#anyway I need to finish my mercymorn & Augustine fic

[marnz]

I’m like 70% into my harrow reread and having a blast, I love harrow, I love how hard she tries and fights, how she’s awful but also doing her best. I love the canaan house redux and as always Augustine & Mercymorn kill me dead forever and always.

Something I love is the parallels of relationships in this series and ESPECIALLY in harrow…Augustine & Mercymorn are a model for Harrow & Ianthe, just as Abigail & Magnus are a model for Gideon & Harrow. This is hinted at in GtN when Gideon mentally steals Magnus’s “pri-married” joke for herself but you really see it in Harrow as Harrow admires and takes interest in Abigail & Magnus’ marriage despite the transgression of it? Which is big “baby gay seeing a gay married couple happy and thriving” energy. I love that Tamsyn still invents a kind of transgressive desire and a type of important relationship to “queer” in this new society where being gay is totally normal. which also makes sense! most necromancers are not going to be squeamish about the body and sex of any kind, but harrow IS, and this is why her distaste for flesh magic is such a lovely layer! God I love these books

#harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #currently #anyway I need to finish my mercymorn & Augustine fic #also man the lyctoral process essentially making a cavalier/necro relationship a huge taboo…even tho it sounds like all of them were fuckin #it’s just really well done #edit this is why I think the coronabeth/ianthe dynamic is extra fascinating bc corona wants to be ianthe’s cav! it’s already incest! #read in 2023