[obeetlebeetle]

mm ok for necromancy to work a planet must be dead. john killed the planets and when he 'resurrected' that scrap of humankind, he sent them to 'live' on those dead planets, he set them up to perform death magics by the dozen so that he could learn from their mistakes. and then he made of them an army, sent that army across the galaxy to kill more planets so that there could be more places for the necros to 'live'. he has control over the river. he can summon it. more and more evidence points, in fact, to his tampering with it -- choking it with souls until they decay, fall like whales into stoma mouths, never crossing which seems to have been some original intention. christian theology amiright? and boe calls necros zombies and are they wrong? really, are they? my point being: were they ever really alive? when harrow goes to hell she lies waiting inside the tomb of alecto's body. we already doubt every aspect of the story that john presents us with. doesnt it seem likely that rather than all that resurrection, he instead found a way to blur the physical and metaphysical realities? the houses are/in hell.