I got an asks night about which of the og lyctors I think was good at sex and I WILL actually answer when I’m back home on keyboard but I need everyone to know that my immediate first thought was “none of them”
Chapters:
1/1
Fandom:
The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating:
Explicit
Warnings:
Rape/Non-Con
Relationships:
Coronabeth Tridentarius/Ianthe Tridentarius, Coronabeth Tridentarius/Male OC
Characters:
Ianthe Tridentarius, Coronabeth Tridentarius, Naberius Tern, King Tridentarius, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags:
Character Study, Relationship Study, The Third House (Locked Tomb Series), Third House Worldbuilding, Pre-Canon, Third House Politics, Backstory, Canon-Typical Violence, Cannibalism, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Eating Disorders, Rape/Non-con Elements, Unsafe Sex, Choking, Overstimulation, general abuse of flesh magic
Summary:
Coronabeth hits it off with a visiting Second delegate. Things are normal, until they are not.
in the final scene of this fic, there is a violent but consensual sex scene where the consent is revoked and the revocation is ignored. please also heed the above tags. that being said: this fic is primarily a character study and a relationship study. it is the product of months of analysis and worldbuilding. if you are interested in an ianthe character study and third house build-out, but don’t want to read a rape scene, i think (and my betas concur) that this fic can be read safely up until [click through link to see spoiler in the author’s note]. but if this is a sensitive topic, do whatever is safest for you.
tlt is insane it’s like what if there were a love story between a girl who is a lock and a girl who is a key. okay now what if it was a love triangle with the thing in the fucking box
everyone in the notes is saying like “ianthe is the lockpick” “ianthe is the hammer” and is IS funny BUT I stand beside the fact that it is sooo much funnier that she has no part whatsoever in that whole dynamic. she couldn’t give less of a shit about the tomb. if gideon is a key and harrow is a lock then ianthe is a lesbian who is sexually interested in locks
Nona the Ninth left me with many questions, but none so important as: did Kiriona actually say “Get in line, thou big slut”? What I mean is, did Alecto’s perspective alter her dialogue as it had with everyone else or did Kiriona hear thou art the blood of the tomb-keeper and take the first opportunity to make fun of her?
“The way I personally stay true to the story I started down on is to give myself permission to not teach anyone anything. I’m not writing a manual. I’m not delivering bromides. I know that a lot of people do take enormous pleasure and relief in lines or phrases or ideas from stories that ring true to their own lives, but it’s important for me that I tell a story and that I’m not writing Chicken Soup for the Necromantic Soul. It is getting harder and harder again, especially for authors from marginalised places or backgrounds, to write works where the takeaway isn’t ‘this is to succour all my marginalised people’. For anyone on the female-identified axis this is especially hard because it seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc., whereas a guy can just tell an adventure story and be done with it. This ties in with an idea that I think nowadays that good art is moral and bad art is immoral: i.e. if a story is bad it actually has to be because the lessons are bad, and if a story is good it must somehow be beautiful on the moral scale. We go looking for why the art we love is moral even if the art we love is a donut. I think this is the pressure of capitalism on time – that everything has to double or triple up in benefit compared to the time we take on it: if we’re prepared to waste eight hours on a book we had better be able to tot up at the end how that book was also feeding us in some way. That’s brand time we just used.“ (Tamsyn Muir)
because hollywood hair barbie!Alecto gets all the attention but let’s take a moment to look at the other extremely specific doll mentioned here, bride’s dream midge aka this gal:
whose hair John says very specifically was cut into a “weird mullet”
who do we know with red hair that could very well be styled as a mullet? who wears all white? who is mega dead but not quite, made mobile, dressed up and paraded around?
oh right. Kiriona Gaia. the other doll. the less favored doll.
im insane now. can’t do anything for the rest of the day i have to think about kiriona gaia as a discarded doll with a weird mullet sorry
when you wanted the annabel lee dolores haze hollywood hair barbie most beautiful body you could think of but all you got was your daughter who’s a weird butch lesbian. Sad! Well there’s other dogs you can feed her to
