#Alecto the 9th

[lesbiassoon]

The memes being things like the “none pizza with left beef” and “jail for mother” references

[drawsderek]

The Locked Tomb Flash Sheet

[a-boy-too-weird]

Open my chest and colour my spine I'm giving you all I'm giving you all Swallow my breath And take what is mine I'm giving you all I'm giving you all

I'll be the blood If you'll be the bones I'm giving you all I'm giving you all So lift up my body And lose all control I'm giving you all I'm giving you all

Of Monsters And Men - Wolves Without Teeth

This is very The Locked Tomb of you

[pine-rhyme]

I think it would be funny in Alecto, if we spend more time on the Ninth, for the great aunts to, very affectedly, inform Harrow of her parents' passing during their silent practice to which Harrow barelly even manages to act either surprised or mournful (while Kiriona has a fit of laughter nearby).

"And that makes you, Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus, our 311th Reverend Mother."

Freshly out of Hell and still dazed by whatever happend post tomb opening, Reverend Mother Harrowhark Nonagesimus, can urge no other reaction out of her but a slightly out of breath, shamefully informal "Ok."

Cue a pleathoa of mom jokes that everybody seems to get into.

"Reverend- forgive me Harrowhark, I cannot in good faith look at your face and call you-"

"Then please don't. Thank you, Paul."

"Oh, mother!" ejaculates Ianthe at her every movement.

"Oh, sorry mommy", Kiriona is already begging for it.

Worst things worst she is still, functionally, the last person ever born on the Ninth.

[dr-peppers-husbando]

Had a blast cosplaying lesbian space necromancers last weekend with the squad! Glad to see everything came out well after so long of sculpting foam bone shards 😵 Will be posting more photos soon…

Gideon: @burgeronus

Pal: @snigbyy

Alecto: @kibie_cos (on insta)

[sinshiney]

When Samael was still there...

[Anastasia headcanon time!!: There's a line in GTN about the 9th quarters at Canaan having stone ramps and I decided that's because Anastasia is a wheelchair user. The saltwater pool was originally for physical therapy.]

[rat-studio]

I don't like confrontation but I'm staring at the sun I won't quit until my eyes go red I'll finish what's begun

Verse 2! I really liked the idea of Nona being sooo annoyed at Varun-- pretty much exactly like this post-- so I tried to make her look as irritated as possible here. Song: Unsweetened Lemonade by Amélie Farren

Verse 1 Verse 3

Version without lyrics, timelapse, and reference/symbolism explanations below cut.

[superectojazzmage]

Tamsyn Muir while writing Locked Tomb: Yeah, so Gideon is tall but also athletic and muscular as you’d expect from a fighter, while Harrow is kinda skinny and short.

Fan artists with huge brains and massive meat: Ah, okay, so draw Gideon as ginger Incredible Hulk and Harrow as a dwarf with the build of a stick insect, got it.

[cicadascribbles]

Wait hang on you guys, you know when Nona dies in Ntn how her body and organs split at the seams and her skin kinda starts to slough away? That’s like strikingly similar to what happens to people with acute radiation poisoning i.e. nuclear weapons. Irradiated soul Alecto causing Harrow’s body to fall apart?

[littlemsterious]

holy fuck harrow is a product of her parent’s genocide and alecto is a product of jod’s genocide how have i never put this together before

i’m trying to spell out my thoughts about this but i cant get past how a horrific number of people had to die in order for them to exist

[cinnamonhex]

redraw of an image going around on twt but with the girlies

[6ftofsteelandsexapppeal]

I feel like i need to rant about the fact that Harrow literally has never said she’s into Alecto romantically at all

Like every instance where it’s described as romantic is either

1. Something gideons said to Harrow

Or

2. Gideon narrating their interactions/memories

And harrows never specifically said that it’s not romantic attraction either but I do feel like the most likely reason is bc either she doesn’t realise Gideon isn’t taking the piss, because she’s never had the room to grow emotionally enough to understand the difference in forms of relationships, or (most likely) a bit of both.

She specifically met Alecto during an attempt which is an extremely emotional time and quite often where a lot of people who join different religions start bc it gives them a reason to keep going

Harrow literally confronted face to face what she was told her entire existence added up and became obsessed

I think it also makes a lot more narrative sense if she isn’t personally bc it does show the dichotomy between their skewed views of relationships

Gideon doesn’t think anyone could be that devoted unless it was romantic love for a partner

Harrow feels very all or nothing love, complete devotion or complete hatred and doesn’t understand any inbetween

[no-man-no-woman]

Okay, I'm going to be very direct and I'm sorry if I come off as mean, but I just have to say it: I hate people who consider NtN a bad book and Nona a bad and/or childish narrator.

First of all: Nona is six months old and dying, it makes sense that she's a "childish" narrator, of course her point of view is strange and slightly useless at some points; she's treated like a child! She thinks a bit like a child!

Nobody says anything to her. I think that's also something to keep in mind: Gideon and Harrow were told things, even if they were half-lies [or just lies] at times, Nona is purposely kept in the dark (even if it's with good intentions for the most part).

And yes, the setting is different, but also (in my opinion) quite more grim than GtN and HtN because it's basically set in a big refugee camp, New Rho is an active war zone (the bombed out buildings where Nona and the gang spend their afternoons, the way the kids at school talk about violence...) but both Nona and her environment are highly desensitized to it. The BoE people are pretty much the dictionary description of guerrilla fighters. Hot Sauce is a radicalised child. Kevin, from the way he is described, seems to have suffered a severe catatonic shock. And Nona doesn't know that.

New Rho is all she's ever known, but the horror, for homely it feels at times, is the basis of it all. Children so used to mass ejecutions that they thalk about them while eating, gas mask that have to be kept on whenever you are outside, a teacher so used to child prostitution that was her first thought upon meting Nona's family, Hot Sauce not thinking twice before shoting her friend's brains out, Honesty being a drug dealer…

Also: I think the underlying body horror of this book is a fucking gift. Phyrra living in her dead best friend corpse, Phyrra drinking bleach because she was bored, Palamedes and Camilla fusing along the way (even before Paul), Nona not remebering how to move correctly at times, Judith sharing a body with a planet's soul, Nona's tantrums destroying her body over and over again, Aim not being allowed to be just herself and having to be the Mensager.

[clit-licker420]

what am i actually going to do if griddlehark don’t kiss in alecto. like yes we joke that they haven’t spoken in 1000 pages but if they don’t get together i actually will not know how to feel. obviously i don’t think tazmur would do that to us after how much she’s built them up but she is fond of pulling the rug out. if they don’t kiss im going to jail

[smutismygender]

Also, it's been a month since I finished reading Nona the Ninth and I'm still fucked up over it. The Locked Tomb series will forever haunt me.

I can not even fathom the bonds in this series.

[carlyrossart]

I used this beautiful image from renaissance vogue china to draw Nona in the water where she feels safe and primordial

P.s. people were so nice nice to me from my last drawing so I did another