#harrowhawk nonagesimus

[verymerrymart]

#verymerrymart #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #the locked tomb series #the locked tomb #harrowhawk nonagesimus #harrowhawk

[kattodoesstuff]

griddle and eepy harrow

#griddlehark #tlt #the locked tomb #gtn #gideon nav #tlt fanart #gideon the ninth #harrowhawk nonagesimus #kattoart #digital art

[orchisailsa]

The next time I think to myself, “I can’t do that as a writer,” please remind me that Tamsyn bloody Muir wrote a coffee shop AU of her own novel into her own novel and I was so delighted to read that batshit insanity that I screeched like a pterodactyl alone in my bedroom, clapping my hands like a schoolgirl, thanks.

#the locked tomb #fandom #harrow the ninth #griddlehark #harrowhawk nonagesimus #tlt #onekay #twokay

[mayhaps-a-blog]

OK so I finally got around to reading Gideon the Ninth and like. I get it. I get it.

Imagine you’re Harrowhawk “my existence is a war crime” Nonagesimus and your parents killed 200 infants so that you would live. Was it worth it? You don’t know, so you break into the tomb you’re meant to be guarding, because you have to know. Was it worth it? Except your parents think this is heresy deserving death, so they all hang themselves, and you’re there holding your rope and getting ready to join them but 200 souls are clawing at your heart asking you was it worth it? Was it? Was it?

And there’s this one girl, this one person who somehow survived, who you couldn’t kill, who your parents couldn’t kill, who somehow refused to die for you, and you love her for it, love her for being the one soul that you aren’t carrying on your shoulders (was it worth it?), and you hate her, because she should hate you, hate you for what you are and what you’ve done and your torment her because yes, you are awful and terrible and a blight upon the world (was it worth it?), and she hates you because you’re a bully and a bitch and she thinks she killed your parents so of course you hate her too.

And you can’t let her go, because who will hate you without her? And she can’t let you go, because who will hate her without you?

But there’s this chance, a chance to become something better, greater, perhaps a fraction of what you were meant to be and maybe then it’ll be worth it (could it ever be worth it?) so you drag her along because who else would you bring? And finally you’ve done it, you’ve told her your secret, and she told you yours, and maybe you don’t have to hate each other after all.

And then what does she go and do?

She goes and fucking dies for you.

Now you’ve got 200 infant souls and that of Gideon Nav hanging off your shoulders, and there’s nothing you can do, no way to fix this, you can’t even fucking die, so fuck it, was it worth it?

Was it?

WAS IT??

#anyway looking forward to book 2 #gideon the ninth #gideon the ninth spoilers #gideon nav #gideon #harrowhawk #harrow #harrowhawk nonagesimus #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt #tlt thoughts #tlt spoilers

[chemistfail]

Harrowhawk spam

#myart #tlt fanart #tlt #harrowhawk nonagesimus #the locked tomb #harrowhawk the ninth

[lesbian-revenant]

Ianthe must be so envious of Harrow’s ability to monologue.  Ianthe clearly wants to be delivering villain monologues on a regular basis but just doesn’t have it in her.

#harrow the ninth #ianthe #ianthe tridentarius #ianthe the first #harrowhawk nonagesimus #the locked tomb

[emeraldem]

ianthe asking harrow to join her bc both of their cavaliers are dead (“what are they but corpses we’re dragging behind us”) and corona asking judith the same bc their necromancer/cavs are gone. but they’re both rebuffed albeit for very different reasons

(both proceed to gravitate back to each other noooo)

#the locked tomb #tlt spoilers #htn spoilers #as yet unsent spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers #harrow the ninth #as yet unsent #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #harrowhark the first #harrowhawk nonagesimus #judith deuteros #just pondering. the twins got shot down HARD #rip

[adhdvsautismbracket]

ADHD/Autism Duos: Round 1, Side A

Matchup 7:

#adhd vs autism bracket #gideon nav #gideon the 9th #harrowhawk nonagesimus #harrowhawk the 9th #the locked tomb #shawn spencer #burton guster #psych #psych usa #tumblr bracket #tumblr tournament #tumblr polls #polls #round 1 #round 1 side a #duo polls

[professionalanime]

Gideon and Harrow that I did after finishing the first 2 books I realized I forgot to post here,,, I’m almost done with Nona the Ninth wish me luck lol

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #harrow the first #tlt fanart #ntn #nona the ninth #htn #gtn #are those tags lol #art #im in love with gideon we need more characters like her #n more like harrow too tbh #insane duo #if u llook at these too long dont theres issues im too lazy to fix in them hihi #gideon nav #harrowhawk nonagesimus #forgot to tag their fkin names!! fool!!

[artbyblastweave]

Gideon The Ninth Liveread, Chapter 15

In which we have the obligatory party/ball scene. Obligatory to what? Off the top of my head, Murder Mysteries and Fake Dating AUs

A few hours later. A lot goes unsaid with this; it’s a time skip, but it’s a telling one. It means that nothing happened in the few hours between Harrow collapsing and waking back up; Gideon didn’t leave, didn’t look around, didn’t see or examine anything new of import. She kept vigil, and the narration breezes right past it.

“Necromantic Theorem.” So the magic system is formalized and not just pure will. Gideon’s being glib but this IS essentially how I thought this worked, so it’s nice to have this clarified.

Ha. Gideon remembers the name of the fourth Cavalier but not the fourth necromancer. Priorities.

“Fan Mail.” Possibly a concept Gideon picked up from the backs of the comic books. and from this fan mail we derive that Abigail and Magnus have a dynamic. Stern cop Jovial Cop.

Harrow jumps right to a (I assume) completely appropriate assessment of the genre they’re in and starts hypothesizing assignation plots. Gideon, meanwhile, demonstrates greater Machiavellian acuity than I’ve previously ascribed to her, purely because her first-ever dessert is on the line. She’s like Roger Rabbit with the Handcuffs. Extremely conditional trains of thought.

Harrow is nervous about the function. Gideon assumes that this is because she wants to get back to the trials, since she used to run Ninth House functions without a sweat. This brings us back to Gideon only really being able to model Harrow in a combative context; it’s cripplingly obvious why Harrow is afraid of this function. She ran a transparent con against addled, devoted, elderly clergy, many of whom were literally blind. This is a gathering of High Society, which Gideon herself just painted as a potential hotbed of information gathering and Machiavellian politicking- a thought that apparently literally stayed in Gideon’s head for the exact amount of time it took her to win the argument, and no longer. 

Glad Rags! Magnus is great.

Abigail Pent, Intense Librarian. Very curious how things are between her and Magnus, just generally. Political marriage? According to Teacher (they (helpful exposition dispenser) She’s a spirit-talker. A necromancer in the traditional use of the term. That’d be Fifth House’s bag?

Interesting exposition on the Fourth and The Fifth here; The Fourth has been implied to be subordinated to the Fifth a few times. Magnus I think is actually the dreadful teens Uncle, and Isaac is apprenticed to someone outside his own house. Did the Fifth swallow the Fourth the way Harrow is afraid the 9th will be swallowed? Is there precedent that she’s afraid of?

The Third and the Sixth are facing off before Teacher (conveniently!) defuses things by announcing the main event.

Gonna read stuff into the seating arrangements. Gideon is with Palamedes, her lady-love Dulcinea, and the fifth Cav. Harrow is with the Mayo dyad, Ianthe, Seventh Cav super mutant, and Naberius. Putting eighth and ninth together feels like some kind of power play.

“The same middle name.” Good God. Coronabeth is either laughing too hard on purpose as an ingratiation play, or she is, in fact, compatible with Gideon on two levels.

Okay, there are on-site greenhouses. That explains where the food is coming from. I was wondering.

Alright, Magnus and Abigail can’t conceive. Slightly adjusting my assessment; they have the affordance of being nice because they’re weird, and on the outs within the political system they’re ostensibly on top of. Abigail is interested in pure scholarship and Magnus is interested in Abigail. I refer back to my previous assessment of Magnus as embodying the fun aesthetic parts of courtly empire w/o the inherently monstrous decision-making power.

 And Dulcinea is, in fact, good at picking up on what her conversational partners care about and feeding it. It’s not a Gideon-specific thing; she’s honing in on Abigail’s interests as well.

“Post Resurrection, Pre-sovereignty, pre-cohort.” Aaaaand Gideon turns away from the exposition because that’s just what she does.

Okay, from the Young-Uncle-Ianthe-Babs interaction we get the following; young-uncle has something against… intervention in births? A religious taboo? Ianthe was premature, extracted by C-section; The Eigth (Silas, I checked the cast page) calls this a “wasted opportunity,” which feels like a deliberate inversion of real-life Catholic Abortion Dickishness ™. Babs jumps in to defend Coronabeth, as he did before; Ianthe tramples him verbally. From this we derive that Babs is into Coronabeth specifically, although it doesn’t end well for him no matter which of them he’s talking to. And he has opinions on Bucklers, which Gideon wants to hear. It’s always interesting to encounter someone who has your exact interests but is so massively dickish on every other axis that you can’t capitalize on it.

This is Gideon’s first interaction with Jeannemary, and it’s this. I like that even when Gideon is interacting with the fourthling directly, there’s a shift in the dialogue from when Jeannemary is speaking normally and when she’s doing the nasally whine thing. She’s great. (But is Isaac great? I can’t tell if they’re trading off on doing the bit, or if it’s all her, all the time.)

And Gideon gets to eat! That’s good.

Okay, so Harrow, given a chance to dig into things with Teacher, can make him look thoughtful. A theological discussion? Applied Theory? Most of the others haven’t gotten far enough in the trials, so far as we know, to be able to talk specifics in the way that Harrow now can.

Is Dulcinea’s bit about the Biceps a Gravity Falls reference?

Oh, Jeannemary was, like, jealous. And possibly Crushing. Okay, this is back to cute. I like how the vocal affect reflects their tone but also their physical distance from Gideon and Dulcinea; also, question answered. It’s all Jeannemary. Isaac is the voice of reason, ish.

Okay, so Dulcinea pops the question- the big question- why are the houses like this. The dysfunction is obvious if not yet explosive; The houses are militarily and financially secure from the constant influx of spoils; The Emperor’s favor is both nebulous in its actual benefit and completely unrelated to the task at hand, which is pretty explicit (learn how to be Lyctors!) You’re inclined to say that everyone in Canaan House, categorically, has virtually no higher place to which they can climb within their hierarchies; that’s the point of pursuing Lyctorhood. Of course, the situation with the Ninth tells us that the assumed notion of security isn’t true in the slightest, the situation with the Sixth demonstrates that the Houses can have orthogonal interests like pure scholasticism, The eighth clearly aren’t in it for money…the more I think about it, the more Dulcinea’s remarks feel like that thing pretentious poets sometimes do where they wax cynical about an arrangement without putting much thought into the petty incentives underlying stuff. This might be deliberate; Dulcinea is clearly pretty clever.

Alright, something’s going on between Palamedes and Dulcinea. Gideon thinks that his weirdo obsession with. uh. Medicine that works…? gives him the hots for her.

“Magnus was nice.” I forgot to mention in chapter 12 that Gideon’s word choice in relation to Magnus is tied like an anchor to her current mood. When she’s in the pits, Magnus “tries pathetically hard;” when she’s well fed and high on Dulcinea, he’s “nice,” and she’s hurt on his behalf when Harrow ignores him.

And we end the chapter on this; Harrow thinks Pent is now in the running. Harrow is really, really committed to the idea that she has to WIN; this is, with added context, probably at least a little true, because the Eighth is probably an existential adversary and the Third strikes me as an opportunistic adversary if they get an opening. But it’s very telling that Harrow hears the Eighth- the most zealous of all the houses- just hand this information over to the Fifth without any cajoling and jumps to the conclusion it’s a race. What she overheard was an act of cooperation. And she was asleep for a major act of inter-house cooperation. She’s sticking to her initial paradigm, in the exact way that she stuck to her initial paradigm with the 163 skeletons. And Gideon, with her ability to actually make nice with people from other houses, might be the only effective counter to this tendency.

#gideon the ninth #gideon the ninth liveread #gideon the ninth spoilers #gtn #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt liveread #the locked tomb liveread #gtn analysis #thoughts #blastweave livereads #meta #analysis #gideon nav #harrowhawk nonagesimus #magnus quinn #abigail pent #jeannemary the fourth #dulcinea septimus #palamedes sextus #silas octakiseron #naberius tern #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius

[bi-enby-nochoicesever]

Me after finishing gidion the ninth:

#tamsyn muir #the locked tomb #harrowhawk nonagesimus #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #just fucking admit it #you love eachother #wait wait hold on #not like that #the most lesbian-y way to say i love you

[verymerrymart]

#the locked tomb #locked tomb series #gideon the ninth #harrowhawk nonagesimus #harrow the ninth

[kattodoesstuff]

The Nun and the Son of Jod

so... alecto huh

#tlt #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #kattoart #griddlehark #harrow the ninth #harrowhawk nonagesimus #digital art #gideon nav #tlt fanart #art #artists on tumblr #based on “St Theresa” and “Christ Crowned with Thorns” paintings if anyone curious #anyway i think about harrow and gideon a lot gibblebark #kinda proud of the hands ngl #kissing u all goodbye

[orchisailsa]

Ah, yes. The two genders.🍜

Soup (Affectionate) Soup (Threatening)

#mo dao zu shi #harrow the ninth #mdzs #tlt #harrowhawk nonagesimus #jiang yanli #mine

[ding-dong-diddly-dick]

Ok I had SOOOO much fun cosplaying Coronabeth with my friends (although tumblr busted the gif quality lol) Blowing so many kisses in the air at u to read the locked tomb series. 💋✨💖

Ft bonus lol

Coronabeth: Ding-dong-diddly-dick (me lol)

Gideon: WizardSoup

Harrow: NormalVampire

#Gideon the ninth #coronabeth tridentarius #harrowhawk nonagesimus #the locked tomb cosplay #the locked tomb #Gideon Nav #coronabeth cosplay #harrowhawk cosplay #Gideon cosplay #my face #anime boston

[necrolord-prime-camilla-hect]

"Oh, you were gorgeous," said the Lyctor, "a thing apart." She batted Gideon's sword away with her hand. Then she advanced. "Step off, bitch," said Harrowhark Nonagesimus, behind her.

Gideon the Ninth, chapter 36

Which strength pleased Alecto, who said: Notwithstanding, I offer you my service. To which a voice on the opposite side of the shore was raised, exceeding wroth, and Alecto heard it shout in a very great shout: Get in line, thou big slut.

Nona the Ninth, epilogue.

#truly they are made for each other #jester rereads the locked tomb #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhawk nonagesimus