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Some tlt sketches again bc I'm obsessed and I'm bored at work sometimes.

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sea, swallow me

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another loz redraw from 2021!! (2nd drawing is the old one)

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Harrow doodle :3

#tlt fanart #tlt #my art #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus

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griddlehark modern college au because this book is metaphorically placing me in the jerma meat grinder hypothetical and i need something nice

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💧 (old totk art i never posted from last year + a recent scribbly one)

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You have her eyes

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the funniest thing about tlt is that harrow canonically has more bitches than gideon

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I had the uncontrollable urge to animate a skeleton breakdancing so here is Harrow animating a skeleton breakdancing

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practice doodles from this weekend. or alternatively titled "babygirl you are strange and offputting"

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ianthe's little cannibalism moment except it's not little, it's 15 pages long, enjoy!

(this took a total of 115 hours, waw, i am still sick as all hell, so feel free to leave me all ur thoughts in great details, i will read them.)

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Harrowhark Book One vs Harrowhark Book Two

Remember when we thought she had her shit together?

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I am constantly thinking about a review of Harrow the Ninth where the reviewer disliked a lot about the book but specifically complained how it wasn’t sci-fi-y enough for something set 10,000 years in the future. He complained it was unrealistic they were eating ginger biscuits and smoking cigarettes and I’m like … THAT’S INTENTIONAL! IT’S THEMATICALLY SIGNIFICANT!! TAMSYN MUIR IS MAKING A POINT ABOUT HOW CLINGING TO A GLORIFIED PAST WILL DESTROY YOU!!

John Gaius tells us (well, Harrow) in Nona the Ninth that he always hated change, but even in Harrow the Ninth it’s clear—he and his lyctors are stagnating and have been for millennia. They’re constantly talking about how great things used to be (sexy parties, Cassiopeia’s cooking, etc.). They have no hope for the future. John has a spaceship full of bodies in cryosleep—literally frozen in time and undying but also unable to grow or live. He is the Emperor Undying.

The theme becomes more explicit in Nona the Ninth: we see John (and arguably BOE) stuck on this 10,000-year-old grudge and unable to move past it. He thought he could keep Alecto in stasis in a tomb what, forever? He makes Gideon into a non-living preserved version of herself.

Meanwhile the characters who are living and growing are changing, even when it’s sometimes awful, because it’s how they keep doing what needs to be done. Palamedes and Camilla say before they become Paul that it wasn’t inevitable, but it is the best thing they can do now: they will make this imperfect irreversible change because that’s how they keep living and protecting the people they love. On the trip to the Ninth, Nona considers it might be better to just die, instead of continue this uncertain journey forward, but ultimately accepts irrevocable, painful change because NOODLE. And because “You can’t take loved away”: change doesn’t destroy the past or invalidate the good that existed there. Living requires change, but change doesn’t require forgetting.

Anyway, thank you to that reviewer who was so annoyed by the ginger biscuits in Harrow the Ninth that he illuminated a major theme in the series for me.

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i'm in the middle of reading harrow and i miss her like idk the moon misses the sun or something gay like that