Ok I felt SO MUCH PRESSURE to try and figure out the perfect infodump (purely pressure that I have put on myself) that I procrastinated writing this and then I tried to write out what I wanted to talk about but I was foolishly wrote it on my phone and accidentally hit a spot I wasn’t supposed to on my browser and magically everything I wrote disappeared so LETS DO THIS AGAIN round two (drafted in my phone memos)

Allow me to get up on stage and say “please read The Locked Tomb Series by Tamysn Muir”. I literally don’t know anyone that is up to date on the series and I love it a lot 😭 the series is so interesting and funny and silly and devastating, the themes of love and the relationships that we treasure and are burdened with are big parts of the story. If you like stories about supporting women’s wrongs THIS IS THE BOOK. I went into the first book without knowing anything about the story aside from the blurb describing it as “lesbian necromancers in a haunted house in space” and you know, they weren’t wrong. But the story is so good and the narrator between each book shifts in a way that’s unique and engaging and makes you think “what the fuck is going on” PLUS the world building is so interesting. On top of all that I feel like modern day internet culture is intrinsically tied to the way the book is written which I think is silly (we’re talking references to internet memes, streaming, coffee shop AU fics, you name it). Whenever I think about people in the future probably needing a pop culture historian in memes I think “lol this book is totally gonna end up on some future version of sparknotes where they have little tabs that explain each meme” and the idea of having to translate memes that are no longer relevant is ALSO silly. Plus I feel like in general if you don’t get all the memes referenced it doesn’t hurt your ability to understand what’s going on, but if you DO get the reference it’s like finding a little Easter egg.

So really the series is just queer necromancers in space with spooky shit, environmentalism (did I mention there are big things about modern day environmentalism and classism? There are), silly jokes, emotional themes that COULD make you cry (but don’t take my word on it, I’m a cancer sun and I cry all the time) amazing characters and also I think a cult too??? Maybe more than one??? There is so much it’s all good thank you for coming to my Ted Talk now I have to get back to work and stop writing about queer sci-fi fantasy fiction