#me with literally everyone in tlt

[schizononagesimus]

bc of the way tumblr's tagging system is structured it is so fucking annoying tagging on mobile that im 🤏 this close to making a keyboard shortcut for them.

[pechachaos]

indulging everyone with silly pokémon teams for the lmk peeps✌️✌️✌️

[decimateddreams]

"they should've been at the club" they should've been in my lab. i want to study them

[prestonmonterey]

silly tlt stuff :3

@vincentaureliuslin @tatsumisheep3

these are actually awful pictures TwT

but we have weapons now!!!! :3

left is a real prop dagger i think? its used by an ensemble member for capture the flag and i think luke also uses it after last day of summer

right is a captuee the flag sword (the pvc sword behind it is what we use for rehearsal) and thats what most campers get for capture the flag :3 i think theyre made of wood (idk im doin hand to hand)

the sheild was flipped over :/ but im guessin thats the apollo one. theres like nine or something. one for each of the actually represented cabins? idk

anyway hopefully i can go to costuming next week. i should be able to FINALLY unless the schedule gets changed last minute. uhh i went to sets for a bit this week and i think most people are workin on the columns but we had to scavange for plywood from an old platform...and that took. over an hour :/// i might force someone in props to kidnap me so i can see the minotaur (i say that as if i dont already go to tech that im not signed up for) and maybe get pictures of the shields

[nobodymitskigabriel]

If there's one writing cliche in The Locked Tomb that peeves me, it's when characters casually bite their lips or cheeks so hard that they bleed.

[lady-harrowhark]

i just need everyone who has ever seen one of my meta posts and left a flattering tag or comment saying how smart i am to know one thing, which is that i have literally just now had the realization that ortus is not, in fact, harrow's cousin.

where did i get this idea? unclear. my only guess is that i conflated sister glaurica with one of the great aunts early on in my first read and extrapolated from there.

if i can fuck up like that and still convince people that i know what's going on, you can too!

[faustandfurious]

The Locked Tomb playlist

If I Die Young - The Band Perry (Dulcinea)

Bones - The Killers (Judith and Coronabeth)

Love Is Blindness - U2 (John and Alecto)

You Should See Me In A Crown - Billie Eilish (Ianthe)

Drunk Walk Home - Mitski (Ianthe and Harrow)

Strange Time - Matt Maltese (Ianthe and Harrow)

Bad Guy - Billie Eilish (Ianthe and Kiriona)

Arsonist’s Lullabye - Hozier (Harrow)

Burn Bright - My Chemical Romance (Wake, Pyrrha, G1deon)

Red Water Dreams - Aviators (Wake)

Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears (John)

What I’ve Done - Linkin Park (Harrow and Gideon)

The Loneliest - Måneskin (Kiriona)

The Light Behind Your Eyes - My Chemical Romance (Palamedes and Camilla)

Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift (Wake and the Lyctors)

As The World Caves In - Matt Maltese (Augustine and Mercymorn)

One - U2 (Gideon and Harrow)

Flesh And Bone - The Killers (Wake)

One More Light - Linkin Park (Palamedes and Camilla)

End Of Me - Apocalyptica (Alecto and John)

Never Die Young - James Taylor (Camilla and Palamedes)

[i-lavabean]

I finally started reading Gideon the Ninth!

I'm about 70 pages in and I gotta say I completely L O A T H E Harrowhark. I'm sure she'll get character development but right now she's a cruel and noxious little thing.

[fortjester]

thinkin abt modern au camilla as a court stenographer. like. spends so much of ntn transcribing shit. there's poetic irony there

[aroaceleovaldez]

variety in my canon-divergence aus:

Percy is successfully pulled into Tartarus during his quest to the Underworld in TLT (kronos!Percy)

Sally drives everyone home in her car after the beginning of TTC instead of Thalia driving the sun (8 hour roadtrip)

[gideonisms]

I also think that hs/the hs fandom was responding to the way the internet was in the early 2010s. it's probably a cycle of influence but I will say that with books like htn whose authors originally wrote like. complex gothic sff angst fic, that type of writing isn't limited to the hs fandom at all. There was a whole time period where if your fandom was even a little sff oriented you would have people writing these epic fics with fantasy elements where two characters would have a wildly complex and fraught relationship destroying everything else in their path for the same amount of words as the holy bible. It's so hard to describe this vibe but I'd say like, gothic sff melodrama with unreliable narrators really had a moment in fandom in the hs time period. Some of that stuff influences the way I think about fiction to this day and like. I do believe muir a little when she says she didn't take anything in particular from hs because even though there are some similar choices she makes in her writing, that was kinda just the vibe back then too

[mercymornsimpathizer]

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[al-dente-icecream]

im gonna much less niche fantasy novel post on main again because i need the people (cam + pal enjoyers) to know the good news that is this song

[haveyoumetmythief]

TLT fandom: Consider-

[the-great-knight-gay]

Percy had a crush on Luke in TLT, in this essay I will-

No this is not a joke.

I am aware the Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes has alluded to Percy being heterosexual but I find that not being able to describe attractive men is not enough to be straight.

However, looking at the subtext between Luke and Percy's relationship in TLT, it shows clear signs of Percy basically hero worshipping the guy, in the same way Nico did with Percy. Main thing here is, Nico canonically had a crush on Percy that ran so deep that Cupid, the fucking god of love, literally described Percy as the person Nico cared for the most.

Now this does not instantly mean that Percy must have had a crush on Luke the same way but here is my evidence.

Percy (at that point) was starved of common decency from anyone but his mother

Look at the character relations in TLT.

From Book 1, other than his mother, Percy relations all had incredibly negative undertones.

Annabeth outright admitted to only joining him on the quest to get out of camp. They may have made up but that immediately put me off their entire relationship initially. I was a seriously anti-percabeth dude until Titan's Curse and this was one of the reasons.

Grover may have genuinely been Percy's friend but from the start, Percy found out that the only reason Grover was there was because of a job and not because they were friends. That eventually changed but at the beginning, it had to have been rocky.

Next up we have Chiron. Now while it was somewhat okay, albeit with manipulative undertones and an overall bluntness from Chiron, this was a purely teacher-student relationship.

Now we'll look at Percy in general. Percy was incredibly starved of affection from anyone but his mother. Coupled with an abusive stepfather, any act of kindness is amplified for him.

This is literally confirmed when Luke steals him toiletries. He feels that's the nicest thing anyone had done for him at that point.

Not only that, Luke personally taught Percy when everyone else was ignoring him like he was the plague.

Luke was literally Percy's only real friend for the majority of TLT. He literally recounted his entire quest to him during the Iris Message scene, a privilege he didn't even give to his mother. Plus, he was confirmed to blush around Luke almost as much as Annabeth and we all know how Annabeth used to think of Luke: 'Lose a love worse than death'

I personally think that there was no real reason for him to react so badly to Luke's betrayal other than this.

Okay, when I researched this by constantly rereading every Lukercy and Luke interaction or mention in TLT, I also came across another revelation.

This was one of the reasons why Percy was so determined not to fail Nico during TTC and BotL. He may have not known about Nico's crush on him but he definitely didn't want to be to Nico was Luke was to him.

[skydaemon]

Rating the mommy issues of TLT characters in alphabetical order

contains spoilers technically

Abigail: can't have kids but clearly maternal as fuck. call her mother. 2/10

Aiglamene: she has inverse mommy issues - daughter issues. -10/10

Augustine: full offense but he has freudian vibes. fuck-hate relationship w mercymorn who is has the energy of a neglectful mother. 7/10

Camilla: clearly raised by incredibly competent parents - unclear if she had a mother. Even if she did her real issues are codependency with Palamedes. 0/10

Corona: unconfirmed but a girl like that did NOT experience maternal affection growing up. 5/10

Crux: yknow what. nobody whose mother held them enough is Like That. 10/10

Dulcinea: idk if she had a mother, but i get 'raised by gay dad(s)' vibes from her. possibly the best adjusted character of all 0/10

G1deon: man is obsessed with doing what God wants EXCEPT when it's not to fuck a terrorist. four parts people pleaser one part horny 5/10

Gideon: mum only birthed her to blow her up, died, then used her afterlife to terrorise Gideon’s not-quite-girlfriend; gave her a desperate desire for external validation and attention, especially from evil cougars. 11/10

Harrow: mum committed genocide to conceive her, never smiled at her, attempted to murder-suicide her. 12/10

Ianthe: unclear. daddy issues but no mention of mother afaik - might not even have one. no indication of mommy issues in her romantic life bc she didn’t attempt to fuck mercymorn. HOWEVER she’s such a freak she can’t possibly have had a positive female role model. 3/10

Isaac: born in a vat but had abigail as a maternal figure so 5/10

Jeannemary: same as isaac but she's definitely sapphic so bump that to 6/10

John: literally reformed the Earth in the image of his mum’s old Hollywood hair Barbie. Also, look at him. 100/10

Judith: 9/10 no questions

Magnus: so chill but also he has the vibes of someone into mommydom shit. he's sucked abigail's tits for SURE 3/10

Marta: idk i think she has 'estranged from family' vibes. 4/10

Mercymorn: her mother might have been good but she can't remember her, so 5/10

Naberius: he kissed his mother on the mouth DAILY and you know it. 10/10

Ortus: mostly daddy issues but you saw his mother. 8/10

Palamedes: I haven’t read Doctor Sex but I have his mommy issues on good authority. I hate to say it but camilla is his mommy. 6/10

Pyrrha: unknown. Loves a milf but then who doesn’t. 1/10

Wake: giver of mommy issues. she's the mommy that's the issue. unrateable

[ETA: @everyone making fun of me for saying he sucks tits like it's something special im SORRY i didn't say magnus sits on abigails lap and pretends to breastfeed but i thought it would be GROSS i guess i forgot what this fandom is. ily all be home for dinner]