if the locked tomb doesnt end with gideon and harrow both alive and whole having achieved perfect lyctorhood i will eat my own hat.
alecto and john are the only perfect lyctors right? alecto, who is made of several million dead people, and john who is god. youre telling me that harrow “made of 300 dead babies” nonagesimus and gideon, whose dad is god, aren’t gonna do it? youre telling me harrow’s biological ancestor is the only saint to never become a lyctor because she came so close to figuring it out that her cavalier was killed to prevent it. you’re talking about harrow, who opened the tomb at ten with nothing but sheer determination and accidentally getting a little bit of god blood under her nails and gideon, who we keep being told cannot and will not die, won’t end up alive? is that what you’re saying? bc john says two things are impossible; opening the tomb and perfect lyctorhood. but those are only two things and Harrow already did one of em. does she seem like a quitter to you?
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alectopause has made me like 3% more sympathetic to people who comment on unfinished fics begging the author to come back. like yeah. I can see why you might do that
I keep seeing people complaining about the memes in TLT as some kind of crappy authorial impingement on the narrative.
And I do get why they might feel like that when you’re suddenly getting nerfed by ‘none Houses, left grief’ in the middle of John being Awful.
But I’ve yet to see anyone complain about Abigail calling something unique “a holy grail”, despite the fact that surely this is also a jarring thing for an evil space necromancer to be casually using as a reference point.
Obviously the inclusion of the memes is a choice on Tamsyn Muir’s part. But they very much have meaning in universe: the thing about every single person in this society casually referencing Tumblr memes from the 20-teens is that can only come from one place: the man who ended the world those memes came from, but hangs onto them as a little esoteric connection. And 10,000 years of his shitty little jokes and unexplained references filtering out into the society he created mean that Harrow can sarcastically talk about how Gideon “studied the blade” or Ianthe can reference SNL as easily as Abigail can name check the holy grail.
In retrospect, “none Houses, left grief” sits alongside “how many babies died in the bomb, Gaius?” as part of the chilling trail of breadcrumbs towards the realisation of what John Gaius is, what he did, and just how awfully casual he is about it.
