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faerromagnetic · 2 days

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Harrow the Ninth, Thoughts part 2

There's a parallel between Harrow and Humanity in The Locked Tomb that I find terrifying as a Biologist.

Harrow, is the sum of 200 children, sacrificed to create one Child.

Humanity, to be Killed and Ressurected, Jod released the Ressurection Beasts. These have been going around, attacking planets with life, in their madness as revenants.

To combat and stop these Beasts, Jod and the Lyctors have been Killing Planets. Harrow says that most of these life forms on planets are simple, bacteria or other single celled organisms.

Evolutionary speaking, these are the beginnings of life, baby or child biospheres.

Jod and the Lyctors are doing what Harrow's parents have done to have her, but on an unimaginable scale. They are killing Planets on the first steps of life, Infant Biospheres, strangling them in their cradles, for the sake of ONE FORM OF LIFE: HUMANITY.

No wonder John tells Harrow it's not her fault, he knows what her parents did, how it feels like. I think, that's why he puts a lot of focus on Harrow. He wants to know that what he is doing is worth it, and perhaps Harrow is proof of that.

#harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #john gaius #science fantasy #scifi #fantasy #booklr #bookblr

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paradoxcase · 2 days

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Since this doesn't appear to have been specified in Nona the Ninth, I'm making a poll:

The main requirement for this is that it has to be a country with nuclear weapons, and since that's a very short list, I've just included all of them as poll options. (Data from here.) The book also says that it was a "major country" which probably makes some of these unlikely, but I decided to include them anyway for those of you who wanted a vanilla extract option (or who knows, maybe North Korea is somehow considered a "major country" by this time this story happens). Keep in mind that the number of nukes has decreased a lot since the Cold War and may continue to decrease in the future rather than increase depending on the political situation, etc.

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #john gaius #polls

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kiir-bee · 19 hours

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The Locked Tomb (Mithraeum gang) + Umineko

Sprites under cut!

#the locked tomb #umineko #tlt #umineko no naku koro ni #umineko when they cry #john gaius #augustine the first #mercymorn the first #gideon the first #ianthe tridentarius #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #at first i was only going to draw the sprites but then i thought about making the mock screenshots and it was too fun not to do it #behold: my stuff

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fortruthoversolace · 2 days

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Alecto's body was created from a memory of a Barbie that John used to play with that belonged to his mom. If John is an insufferable millennial, that means his mom probably had a Barbie in the 50s or 60s. This means that when Alecto grieves the "terrible arms and legs and the terrible middle part" and the "nose too short, the ears too brief," that's because John made her look like this:

Photo source: Barbie's Evolution from 1959 to 2016

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth #alecto #tlt meta #alecto the ninth #john gaius #jail full of acid for john gaius #it took me a second to parse 'terrible middle part' correctly #(i will die on the hill that deep side parts almost always look cooler)#she is not a milennial who refuses to psrt her hair down the middle (i.e. me)

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aro-geo-turtle · 3 days

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Malevolent podcast 🤝 the locked tomb books:

“gods name is fucking John?!??!?”

#malevolent #tlt #john doe malevolent #the locked tomb #malevolent podcast #john gaius

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bastardbogboy · 16 hours

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is this too niche

#john gaius #sean finnerty #the locked tomb #candela obscura #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #circle of needle and thread #candela obscura needle and thread

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naomistares · 3 months

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harrow soup comic! harrow soup comic!

took some creative liberties with the structure of it all otherwise it would've been 20 pages long... love u tazmuir and all your words but i removed some for my sake... enjoy...

#art #artists on tumblr #the locked tomb #digital art #tlt #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #htn #gtn #harrowhark nonagesimus #cw gore #john gaius #g1deon #ianthe tridentarius #augustine #I FORGOT TO SAY #dedicated to my good friend #my good friend sam humphries

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andry-di · 4 months

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#gideon the ninth #gtn #gideon the ninth spoilers #gtn spoilers #spoilers #the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt spoilers #harrow the ninth #john gaius #and that guys was the exactly moment when I started to hate him #ad23 #comics

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cutetanuki-chan · 3 months

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no one is doing it like her

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #ianthe tridentarius #art #john gaius

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midnightcrows · 10 months

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The Emperor Undying and His Saints.

Inprnt store here!

#my art #fanart #just wanted to post them all together #the green dress is what imagine cyth wouldve worn to the dinner party #artists on tumblr #the locked tomb #harrowhawk #ianthe tridentarius #cytherea the first #gideon the first #augustine the first #mercymorn #john gaius #harrow the ninth #art #tlt #harrow the ninth spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers

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rosenkranz-does-things · 5 months

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my spin on Nona the Ninth cover, id in alt, close-ups under the cut

#nona the ninth #the locked tomb #john gaius #ianthe tridentarius #gideon nav #coronabeth tridentarius #gideon the ninth #camilla hect #pyrrha dve #artists on tumblr

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katakaluptastrophy · 4 months

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The thing about having read our way through two previous books full of necromancers and weird eldritch shenanigans is that the absolute horror of what happens to John as a person doesn't quite register.

John's own glib, matter of fact narration tells the story as an apotheosis. He was doing great. He'd have fixed everything if only people had listened.

But reading between the lines in the John chapters, you glimpse something rather different.

John basically spends the first half of the Jod chapters sitting in the dark with his creepy yellow eyes, not eating or sleeping, literally stroking his favourite corpses and coming out with chill and fun statements about how he can feel their skin when he's away from them and he's 'waking up'. Cool, cool.

Passing swiftly over the cow dome, Presidential Puppet Pals, and the suitcase nuke, day to day life in the cow dome must have been fun... You're all on the Interpol watchlist, the Vatican is asking a lot of questions, the police are outside and John - who hasn't slept in a week and doesn't eat anymore and is probably wearing some kind of weird novelty tshirt - comes wandering past while you're eating breakfast, followed by a dozen silent, dead-eyed corpses like some kind of mother hen. He makes a cow joke, and then zones out because he got distracted by listening to the bacteria in your gut.

And then some guys die accidentally and it turns out he can eat death energy. So now he's got creepy Twilight eyes, an entourage of corpses, a cape, some very dodgy eyeliner, and he's barely breaking a sweat as he instantly kills over 100 people, says it was an accident, and then, dead serious, tells his followers to drag dead UN peacekeepers inside to add to his 'skeleton army'.

By the end, he's not slept or eaten in weeks, is tweaking his own bodily processes on the fly, is puppeting the dead US president and possibly an army of over a hundred corpses, monitoring G- in Melbourne, carrying on at least two conference calls, and helping to build barricades out of chairs.

And I just keep thinking how weird it must have been for his friends. How sometimes he would have seemed like the man they'd known and loved for so long, and sometimes he would seem different. Did they ever find themselves mourning the man he was? Did they ever stand there as he tuned into something they couldn't fathom, staring at them with those yellow eyes, and feel some awful, uncanny valley terror? Did he ever feel like he was losing himself? At what point did the cow jokes stop feeling like oh, classic John and start to be a reminder that his desire for vengeance and the scope of his powers were outstripping his remaining...perspective?...restraint?...humanity?

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #john gaius #We think about eldritch Alecto lots #but I think John's whole 'I'm just a guy' routine sometimes obscures that in many respespects he's just as unsettling

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foxy-alien · 2 months

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I'm obsessed with this moment in NTN, where we realize that John is no longer the prey but the predator

#my art #the locked tomb #OKAY NEXT COMIC WILL HAVE TO BE LINEART bc holy shit this took my 16 HOURS #but also this was so much fun #the locked tomb fanart #tlt fanart #john gaius #harrow nonagesimus #htn #ntn #ntn fanart

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amphiaria · 5 months

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#tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #john gaius

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smallanddivine · 6 months

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Idk how a cow could be negative, I hear they watch sunsets

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth #harrow the ninth #tlt #gideon the ninth #htn #john gaius #jod

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sydneysageivashkov · 4 months

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I wish the take I see most often on hollywood barbie alecto wasn't that john chose that because he wanted a sex symbol because it's missing out on a lot of thematic resonance about how john cannot help but return to frameworks of western imperialism and even at the moment he is seeking comfort in his childhood he ends up with one the symbols of western capitalism and how that relates to him recreating the same systems that harmed him and were destroying the world when he becomes god

#the locked tomb #john gaius #and isn't that way more interesting anyway.

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