procrastinationaccount:
Ortus: I believe that we are trapped in a labyrinth of, consciously or unconsciously, Lady Harrowhark’s making. Although she is a mere seventeen years of age, she has endured enough pain and accrued enough power to fell a Lyctor. Do not underestimate the machinations of her dark, twisted mind.
The machinations of Harrow’s dark, twisted mind: What if I was Gideon’s cavalier π€π€π€π‘π‘π‘What if she was a charming princess and I was an impoverished little nun π€΄π€΄π€΄πππ What if she worked at a coffee shop βββπ€π€π€
crowreys-wormstache:
The fucking layers of Barbie Alecto
- A man forcing his own ideas of beauty onto a woman.
- The woman being the soul of the Earth itself and the ideals being based on a literal plastic doll. Plastic. The thing that notably slowly kills the Earth.
- The profound repulsion she feels with the supposedly beautiful body thrust upon her by a man.
- Barbies being considered the ideal of beauty either way and Alecto being unhappy with the looks.
- John’s mortal enemy being capitalism and him still basing Alecto’s body on one of the most sold toys ever. His own inherent lack of immunity to capitalism. Something something full circle.
- Speaking fo which, the body of the soul of Earth being based on a doll. A toy. A literal plaything.
There is SO MUCH to Barbie Alecto I am chewing glass.
I’m sure someone else could make this into a proper coherent analysis but this is as coherent as I’m able to get when talking about The Locked Tomb thank you for understanding
elliesgaymachete:
It would be kind of hilarious if Harrow used her favor from Alecto immediately to resurrect Gideon and they just fuck off for the rest of the book. Like, god? A war? Resurrection beasts? Thatβs not my problem I got my dead girlfriend back and I can finally kiss her so weβre gonna go do that for the next 300 pages and everyone else can figure out what to do next because weβve been through Enough