Masterpost of TLT metas
This is mostly for my own reference, as tagging doesn’t seem to guarantee something being findable on Tumblr…but if you like wildly overthinking lesbian necromancers in space, enjoy!
Overthinking the Fifth House:
- What is a “Speaker to the Dead”?
- Actually, Magnus Quinn isn’t terrible at sword fighting
- Imperial complicity: Abigail the First
- Pyschopomp: Abigail Pent and Hecate
- Did Teacher conspire with Cytherea to kill the Fifth?
- What does the Fifth House actually do?
- The Fourth and the Fifth can never just be family
- Cytherea’s political observations at the anniversary dinner
- Abigail Pent’s affect: ghosts and autism
- Were the Fourth wards of the Fifth?
- Abigail probably knew most of the scions as children
- Magnus Quinn’s very understandable anger
- Fifth House necromancy is not neat and tidy
- Are Abigail and Magnus an exception to the exploitative nature of cavaliership?
- “Abigail Pent literally brought her husband and look where that got her” (the Fifth in TUG)
- The Fifth’s relationship dynamic
- The Fifth’s relationship is unconventional in a number of ways
- The queer-coding of Abigail and Magnus’ relationship
- Abigail and Palamedes, and knowing in the River
- Was Isaac the ward of the Fifth?
- Did Magnus manage to draw his sword before Cytherea killed him? (and why he probably had to watch his wife die)
- How did Abigail know she was murdered by a Lyctor?
- Fifth House necromancy is straight out of the Odyssey
Overthinking John Gaius:
- The one time John was happy was playing Jesus
- Is Alecto’s body made from John’s?
- Are there atheists in the Nine Houses?
- Why isn’t John’s daughter a necromancer?
- The horrors of love go both ways: why John could have asked Alecto ‘what have you done to me?’
- Why M- may have really hoped John was on drugs
- What is it with guys called Jo(h)n and getting disintegrated? (John and Dr Manhattan)
- John’s conference call with his CIA handlers
- Watching your friend turn into an eldritch horror
- Why does G1deon look so weird? (Jod regrew him from an arm)
- When is a friendship bracelet not a friendship bracelet?
- Why did John have G1deon hunt Harrow? (with bonus update)
- The 'indelible’ sin of Lyctorhood and John’s shoddy plagiarism of Catholicism
- Are John Gaius and Abigail Pent so different?
- What was Jod’s plan at Canaan House?
- John and Ianthe tread the Eightfold path
- The Mithraeum is more than a joke about cows
- When was John Gaius born? (And another)
- John Gaius and the tragic Orestes
Overthinking the Nine Houses:
- 'No retainers, no attendants, no domestics’
- Funerary customs and the violence of John’s silence
- Juno Zeta and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time
- The horror of the River bubble
- Every instance of 'is this how it happens’ in HTN
- Feudalism is still shitty even if you make it queer and sex positive
- How do stele work?
- Thought crime in the Nine Houses
- The Houses have a population the size of Canada
- What must it be like to fight the Houses?
- You know what can’t have been fun? Merv wing’s megatruck on Varun day…
- Augustine’s very Catholic hobby (decorating skeletons)
- Necromancers are not thin in a conventionally attractive way
- Matching the Houses with the planets of the solar system
- Why don’t the Nine Houses have (consistent) vaccination or varifocals?
- How would the Houses react to the deaths at Canaan House?
- How does Wake understand her own name (languages over 10,000 years)
- What pre-resurrection texts are known in the Houses?
- Camilla and Palamedes very Platonic relationship
Overthinking House religion:
- What do the Houses believe about death?
- Was M’s nun a Franciscan?
- Cavaliership and arbitrary socio-religious structures
- Ritual scarification
- Sacraments and sacramentals
- What did Silas think god wanted at Canaan House?
- In defense of Silas
- There’s no such thing as a 'good’ necro/cav relationship
- Veiling and shaving in Ninth House cult practice
- Tongue-in-cheek thoughts on Eighth and Sixth religion
- A very long deep-dive on House belief and practice
Overthinking Harrowhark Nonagesimus:
- 'The meat of your meat…belonged to god’ and 'that is how meat loves meat’
- The horror of parental touch: Harrow, John Gaius, and Abigail Pent
- Why is Harrow so obsessed with Abigail’s hands?
- Frontline Titties of the Fifth and transgressive necro/cav relationships
- Harrow, Wake, and permeability of the soul in HTN
Bible studies for weird queer necromancers: