If you are confused or were like me and became easily frustrated by reading the beginning of the books but once you got to the end things made a little more sense .
RE READ THE BOOKS trust me it helps so much .
If you are like me however and you NEED that next book NOW . I highly recommend watching book specific recap video essays on YouTube ! A lot of them do such a great job at explaining the books in an easy to process manner . DO IT AFTER YOU READ THE BOOKS trust.
Even if you have read all the books there’s some recommendations for you too.
Spoiler FREE Recommendations for each book down below !!
I recommend these for if you have just read Gideon the ninth
This one technically can be watched beforehand and I would recommended it before if your curious and after to get a better understanding of the house system.
This recap did me wonders it goes over the entire first book with no spoilers to the other books and I found it to be really entertaining.
If you have read Gideon and harrow the ninth
I HIGHLY recommend listening to the locked tomb podcast on YouTube and Spotify.
I listened to them before reading harrow and they did warn me of spoilers and I did get out of context spoiled . Whoops .
They do a chapter by chapter in depth deep breakdown of the events and character building moments of each book .
I recommend listening to the Gideon chapters as well because this podcast goes into how the Gideon chapters relate to harrow and the story building
The harrow and Gideon chapters were posted before Nona was released so up until they warn it is a Nona spoiler free zone .
This podcast REALLY helped me understand and get really deep into the story without having to reread the books 70 times on my own
Also for any fellow audiobook fans they did a super fun interview with Moira Quirk and it goes into the audiobook process and how Moira developed the voices .
ALSO it goes into the interlude chapters and a short story I haven’t found many that really get into the interlude chapters because I know especially on my first read I was extremely confused and flat out ignored them not realizing the untapped potential and power they hold
HIGHLY RECOMMEND LISTENING BEFORE READING NONA IT WILL HELP SO SO SO MUCH
If you don’t have like 20 hours to binge a podcast during work like I do
Check out this video
https://youtu.be/fhUdzTcTMcE?si=fEpxxQWStMDuzAR1
dark circles mandatory CHAPTERS:00:00:00 preface (sane despite the eyeliner facepaint) 00:01:29 intro (maybe too sane) 00:04:18 act 1 (stil
It does an amazing job at helping understand and maintain a sense of what is going on in the timeline of events and story building.
After reading Nona the ninth !
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Once again the events of the books are explained really well and did a great job at helping me understand better some of the more difficult aspects
Once again recommend the locked tomb podcast Nona episodes it does an incredible job going over each chapter. And the interlude chapter
Are you now in alectopause with the rest of us ?
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND rereading the books for yourself.
Post Nona I started rereading GTN and it was insanely good. The frustration that I developed when first reading it was gone and I picked up on so many little details.
I also highly recommend
Reading tumblr posts under the book tags ! Truly a ton of posts have made me understand and interpret things in ways I couldn’t even begin to imagine.
This truly is a FOUNT of knowledge
However I recommend finishing the books before doing so to avoid accidental spoilers . It’s really easy to come across a post that spoils a huge scene but is technically tagged properly .
I love reading about peoples experiences reading the books and engaging with the fandom has given me such a joy .
Read some fanfiction
If you loved Htn and some of the bits that made that book really interesting
There are a ton of awesome fanfics out there that explore fun what if senarios and much more
A lot of fanfics I have read have included some really interesting Māori inspirations and one even included research links and materials about it .
Watch animatics
There are some amazing ones out there that have truly changed the way I think about a certain scene or character.
Last but certainly not least
In alectopause we’re all in this together. Engage with the community and share your thoughts.
Recommend the series to an irl friend snd infodump about cool lore together .
Make fanart or fancomics
Engage with fanzines
There is an INCREDIBLE Locked tomb fanzine that directly links to palistine relief and donations to Gaza
( if I can find it I will link it here )
Make some theory’s about what Alecto the ninth might be like
If you like cosplay I have seen some incredible cosplays for locked tomb and it’s inspired me to make one as well
There are definitely a LOT more videos about this series and if the ones I recommended here aren’t for you there are more where that came from .
I chose the videos that helped me the most personally but these videos might not be what’s right for you .
If you like podcasts there’s at least two other Spotify based podcasts about the series so if your not vibing with the one I recommended then there’s more where that came from
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Not nessisarily a book but in the context of being the original texts biggest fan I am proud to say that I have been an “ oddessy the movie “ hater since day one
No joke when me and a friend found out this movie was in production about a year or so ago and we found out about the production completely fucking over THE Greek historically accurate armor guy I knew this movie was gonna be ass
And then they had the audacity to call this price of garbage the “ most accurate retelling “ like just say you wannna make a war movie without thinking about the broader itracaacies about why each part of this epic is important.
The oddessy has been my Greek mythology kid hyperfixation story of choice for many many years
Ancient mythohistory and history of ancient peoples is so freakin cool and to look me in the eyes and say that armor is ancient Ancient Greek armor is a LIE that’s Roman as shit man
I have not seen that movie I will not see that movie. Black Helen of troy that’s cool as hell but wtf is tom holland doing here ??? Get out of here with that
Ik this is random as hell but I needed to see talk and discourse about this movie that isn’t people getting in racist hissy fits about Helen’s casting . Her casting should be the least of your concerns when our main man Odysseus is out here doing bullshit
all the other guests: omg don’t turn around but that creepy Ninth nun who took a vow of silence is right behind you! she beat magnus in a sword fight in five seconds. i made eye contact with her yesterday eeek she’s got so much wisdom hidden in those eyes
gideon, wandering around in circles: what the fuck is going on what the fuck is going on where is harrow where is haRROW WHERE IS HARROW
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Commander Wake could very possibly be named after the marshal Island Wake in oceania. Which is one of the most remote islands and was used for military stuff. Which if you ask me is a really cool detail with the whole “blood of eden giving names with meaning and to commemorate things lost”
from a sex freak angle, there's lots to love in the locked tomb books - threesomes (plural) with god, harrianthe armbone reconstruction sex, whatever tf was up with the nude paintings of valancy with the melons - but for me the single horniest thing is the wake pyrrha g1deon love/hate threesome situationship
imagine you're wake confronting your enemy on the field of battle & subduing her (a lyctor!) too only, before killing her, she wants you to kiss (& maybe fuck) her. you're so struck by this that not only do you kiss her, you spare her life & start crushing on her a bit
later you meet & kiss her again but it isn't her. its someone else living in the same body, a stranger fanatically loyal to the empire you've dedicated your entire being to destroying and now you're his lover too
and everytime you fuck him, you're also fucking her, your love who at some subconscious level can feel it too. you're split between love for her & hate for him, between overwhelming carnal lust & duty towards blood of eden
dios apate is kinky too of course (blasphemy is always profoundly sexy) but its here in the messy personal drama, the conflicting pulls of love & hate, desire & duty, the body swapping perversity that true horniness lies
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Gideons first interaction with both of her parents is the two of them fighting… the poor girl she’s been conscious for the first time in nine months to watch a six person polycule all of whom were involved in her conception absolutely implode.
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I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.
What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.
I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.
Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.
