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lady-harrowhark · 1 year

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After months and months of Gideon spewing the most bonkers goth pet names at Harrow, Harrow, on her deathbed, pulls out “first flower of my house.” Was she… trying to reciprocate?

Like she literally says earlier on to Gideon, “You’d better stop it with all this twilit princess garbage because I may start to like it.” I can just see the gears turning in her head. “I like it when she calls ME pet names, therefore the best way to show my affection is to also use a fancy epithet for HER” and then she shot right past “goofy teasing” and landed in “irrefutable romance” territory.

#she'd been mentally workshopping a few options #she had to have been sitting on that one #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon the ninth #griddlehark #the locked tomb #tlt #gtn #my tlt thoughts #baby's first 5k #greatest hits

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hatepotion · 4 months

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iii / vi / vii / ix

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theriverbeyond · 2 months

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Always thinking about how TLT is in so many ways about cycles of abuse.... Mercymorn has spent 10,000 years being too emotional and too sensitive and wearing her grief on her sleeve (the feminine expression of grief versus Augustine's masculine repression of it) and she spends those 10,000 years being ridiculed for it. "Unlovable Mercymorn, critical Mercymorn" -- John denigrates her in front of her inferiors on the Erebos, Augustine has a constant, painted on expression of dismissal, etc until the point where Mercymorn herself just accepts it.

And then here comes Harrow, 17 years old and grieving just like her, and Mercymorn has a chance to help. She has spent 10,000 years as a live wire of grief, and she's given this broken baby who has torn apart her own brain, in many ways a mirror of Mercymorn's own grief, and she has the chance to help. But what does Mercymorn do?

She ridicules Harrow. She dismisses her. She perpetuates the violence that she herself has faced, and the cycle continues

#tlt meta #mercymorn the first #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #tlt thoughts #mercymorn cristabel woman that u are...#trb.txt #i have crossed the face of the universe i have poisoned it to match my grief

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taxinealkaloids · 4 months

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behold hitherto unposted htn doodles! harrow+her terrible mentor, harrow+her terrible roommate

#tlt #my art #these were unfinished which i thought was a shame so i sort slapped some colors nd background stuff on them and now here they are.#top one soooo old but i still liked it and didnt want to condemn it to a fate of sitting in my wip folder forever and ever #bottom ones are more recent; they were scattered throughout the margins of a bunch of different wips and i grouped them together #in this one canvas so i could post them cause i like em. im charmed by soup bowl harrow w/ her normal pajamas. she would probably #not wear that.#ive been thinking abt harrianthe a lot lately i want to post about them more but i can't finish anything lately #not cause im artblocked or anything i'm fine in that respect i just have no free time 💀

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gideonisms · 3 months

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One beer harrow in the club making prophetic pronouncements of doom and despair

#sorry guys i need to get all my week's inconsequential tlt thoughts out at once like an exorcism i didn't have feelings for a week #but good or bad news for you all they're back again

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poppxjos · 9 months

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Ianthe and Gideon would have daily sleepovers and every night they would discuss dating harrow

#I thought if this idea after my organs exploded jn the middle of the night because of a stomach bug #the locked tomb #tlt #my art #nona the ninth spoilers #nona the ninth #ianthe naberius #kiriona gaia #gideon nav #ianthe tridentarius #cw ianthe tridentarius #addy tag

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liesmyth · 1 month

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@moscca you're right and you should say it! Here's a really great compilation of Taz quotes I've been keeping in mind

From an interview where she says that Lovecraft was one of her main inspirations, talks about her relationship with horror vs. sff as a genre author, and wanting to find relatable heroines in horror lit.

I didn’t write Gideon the Ninth for the characters—I wrote it entirely for the structure. I wanted to tell a very specific story, and I needed everything to serve that story.

I want people to realise there are no boundaries. I also want to release people from having to take their universe entirely seriously, if they don’t want to. Science fiction and fantasy reflects ourselves, our anxieties, our joys. I’m just writing to amuse myself, as per usual.

I am writing for my younger self and it would be disgusting of me to try to teach her anything.

(& other quotes from that same interview)

Although love and forgiveness aren’t necessarily the same thing either, Gideon’s frankly divine ability to forgive is a huge core of the novel. [...] Forgiveness is almost the electrical current being able to transmit through love.

The way I personally stay true to the story I started down on is to give myself permission to not teach anyone anything. [...] I know that a lot of people do take enormous pleasure and relief in lines or phrases or ideas from stories that ring true to their own lives, but it’s important for me that I tell a story and that I’m not writing Chicken Soup for the Necromantic Soul.

...the God of the Locked Tomb IS a man; he IS the Father and the Teacher; it’s an inherently masc role played by someone who has an uneasy relationship himself to playing a Biblical patriarch. John falls back on hierarchies and roles because they’re familiar even when he’s struggling not to. But the divine in the Locked Tomb is essentially feminine on multiple axes.

It seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc., whereas a guy can just tell an adventure story and be done with it. This ties in with an idea that I think nowadays that good art is moral and bad art is immoral: i.e. if a story is good it must somehow be beautiful on the moral scale. We go looking for why the art we love is moral even if the art we love is a donut.

#gathering quotes for the ask in my inbox lol #tamsyn muir #tlt thoughts #on writing #i want to get drunk with her so bad. what a mind #elle tlt posting

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rhiannonsaintofcharm · 15 days

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do you guys think that part of the reason Gideon’s death was so devastating to Harrow was that before then, there had at least been one person who survived the mass murder that created her? two hundred souls had been destroyed for her sake, but the annihilation wasn’t complete — there was one who escaped. one who lived. do you think Gideon dying, for the sake of Harrow living, snuffed out her one last glimmer of hope for absolution?

#she didn’t die for Harrow. but then she died for Harrow anyways #griddlehark #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #gtn #tlt #htn #thinking about that poll where it was like ‘who suffered more’#‘Harrowhark Nonagesimus or Jesus Christ’#and the answer was 94% Harrow #shoulda been 100%.#honestly it’s probably worse that Gideon got to CHOOSE to die for her #thinking about Harrow saying ‘I let her die’ because admitting Gideon made that choice was worse.#accepting that Gideon thought she was worth the sacrifice was worse #not to sound like Ianthe but I’m gonna rip my own arm off #txt #rhispeak #harrow: ‘it took eighteen years but I killed her just the same’

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domibomz · 3 months

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My only context for this is Harrow kissing Alecto bc she hallucinated it was Gideon okay

#tlt #the locked tomb #my art #griddlehark #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #alecto the first #tw blood #tw death #tw harrow kissing corpses #i thought the parallels were nice okay dont @ me #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers #SPOILERS!!!!!!!!

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vengeful-horde-of-angry-ghosts · 1 year

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Am I the only one who didn't feel betrayed by Kiriona? I see a lot of stuff about how people expected Gideon but felt like Kiriona's antagonism was a slap in the face, or they realized that their loyalty had shifted away from her, and I just...didn't? My first thought with her was, "oh honey, you need a hug."

Maybe it's my own brand of mental illness, but I understand the whole, no you're not suicidal but you don't really want to be alive either and you don't see any way out and it's all just so hopeless and meaningless so sometimes you lash out just to feel something. That's depression, y'all. Our girl is hanging on by a thread and that thread is finding Harrow.

She's not an imperial stooge any more than she was a nun. She just literally can't say no or they'll turn her off. You think she didn't learn anything from her 84 escape attempts? I know it has kind of become fanon that she's dumb, but she's really, really not. She can't find Harrow if she's turned off (heh).

She gave it away when she she told Nona that she didn't care where Harrow was, she just needed to know.

Our girl is still in there, she's just been through some shit. Tonally, I think the end of HtN when she's piloting Harrow's body is the perfect bridge between Gideon at the end of GtN and Kiriona.

To me her character arc so far is the most transparent and relatable. Like, I will never understand how Camilla got to the point of thinking Paul was a good idea. That's just not how I tick. But Kiriona? Damn do I get it.

I think the final proof is that she still sees herself as Harrow's cavalier (which I think is going to spark a serious convo with Harrow at some point bc Harrow knows that cavs are meant to die so obviously Harrow won't want that). She is fucking ready to throw down with Alecto to offer herself (again) to Harrow. "Get in line, thou big slut" indeed.

#tlt #gideon nav #kiriona gaia #tlt thoughts #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #my own tlt thoughts #ntn spoilers #angry ghost thoughts

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midnightcrows · 1 year

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Dios Apate Minor pt 1

second painting here

#my apologies to anyone who followed me for dnd or other things for this #I feel like Ive learned so much more abt the lyctors after spending hours trying to draw them getting it on #i thought it would be funny if jod had a stylus behind his ear during this dinner #jod is so hard to draw id like to explode him #if i have it in me ill try to do the last scene with all 3 #harrow the ninth spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers #dios apate minor #augustine the first #mercymorn the first #john gaius #tlt #tlt fanart #fanart #harrow the ninth fanart

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lady-harrowhark · 1 year

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i am a firm believer that the reason gideon’s vocabulary is Like That is that at some point in their childhood, she got sick of harrow calling her stupid and sat herself down with a thesaurus and memorized with a fervor that can only be summoned by spite

#which makes the 'can't let them find out the ninth cav is an illiterate peon' 'i object to illiterate' exchange even funnier #also the bit where they're bickering over envious vs jealous re: dulcinea #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt #gtn #my tlt thoughts #greatest hits

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b1cr1ptic · 8 months

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Something something Battle in The Centre of the Mind

#the unwanted guest spoilers #the unwanted guest #tlt #tlt spoilers #palamades sextus #ianthe tridentarius #SO SO SO SO MANY THINKING THOUGHTS #oh the dramatics #but also: I WANNA FINISH THIS #ENJOY THE WIP IN THE MEANWHILE #my-art

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theriverbeyond · 7 months

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"I ate you alive, and you have the temerity to tell me that you’re sorry?" is an underrated line from the pool scene IMO because it connects so tragically with the Great Griddlehark Mismatch, which is that all Gideon wants is to be eaten and all Harrow wants is to never eat Gideon again.

In her most pivotal moment, Harrow confesses her two greatest sins. The second, of course, was that she rolled the rock and walked onto that icy shore, but the first was how she used Gideon. How she isolated her, abused her, relagated her to a life of abject misery, made her both a whipping girl and a meat pumpkin. Harrow ate Gideon's childhood and she ate Gideon's future and she only truly came to regret this after it was too late.

"i gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it" like, yeah. Harrow didn't want it. Harrow wanted to give it back.

#griddlehark #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt meta #hi im. unwell about them #just oanic cleaned my kitchen bc the fridge ppl r coming tmrw :/#panic*#tlt thoughts #trb.txt

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dorkfruit · 3 months

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