[geminivenusgirl]

harrow the ninth is kind of just how it feels to be the new person at work

[thelockedtomb-archive]

But I almost knew what you’d written already, so I don’t know why I was surprised.

ONE FLESH, ONE END.

WHICH DID NOT MAKE ME HAPPY, HARROW. IT DID NOT FILL MY HEART WITH SOFT AND SENTIMENTAL YEARNING. YOU SET ME UP. YOU SET ALL OF IT UP. I GAVE YOU ONE DAMN JOB. AND INSTEAD YOU ROLLED A ROCK OVER ME AND TURNED YOUR BACK. I SPENT ALL THAT TIME DROWNING AND SURFACING IN YOU, OVER AND OVER AND OVER, AND ALL BECAUSE IN THE END YOU COULD NOT BEAR TO DO THE ONE THING I ASKED YOU TO DO.

I WANTED YOU TO USE ME, YOU MALIGN, DOUBLE-CROSSING, CORPSE-OBSESSED BAG OF BONES, YOU BROKEN, USED-UP SHITHEAD! I WANTED YOU TO LIVE AND NOT DIE, YOU IMAGINARY-GIRLFRIEND-HAVING ASSHOLE! FUCK ONE FLESH, ONE END, HARROW. I ALREADY GAVE MY FLESH TO YOU, AND I ALREADY GAVE YOU MY END. I GAVE YOU MY SWORD. I GAVE YOU MYSELF. I DID IT WHILE KNOWING I’D DO IT ALL AGAIN, WITHOUT HESITATION, BECAUSE ALL I EVER WANTED YOU TO DO WAS EAT ME.

Which is, coincidentally, what your mother said to me last night.

[leypossums]

I am really in to the Locked Tomb Series rn! And guess who my favourite character is- its gideon lmao

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Gérard DuBois

[theonlysei]

assessing her facepaint

[heamira-art]

Seventh Saint to Serve the King Undying

[cannibangel]

chapter 3 of harrow the ninth... something i thought was interesting

[benegesseritofficial]

How literally did John base Alecto's body on Barbie? A big complaint about Barbie dolls is how disproportionate they actually are. If Barbie's head is scaled up to that of a normal human, she's like 7 feet tall, an H cup, and has a waist that wouldn't support her being able to stand. And we know that Alecto is insanely tall. I'm wondering if when she said "you've made me a hideousness" she isn't mad strictly about being in a human form. She's mad that it isn't a human form. When Nona draws the frog, she talks about how she talks about how it would move. The functionality is inextricable from it being a good design. A Barbie made real would not function. If Alecto is dealing with those sort of proportions, it's only her endless regeneration that keeps her going. In contrast, even Harrow's sickly, fucked up body is an actual, functioning human body. Hence why Alecto might find it so much more beautiful and a comparative relief to exist in.

[milleniumdyke]

In Harrow the Ninth Mercymorn says “she never could act human. But you stand like a human - you gawp like a human - you are human” when she figures out that the eyes in harrows body were Gideons and not Alecto’s. This to me says a lot about how she struggled to maneuver her Barbie doll body especially since I don’t think there’s any remarks in Nona the Ninth about how Nona moves her body. She struggles at first with coordination (worm with problems) but she works it out and it’s not mentioned otherwise. The source of the issue there is probably being put into a new body rather than how Alecto instinctively moves.

I think Alecto struggled to act/ stand like a human because her body isn’t made like a humans and can’t move like a humans. So she is probably just a Barbie doll shaped human, which is definitely freaky.

[light-camera-bitch-smile]

[paleonymy]

the more i learned abt mercymorn in ntn the more i grew to like her bc if my years of effort trying to save the planet from dying resulted in said planet being exploded & i was made immortal without my consent & then i had to live the next 10,000 years working for the guy responsible for both, i would have to work Really hard not to be a vindictive, crabby bitch

[gardengnosticator]

so ianthe is hosting some gay brunch thing and she's had wayyyy too much cheap champagne and has ended up rooting around in coronabeth's room and comes across her pair of pink fuzzy handcuffs (because of course coronabeth would have a pair of pink fuzzy handcuffs) and when she comes back to cackle about it she catches gideon and harrow having an argument over something incredibly stupid and ianthe decides to handcuff them together in "gay jail" as she calls it before promptly passing out and leaving harrow and gideon to try and figure out how to get these fucking sex handcuffs off before anyone other than ianthe catches them in it

[henreyettah]

At least I’d had your full attention.

[firespunalchemy]

"We are one flesh." "I am your end."

[tsukkinami]

i was gonna make a post about how the alectopause has spoiled us because whatever alecto the ninth is will not be the same as whatever the fuck the fandom has predicted. but then i remembered the entirety of harrow the ninth. the audacity to make it mostly second person. harrow's lobotomy. ianthe saying choke me daddy. god's tumblr jokes. and remembered that we don't know the inner workings of muir's mind and i should stay humble

[forgotaboutnoodle]

Hopeless lesbians

[stargzrrr]

Ianthe come home the kids miss you..

Nvm she’s too busy lobotomising Harrow. Also fun fact- Ianthe means violet flower in ancient Greek

[hilbertslargepowerfulmagnet]

I am rereading Gideon the Ninth and one of the funniest scenes in the whole book gotta be the scene where Gideon (has never had a hot beverage in her life) knocks back half a cup of boiling tea. And then just stands there suffering in silence. Imagine being Jeannemary Chatur or someone and seeing the super cool and mysterious Shadow Cultist from the Ninth House just absolutely SHOTTING a cup of piping hot tea. and then trying to play it cool. I would lose it.