#cytherea loveday

[amatorygirls]

GtN and HtN spoilers!! CW: talk of not having control over your body

just randomly thought of this now so excuse my incoherentness or possible ignorance or if anyone has said this before (this is also my first ever tumblr post so sorry for formatting errors), but i was looking at fanart of cytherea the first and just loving it. i realized there’s just something so baroque about her, and i think that’s on purpose. because she’s of the 7th house yes, the emperor’s joy and all that, but also because she’s a woman, and also because she’s dying. she’s expected to be beautiful because of her affiliation and her gender, all while she’s decaying from a disease that she was doomed to be born with and could never escape until it ultimately killed her. wilting away infront of everyone. and the ENTIRE time, she was given roses. roses, the pinnacle of beauty. every single rose she was given had a meaning, a life. and every single rose died. inevitably, wilting away infront of her. reminding her of her own fragile, ‘beautiful’ self. and even after she was dead, she was laid to rest drowned in roses that were modified to stay perpetually fresh, along with her body (i think) ((which of course john would do, after reading nona i’m not surprised)). not even eternally asleep could she catch a break. i think tamsyn muir was saying something here about how the ‘ideal woman is a dead one’. she is silent, still, and malleable. that’s what she pretended to be in canaan house. but i don’t think she ever could truly be. she was too angry. too enraged. also the fact that she became a lyctor in hopes she could be cured but just ended up suffering in a stagnant state of sickness for thousands of years, the fact that she was purposely given this disease. the fact that john LIED. lied to everyone. lied to HER. before her life, during her life, and after her life, things were done to her body without her informed consent. her cancer being almost prophetic, her unknowing improper lyctoral ascension, and the possesion of her empty shell of a body. (also it being used as a medium for pyrrha and wake is a whole other thing) she IS the rage of not having control over your own body. i think, ultimatley, that’s what her character is about. i mean, i’m pretty sure harrow stabbing The Sword™️ INSIDE her unwilling corpse was probably a metaphor or something…

“we take so much. i’m so sorry.”

(again i just thought of this thirty minutes ago so feel free to add anything 🙏) ((i also wonder how this parallels dulcinea and her life but it’s 1 am and i don’t feel like thinking anymore. but i think we’ll learn more about her in alecto.))

the art that inspired this was a beautiful cytherea and harrow drawing by pygmypouter on tumblr!

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #nona the ninth #tlt #tlt spoilers #tlt series #tlt brainrot #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #gideon nav #dulcinea septimus #tlt analysis #tamsyn muir #sorry if i did anything wrong LMFAO #tamsyn you’ve done it again #alecto the ninth #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #locked tomb #tlt meta

[theriverbeyond]

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bone construct

#harrowhark nonagesimus #cytherea loveday #the locked tomb #trb.txt #x

[cutetanuki-chan]

wanted to sketch something fun

#help I just tried to draw them a bit more stylistic and now they look like Yzma and Kronk #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #dulcinea septimus #cytherea loveday #art #i miss sexpal so much he's never coming home he'll never get to present Harrow's body back to her i hate this book

[nortess]

birth of venus except it sucks!

#slayed too close to the sun #beautifully tho #the locked tomb #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #gideon the ninth #tlt #art #my art

[ancientannoyance]

finally finishes the colour wheel meme a whole year after everybody else

#you can tell how much my style shifted between drawing the others vs drawing cytherea lmao #wanted to sort of the draw the whole wheel as gtn-relevant characters ayyy #with alecto as the ghost haunting the narrative ofc #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt spoilers #gtn spoilers #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #alecto the first #cytherea loveday #my art #fanart

[vict-torn]

For that one user that said Gideon needed to be bigger, you are dead right and I proudly present exhibit g(a)y

#tlt #tamsyn muir #the locked tomb #griddle #gideon the ninth #griddlehark #gideon nav #harrowhark fanart #dulcinea septimus #illustration #character art #fanart #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #sketch dump #art dump #I’m not gonna lie #I fucked up the perspective in the pool sketch I just hadn’t noticed 😆 #gideon deserves more muscle this is true #character design #procreate #concept art #digital illustration #I literally cannot draw them all up fast enough I cannot wait to draw the rest of these guys #ugh #necromancer

[jademaomi]

happy women's day to cytherea the first, disabled queen who murdered children and refused to kiss god bc it would mess up her lipstick

#The Locked Tomb #Gideon the Ninth #Cytherea the First #Cytherea Loveday #TLT #shes literally so gender #我的 #字

[iamanoccasionaldoodler]

It's very funny when people reading Gideon the ninth for the first time comment in confusion about how little people talk about "Dulcinea" but like. Actually we DONT talk about Cytherea enough.

Cytherea - who was dying for 10,000 years! Cytherea the miracle worker who was brought before God and he LIED to her and he told her and her friends they were doing the right thing and he WATCHED as they killed each other and he is DOING IT ALL OVER AGAIN. Cytherea who is trying to get God's attention but who is also trying in her own monstrous way to be kind. They all have to die because /the only other option is to become what she is./ Of course Jeannemary and Isaac have to die. Isaac has to die because she can't let him kill Jeannemary. Jeannemary has to die because she watched Isaac die and Cytherea knows there's no coming back from that. Dulcinea HAS to die because the only other option is to suffocate slowly in her own cancer for 10,000 years and Cytherea /can't let her do that./ The fifth and the fourth and the sixth and the ninth - they ALL have to die because if she could go back that's what she would have wanted. They don't know it yet, but in 10,000 years, they'd want it too. She didn't take her chance to die when she had it. They don't know how lucky they are.

And Cytherea who put on airs of being petty and selfish meanwhile she gave herself away until there was nothing left. Cytherea who hated God because he took everything she had without blinking twice. Cytherea who said over and over "me, I will" and whose sisters and brothers died around her and who wouldn't let them forget about Loveday - who loved Loveday when they all hated her.

Cytherea who held Gideon in her arms while she was dying during the siphoning trial and told her "remember this feeling. Remember how much it hurts. And if anyone ever asks this of you, you have to remember and say no." Gideon, who reminded Cytherea so much of Loveday. Cytherea, who /asked that of Loveday./ And Gideon, who went out and /did it anyway./

Cytherea, at the end of everything, who NEEDS to kill Gideon and Harrow because they love each other and she can't let them get it wrong like she and Loveday did, who sees the skull they're hiding in open and sees Gideon's body and sees Harrow pick up that sword and has lost despite everything, and who finally gives up and lets them kill her.

#cytherea loveday #the locked tomb #tlt spoilers #gideon the ninth #gtn #cytherea the first #Cytherea is fucked up and insane and did a lot of murder but like. girl. i get it.

[sylphoxide]

YOU LIED TO US

#gideon the ninth #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #I must post this because the bone worm structure shading had fried my brain but still very fun #the locked tomb #tlt #horror #gothic #she’s so correct #gtn #htn #my art #bones #creature

[bugcowboyart]

Back at it again at Krispy Kreme…. Aka the locked tomb.

Cytherea-as-Dulcinea sketch! Eventually I want to design a couple looks for everyone from the first book to match the busts I drew, so this is a start.

I headcannon Dulcie as an ambulatory wheelchair user, but sometimes uses a walker— she likes wheels, and after years of similar cancers her home is extremely accessible.

I also HC that the mythraeum isn’t accessible at all (like Canaan house) so Cyth uses forearm crutches, a cane, or bone constructs/beguiling corpses like Pro in trickier areas when she needs to move more quietly.

#cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #dulcinea septimus #dulcie septimus #gideon the ninth #gideon the ninth spoilers #gtn fanart #gtn spoilers #gtn

[crispinkiss]

i love horrible horrible women

#my little master manipulator <333 #cytherea loveday #cytherea the first #the locked tomb #my art

[henreyettah]

Glass House: a Keys Out mystery

(Veil-less Harrow version under the cut)

(I’m gonna make prints out of this but I’m not sure which version to do so if y’all have opinions please send them my way)

#please take some time to look at the deets yall #gideon the ninth #gtn #the locked tomb #tlt fanart #Gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #Abigail pent #Magnus Quinn #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #Camilla Hect #palamedes sextus #dulcinea septimus #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #judith deuteros #silas octakiseron #tagging every bitch in this #tamsyn muir #she gets an honorary mention #art #doodle #henreyettart #glass house: a keys out mystery #canaan house

[theriverbeyond]

me and my girl don't argue, she deludes me into thinking she is a terminally ill 26 year old while conspiring to destroy the Empire and kill all my friends and I walk it off like a man

#cytherea loveday #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #trb.txt #I GET TO PLAY TOTK TONIGHT AHHHHHHHG #so excited. its gonna get me thru this 2 hour drive

[cutetanuki-chan]

maybe I'll finish the whole thing someday

#it should be a serious comic but Harrow sitting on a chair and her legs don't reach the floor makes me chuckle everytime #the struggle is so real #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #art #harrowhark nonagesimus #dulcinea septimus #cytherea loveday

[solarwreathe]

*cough cough* *hack* *wheeze* *clears throat* you got some wader?

the sketch: it’s the 8 guy on the left. walmart draco, or whatever they have in new zealand

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt fanart #tlt #dulcinea septimus #gtn #gtn fanart #silas octakiseron #gideon the ninth spoilers #(especially past this tag) #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #the locked tomb fanart #gideon the ninth fanart #gtn spoilers #the book was okay but i didn't like the first two enough to get nona #there were some good characters though i like gideon #and mr my caviliar will hear about this was my favourite he was funny

[fishfingersandscarves]

"do i look like i'm in the queendom of my power?"

#my art #fishfingersandscarves #the locked tomb #tlt #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #gideon the ninth #gtn #illustration #doodle