griddlehark, in bed the kiss

Here is some Gideon art from last year!

modern tlt au. what no alecto does to a mf

the saint of devotion

i will never dig a hole two fingers beneath this sternum to bury myself / holy, holy, holy, holy

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The First Flower of the Ninth

hello ladies

love a canon (?) coffee shop AU

break day

why do you think cytherea targeted the fourth the way she did? we know why she killed the fifth, and we know why she killed people generally, but the writing in blood and the chasing jeanne after killing isaac feels weirdly personal

It does seem personal, yeah. I'm sure it was intended to. I'm also sure it wasn't. I doubt Cytherea even noticed they were people enough to have beef with them.

Let's look at her goals:

She's using the heirs as bait to get John's attention, but doesn't want to make the real stakes apparent. So she kills them off, one by one, slasher movie style. She's playing with them, creating a narrative so that when the terrified survivors call for help, John is curious enough about whatever theory they've come up with to come take a looksee.

That's probably why she planted the idea of vengeful angry ghosts so early. She knows it's something that's bound to get John's attention without alarming him enough for him to be on the defensive. His old house is haunted by violently angry revenants? That doesn't sound right, but you never know with ghosts. Seems both interesting and a bit concerning, he'd better take a look.

The Fourth specifically were targeted because their investigation into Abigail and Magnus' murder posed a threat to her plan. They had found Dulcinea and Protesilaus' ashes in the incinerator and raised the alarm, which put them way too close to asking the right kinds of questions. Like: "Whose ashes are these?" and "Is this connected to the other murders?" They had to die, and they had to die in a way that drew attention away from their investigation and lent credence to Cytherea's angry ghost narrative, or the story they had to tell when they called John might be a little too close to the truth to get the intended effect.

So. Giant bone monster in the basement laboratory, a sleeping child skewered in a locked room, and ominous writing in the victim's blood. A tableau designed to be so horrifyingly personal it doesn't occur to anyone it might have been pragmatic.

remember in 2014 when you couldn't scroll five posts without seeing your blorbo in a flower crown?

Back on my same shit again (obsessing over griddlehark)

my crepuscular queen

Had way too much fun messing around with my nupastel so I had no choice but to draw harrow 🫶

the high school griddlehark au that exists in my head. harrow “freak catholic girl on the verge of deconstruction” nonagesimus and her loser enemy? girlfriend? (their peers are unsure, but also don’t really care enough about them to speculate) gideon “you’re lucky your dad is the principal, how can you wear these shirts to class” nav-gaius. harrow is going to buzz her hair and start getting into tarot cards during their second year at college

can’t wait for Pyrrha to be the Dad That Stepped Up in AtN