TLT: Pride and Rage In Queer-Enough Bodies
I’m a little gunshy about writing about The Locked Tomb and queerness because on the one hand it’s really fucking obvious, and on the other hand, last time I did it, someone decided to well-actually me about how Jod probably wasn’t actually bisexual while talking about the time in the book where Jod had sex with a man and a woman at the same time.
Oh spoilers for one of the books I guess.
Like let’s face it you gotta be pretty dedicated to pretending bi guys don’t exist that watching a guy fuck a girl and a guy at the same time to sit there, expanding brain meme style and ask yourself the hard questions of what does he mean by this.
The obviousness of queerness in The Locked Tomb starts at the pitch. The story was sold, to an audience, as lesbian necromancers in space, which in hindsight, is pretty unfair. After all, Harrow’s a necromancer, sure, but Gideon’s just a loser. Still, we’re talking about a book whose pitch starts with the word lesbian, and you can tell that Gideon and Harrow are lesbians because neither ever asks one another to go on a date but they’ve been swimming naked together.
I suppose I should put up a proper spoiler fold. Hey, I’m going to talk about how people relate to their own bodies in the context of The Locked Tomb! Spoilers for the whole series of books, dead ahead!
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