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mellori · 10 months

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Hey so was ascrolling the locked tomb tag and saw a thing.

Everybody knows the list of reasons Kiriona's a big sad gay b-word when she shows up in Nona the Ninth. We've got:

• Hey so I just woke up in the corpse of my crush who sure seemed like she reciprocated my confession of love right up until she rejected my mortal sacrifice and decided she never wanted to think about me ever again

• My dead mom doesn't love me, actually, she passionately hated me and found the experience of having me both completely repugnant and horribly inconvenient

• The one thing I thought she'd given me across the veil of death i.e. my name - that was petty revenge against the guy who killed her and has nothing to do with me

• The name she did bother to give me was a not particularly funny joke about her plan to kill me immediately after my birth

• Also she's fr dead now I don't get to confront her about/unpack any of this

• Whoops I'm dead again. Totally speedran "fail my sworn oath to protect Harrowhark" this time let's relive that particular trauma

• Back again sorta and now my body is a horrific mockery of humanity meant to protect and preserve me forever because my Dad definitely asked before he did this

• Dad gave me everything I ever told myself that I wanted so now I can never earn any of it and all of it sucks actually, thanks pops

• Also he's currently in a depression spiral because his polycule imploded with a bunch of attempted and/or successful murders

• Also he's 10,000 years old and completely incapable of relating to me in any way

• Sudden onset proximity to power and influence means I can never trust anybody genuinely wants to be my friend and/or is actually attracted to me and not just sucking up to the new crown prince and heir

• Ianthe

I've read or listened to these books at least five times each and totally missed:

• Dad sure is famous for being the only person capable of performing a ressurection and he hasn't bothered to do that to me

#the locked tomb #tlt #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #gideon nav #kiriona gaia #jod #john gauis #harrowhark nonagesimus #ianthe the first #ianthe tridentarius #cw ianthe tridentarius #harrow the ninth spoilers #gideon the ninth spoilers

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skullfacedfruitcakee · 4 months

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Starting Gideon the ninth: wow, what a great book about complex lesbian necromancers being cool and emo and gay, with a great cast of supporting characters, and an interesting and mysterious plot! Cant wait to see what happens next!

Post Nona the ninth: this book is about humanity. It is about the soul. It is about love and It is about power and every devastating and wonderful emotion the human brain is capable of. It is about the meaningless bags of flesh that hold what is really important. It is about Christianity, and applying real human nature to its laws. It is about the end of the world. It is about a guy named John kickstarting the craziest butterfly effect ever. It is about

AND ITS NOT EVEN OVER YET!

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harrowedsoup · 1 month

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It’s not a coincidence that SO MUCH christianity has lingered in their culture. The similarities between what the Houses having going on and christianly could have only came from one place :John.

Either the first group of people he brought back had enough of their memories restored as that they simply took the trappings of Christianity into their new religion without input OR John purposely did it himself. And even if it wasn’t John who purposely did then he very much allowed it. He’s had ten thousand years to try and influence the houses- from what we’ve seen they’re stuck in the past something crazy. (Rather like John)

This is why John’s whole ‘I’m just a little guy!’ routine drives me fucking nuts! Because at one point he WAS just a little guy! Then he either purposely or passively made himself into God! The Houses know nothing else, they’re truly a cult with little non aggressive contact with anyone that’s non-house, so it’s not like John needs to act like he does.

All of his casual little things he does to those that serve him feel really weird to me because he made the rules. He made himself God with the capital G. If he truly wanted a more relaxed kind of treatment he could have changed that aspect of the culture by now I mean it’s because ten thousand years!

John is a little guy that made himself into a God and now that everyone forgot what he truly was (is) he’s trying to pretend he’s still a little guy despite making even his closest companions still kinda worship him like a fucking weirdo

#the locked tomb #john gauis

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st4ined-glass · 11 months

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“‘If the Reverend Mother will permit her daughter to read?’

Like she’d say no with Harrow’s hands on her strings. With a pallid smile, Pelleamena gently inclined her head in a way she never had in life. Alive, she had been as chill and remote as ice at the bottom of a cave.”

Oh how lonely and unloved must Harrow have felt, bringing more kindness and attentiveness to her mother’s demeanor in death than she ever had in life.

#nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrow nonagesimus #harrow the 9th #gideon the 9th #harrow the ninth spoilers #harrow the ninth #camilla hect #jod #john gauis

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tonsillessscum · 9 months

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“But you're God.”

And God said, “And I am not enough.”

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

#gideon the ninth #tamsyn muir #the locked tomb #tlt #dark academia #harrowhark nonagesimus #literature #gothic #gothic literature #speculative fiction #harrow the ninth #john gauis #john gaius #english literature #quotes #poetry #literary quotes #ritlt

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starmolts · 2 years

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pov: you wake up from the worst fucking nap in your entire life and find out you gotta get your shitty little husband who’s been slutting around the whole universe while you were out and just being a huge embarrassment in general.

#nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #alecto the first #harrowhark nonagesimus #kiriona gaia #ianthe naberius #john gauis #the locked tomb trilogy #the locked tomb #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers #gideon nav #ianthe tridentarius #alecto #doodle #my art #okay enough tags im sick of them

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a-devout-shannonite · 7 months

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#the locked tomb series #the locked tomb #the locked tomb memes #tlt #tlt series #tlt memes #tlt shitposting #harrow the ninth #john gauis #augustine the first #mercymorn the first

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sumamitt · 2 months

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everything reminds me of her *jerking off motion*

#also objectively not weird but in the context of his grooming her: weird #(ps when Augustine said Mercy's not his replacement AL I wonder if he does see Harrow as one)#summy reads tlt #tlt #harrow #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #griddlehark #john gauis #summy reads

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tooturtly · 2 months

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Thinking about Alecto and the myth of the Lorelei: of a rock that is said to sing, of a bend that calls sailors to their death, of a beautiful blonde woman who everyone sees as a siren.

(Anyway, I could go on about how John sees Alecto as the Lorelei, as the siren that called to him and caused him to act a certain way. But really, wasn’t it his own ego, his own carelessness that caused him to run aground?)

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth spoilers #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #john gauis #alecto tlt #alecto the ninth #she hates the body john made her so much guys

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onegreasygal · 3 months

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Kiriona Gaia was Prince of the Dominicus System for exactly 5 minutes before asking John to make Frontline Titties of The Fifth a real magazine. No I will not elaborate.

#tlt #the locked tomb #kiriona gaia #ntn #john gauis

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arithmonym · 6 months

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shows up, drops my john/cytherea hatesex agenda, leaves

#mean domme cytherea is SO real to me #to steal ayla’s description:#he thinks it's all good kinky fun. she is like ‘i genuinely hate you and want to cause you pain.’#the locked tomb #tlt #john gauis #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #m speaks

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mellori · 7 months

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Say what you will about my new fav Silas Octakiseron, but he sure did complete exactly one (1) lyctoral challenge and look inside exactly one (1) locked room and decide he'd seen enough to realise the vibes were rancid.

Huge shout out to John Gaius, necrolord prime and emperor of the nine houses for designing a challenge so terrible that the dude who keeps a portrait of you as the only decoration in his room declares you (the literal God-King of a 10,000 year old religion that he has dedicated his life to so completely he's got a bunch of special titles after his name about it) a heretic.

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #silas octakiseron #john gauis #jod

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skullfacedfruitcakee · 5 months

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Me, in the dead of night, delicately whispering my desperate pleas into the universe,

PLEASE DONT LET ALL THE OG LYCTORS BE WHITE, PLEASE DONT LET ALL THE OG LYCTORS BE WHITE, PLEA

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harrowedsoup · 2 months

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John ‘Just A Little Guy’ Gauis makes me want to put him in little bag and shake him like that girl on Finding Nemo. He’s been through unimaginable tragedy but he’s been the cause of even more. He’s the most powerful person in the universe but he tries to downplay it yet we can’t tell how much of that humbleness is real because he’s the one that made himself into a god in the first place.

Just the fact that he’s the type of man that would mentor someone and order their death behind their back to try and toughen them out- all while genuinely trying to help them is just… ugh I want to shake him.

#john gauis #the locked tomb #he is little that post where someone said their boyfriend would start fights and then. go ‘ but I’m just a little guy!!!’#john acting humble like he didn’t chose to be a god is just…#how much is an act ??#I don’t think even he knows any more

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st4ined-glass · 9 months

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“You prepared to die with the Locked Tomb on your lips but your idiot dying mouth rounded out three totally different syllables, and they were syllables you did not even understand.”

—Harrow the Ninth Prologue

ehh??? EHHH?????

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tonsillessscum · 9 months

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I WILL REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU KISSED ME—YOU APOLOGISED—YOU SAID, I AM SORRY, DESTROY ME AS I AM, BUT I WANT TO KISS YOU BEFORE I AM KILLED, AND I SAID TO YOU WHY, AND YOU SAID, BECAUSE I HAVE ONLY ONCE MET SOMEONE SO UTTERLY WILLING TO BURN FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED IN, AND I LOVED HIM ON SIGHT, AND THE FIRST TIME I DIED I ASKED OF HIM WHAT I NOW ASK OF YOU

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

#gideon the ninth #tamsyn muir #the locked tomb #tlt #dark academia #harrowhark nonagesimus #pinterest shuffles #camilla hect #campal #gideon nav #commander wake #wake #john gauis #John gaius #Gideon #cytherea #Mercymorn #Augustine #ritlt

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