#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

[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

[harrowing-of-hell]

it's interesting to see people getting into tlt because i do think you're either gonna get through gtn and go on to htn or you're not. and then once you get to htn you're either going to stop reading out of confusion or you're gonna trust that you eventually won't be confused.

but also it's funny to see people be like "tlt doesn't take itself seriously," after only having read gtn.

like, no. that's just gideon's narrative voice. gideon doesn't take things seriously and it's a coping mechanism for her. however, that only really becomes apparent after reading htn and ntn because the narration and tone of the story changes so much between each book.

muir, for better or worse, is just really committed to writing from the pov we're currently in.

[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

[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???

[voidgremlin]

HtN leaving me with some sick ass confusion. about Gideon and Harrow.

NtN: So nevermind all that here's the birthday girl.

[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

[armedbirds]

i love thinking about how harrows expressions look to non-gideons. like.. gideon sees every godfucking duplicitously slutty minute detail about her expression like a billboard and everyone else sees a painted and pinched off inverted triangle

[nopalitosx]

i would not have been able to read these books if i hadn't known from the start that gideon would come back eventually, like if finished the first book and thought my girl was actually dead forever i would have been too heartbroken to continue, idk how the fans who've been there since the beginning managed it