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do y'all think jod ever gets pissed that he can't listen to like. mcr anymore. do you think he's on a spaceship kicking rocks because Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 now only exists in his memory? cause I do. and I think he kinda deserves it.
Sudden brain blast over morning coffee:
John Gaius, necrolord whatever, cringiest man alive, refuses to let the earth die. And not just in the literal sense of locking the earth’s soul in a barbie on ice, in subtler ways too.
The most obvious is the memes, John constantly references memes that are dated even to us, but are in universe from a culture that died ten thousand years ago!
Slightly more subtle is the years. Why does everyone in the Houses measure in earth years? It’s been ten THOUSAND years since anyone lived on the earth! But John keeps them as a unit of measurement.
Even more subtle is the language. In sci-fi and fantasy we’re all used to the idea of the translation for the reader, people don’t speak english in lord of the rings, or dune, but the dialogue is in english for us, the readers. Not in The Locked Tomb. In this series, they ARE speaking english. Modern, bog standard english, to the point where two people born thousands of years apart speak similar enough dialects that one can pose as the other (dulcie/cytheria).
Now, this could possibly fall under that standard sci-fi trope, EXCEPT!!!! In Nona The Ninth, we see the non-house humans! And they speak dozens of languages, like you’d expect after TEN THOUSAND YEARS of linguistic drift!
John is trying SO HARD to keep the earth alive that he’s forced a language to stagnate for, say it with me now, Ten Thousand Years, to the point where even completely new things with no equivalent in our world don’t even have new words, just repurposed old ones (flimsy, sonic).
John Gaius, the first necromancer, could resurrect the planet itself, and millions of people, but he couldn’t resurrect the culture. So, John, cryogenics researcher, tried to put the culture on ice, to keep it as close to the one he remembers as possible. And he still failed.
Honestly? Not gonna lie. Jod fucked up a lot of things. Like so many things. But I too would follow the billionaire assholes who used and abandoned us and our planet out into space and obsess about killing every last one of them. All the other stuff is bad bad news. But I absolutely understand the impulse to seek that revenge.
miau miau miau miaaaaauuu
god’s poorest little meow meow
Do y’all think jod knows anything abt fnaf lore
"I forgive you everything, Lord," she whispered. And she slid her hands inside him.
Imagine the soul of the earth gives you god-like magic to save the planet from a climate apocalypse and you just hard focus on doing necromancy with it lmao. Imagine being handed the keys to life just to close off the door and declare that you conquered death. Imagine putting the embodiment of all life in a tomb and calling her an apocalypse to come. Incredible loser behaviour tbh.
Starting Gideon the ninth: wow, what a great book about complex lesbian necromancers being cool and emo and gay, with a great cast of supporting characters, and an interesting and mysterious plot! Cant wait to see what happens next!
Post Nona the ninth: this book is about humanity. It is about the soul. It is about love and It is about power and every devastating and wonderful emotion the human brain is capable of. It is about the meaningless bags of flesh that hold what is really important. It is about Christianity, and applying real human nature to its laws. It is about the end of the world. It is about a guy named John kickstarting the craziest butterfly effect ever. It is about
AND ITS NOT EVEN OVER YET!
Alecto wish list 🙏
• “lyctor? I hardly know ‘er!” - Gideon nav
• jod crying
• hot sauce/the gang
• jod on his knees crying
• Anastasia lore
• John Gauis crying and bleeding on the floor
• John Gauis begging and crying on the ground and bleeding
Anyway john gauis classpect prince of blood
“A Gaggle of NiGHTS” as a friend has dubbed my collection of doodles
First proper drawing of Reala
Needed a new wallpaper, so I drew one. Enjoy sleepy Reala with sleepy shleep.
NiGHTS wallpaper I made for my other monitor to go with my previous Reala one.
My poor girl was losing her religion every day on that space shuttle