Okay, because I’ve seen a couple floating around, and I just made it for my partner who’s reading them for the first time + I know a good few of you follow me for tlt stuff: Here is The Recommended Reading Order for The Locked Tomb
1. Gideon the Ninth
2. The glossary and “a little explanation of the naming system” from the end of the GtN
3. “A sermon on cavaliers and necromancers” and “cohort intelligence files” also from the GtN paperback
4. The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, which you can read for free here:
https://reactormag.com/the-mysterious-study-of-dr-sex-tamsyn-muir//
5. Harrow the Ninth
6. The HtN glossary and the “Blood of Eden Memorandum For Record” which is included in the Harrow paperback
7. (Here’s where you face a choice, because after Harrow, you can either
A) go back and reread Gideon the Ninth, which I highly recommend, or
B) read “As Yet Unsent” from the Harrow paperback if you just want to keep going.) if you do A, just do B afterwards
8. Nona the Ninth
9. “The Unwanted Guest” from the Nona paperback
(Note: This assumes the reader has the current US paperback copies, but if you are listening to the audiobooks [which I highly recommend]/have a different edition, [I know, for example, that libraries prefer to generally have hardcovers when they’re available] this is a series where I think owning/reading multiple formats is worth it, but you can probably find most of the supplemental materials online, and if worst comes to, most of the bonus material is short enough that you could probably read it while in the bookstore pretending to think about buying the book. And, if you just want to read the novels/don’t care that much and just want to see where this goes, you can always just read the mainline books and come back later, but that’s not really the point of a full reading order.)
I hc there's a misconception about Mystery, Inc., and it's that Fred and Velma, being the planners and "braincell holders" of the gang, cannot leave Daphne and Shaggy alone together unattended. In reality, it's actually Daphne and Shaggy that can't leave Fred and Velma unattended. They maximize their troublemaking potential and then go apeshit ham from there.
When I was a kid I was “darn I just love when female characters pretend to be dudes for whatever reason” and the reason will not shock you in the slightest
solidarity with osha. i love a good railing
a scooby-doo origin story where Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Shaggy are all serving detention together and none of them (save for maybe Fred and Daphne) have ever really talked before, but they talk in detention. they have fun, they're bonding, it's a real Breakfast Club situation, and as detention ends they're walking home and they see a dog digging through the garbage of a local restaurant
he's big, but he seems sweet and he's obviously hungry, so the gang approaches him to see if he has a collar. Shaggy manages to get to him first, and the dog immediately takes to him, giving him a big dog kiss and cuddling up to him, but the dog seems to like all of them
upon finding he doesn't have a collar, Shaggy, scratching behind his ears, rhetorically asks, "What's your name, buddy?"
and the dog answers, "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
after a minute of freaking the FUCK out and asking each other "y'all heard that, right?" the kids decide to take the dog (who they immediately start calling Scooby-Doo, Scoob, or Scooby for short) home, and find that not only can the dog talk, he displays human-level intelligence and is easily frightened. when they ask where he came from, he doesn't seem to know, but when they walk past an old, abandoned shopping complex on the edge of town, he completely freaks out...and there are weird noises coming from that complex at night....and some suspicious sightings....
the first mystery they investigate together is the mystery of what in God's name is going on here
The sky needs something, but idk what????
Ah yes, the 3 genders. Male, female, and “what the fuck are you, a cop?”
Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner
The Scooby gang are friends. The Scooby gang are BEST FRIENDS. THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH. THEY TRAVEL AROUND SOLVING MYSTERIES FOR AS LONG AS THEY CAN BECAUSE THEY HAVE A PASSION FOR IT AND BECAUSE IT MEANS THEY GET TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER WITH EACH OTHER. THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS.
They don’t hate each other. Maybe they get annoyed and cause they’re together all the time it might get a bit much sometimes but at the end of the day, they really deeply care about each other. They live out of a van most of the time and are on the road constantly out of CHOICE. TOGETHER. for crying out loud.
They are four teenagers and a Great Dane. They’re a family.