2023-11-01 3:27:49 ¶ ●

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> Salutations to the House of the Ninth, and blessings upon its tombs, its peaceful dread, and its manifold mysteries.
> His Celestial Kindliness, the First Reborn, begs this house to honour its love for the Creator, as set in the contract of tenderness made on the day of the Resurrection, and humbly asks for the first fruits of your household GIDEON NOVEMSOTIRIA and HARROW NOVA

RD Gideon @theriverbeyond / Nova: @trickstercheshi / Photo: @/Lowkeymuse

2023-11-12 3:25:14 ¶ ●

thinking about the end of NtN and John drawing those letters in the sand, and specifically about how it is HARROW’S POV, and when he draws her inititial she calls them prison bars. “the prison bars of an H”. and how Harrowhark Nonagesimus was always a debt, a savior, a leader, “woman before her time”, etc but never allowed to be a child or frankly a person. Always a symbol for her people and always a penitant and always the faithful servant of a devotion that murdered 200 children. and that IS a kind of prison, you know?

anyway i just woke up from a nap but maybe Kiriona Gaia née Gideon Nav, originally named for both her mother’s murderer and her original purpose as a bomb, isn’t the only one who has some sort of identity related name change in the series. I’m wondering if this could come to have meaning regarding Harrow’s development in AtN

2023-11-22 21:48:46 ¶ ●

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Waiting for Alecto the Ninth (2023)

2023-11-23 1:43:38 ¶ ●

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so I'm re-listening to the GTN audiobook (as one does) and THIS time i caught that the first time Gideon goes to lunch (eating leaves with her fingers, running into Silas, etc.) she just... tucks a loaf of bread into her pockets to take back to her room for later? so possibly Harrow's drawer bread was a perfectly logical follow-up to finding bread in Gideon's pockets when she searches her for keys. she's just leaving food in a manner to which Gideon has become accustomed!

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OH MY GOD SHE DOES… (gtn ch 10)… and the Drawer Bread Incident didn’t happen until after Avulsion (gtn ch 21) where, very crucially, Harrow lost all her clothing to the entropy friend and had to put Gideon’s robe on in order to walk back to their rooms…. you know what I cannot blame Harrow at all for making the leap that if Gideon had bread in her pockets she would probably be okay if Harrow put it away for her. she was doing her a courtesy like

imagine almost dying in some kind of nefarious escape room type trial that relied on you almost (actually) killing your teammate/ servant/ enemy/ longtime crush/ complicated situationship via soul suck and losing all your clothes in the process, thereby causing her to see you nude before dying because you sucked her soul too hard. luckily, she revives, and you steal her overcloak to cover yourself and find it is for some reason full of bread, which you helpfully leave with her in a more accessible location after dragging her all the way back to your room….

## JUSITICE FOR DRAWER BREAD!!!

2023-11-28 18:09:47 ¶ ●

if there is any justice in the world this is the post-series future awaiting Gideon Nav

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