#Gideon and harrow brain rot

[ilona-mushroom]

Harrow The Ninth, Tasmyn Muir // The Lovers of Valdar // Aeschylus, Trans. Richmond Lattimore // Safet Zec // Gideon The Ninth, Tasmyn Muir // The Lovers of Valdar // Book of Ruth, King James Bible

#harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #web weaving #parallels #tw death #the inherent romanticism of being buried together #Safet Zec #achilles x patroclus #please don’t flop #Tumblr please don’t ruin the quality uwu #wlw #mlm #👉🏻👈🏻 #i’m hyperfixating #Gideon and harrow brain rot

[athunderstryke]

One flesh one end

drew this after reading gtn for the first time and just recently decided not to gatekeep

aside from some minor perspective issues I think this is still pretty cool for being six months old.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt #harrow the ninth #gtn #griddlehark #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #the locked tomb fanart #is this how makeup smears #brain rot alert #Gideon the ninth spoilers

[ourg0dsal]

After many moments of mourning the fact, I realized two things: that besides a quick sketch on a napkin I did not have ANY fan art of The Locked Tomb and all my accounts on all of my apps needed a quick tlt makeover. anyways enjoy the love of my life Gideon Nav proudly flexing her muscles.

#the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb series #tlt brainrot #tlt brain rot #tlt fanart #tlt series #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #gideon the 9th #harrowhark fanart #fanart #gideon the ninth fanart #art #art piece #artwork #digital art #swords #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #harrow #harrowhark the first #harrowhark #we do bones motherfucker

[onegothwillgraham]

Me when it’s ninth time. And then Gideon ninths all over the place

#new brain rot unlocked everyone!! #shrieks and screams #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #harrow nonagesimus #gideon nav

[idlesugarpuff]

Reread Harrow the Ninth and FUCK ME SIDEWAYS the little Ninth House goblin is so adorably emotional about The Body and then oh my GOD, about Gideon!

Cackled more often than I should have in public.. but sweet cheese and crackers, Gideon and Ianthe arguing is my favourite thing ever.

"Your hand is so big and my butthole is so small"

Also

"Hi, not fucking dead, I'm Dad" Ho Ho Ho Ho

Sweet merciful oblivion.. I do love these books even though I am still very much confused most of the time.

#the locked tomb #tlt rot #gideon nav #harrow the ninth #my brain is functioning almost as good as Harrows

[unidentifiedfroggy]

thinking about how harrow's diy lobotomy is already such a powerful gesture that becomes so much more meaningful and impactful in the broader scheme of harrowhark nonagesimus. harrow prides herself on her intelligence, on her competency, on her talent - she has to, as the product of her parents' genocide - and we see throughout gideon the ninth how important this is to her. she doesn't just want to be the best, to ascend to lyctorhood and restore her house and bring glory to the ninth - she needs to, or her creation was not worth it.

and she was willing to throw that away to keep gideon's soul alive, and that's immense to me.

#harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #harrow the ninth #harrow the ninth spoilers #the locked tomb #this isnt really saying anything new #ive just been thinking about them #and my brain is rotting through #(affectionate)

[cheezitbandit]

There's a post on the #tlt subreddit questioning why readers love Harrow.

Mental illness is a fucking bitch. I try to speak up about my depression (and anxiety) whenever I can, because I think I'm pretty high-functioning and want to advocate and destigmatize mental health where I can. But the stigma still exists and it's enough to make anyone feel broken and unlovable.

Harrow is mentally ill. She admits it herself, in one of the first chapters. It's reinforced by unreliable narration and her own admissions throughout the book. And yet, this is a woman who is incredibly skilled at what she does and (more importantly) loved by others in her life. Gideon died for her. Camilla, Corona, and Palamedes are genuinely happy to see her. Fucking Jod wishes she was his.

We can be fucked up and still be worth of love. Being broken does not mean worthless.

Anyway that's why I love Harrow.

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #brain rot #harrowhark nonagesimus #mental health

[skullfacedfruitcakee]

Imagine griddlehark reunion and upon seeing each other they’re like 😦 and then they just start FIGHTING LIKE CRAZY FRENZY FRANTIC FREAK FIGHT

#I’m pretty sure this is actually in a LOT of fics #Actually give me recs where this happens #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #griddlehark #griddlehark brain rot #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #nona the ninth spoilers #Gideon and Harrow

[parttime-creative]

Not much missing anymore...

#Also I have just reached chapter 47 of HTN #AND MY GIRL IS BACK #MY BELOVED SWORD LESBIAN #God this book #I thought I can't love it more than the first one #And then it BLEW MY MIND #Like #God damn #I NEED to finish gideon #The brain rot is SO REAL #I can't #First the memes this morning #And now gideon is back and A FUCKING COFFEE SHOP MEET CUE?! #Not but for real #I am NORMAL™ about these books #How can I ever enjoy a NORMAL book again?! #Fabi?? I need a Harrow to my Gideon! COME ON #Tlt #Htn #Gtn #The locked tomb #Gideon Nav #Gideon Nav Cosplay #Gideon the ninth

[dessicatedmummyofhate]

Locked tomb modern AU:

(transcribed from the incoherent ramblings on the back of receipt paper because there’s nothing better to do at work and the brain rot never stops)

Basically, Gideon is born after a hookup with John and G1deon. Wake isn’t sure who’s she is so she doesn’t tell either of them. Later on G1deon finds out about Gideon completely by accident and he tells John he thinks she’s his (John’s) after he sees Gideon’s eyes.

John is skeptical at first, but demands a paternity test, turns out Gideon is his. (At this point Gideon is about 6 and has been living with her mom and her cousin Pash). John tells Wake he wants to be in Gideon’s life, but Wake wants nothing to do with him. As a result, John sues for custody, and because he’s a rich CEO type and Wake has a criminal record, he gets custody of Gideon.

Cut to Gideon being 9 years old. She splits time between her parents houses, spending weekends with Wake and the week with John. John had her enrolled in a private catholic all girls school because he thinks she needs the discipline. Gideon hates it. She meets Harrow there though, and immediately decides that they are best friends. Harrow is under the impression that they are enemies.

John also decides that Gideon should go to church on Sundays. Wake obviously is against this because A) it cuts into hers and Gideon’s time together on the weekends and B) she thinks church is stupid. Finally she agrees to take Gideon to church to be able to spend more time with her kid. Pash gets roped into it as well, be she’s the family who suffers through catholic mass together, stays together. Despite it being his idea, John does not go to church with them.

This just so happens to be the same church that Harrow and her parents go to. Harrow’s parents are ultra religious and own a mortuary. They don’t approve of any of Harrow’s friends (I.e. Gideon), and they approve even less when they meet Gideon’s family in church. Gideon and Harrow spend all their time together at school, usually arguing over petty things or making fun of each other. They consider each other to be mortal enemies (best friends).

Notes: (in no particular order)

John is not a very attentive father despite having gone through all the trouble to get custody of Gideon.

Harrow loves with her two great aunts along with her parents

Wake picks Gideon up from school on Fridays, which Gideon loves and John begrudgingly allows.

Pash works at a Hobby Lobby (because I think it’s funny). She hates it with a burning passion (pun intended).

Pash shows up to church with as many piercings as possible

Wake works construction and drives a pickup truck.

She works with Pyrrha. And sometimes does a little more than work.

Sometimes if Wake can’t make it to pick Gideon up from school, Pash does. This makes people talk even more. Gideon enjoys telling people Pash is her real mom because it pisses Pash off.

Gideon was named accidentally. After she was born the nurses asked Wake what her name was, and Wake who was (ironically) half asleep, thought they asked her who the father was. She took a guess and said Gideon, and then could not be bothered to get the birth certificate changed.

Pash exists off energy drinks and spite.

Gideon tried to invite Harrow to get ice cream for her birthday, but Harrow’s parents said no. Pash felt so bad for Gideon she bought her a stuffed rat which Gideon promptly named Harrow 2. Wake offered to “accidentally” back into Harrow’s mail box.

Pash teaches Gideon curse words to piss off john. Wake only pretends to stop her.

Pyrrha teaches Gideon dirty jokes.

Gideon begs her mom to cut her hair short, and loves it more than anything.

#the locked tomb #gideon the 9th #awake remembrance of these valiant dead #gideon nav #commander wake #our lady of the passion #Pash #john gaius #harrow the 9th #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt #i have too much time on my hands #work is a prison but at least I have bone lesbians #enjoy the brain rot it’s taken over

[silence-of-autumn42]

A Locked Tomb Headcacon: I feel like Gideon has to be a necromancer. She's the daughter of the King Of Necromancers. Her blood is magical enough that it passes for Jod's to be able to unlock the Tomb. She survived the baby genocide curse. She survived the Ninth House when everyone hated her. Gideon is not merely a cavalier, she's a necromancer as well.

So why does she never do any necromancy? Well, largely because she hasn't been taught. This is, I admit, entirely headcanon, but when the Ninth House tests for necromancy, they use bones. Gideon does not have any talent for bone magic. So, when she was unable to manipulate the bone matter she was presented with as a child, she was assumed to not be a necromancer. Instead, I think that Gideon's potential necromantic skills lie in the fields of psychometry and soul magic. Gideon is weirdly receptive to the age and history of things. I believe that's because she's subconsciously picking up on the psychometric traces attached to the objects and places she interacts with. As for the soul magic, she managed to preserve her identity as a soul while existing within Harrow's Lyctoral self. Certainly, she was helped by the fact Harrow mutilated her own brain to remove memories of Gideon so her magic wouldn't target her, but Gideon was still surpressed within Harrow's mind, and still retained her identity after nine months of being a disembodied soul.

So why would Gideon suck at bone magic? Bone magic is, by my understanding, primarily about manipulating dead matter, infused with thanergy. You can do it with living bone, but it's a lot harder. Gideon is weirdly hard to kill. She survived the genocide magic, she's pretty damn durable. Her life is incredibly strongly tied to her body. She's not immortal, like her father, but because it's so hard to kill her, she can't understand what dead matter feels like, necromantically. She literally can't see it. It's kind of like the necromantic equivalent of being colourblind. She just literally cannot see the differences between dead matter, and matter that was never alive. Bone might as well be stone to her. Since she can't feel the death in organic matter, she can't figure out how to manipulate it.

Now, I've not read Nona the Ninth yet, I've not been able to get to my local library for a while, and they didn't have it when I was last there, and I don't have the money to buy books at the moment. So if anything in Nona contradicts this, I do not know about it. I know Kiriona is a thing, and she has a weird body there, but I don't know a lot of the details beyond that. It's very possible that there's something there which explains why she wouldn't be a necromancer that I'm simply not aware of. But, I think this is a fun idea.

#the locked tomb #tlt series #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #gideon nav #tlt headcanons #This series has been rotting my brain for the last few weeks and I need to say something because literally nobody I know has read it

[campcounselorcore]

William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”/ Tamsyn Muir “Harrow the Ninth”

#(I’m doing this scene in my acting class and TLT brain rot is strong so I’m constantly finding parallels) #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #Tamsyn Muir #the locked tomb #tlt #william shakespeare #shakespeare #julius caesar #web weaving #sophie.txt

[ourg0dsal]

Trying to learn to love Nona in the same way that I try to get a little better at loving little kid me.

Who was very naive like nona- who could never fully understand what was happening to her. Let alone why.

#not to get to get too deep #but my first read through of nona the ninth i hated nona #because she is written well enough to remind me of me #its not her fault she doesn't understand #she deserved to care deeply and act always with kindess #i did too #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #gideon nav #the locked tomb series #nona the ninth #nona #alecto #tlt brain rot #the locked tomb brainrot #childhood #trauma #im hungover as hell #and in my feels about it #tlt brainrot

[butterflyastrophysics]

The Locked Tomb brain rot coincided with my desire to do more audiobook content. Enjoy!

Special thanks to @mcdevinpants for prompting me to do this and @rhymingteelookatme for beta listening.

#the locked tomb #tltposting #tlt #tlt trilogy #judith deuteros #camilla hect #coronabeth tridentarius #audiobook #my voice #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #locked tomb brain rot is real and I have it #gtn #htn

[onefleshoneendonebraincell]

y‘all, lyctorhood is genetic

Which is a huge mindfuck

But let’s start with my reasoning for this theory. Which is very simple: when John and Wake discuss her plan, John initially thinks her plan was to kill a lyctor‘s child to get a giant thanergy explosion. And he says that it was a good plan. So we know, that at the very least, John is convinced that a lyctor‘s child is different than a regular child, aka that lyctorhood is to some extent hereditary.

And that just brings us to so many questions: why would he assume that? I honestly intuitively thought that lyctorhood wasn’t genetic, that it was simply something done to the body but not to its DNA. Because (not 100% sure on that) literally everything you do with your body doesn’t change your DNA (not taking epigenetics into account but we aren’t manipulating our dna with that yet). So that’s the norm for people. Why would John know that it’s different for lyctors? Did one or more of the lyctors have children? Did he specifically establish their weird breeding pods to stop that from happening? (I honestly don’t think so, but it is weird that they use technology to have children. Do they have to? Did necromancy fuck up their ability to have children? (Actually I think the books mentioned that about Harrow‘s parents but I don’t have the quote))

Also, if a lyctor‘s powers are (even if just to a small extent) inheritable why make more lyctor’s why the eightfold word? Why not just have them have children? Especially since it could be literally outsourced to their pods? The obvious answer would be that the bond between parent and child is an incredibly strong one. Maybe John didn’t want to risk anybody rebelling against him because of their child. (Also, mildly related tangent: I might be wrong here, but it seems as if parent child relationships like we have them (and expect them!) don’t really exist in the locked tomb universe. Harrow certainly doesn’t have anything close to that. Gideon here is the exception, since she expected (and wished for) her mom to love her, to the point of fighting with Harrow over it. So there is an expectation of parental love. But if that’s the case where are everybody‘s parents? With most of the cast of the first book being children and young adults, I would expect parents to be mentioned. But they aren’t.)

But most importantly of all, this puts the whole idea that lyctors are powered by the souls they devoured, into question. Because it’s not like the soul or the link to it would be passed on to the child. So maybe the lyctoral process fundamentally changes the lyctor and then only the changes are passed on? Because I doubt lyctors can be made as easily as „just by having a kid“. Especially with all the thematic weight that is placed on the sacrifice and the horror of devouring another person to reach lyctorhood. One can only become a lyctor for the price of a soul and eternal regret. I cant imagine a child could just get the same powers without any sacrifice.

(Also Gideon’s inheritance from John is heavily likened to a lyctor’s child, but I don’t think that it checks out. John is definitely something else than a lyctor, whatever he is or did)

#the locked tomb #tlt #locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth spoilers #harrow the ninth spoilers #gideon nav #john gaius #lyctors #awake remembrance of these valiant dead #tlt meta #the locked tomb meta #i got a really bad locked tomb brain rot #pls help #this is the perfect synthesis of my genetics obsession from high school and my current locked tomb obsession #kinda sorry kinda not #i also have lots of feelings about Gideon inheriting god powers but not johns god eyes #but that’s a story for another day #lord knows this is long enough already #locked tomb spoilers #tlt spoilers

[hiddensquid22]

May I present for your approval- a Griddlehark song

Trying to keep it spoiler free, it reminds me so much of that part at the end of HtN that we all scream about 🙊

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #griddlehark #tlt #gideon the ninth #I have the brain rot bad y'all #Spotify