I kept thinking nona was some sort of amalgamation of Harrow & gideon, but she turned out to be alecto. what do you think of this addition? tlt being about 3 of them instead of 2?
Aha so you were in the Corona school of thought. I’d assumed it was Alecto since before the title change, but they managed to make me consider whether it might be Gideon a few times. Honestly I don’t think Gideon and Harrow could be happy as an amalgamation, for all that they’ve been trying to climb inside each other’s skins. They need friction to thrive. They can’t be spiritually fulfilled without their daily dose of mutual aggravation.
Re: Nona, I’m so happy we got her, so delighted we got to see the world through her fresh, tactile, observant perspective. Her description of Every Single Woman gave me heart palpitations. Experiencing my baby Gideon through her judgy eyes was really something. I loved spending time with her, she had the best supporting cast, I’d read another book or three of them. No regrets about the girls sharing screen time.
That said, if in atn Gideon doesn’t get 1) catharsis, 2) a hug, 3) to touch a boob, I will cry
one of the best kinds of characters is a guy who is annoying and knows this but hot enough to get away with it and also aware of this, and who takes great pleasure in being as obnoxious as possible and then watching everyone who’s attracted to them visibly speedrun the five stages of grief when they realize that hasn’t changed
i present to you: the Nonagesimus Simp Support Group
credits to @hedaclexastally for this absolute gem of a tag on one of my posts today that i had to do a dumb little doodle for to get it out of my system
i love it in fics when griddlehark go from making a BIg Deal about every bit of physical contact to basically ignoring the entire concept of personal space
The absolute ideal griddlehark relationship progression. They go through a period of such genteel, constipated over-mindfulness of each other’s space straight to an overwhelming erasure of boundaries. They are either trying to murder each other, unable to perceive each other, or trying to climb into each other’s chest cavities like mecha suits. I firmly believe Gideon would pick Harrow up and carry her around at random and Harrow would casually lounge in her arms or cling to her neck and glower down at the rest of humanity like a self-satisfied monkey. They would lean over each others’ shoulders to read from the same book and steal sips of each others’ drinks and stick their fingers in each others’ food even though the intersection of their tastes and interests is nonexistent. Can you imagine the sheer volume of pent-up sensuality and latent aggression they’re gonna pour into a newly physical but still ambiguous relationship. They have so much touching and being touched to catch up on, it would be fully disastrous.
Anyway please tell me exactly which fics you were thinking of while writing this ask because I need to read them immediately
I have some more fic recs if anyone’s interested 😈
This one is post canon griddlehark milfs fucking on a space shuttle 🌹 and the character voices are just so 👨🍳💋
This one is AU/canon divergent the-gang-is-on-the-run-from-BOE and features whumped Harrowhark getting screaming bleeding diy-on-the-floor surgery (but it’s hurt comfort ofc 💅)
This one is Gideon in Harrows body a-la ht9 and the writing? it is just so ✨💔😊💀💞 this author just gets it
i know coronabeth is a horrendous roommate to camilla because her most recent and lifelong roommate before that was IANTHE whom she has absolutely zero boundaries with and is also her sister. so many of camilla’s personal items go missing only for her to find them in corona’s bed two weeks later. corona gets naked in front of camilla within the first week and camilla has to Take A Walk. there is curly blonde hair on literally everything camilla owns and also her bed and also on her person at all times. corona walks into the bathroom to have an inane conversation while camilla is peeing so many times that camilla begs boe to install locks. they dont.
Reminder that Gideon was content to hold yarn for Cytherea while she crocheted. When things settle down she and Harrow are going to do the most boring couple things imaginable.
