July 2022

wifegideonnav:

nonasbirthday:

Text: "Heroes are passé, you see," explained Ortus with heavy sadness.ALT
Text: Someone brushed my arm away and the voice said, Oh, such heroic nonsense. It isn't cute, you know.ALT
Text: "...all we have are the blades within. It has seen them and made them dull. There is bo hero left among us... and I say, hooray!"ALT
THE ONLY THING OUR CIVILISATION CAN EVER LEARN FROM YOURS IS THAT WHEN OUR BACKS ARE TO THE WALL AND OUR TOWERS ARE FALLING ALL AROUND US AND WE ARE WATCHING OURSELVES BURN WE RARELY BECOME HEROES.ALT
Text: ...the Emperor said quietly: "His was the action of a hero." "Oh, but the problem is that heroes always die," said Augustine...ALT
Text: She saighed pensively and ran one hand through her curls again. "Oh no," she said, "heroics."ALT

Heroism in The Locked Tomb

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op these tags are exquisite

pygmypouter:

and shall I see thee made a serpent’s prey?

agexp:

quiet please i’m envisioning harrowhark

squidsploitation:

oh the grimdarknormativity…

eerna:

leading ladies

nonasbirthday:

she’s a 10 but her body won’t rot and animals refuse to touch it even when encouraged

thelockedtombstuff:

Looking deep into the eyes of the cavalier she murdered, you realised, not for the first time, and not willingly, that Ianthe Tridentarius was beautiful.

“Turn around,” she breathed. “Harry, all you have to do is turn around. I know what you’ve done, and I know how to reverse it, if only you’d ask me to. Just ask; it’s that easy. Dying is for suckers. With you and me at full power, we could rip apart this Resurrection Beast and come away unscathed. We could save the galaxy. Save the Emperor. Let them talk back home of Ianthe and Harrowhark—let them weep to speak of us. The past is dead, and they’re both dead, but you and I are alive.

laidaninja:

And I cried, oh how I cried with this scene.