They Call Me Anxious Ace Because... well...

The Locked Tomb is a story about one girl's body being passed around by a bunch of souls like a blunt

After Muir finishes Alecto, she should release a sort of wiki/cliff notes book that is "all the stuff you missed because the protagonists were constitutionally incapable of noticing". It would be very important that nothing there be load bearing, but answering questions of when specific conversations happened that Harrow or Gideon or Nona missed, or what was going on between books, or whatnot. Just really rub our face in how much Gideon wasn't paying attention, and also use it as an excuse to show off the breadth of her worldbuilding.

surely this 3rd book in the trilogy of 'incredibly compelling female mc goes through insane shit and then dies in the most tragic way you could possibly imagine' books wont contain an incredibly compelling mc who dies at the end. surely. they wouldn't do that

There's so much shit in these books that's either foreshadowing or just otherwise really obvious on a reread that's fully just out in the open but you don't even think "hey that might be relevant" on your first read through bc in gideon your narrator has negative interest in the actual plot and would rather be practicing with her sword and looking at hot women, in harrow you have no clue what the fuck is going on bc harrow is both hallucinating and actually haunted and also gave herself a diy lobotomy and also also everything is being filtered through that and also gideon's half-absorbed soul, and in nona the narrator mostly is not interested in the plot again but this time because she's six months old and actively dying and she would rather be playing with dogs and also you're too busy focusing on the slice of life that somehow manages to make you cry over a t-shirt offering cheap mustache rides

Camilla and Palamedes making notes every time Nona mentioned boobs because it might've been be a sign she's Gideon is so funny to me because if i remember correctly Gideon never mentioned boobs aloud in gtn so either they just clocked her so well or it was painfully obvious at what she was looking at, even with sunglasses

Gertrude killed off her assistants to stop rituals that wouldn't have worked to begin with. Jon saved his assistants in a world that was going to be doomed anyway. both of their efforts were well-meaning but ultimately futile. rip to everyone who died via Archivist, you could have lived and the world would have continued turning

If I could directly implant this understanding into the brain of every TLT fan, by jod I would

Gideon and Harrow

“we had something very nearly perfect” he says, of the second most codependent relationship you’ve ever seen

TLT does kill your gays but like. In a sexy way. They’re haunting the narrative you can’t stop seeing them in the corner of your eye you can’t live without them they’re integrated into your soul but in such a way that they’re gone forever. Where do they end where do you begin. It doesn’t matter because you’re all dying anyway