2022-01-07 19:01:35 ¶ ●

as much as i would love a visual adaptation of the locked tomb (aka the perfect-for-me version that exists inside my brain only) i feel At Peace knowing that it simply cannot be adapted. everyone is too gross all the time. it simply wouldnt be widely profitable, and is therefore Free. everyone is entirely too covered-in-blood and puke and other fluids and dirt and grime and dust, constantly, for it to have a Mass Visual Appeal. every character in the locked tomb is just. disgusting all the time. constantly covered in unmentionables and dirt. except maybe coronabeth but i think she just does it in a slightly sexyier way. canaan house is literally rotting inside out with mold. Gideon and Harrow spent 5% of their time in sexy cool face paint, and the other 95% of the time in various stages of having their facepaint smeared around, sweat through, and slough off. dulcinea is spitting phlem and snot and hacking up half a lung every other page. silas seems like he is deeply jaundice with a liver deficency. there are so MANY scenes where every character present just get absolutley splattered with gore and then they just. don’t clean up. harrow bleeds out of every orfice and spends at least 20% of the story vomiting all over herself, and another 50% in various stages of undress but like, not in a sexy way, in a covered-in-dust-and-old-blood-and-bone-dust, and ripped up hospital gown, and bags-too-big-for-airplane-carry-on under the eyes from sleep deprivation. ianthe spends 95% of her time on the mithraeum wearing clothing that is deeply ugly in both color and style, and that absolutley does not fit her. i feel Comfortable and Safe knowing that the locked tomb is simply too wonderfully grotesque and beautifully gross and wildly slimy to ever be visually adapted for a mass market audience. it’s Free.