#none houses with left grief

[embraceweird]

I love that we can all be unified by the immense amount of psychic damage we all took from "none houses with left grief"

[braillecortex]

The original is still up on its website:

None Pizza with Left Beef is 10 years old today.

happy birthday to a decade-old meme.

[forlorngarden]

harrow the ninth asks a question no other book has dared to ask - what if God was a tumblr user?

[ajcrawly]

Here's the thing about all the memes John uses in TLT. Sure, Jod is horny for the 2010s, but I can't believe that after 10,000 years he hasn't bothered to get down with any fresh new material. Never mind a myriad of human culture developing its own linguistic quirks - I'm betting the original Canaan House 16 had plenty of time to come up with some of their own. For example:

Skeleton construct #230 (Scotty Boneman) and skeleton construct #39 (Grunkulous Prime) and their long-running feud

Excessively anatomical descriptions for normal actions e.g 'don't you elevate your supercilium at me, Valancy. Stop oscillating your cephalon in my direction.'

Responding to one of John's unfathomable inside-joke references with a solemn nod and intoning the words 'glumpus glumpus' to acknowledge Divine and Unknowable Wisdom

Forgotten objects that may or may not have been sex toys (Cyrus and Valancy's nude portraits are a continuation of this)

[pointing at a picture of any animal that no longer exists] 'What kind of dog was this?'

Necromantically juicing up your muscles to insane proportions before e.g opening a jar, turning a key, writing down a note

Referring to any distasteful outfit as a 'sex ward'

'or as they say on the Eighth: if in doubt, slut it up' (Mercy and Cristabel do not approve of this one)

Tendon loving care

Convincing one another of fictitious new slang from the other Houses.

[after summoning a bone construct/flesh monster/skeleton army] I can never get the nose right

How many of your own joints can you dislocate mid-conversation before somebody notices

Wearing your lyctoral cape any way except in the way that it was intended to be worn

And, of course:

Lyctor? I hardly know 'er!

[future-crab]

A funny thing I've noticed about responses to the Locked Tomb is that most people I talk to agree that the memes and references are kind of hit or miss for them, but no one can agree on which are the hits and which are the misses.

I've seen someone whose taste and opinions I really respect say, "Look, not all of the memes in these books work for me and I think overall there are too many of them, but None House, Left Grief is fucking gold," and someone else whose taste and opinions I really respect say, "Look, I don't hate all the memes in these books, but None House, Left Grief is just unforgivable I hate it."

[semipreciousartist]

Locked Tomb Meme Zine

[wholockedthistomb]

This scene was so clear in my mind, how he stood in front of the sun he'd just named, everything looking like None Pizza.

But no one else had done it. So even though my art skills are rusty, I decided to pull through.

Here, my beautiful reference:

[irate-pirate-bi-27]

That’s it I’m done with this book

[deadboydyke]

Harrow the Ninth spoilers:

[tognaeg]

none pizza with left beef reference?!?

[poetic-mac-n-cheese]

I was thinking about going through the locked tomb series and bookmarking all the parts that made me go completely insane and need to stop reading and breathe for a bit but then I realized that that would include both bangers such as “you can’t take loved away” and also “hi not fucking dead, I’m dad”

[inneedofgriddlehark]

I can't wait for The Locked Tomb Series to be over a d somebody makes a Tarot Deck based on it that simultaneously has way too much effort put in the symbolism but also too much effort to put in memes.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

Im listening to the Harrow the Ninth audiobook by Tamsyn Muir

The emperor just said “…To prevent the Nine houses from becoming NONE HOUSES WITH LEFT GRIEF” !!!!!

Are you kidding me?!?!? I knew this book series was pretty much written FOR tumblr but to be this blatant about it!! Love it

[i-fucked-your-milkshake]

That feel when the Necrolord, the Great Resurrector, The King Undying is a tumblrina.

[swordspells]

I am currently reading tlt for the first time and am nearing the last 100 pages of Harrow and I feel So Normal and Cool and Good

[theaologies]

“Is that the-“

The official Bulls Chargers tank top paired with a dire wolf jaw necklace? Yeah, it is