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Something I love about the romance in The Locked Tomb is how Gideon as our first POV narrator is like "this is Harrowhark Nonagesimus, she thrives on scorn and ambition and death" and as a seasoned enemies-to-lovers fan, my first reaction was "I love it, I support women's rights and wrongs, and I can't wait to see this cold evil character discover feelings eventually" but then the plot twist is actually that Harrow is a pathetic desperate emo who barely needs an excuse to say the most romantic shit imaginable. Which is already a good payoff and the characterization is superb, but then you see inside Harrow's head in the next book and discover that despite her trauma and 35 mental illnesses, she is so much of a fucking soft marshmallow simp that not even her DIY lobotomy can keep her from indulging in a coffeeshop AU (?!?!) to soothe her yearning soul. Which makes rereading GtN delightful because now you can read between the lines and realise like "oh wow, she was down bad the whole time and Gideon just didn't notice". It gives so much lesbian Pride and Prejudice that you can only fully appreciate during a reread. I adore it.

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⭐OPENING COMMISSIONS FOR THE LOCKED TOMB AGAIN⭐ Hey everyone, I'm opening up TLT comms again! Since I am in a college that has students take monday to saturday classes at 8 hours almost everyday, I'm unfortunately still drowning in school fees alongside my physical health declining 🫠

I would like to open up commissions again for anyone that would be interested, the prices would still be relatively the same, I'm adding also adding a price increase from before as I didn't realize the conversion rate would be a lot. I'll leave the pricing and other details here if you wanna check them out.

I sincerely thank everyone who commissioned me last time, it really helped a lot. Thank you also to everyone taking the time and giving this post a read!

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I like to imagine their apartment wall has a mixture of the bands Harrow listens to and Gideon's posters of Frontline Titties of the Fifth and other issues ;) I also think they'd have polaroids or photos of them with their friends especially Gideon with the Fourth and Fifth House. Couldn't figure out how I'd fit them though so that's gonna come up sometime in the future :D Still haven't figured out what subjects I want the lyctors to teach yet but Jod is most likely gonna be the dean and Wake's gonna be their rugby coach.

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"Go loud" said the librarians. Cam and Pal for a commission a couple months ago!

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Thinking of… her… after a workout..

I feel like Camilla could fix my depression

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started re-reading htn

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From the college AU Wanted to follow the outfit for Harrow in the second pic but it reminded me more of Harrow Nova, and now I'm debating whether or not I should use Harrow Nova instead since that would make more sense if they played rugby 🫠

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'The chain of a kiss'

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Is it gay to kiss your mortal nemesis on her forehead in a pool while her 1537 skeletons bodyguard the room

*Edit* I have only read the first book so I would appreciate it if there weren't any spoilers in the tags :')))

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Was supposed to be a quick sketch that got out of hand, here's a hot Griddle in between doing comms. Unsense sword pic can be found on my twt ;)

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Also inspired by this

Something about werewolves killing everything even if they don't want to but if someone loved them enough and reached out, they would be reminded of who they were, and that they were loved --and they would be human again. Made this months ago and never really did anything with this so, posting this here! Heavily inspired by Marcille and Falin from Dungeon Meshi.

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Something about werewolves killing everything even if they don't want to but if someone loved them enough and reached out, they would be reminded of who they were, and that they were loved --and they would be human again. Made this months ago and never really did anything with this so, posting this here! Heavily inspired by Marcille and Falin from Dungeon Meshi.

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🌟Accepting The Locked Tomb related commissions! 🌟 Hey all! This is my first time opening commissions, if you want more details you can message me on here on the bird app with the same handle. I decided to try doing commissions as I'm currently swamped with college fees alongside the already existing financial problems at home and would like to help out my family if I can. If you can commission me or give me tips, I'd appreciate it! Here are the things I will not draw: 🚫Nopes - Complex backgrounds - Complex accessories - Hardcore 🟢 I'm open to basically everything else whether it be: - NSFW/Slight NSFW - Ianthe [EDIT]: I'll be closing this for now, didn't expect this much people to show interest. Thank you guys!

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Spire shenanigans

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happy pride to them

hope they know what a rainbow is

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there’s something so interesting about how harrow is not haunted by ghosts or the paranormal but by neural networks and the craving of something you no longer remember. gideon doesn’t walk the halls as a specter but she haunts every fiber of harrows being through sheer muscle memory. the mind forgets but the body keeps the score. or something like that