#Gideon the ninth

[froopa-coopa]

love a canon (?) coffee shop AU

#griddlehark #tlt #the locked tomb #art #harrowhark #gideon #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #harrow spoilers #gideon spoilers #spoilers #book #way to ruin the moment Abigail so rude #but seriously i laughed so hard when i realised what was happening its amazing #all the memes and fanfic tropes that tamsyn managed to put in the novels and it WORKS???

[kayleerowena]

i will never dig a hole two fingers beneath this sternum to bury myself / holy, holy, holy, holy

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[chicaneryatelier]

#gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #I'm normal about this scene #harrowhark nonagesimus #Old art

[maeirys]

The First Flower of the Ninth

#griddlehark #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb fanart #the locked tomb #tlt #reuploading because I made a typo!! #gideon x harrow

[ooctlt]

do you guys live near the tridentarii siblings/naberius? what do ya'll think of them?

OOC PSA: this unlocks the tridentarii party event - from april 25 to may 3 only asks interacting with the party setting and characters will be answered. please refrain from sending asks about the tridentarii or asks that can be answered later right now (ex: "how do you know ianthe? do you like corona? what are their majors?) as these may be answered through 1) inferring from their interactions in this event, and 2) later, after the event

you are encouraged to note the details in the background and see what you can glean and prompt from them!

#coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #party #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #artlog #third #EVENT: tridentarii party

[notedchampagne]

hello ladies

#pyrrha dve #our lady of the passion #pash tlt #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #dudele

[saintharrowhark]

it’s actually sick and twisted that harrowhark nonagesimus isn’t the most famous fictional character in the world. no one has ever had the same amount of creepy lesbian swag and no one ever will

#tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #when i say no one is doing it like her i MEAN IT #she’s giving snooty little butch #she’s giving weirdo freak #she’s a genius she’s a hard worker she’s creative #she commits to homoerotism at all times #she’s in love with a dead barbie doll #she’s in love with her childhood menace #she has a weird situationsjop with the only woman alive who is weirder and creepier than her

[toranstarfall]

One thing I find interesting in the Nine Houses is the weaponry. All of it real, Renaissance-era stuff. But you only see one polearm, G1deon's spear, which he uses as an offhand(at least when in the Mithraeum, he probably only uses his rapier as a sidearm when doing solo missions). Harrow knows what it is, so it isn't a foreign concept, but the weapon of a soldier in the Cohort appears to be a zweihander, a large, two-handed sword, referred to as a longsword in the Houses, which was a weapon meant for frontline soldiers to deal with enemy pikemen, not for formation fighting. Cavaliers use rapiers with an offhand of choice, yet rapiers never saw battlefield use IRL, and if defending the necro is the purpose, wouldn't you want a shield, especially with many enemies the Houses face using firearms? Also, the Houses don't have any firearms, even the ones that were used at a similar time to other weapons they used, but are fully aware of their existence. They also have small shields like bucklers and targes, so it probably isn't a case of not knowing what shields are.

#tlt #gideon the 9th #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #locked tomb #sword #swords #spear #polearm #shield

[rosemarydisaster]

I know that all the names of The Locked Tomb Series have a lot of deep meaning but I just love the Seventh house. Like, the way you can figure out the plot twist just by reading the names. (Spoilers for Gideon the Ninth).

Dulcinea is named after Dulcinea del Toboso from El Quijote. The titular Quijote lives in a fantasy world due to reading too many books about Knights, so he starts imagining the world around him as the one from his books. He kinned too close to the sun. Dulcinea del Toboso is his lady love, the most perfect woman in existence. Obviously Don Quijote's "squire" Sancho Panza doesn't believe Dulcinea exists. She's part of Quijote's fantasy. So to try to snap him out of it he brings him a peasant woman named Aldonza Lorenzo, ugly and stinky, saying it's Dulcinea. Quijote assumes she must be under some curse and bows to free her (he never gets to). So obviously when I read Dulci's name in Gideon the Ninth and she turns out to be too perfect to be real...yeah, I figured out that wasn't the real necromancer from the seventh. Tbf, I'm from Spain so Dulcinea immediately triggers my second grade memories.

Protesilaus. This one's crazier and I didn't get it until the end of the book. You see the name sounded familiar and I was sure it was from some Greek myth or tragedy. Turns out in the Iliad the Oracle tells the Greeks that the first man to set foot on Troy would die. That's why Odysseus jumped on his shield to not "set foot on trojan soil". Protesilaus was the first one to actually disembark and, as such, was killed. Just like TLT protesilaus was the first one to die (protecting Dulci). Also in some versions of the story his wife, wracked with grief, asks the gods to see her beloved again. The gods take pity on her and allow her five minutes, after which they both die. This reminds me of how the real Protesilaus was brought back by Harrow's bubble, created by her grief for Gideon.

Cytherea is another name for Aphrodite and Gideon's very obvious lust aside, this tracks too. Not only is Cytherea described as really beautiful, she's a Lyctor which makes her godlike. It's also her love for her cavalier that makes her lose her head a bit. And even while she's Killing everyone in Canaan House she makes it a point to state that she still loves all of the contestants. She even admits to still loving John (much like Mercymorn). Also, the one that finds out she's not who she says she is is the man in love with the real Dulcinea.

Gotta love Tamsyn spoiling her book with names. This series is so fucking good.

#tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gtn #gideon the ninth spoilers #cytherea the first #dulcinea septimus #protesilaus ebdoma #the seventh house #seventh house #7th house #tamsyn muir

[screaling]

Thinking about the wedding in Alecto the Ninth

Thinking about how Alecto is awake and the lyctors are dead

Thinking about John going to Alecto and saying, "look what I have done for you, behold I have slain my lyctors and my fingers and gestures are dead, by feeding them to your siblings and by my own hand. Good morning Annabelle Lee, everyone who has fucked with us is dead."

Thinking about John Giaus telling Alecto that now everything can be perfect, they can be his perfect family with their two children, one necro and one cav

All eternal, all immortal, everything he's ever wanted. His perfect family to play pretend with

I think John Giaus, Jod emperor of mankind, is going to try to marry Alecto

And I think Alecto is going to tell him "No, now I know what real love is"

#alecto the ninth #alecto the first #the locked tomb spoilers #gtn spoilers #htn spoilers #ntn spoilers #tlt spoilers #john giaus #the locked tomb #Gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #tlt

[sudoscience]

Disadvantages of audiobooks: hard to pay attention to sometimes, can't always understand everything that's said, no idea how things are spelled

Advantages of audiobooks: this

God bless you, Moira Quirk.

Transcript:

"No," said Dulcinea. "Oh, no no no. Stay awake."

Gideon couldn't say anything but blearrghhh, mainly because blood was coming enthusiastically out of every hole in her face.

#meant to add the transcript earlier but i didn't have the printed copy handy #mostly because i really wanted to know how that sound was spelled #as a transcription “​blearrghhh” is at once completely accurate but also entirely underwhelming #the locked tomb #tlt spoilers #(possibly) #gideon the ninth #moira quirk #video #audiobooks #gideon nav #dulcinea septimus

[black-sort-alone-turn]

#jojo’s bizarre adventure #beautiful words #morena baccarin #grimes #degrade kink #twisted wonderland x reader #jade harley #chord overstreet #gideon the ninth #zmeenaorr #bespoke

[antifa-terra]

Homestuck/The Locked Tomb Part 1 (Image ID will be in the reblogs later)

#the locked tomb #aradia megido #vriska serket #harrowhark #web weave #web weaving #webweave #tlt #gideon the ninth #gtn #harrowhark nonagesimus #homestuck #hs

[jaewul]

I'm pretty sure it has already been discussed, but the whole rapier thing in tlt that bothers me very much.

See, a rapier has an average weight of about 1kg (2.2 lb). I've had the occasion to play around with a VERY light one (about 700g I think) for about two hours last week and boy you do feel it after a while. The guy I was sparring with had a 1.5kg exemplary, which is not all that uncommon from what I've seen (it really depends on your size actually, you want your rapier to be proportional and I'm bite sized) (also it means that Gideon-sized rapier would be ridiculous in Harrow hands).

Anyway, a longsword has a weight ranging from 1 to 2kg, most exemplary being around 1.5kg. Now, there's a very important distinction between a rapier and a longsword : the longsword is used with both hands. I cannot understate what a difference it makes.

So it makes absolutely no sense to give a rapier to someone with 0 muscle, they will get less tired using a goddamn longsword.

(I think what happened is that Tamsyn Muir mixed rapier with foil (a very light sword for sport fencing weighing under 500g, 18oz, so basically a very long needle) and longsword with zweihander (the LONGEST sword, ranging from 2 to 4 kg, 4.4 to 8.8lb), but still, it's confusing)

#tlt #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #jae being a nerd #is it important? not really #does it bother me? immensely

[ooctlt]

Crazy party! Who's hosting?

harrows not the one that needs an eye kept on

part 1

#palamedes sextus #camilla hect #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #artlog #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #EVENT: tridentarii party #party #drinks #fun #third #naberius tern

[notedchampagne]

wont you share with me

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #dudele #annotations