March 2023

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would LOVE to hear you yell about mistborn influencing tlt if you have the time, i love both series but have never really thought of that before

pinging @ianthetridentariyes, @fire-swift, @violaeade, and @daughterofsarenrae who also sent me asks about this!

THANK YOU for asking!! For anyone who doesn’t know, Mistborn is a series of epic fantasy novels, the standalone original trilogy published between 2006-2008. I have NOT kept up with the sequel series, but the OG trilogy is a classic favorite of mine. anyway….. cracks knuckles:

Immortal God-King who was once only a man (Rashek, John) that legend says ascended over a Great Evil that he locked away (Ruin, Alecto) to allow founding of the kingdom. The God-King now rules over an unrealistically culturally stagnant kingdom (1000 or 10,000 years with little technological change) that is structured based on his original followers gaining demigod-like power (Mistborn, Lyctorhood) and each founding a “House” that still stands in the present day timeline (the original Lyctors each founding one of the Nine Houses, Rashek’s friends creating the Ten Great Houses).

The plot involves a relationship between a prince who wears white and a girl who wears black (Elend/Vin, Gideon/Harrow). The girl who wears black has repeated episodes of hallucinations and it turns out she’s been on some level possessed by the Locked Away Power who speaks to her in a disguised way (Ruin speaks to Vin in Reen’s voice, Alecto speaks to Harrow as The Body). She also has Extra Powers due to infant sacrifice (Vin’s younger sister killed with the copper hemalurgic spike, Harrow being 200 murdered children).

Also, the entire kingdom was founded after the world was destroyed and it Came Back Wrong, being put back together by guy who was trying to save it and was Unqualified (Rashek tried to save Scadrial but almost destroyed it by moving it too close to the sun and then had to compensate, John ate the solar system when he was trying to save the world and now it’s thanergetic).

Jesus is there (Kelsier, Gideon Nav).

There are probably a few more #connections (and this feeds into my other very tinfoil hat theory that John Gaius Moved the Solar System) but this post is already long enough ldsjfldskfj

I made a chart:

the same information as above, presented in chart formALT

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comprehensive list of Ianthe’s crimes:

  1. looked really hot that one time she wore leather pants and also Bab’s body
  2. bad at making soup
  3. being a freak and a creepy weirdo (but who isn’t!)
  4. when she cut open Harrow’s hand in the horniest possible way (the object lesson)
  5. saved John from the river vs Augustine (doing otherwise would kill everyone in the 9 houses due to the sun collapsing if John dies)
  6. gave Harrow a makover (could have gone better!)
  7. grew out Harrow’s hair (not her best moment)
  8. gave Harrow a lobotomy (consensual)
  9. that one time she stabbed Camilla in the gut (not great but still incredibly sexy)
  10. not giving a shit about what anyone else thought of her various terrible Mithraeum outfits and leaning into Looking Like That
  11. killed and ate Babs (real crime)
  12. did not kill and eat her sister (heart crime but only to Crown literally no one else is upset about this)
  13. fell in love with Harrow (literally who can blame her for this)
  14. insane gender outlaw (hot)
  15. space imperialism

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in the first book when Gideon was like “I’m not anyone’s son or daughter” and then over the next two books she becomes both a son and a daughter, a prince and a bomb. the only child of a dead rebel and an immortal king & the saddest girl in the whole wide universe. maybe she was better off not having any parents at all

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He said, I put my hands around your neck. He said, I cupped your soul in my hands. He said, I took you into myself and we became one. ALT
I'm starvin', darlin' Let me put my lips to something Let me wrap my teeth around the worldALT
He said, As the world went up I remade us both. I hid me in you … I hid you in me. And when we were together … once the shaman had claimed the sun … I became God.ALT
Every time (Each time) I'd burn through the world, I'd see That the world (The world) It burns through me (Burns through me)ALT

Eat Your Young - Hozier // John 1:20 - Tamsyn Muir // Through Me (The Flood) - Hozier

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if tlt books were named like isekai:

On Another Planet With My Longsword

Summoned To Serve God As One Of His Saints, but They Suck! (Also I Keep Having Strokes)

Reborn as an Amnesiac Teenager On A Refugee Planet – and It’s Almost My Birthday!

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new augustine quinque fancast just dropped:

Black and white photograph of sigmund freud, with text overlayed saying "Quick! Sophisticated! Devious!"ALT

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handrawn meme edit of of a blonde haired creature in chains in front of a bloody background ALT

alecto after she **** *** john’s **** *** *****

(inspired by @dmsr-art)