#gideon POV be like

[civetside]

while im posting unfinished art, i drew this pathetic harrow for a comic i didn't end up liking so you can have it out of context

[chaoticke-rambles]

Man, my favorite thing about Gideon's narrative voice reappearing in Harrow the Ninth is how aggressively contemporary she is, because everyone else in this necromantic space opera is fully committed to the bit and Gideon's "shut up about your stupid bones and get laid" mentality is a relief. Harrow is out here like "I actively performed a lobotomy on myself and have spent the last nine months bleeding out my facial orifices whenever somebody says your name because I manually removed you from my memory to save your life. this is normal and cool." And then Gideon finally gets to show up and go "hey, you get that's messed up right? you see this right?" and it's so. incredibly validating as a reader because everyone else treats this like normal and expected behavior.

[reading-tlt-help-me]

finally has gotten around to finish gtn act i and dude Harrow is 17.. Gideon keeps describing this satan incarnate super duper evil person then line drops something like she looks young and frail and shes actually short and emo and she teared up when she left her tomb of a planet what a loser

AND YOU WANT ME TO HATE HER????

THIS IS MY FIRST READ PLZ INTERACT WITH NO SPOILERS

[autismking]

thinking abt the pool scene in gtn like. gideon probably had so many emotions going through her due to her repressed feelings for harrow only for the sucker punch of “btw im in love with a corpse” to choke them all out

[liesmyth]

gideon really is my little meow meow. she's so brave and uncool and fucking miserable

[shesmymausoleum]

Drew a Harrowhark to go with my drawing of Gideon.

Without skull paint as well

[g1deonthefirst]

I do think there's something interesting in how Kiriona and Ianthe seem to be trying to be the new Mercymorn and Augustine in NTN--being someone's parent/child/caretaker/lover isn't easy, but it seems to be what John expects from his saints

yeaaahh!!! john definitely seems to expect his saints to manage his emotions to an extent, to be there for him and comfort him and tell him he's a good person — even when those saints are replaced by a girl in her early twenties and his literal daughter who was killed to be a battery thanks to his system. it certainly seems like kiriona is, in a way, trying to be the new A.L. just like mercymorn was — that's what she tells ianthe she's doing when they open the tomb (although getting to harrow was possibly a larger motivation). and though ianthe seems less interested in john's approval in a vacuum and more interested in the power that caring for him can get her, that ultimately lands her in the exact same position, and in ntn it seems like she's taken quite a lot onto her shoulders.

[cakemoney]

i love the locked tomb series so much but truly the reading experience for each book involves so much time not understanding what the fuck is going on

[gravitysoda]

my only real problem with tlt is that you only get a specific character's pov Once. and then never again. like what do you mean i never get to hear about things from harrow or gideon's perspective again. nona...okay i understand that one, but i'm still sad about it

[miraonpluto]

i'm just saying that if there was a girl i was soso in love with and i had the chance to be a part of her soul and never be apart from her ever again and be useful to her for millennia and then she was like actually no i don't want that and kicked me out i would be really upset too

[spending-life-pretending]

I do believe everyone in tlt is a little (extremely) fucked in the head and therefore I’m not trying to delineate the tower princes as the pure-of-heart-one and the evil-villain-one BUT as someone who gets freaked out by the idea of losing control over her own body there is hmm something sitting in my brain about Ianthe thinking it’s funny to make Harrow’s hair grow faster vs Gideon closing her eyes and actively working not to touch Harrow’s skin because she knows Harrow wouldn’t like it while she tries to keep her thumbs on

[gideonisms]

Okay here is a poll for for fic writers

[villainsidestep]

living up to the villain sidestep name (thinking of a Third puppet)

[oliviasoddessey]

TLT is actually the most masterful example of character POV manipulating audience perception bc I still to this day remain in romantic love with Gideon Nav, I thought she was sooooo funny and that it was so attractive how she is incapable of talking without saying the most vile and meme-ridden and vulgar and careless shit in the world and I loved how she thought abt things and described things and I loved getting quips from her POV in HtN and then nothing materially changed in her dialogue in NtN (yes she is different but TBH she would've said everything she said in GtN I believe) but instead she said it to NONA.

And now I do not like her anymore. I think she is mean.

[yeahdefnot]

currently reading harrow the ninth and just? what???

[kirnet]

Started witch king, which makes the 6th Martha wells book this year, so it’s kind of cool to see what she likes to use as a writer