I started this piece over the summer but lost motivation to finish it. I really like the idea I had though so I’ve decided to start this up again and give it another go. Here’s a WIP of Gideons line art (there is a Harrow counterpart, It’s just not as far along as this one is)
Edit: dear LORD it is so blurry just click on the photo and you will see it in a crisper quality 💀
The first time I read the Harrow the Ninth I was balls to the wall obsessed with Gideon, so I skimmed right over this line. Now, though? It haunts me too.
Quick recap on the context for those following along at home: this is the last line of the Epiparados of Harrow the Ninth. Ianthe and Harrow are on the Erabos, and it has been two days since the final chapter of Gideon the Ninth. The kind of personality that Ianthe is being said to have is the kind of personality that can ‘put their hands back on the reins after they’ve been taken off’, which I take to mean the sort of personality that can recover and bounce back when one’s plans are seriously derailed.
So what are you planning, Miss Yanthe? Let’s break it down.
idk how to advertise anything online but i have a redbubble page if u want this bad boy as a sticker or print (+ any of my other tlt art)! anyway. peace and love on planet earth
do u ever think about how girls keep begging harrow to turn around and look at her eurydice and she refused to every time
[ID 1: A drawing of The Body, or Alecto, and John from The Locked Tomb trilogy. Alecto has brown skin, long black hair, and golden eyes. She drips with water. She stares ahead and floats up behind John in a gush of water. She rests her hands on his head and shoulder. John is in shadow except his eyes glow an ominous green. He wears a laurel crown and cloak. Text reads, “Turn around.” End ID 1
ID 2: Harrow and Ianthe. Ianthe has pale skin, long blonde hair, and one bone arm. She wears a purple blouse and trousers. She kneels over Harrow’s legs. She looks afraid and holds Harrow’s head. Harrow frowns and glares. She has brown skin, short black hair, and black eyes. She wears skull face paint, a white cloak, bone jewelry, and black robes. Text reads, “Death is for suckers, Harry.” End ID 2
ID 3: Gideon and Harrow. Gideon is a muscular person with brown skin and short red hair. She wears a black shirt, cloak, and gloves. She closes her eyes sadly and holds Harrow’s hands from behind. Their cheeks are pressed together. Harrow looks away from Gideon with fear. She wears a torn black cloak instead of a white one. Text reads, “All you have to do is turn around.” End ID 3]
speaking of families in Nona the Ninth…. that kid with like 7 dads and the other kid saying “if I had that many dads I would sell some of them” and the first kid going “you think you would but you wouldn’t.” damn that’s so true.
in the hellish alternate universe where tlt is a shitty cishet ya series, the first book is called “a house of bones and blood”. gideon is a cis man and harrow is marketed as a “feminist prince zuko redemption arc”. griddlehark make out during the pool scene but harrow still can’t get over her feelings for palamedes, who explodes later on in the book to save harrow from cytherea. camilla, the Strong Woman Character, breaks down and cries and loses her sense of purpose. in book 2, “a house of spirits and secrets”, cis man ianthe manages to capture harrow’s heart, to the ire of palamedes and gideon’s ghosts, until the end of the book when jod breaks ianthe’s evil spell on harrow. camilla returns to bring harrow to blood of eden, the evil terrorist rebel group that all of jod’s lyctors joined. jodybeth is the only canon queer pairing but it’s not confirmed until after they both die in the final book, “a house of love and loyalty”. harrow escapes blood of eden and fights off the villainous camilla (who hates harrow out of jealousy for palamedes being in love with harrow and not her), who then tries to kill gideon, who has come back to life completely intact for no reason. jod fights off camilla and then dies to save his son gideon, who then becomes emperor and seamlessly unites the nine houses and blood of eden. the series ends with gideon and harrow’s marriage and the birth of their infant son who is set to inherit the entire universe and can already form a perfect kidney. imperialism is never discussed or even recognized by the author. all of the characters are white except judith and camilla. the series is a number one new york times bestseller for three years in a row. it immediately gets greenlit for a netflix series.
You leave me no choice
this might be the worst thing that I’ve ever spent an hour and a half unleashing on the world yet
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