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 wasnāt 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 āplease read The Locked Tomb Series by Tamysn Muirā. I literally donāt know anyone that is up to date on the series and I love it a lot š 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 womenās wrongs THIS IS THE BOOK. I went into the first book without knowing anything about the story aside from the blurb describing it as ālesbian necromancers in a haunted house in spaceā and you know, they werenāt wrong. But the story is so good and the narrator between each book shifts in a way thatās unique and engaging and makes you think āwhat the fuck is going onā 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 (weāre 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 ālol this book is totally gonna end up on some future version of sparknotes where they have little tabs that explain each memeā and the idea of having to translate memes that are no longer relevant is ALSO silly. Plus I feel like in general if you donāt get all the memes referenced it doesnāt hurt your ability to understand whatās going on, but if you DO get the reference itās 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 donāt take my word on it, Iām 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 itās 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
I literally listened to this on look for the second half of the first book because I found it around that time and I feel like the track Libertango specifically just absolutely mwa mwa matches the vibes
@kaybee and I love these books so much we got the JP editions that have these gorgeous covers! Itāll be a few years till I can read them in Japanese, but I will! (And even then, sci-fi vocab is hardā¦)


