Analysing things is my love language, so it's clear that I have a whole lot of TLT analyses. I want to collect them in this post, because I have trouble finding them myself. Much fun!
I'm an Ianthe stan
Ianthe and ADHD (my favorite analysis post of mine, I'm serious, it's very me-core)
Corona, Ianthe and the Threat of Killing Oneself
Ianthe is the Underling (she is such a good girl)
Ianthe's the Most Repressed Nun Third I've Ever Seen (Emotionally)
About the Thoughtfulness of Ianthe's Lies
Dying as a Skill Issue (Dying is for suckers, bitch!)
Ianthe apparently knows more than she says
The Unwanted Guest is a Genius Mindfuck (my very first post, click here to meet baby cemetegee)
Ianthe Goes Poetry
Ianthe is not the pure evil, but a very normal person
Ianthe Lore
Could Ianthe see Cytherea's Corpse?
Ianthe is Actually Angry With Harrow because of the Lobotomy
Does Ianthe Have a (Deadly) Disease?
Ianthe Must be Borderline Horny in TUG
Ianthe's relationship to Corona (not gonna lie, probably neccessary to understand the posts above)
The Tridentarii Power Shift Dynamic
"Corona's Con" | Who's in Charge? (Whooo is in ControOoOl?)
Family Ties (or Third House culture?)
Corona hanged herself in in front of her eyes
The Tridentarii & Lolita
A very smart user said the Tridentarii would maybe only *perform* their Tridentariicest (maybe to disgust everybody from further investigations in their relationship?), and I'm OBSESSED with that take
Ianthe's Relationship to Babs
Ianthe and Babs Were Best Buddies (well at least a bit :(...)
Does Ianthe Regret the Murder of Naberius Tern?
Babs Died for her Plot Armor (that's literally the whole post, you don't have to click on the link)
Coronabeth Tridentarius: An Approach to her Character
Coroniphis & Ianthe (the explanatation for Ianthe's name seems to be more connected to Corona than to her)
What in Hell has she Done to Babs?
Than to Love and be Loved by Ianthe the First, Saint of Awe
Corona is a Very Third Person (Nobody Notices Somehow)
Corona has killed Babs (haven't thought of that myself, but I find it interesting)
TLT Mechanics
How Could Cytherea Infiltrate Canaan House Without Being Betrayed by a Missing Thanergic Signature
Who/What is Kiriona Gaia? (my poor saddest girl in the whole world :()
How Could Wake Use Cytherea's body? (Necromantic Explanatation)
Why can Cavs and Necros Use Each Other's bodies? | How Could Palamedes Use Babs body? (just some basic theories about necromancy my friendos)
John "Jod" Gaius
Why Didn't Jod Heal Cytherea's Cancer?
Jod is not Obliged to See Gideon as his Daugther, as Hard as it Sounds (Hear me out) (mostly about questioning blood relation as synonym for family in this case, what is also interesting to me in regard to found families)
Strange Pre-Ressurection Behavior Against Mercymorn
John is not the pure evil, but a very normal person
John was Pretty Fucked Up when he Decided to Kill the world (Correction to what I said in the post: he *did* technically kill her. Pulling out the soul of a body is dying by definition)
Hugs for John (I don't agree with his actions (such as for example killing the world) but his life can't be easy since then)
John 00:00 (Or John has the worst OCD ever known to men, in my opinion, and I apologize him because of that) (Correction: I said in that post John would intend to die. I still think that (see post below) but he likely doesn't intend to die forever)
John has to die for a Second Resurrection [Theory]
Any Thoughts About the Theological Implications of the character John "Jod" Gaius?
TLT Meta
Determinism in TLT
I Would Like to Talk About the Implications of TLT pls pls 👉👈 (pls ignore how much I sound like a snob in that post lol. I AM NOT, that was just me trying to formulate my wish in English :D)
The characters of TLT aren't the pure evil but very normal people
one of my favorite lines from harrow the ninth is “love is a revenant” which comes from ianthe tridentarius of all people, who only TWO PAGES earlier also says “your fist is so big and my butthole is so small”
For some reason, whenever I think of Ianthe, I always think “…discontented and jaundiced”, which was a phrase from a children’s book my mother read to me at a young age, but has evidently stuck with me. Anyway I just think it fits her very well
In Nona the Ninth, we find out John's early achievements are bigger versions of things Harrow's done: puppeting corpses, making a bone dome, arm shenanigans, etc. Also, he rubs at the same spot on his temple she had sliced up to keep Gideon out.
The parallels are just to get you thinking about how they mirror each other
Harrow's life is leaking into John's dream; this isn't how it happens
Harrow and John are connected through Alecto; she's unconsciously stealing ideas
Someone is scheming to arrange the parallels
I'm 6th, I have my own analysis
I'm 8th, this is blasphemy
Voting ended onJul 19
Harrow and John have really similar necromantic achievements. What explanation do you think is most likely?
i KNOW that Gideon in face paint and full ninth robes was one of the hottest things Harrow had ever seen. stalking around Canaan just wanting to bite Gideon and shake her around like dog toy.
got the GtN name pronunciation guide on my dash, so now I'm thinking about how the way this is worded ("Ianthe and Corona were 'Cainabeth and Abella'", the deliberate placement of Ianthe first) has always made me wonder if Ianthe was/is intended to be Cainabeth and Coronabeth is Abella.
I only noticed that now but I find it interesting how in that guide the names don't switch one but every time they are brought up. "Goodtwin" and "Badtwin" but next it's "Badtwin and Lessbadtwin", the words are in reversed order... Either it means something or it's deliberately designed confusing so that it's hard to conclude who is supposed to be who
As per this interview on Reactormag, Ianthe is confirmed to have been originally Abella!
(Of course, this still leaves at least some room to question who's Badtwin and who's Lessbadtwin, though my money in generally on Corona being Badtwin, personally!)
got the GtN name pronunciation guide on my dash, so now I'm thinking about how the way this is worded ("Ianthe and Corona were 'Cainabeth and Abella'", the deliberate placement of Ianthe first) has always made me wonder if Ianthe was/is intended to be Cainabeth and Coronabeth is Abella.
I only noticed that now but I find it interesting how in that guide the names don't switch one but every time they are brought up. "Goodtwin" and "Badtwin" but next it's "Badtwin and Lessbadtwin", the words are in reversed order... Either it means something or it's deliberately designed confusing so that it's hard to conclude who is supposed to be who
here’s a quick drawing I made yesterday to kick off the week 🫡 anyways htn really endeared me to Ortus, I wanted to do a short comic of the whole scene but my wrist and neck said no.
Idk, I think I’ll revisit this at some point because the whole conversation feels so validating for Harrow after a whole book (and life) of being gaslit and neglected and shouldering burdens too heavy for even an adult to bare. One day I’ll rant about this longer but for now pls enjoy my silly little drawing of two sad ninth house stereotypes
I was reading Gideon the Ninth right before my egg cracked. The reviews said Griddle was so funny. I read it and all I saw was a traumatised woman having a particularly Kiwi response to pain: she can’t just say it hurts, so she turns everything into a joke. It’s her only outlet, the only socially-acceptable way to seize back any power. I don’t see a funny girl, I see a girl who is doing everything not to scream.
Imagine being a woman in this society; imagine being a queer woman in this society; imagine being a trans woman. To be a good Kiwi is to be tough, resolute, to never cry out, to not be a fucking girl. Imagine being asked to be petite and gentle and feminine but not too gentle and feminine because that’s weakness, and we abhor weakness. Women everywhere must ride a razor of incompatible expectations, but the particularly Kiwi manifestation of that evil is that women must be women without ever being fucking girls. No softness, no weakness, no vulnerability, no crying. That’s the bear trap Gideon Nav has found herself in. Hell, she’s not even allowed to speak, so she’s laughing while waiting for the jaws to snap her leg off, because what else can she do? The Ninth House is built on buried women.
[Light CW for referenced spousal abuse and misogyny as applied to media tropes]
I'm having trouble articulating my point around this, but:
Thinking about the "abused wife" archetypes you often see in older media (not to say these don't still crop up nowadays, but they were much more blatant and accepted in decades past). Particularly the following two flavors: 1) the irritating, stuck-up, "bitchy" wife whose suffering the audience is expected to find funny/cathartic, because she "deserves" it, and 2) the long-suffering "good" wife (not framed as "deserving it") who the audience is meant to view as a tragic but morally-upstanding (and therefore aspirational) figure of Christian womanhood
and
knowing Tamsyn Muir's propensity for pulling the old gendered-trope-switcharoo
thinking about how neatly Babs and Colum slot into those archetypes
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Notably Muir is not only inverting these tropes on a gendered axis but subverting them, too, on a narrative axis, given that Colum is clearly positioned not to be a figure of aspirational cavalierhood to an audience of literally anyone outside of his Eighth House cultural context, let alone the reader, and that she has Pal outright state that Babs didn't deserve what he got.
I do think that last point, though, despite Muir putting that exact sentiment in the mouth of a fan-favorite character, has managed to elude certain segments of the fandom, somehow.
