November 2024

scalpcollector:

cutetanuki-chan:

cutetanuki-chan:

did Cytherea even knew how to crochet

or she was doing whatever with that yarn on the veranda and Gideon barely ever saw crocheting in her life before

ninoacca:

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consequences of tlt rereading

cosqf:

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i just want them to see each other again :(

fiercestpurpose:

This is my main thought about Harrow the Ninth.

wepon:

wepon:

whalefill:

alt-j / cinnamon toast crunch advertisements / simone weil / cinnamon toast crunch advertisements / frank bidart

has tumblr culture circled back around to voreposting already

hi. what the hell is gideon the ninth about

bigmamag:

beaft:

beaft:

beaft:

i’m genuinely having so much fun writing a jock protagonist. can’t believe i never tried this before. all these years i’ve been limiting myself needlessly

i’ve created an extremely elaborate magic system based on linear algebra and not once does the narrator ever explain how it works. he doesn’t know. he doesn’t care. that’s nerd shit. he is going on a lad’s night out and if you try to tell him anything about equations he’ll put his fingers in his ears and go “lalalala”

i feel it’s important to add that my other protagonist is an academic and does know how the magic system works, but he doesn’t get a POV chapter until halfway through the story. which means that over the course of 40,000 words we gradually build up a solid working idea of this world and its laws, as understood by Jock Protagonist - and then it switches to Nerd Protagonist, who’s like, “just so we’re clear, he was wrong about basically all of that.”

This is genius

fluffehwuffeh:

somnus

remember when we thought alecto the ninth was going to come out in 2023

foxy-alien:

Alecto the terror and the sublime

carys-the-ninth:

A SUGGESTED READING ORDER FOR TAMSYN MUIR’S SHORT FICTION FOR LOCKED TOMB FANS

1. The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time. 5k. It’s short, it’s the very first thing she published, it’s sweet, you can think CamPal thoughts while you read it.

2. The Magician’s Apprentice. 4.8k. Let’s get into it. Simply one of the best things she’s written, has all sorts of echoes for the Locked Tomb and altogether a barn burner. (tw: grooming)

3. Chew. 3.7k. Zombie fiction set in WWII. (tw: sexual assault)

4. Union. 5.5k. I love Union and think it doesn’t get enough hype. Deeply, deeply Kiwi and also quite unsettling. A great follow-up to Nona.

5. Princess Floralinda and The Forty Flight Tower. 216 pages. A novella, get it from your library or as an ebook, alternatively, Moira Quirk does a great job with the audiobook. This is a fairy tale satire, as pointed and black-hearted as you can imagine. A main course & a must-read.

6. The Woman in the Hill. 3.9k. I’ll be honest, I think this one is skippable, but then you can say you’ve read them all. Lovecraftian horror, told in an epistolary format between settlers in the New Zealand bush.

7. Undercover. 59 pages. Plop your money down (or find a pirated version), it’s worth every penny. A undercover cop risks her life to investigate rumors of a ghoul in a gangster’s speakeasy. Blood, devotion, deceit–everything you could want in a TMuir story.

8. The Deepwater Bride (links) Dessert. Available through hoopla, your local library or several ebook anthologies. Teen Hester Blake, from a family of seers, determines that blonde, Converse-clad Rainbow Kipley is destined to be the bride of an uncanny god. 22 pages and it’ll change your life.

BONUS: self-published webcomic APOTHECIA, illustrated by Shelby Cragg. Space monsters, teenage girls & corruption, oh my.

foxy-alien:

There are almost no beautiful things left

catrasfreckles:

I tried to find every hint about Alecto that Muir has given in interviews! I recommend reading through the full interviews bc they are all delightful to read.

On Canaan House:

On Gideon and Harrow’s relationship:

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