#the locked tomb fan fiction

[jbm04]

Just want to take this time to remind everyone that beat your swords into ploughshares (and your spears into pruning hooks) exists.

It is a TLT fan fic by @notaficwriter

It is probably one of my favourite TLT fics ever written.

It’s kind of about Harrow healing? I’m not good at summarizing things.

Anyways. I’m giving it a reread tonight because I basically accept it as canon at this point.

Sharing it in case you’ve all missed it.

[jbm04]

Devoured this fic last night. It was so good! So refreshing to see more post-series takes. I mean heartbreaking most of the time yeah but also refreshing. Really amazing art included.

“It was always going to end this way, wasn’t it?”

Here it is! This Kind of Animal by @lumentears. This fic means so much to me. Beneath so much pain there is so much tenderness. I hope my art did it justice.

It's been a wild ride, i love this art and i really think it came out gorgeus. Kiriona Gaia posting heart on main.

there is so many details in this because i wanted to convey the awesome narrative of the fic

[chillyweirdoinacoffin]

Wow, Griddlehark is the 57th most popular F/F ship on ao3 for this year?!? And moved up 40 spots!! The full list: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49183780/chapters/124100707#workskin

[jods-tablet]

fancy footwork & a bleeding bloodline

Chapter 8: Flowers

Gideon gripped her hair in her fists tightly. She took a deep breath. Two, before she extracted her hands and pointed dead into Harrowhark’s face. “Harrow- I hate you.” Gideon’s voice was eerily calm. “I never stopped hating you. I will always hate you, and you will most certainly always hate me. Don’t forget it. It’s not like I ever can.”

Read on Ao3

divider by @ royallaesthetics

[jbm04]

It's such an emotional rollercoaster. I absolutely loved it the first time through, it was even better the second time and admittedly todays read was the third. Still amazing. I sent the ask because I had this immediate feeling of like... "I wonder how those kids are doing" when I got to the end. I'm really excited to hear you've got some outline and inspitation for a sequel. That's got me absolutely stoked. Thanks! :D

In case the world doesn't know, the fic is:

putting your fist through a thick sheet of glass (i know you don't want to)

by oretsev on AO3 or tumblr's @lady-harrowhark

Hey! I was reading “putting your fist through a thick sheet of glass (i know you don't want to)” again. I really love it. I was just sort of wondering how our AU Gideon and Harrow are doing?

Oh gosh, I'm so happy to hear you've enjoyed it, and grateful you've taken the time to let me know 💛 Hearing that it's a fic that people have gone back to actually makes me really emotional 🥹 Last week actually marks exactly one year from when I first started drafting - I wrote the scene where Harrow drives Gideon to OT and they bicker about "none pizza" in the car in my notes app on a flight. A whole year! Absolutely bonkers to think about.

That's an excellent question you've got there. I think someday you might get an answer to that [whistling innocently].

Joke's aside, I do have a follow-up piece that I've been casually tinkering with for a while. It's still in the very very early stages, so I genuinely could not begin to guess at a timeline. By "very very early stages" I mean like, I have an outline made and half of two different scenes written, maybe 1k total? I do have a playlist, a moodboard for one of the plotlines, and a very sparse inspo tag though, and as we all know, those are the things that really matter, right?

Not to be a tease (again, I have no ETA whatsoever for this) but I will drop a little screenshot tidbit from the conversation I had with @theriverbeyond (who was also my enormously supportive beta reader for ikydwt) when I first blurted out the general idea:

The phrase "bubblegum pop angst" was also uttered during that conversation, for what it's worth 😏

[this-could-be-a-dream]

Reading canon Ianthe: god, she’s such a bitch

Reading AU nice Ianthe: oh god, that is SO much worse

[roadkillfuneral]

what if I just …… *becomes a tlt blog*

[griseldagimpel]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Gaius | Necrolord Prime & Gideon Nav, Gideon Nav & Wake | Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead, Gideon Nav & Pash | Our Lady of the Passion Characters: Gideon Nav, John Gaius | Necrolord Prime, Wake | Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead, Pash | Our Lady of the Passion (Locked Tomb Series), The Angel | Aim (Locked Tomb Series) Additional Tags: Family Reunions, Family Bonding, Parental Death, Parental Undeath, Attempted Murder, Choking, Resurrection, Diplomacy, Culture, Rated M for language Summary:

The Empire has diplomatic talks with The Blood of Eden.

John Gaius resurrects Commander Wake.

#IFinishedWhatIStarted2024

[nona-gay-simus]

Oh no I started a AU griddlehark fanfic about Gideon being a pirate queen who kidnaps Harrow on Harrow's wedding day as her war prize and Harrow ends up liking that better!!!

Oh nooooo

It will be so smutty and fun how horrible of me

[jbm04]

Sometimes when I read Griddlehark TLT AUs, I do this thing where every scene that contains Gideon, I imagine she is always eating something.

Like if she's talking to Harrow, she's doing it with her mouth full of snack wrap.

If she's lifting a box, she's putting her protein bar down on top of it for a moment.

If she's arguing with someone, she's pushing her plate of shawarma away (heavy sighing and annoyed) before helping to escalate the situation.

Honestly, it just makes me laugh.

Beefcake Gideon is always bulking.

[silencedrowns]

okay, hear me out on an absolute crackpot idea

I’ve been in many book based fandoms in my time, and they all have different flavors of brain rot… but the particular sorts of meme based shitposting brain rot that the Locked Tomb fans and the Cosmere fans have are remarkably similar at most and highly compatible at least.

therefore, and this is my idea, we need to set up an event irl where we put the Locked Tomb fans, the Cosmere fans, and the “I like both” fans in a room and see what sort of advanced bullshit will result.

[chillyweirdoinacoffin]

Hi, Chilly Weirdo! Could you link the prompt list for the TLT Holiday Smut Fest? Thank you!

Here you go! You can see all of the 2023 Locked Tomb Holiday Smut Festival prompts submitted so far right here:

[jods-tablet]

fancy footwork & a bleeding bloodline

Chapter 14: Star-Crossed

Harrowhark stood transfixed by her in the wings, feeling overwhelmingly lucky that she could call Gideon hers. She could not recall how it felt to dance with Ortus anymore. Why would Harrow want to? His talents laid elsewhere, anyway. But Griddle- somewhere in the midst of their partnership Harrow and Gideon had become irrevocably conjoined.

Read on Ao3

divider by @ royallaesthetics

[griseldagimpel]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Gaius | Necrolord Prime/Admiral Sarpedon Characters: Admiral Sarpedon (Locked Tomb Series), John Gaius | Necrolord Prime Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Depression, Character Study, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Ficlet Summary:

Admiral Sarpedon is waiting in line to see the emperor. The emperor is trying to fill the hole Mercymorn and Augustine left in him with Cohort officers.

[griseldagimpel]

I wrote a Jarpedon fan fic inspired by this.

There's so much like "Wow I've never been kissed/sucked off/etc like this before" in fanfiction I think it would be funny if there were more fics about it just being kind of mid . And then the characters who have been pining over each other forever have to deal with that

[nona-gay-simus]

Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Category:

F/F

Fandom:

The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir

Relationships:

Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus

Gideon Nav/Coronabeth Tridentarius (past)

Additional Tags:

Alternate Universe - High School

Alternate Universe - Sports

Light Angst

Fluff

Fluff and Angst

Domestic Fluff

Enemies to Lovers

Slow Burn

Alternate Universe - Roller Derby

they bang eventually but it's classy

Banter

Gideon is a simp

Demisexual Harrowhark

Fake/Pretend Relationship

Alternate Universe - Modern Setting

Alternate Universe - No Powers

Harrowhark has long hair

(apologies for the white girls, it was the best I could do.)