Katakaluptastrophy
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Chapter 4: every cowering stem will strip you to the bone by Katakaluptastrophy
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
13 Sep 2025
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I firmly believe that the Kindly Emperor knows nothing of that undiscovered country. He never claimed omnipotence. I longed my whole life to give him my findings... Oh, I hope so desperately that my brother found my notes! Something has gone terribly wrong in the River (Harrow the Ninth, chapter 45)
when I come into my homeland, my family will sacrifice in their halls for you (Harrow the Ninth, chapter 49)
In which a promise is kept, notes are found, and Alecto contemplates how rivers work and the lengths to which a sibling will go in their grief.
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- Part 4 of Alectopause the Ninth
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The Months of Dominicus, as time was reckoned by the Resurrecting King and his disciples by Katakaluptastrophy
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
02 Jun 2025
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You use the idea of the months in the Nine Houses being named after the Lyctors in more than one fic, and suddenly people start asking you for the entire calendar...
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A note on regional variations in the liturgical calendar in the month of Patience by Katakaluptastrophy
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
22 Apr 2025
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A monthly guide, issued by the Calendrical Standardisation Office of the Holy Cavalier of Joy Institute, for Brothers and Sisters Templar of the White Glass who are travelling or serving the King Undying in extramural postings, highlighting regional celebrations of note or concern.
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The only people left who'd even look me in the eye by Katakaluptastrophy for Queeoretician
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
21 Dec 2024
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The following are a selection of 20 painstakingly restored digital artifacts from a database labeled “NSA54GAIA”, one of the last items to be uploaded to the archival repository on board the Eden Arc ship Deucalion. For centuries, the files were considered too corrupted to be read, but recent developments have allowed us to decipher a number of text files and associated image descriptions. While lacking context, all appear to relate the woman who would go on to bring an end to Eden and falsely style herself as the deity and empress of the Sol system, comprising a variety of electronic communications between the then “Dr Ianthe Tridentarius” and her inner circle.
- In Action How Like An Angel Your Wee Bit Hill And Glen Darling I’m A Nightmare Dressed Like A Daydream, Senior Archival Data Analyst, New Kaifeng Forensic Data Institute, Antioch. Bezian standardised date 12053.17.11
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The Finest Study by Katakaluptastrophy
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
14 Nov 2024
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To this end we beg the first of your House and their cavalier to kneel in glory and attend the finest study, that of being the Emperor’s bones and joints, his fists and gestures…(GTN ch 3)
Your Masters won’t even let me look at them through the glass… They’re good copies, at least—and I spend my time studying those. Writing commentary, naturally. But being here meant almost more to me than the idea of serving the Emperor. (GTN ch 15)
Shortly after the scions are summoned to Canaan House, Master Archivist Juno Zeta refuses one last request to study Lyctoral materials.
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do corpses dream of rotting sheep? by JodsTablet
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
08 Jun 2025
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Kiriona slumped onto her palm, propped up by her elbow on the desk’s hard, polished surface. Behind all of the living chattel thrust into the broadcast’s abattoir protruded the barracks’ only entrance and exit lined (thanks to Ianthe, no doubt) with mindless half-rotted flesh constructs. They smelled awful. Upon entering the entry hall she had insisted that a window be opened but there weren’t any windows; no tiny portals out into the world to give her so much as a taste of something new. All she had was that distant door and whatever bled through it.
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17 Jun 2025
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the things I touch are made of stone by thatyourefuse
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
11 Sep 2021
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I didn't need a calendar. I could have counted it out in seconds, if not for the various times I'd been under sedation.
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18 Jan 2025
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good morning, baltimore by sirpratchett for Katakaluptastrophy
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
13 Jan 2025
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Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect attend JODCon 2024: The Journal of Death Dying's annual conference for multidisciplinary academics studying death and dying as a scientific, philosophical, and sociological phenomenon. Shockingly little time is spent actually discussing academia.
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15 Jan 2025
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A Diplomatic Incident by Crane_Carlisle
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
06 Jul 2025
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On the night of the anniversary dinner, the Third and Sixth Houses end up working together—kind of, almost—with nearly good intentions to prove that neither of them were responsible for the deaths of Abigail Pent and Magnus Quinn.
Or, Gideon Nav was not paying attention and did not notice the complex, Empire-shaking, absolutely stupid political drama unfolding around her the night of the murder investigation.
Chapter 13: Coda, by Ianthe
(It is finished!)
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30 Nov 2024
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The Lillian Sitta Memorial Lecture Hall by the_ninth_house_glared
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
14 Jan 2023
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Necromantic duels aren’t common on the Sixth, unless there’s an accusation of plagiarism that doesn’t get resolved through Oversight. Then it’s on, in the Lillian Sitta Memorial Lecture Hall, with everyone jockeying for position to see two hoary adepts try to maim each other with necromancy they haven’t used outside a lab in fifteen years.
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09 Nov 2024