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if i had a nickel for every griddlehark fic ive read where they are in a physical fight and one or both of them ends up turned on by it i'd only have three nickels and i think if we all try hard enough i can make it to a dollar. so keep it up everyone

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Harrow the Ninth, Chapter 21 / Nona the Ninth, Chapter 28

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Hey. Just thought of something.

In Nona the Ninth, when Nona’s pretending to be Harrow and needs to avoid Ianthe’s questions, she screams in the resurrection beast’s language. Specifically, she yells “Help!” And Varun starts dropping heralds, because Varun is trying to help.

Now, this implies that the resurrection beasts can feel things like empathy. Which means they’re not just monsters. Every single one of them is just as capable of loving and being loved as Nona, but because they were created in a terrifying storm of death, they reacted in fear, and were treated like monsters as a result. And that’s so fucking tragic!

These thinking, feeling beings, ghosts of murdered worlds, who could and can know love, but have only ever known hate and fear. I feel for them, I really do.

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The thing that absolutely kills me about Ianthe being a main character is that nobody fucking invited her. She’s not involved in this shit beyond her forcing herself into it. Harrow is connected to the soul of a murdered goddess who she’s also in love with, and Gideon’s the daughter of the man who murdered a planet to become god, and Ianthe is…? Here? I guess???

Ianthe has no connection to this plot, she’s got nothing to do with any of it, she’s just so FUCKING desperate for the spotlight to finally be on her that she’ll do anything for it.

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what if……. tlt as silly game….

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imagine you pass god’s herculean trials & defeat one of his evil exes only for the reward to be living with his Portland polycule for the foreseeable future

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Me: Wow I had so many panic attacks last night and I don't feel rested at all. In fact I feel as though nothing good will ever happen to me again. Floating Purple Seahorse That Appears To Me When I Haven't Slept In Multiple Days: you didn't take your meds yesterday because your phone was dead when your alarm would have gone off Me: Oh shit you're right. Thank you, Floating Purple Seahorse. FPSTATMWIHSIMD: also everyone you care about will die someday Me: Could have done without that reminder FPSTATMWIHSIMD: you don't own me

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201 souls worth of survivor’s guilt

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It turns out that in the Hungarian translation of Harrow, dios apate minor and major are translated as "deception of Zeus, dry" and deception of Zeus, wet" respectively, which I find hilarious and aptly gross.

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I’ve made these pages for a comic exercise like a year ago, maybe someday I’ll re-do it since I only really like the last panel

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being self aware suuuucks like yeah this thought pattern/behavior is stupid and pointless and a symptom. i know this. [does it anyways

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I know I just made a post about it, but "You can't take loved away," fucks me up SO bad. Nona, who's known that she's dying for ages, facing the fact that regaining her memories is a form of dying that she hasn't prepared for. Nona, who isn't afraid of dying but is so, so scared of becoming someone who doesn't love Camilla, Palamedes, and Pyrrha. Nona, who is love - deep, vibrant, endless love, for the whole world but especially for her family. "I won't love anything... I won't know how."

And Paul. Paul, who's already done the thing Nona is afraid, or at least a version of it. Two people who Nona loved more than anything in the world died and became Paul, and Paul both is and isn't Camilla and Palamedes. Paul, who regardless of whether they are or aren't the people Nona loved, loves Nona. Paul tells her, "Camilla and Palamedes were loved by Nona. Pyrrha was loved by Nona. It's finished, it's done. You can't take loved away. We loved you too. Palamades and Camilla loved you."

And I'm just supposed to be okay after that.

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have you never considered ORTUS NIGENAD?