2022-11-01 0:33:08 ¶ ●

i’m a devout nun and my girl is the resurrected daughter of God

2022-11-02 22:45:58 ¶ ●

gideon nav makes me so fucking sad. she is the most tragic character to ever character. i love and adore her but god if she doesn’t make me miserable

2022-11-03 7:32:22 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

feverdreamdrifting:

> wow, ok, unfollowing now. was a big fan of his twitch stream where he cured cancer, had no idea he constructed a giant flesh wall out of a herd of cows

great question. ur local millennial academic develops necromancy powers. once in a while he uses them for good but mostly he uses them for evil. ten thousand years later the solar system is divided into numbered houses hunger games-style (said academic is a millennial after all). the main ship haven’t spoken to each other in two books despite the fact that they’ve technically been in the same place for at least half the time. not a single character is straight. one of the books is written almost entirely in second person point of view and it’s the most poetic thing i’ve ever read. the soul of the earth has become corporeal in the form of a barbie doll. the entire thing fucks severely. next question.

2022-11-04 11:35:00 ¶ ●

character of all time gideon nav. only golden retriever girl on a planet of goth bone magicians. red hair gold eyes in the darkness of a dead planet, vital and alive and the best swordswoman the ninth house has ever produced. endlessly forgiving, uncomfortably devoted. only ever wanted to escape the ninth house and impress harrow with her achievements. god’s only daughter, created to be a tool, a weapon, not a person. now lost to her original purpose.

2022-11-05 5:29:14 ¶ ●

Harrowhark “first flower of my house” Nonagesimus is the same person who beat Gideon into unconsciousness to stop her from getting onto that shuttle and Gideon “if aught but death part me and thee” Nav is the same person who carried Harrow back to her room after she almost died in a bone and still let her hit her head on the walls as they walked. there’s layers ok

2022-11-06 20:09:30 ¶ ●

maybe part of the reason gideon is so callous about death is that on the ninth it happens every day and is apparently celebrated and also she and harrow spent their entire childhood literally beating each other to death and only narrowly managed to avoid killing each other. like maybe she hasn’t got the same ideas about it that we do… y’all ever considered that

2022-11-08 20:25:11 ¶ ●

the fact that harrow knows gideon so well she knows to put a note on her sword hilt in Canaan house because it’s the first thing gideon will reach for and also knows to clarify the meaning of “anybody” because otherwise gideon will interpret it literally out of spite is something that can be so personal

2022-11-08 21:16:03 ¶ ●

wait I just realized that cytherea asked to see gideon’s eyes because like… her name was gideon… i mean that’s a dead giveaway right there

2022-11-09 4:00:22 ¶ ●

look. some people are like “oh I really want gideon and harrow to get together.” personally I have no hopes of that but I will be absolutely thrilled if they ever speak to each other again. like let them exchange words. PLEASE TAMSYN PLEASE LET THEM LOOK AT EACH OTHER PLEA- *is dragged away kicking and screaming*

2022-11-09 10:25:00 ¶ ●

harrow is so me. extreme anxiety over a dinner party. goes because someone else asked her to. has a terrible time.

2022-11-10 8:53:42 ¶ ●

i love when gideon is explaining how she ended up on the ninth house as a baby and then she goes, “obviously this was mysterious as hell.” I read that and went. yeah. that IS mysterious as hell.

2022-11-10 22:28:49 ¶ ●

harrow really was born and then decided to never let the truth about anything come out of her mouth ever

2022-11-10 23:23:01 ¶ ● ⬈

frogseasons:

> he’s god. he’s a millenial. he resurrected an entire solar system. he eats peanuts in meetings. he started a nuclear war. he’s 10,000 years old. he makes none pizza with left beef jokes. he’s a slut. he killed and then anthropomorphized the earth to look like Barbie. he has threesomes with his besties who want to kill him. he’s a deadbeat dad. he listened to evanescence. he locked his ex up in a block of ice in an unbreakable tomb on pluto because his friends didnt like her. he hated billionaires. he wanted to adopt a psychotic bone nun who lobotomized herself. he likes tea and biscuits. he controlled the body of the dead US president. he’s from new zealand. he wears baby fingers around his head. his name is john of all fucking things. he killed the whole solar system. he was a tumblrina. his only comment on destroying melbourne was “shame about the tram service”.

2022-11-12 0:16:17 ¶ ●

griddlehark. take me to church by hozier. you agree

2022-11-12 8:29:18 ¶ ● ⬈

waterlilyvioletfog:

> Like. To Gideon, love is sacrificing yourself for someone else. It’s violence, especially violence enacted upon the self for another’s benefit. It is objectifying oneself, making your body a tool of another. Love is a baby having oxygen its mother doesn’t have. It’s the Ninth’s endless devotion to Harrow. It’s Jeannemary screaming for Isaac, even though he’s already dead and going back would only kill her. It’s Palamedes blowing up to kill Cyth. And that’s why she makes the choice she does, why she has to go nuclear. She can’t express love except as violence, as sacrifice. And then to have this sacrifice so universally rejected is to have her love rejected. She feels dumped.

> But Harrow didn’t feel loved when Gideon did it. She felt alone, and vulnerable, her parents swinging for the greater good. Her house’s future destroyed, all to keep Alecto in her tomb, a tombkeeper necromancer of Anastasia’s line. The first flower of her house, dead, for Harrow, again, who has said that she can never be enough to justify it. Harrow feels too keenly the injustice to be able to accept that sacrifice. She can never justify what has happened, so her work must be to remedy it, however poorly. Thus, the puppets, the need to be a lyctor, and thus, the lobotomy. They’re all too-small measures, they don’t solve the wounds, but she must do something because she can’t bear the weight of the entirety of fucking Pluto on her shoulders.

2022-11-12 8:53:27 ¶ ●

2022-11-12 21:59:11 ¶ ● ⬈

strangehorse:

> rereading GtN is so funny. harrow goes missing and gideon flies into full panic mode, spends her whole morning desperately searching, says “ugh I give up, she can just die”, eats lunch and then immediately recommits to searching again, dissociates out of stress when she learns Harrow’s blood is everywhere, breaks her vow of silence to try and get help for Harrow, nearly breaks her wrists trying to open the door in panic, sprints her way down to Harrow, finds that she’s okay and is immediately like

> haha. as if i even cared. whatever

2022-11-13 9:38:05 ¶ ●

It’s Gideon Nav Crying Time

2022-11-14 19:27:44 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

spinchs-field:

> spinchs-field:

> > spinchs-field:

> > > love how when i get a new interest, i’m like “oh god it’s happening again” and i’m stuck like that for about a week until everything explodes and any interest i’ve had prior is completely dwarfed for an unknown amount of time

> > like this

> shoutout to everyone who’s sharing the interest that has caused their category 7 autism event. we are all whirling around in our autism events together

2022-11-15 8:37:03 ¶ ●

harrow’s like “don’t make this weird nav” but gideon is actually incapable of not making it weird. she opens her mouth and the entire situation, whatever it may be, goes from kinda neutral to deeply awkward. personally I love that about her

2022-11-15 8:39:46 ¶ ● ⬈

inktog:

> Some people seem confused about the John dreams, so I wanted to spell out what I think is happening.

> In the dreams, there are two characters: he and she. While he is obviously John, she is somehow both Harrow and Alecto. When he directly addresses her—as you—he seems to be talking to the planet Earth, to Alecto. The only way out was to dump the population on an exoplanet, he says. It was about giving you breathing room, you know? But when he names her, her name is Harrowhark. She, for her part, speaks very little, but in the last dream she speaks blatantly as Harrow: “Teacher, what does it mean for a child of the Ninth to love God?”

> The dreams are in a River bubble. This is pretty obvious: the bubble parts at end of the last dream, and she—Harrow—walks in the direction of the tower. Exactly how they ended up here remains to be seen, but this isn’t a first for Harrow; the Canaan House bubble in HTN happens while she’s dreaming or unconscious.

> In the last dream, he asks, “Do you remember what happens now?” And she says, “Yes. Through her, I’ve seen it.” She’s talking about the Resurrection and the Eightfold Word, but if we retroactively apply this lens to the dreams—to his account of the extinction event—it resolves the contradiction of her. Harrow is seeing, learning, through Alecto’s eyes. More specifically, they have swapped dreams (just as they have swapped bodies): Nona dreams of Gideon’s forgiveness, and Harrow dreams of crawling with John through the wreckage of the planet he destroyed only yesterday.

> In the dream bubbles—in 2011—little pockets of pseudo-reality within the maddening horror and nonsensical spacetime of the Furthest Ring, the dead and dreaming reenact old memories; at least once, a character (Aranea) pretends to be someone else (AG) for the sake of a reenactment. Likewise, Harrow and John are acting out one of Alecto’s memories. They sometimes break character to talk as their present-day selves, but they are otherwise passive observers in this dream-memory. Thus, John’s account is not (as I’ve seen some people claim) filtered through a myriad of self-denial. This isn’t the John from HTN with a perfect lie ten thousand years in the making. It’s John in the wake of his very recent omnicide, scrambling to explain himself to Alecto.

> Direct dialogue in the dreams usually forgoes quotation marks. But sometimes it uses them, including but not limited to: every time he calls her Harrowhark or Harrow, every time she calls him Lord or Teacher, and the entirety of the final dream. We can infer that quotation marks are used when, and only when, the speaker breaks character. This clears up some things. Like how Then they were gone…lost it time to me forever (past John) becomes “They are still out there. There can be no forgiveness” (present John). However, we’ve reintroduced an old problem.

> In the dream, he says, “This is the part where I hurt you. Are you ready?” (With quotation marks.) In the dream, he says, “Do you remember what you said to me once I had done it? When we stood here together?” (With quotation marks.) In the dream, he calls her “beloved” and “love.” (With quotation marks.) In the dream, he makes a pothook—J—then the finned spine of E. He wipes that E clean, and replaces it with A. He wipes that clean, and he draws the prison bars of H. This J and H he bars around with an uneven heart. John—our John, present-day John—is conflating his old love with his new student. Harrow plays along, and in doing so gains some more answers.

> In the dreams, she says, “I still love you.” (With quotation marks.)

2022-11-16 9:06:30 ¶ ●

john gaius would be the professor everyone loves because he puts on such a chill, witty demeanour. but his TAs would despise him and unionize against him because he actually wouldn’t do anything besides show up to lectures and gaslight them into thinking he’s too busy to answer his emails

2022-11-16 9:55:50 ¶ ●

Harrowhark Nonagesimus! She’s a goth! She looks like a stick’s funeral! She is both a small town girl and the revered ruler of said small town! she thinks tea is too spicy! she’s a genius! she doesn’t know what’s going on!

2022-11-18 11:16:12 ¶ ●

I’m putting off listening to the last hour of the gideon the ninth audiobook because I know I’m gonna sob like I’m dying so it has to be planned. like an event

2022-11-18 14:06:15 ¶ ●

harrow the ninth is a book about the university experience and this is my primary evidence

2022-11-21 2:20:19 ¶ ●

she was not lying

2022-11-21 5:51:47 ¶ ●

Tamsyn really told us everything we needed to know about gideon in the first few chapters of gtn

2022-11-24 12:08:37 ¶ ● ⬈

babblinbook:

> made this thinking about Gideon love and light

2022-11-24 12:12:54 ¶ ●

i love things that are weird and hard and confusing

2022-11-25 6:32:12 ¶ ●

why was gideon an indentured servant on the ninth. what exactly was her job even. it doesn’t seem like she actually had anything to do besides practice swords and create schemes for harrow to foil

2022-11-25 22:21:43 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

adhd-vibes:

> adhd-vibes:

> > dude no one talks about how having a hyperfixation physically aches like why i can’t i be closer to it why can’t i hold the intangible help

> exactly!!!

2022-11-26 3:35:31 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

kallistoi:

> figofswords:

> > maybe things would hurt less if you stopped falling in love with the dead

> [image description: a digital illustration of harrowhark nonagesimus from the locked tomb series. she has her arms wrapped around her longsword and her eyes closed in a melancholic expression. a white halo radiates from behind her head.]

2022-11-26 5:46:46 ¶ ● ⬈

feverdreamdrifting:

> why was gideon an indentured servant on the ninth. what exactly was her job even. it doesn’t seem like she actually had anything to do besides practice swords and create schemes for harrow to foil

girl wanted a job so bad that once she got one she killed herself to be able to keep doing it!!! literally all harrow would’ve had to do to get on her good side is ask her to do Important Stuff for her. they kill me because they know each other so well and yet apparently they don’t understand each other’s Basic Requirements For Functioning Properly (gideon’s being having a purpose and someone to help/care for, harrow’s being… gideon)

2022-11-26 7:47:39 ¶ ●

hate to say it but. griddlehark.

2022-11-26 8:53:48 ¶ ●

i just remembered that I decided to read tlt because I saw that post that was like “it’s rotten work especially to me especially if it’s you. I’ll fucking do it but christ alive” and someone had tagged it with “gideon.” whoever that was, everything that has happened to me since august is your fault. in a good way

2022-11-26 9:27:23 ¶ ●

rereading everything john says in htn knowing what I know from ntn… john it is on sight!!! get down here! fight me!

2022-11-27 3:30:19 ¶ ● ⬈

femmelie-deactivated20240715:

> how did i not know it was gideon by this point lmfao