“lesbian necromancers in space”: 5/10. technically true, except that gideon isn’t a necromancer and for the most part they aren’t in space. can also be tonally misleading; implies a fun space opera adventure and fails to mention the impending emotional devastation. that being said it is iconic and (mostly) effective
“murder mystery in a haunted gothic castle”: 8/10. MUCH better at capturing the tone and plot of the first book, but still a little off. imagine picking up the book because of this blurb and then watching gideon nav make a mean girls reference in the first 20 pages. the whiplash could kill you
“a locked tomb mystery”: 5/10. nondescriptive and a little misleading, but i can’t give this any lower than a 5 because the pun is very good. gideon would love this one and that should count for something
“gay goth among us”: 10/10. i’m not even going to pretend like this one doesn’t nail it. try and argue against this. you can’t. captures the murders, the space-y setting, the queer characters, the tone and aesthetic, AND the contemporary humor. chef’s kiss
“enemies to lovers ‘i hate everyone but you’ slow burn”: 1/10. true if you squint. the relationship between gideon and harrow would make booktok weep
“catholic homestuck”: 9/10. this means nothing and explains everything
this tweet by tamsyn muir:
[Image ID: A tweet by “tamsyn should be writing” @tazmuir: “sure, I edited from 12 o'clock to 4.30, but how much of that time did I spend on the discovery that the basis of my novel is 'what if these two were… teenage girls’”, followed by an image of Skeletor and He-Man. /end ID]
10/10. conveys the pop culture savvy of the series, the complex dynamic between the main characters, and the humor of the writing style all at once. also makes me laugh every time i think about it
Trying to break down that one part of htn like. There’s three characters in the scene: God, a teenage nun, and God’s dead daughter (who is currently sharing a body with the nun and is also kind of the nun’s girlfriend? They didn’t really get a chance to define the relationship before the whole dying thing). God doesn’t know his daughter ever existed. The nun has forgotten that she ever existed. The audience does know she existed, but they don’t know she’s present in this scene. The daughter knows that she exists and is here but doesn’t know that she is at all related to God.
And then God looks the nun in the eye and says “If I ever had a daughter, I’d want her to be like you,” and no one involved has enough information to know how fucked up a statement that is.
see, the thing about The Locked Tomb series is that it tells a gorgeous tale about grief so deep it hurts to look at. About aimless love that burrows itself inside your gut, as it has no target, no host. About love persevering so far past death that it transforms you. About how hard it is to learn to move on, or whether or not is even fair to do so.
And then a page later God quotes fucking Eminem
so don’t read The Locked Tomb is what i’m saying (/j)
Nona the Ninth was like you are loved. whatever happens next, we did it it’s done you can’t take loved away. you were loved once and so you will always be loved. you were changed once and so you will always be changed. and let this cradle you, let this be your lifeline, let this tie you down when you feel like you’re falling apart.
and then The Unwanted Guest came and was like…. love changes you. people change you. we change each other, just by existing right now together we rub against each other we bleed we mingle. we leave pieces of ourselves behind. you are the sum of the people who have changed you and sometimes you don’t get to choose sometimes you don’t want it to have been them. and you can try to run away from that, from them, but they will chase you they will haunt you they ARE you.
if this is the wind up move. i am fucking terrified of the horrors of love
peregrine-eye said: First, thanks for posting the comic masterlist! I've been reading it like crazy recently. Also, do you know where the black widow "i'm one of 28 young ballerinas in the bolshoi..." quote came from? I'd love to read that issue if you know.
Yay!! I love hearing this! I’m glad you’re enjoying it :)
