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uploaded a new painting, and two older ones, to https://nebulos.space
#art #gouache #beyondTheAwakening #empathAndAugur #lockedTomb #gideon
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uploaded a new painting, and two older ones, to https://nebulos.space
#art #gouache #beyondTheAwakening #empathAndAugur #lockedTomb #gideon
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My wife wants me to run an rpg based on the Locked Tomb series. First thing to come to mind would be to adapt Thirsty Sword Lesbians. But what other suggestions do people have?
#TTRPG #ThirstySwordLesbians #PbtA #StoryGames #IndieRpg #LockedTomb #GideonTheNinth
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My wife wants me to run an rpg based on the Locked Tomb series. First thing to come to mind would be to adapt Thirsty Sword Lesbians. But what other suggestions do people have?
#TTRPG #ThirstySwordLesbians #PbtA #StoryGames #IndieRpg #LockedTomb #GideonTheNinth
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Do any #LockedTomb fan artists need reference poses?
Because I'm through one and a half books and have access to a number of swords (and know the right way to hold them).
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Do any #LockedTomb fan artists need reference poses?
Because I'm through one and a half books and have access to a number of swords (and know the right way to hold them).
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Book 12. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Read this one a few years ago, but re-read it so I can read the rest of the Locked Tomb novels (hopefully the final one is not too far away).
Lesbian necromancers in a puzzle room to obtain the ultimate prize: immortality.
It's really good. It's maybe a little too YA compared to my usual tastes, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Book 12. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Read this one a few years ago, but re-read it so I can read the rest of the Locked Tomb novels (hopefully the final one is not too far away).
Lesbian necromancers in a puzzle room to obtain the ultimate prize: immortality.
It's really good. It's maybe a little too YA compared to my usual tastes, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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A return to art, and #lockedTomb fanart.
https://nebulos.space/gideon_stars.html
#gouache #gideon #fanart #art #painting #traditionalArt
(PS I also uploaded some of last year's inktober art. Only 5 months late, what of it?)
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A return to art, and #lockedTomb fanart.
https://nebulos.space/gideon_stars.html
#gouache #gideon #fanart #art #painting #traditionalArt
(PS I also uploaded some of last year's inktober art. Only 5 months late, what of it?)
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CW: Gideon the ninth ending spoils
If you ever need a reminder how fucking dangerous Camilla hect is remember as a character with no necromancy or other special powers she took on a LYCTOR with centuries more experience than her basically solo and managed to hold her off for quite a while, not only surviving but walking away with all her limbs intact.
With only two knives and a grudge no less.
#tlt #lockedtomb #thelockedtomb #gideontheninth #Camillahect
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CW: Gideon the ninth ending spoils
If you ever need a reminder how fucking dangerous Camilla hect is remember as a character with no necromancy or other special powers she took on a LYCTOR with centuries more experience than her basically solo and managed to hold her off for quite a while, not only surviving but walking away with all her limbs intact.
With only two knives and a grudge no less.
#tlt #lockedtomb #thelockedtomb #gideontheninth #Camillahect
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CW: locked tomb fan art, spoilers for nona
Kiriona Gaia hehehe
I think I double checked to see if they said anything about KG's hair length but I love a good hair-style-as-symbolism so sue me :b
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CW: locked tomb fan art, spoilers for nona
Kiriona Gaia hehehe
I think I double checked to see if they said anything about KG's hair length but I love a good hair-style-as-symbolism so sue me :b
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two things I love about the locked tomb:
(1) each book in the series (so far) significantly expands the setting, which is a pretty impressive feat of world building (2) Tamsyn Muir loves a story where the POV character has no idea what's going on
these two things add up to giving some of that first-book goodness even in the sequels which I really love.
i also think TM takes an adversarial relationship with their readers which I am a big proponent of. confusion and uncertainty is a valid emotion lmao
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two things I love about the locked tomb:
(1) each book in the series (so far) significantly expands the setting, which is a pretty impressive feat of world building (2) Tamsyn Muir loves a story where the POV character has no idea what's going on
these two things add up to giving some of that first-book goodness even in the sequels which I really love.
i also think TM takes an adversarial relationship with their readers which I am a big proponent of. confusion and uncertainty is a valid emotion lmao
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I'm, uh, making a #LockedTomb scarf. Not that the pattern or the yarn is specifically locked tomb referential but it's purple and black and I'm adding some gold sparkle and it's got skulls so it's locked tomb for me.
(to tide me over while I figure out the yarn situation to replace my trans scarf)
the pattern is called Blood of My Blood Skull Scarf by Auburncraft
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I'm, uh, making a #LockedTomb scarf. Not that the pattern or the yarn is specifically locked tomb referential but it's purple and black and I'm adding some gold sparkle and it's got skulls so it's locked tomb for me.
(to tide me over while I figure out the yarn situation to replace my trans scarf)
the pattern is called Blood of My Blood Skull Scarf by Auburncraft
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more #gideon fanart. I suppose, Harrow the Ninth specifically.
This one I think would be compatible with paint but I'm still tryna figure out my ink stuff.
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more #gideon fanart. I suppose, Harrow the Ninth specifically.
This one I think would be compatible with paint but I'm still tryna figure out my ink stuff.
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If ya wanted to see all the variants on my "stubborn ass wants to do purely black and white ink but doesn't want to hatch" attempts. Got a favorite, varying levels of anatomical correctness and details aside?
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If ya wanted to see all the variants on my "stubborn ass wants to do purely black and white ink but doesn't want to hatch" attempts. Got a favorite, varying levels of anatomical correctness and details aside?
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the painted-all-inktober urge to draw in ink. This is like, v4 of this drawing, trying to figure out how I wanna express myself in ink. think I went a little too hard on the shadows, probably wanna stick generally closer to line work with shading.
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the painted-all-inktober urge to draw in ink. This is like, v4 of this drawing, trying to figure out how I wanna express myself in ink. think I went a little too hard on the shadows, probably wanna stick generally closer to line work with shading.
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oh also this silly little skelly scene is now more canonically correct
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oh also this silly little skelly scene is now more canonically correct
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#inktober #skeletal: the brain gremlins won out over laziness so #lockedTomb fanart it is. also this thing is under two inches tall. IDK why I do this to myself.
also bonus sketch for after inktober. Maybe I'll ink this one, ironically?
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#inktober #skeletal: the brain gremlins won out over laziness so #lockedTomb fanart it is. also this thing is under two inches tall. IDK why I do this to myself.
also bonus sketch for after inktober. Maybe I'll ink this one, ironically?
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#inktober #rivals, #blast and #button
Today's shitty photo seems to have washed out the colors. Anyways, more #lockedTomb art, an explosion which I think I can out pretty neat, and then a study on a "button" nose.
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#inktober #rivals, #blast and #button
Today's shitty photo seems to have washed out the colors. Anyways, more #lockedTomb art, an explosion which I think I can out pretty neat, and then a study on a "button" nose.
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feel a frisson of affection every time someone makes a none pizza left beef reference. I am ruined.
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feel a frisson of affection every time someone makes a none pizza left beef reference. I am ruined.
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75% of the way through Harrow, and while I love Gideon, this book is indeed brilliant.
After I finish Nona I will need to re-read from the beginning.
#Reading #SciFi #Fantasy #Mystery #LockedTomb #HarrowTheNinth #GideonTheNinth
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75% of the way through Harrow, and while I love Gideon, this book is indeed brilliant.
After I finish Nona I will need to re-read from the beginning.
#Reading #SciFi #Fantasy #Mystery #LockedTomb #HarrowTheNinth #GideonTheNinth
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CW: inktober 7-9
day 7: #starfish
At first I'd thought I'd do a simple starfish and practice coloring, but I remembered the crown of thorns, the destroyer of worlds, from Annihilation.
day 8: #reckless
Recycled an old sketch of mine of Maya, but did it up in ink. This time I remembered the tech of "if you don't want pen strokes, you can use a brush! you know, the things have you dozens of, sitting on your desk, because you also paint". Also fun to use gouache for the sun(s) behindd her.
day 9: #heavy
locked tomb fan art locked tomb fan art locked tomb fan art. (also ignore my botched patch job. my pen blorbed on me.)
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CW: inktober 7-9
day 7: #starfish
At first I'd thought I'd do a simple starfish and practice coloring, but I remembered the crown of thorns, the destroyer of worlds, from Annihilation.
day 8: #reckless
Recycled an old sketch of mine of Maya, but did it up in ink. This time I remembered the tech of "if you don't want pen strokes, you can use a brush! you know, the things have you dozens of, sitting on your desk, because you also paint". Also fun to use gouache for the sun(s) behindd her.
day 9: #heavy
locked tomb fan art locked tomb fan art locked tomb fan art. (also ignore my botched patch job. my pen blorbed on me.)
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Skipped a head in my junk journal to the paper bag section to do a little shadow play of a scene from Harrow the Ninth. You didn't think this unktober was gonna be free from fanart, did ya?
Also drawing Harrow made me realize how muscly I make all my drawings by default lmao.
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Skipped a head in my junk journal to the paper bag section to do a little shadow play of a scene from Harrow the Ninth. You didn't think this unktober was gonna be free from fanart, did ya?
Also drawing Harrow made me realize how muscly I make all my drawings by default lmao.
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I am enjoying Harrow the Ninth, but I have no idea what’s going on.
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I am enjoying Harrow the Ninth, but I have no idea what’s going on.
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Erin Reads: Hemlock & Silver, Murderbot, Locked Tomb, Picture Perfect
Hemlock & Silver: Tried another book by T. Kingfisher. I liked it! The narrator is a poisons expert, who gets hired to find out if/how someone is making the king’s daughter sick. She’s very good at her job, thinking through all kinds of possibilities, and doing methodical tests — which serves her well when things start to get Weird and Magic.
There are a couple of frustrating times when she doesn’t figure something out (not even “this is a possibility I should investigate”) until a couple chapters after the reader has. Other than that, it’s really solid. I can only imagine how much background research on different toxins and venoms went into the writing. Sometimes this world has different names for things, or there’s a gap in their scientific knowledge, but you can deduce what’s going on from the practical description of causes and symptoms.
Also, it’s more Fantasy California than Fantasy Europe! Still a pretty traditional fairytale kingdom, but the plants and animals are all desert-dwellers, and there’s some Spanish influence going on.
The narrator, like the one from The House on the Cerulean Sea, is overweight, and it comes up periodically. I like the handling here so much better. She just reflects on it when she’s feeling self-conscious, or when it’s a meaningful factor in the action (e.g. if she’s incapacitated and needs to be carried somewhere). There’s no “pack of plucky orphans who regularly tease her for it without ever learning a Valuable Lesson that they’re being rude.”
It’s blurbed as “a re-imagining of Snow White,” but it only has a couple general tropes in common (mirrors, poison apples, a villain who’s a queen), not used in the same way. If the poison didn’t involve apples, and the princess wasn’t named Snow, I’m not even sure the connection would be obvious.
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After getting my ebook purchases unlocked with Libation, I figured it was a good opportunity for some Murderbot re-listens. Specifically, I listened to Network Effect (the first novel) and System Collapse (the much-shorter second novel) back-to-back. Since that’s how the in-universe events happen, even though the book releases were years apart.
Spoilers follow! (I’ve kept some of it vague, but not everything.)
Network Effect is still really good! “Murderbot gets stuck in a survival quest with a teenager” is an inspired character setup. MB having a breakdown when it thinks it’s lost ART, then a different kind of breakdown when ART is back but now MB knows what it did, is all excellent, hits just the right hurt/comfort notes. Everything about ART meeting some of MB’s humans for the first time is great.
The excerpts from helpme.file are still a wonderful buildup, even once you already know the impending reveal of who’s reading them, and why. The sudden switch to a new POV, for the first time in the series, also stays fun even after you’re expecting it. The rescue sequences are wonderful, and the end is very well-earned.
System Collapse is…a weird one.
Some good things: The repeated references to [redacted] are good at building suspense, and the eventual reveal of the events MB is redacting is very satisfying. (And believable!) The way MB and company win over the residents of Mystery Colony is admittedly a little cheesy, but in a way I think the series has earned by this point. The interaction with enemy SecUnits toward the end has a development that’s been a long time coming.
On to the weird things:
It’s only half the length of Network Effect. On a re-listen, the pacing gives me the distinct impression that Martha Wells meant to write something the same length as Network Effect, and then started to run out of steam and wished she was doing another novella instead. Before the team gets to the Mystery Colony, the scenes have a lot of detail and attention — MB will do things like “recount its growing worry and frustration with every step in the process of trying to find a hidden hatch.” Once they enter Mystery Colony, events start whipping by. There’s more summarizing. More jumping straight from “we decided to do X” to “X was done”, without anything about the process or the challenges of getting there.
I kept wondering whether this would flow better if the premise was “MB set off adventuring with ART’s crew, and this is their first mission on a new planet,” rather than “MB and ART suddenly get a secret new mission on the planet they were already at.”
It’s probably better for MB’s mental health that [redacted] happened while a bunch of its Preservation humans were still around, because it doesn’t trust any of ART’s humans enough to seek emotional support from them. And [redacted] would give ART’s crew a skewed almost-first-impression, while the PresAux crew has a more-informed perspective, having seen MB in action across a whole bunch of different missions in the past.
On the flip side, a lot of ART’s crew are still really thin as characters, and I would’ve liked to see a mission with all of them to build them up more. The PresAux characters who had big roles in Network Effect got a lot of good development there…and I’m not sure any of that was enhanced by what they did in System Collapse? It didn’t do much for ART’s humans either, even the ones who had big roles. Might have been better if it was the whole group, so we could see their existing personal dynamics and practiced teamwork.
Ratthi/Tarik only happens if Ratthi is still around, but on a re-listen, I’m not feeling much satisfaction about that either. It’s not that I’m mad about it, it doesn’t actively drag down any characters the way Ratthi’s TV-series romance did, it’s just…so barely-there. MB’s narration covers one (1) conversation that involves them being together. I assume it’s not the first sex-related conversation MB has witnessed over the course of these books, it’s just redacting/ignoring/deleting them as not relevant to its job. But this one didn’t end up being relevant either!
At some point, I expected that Ratthi saying “SecUnit, you don’t want to hear about this, it’s a sexual conversation” was a cover story. That at some point we’d get a reveal — Ratthi was talking about something he didn’t want MB to know, and he’s figured out that “we’re talking about sex” is the surest way to get MB not to surveil something. But nope. It just doesn’t come back at all.
So, yeah. It’s not a bad book (if it was, I wouldn’t have listened to it twice!), it’s just the one entry in the MB series where I keep noticing all the ways it could’ve been better.
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Nona the Ninth is, like all the Locked Tomb books, a lot easier to follow when you know who everyone is.
I’m not letting myself write a whole essay on this one! Just to say, it’s funny, it’s dramatic, it’s heartwarming, it’s twisty, it’s weird (on purpose, and to great effect). I’m glad I re-listened. Whenever the fourth book gets an actual release date, I’ll be there with bells on. (And I fully expect to re-binge the whole series so far before I start.)
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Picture Perfect, by Elaine Marie Alphin, is a middle-grade almost-murder-mystery I found out about from this pluralstories entry.
I feel like anything I say is going to come off like damning with faint praise, because…listen, it’s very much a middle-grade book. It’s fine! I enjoyed it for what it was. I don’t have any particular criticisms or complaints. It’s good at what it’s trying to do! And what it’s trying to do is…be a middle-grade book.
I’m glad I read it, specifically because I was interested in the narrator-with-DID angle. If that’s a topic you’re also particularly interested in, maybe give it a look. And if you’re looking for books to recommend to a tween reader in your life, this is a solid pick.
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failed to capture the eccentricities of the references facial structure, but will that stop me from drawing a skull on it? no!!!
btw all my alcohol markers are kinda dried out and crusty. any way to revive them that's not buying more ink?
#traditionalArt #alcoholMarker #gideon #lockedtomb #fanart #portrait #art
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failed to capture the eccentricities of the references facial structure, but will that stop me from drawing a skull on it? no!!!
btw all my alcohol markers are kinda dried out and crusty. any way to revive them that's not buying more ink?
#traditionalArt #alcoholMarker #gideon #lockedtomb #fanart #portrait #art
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pose practice! then given red hair and a sword!!
https://nebulos.space/gideon_crouched.html
#art #gideon #lockedtomb #gouache #painting #traditionalart #art
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pose practice! then given red hair and a sword!!
https://nebulos.space/gideon_crouched.html
#art #gideon #lockedtomb #gouache #painting #traditionalart #art
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At some point the #LockedTomb fans over on Tumblr declared Sept. 9th to be Soup Day, so I'm having tomato soup, flavored with chicken bouillion and rasam powder.
In a stroke of irony, the first try was over-salted, so I added more water. 😂
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At some point the #LockedTomb fans over on Tumblr declared Sept. 9th to be Soup Day, so I'm having tomato soup, flavored with chicken bouillion and rasam powder.
In a stroke of irony, the first try was over-salted, so I added more water. 😂
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CW: Locked Tomb, Gideon the Ninth spoilers
Can you convince me to keep reading the rest of the Locked Tomb series? I loved the first book, but Gideon's narrative voice was my favorite part, and I can't see later books being as fun to read if she's dead (she's super dead, right?)
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CW: Locked Tomb, Gideon the Ninth spoilers
Can you convince me to keep reading the rest of the Locked Tomb series? I loved the first book, but Gideon's narrative voice was my favorite part, and I can't see later books being as fun to read if she's dead (she's super dead, right?)
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CW: Nona the Ninth (Locked Tomb book 3) spoilers
One of my favourite things about the Locked Tomb series (by Tamsyn Muir) is that God is canonically a kiwi.
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CW: Nona the Ninth (Locked Tomb book 3) spoilers
One of my favourite things about the Locked Tomb series (by Tamsyn Muir) is that God is canonically a kiwi.
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I woke up on Saturday morning with this idea and had to do it right away.