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electing to believe this is what griddlehark looks like to everyone else
#like i could go into my thoughts on bodymodification in domincus and how i think#light eyes/non-brown eyes are infinitely more common now#despite the fact there still seems to be adhesion to the relative norm (natural eye colors#yellow eyes being both unique to the populace of canaan house and unique enough that#gids lineage can be determined via#DESPITE the fact that while theoretically it would be a superficial change#john seems to have inadvertently changed his own genetics to do it? making it something a necromancer Could Do?#idk. whatever#the locked tomb#thoughts from the stars#1k#2k#3k#shout out to my first post to hit#4k#5k#sighs#6k
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it drives me crazyyyy that like. palamedes is out at canaan house with tenderness in excelsius for dulcinea. the perfect regency era gentleman. every moment is the pride and prejudice hand flex scene. if the pov character was attracted to men even a little bit the narration would be filled with swooning. he’s lowering her gently into chairs and handing her tea so that their hands brush and looking at her with those big grey eyes of his. and all of it is WASTED because it’s NOT dulcinea it’s CYTHEREA. FUCK
#PUNCHING THE AIR#i think a lot about that line from unwanted guest#‘i loved you. i love you still. i would have worked out how to love you better over time.’#like. what if dulcie HAD made it to canaan house. what if she and pal HAD met. what if he HAD treated her this way#would things have been different? would they have had more time???#FUCK dude. they GET ME#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#gtn#gtn spoilers#palamedes sextus#dulcinea septimus#paldulcie#tlt#nat og#1k#2k
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"Nav, when I saw her face, I decided I wanted to live. I decided to live forever just in case she ever woke up."
I may be 10,000 years late to the party but holy shit. HOLY SHIT. She decided at 10/11 to become a lyctor, to live forever in order to see Alecto awaken. She pushed herself the entirety of her pre- and post-pubescence to be the greatest necromancer of a generation in order to become a lyctor; she devoted her entire existence to the rarest improbability she could actually piece the Eightfold Path together on her own, as John's invitation was so unbelievably unlikely. And that's why she was willing to use Gideon as her cavalier, that's how she could stand the agony of asking for help and depending on the bitch she swore to hate, that's why it was so goddamn important to have a competent cavalier. And when the true purpose of cavaliership was revealed with Ianthe's ascension, after she had realized how much she couldn't live without Gideon, she was willing to give up her whole life's purpose, the one thing in the world she had ever truly wanted- Alecto - for Gideon!! screaming crying throwing up disemboweling etc etc
#clarification: she did not know that a cavalier was an essential element of lyctorhood going to the first#but it was a vital element to keep up a ruse and give her protection in a foreign environment#long enough for her to figure out lyctorization at Canaan House#so sorry if this is a “well. duh'.” moment for some#but man this really further complicated the tragedy of their relationship#harrowhark nonagesimus#gideon nav#alecto the ninth#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#tlt#the locked tomb#mine
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“Fiat lux! If you want to talk improbable, let’s talk about this”—a scrape of stone on stone—“being three thousand and some years older than this.” A heavy clunk.
“Inexplicable, Warden.”
“Certainly not. Like everything else in this ridiculous conglomeration of cooling gas, it’s perfectly explicable, I just need to explic-it.”
“Indubitable, Warden.”
“Stop that. I need you listening, not racking your brain for rare negatives. Either this entire building was scavenged from a garbage hopper, or I am being systematically lied to on a molecular level.”
“Maybe the building’s shy.”
“That is just tough shit for the building.”
#hi. trying out new brushes / style. canaan house dungeon crawl let's go#camilla hect#palamedes sextus#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#field sketches#*#trivia section:#1) literally do not ask me how lighting works. i am making it up#2) also nobody ask about the list of rare negatives i keep in my notes app#3) the reason i keep drawing palamedes in the same shirt is bc i own it. if we all chip in maybe i can get him a new one#4) in addition to the cam hiking boots agenda i hereby present the cam sweater vest agenda. she's in her off duty librarian era
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Some of the more environment-focused scenes I drew for Reinaeiry's Take Me To Church but it's EPIC video!
Here's a link to the animatic! And if you haven't already go check out her music asap
Some notes about my artistic inspiration under the cut:
It was so much fun to dive a bit deeper into the details of Gideon the Ninth and try to make the environments come to life, especially Canaan House. For Canaan, I specifically took a lot of inspo from Neo-Gothic/Gothic-Revival architecture, including Larnach Castle in New Zealand! (The girls are Maori!! And Nona the Ninth shaped my visualization of the first house tons) occasionally some elements were an artistic battle of balance between description and visual tone (overgrown disrepaired gold-shot marble rainbow tile mosaic wood floors, anyone?) but nearly everything I was using as inspo fit so perfectly into my mental image/what I was trying to achieve and I couldnt be happier with the way some of these turned out. For Drearburh I very loosely combined a gothic cathedral with an ossuary and then Pluto-ified the color scheme!
I especially love this scene:
It set the tone for how the rest of the animatic was gonna be colored and it fit my mental image of canaan house vibes so perfectly
Overall I put a lot of love into including as many canon environmental details as I possibly could, and taking meaningful creative liberty where there were gaps in Muir's descriptions. Some parts involved a little logistic puzzling but I'm ngl I love the challenge of translating textual desc to artwork. Working on this was such a treat
#MORE STILLS AND DETAILS TO COME BTW!#just gotta figure out the best way to share everything#I am never gonna shut up about this...#my art#the locked tomb#animatics#canaan house#gideon the ninth
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Harrow got so unbelievablely horny dreaming about Gideon's rolled up sleeves exposing her lean, taut muscle, a little dewy with sweat and steam but you know what.... thinking about it. Gideon does not disrobe basically ever, except in private to bathe. A tantalizing glimpse of forearm may legitimately be the most Harrow's imagination has to work with
#it takes a while for Gideon to be comfortable even removing her cloak at Canaan House#and that was a much warmer enviorment than the Ninth#kind of interesting that Gideon's seen Harrow naked and there's no evidence Harrow even knows what Gideon's shoulders look like#and how that corresponds to their different levels of emotional vulnerability#harrow laid it all out on the table: all her trauma her devotion her motivations and at the end her admiration for Gideon#meanwhile Gideon says she wants one thing then directly contradicts herself woth her actions#she flashed her heart once - you know I only care about you right? - before rolling her sleeves up and dying#this isn't a criticism of Gideon#their environment has provided a lot more security and support for Harrow#which is saying something#I also suspect she Gideon naturally has the emotional self-awareness of a cheeseburger which does not help her out but anyway#just think it's interesting how they've bared such different amounts of themselves to one another#the locked tomb#gideon nav#harrow nonagesimus
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something that makes me absolutely batty about dog fancy in general is how no one will acknowledge that the whole concept of Preservation Breeding Because Dogs Are Our Cultural Heritage requires a minimum level of buy-in of nationalist concepts. like. this is baked in and unavoidable. insane
#every single progressive dog space is like half of all pro handlers should be people of color. or whatever. YOU KNOW?#I'm sorry have any of you tried being communists.#have any of you read the books about how Israel created the concept of the Canaan dog? let this radicalize you! like!#out of their own mouths too!!!!! THEY KNOW. AND WILL ADMIT IT. AND YOU WON'T.#cowards.
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Have we considered the blue light that appears in and around Abbigail when the 8th first siphons in Gideon actually has something to fo with Varun?
Cytherea screams and at first I thought it was an act cus she didn’t want the others to realize she wasn’t Dulcie, but what if it has something to do with the RBs and she’s actually terrified for a second? Obviously she doesnt have time to explain that whole mess when Pal confronts her. Am i reaching here?
The next time siphoning happens in the facility one of the devils shows up and we know they have something to do with the resurection. I just feel like tamsyn doesn’t do coincidence and we know Varun has a blue light.
Please discuss.
#gideon the ninth#the locked tomb#tlt#relistening and thinking out loud#varun the eater#cytherea the first#abigail pent#canaan house
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do you have any alecto/anastasia hcs?
I think my biggest hc is that Anastasia wanted to be present at laying Alecto down in the tomb, but something went not as planned, cause she helped design it and it's her house, where is she
and not quite a hc but I want Alecto snatch some of Anastasia's bones before leaving the tomb
but tbh the moment I got the ask my mind completely blanked out on everything I was thinking about them, I'll add more to this post if I remember some of it
but thank you for asking!
#but it's complicated cause I don't have a lot of understanding of how canaan house and the ninth was back then#and what timeline of events looked like so i keep rotating in my head dif scenarios with dif ideas#Anasatasia could've had her own way of calming Alecto during tantrums but Alecto still could accidentally hurt her in out rage#at least Anastasia is great at mending broken bones#them hanging out in the pool is everyone's hc#but once had an idea that telling the true started with them both submerged and Alecto just unpromptedly started bluntly blurting out stuff#but in the gist of 'I'm eating pencils' and then it escalated with time#someone said before that Alecto being sorry about Samael in her nature might mean that she somehow was responsible even if not in direct wa#it could be eating her out after Samael's death and seeing how heartbroken Anastasia was#so later on the ninth she drags Anastasia into the water and reveals something that makes Anastasia realize John fucked her over#Anastasia's breaking down and after on it could lead to the vow being made#cause I'm still thinking about that one line that John says 'Anastasia knew 'at the time' that killing Samael was a necessity'#like she could've figure out something#keep rotating in my mind conversation that goes like#Alecto: are you angry with me#Anastasia: yes. but I'm not being fair
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Once again thinking about how nightmarish the River bubble was...
It lasts for nine months. The ghosts stuck inside it can't quite keep track of time passing, but think it's been around eight weeks.
And of those perceived eight weeks, they don't fully work out what's going on until a 'week' or so before Harrow awakes in the bubble.
These people spent what they perceived as two months of moments of horrible realisation and forgetfulness as Harrow's unconscious mind tried to construct a simulacrum of Canaan House and "enforced certain rules to keep [her] cast on-script".
We know about the "wrong" and "confused parody" NPC versions of the living scions of Canaan House, but what did Harrow's storytelling mean for everyone else? Were they always in control? Did they ever find themselves in places or doing things they didn't remember deciding to do, or distinctly remembered doing before? Imagine having flashbacks of your own awful death while your companions look on incomprehending. Imagine being the only one in the room not claiming to recall that this all happened differently before. That conversation a 'week' before Harrow's arrival must have been so validating and so utterly devastating.
And they still all chose to stay.
#the locked tomb#tlt#tlt meta#abigail pent#harrowhark nonagesimus#I have a mental image of Ortus and the Fifth working out that they're all dead and stuck in the River and just sitting there grimly.#And then Abigail starts taking very excited notes with input from Ortus and Magnus goes and raids the Canaan House wine cellar.#By the time he comes back with drinks Abigail has written at least four pages of equations and has Ortus sticking diagrams up on the wall.
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hey do y’all think canaan house is made up of a bunch of the dead john didn’t save when he nuked the world and that’s why it’s so haunted. it’s just cows and conspiracy theorists and everyone on melbourne’s working tram service.
#tlt#tlt spoilers#the locked tomb#ntn spoilers#alectopause#canaan house#the sum of all necromantic transgression babeyyy#u know there’s some cows in those walls#john makes things out of meat and bone
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gideon the ninth chapter 35 / nona the ninth chapter 5
#he wouldn’t have done that to camilla. he’d never do it. screams#even before he figured out lyctorhood at canaan house there were hints at his discomfort towards using camilla for his own gain#even if it fit with what was expected of her as a cav#the way he lost his composure when she was injured in the sixth v second duel. ‘it’s just my right hand’ but it wasn’t JUST anything to him#it was camilla and he didn’t want to do that to her.#once again: screams#tlt#sixth#the locked tomb#campal#camilla hect#palamedes sextus#it’s sixthposting smonday#rtxt
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throwback to when i first read harrow the ninth and i was convinced that The Body(TM) was not a genuine daily harrow experience but rather a consequence of gideon's erasure. like has harrowhark been having hallucinations of the body locked in the tomb since she was ten or is that just her mind filling in the sounds and sensations of gideon's presence in her life. is harrowhark really in love with the body or is that just her feelings for gideon finding another vessel in her absence. etc. etc. that was fun
#the locked tomb#harrow the ninth spoilers#mine#i know better now. but that was a tense first thirty pages for me#i was spoiled abt gideon-as-the-narrator-of-htn bc the very first locked tomb thing i ever interacted w was a fanfic narrated by gideon#wherein ianthe fucks harrow w the bone arm and gid was just intensely judgmental abt the whole thing. way before i knew anything abt tlt#so the challenge of htn was figuring out whether everything else was real. not least of all the cast of 2 canaan 2 house#(don't ask me why i read fanfic for media i don't know i like to read a bunch then piece together the canon from consistent details#between them. usually femslash fics bc if the fandom has a thriving femslash scene i can usually get behind the source material. part litmu#test part allegory of the cave you know how it goes#you should try it. it's fun)
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Gideon Nav deserves to occupy her own living body on her own terms in AtN for no other reason than so she can finally say "Lyctor? I hardly knew 'er!" with her own joddamned mouth.
#tlt#the locked tomb#you know she was holding on to that one the whole time at Canaan House#and would have said it literally every day if not for the fake vow of silence#and how busy they were trying to sort out all those murders#while also not getting murdered themselves
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wasn't alfred a hedge fund manager? i get where ur coming from re: the class divide post otherwise btw but am somewhat stumped ab this bc he was definitely the one making the most money and likely highly educated as well, and ended up a cav. ig it is STEM/nonSTEM divide?
hi! yes, alfred was a hedge fund manager — he was also augustine's brother and so comes from a similar (presumably very wealthy) background. this exception doesn't really disprove the rule to me: either way, john was disproportionately likely to make people who were highly educated necromancers and people who were not cavaliers. i want to walk through a couple possible reasons for this.
the first possibility is that john (1) believed that people who were more "intelligent" were more likely to be able to understand necromancy and (2) implicitly believed that people who were academically high-achieving like scientists, lawyers, doctors, etc. were more "intelligent." clearly, john and the lyctors all seem to think pretty highly of their own intelligence. john in particular went from being a poor māori kid to being an accomplished scientist, and i don't think it's a stretch to say he probably believed he deserved it on the basis of intelligence.
in contrast, both alfred and cristabel have their own talents and intelligence disparaged — john describes alfred as "useless, but a darling" and augustine describes cristabel as "not hav[ing] the intellect you'd ordinarily find in a sandwich or an orange." additionally, necromancy is talked about in scientific terms, which lends itself to the idea that you might need some scientific understanding to be good at it. i think it's entirely possible that john consciously decided that some people wouldn't be intelligent enough to hack it and made them the cavaliers, a problematic assumption chiefly in that it equates academic achievement with innate intelligence.
the second possibility, and to me the more likely one, is that john simply made the people closest to him necromancers while making people he wasn't as close to (essentially his friends' friends) non-necromancers. it's pretty clear that the people john made necromancers were people who directly worked on john's original cryogenics project with him, while the cavaliers were all people who got dragged into his cult by those original project members. alfred is a perfect example of this — he's there because he's augustine's brother. other people have made posts about the possibility that john did this to intentionally separate his friends from the people they loved.
but either way, i think this demonstrates who john as a character cared about. john, as a successful scientist, surrounded himself by people who were highly educated and successful, predominantly (as you note anon) people in STEM. people who are disproportionately likely to be white, neurotypical, and cis, or at least disproportionately likely to be able to conform to white/european, neurotypical, cis standards. not only is john not as close to people in his project-turned-cult that aren't as highly educated, but poor people aren't present at all. there are no janitors, no retail workers, no manual laborers, no farmworkers. i don't get the sense that john ever really unpacked his internalized biases or questioned why he primarily values people who are highly educated.
"but," i imagine my hypothetical reader who's somehow made it this far protesting, "of course he's surrounded by highly educated people. he's working on a cryogenics project!" well...precisely. tumblr user sophelstien's scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds essay touches on how this project demonstrates that john is not as progressive as some people assume he is, but what i'll say here is simply that john didn't have to make the people in his cryogenics project the leaders of his new society. and by installing the very people who our society rewards into positions of power, john — consciously or not — shapes the new society he's creating with the old society's inequalities.
#asks#tlt#realizing as i write this out that i have a lot more thoughts on what the people who john made lyctors says about the nine houses#like as anon points out they're nearly all in stem#and i think that has some crazy implications for the nine houses that tie back to john's disregard for pregnant people#on the cryogenics project which evinces a disregard for scientific ethics more generally#(which is also seen in the human experimentation on canaan house)#i also have a lot of thoughts on the supposed necromancer-cav intelligence divide#that i think fandom really buys into as you can see in people who believe pyrrha must be a necromancer#and on what john prioritized when shaping the culture of the nine houses#but i think this post is long enough#also would you believe i accidentally inserted a poll halfway thru this post and couldn't get rid of it so i had to like#copy paste all my individual paragraphs into another program discard the post and repaste them all here
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Actually. Looking at the chronology. The last time Gideon and Harrow talked alone before the pool scene, Gideon accused Harrow of being a jealous creep for telling her to stay away from Dulcinea.
A whole lot of stupifying things happened in between, but really, it wouldn't be surprising if her first panicked reaction to Harrow disrobing was to think Harrow was making a move on her. Relationship definitely hurtling toward something.
#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#griddlehark#so much happened those last two days at Canaan House#I lost track of just how much relationship upgrade Gideon and Harrow went through#Gideon goes from insisting Harrow is jealous over her and not envious (guarding something that's hers and not coveting something that isn't)#to lashing out at Harrow in the worst way she can manage without physical violence (threatening to leave her)#to assuming Harrow is a murderer and resolving to kill her herself rather than let anyone else touch her#to finding out Harrow had a good reason for everything she'd done and just didn't trust or respect Gideon enough to tell her#to finding out Harrow's worst secrets and swearing herself to Harrow#....in the span of about. mmmm. three hours? ish?#probably less#depends on how long she was wandering around or with the Sixth really#I'd say someone give that girl a nap but for once she actually got one
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