#tltposting

[morethanwonderful]

Gideon the Ninth page 334—>Nona the Ninth pages 365–366

Palamedes looks at what's inside Gideon's chest.

#tlt #parallels #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #gideon nav #kiriona gaia #palamedes sextus #chest tag #tltposting

[lockedtombbrainworms]

I maintain that Cytherea the First got more than just Loveday Heptane's skill with the sword. The Seventh Saint was a pillow princess before she ascended to lyctorhood, but she also got her cav's strap skills during her ascension. It's symbolic.

#tltposting #cytherea the first

[chooseruin]

The thing making me Feral about Judith Deuteros today is like. Her absolutely unfortunate attempt to declare martial law at Canaan House was the only thing she had to contribute. She is the ranking Cohort officer in this situation (she thinks) and like that's IT. In practical terms she's the weakest player there and she knows this; never mind the illest anime ill girl in the whole Seventh House and the three simultaneous greatest necromancers of their generation and Abigail Pent (at whom she is in any case strenuously not looking), Isaac could punt her through a wall. Silas is good enough at his terrible job that an actual Lyctor had to punch him out and then orchestrate that situation with the keys just to make ABSOLUTELY certain no one would ever listen to him. Judith is a competent melee support necromancer when in an actual melee. Judith can hold her own against Camilla Hect at ceiling chess even with a high fever, but Camilla and Palamedes and Ianthe are also there. Judith's cavalier is the glory of the Second House and their ability to work together is like... it's fine. It's professional. It's good. This is what peak performance looks like. It's fine. They're fine. Everything's fine. The hardware on her uniform is the only thing that's supposed to matter that she has and no one else does, that's ALL she has that she can imagine leveraging to get them out of here, and the way that works when your dad is the Fleet Admiral is that they give you everything you ask for and then you spend the rest of your life scrambling to earn it and she's not even very good at that. She has the charisma of drywall (affectionate/despairing) and all she can do to assert authority is fall back on the Cohort playbook and holy fuckballs did no one else in this bar actually care about that even BEFORE people started dying and all she does is completely discredit the actually pretty reasonable option of pulling together and trying to get out of this. And then Camilla Hect happens in front of everyone. And then the situation is REALLY losing cabin pressure and it's glorious last stand o'clock and her glorious last stand turns ugly and squalid and doesn't even help and she doesn't even get to die for it. She's the perfect product of ten thousand years of God needing cultural infrastructure for his genocide run against the rest of the universe, and she doesn't even get to Charge of the Light Brigade her way out. She doesn't get to die senselessly and prove to everyone that the rules don't matter anymore, because no one else ever really believed they did. She's so goddamn doomed by the narrative that it won't even let her die. Corona won't let her die. Blood of Eden won't let her die. MERCYMORN THE FIRST takes time out of a very packed schedule specifically to not let her die, not even long enough to come back wrong, how much more wrong could she get. She's the last kid left in Hamelin and she's opposite day Jackie Yellowjackets and she's a minor war poet and a virgin who can't drive and a wholeass Indelicates song and the most exhausted twenty-two-year-old in the universe and THAT'S ALL BEFORE NT9. Who is being happened to like her.

#the locked tomb #tltposting #judith deuteros #embodiment of “of course god doesn't hate you. he doesn't care enough about you for that.” #scrungliest dirt-jar kitten. bad-time girl. sad wwi military homoerotic girlflop.

[dovesndecay]

I'm 69 pages into Harrow the Ninth. I don't know yet what the fuck is going on, so mostly my brain is lot of

#original post #tltposting #htn #the locked tomb

[versatilemess]

“Palamedes remembers everything: that was his problem. I always remember him. That's mine.”

— The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, Tamsyn Muir.

Current TLT piece ft Camilla Hect and SexPal. Bonus!Sketch below

#the locked tomb #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #palamedes the sixth #camilla the sixth #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #tlt #paul tlt #tltposting #tlt series #versatilefanart #tlt art #tlt fanart #space lesbians

[catilinas]

Tate u are a locked tomb enjoyer and poetry understander do you know how the metre works in the Noniad im rereading Harrow and im DREADFUL at following metre unless it's assonance rhyming

HI YES the noniad my best friend the noniad! it is in dactylic enneameter! which as it is used in harrow means every line has nine feet, and each foot can be either a dactyl (— u u) or a spondee (— —), except for the last two in each line which are always — u u | — x (— is a stressed syllable, u is unstressed, and x can be either).

e.g.

I am the | Emperor's | Hand; do | not thou per|sist in this | combat; | matchless am | I with the | long blade—

— u u | — u u | — — | — u u | — u u | — — | — u u | — u u | — —

there is also Often (but not always. but definitely enough that i noticed it) a diaeresis (word ending coinciding with foot ending) after the sixth foot which is. very funny to me. because dactylic enneameter is Not A Thing That Anyone Really Writes In Ever, but dactylic hexameter is the metre of greek and latin epic poetry and tamsyn muir and classics We Know About This. so the sixth foot diaereses + a noticeable number of lines having spondees in the sixth foot means that those lines read like lines of dactylic hexameter with like. an extra bit tagged on at the end. to me. but maybe i have just read too much dactylic hexameter idk

#if this isn't enough explanation tell meeeeee i love metre and can talk about it forever #DO NOT however ask me to explain why i have been spelling metre w uk spelling and hexameter enneameter etc w us spelling. #i literally could not tell you why. #tltposting #beeps

[drawsderek]

✨pathetic✨

#art #artwork #digital art #digital illustration #digital drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #fanart #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the 9th #gideon the ninth #harrow the 9th #harrow the ninth #nona the 9th #nona the ninth #john gaius #john jod gaius #tltposting #tlt series #the locked tomb trilogy #the locked tomb fanart #tlt fanart

[wofworld]

john gaius would be like "i know a spot" and then leave you locked in a tomb made of ice for the next ten thousand years

#the best reveal in all of nona was finding out that john got alecto to the tomb by just. telling her he had something cool to show her :( #it somehow seems like even more of a shitty thing to do than just putting her in there by force. #thinking about how betrayed she must have felt... #tlt #the locked tomb #tlt shitpost #shitpost #tltposting #tlt memes #memes #john gaius #emperor john gaius #ejg #alecto #alecto the first #alecto tlt #the locked tomb series #the locked tomb trilogy #the locked tomb quartet #alecto the ninth #atn #tamsyn muir #trending #harrow the ninth #htn #harrowtheninth #nona the ninth #ntn #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers

[kekaki-cupcakes]

The lost trio aesthetic is those blurry pictures on pinterest of friends doing random shit at night, you know the ones.

#pjo fandom #heroes of olympus #pjo #percy jackson #drawing #digital drawing #percy jackon and the olympians #leovaldez #piper mclean #leo valdez #pipermclean #jason grace #jasongrace #tltposting #tlt shitposting #the lost trio #thelosttrio #leo piper and jason #pinterest #friends

[illyigo]

tfw you have a crush but her divine ancestor was in the same love triangle as your divine ancestor with the earth herself

#the locked tomb #tltposting #griddlehark #LOL

[eemolu]

i love making silly posts about gideon bc people are always in the tags either writing nuanced essays about her motivations and backstories or screaming about how she’s stupid and hot and no one will ever be like her because she’s an orange cat and a cringefail lesbian. both are valid and both are correct good job everyone hit the showers

#tlt #gideon nav #tltposting #mine #anyways!!!! cringefail lesbian you will always be famous to me

[morethanwonderful]

Rereading GTN and I finally just realized something obvious.

The series is called "The Locked Tomb Series." The central sin that has defined and ruined Harrow's (and Gideon's) life since she was ten years old is that she opened the locked tomb she was not supposed to open. In later books, the whole plot centers around the rebels that desperately want to open the locked door they are not supposed to open.

And in the first book, the central and only rule of the lyctoral challenge is that they must "never open a locked door unless they have permission."

#gideon the ninth #locked tomb spoilers #the locked tomb #tlt #tltposting #english major hours

[lockedtombbrainworms]

TLT characters and smoking: Judith: got peer-pressured into it as a teenager because someone told her Coronabeth and/or Marta would think it was cool. Nearly passed out coughing and has never been willingly within six feet of a cigarette since Marta: Only smokes after she fucks. Which is a lot, by the way. Coronabeth: No particular interest in smoking, but would 1000% take it up if she thought it would make her more interesting to someone. May in fact do that now that Ianthe smokes. Ianthe: Canonically does smoke as of the end of NTN. Probably wasn't especially interested beforehand, especially given her dodgy necromancer lungs, but once she was a lyctor the psychosexual drama of the mithraeum was always gonna give her some sort of vice Naberius: no interest whatsoever, he's an athlete and he's too concerned about his looks and the potential for premature ageing. Not that it would matter, as Ianthe would just fix him, but he doesn't strike me as the type. Would definitely vape though, and let's be real, if any house has vapes, it's the third. Isaac: Teenage rebellion phase might include smoking, might even include weed. The Fifth would be horrified by this. Jeannemary: Probably more likely to smoke than Isaac as part of the aforementioned teenage rebellion phase, if I'm honest. Abigail: nope, she'd be too aware that it's bad for you to enjoy it. I can see her enjoying edibles though, it feels like they might help with certain kinds of spirit magic. Magnus: Cigars. Look at the guy. Palamedes: absolutely the fuck not, although he did at least pick up the muscle memory for it during The Unwanted Guest shenanigans. Cam: Equally absolutely the fuck not. Paul: Until I read TUG, I'd have said just as much of a no as with Cam and Pal, but now I know Palamedes went into that whole thing with Ianthe's smoking habit rubbed off on him, there's an outside chance they'll share one with Pyrrha Dulcinea: Would never be allowed to smoke, which I suspect would mean she'd very much want to given the "sick of roses and horny for revenge" thing. She should've been chuffing fat darts every minute we saw her in the river bubble. Maybe she was, just not around Harrow. Protesilaus: Doesn't strike me as the sort, although we don't see much of him. Silas: no, he's a weird sixteen-year-old temperance freak and also a frail necromancer Colum: Definitely smokes. Rolls his own. May not even bother with filters given how he knows the siphoning is fucking him up faster than the cigs ever could. Gideon Nav: Might try it to impress girls, but is probably too aware of the possibility of it messing up her fitness, which she also uses to try to impress girls. Harrow: Nah. Just being around cigarette smoke would overstimulate her.

#the locked tomb #tltposting #tlt headcanons

[silent-endsinger]

Samael was a he/him butch and you cannot change my mind about this I don't care what canon says tazmuir could come to my house and tell me Samael was not a he/him butch and I would not even care

#tltposting #tlt #the locked tomb #samael novenary #i feel insane about this book series

[dovesndecay]

hot take but Griddlehark is toxic necromancer yuri Mavis/Johnny Hotel Transylvania you can't change my mind

#original post #tltposting

[versatilemess]

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it”

— Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

I’ve been chipping away at this piece for four months now, with the first concept posted on my page way back in November!

The constellation has only continued to grow, perhaps one is in order for each house? ✨

Check below for individual close ups and lineart!

#versatilefanart #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #tlt #tltposting #tlt series #tlt art #tlt fanart #tlt spoilers #harrow the first #kiriona gaia #kiriona the first #gideon x harrow #gideon fanart #harrow fanart #we do bones motherfucker #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow tlt #gideon nav #the ninth house #constellations #star map #galaxy #lineart #one flesh one end #scifi #fantasy #griddlehark