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Picture this you go to your local grocery store and you see Harrow's "Probiotic" Marrow Soup, and on the canned soup it says: "It's good for the gut"

Are you buying it?

griddles-bone-soup

Will you just taste the soup?

#of course #gimme that soup #tlt #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrowhark the first

elldritch-horror

I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.

What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.

I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.

Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.

griddles-bone-soup

If I could directly implant this understanding into the brain of every TLT fan, by jod I would

#jod #tlt #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #htn spoilers #gtn spoilers #gideon spoilers #harrow spoilers

the-boring-distopia

Harrow, Gideon and Ianthe: wow this sucks I wonder what the others are doing

Least crazy Camilla Hect sideplot:

#like the only time things calm down for cam is when she IS the main plot #tlt #the locked tomb #camilla hect #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth

tempest-or-something

Palamedes's sexuality is very funny to me because I thought about it and I realized that he's presumed straight probably mostly because he is one of only 3 prominent male characters in the series and has never interacted with either of the others. He has no opportunity to be gay. Gideon the Ninth probably fails the reverse bechdel test and that's iconic.

#palamedes the sixth #tlt palamedes #palamades sextus #the locked tomb series #gideon the 9th #harrow the ninth #nona the 9th #gtn #htn #ntn #sex pal #paul tlt #tlt

peniswizard69

Nona the Ninth says important things like "even in the cruelest most broken world love can still matter" and "righteous fury is still fury and can be so destructive" and "mass suicide cancelled I forgot there was a dog"

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth #tlt #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the 9th #nona the locked tomb #ntn #htn #gtn

relaxnotshaveeyebrows

*smacks the locked tomb like it’s a car*: this baby can fit so much grief inside it

*stone starts rolling away because i got into a wrestling match with the only other girl my age before coming over here*: oh god oh fuck

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #tlt #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #the locked tomb series #gtn #htn #ntn

manguopudding

i find it hard to believe this post was not made w campal in mind tbh

bonus pyrrha, who i am excited to finally have drawn

#the locked tomb #tlt #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #campal #pyrrha dve #nona the ninth #ntn spoilers #tlt spoilers #gtn spoilers #htn spoilers #camilla the sixth #palamedes the sixth #tlt palamedes #paul tlt

beguilingcorpse

also re:people assuming that the thematic implications of tlt are unintentional. this pops up soooo much with the way that social prejudices and strictures are held up within john’s empire. like yes on the surface things are cool and neofuturist and liberal - same sex relationships are normalized! women are political leaders and scholars and swordfighters and revolutionaries! this guywoman calls herself a prince! - but there’s also significant evidence of the continued existence of misogyny, patriarchy, strict gender roles and generally binary gender presentation, etc etc etc. gestures emphatically to everything relating to mercymorn. and it seems that john is not only complicit in these social systems, and not only an active participant in them, but at times even the font and root of them. gestures even more emphatically to everything relating to mercymorn.

and instead of examining what muir might be trying to say by having these seemingly at-odds ideals present in the same universe and stemming from the same father-god-emperor-king, tlt fans are so quick to write off all of this as “well, the world building just isn’t that thorough” or “it’s probably muir subconsciously writing women through a lens of internalized misogyny” or even “who cares, it’s a sci-fi fantasy series about bones, it’s not that deep”

it is. it is that deep. engage with the text. PLEASE

#tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth

grubbylilgoblin

Final version

#harrow the ninth #alecto #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #other people’s art #alecto the ninth #harrow the first #alecto the first

vividciggy

TLT as tumblr text posts (pt. 1/?)

#tlt #the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #griddlehark #tlt shitposting #other people’s art #tlt spoilers #camilla the sixth #camilla hect #tlt fanart #gideon the 9th #harrow the ninth #harrow the 9th #nona the 9th #nona the ninth

stardusted-penguin

I’d rather carry you.

#the locked tomb #tlt #nona the ninth #tlt spoilers #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #tlt fanart #the locked tomb spoilers #ntn spoilers #gtn spoilers #htn spoilers #paul tlt #nona the 9th #gideon the 9th #harrow the 9th

ollieartie

When I tell you I am SOOOOO deep in the catacombs of The Locked Tomb series, it’s unreal.

Anyway, this one specific line has been haunting me for like a good few weeks now and I had to do something about it.

#nona the ninth spoilers #the locked tomb #the locked tomb fanart #john gaius #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt spoilers #gtn spoilers #htn spoilers #ntn spoilers #gideon spoilers #gideon the 9th #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth spoilers #harrow the 9th #harrow the ninth #nona the 9th #nona the ninth #jod

grynwood

"I don't let go. It's my one thing"

#tlt #the locked tomb #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #gtn spoilers #gtn #htn #ntn

musdswo

cam!

#tlt #the locked tomb #camilla hect #ntn #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #htn spoilers #ntn spoilers #gtn #htn #tlt fanart #other people’s art #camilla the sixth

welcome-to-the-shit-library

soo . reading harrow the ninth

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrow the ninth #spoilers?#ortus nigenad #ortus the ninth #harrowhark #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the 9th

may12324

Harrow The Ninth -mock dust cover

With the river in blue and with blood variations. I wanted to have some crossover from my gtn cover, making things partially destroyed , like the side flaps. As well as having the sword in the same position, Gideons presence is still there! Even if she, herself, is not 🥲

Next up will be Nona's cover!

And more closeups under the cut

#harrow the ninth #htn #the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #john gaius #gideon the first #tlt art #augustine the first #ianthe naberius #tlt ianthe #ianthe the third #harrowhark the first #harrow the 9th

drawerbread

coronabeth! I don't draw her nearly enough

#tlt #tlt fanart #the locked tomb #tlt coronabeth #coronabeth the third #coronabeth tridentarius

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