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Everytime I see a post that is simultaneously funny, mildly frustrating and weird (in a very chronically online way) it always has a tip option. I need you know, all I want to do is :

sigh

yeet a handful of change at it.

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someone talk to me about the locked tomb books PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

#me at all me friends #all these little blorbos live in my head now #i cant kidnap my loved one for a 2h powerpoint presentation so they are caught up on my insanity.... can I? #tlt #the locked tomb series

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"i just don't like masculine women" literally i'm so sorry for you loss. i hope you get well soon

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That is a very good point ! I never thought about the herald madness angle.

That made me think more about the situation with Pyrrah. Because she wasn't absorbed did that mean G1deon also had some trouble with his unconscious cav defense mechanism? Was that why John asked him specifically to try and kill Harrow, because he had to go through something similar ? G1deon fights with a spear but we saw that Pyrrah was a gun girl on instinct, is that a skill he had to perfect learn because using guns would mean Pyrrah got absorbed more ?

Some TLT things I've realized the last few days:

Cam and Pal HAD to Paul into Cam's body. If heralds and RBs are in our future, Cam's body should keep the insanity (was it called blue madness?) at bay. And maybe from a writing POV, it's best to not have too many characters just screaming uncontrollably for every encounter.

Pyrrha's surfacing while G1deon was alive probably had to be pretty limited because I think this would have had the same effect as what Pal was doing to Cam. It would have probably slowly killed G1deon until total takeover. I assume she was trying not to do that AND being covert. I assume that she otherwise could have disappeared completely and no one would be able to detect her as a lyctor. Does John sense his lyctors or are they invisible to him too?

#the locked tomb #tlt spoilers #pyrrah dve

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Please give me muppet Aziaphale ! I want to see David Tennent make out with a muppet ! Please !

I've seen a number of Locked Tomb posts about muppet adaptations and muppet AUs, and I desperately want this to happen in all fandoms. Imagine people drawing their favorite Formula 1 drivers as muppets. Dark academia moodboards with muppets. Muppet Aziraphale.

#good omens #muppet adaptation

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Just out of curiosity, do you prefer griddlehark or harryanthe as a ship? Your artwork is so incredibly gorgeous for both!

I prefer the ship where all three of them are together

#griddleharrianthe #it's the ship that keeps on shipping #i feel they each would drive the other 2 insaine in special and unique ways. #their trio dynamic is so funny to think about #i demand a griddleharrianthe wedding in alecto the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt spoilers

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Gideon: Harow, do I look buff with this shirt?

Harrow: ...

Gideon taking Harrow's earphone's out: Do I look-

Harrow: I heard you! I just didn't want to dignify you with an answer.

modern tlt au. what no alecto does to a mf

#tlt au #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #ianthe doing percings is kind of perfect for her #and of course she would be near sighted as a normal person #in love with this design #tlt fanart #the locked tomb series

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harrow definitely thought they were like dating and in love after the pool scene meanwhile gideon is like shit she’s in love with a dead body not me i guess i’ll kill myself (for her)

#Ianthe thinks she is playing a yandere dating sim and harrow is doing a speedrun #Harrow and her 3 useless girlfriends #harrow will outlive them all #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt spoilers

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"Ianthe was screaming over the comm."

Something about this line just really makes me feel for her in ways nobody should feel for Ianthe probably. She has never been alone in her life before. She and Corona only ever spent three nights apart. And now she's without her twin, and while she does have Harrow, she actually doesn't really have Harrow. The version of Harrow who has any idea of what they both went through at Canaan House is gone, and Ianthe can't tell anyone the full story. So she is in a sense going through this whole experience by herself, for the first time ever. Harrow feels isolated because she's a diet Lyctor, which we know is plenty bad; but Harrow is used to isolation. Ianthe is more prepared for Lyctorhood but way, way less prepared for loneliness.

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palamedes sextus was so real for writing an insane sequel to a shitty erotica book on the walls of his fucked up little river bubble prison. nothing else going on in there, just the same awful romance novel on repeat 600 times and his own little silly headcanons scrawled all over the nearest surface. outside there’s a million screaming ghosts and the only way to stay sane is to hyperanalyze the same story for eight months. that’s literally exactly what it feels like. he gets it

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Every time I remember that Pyrrha has never seen Palamedes’s face I suddenly want to jump into a trash compactor.

#it does not help! #why do you wish to hurt me so ? #with every addition this post gets sadder #that is almost a talent at this point #the locked tomb #tlt #pyrrha dve #palamades sextus #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers

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if you'd like, list 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers <3

Things that make me happy? of course !

1 puppies

2 morning cuddles

3 carving little Mushrooms out of wood

4 the smell of rain

5 dancing with my friends like we are the only ones in the club

#ask game #ask me anything

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shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3

1 hypothetical by kiNG MALA

2 the fruits by Paris Paloma

3 aquatrip by Hippocampe Fou

4 Rome by Solann

5 Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz

Hey ! This went pretty well !

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I haven't been able to read more than one harrow chapter today so I'm going to save my update for tomorrow, but since people have been so nice about my updates, here's a free preview with no context (you probably all know the context anyway)

#no but for real is THIS allowed !

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I can finally share this meme

I love your chapter by chapter commentary, you put so much thought and care into them. You have become part of my morning routine at this point and I'm so exited to read your reactions go certain chapters.

I shouldn't be making another one of these because I didn't even give you enough time to catch up and I'm sure you're tired of me (I'm probably losing mutuals over the length of these) BUT I FINISHED ACT II and I think this is the right place for an update recap. I'm so sorry.

previously, in harrowlana the ninth (reference I might explain one day):

this happened

currently, chapters 20 - 22 (END OF ACT II!!!):

we start with a killer epitaph from harrow for her own grave that I absolutely 10000% need in a tshirt yesterday

"Here lies the world's most insufferable witch"

alleged gideon the first, here known as ortus the first (but I am so sure about this one) has tried to kill harrowbeanie 14 times

I honestly don't know how harrow is going through this without outright telling emperor johnny man to go and insert this entire planetary situation right in the center of his bolthole

we're over here working overtime for you and your sorry ass of a plan that is probably terrible for everyone who isn't you

and we have to put up with zombies (we'll get there), the terrible attitude of your remaining lyctors, very questionable food, very questionable decor, very questionable non goth fashions, and also a man who tries to kill harrow at every turn

this is the worst

at least in canaan house we had gideon's humor and camilla's perfection

ANYWAY

emperor john tells alleged gideon the first (if I'm wrong about this, these are going to be embarrassing looking back on) "she's your responsibility, not your punching bag" to which alleged gideon the first answers "I find the responsibility a hard one"

I'm not sure if this is alluding to baby lyctors in general or harrow in particular, or if anything related to the gideon-involvement narrative I'm imagining has anything to do with it

emperor johnny boy tells harrowbean that this guy's problem is that he made a pact with an "authority he has no power to gainsay" to protect emperor johnny john and that alleged gideon the first thinks harrow is a danger to the emperor

I SURE HOPE SO

I SURE HOPE HARROW KILLS THIS MAN

I HOPE ALLEGED GIDEON THE FIRST IS RIGHT

harrow then mentions how she's "lyctor lite" and emperor john of nottingham says he doesn't think harrow fucked up the lyctor thing

he says only one person fucked it up and it was nasty

it was the ninth lyctor, Anastasia (and a song someone sings, once upon a december)

the vacant room harrowbean has taken residence in was meant for her, but she never made it there

she asked emperor john the asshat to kill her and he said no because he's that kind of a person

"she had much more to give"

I hate this guy

he also says "I had a body and I needed a tomb"

harrow asks the question everyone is asking themselves

aside from where tf are gideon and camilla

"God, who did you bury?"

he gets all vague and cryptic so he can avoid taking about what the fuck he's doing

and he quotes Annabel Lee

edgar allan poe's Annabel Lee

this is a bit more in my wheelhouse than shakespeare

to which harrow notes "Who was A.L.?"

now, I have SEVERAL THINGS TO SAY

first, and most importantly, I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS

THAT ICE CUBE BARBIE MIGHT BE A.L.

I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS, FAM

here's more magic knight rayearth art of the vibes I get from them to celebrate

second of all, Annabel Lee

I do have Annabel Lee in one of my EAP books, but not the one with the pretty Lacombe illustrations

so here are some Ligeia illustrations from it that have the vibe we're going for, as a treat

now, not to be all ortus over here, but I'm gonna be reciting some poetry

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea— In her tomb by the sounding sea.

gonna put that in the 3d model

in the middle of it, like a centerpiece

let's bring back the barbie

this man is doing the whole wife/madwoman in the attic gothic trope but instead of an attic it's a tomb in pluto

another madwoman archetype to add to the list, we've got a whole collection

CHAPTER 21

we have summoned ortus by reciting poetry, because we're back in the gideon-less version of canaan house

so, the sixth is dead in this version

the sleeper or random rifle carrying person shot them in the face a bunch of times

what I wanted to do to not!dulcinea

harrow mentions not having seen camilla or palmolive much in this gideon-less version

devastating for her not to have met camilla

so then protozoa and dulcinea come in

notice I didn't say not!dulcinea

that's because this is the real deal dulcinea and the alive non zombified protozoa

we can know this by their descriptions (especially the hair), the fact that dulcinea knows who tf palmolive is, that she has a breathing tube that palmolive designed for her (this guy istg), that she can identify them and calls them "cam" and "pal"

I was so caught up on this book I forgot to read the short story that came before it btw

anyway, we also know this because protozoa speaks, but we'll get to that

before that, ortus calls the sleeper "the waker" and it's giving me the vibes of the citadel deck

wait, I'm gonna take a pic of some of the cards that give me the correct tlt vibes, so you know what the hecko I'm talking about

(I'm going on unplanned tangents but maybe someone appreciates them)

(we've moved from 3d models to me fetching books and decks from my shelves, what has palmolive done to me)

so, as previously established, protozoa speaks, which is how we know he might be the real one and not the zombie version

he then proceeds to recite poetry

ortus is feral about this

I thought initially that they were gonna have to make room for protozoa in the polycule ortus is in with the fifth, but he doesn't like protozoa coming for his gig

abby says "we're all in this together" which reminds me I did make a high school musical connection with magnus before, so it's funny that it turned out that way

abby asks real dulcinea, aka "dulcie" to her, to bring in mayonnaise uncle because he'll listen to her

why is everyone always into her in all the aus, idk

this one is less bad than not!dulcinea though, but the bar for that was on the subsoil

magnus (who is very much in love with his wife and he's pointing it out every chance he gets) is in charge of looking for martita

harrow is in charge of regina george twin (and yandere twin)

abby thinks regina george twin is the most relevant one

apparently also they're flooded with the rain

which was me last week, so I feel you fam

and we get our traidtional quote, this time by real dulcinea

"Is this really how it happens, Lady Pent?" "No. It's not" "Does it get—better than this? Do you know?"

real dulcinea is saying goodbye to palmolive and the love of my life, who I refuse to accept is in any way harmed in any timeline

and harrow "felt something in her core, though she did not know precisely what it was"

palmolive had a filmsy and we love flimsies because they have what I have started to call "harrow texts"

or "texts which can only be read by harrow"

OP is still ranting, a continuation of the egg rant

I'm gonna transcribe all of it and bold the new part, for my own access, even though everyone who has me in their dash will hate me and block me

The eggs you gave me all died and you lied to me so I did the implantation myself you self-serving zombie and you still sent him after me and I would have had him if I hadn't been compromised and he took pity on me! he took pity on me! he saw me and he took pity on me. And for that I'll make you both suffer until you no longer understand the meaning of that goddamned word. Him I'll kill quick because she asked me to and because that much he honestly deserves but you two mummified wizard shits I will burn and burn and burn burn until there is no trace of you left in the shadow of my long-lost natal sun

could the self-serving zombie be emperor john? could gideon the first be one of the people alluded to? has Annabel Lee anything to do with any of this? since OP mentions a long-lost natal sun? who's "she"? has gideon's mom anything to do with any of this? is this totally not related? is this the actual present? does 'mummified wizard shits' stand for lyctor? because I kinda live for that

ortus, on the other hand, sees an S

ortus in this timeline knows how his dad died, apparently

and we end this part with harrow and ortus finding rusted pipette needles

CHAPTER 22

harrow has killed 13 planets in this practice, which is insane and nobody's asking any questions about it

she was dreaming with ice cube barbie annabel lee and she told her to wake up

harrow mentions the sword sleeping next to her in a loverlike position and it reads like a gideon body pillow to me

remember when I said we should have flushed not!dulcinea into space?

GUESS WHO WAS RIGHT

nobody ever takes the not!dulcinea threat seriously but me

I have to do everything around here

she's a zombie now, which is protozoa's revenge from behind the veil

there's a moment in which she trips but still looks at harrow and it's very creepy and well narrated but I can't help but think of the dracula dead and loving it scene with hypnosis

"it was as though a magnet were stuck in the meat, a magnet that craved some polar force within you" wonder what THAT is about

much like the sleeper/waker, not!dulcinea can pass through wards apparently

harrow goes to wake up yandere twin and says "septimus is walking"

yandere twin doesn't understand at first "the name that had never been cytherea's" and later says "tell her I want my arm back"

which relates to the fact that I've been thinking

if real dulcinea is there in the gideon-less ver

how was not!dulcinea even involved?

because harrow seems to have memories of killing her, of fighting her, of her doing damage in some way, of her being a threat, of her doing it to lure emperor johnny boy to canaan house

so we have some big missing link between the gideon-less canaan version and the emperor's bolthole timeline

she can't be the sleeper/waker, because harrow wouldn't call her "septimus"

so harrow remembers not!dulcinea posing as real dulcinea, which does not happen in the gideon-less version, as far as we can tell atm

AGAIN, DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING, LET ME BE IN DISTRESS

last but not less important

remember not to hint me anything at all and thank you for being patient with me all this time ♥

#harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #every chapter without camilla is a sad chapter

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The saddest thing about TLT is that Cytherea did not get a chance to call John Gaius a bitch to his face and explode him into a fine red mist.

#she deserves to <3 #tlt #justice for our queen #she suffered for 10'000 years she should have been able to call him a whinny bitch #and stab him just a little

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Palamedes could only stick around because he planned for it in advance. The Canaan House servants were called back and bound to skeletons. This level of persistence in a revenant is remarkably rare and is usually intentional. So how does Wake do it?

#she is just THAT mad #she could not let it go until the lyctors payed #she had the power of vengence and anime on her side