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gideon & harrow OR rd and sf as cowboys please please please
It's the cowgirl necro and her gunslinger cav! Who is so damn extra she's got three guns: one left, one right, and one in pole position! (She swears the ladies love it!)
#You just KNOW gideons makes tons of these 'is that a gun or are you just happy to see me' jokes#She holds the third gun in her mouth#looking so damn stupid but grinning like shes the coolest lmao#how are you even going to shoot girl#also: the paint has to get onto the skin somehow#hmm. lot to think about...#that was such a fun prompt dear ! I ended up enjoying this waaaaay too much <3#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#I'm not gonna tag it griddlehark but in my mind this IS griddlehark - because this outfit would make Harrow go insane lmao#not that she'd ever let griddle take one step outside looking like that if we're talking serious#but it's a look - a look I LOVE#tlt#the locked tomb#my art#requests
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Still thinking about none houses left grief, and while I understand where people are coming from, "it took me out of the world" is just... Really not a relevant criticism here. Like, that line is SUPPOSED to be jarring. It is supposed to be kind of darkly funny, but the point isnt for you to laugh. Its not trying to be a punchline. The point of that line IS to "take you out of the world" because the point is that *this world isn't what you thought it was.*
#if it startled you that something so irreverant and lowbrow would come up in a high fantasy serious world#...then maybe ask yourself if this is really a serious high fantasy world#also i do think its just elitist that everyone complains about the tumblr references and not the word for word bible quotes#like maybe the author was trying to make a point about why you accept that catholicism is a cultural constant but not memes?#maybe take a step back and ask yourself what kind of cultural artifacts you think are important enough to be worth mentioning#tlt#htn#the locked tomb#harrow the ninth#tlt spoilers
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can't stop thinking about tamsyn muir's choice to present her deep, morally and politically complex science fantasy world with a central web of magic, secrets and lies reaching back ten thousand years through the eyes of three characters who:
1. tune out and start thinking about hot women whenever the magic system or worldbuilding are being explained
2. experience hallucinations on a daily basis, have brain damage and are being deceived and misled by their peers, authority figures, themselves and God
3. don't know who they are, have spent their entire life in one place and are, on all levels but physical, six months old
#she said: you will have concrete information when i say you can have concrete information#and then every new bit of information you do get fundamentally changes some earlier element of the story#like. rereading these books the first time doesn't even count as rereading imo#it's just an entirely new experience#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#nona the ninth
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the dice wealth disparity this episode is so fucking funny to me i'm gonna be real
#like jack just straight up dies cannot roll literally anything#vic and greg both have some really harrowing moments where they are stuck in bad roll pergatory#and g13 is rolling 52#what the hell#d20#dimension 20#nsbu#never stop blowing up#jack manhattan#g13#usha rao#paula donvalson
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I refuse to change my headcanon that most of the other people at Canaan House probably thought Gideon was Harrow’s pretty boy toy until she showed them she could actually fight because she acted exactly nothing like a real Cav in anyway. A teenage ruler shows up with a hot butch that clearly isn’t trained to be a ninth Cav or even a normal-ish one? Come on. They probably thought griddlehark were over compensating trying to hide by staying away from each other. 
#the locked tomb#gideon nav#harrow nonagesimus#griddlehark#jokes on them#Harrow pretty much DID bring Gideon as a pretty boy toy#because she clearly barely understands just how good Gideon is with swords#like she openly admits that she’s surprised that Gideon is that good when they fight the bone monster thing#bitch why did you bring her then if you didn’t actually know she was one of the best swordswoman ever ?????#oh because you wanted her with you. gay bitch.
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do you think they explored each others bones
#just remembered nona liked cam's collarbone#cropped the hell out of this art cause im so done with it#the locked tomb#alecto the ninth#anastasia the first#anastasia the ninth#alectostasia#nona the ninth#harrow the ninth#art#tlt
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You know, as much as Gideon leans into the dumb jock stereotype, girl DEFINITELY did her reading. How else would she know a million ways to call Harrow a spooky weirdo?!
#seriously#Gideon’s out here using words like ‘crepuscular’ and ‘tenebrous’#she’s just as much of a nerd as Harrow!#the locked tomb#tlt#harrowhark nonagesimus#gideon nav#harrow the ninth#gideon the ninth#griddlehark
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Good lord this tomb is full of shitposts 😳😳 pt 1/pt 2
#sorry for the mercy/augustine sex jumpscare but i rly do think they have terrible sex every like. 200 years#they're like “Oh this Sucks I'm never doing this Again” and then hundreds of years pass and they get bored and they're like hmmm#maybe. it wasn't THAT bad.#the idea of bitching and complaining during sex is too funny to me#also my magnus design is pure indulgence#i just wanted to sexualise that old man. and he ended up looking like varric dragon age 😭😭#also also i gave Pal the fancy swoopy glasses that elphaba wears in the wicked trailer cos i think they're cool#okay now i gotta do some actual tagging#the locked tomb#tlt#gideon the ninth#gtn#harrow the ninth#htn#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#harrow nonagesimus#griddlehark#ianthe tridentarius#ianthe the third#mercymorn the first#augustine the first#palamedes sextus#palamedes the sixth#abigail pent#magnus quinn#john gaius#tlt shitposting#oh and i haven't finished Nona. i paused my reading because i found out there isn't a release date for the next book so I'm like#i need to make this last. i gotta ration this book out (<-stupid)
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i saw a post saying that we will probably see the end of necromancy in alecto, and i felt so sad for a second. then i remembered that animating dead bodies is, in fact, not chill even in-universe.
#like .. john is a bad guy .. and he invented necromancy .. it’s not cool#just because cool lesbians subscribe to a false religion doesn’t mean the false religion should exist#tlt#the locked tomb#tlt spoilers#gideon the ninth#alecto the ninth#harrow the ninth#nona the ninth
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making my murder cannibal soup (im being hunted for sport and havent slept in six days)
#the locked tomb#harrow the ninth#harrowhark nonagesimus#i kinda didnt get how her exoskeleton is supposed to look#everyone just draws her like in gtn…..is it how its supposed to be#anyway#im still sooo artblocked its a test of character#art#my art
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Think about Harrow's AU Bubbles
Thinking about Harrow's AU bubbles, not as fanfic references, but as expressions of her subconscious fears and desires, is so fascinating.
The Harrow Nova one is pretty obvious. Harrow's parents were obsessed with her being a necromancer, were willing to kill for it. It's only natural she'd wonder, "What if I hadn't been?"
And the answer Harrow gives herself is: Your parents and everyone would reject you (except, wildly, for Crux). Also they'd be alive cuz you'd never opened the tomb, and you'd be an unpopular orphan they'd abuse (Just Like Gideon). And you'd still be just as devoted to serving the Ninth with a blade. There's a lot there. But the other really telling bit is her relationship with Gideon. Harrow Nova professes to hate the reverend daughter even as she seeks to (re) create the necro-cav bond with her. But that hatred doesn't seem to be mutual. And the bit about the daughter intervening when Harrow was whipped…
That's Harrow's subconscious saying if their roles had been reversed, "Gideon would have treated me better than I treated her. Gideon would have protected me."
The Ball AU also seems like a reasonable extension of Gideon's childhood query: "What if my other parent is the most important guy in the universe?" Answer: Emperor Dad would throw a big party.
But also… it's a bride-finding ball! That's so very telling. It could have been anything, but Harrow invents another scenario where she's fighting, competing to get to Gideon, to be awarded the role of her sworn partner (first cav, now bride), while outwardly claiming not to want it.
Now The BARI Star AU often gets described as a "coffee shop" one, but it's actually set in a cohort cafeteria. And normally I wouldn't split hairs over that, but I think the cohort setting is actually really significant. The Cohort was Gideon's dream, and also Harrow's rival for Gideon's attention. It's what she kept trying to leave Harrow for.
So now Harrow dreams that she's left Drearburh to join the cohort and will meet Gideon there. Not fight or compete for a role where they're bound to each other, but just meet her there. That feels like yielding. Like compromise. It makes me think Harrow's subconscious has matured past trying to keep Gideon with her always and is instead looking for ways that SHE can be with Gideon. Meet Gideon where she is.
(Also this may be a stretch, but I always find it low-key funny that Harrow imagines Gideon in the cafeteria… I like to think her brain is skimming lists of hypothetical military jobs like... what sees the least action... ah, coffee-adept, she'll be perfectly safe there...)
#the locked tomb#griddlehark#htn spoilers#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#tlt#tlt spoilers#harrowhark nonagesimus#gideon nav#Harrow Nova is like I don't want to protect her I want see violence done against her so bad I'd buy tickets#but also I'll kill you for the right to protect her#I don't intend to compete but if I did it would never be with my face but also I am going to spend months practicing my makeup just in case
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Griddlehark size difference - yes?
#Is Gideon tall or Harrow just tiny?#I know what Mercy would answer#I also know which I like lmao#SIGH .....THEM!#griddlehark#harrowhark nonagesimus#gideon nav#the locked tomb#tlt#my art
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halloween special. they got bad directions to a party
10 made up points to anyone who can guess nonas costume bc thats the only one thats a real character
#neon arts#the locked tomb#tlt#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#palamedes sextus#camilla hect#nona tlt#nona of new rho#digital#gideons costume doesnt have a name#she was jsut gonna ask women if they want to see her hole. then she got shy. never said it the whole night#harrows not in a costume she just dresses like that#pal went as a sexy nurse scrubs are sexy he will argue about this#cam took pals lab coat
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because i am a good girl and you are an evil nun
#guess who has. artblock. yay [crumples]#anyway i just wanted to draw gideon looking like she has a shit grin on her face#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#griddlehark#dudele#flatsXMPL
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Realistically speaking, I don't think black coffee would kill Harrow. She drinks wine more than once, and I think it's even specified once that it's red; the more tannin rich and strongly flavored of the wines. Evidence suggests that, while she would in no way enjoy it, she could theoretically survive a cup of black coffee.
Therefore the question becomes: Would she? What would she do if she had to choose between keeping her tastebuds or impressing a hot barista? Could lean taut muscle dewy with sweat and steam compel her to do what God could not—finish a hot beverage?
#oh god she watching. she wants to see if you like the coffee she made you. come on. you can't disappont her#Endurance check [godly]: Drink the coffee. just drink it. it will be over soon.#there's nust something v charming to me about imagining Harrow steeling herself and forcing down the coffee bc she wants to impress Gideon#it's her only option#shes too socially awkward to know how to say she was wrong about her preferences without insulting her and she knows it#the locked tomb#harrow the ninth#baristar au#tlt coffee shop au
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sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go
#the locked tomb#harrowhark nonagesimus#john gaius#harrow the ninth#this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL#this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships#(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think#the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real#but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed)#there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone?#yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't)#the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god#when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care#(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution)#and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on#it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there#while john is -- well he sure is being john huh#this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end#(with john slam dunked right into hell that is)#it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up#john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too
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