December 2021

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A drawing of Harrrow on a dark blue background. She is holding a sword to her chest and she looks exhausted. Instead of black and white face paint, her face is painted with blood. She has close cropped black hair and is wearing a green hospital smock. She has dark skin, and she is very bony and small, with protruding clavicles and elbows. next to her is a textpost that says "is my human suffering sexy enough for you, God? is it getting you off king" with a reblog that says "Catholics at prayer"ALT
A torso up drawing of Mercymorn, John and Augustine on a plain dark blue background. Mercy is looking disdainfully down at the viewer, Augustine is looking bored, and John is looking intently with his creepy eyes. Mercy is wearing a salmon pink sweater with the white cape over it. John is wearing a black turtleneck, with the white cape draped diagonally over it and with a crown of small finger bones. Augustine is wearing a striped tuxedo over a shirt with his cape draped around him like a sleeveless coat. Mercy has tanned skin and pink hair. John has dark skin and eyes that are entirely black except for white ring around the pupils. Augustine is pale and blond with short hair slicked back from his forehead. The textpost laid over them reads "World's First Openly Gay War Criminal "Not sorry" for Deaths of Thousands.ALT
A drawing of Gideon smiling at the viewer from a dark blue background while wearing glasses. Her sword is strapped to her back and she is smiling confidently. She has on an all-black outfit and cape. Next to her is a textpost that says "I think women in ponds giving out swords is a fine system of governmence actually. May I have one"ALT
A drawing of Ianthe on a dark blue background. She has a sharp and sallow face and she's kind of smirking down at the viewer. Her golden arm is lifted up as if in the middle of an action. She has long pale blond hair hanging in strands around her face. She's wearing a see-through mauve shirt through which her golden arm can faintly be seen. Over the drawing is a screenshot of a textpost that says: yes sir, your daughter’s lobotomy was a success. she will never utter a coherent sentence ever again in her life. i also performed a complimentary nose job that i’m sure you’ll appreciateALT

drew a bunch of “tlt meets textposts” stuff on twitter, so here’s a compilation

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Your Mercymorn is so cool! Shame she got her heart exploded.

This drawing is a TLT version of the meme of Grant Gustin posing at Oliver Queen's grave. John is kneeling in front of Mercy's grave, with one hand braced on his knee and his other hand giving the peace sign. Augustine is on the other side of the grave, with one hand propped up on it and the other holding a cigarette, and his expression is somewhere between bored and hard to read. Behind, Ianthe is posing with a fake sad expression with two fingers of her hand raised like a saint's. On Mercy's grave are the words MERCYMORN I and below it Lived, Served Cunt, Died. John is wearing an all-black plain sweater and trousers with his cape. Augustine is wearing a mauve sweater over a purple shirt and brown-beige slacks. Ianthe is wearing a lilac-ish shirt, mauve trousers, and her cape. John has dark skin and blackish brown hair. Augustine and Ianthe both have pale skin and pale blond hair.ALT

she died doing what she loved: committing warcrimes, and being generally unpleasant to everyone around her

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A drawing of Gideon's body in a green field. Gideon is lying on her side with her eyes closed, looking peaceful. Her hair is grown wild and curly. She is wearing an all black outfit with a black cloak under her body that has been covered by grass and green growing all over it. Grass grow up all around her, peeking through her fingers and covering part of her hair, but her body still looks in pristine condition. From the bottom right side of the drawing, a yellowish white glow of sunlight emanates, throwing the top right part of the drawing in a diagonal blue-green shadow, so that most of Gideon's body is under shadow, except half her face and right arm, which is illuminated in yellowish light. Gideon has wild curly red hair and brown skin, and a lanky muscular form.ALT

the body has failed to rot

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A drawing of Anastasia and Alecto both on profile facing each other, against a background that gradient from black to white from left to right. On the left side, is Anastasia a dark-haired and sallow-skinned women covered in a gauzy veil. She's very thin and delicate looking, and dressed in all black. She's lifting up a hand to caress the cheek of Alecto who is a glowing large beautiful woman with fluffy locks of hair. Around Alecto is emanating a glow of light that seems to be coming from her. She is chained at the neck, the waist and the arms and elbows, and she has a defiant look on her face. Anastasia has a wondering look on her face, as she caressed Alecto's cheek. Behind Anatasia, against the black background, are gauze black curtains of the same fabric as her lace.ALT

“come to look at the beast, have you?”

my pet theory is that Anastasia and Alecto fell in love when they were both exiled (basically) to the Ninth House. the idea of God’s end and his heretic saint falling in love with each other just has a nice poetry to it

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ancientannoyance:

A drawing of Anastasia and Alecto both on profile facing each other, against a background that gradient from black to white from left to right. On the left side, is Anastasia a dark-haired and sallow-skinned women covered in a gauzy veil. She's very thin and delicate looking, and dressed in all black. She's lifting up a hand to caress the cheek of Alecto who is a glowing large beautiful woman with fluffy locks of hair. Around Alecto is emanating a glow of light that seems to be coming from her. She is chained at the neck, the waist and the arms and elbows, and she has a defiant look on her face. Anastasia has a wondering look on her face, as she caressed Alecto's cheek. Behind Anatasia, against the black background, are gauze black curtains of the same fabric as her lace.ALT

“come to look at the beast, have you?”

my pet theory is that Anastasia and Alecto fell in love when they were both exiled (basically) to the Ninth House. the idea of God’s end and his heretic saint falling in love with each other just has a nice poetry to it

#op I need you to know I’m writing a whole fic based off this#I saw the art and a whole idea just appeared (tags via @margaret-rhee)

Please tell me if you ever post it, so I can show up and cry about it 🥺

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Have you posted the Gideon but Tattooed art from your twitter anywhere tumblr? If not, would you be willing to? I think it's lovely and I'd love to reblog it so I can find it later...

Thank you, I’m glad you like it! I keep forgetting to post things in both places, I need a schedule or something.

A colour painting of Gideon from the torso up against a black background. Gideon has her head turned slightly to the side, so that her shirtless back is fully visible to the viewer. Her back is extremely muscular and detailed in harsh lighting to show off its muscles. On her back are visible various tattoos. Her right hand is covered up to three-fourths with a pattern of black wavish scales. There is a pattern of blue-green flowers and small forget me nots flowings across both her shoulderblades. There are more scattered black scale tattoos on her left arms, which slowly gradated up into the colour flower tattoos that are along the shoulder blades. On her lower black is a tattoo of two wings, in the middle of which is the sun, a line of sun ray contains the Venus' symbol, a doodle of Saturn, earth's symbol and a doodle of pluto. Snaking around the ray is a thorny vine that forms a T-shape along Gideon's back. The vine is coming out of jawless skull. Out of the skull's left eye a golden flower comes out. The skull has IX tattoes on its head with an infinity symbol wrapped around it. Above the skull is a floating crown of thorns with a red sword running through it.ALT

reasoning behind the tats is open to interpretation but my personal inference is:

The black wave-like scales running up her arm and the side of her body - I initially wanted them to be blue to symbolize waves (to represent the salt-water confession scene), but they didn’t look good in blue so I turned them black. In general, I wanted her tattoos to start out black/monochrome at the bottom and turn colourful at the top, to kind of symbolize that Gideon was raised in the 9th house but she never really fit in there but it’s still a fundamental part of her. The wings are both as angel symbolism but specifically because Gideon always wanted to leave the 9th house before she came to Canaan House. The sun with the yellow in the middle is because I see golden yellow as Gideon’s thematic colour. The one ray of the run that’s running up the line of her spine has the houses that impacted Gideon most greatly in Book 1, so there’s Saturn for the terrible kids’ whose deaths she feels guilty over, there’s the symbol for the planet Venus for Cytherea, there’s the symbol for Earth for Canaan House, and there’s Pluto for the Ninth House. (I didn’t put Jupiter/5th House in there bc I feel like it belongs to Harrow’s set more.) The 69 is there both because of the 6th and 9th house friendship and of course Gideon would get at least one stupid tattoo that Harrow would despair over. (Cam says “nice” and nothing else when she sees it.) The skull on her back between her shoulder blades is ofc the jawless 9th house skull. There’s an infinity symbol around the i x both to symbolize that no matter how much gideon wanted to leave the 9th house, she’s inevitably tied to it and later chooses to be tied to it via Harrow, but also to symbolize the weird and long-standing link between the 1st house and 9th house, and how gideon kind of joins them together just by existing. The thorny vines running down her back that form a T-shape when combined with the long sun ray and the red sword are a deliberate allusion to the cross. The crown of swords above the skull’s head is again a Jesus allusion, as is the red sword running through the crown. The red sword in the middle of thorns is also specifically to represent Gideon impaling herself at the end of GtN to save Harrow. The flower coming out of the skull is yellow because again I see it as Gideon’s colour, but also because Harrow called Gideon the first flower of her house. The flowers curling around her shoulder blades are sea-green because a) I love that colour and how good it looks against her skull and b) for some reason it’s the exact shade I pictured the water in the salt-water confession scene to be. The forget-me-nots on her arms are there to refer to the bible verse that Harrow said about Gideon “If I forget you, let my right hand be forgotten.” The phases of the moon going across her back are because Harrow absolutely forbade Gideon to get her name tattooed on her, so Gideon got the fucking moon plastered across her back because it symbolizes Harrow.

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Gideon (in Harrow's body) and John are sitting at opposites ends of a plain table. Behind them is an ornate background that is at odds to the plain table, the background is of a vaulted cathedral-like wall with circular stained glass windows through which multi-coloured light is streaming in through, but everything is faded in the background into pastel colours. Two larger-than-life skeletons stand guard at each side of the background, backlit by the light. In the foreground Gideon is wearing a black sweater and pants and wearing the lyctor's cloak, with the sword strapped to her back. She has brown skin, black hair and golden eyes, and she looks like she'd rather be anywhere than here. In the table on her side is a pink Hello Kitty sippy cup. In the middle of the table is a plate of biscuits. On the other side of the table on John's side is a tea cup. He is holding the saucer, on which there are biscuits. He is saying "I wish you'd be more considerate, Gideon. I'm going through a really hard time right now." ALT
The second panel, it is the same setting, but now John has picked up the saucer, and Gideon is rolling her eyes to the ceiling, looking exasperated but still not saying anything. John is saying "My right-hand woman just died, and she was one of my best friends, and I'm really sad about it."ALT
The third panel, it is the same sitting, but Gideon's hand is coming up to gesture and she is looking at John and saying "I hate to break it to you pops-"ALT
The fourth panel is the same setting, but Gideon now looks pissed and she's still speaking. She continues "-but the reason your right-hand woman is dead is because you KILLED her!" John is sipping his tea very calmly, and he says "But I felt very bad about it."ALT

some part of me wanted a scene where Gideon got to be parented by John at the end of HTN and they had the absolute worst father-daugther dynamic ever

(Happy Holidays, and Happy Birthday Gideon Nav! )

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jillothewisp:

I was working on some other stuff but then ancientannoyance put Anastasia/Alecto out there and it took over my mind and I had to draw it myself ❤️‍🔥

anyway happy new year! I hope to continue to be very normal about these books with you all