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Concept: a mermaid who collects human artifacts, but, like, exclusively objects that humans have dramatically cast into the sea in moments of high emotion, catharsis, or personal revelation. Each item is carefully mounted above a little index card that outlines the circumstances of its hurling in terse, clinical prose.

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Based on a shitpost by @paramoregf

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femslash day 14 : kisses

with my favourite lesbians. and happy valentines <3

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First tlt comic pls be kind to me

#griddlehark #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #art

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Workshopping Pyrrha’s Nicknames for Gideon

We all know that Pyrrha Dve is a serial nicknamer of her kids from Nona, so I’ve been making a running list in my head of nicknames she might use for Gideon. I don’t think she would want to use any of the names she gave Nona (other than all-purpose ones like kid), so she gets an all new set.

Junior- A pretty obvious one, but it feels significant that Pyrrha had two people in her life she loved named Gideon.

Gid/Gid-Kid/Giddo/GG- Again, obvious. Some riffing on names is to be expected.

Sunshine- Starts off ironic and stays that way right up until the moment Pyrrha sees Gideon genuinely smile for the first time.

Romeo/Loverboy/Prince Charming- Obviously reserved for teasing Gideon when she’s mooning over Harrow. She hopes it communicates that she’s rooting for them.

Chickadee- No real reason behind this one I just think it’s really cute. Gideon of course has no idea what a chickadee is.

Baby Girl- For a long time, Pyrrha never says this one aloud. She worries it’s too much, forcing her feelings on a girl whose wounds from life are too big and too raw. But Gideon has been her Baby Girl practically since the moment she first saw her. When she thought she might be hers and when she knew she wasn’t. All those years she grieved for her. When she learned that she lived eighteen years past anyone’s expectations, only to die and become a chewed up cavalier’s soul just like her. When she might have been Nona and when she definitely wasn’t, standing in front of her a living corpse powered by barely contained rage and despair. And finally there’s a moment when her Baby Girl is right there, alive and whole and healing, that she finally dares to say it out loud. And it’s in this moment it finally sinks in for Gideon that she really does have a mother that loves her.

#the locked tomb series #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #pyrrha dve #gideon nav

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John “I only wanted to save the World” Gaius and Harrowhark “I only wanted to save the Ninth” Nonagesimus.

Alecto “I don’t know if I’ll ever stop being mad about what you did to me, but I’ll love you anyways” and Gideon “I’ll forget a lifetime of torment because I value yours” Nav.

John gave up everyone else’s lives so that he could remake his own. Gideon gave up her own life so that Harrow’s could continue.

Alecto gave John power so that he may save her. Harrow stripped herself of power so that she may save Gideon.

John, who is spiritually part-Alecto. Alecto, who is physically part-John.

Harrow, who is spiritually part-Gideon. Gideon, who is physically unwhole.

Do you see where this could go? I dearly hope that this is where it is going.

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messy sketch WIP of the saddest girl in the whole entire world

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Listen I’m sure someone has already talked about this scene, and way better than I ever could, but it makes me so feral and I need to talk about it too

This is hands down the most depressing scene in the entirety of NtN in my opinion.

Surface level it’s Gideon yelling at Crux, but the significance here comes from the exact word choice. “You could have lived for her. But you didn’t know how.”

She uses past tense.

It’s not about Crux (who arguably did live for Harrow, considering his purpose was raising and protecting her, and could by all means still do this if he changed his mind about dying for Harrow.) It’s not about the congregation who worshipped her.

It’s about Gideon, who can’t live for Harrow anymore, because she’s dead. It’s about the promise she broke at the end of the first book. She’s talking about herself.

Harrow made her promise that when it comes down to it, Gideon needs to save herself. If only one of them can survive, it has to be Gideon.

At the end of the first book, Harrow is actively planning to sacrifice herself so Gideon can live, bringing up the promise and then diving into what this is actually about. Namely, how she owes Gideon her life back.

And Gideon breaks that promise, instead deciding to sacrifice herself for Harrow.

“I can’t keep my promise because the entire point of me is you. There is no me without you.”

Gideon doesn’t know how to live for Harrow, how to exist without her, even though it’s the most important thing Harrow ever asked of her—and so she dies for her instead.

“You could have lived for her. But you didn’t know how.”

And the sacrifice ended up being rejected by Harrow, because it’s not what Harrow wanted. It never was. So Gideon ended up feeling rejected and like her life and giving it up wasn’t worth anything. And she still immediately offers herself up again without hesitation. She’s ready to die for Harrow all over again, even now that she’s already dead.

“Die. Die for her. It’s the only goddamn good you’ll ever do her.”

Gideon is fucking furious—so much that Nona can’t even place her voice anymore—but not at any of the people who would rightfully deserve her fury. Not at Crux. She’s furious at herself. This whole scene is so damn heartbreaking to me.

And out of all the cruel things Crux has done to Gideon throughout her life, this might be the worst one: telling the girl who died for the Reverend Daughter once and was ready to die for her a second time that she couldn’t even get that right. That she managed to screw up the one purpose she was actually supposed to serve, the only good she’s ever done for Harrow.

Gideon is dead. She can’t do what Harrow asked and live for her anymore. What the hell is she supposed to do if she can’t die for her, either?

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Gideon shielding Harrow at a concert so she doesn't die stepped on

#Tlt #The locked tomb #Gideon #Harrow #griddlehark

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Many thanks to @house-of-musez for indulging my silly fantasies, and also a nod of appreciation to @lynndoublelegacy for the concept of the bonus image depicting a hilarious aftermath.

I wish I could draw.

I just think it would be hilarious if someone drew Harrow standing on a chair so she could look into Gideon's eyes when they argue. But she still has to look up a little.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt #griddlehark #art #i freely admit i should not be allowed access to tumblr

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I love this so much XD

I wish I could draw.

I just think it would be hilarious if someone drew Harrow standing on a chair so she could look into Gideon's eyes when they argue. But she still has to look up a little.

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“Keep it together. Wherever you are, idiot, I know you can hear me. Keep it together…”

commission from the lovely @locked-tomb-shenanigans

#nona spoilers #ntn spoilers #ntn fanart #tlt fanart #tlt trilogy #the locked tomb #the locked tomb fanart #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #cw gore #cw blood #griddlehark #my fucking feels

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You ever think about how even though it was slowly dying, harrow’s body has maybe never been as loved as it was for those six months with nona

#harrowhark nonagesimus #agh #i'm in pain #tlt series #the locked tomb #nona spoilers #nona the ninth

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A very silly comic about why Jod decided to remove Gideon’s heart (other than the fact that he’s a controlling jerkface/exceedingly unwell psyche who’s been alive for way too long). 

#nona spoilers #kiriona gaia #jod #john gaius #poor gideon #tlt #this is probably what happened #fuck john gaius

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What a gift young Gideon nav must have been to Aiglamine. She spent her youth as a soldier dropping into battle like an avenging angel, and her middle age as a teacher in a cave teaching children to fight. She went from glory to a backwater school teacher

And her pupils are okay...some are probably good. One, the cav heir is remarkably bad but oh well thats his father's problem.

Then all her students die except the useless cav heir and a little redheaded baby.....years and years or care....or relationships....all gone and all you have is sad abused ortus and his poetry.

Then Aiglamine relize that the little hell raiser with the flaming head and messy paint has the balance of a much older child.

Aiglamine goes out to train and begin to notice a shadow. Not just following her path but also her movments. So Aiglamine start here or there to help the child. To correct her grip or fix stance....

As Gideon grows and Aiglamne grow old she relizes relize that she has a student with the potential to be a legend.

Aiglamine thought that she would be forgotten but she is going to be remembered for teaching a once in a millenia warrior....

And Gideon prickly and disrespectful and Aiglamine is not her mother.....Aiglamine can't care for her as both her teacher and her parrent....and Gideon could be the greatest.....so Aiglamine makes the choice to be a teacher....

And if she can just get her protégé safely and legally into the cohort then Gideon can shine brighter than Diminicus

But Aiglamine hadn't counted on Harrows control. That Harrow wouldn't let Gideon go.

So when the letter comes from the emperor, and harrow says that she must have Gideon as her cav Aiglamine does everything she can to make sure her legacy, her protégé, her one last triumph has a chance.

Because Aiglamine needs Gideon to be great. And aiglame vouchsafes Gideon. Because how could anything hurt her unkillable girl. The ninth house hasn't duller her flame nor slowed the flash of her teeth.

And Aiglamine is sad to hear that ortus died...but she cant more.

So Aiglamine sends her girl out to shine....

And then she received a note that gidion has died along with a a whole crop of new students....students who can't measure up.

And she can't belive fully that gideon is dead...If her girl is dead...then where is the body....why hasn't anyone sent back her body? It's not like her body is hard to loose

The as the ninth house Gideon and harrow returns....except gideon Nav is dead....she shows you the hole in her chest.....the fact that she is a prince now, and still.moving is just confusing. And harrows someone else completely but Gideon is dead

Where is her sword....the two handed you taught her to use for 8 long years

Where is her breath...the breath that cursed the house for 18 long years

What have they done to your child?

What are they doing to her body?

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #tlt #gideon nav #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #aiglamene #kiriona gaia #omg this hurt me

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My boss: What's wrong?

Me, internally: I want a butch zweihander-wielding lesbian to bench press me.

Out loud: I'm fine. I just have resting flustered bitch face

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #gideon nav #i just want gideon to be real #i want to be romanced by a butch sword wielding lesbian with himbo energy

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what i really love about That dinner scene in harrow the ninth (no not dios apate minor the other That one) is that it is strongly implied in the text that john like. knew what was in the soup from the very beginning. we get told that he had a single spoonful before immediately putting it down and taking “a discreet sip of water” and obviously on first reading it’s just sort of “oh lmao harrow’s cooking is That Bad” but actually the thing is that everyone else eats it with minimal complaints so like. it can’t actually just be that the soup was objectively THAT bad right. no he 100% knew what was up right away especially considering his utter lack of surprise when harrow then Makes Her Move and all. which then makes it insanely funny to me that instead of. you know. DOING ANYTHING about the fact that all of his friends and disciples were eating human bone marrow which is a thing he personally finds disgusting and possibly even thinks is morally wrong, depending on how you interpret “ten thousand years since i’ve eaten human being and i didn’t really want an encore”. instead of stepping in and doing anything about this and maybe asking harrow “hello what is up with this behavior” he simply decides to sit there and watch everyone else at the table chow down and make polite conversation about the meal while they’re at it. like. he REALLY just chose to let it play all the way out to its conclusion for the drama of it all. just for laughs. if i had to be a cannibal once then so do all of my friends. can’t wait to see what shenanigans harrowhark gets up to next. i literally cannot with this man he is so sinister and manipulative but also just genuinely so FUCKING FUNNY sometimes what an absolute dickhead i’m obsessed with him

#the locked tomb #john gaius #absolutely batshit behavior #soup scene #tlt #he seriously sat there and let his friends chow down on human bone marrow