#now we have the locked tomb

[sbeana]

fencing au doodles . I lowkey don't like this one but I think gids shirt is funny

#tlt #the locked tomb #tlt modern au #the locked tomb art #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #camilla hect #tlt art #griddlehark #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #if Gideon ever had to do the leg workouts my old fencing coach used to make me do.... shed die again #we used to do something called russian wall sits #where we'd do wall sits with a weight #but if we faltered or something our coach would have his son whip a tennis ball at us #we either dodged or just took it #lord knows i can wall sit crazy long now

[eskildit]

i think a lot about hot sauce and jeannemary. two young girls so ready to kill and to die. a comparison made all the worse when you recall that hot sauce lost all her family to the cohort, that she can specifically recall fourth style necromancy (using corpses as bombs). a fourteen and thirteen year old that could easily have been on opposite sides of the same front line. 

#the locked tomb #the loss of childhood! senseless violence! #opposite ends of the propaganda machine #eskildit posts tlt #all of nona the ninth #how am i supposed to tag hot sauce #jeannemary chatur #ok to rb #edit: okay im actually gonna use these tags to ramble a lil #in many ways i feel alecto the ninth is gonna be the hardest book to actually pull off #first for the obvious reason that its an ending and endings are always hard #but second because nona the ninth was by far the most political book of the series #books 1 and 2 following harrow and gideon mean we're following characters on the outskirts of the empire #gideon is individually oppressed by the ninth and even harrow is considered a black sheep outsider of the nine houses #but they are still WITHIN the houses gideon has dreams of the cohort harrow has dreams of of revitalizing her house #nona was our actual introduction to the real consequences of the empire that characters like judith like jeannemary like corona herself #have their livelihoods and status entirely built on the imperial violence we see first hand on new rho #anyway i say all of this to say it means coming back to these characters might be kinda tricky! #the cost of the empire is no longer abstract its extremely palpable! #how does one return to our core cast we've know for multiple books now that we understand that #idk. interested to see where we go!

[space--daemon]

fifth-absorbs-the-ninth!au from abigail's perspective as she slowly realises that a) the ninth is being run by half a dozen pensioners and a traumatised preteen; b) the only other preteen on the planet is apparently both their indentured servant (bad) and the first preteen's emotional support chew toy (bad??); c) the cavalier primary is a great poet and a terrible cavalier (sidenote: abigail would fucking LOVE ortus did you sEE her husband??!?!); d) this place is haunted as FUCK including by a vengeful milf; and e) these children need a parent ASAP

cut to abi and magnus trying to surreptitiously adopt the two most feral children they've ever seen without spooking them and also ortus

#abigail: damn bitch you live like this #(to magnus): we have three children now and yes one of them is a grown man in his twenties #abigail comes back to the fifth like: *cocks gun* pluto's haunted #jeanne + isaac are like 8ish and abigail takes them with her on a visit to the 9th bc she thinks harrow + gideon would like company #both of them immediately: what the FUCK is that #HARROW HAS NEVER MET ANYONE YOUNGER THAN HER #that would FUCK YOU UP #abigail pent #magnus quinn #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #ortus nigenad #awake remembrance of these valiant dead #tlt fanfic #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #gtn #commander wake #tlt au #griddlehark #fifth absorbs the ninth!au

[necessarymeanstoanend]

spade represents the tip of a pike; an implement for killing

alex’s

white void of doom

sketch and background element/scribble that isn’t really visible but i’m sharing just in case anybody did notice it.

other details

#now i have to draw one for alex *sobs* #how tf do you guys come up with backgrounds for EVERY DRAWING?! oh my god. i’m not creative enough for this bullshit #two things i discovered with this drawing: 1) birds are hard af to draw. 2) wet black hair is hard af to draw #you guys have no idea how many purple hues are actually in this art piece #this is like if dream and jessamy happened to have met under way worse circumstances #anyway let me know if you guys have any ideas for alex’s (i have no idea when exactly i’ll actually get around to it but still) #bones and shit #a majority of this one was inspired by The Locked Tomb fanart and symbolism #6 hours and 34 minutes but i’m gonna guess that roughly an hour and a half of that was me trying to figure out a background #tom sturridge #like minds #murderous intent #like minds 2006 #nigel colbie #art #fanart #drawing #digital art #nigel colbie fanart #artist of tumblr #like minds art #nigel colby #<- including the old tag bc why not #somebody get this movie out of my brain #scoop it out along with all the other useless shit i keep in there #i was thinking maybe alex’s should be the complete opposite of this #like instead of his head being turned down it would be turned upwards #maybe he should be wearing the clothes he did when we first saw him with sally rowe (or maybe his school uniform) #i ​definitely want both of them to be side profiles and the theme is going to have to be somewhat consistent as well #<<‹ these tags are mostly so i remember my own thought process but feel free to leave your two cents

[b1cr1ptic]

thinking about nonagesimus looks in modern au ... (after she left Drearburh, obvs)

#harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #Love we all have our interpretations of harrow my little meow meow #mine is very androgynous #like ? gender ? havent given it much thought got more important things to deal with right now #(being a menace bath in guilt have mixed feels about griddle) #my art

[procrastinationaccount]

Abella Trine. Abella Trine is the name that Ianthe had in an early draft.

One of her love interests was a spoiled swordswoman who loved sexy parties. A swordswoman. Who Palamedes describes as disliked by the narrative.

Until she meets a tedious widower??? Saintly dead spouse??! After a couple of misunderstandings they get married???

In conclusion. Harrianthe wedding sweep?

#I thought it was the least likely possibility tbh but now.. #Ianthe is the one who would insist on having everyone in fancy outfits for her wedding...Harrow is def going to be one of the parties... #Arranged marriage is one of tazmuir's favorite tropes...she uses foreshadowing so often...paired with the 'I'm going to marry that girl som #Hgggggghhhggjggjggh idk what to think anymore #I'm not getting my hopes up for a griddlehark wedding but I thought Harrow/Alecto seemed most likely #We shall see we shall see #the locked tomb #alecto the ninth predictions #ianthe tridentarius #ianthe naberius #harrowhark nonagesimus #kiriona gaia #Gideon nav #harrow the ninth my beloved

[mayasaura]

I’m wondering... what if we’ve been interpreting Pyrrha’s observation backwards? What if the stoma didn’t react to John because of his connection to the Resurrection Beasts, but rather the other way around? This whole time they’ve been reacting to the Resurrection Beasts because of their connection to John, and by extension Alecto.

It’s been bugging me that the thing that possessed Colum Asht gave him eyes black as the Emperor’s, before it turned them to stoma in his head. It’s been bugging me even more that it only stomafied him after coming into contact with Gideon. His eyes were black until Gideon attacked him, and then they turned to mouths in his head. Whatever was in Colum tried to eat Gideon, like the stoma eat Resurrection Beasts.

Then there’s another thing that’s been bugging me. Why, out of the hundreds of thousands of planets that John and his Empire have killed, are there only nine Resurrection Beasts? Why can the minor beasts Harrow creates be killed by a half-realised baby lyctor with a sword, while the Resurrection Beasts are literally unkillable? They have to be flayed to their cores and then shoved through the mouth of hell, where we don’t know what happens to them. That’s not a difference in scale, it’s a difference in nature. The Resurrection Beasts are just as immortal as Gideon, and the stoma reach for them both the same.

John is the connecting factor. John, and the power he derives from Alecto. The power which created the Resurrection Beasts, and which Gideon inherited a part of. The stoma aren’t after the Resurrection Beasts, not really; they want John. They want Alecto, and the power that enabled the Resurrection that’s still embedded in the souls of the planets that died for it.

#I have to speculate that this is connected to the displacement #and the things there that eat us that Ianthe referred to once and have not been mentioned since #suspicious as fuck if you ask me #I do still think the RBs are the source of necromancy #but John is not a normal necromancer and his power comes from somewhere else #something else #whatever Alecto is she comes from the place beyond the stoma #and the place beyond the stoma wants her back #if siphoning really does create a connection to that place via the displaced soul of the cavalier no wonder John condemns it #the last thing he wants is for whatever's over there to find a pathway into his world #not when it's coming for him #not when it's coming for Alecto #I thought the fundamental difference between Harrow's entombment of Gideon and John's entombment of Alecto #was that Harrow was protecting Gideon and John was hurting Alecto #I might have to revisit this assumption and tag it with a question mark #Of course John's motives are still suspect as fuck and of course I don't trust the man #but I have to remember what parts of the picture we have are facts and what parts are conjecture #right now it's mostly conjecture #the locked tomb #tlt meta #alecto the first #the resurrection #emperor john gaius #harrow the ninth #htn spoilers #alecto theories #the stoma #I've been gone for a week but I'm back bitches! #did you miss me? I've missed you

[dream-to-be-frog]

did not fully process that the teens were so desperate and upset by the fifth’s death that they started stabbing at jeannemary’s arm in hopes of tempting the ghosts with blood. they both were just cutting her open for that before camilla took the knives away and then they bawled. literally in shambles rn i did not process that last time im in tears

#also just #seeing magnus and abigail again post reading harrow hits different #like i loved them before bc how could u not #but now we know them even more and i have to feel so much worse abt this #genuinely not having a good time rn #like i am bc im reading this book ajd i lobe this book #but im so so upset #the locked tomb #frog rereads tlt #gtn spoilers #the fifth house #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares

[raedas]

did you know that uhm. the locked tomb <3

I DID KNOW THIS IVE BEEN SAYJNG

#i’ve been insane for the past month <3 i’m so hyperfixated we are not making it out of here #my life since january has been #finish locked tomb. immediately start rereading the locked tomb #i’m on nona now i am. going to do another reread after. to annotate my copies. yeah you could say i’m a little normal #asks #morgan #SORRY ABOUT YOUR NOTIFS BTW IFE BEEN HAVING FUN

[onefleshoneendonebraincell]

nona is getting a reprint and that's insane

first of all, as far as i know nobody has talked about this. however, i have to admit that i'm currently blocking the nona the ninth tag since i couldn't get my hands on the book yet. so if this is common knowledge, I am sorry

Anyways, Nona is sold out. I preordered the book two weeks ago and thought that that would suffice. But nope, I am not getting it any time soon.

(Actually this is quite the complicated process since I'm currently staying in Portugal for university and I don't speak any Portuguese. Additionally, as far as I can tell, Portugal doesn't have as big a "book-culture" as my home country, so it's been a struggle.)

So, I tried to at least get the book physically at home and just read it digitally until I'm back home. But that's really difficult either. Apparently one of the big distributors (or the one big distributor) is just sold out. They don't have any copies anymore. Apparently Nona is THE book to get right now.

And while I obviously don't love not having the book here, I am honestly so glad for Tamsyn. Like I don't know whether her publishing deal is a favourable one, but I hope she gets all the money and benefits from her book being fucking sold out three days after release (actually it must have been sold out before that since I didn't even get with my pre-order)

#nona the ninth #nona the ninth reprint #nona the ninth is sold out!!!! #tlt #the locked tomb #the locked tomb series #we did it fellas!!! #honestly the only explanation I have is that the fandom just grew so much since harrow that they printed too little #and a lot (like a lot a lot) of people pre-ordered so that must have also influenced it #I hope all of this success goes to tamsyn we all know she is the one that deserves it #the fact her book is apparently THE book to get right now #i love it #tamsyn muir #anyways im off to buy it digitally now #finally i can join yall in your screeching about it #see you in a couple hours??? days??? #actually i still need to finish harrow round 3 first #GUESS WHAT FELLAS I managed to get my (for now still hypothetical) hands on a physical copy!!!!! (at home but its still huge)

[clonerightsagenda]

Paul complaints below:

As I said before, I understand why Palamedes and Camilla saw Paul as the best end they could hope for in the moment. They’re codependent, they hated being separated, and one of their core motivations was preventing people from taking the other person away from them. Paul means no one can ever separate them again.

But Paul also means they will never be themselves again. Body language savant Nona confirms they’re gone. The Sixths may have seen this as a victory over their circumstances, but imo it’s one more variation of how lyctorhood and the necro/cav relationship eats people and characters have yet to find a way out of that system. Infinite variations of consumption and self-destruction. If Harrow made herself a mausoleum, Cam and Pal turned themselves into a tombstone. Another of devotion’s casualties indeed.

#so basically. I get why it happened narratively and I understand why the CHARACTERS chose it #it was the logical endpoint of where their story was going #but I am not HAPPY about it and I am not a Paul fan. #they seem very.... flat #possibly because so much of Cam and Pal's motivations was each other #so now that they've absorbed each other.... they're at rest. what more do they have to do #the locked tomb #nona the ninth spoilers #nona spoilers #maybe Paul will perk up if we dangle Dulcinea in front of them somehow

[thelockedtunes]

I don't know if people run this kind of blog anymore, but I'm going to!

Have any songs that you think fit the The Locked Tomb? send 'em in! I like making playlists and I like discovering new music so i'm looking forward to hearing what y'all have found.

I also have a few playlists I've made that I'll eventually put up.

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt brainrot real and i like music so. here we are #maybe this flops but hopefully we can all get some new music from this! #gonna try to have a nice and organized tagging system too #bc i miss that on my main lmao #but anyways hiiii send me music :) #music for any character/ship/vibes is fine #i'll probably make a better post to be my pinned one later if this goes anywhere but for now this is fine :)

[todd-queen]

locked tomb and hannibal brain rot the intimacy of eating another person. physically spiritually metaphorically to consume someone wholly or in pieces. knowing or choosing to forget/overlook eating another human being. hannibal feeding his friends the people he's killed while psychologically eating them by destroying their lives. john watching all of his friends eat their very best friends after he resurrected them without them knowing and made himself their god. griddle begging harrow to eat her vs hannibal feeding gideon to himself. corona being spared by her sister and seeing herself as a meal refused. hannibal who does not honor every part but makes lavish feasts of what little he does take. will bringing hannibal fish to cook for dinner to show the power he has over him 'it was my turn to provide the meat.' alecto 'this is how meat loves meat.'

maybe this makes no sense but I wake up every day thinking about all these metaphysical, and literal, cannibals and I just had to get this out

#what does it really mean to eat another person #when we consume them are they not a soul and memories #or are they just flesh #'they are not flesh. but light and air and color.“ #“isnt that what it is to be alive” #im losing my mind #“so i dropped to my knees right here...i scooped dirt into my mouth.. ate until i vomited.” #“eat me and let's go full lyctor” #nbc hannibal #the locked tomb #hannibal spoilers #I'm only halfway into s2 and i know I'll have so much more to add to this but i had to get this out now #tlt spoilers #hannibal lecter #john gaius #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon “all i ever wanted was for you to eat me” nav vs hannibal “only if you eat me” lecter #“we are one flesh. i am your end.” #i cant even get into the religious symbolism that both of them have #inside

[yellowraincoat]

If I could make one change to Nona the Ninth it would be having Camilla/Palametes go by Calamity(Cal) instead of Paul. Just feels like a missed opportunity

#like sure Paul is funnier… but now we have to live with the 2nd best character in the series being named Paul #nona the ninth spoilers #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt

[greatshell-rider]

my favorite parts of nona. under a read more cuz long and i do some yelling

[image id: Nona had never seen anyone so sad in her whole short life. It made her nearly afraid to die. “Nobody locks me up anywhere,” said Kiriona. /end id]

@ everyone calling gideon a bitch/jerk/”oh no she’s mean now”/”apparently reading her through her own/harrow’s eyes made her look better” YEAH NO SHIT SHE’S MEAN. EVERYTHING THAT IS HER SELF HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM HER. NOT EVEN HER BODY IS HER OWN. FUCK OFF LET HER BE ANGRY SHE HAS BEEN IN HELL FOR 3-4 MONTHS SHE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW HOW LONG. SHUT UP ! you bitches and your romanticzied mental illnesses don’t know what depression does to a bitch gAH

she is the saddest girl in the whole entire world let her have a MOMENT (while i writhe on the ground in throes of agony over my girl)

[image id: She reached out���she touched the side of the Prince’s face — they both recoiled. Kiriona Gaia recovered first. “You always said I’d come back in a box, Aiglamene,” she said lightly. “They killed you,” said Aiglamene. “Crime of opportunity,” said the corpse prince. And: “Don’t tell Crux — I absolutely, positively cannot give him the fucking satisfaction.” Aiglamene shoved her square in the chest, with the palm of one gloved hand; Kiriona tottered a little and wheezed, “Don’t — that’s where my heart used to be,” but the old soldier’s gaze had already fallen upon Nona. Nona cringed back in Pyrrha’s arms, because the expression was as bad as every single time Camilla had caught her putting a mouthful of chewed-up food in the potted plant or elsewhere. She could read this very old, very furious soldier like a book: the woman was angry, and blamed her. Kiriona Gaia could read her too, because she insinuated herself between them, and said coolly — “It’s not her, Captain — it’s only her body.” Over the Prince’s shoulder, Aiglamene looked at Nona, long and suspiciously, then she sighed, and wheeled around, and said: “Get inside. Now. Complete the gate,” she told a few of the other robed people. /end id]

THEY KILLED YOU. THAT’S WHERE MY HEART USED TO BE. (ianthe’s slap (a full lyctor’s slap) didn’t make gideon even flinch but aiglamene’s shove makes her wheeze) aiglamene knowing who to blame. her FURY. gideon putting her body between aiglamene and nona. THEY BOTH RECOILED (aiglamene from her cold corpse skin, gideon unable to bear her touch when she didn’t react even to nona kissing her)

[image id: “But maybe we shouldn’t,” she said, holding the eyelids to that little slit — watching the onscreen scribbles flash urgently on the truck glass, watching the widening white crack, watching the river water pound itself back into the place where it wanted to be even if the River itself didn’t. “If we end here, it’ll be just like . . . a bad dream, won’t it? And maybe we’ll wake up somewhere else. I know we won’t,” she explained, “but we don’t have to know that . . . maybe if we all go, it’ll be quick.” Paul looked at her, with those dark grey-brown pupils widening, slightly. “Nona,” they said, “Noodle’s in the back.” The middle thoughts surged. The slit widened all the way. “Oh my God,” she said, in a panic. “I forgot about Noodle.” The windshield cracked all the way across the middle. Paul leant their full weight on the accelerator. Nona drove the truck home. /end id]

what you can’t do for your people, friends and family, you can do for your little beast. yeah muir gets it

[image id: “Camilla, we did it right, didn’t we?” Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn’t speaking to anyone else in the universe. “We had something very nearly perfect . . . the perfect friendship, the perfect love. I cannot imagine reaching the end of this life and having any regrets, so long as I had been allowed to experience being your adept.” [/end id]

burst into fucking tears at this part so it’s a good thing none of my roommates were home lmao. THEY DID IT RIGHT. the sheer care and utter devotion. no regrets, as long as he got to be her adept. WEEPING

#fun fact i will simply never stop thinking about no one being as sad as nona saw gideon the line fucking gutted me #the desolation of her grief. the emptiness of it. the inability to mourn everything that has been taken from her. just hollow #[beats john with a lead pipe] #and yeah that first paragraph from palamedes is what got me. not the return of 'go loud' that was cute but damn that first paragraph #'we did it right' they sure did. they really did /sobs #the respect and honor palamedes shows camilla for all that she does for him im just- WEEPS #a romance could fucking never and THAT is facts #locked tomb #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #lmao my opinion of kiriona has shifted dramatically #at first i was just horrified at what john had done to gideon's body and thought kiriona wasn't really gideon? just a puppet yknow #fucking HATED her in first house attire the white is a fucking insult. disgusting #was not sure how i felt about whatever the fuck she and ianthe has going on sldkfjsl #but saw her reaction to returning to ninth house and reuniting with aiglamene and was like. ah. okay there's a piece of her soul in harrow's #body but yeah no kiriona's gideon. this is just her new self damaged and hurt as it may be #and THEN i finish the book and hop on tumblr and find out people have been throwing shade at her now that her snarky comments suddenly aren' #aren't so fun anymore and im. WELL. well NOW i support evil fucked up angsty mean bitch gideon 10000% yall can go to hell #i hope she spits in harrow's face fuck you #sure let her autonomy and dignity and fucking body be stolen and degraded and used as a tool but gods forbid she be upset about it #:p #heaven forbid she SHOW her upset dear fucking gods that's intolerable #symptoms????? of mental illness??????? that isn't????? palatable and consumable to the audience?????? >:OOOOO OUTRAGE #gideon is the character of all time yall don't deserve to fuckin look at her #not for you

[procrastinationaccount]

I wonder if the fact that Gideon has never hit Harrow is going to come back in Alecto...

#More like I'm scared that I will #👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 that phrasing #That factoid is burned into my brain because it's in proximity to 'nearly did lay hands on her then and probably should have' #But anyway. The first few chapters put a lot of emphasis on the viscera and personality behind being hit in the face #Being backhanded like a barking animal vs (the premise of) being hit with trembling affrontedness vs being kicked with a booted foot #Later the act of Harrow turning her back on Gideon as almost an act of violence in their fight on the stairs #(Which when paired with the htn Harrow-as-Orpheus angle shkdhherjfkrhdjfj but we have to move on) #As kids going from elaborate traps and proxy skeleton fights to clawing each other in the dirt #And now I think the last time they touched was when Harrow poked her cheek at the end of gtn? 😭 #Idk exactly where I'm going with this but if Kiriona hit Harrow that would certainly be A Change #Especially with Harrow bitchslapping Ianthe as a dismissal in ntn #It just feels like a setup waiting for payoff yknow #the locked tomb #griddlehark #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon the ninth spoilers #Nona the ninth spoilers #Harrow the ninth spoilers #Only in the tags but w/e