So I’ve just been sitting here thinking “go loud” meant, like, “fuck shit up,” right? But apparently it’s an espionage term? It means “acting in a way that is likely or guaranteed to burn your cover,” basically. Like, this is the moment we’ve been waiting for, go loud and get out. Or alternatively, shit is about to hit the fan, and you have no choice but to burn your cover to avoid the worst outcome.
Did everyone else already know this? Was it just me??
(Note: I haven’t been able to find a dictionary definition or anything, just a bunch of examples of people using the phrase + one forum post talking about it. If you find a source, please let me know!)
here’s a bunch of locked tomb stuff, including ianthe-possessed-babs. i do love gideon but as you can see i have a special place in my heart for the most awful house
Because Mean Girls wear pink on October 3rd. Star Wars celebrates May the 4th. Hitchhikers and Discworld fans don towels and lilacs (respectively) on May 25th.
Locked Tomb friends, we need a holiday.
I propose that 9/9 of every year is Soup Day. We celebrate, of course, by consuming soups. We share photos, recipes, and if you have a group of irl bone bitches, the soup itself.
If you can’t eat soup, put bread in a drawer. If you can’t eat bread, stare in anguish at a cup of lukewarm tea while contemplating the ways your God has disappointed you. Use your own moral judgment on whether you consume cow products on that day, as cows do exhibit mourning behavior.
Anyways that’s my plan for dinner on September 9th and you’re all invited! 🖤🖤🖤 I’m telling everyone nice and early so you can start hoarding bones. For stock, of course.
Finally hooked my partner on GtN on this road trip. Nothing makes my heart happier than the gay love of my life saying “let’s listen to more of these bone nerds who haven’t kissed” and pressing play on the audio book.
Me, reading GTN for the first time, biased for the Gideon POV narration: why everyone is so mean to Gideon why arent they befriending her when she is so cool???
Gideon most of the book:
“Gonna spend my time not talking and standing in the shadows full in black”
Do you ever think about how Gideon’s most self-indulgent fantasy is Harrow acknowledging she’s good with a sword and then like 50 pages later Harrow acknowledges she’s good with a sword and Gideon just short circuits.
tlt is about a lot of things and has lots of major themes but i think the idea of love is the biggest of all. Theres so much love oozing out of the pages it makes me sick!!! There’s platonic love and familial love and romantic love and sexual love and love caught between those categories and love beyond categories and labels.
There’s the love of two girls who’ve never had anything or anyone but each other there’s the love of two cousins who understand each other better than anyone else there’s the love of codependent twin sisters who are two halves of one whole no matter how hard one wants to be separate there’s the love of a little boy and his barbie doll.
Do u see what i mean! There is clean love and there is dirty love. There is love that is healthy and prosperous and there is love that is so vile it belongs in a hazardous waste disposal site.
There is the hateful love of a man who sees his closest confidantes as nothing but toys and there is the unconditional love of the most unpredictable family who isn’t quite family but hey, who cars about labels anyway?
There is the love of a husband and wife and there is the love of two scared teens who were raised on a war-desperate planet who know they must die and are more than willing to.
A little girl who loves her 6-legged dog and the lustful desires between and immortal being and the leader of a rebellion force that would want nothing more than to see that being die a slow, painful death.
The love the author has for classical literature, so much so that the themes and the prose wriggle themselves into every page. The love for shitty internet memes that still fit in perfectly to the story.
There’s so much love im sick!!!!!! Its good love and its bad love and its love that could collapse the universe but at the end its still just love!
- Failing to catch a keyring Camilla tossed to him from like two feet away. They just hit his hands and fall right on the floor
- Insinuating he’s a better necromancer than Harrowhark assuming this will rouse her from her fainting spell (it works)
- Declining Camilla’s suggestion to stop working with the cleaning product he’s allergic to because he wants to study his own allergic reaction
- Writing a sequel to the mid-tier romance book he’s stuck in purgatory with, on the walls of said purgatory
- Hearing Nona say she doesn’t think redheads are sexy and immediately going. Well that can’t just be Harrow- obviously Harrow thinks redheads are all wildly sexy (and Gideon would be vain enough to agree)
- “Unlike some of us, I’ve never much seen the allure of an evil cougar” a stronger man than I 🫡
So I’ve just been sitting here thinking “go loud” meant, like, “fuck shit up,” right? But apparently it’s an espionage term? It means “acting in a way that is likely or guaranteed to burn your cover,” basically. Like, this is the moment we’ve been waiting for, go loud and get out. Or alternatively, shit is about to hit the fan, and you have no choice but to burn your cover to avoid the worst outcome.
Did everyone else already know this? Was it just me??
(Note: I haven’t been able to find a dictionary definition or anything, just a bunch of examples of people using the phrase + one forum post talking about it. If you find a source, please let me know!)
i know it’s strange to look at all the people in canaan house and then decide to be obsessed with colum asht but wait. hang on. hear me out. the dude’s a human juice box. he’s frankenstein’s monster. he’s the caretaker of the most insufferable twerp in the universe. he was built and bred to be the perfect aa battery. he’s missing at least one finger on his left hand. he’s younger than magnus and that’s shocking. he’s disposable. his name means dove. he’s the most reasonable person at canaan house. he keeps the room tidy for company. he braids his uncle’s hair. he makes tea. he mends pants. he stops his hissing cat of a human being from doing anything too rash. he likes gideon nav. his relationship with his necromancer crumbles entirely. he has never owned his life or his soul. he resigned himself to being eaten the moment he discovered the method to become a lyctor. he had one of the most gruesome deaths of the whole series. we don’t know where his soul is. he doesn’t even get to be in the river with the rest of them. he is the oath. he was engineered into a man who doesn’t pick and choose his decencies. and no one talks about him
Bit obsessed with the idea that If the ninth wasn’t so disfunctional, Harrow, Ortus, and Gideon might have formed a sort of Freudian Trio….
Ortus genuinely cared about both girls but didn’t seam to ever have enough self confidence to try and mediate between the two….
So instead both girls just had a sort of farmiliar pitying contempt for him….
But if he had been a bit less sad, a bit less smothered by his mother, and a bit braver he could have been a great big bother to both girls….
He clearly understood them better than they understood each other and possibly themselves. And he had the vocabulary ( so much vocabulary) to engage both girls in there special interests…..
Gideon would have loved a synopsis of any research ortus had found on how Matius Nonius fought and how his opponents reacted.
Harrow would have loved to have someone to talk to about the difficulty finding old records in the ninth and the history of her family and the tomb.
And think how wonderful ortus would have felt to have someone to talk to….to joke with…to not be alone….
You all know that one Tamsyn Muir interview where she says Nona takes place over 100,000 years and well, I, at least, thought it was a typo. Well. John does nuke the whole earth–and if the River(?) scenes in Nona are anything to go by, he didn’t resurrect anybody but Alecto right away, and also there’s nuclear snow described iirc. Do you think he waited 90,000 years until the radiation died down to start resurrecting his friends and that’s why he’s insane. Because he spent 90,000 years with nobody but the soul of the Earth for company
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