#gtn spoilers

[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

[yourironlung]

mind if i cough in your ear all night? / mind if i resent you for a year tonight?

#have you guys ever thought about how wrought iron fence bars kinda look like cav swords #tlt #gtn #gtn spoilers #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow nonagesimus #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #song is i want you to know im awake/ i hope youre asleep by car seat headrest btw #csh #didnt know what to do w lighting so i just didnt do it #wish i did this in b&w

[scoobhead]

hi welcome to the locked tomb. here's a crash course.

gideon and gideon are different characters

gideon and kiriona are the same character

gideon and pyrrha are different characters but in the same body (gideon's)

gideon is dead now so now the body is just pyrrha's

gideon is also dead, but not really? but also definitely

palamedes and camilla are two different characters who alternated between the same body (camilla's) for a while after palamedes died

now cam and pal have become one character named just paul. that's paul's body now.

harrow and alecto switched bodies for a while but it's ok they got better

alecto and nona are the same character

nona was in harrow's body but then she died kind of

alecto and the planet earth are the same character

dulcinea and cytherea are NOT the same character, but cytherea pretended to be dulcinea for a while (dulcinea was dead the whole time)

there are two different characters called teacher. one of them is god

god is actually named john but we all call him jod (to avoid confusion)

god isn't actually god

hope this helps!

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt spoilers #gtn spoilers #htn spoilers #ntn spoilers #nat og #1k #2k

[andry-di]

#gideon the ninth #gtn #gideon the ninth spoilers #gtn spoilers #spoilers #the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt spoilers #harrow the ninth #john gaius #and that guys was the exactly moment when I started to hate him #ad23 #comics

[theninthmember]

crucial elements of my vision for a locked tomb animated series:

First season starts with Gideon falling to her death—freeze frame, Gideon voiceover: “Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this fucking mess.”

We rewind all the way to Gideon choking Harrow out as children. Gideon says “Well, now that’s just too far.” The running joke of the season is that this memory REALLY wants to play out, but Gideon refuses to get into it. That way, we get a lot of tension building up to the full scene and, more importantly, the imagery of the blood in Harrow’s nails really sticks with the audience.

Regular jumps between the present day and flashbacks so that they’re baked into the format and the river scenes in HtN don’t feel out of place.

Gideon pauses scenes literally all the time for asides and narration, a la The Emperor’s New Groove. (I feel her voice is crucial to the story and must be preserved as much as possible in a visual adaptation. The goofiness inherent to this device is also, in my opinion, completely necessary.)

When we finally get to the season finale, and Gideon dies, she KEEPS cutting in for asides, except now she’s talking directly to Harrow, who is responding, and it’s not really funny anymore.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #my post #tlt #gtn #gtn spoilers

[thanartos]

currently reading htn and i just have a feeling this fanart is gonna circle back to bite me in the ass. Anyway.

#i hate the fact that i cant just casually say i want to explode without thinking abt pal anymore #my art #br art #brazilian artist #illustration #tlt #tlt spoilers #tlt fanart #gideon the ninth #gtn spoilers #camilla hect #palamedes sextus

[danggerine]

going insane thinking about the harrow and palamedes friendship. harrow, who has never met another necromancer her age forming a bizarro 3D chess rivalry while pal worries about her safety at every possible turn. harrow, who is up to her eyebrows in paranoia and secrecy, trusting the sixth house with gideon unconscious and hurt, letting them into the ninth house quarters unsupervised. if “i cannot conceive of a universe without you in it” is goth for i love you, “death first to vultures and scavengers” has got to be goth for i love you (platonic). pal’s first reaction when harrow comes into his bubble in the river is to scoop her up in a hug, and at this point she doesn’t remember anything about him because cutting out all her memories of gideon is impossible without cutting out memories of the sixth, but she still makes him a skelehand to inhabit anyway. when harrow’s memories are finally whole, she tells dulcinea she couldn’t face pal knowing that his pen pal girlfriend died on her account, but the next time she “faces” him, palamades’s soul is in someone else’s body and harrow’s body is full of nona’s soul. he spends six months protecting and caring for harrow’s body (and nona obv), believing in the possibility of bringing her back to it the same way cam believed in him. “god, do you know i miss harrow terribly.” and by the time harrow comes back to her body at the very end of ntn, pal is gone forever, fully pauled. the last time harrow and palamades see each other as their complete selves is in canaan house, alive and unlyctored. two of the smartest and loneliest people in the solar system meet each other in the worst of circumstances and spend the rest of the story dancing around each other as fragments of themselves, trying to care about each other in the interim but never fully meeting like they did the first time. a friendship made almost entirely of missing the other person. “do you know i miss harrow terribly.” god. i need to lie down

#behold: a block of text i do not feel like putting paragraph breaks in #i am so fucking crushed that they try so hard to take care of each other in different ways but never see each other ever again #he gave her a lift you off the floor hug in the bubble and she didnt even know why. #the thing that made him miss harrow was ‘look at me like you’ve worked out how to kill me’ bc he knows scowling is her display of affection #she couldn’t even REMEMBER him in htn but she helped camilla find his soul and put him back together anyway #is this anything. am i sounding as insane as i feel #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #palamedes sextus #katie don’t look #ntn spoilers #htn spoilers #gtn spoilers

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

i looove cytherea as a "nicest* person here was secretly the villain the whole time" reveal cause like. my problem with those is usually that they do a complete 180 in terms of personality and suddenly they're a totally different person. they absolutely do not give a shit about these people they just spent so much time cohabitating with. they developed absolutely no empathy or compassion or remorse for the people who worked with them, trusted them, confided in them, tried to help them. it just never seemed realistic to me. i always end up wishing for more nuance. it feels like the authors tend to go for shock value over the actual substance of the character, unless they're angling for a redemption arc.

cytherea, though.

cytherea is 10,000 years old and she's been inches from death the entire time. these people's lives mean something fundamentally different to her than they do to them. she kills jeannemary in a shocking and brutal and unnecessarily dramatic fashion, and then she offers gideon genuine compassion and comfort in the aftermath, and both of those things are true and authentic and both of them are motivated by the fact that lyctorhood is fucking terrible.

the way she was interacting with gideon was always a little weird and the fact that she does genuinely understand never goes away. she's fucking old and weird and bored and in pain and she will gore a 14 year old in front of you and then she will hold your hand and give you well-meaning advice while you process the trauma. she will tell you how terrible it is that people are taking advantage of you, she will cradle you and pet your hair and tell you that you're worth more than this, and then she will kill you like she killed all the rest of them. and it really is a shame that you don't understand how that's a mercy, too.

cytherea is scary because the kindness was never fake. and that's why i love her.

#cytherea the first #the locked tomb #tlt #my post #gtn spoilers

[lesbiancientforesttroll]

Harrow actually just being a scared teenager who lost her only friend...

When you start HtN, Harrow's mysterious plan seems so intricate and elaborate - 22 letters, and all those guidelines and rules -the favor of the chain, the sewn tongue.

But then when you get to the end, the whole thing boils down to just...

Step 1. Hit Pause on the Absorption Process

Steps 2a-2v Hide the Remote and kill anyone who approaches the hiding spot so no one can ever accidentally hit play.

And that's fucking it.

There's no Step 3 where she works out a way to remove Gideon and see/free her. And I mean, there's not even an instruction to come up with some kind of step 3 eventually. She knows her life will be myriads, but can't even imagine anything beyond "don't absorb her" should even exist.

Abigail & Magnus are spot on when they say she made herself a Mausoleum.

Because in spite of her aptitude and scholarship and obsessive paranoia, she's actually just a traumatized, grief-stricken teenager. Her plan was impulsive and emotional. She saw the looming threat of Griddle's soul being destroyed, and the pain that would crush her when the shock wore off, so she slammed the brakes and ran off.

#harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt #griddlehark #harrow the ninth #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gtn spoilers #harrowhark #character study

[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

[confusedhandbag]

#Why is the textpost so blurryyyyyy #gtn #gtn spoilers #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #im so sorry i keep harrow posting but actually no im not

[scoobhead]

rating ways to advertise the locked tomb

"lesbian necromancers in space": 5/10. technically true, except that gideon isn't a necromancer and for the most part they aren't in space. can also be tonally misleading; implies a fun space opera adventure and fails to mention the impending emotional devastation. that being said it is iconic and (mostly) effective

"murder mystery in a haunted gothic castle": 8/10. MUCH better at capturing the tone and plot of the first book, but still a little off. imagine picking up the book because of this blurb and then watching gideon nav make a mean girls reference in the first 20 pages. the whiplash could kill you

"a locked tomb mystery": 5/10. nondescriptive and a little misleading, but i can't give this any lower than a 5 because the pun is very good. gideon would love this one and that should count for something

"gay goth among us": 10/10. i'm not even going to pretend like this one doesn't nail it. try and argue against this. you can't. captures the murders, the space-y setting, the queer characters, the tone and aesthetic, AND the contemporary humor. chef's kiss

"enemies to lovers 'i hate everyone but you' slow burn": 1/10. true if you squint. the relationship between gideon and harrow would make booktok weep

"catholic homestuck": 9/10. this means nothing and explains everything

this tweet by tamsyn muir:

[Image ID: A tweet by "tamsyn should be writing" @tazmuir: "sure, I edited from 12 o'clock to 4.30, but how much of that time did I spend on the discovery that the basis of my novel is 'what if these two were... teenage girls'", followed by an image of Skeletor and He-Man. /end ID]

10/10. conveys the pop culture savvy of the series, the complex dynamic between the main characters, and the humor of the writing style all at once. also makes me laugh every time i think about it

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #gtn #gtn spoilers #harrow the ninth #htn #nona the ninth #ntn #nat og #1k #2k #5k #10k #15k

[andry-di]

Hohoho merry chrismax

#gideon the ninth #gtn #gtn spoilers #gideon the ninth spoilers #spoilers #judith deuteros #comics #ad23 #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers

[kyoukoswife]

you ever think abt what if you gave a girl your whole life but she didnt even want it? you gave her your life to protect her and she threw you away?? what if even after that you still took care of her the best you could???? and then when you next see her shes not even her???? because you gave her your whole life to save her but you couldnt protect her?????? wouldnt that fuck you up?????? wouldnt that be so painful????????? you ever think about that?????

look at the full size image for better quality:>

#gtn #gtn spoilers #htn #htn spoilers #gideon the ninth #saphy i SWEAR TO GOD if you see this #you BETTER have one of these tags blocked #🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫 #anyways idk how this looks ive spent about 10000 hours looking at it #and ive had to fix so many things that made her look gooft #so maybe ill delete tmr #maybe i wont tho who knows #ive been feelin a lot of feelings abt gideon #poor girly #wait i forgot to tag #gideon nav #tlt #tlt fanart #the locked tomb #gideon spoilers #its night time im eepy

[frontlinebicepsoftheninth]

happy valentine's day who wants to throw themselves on a fence spike for me while reciting biblical wedding vows as your last words so i can consume your soul and gain immortality but after confronting god who says he cannot bring you back i become so overtaken with grief that i lobotomize myself to erase my ability to conceive of you in any capacity to prevent my body from absorbing and using you as an eternal battery after which i send myself to a purgatory dream state and you surface in control of my body and defend it from the alien bug soldiers of a murdered ghost planet that are trying to kill me for the sins of the emperor i worship and then i stay sleeping in hell while you end up back in your own body and then my body kisses your body but it's while being inhabited by the soul of the earth and eventually you try to sacrifice yourself for me again but you can't because you're dead now and then i wake up in my own body finally in the same room as you but i faint and get carried off by eldritch barbie before i can hear you assert your devotion to me by calling her a slut. either that or we could get coffee

#...coffee from the spaceship canteen where you are a barista with a firm jawed long smile and i am a military chaplain #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #nona spoilers #tlt #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt spoilers #ntn #gtn #htn #gtn spoilers #htn spoilers #gideon the ninth spoilers #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #harrow the ninth spoilers #harrow the ninth #valentine's day

[chekhovs-tantrum]

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#gtn spoilers #tlt #tlt shitposting #the locked tomb #cw ianthe tridentarius #locked tomb spoilers #ianthe tridentarius #locked tomb shitposting #period shitposting