harrow core

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[may12324]

Gideon The Ninth- mock dustcover

I draw book covers for freelance all the time. I feel pretty lucky to do so, and wanted to create one with all my free will and spare time, to make just for me. Well, and for you lot as well. But mainly, for me.

I will be drawing book 2 and book 3 as well. And potentalially have prints of them later this year.

(For cover commissions email me at [email protected])

[lesansnom]

La danse macabre

[emiuli]

Sisters

[emptyjunior]

Sugar Plum Fairy and little lapin

[mothermakkar]

I just like to think that Acheron subtly broke the fourth wall in that one dialogue

[friedwizardwhispers]

Teacher literally calls Canaan house the Tower in book 1.

[katakaluptastrophy]

Descriptions of Canaan House in GTN start by referring to it having multiple towers, but rapidly start referring only to its central tower, and by the end and in HTN Canaan House is simply referred to as a tower...

Chapter 27 if GTN is in no way ominous:

The things they’ve shown us would be powerful—would bespeak impossible depth of necromantic ability—if they were replicable. These experiments all demand a continuous flow of thanergy. They’ve hidden that source somewhere in the facility, and that’s the true prize.”

“Ah. Your secret door theory. Very Ninth.”

She bristled. “It’s a simple understanding of area and space. Including the facility, we’ve got access to maybe thirty percent of this tower. That’s what’s called hard evidence, Warden. Your megatheorem is based on supposition and your so-called ‘instinct.’"

Palamedes was right, but was Harrow wrong...

[oh-jod-dammit]

The gradual change in how it's referred to is so juicy...

And man, with my theory about steles and obelisks using dead languages and blood to command ghosts (specifically devils/the ten billion) to warp time as an alternative to FTL ("less to do with travel than it is with transmission") and the "Tower of Babel" motif that could sort of come with that, I've also recently realized, both stele and obelisk are just more precise words for types of pillars, and what is a pillar but a sort of small tower... Just tying all of the pieces together.

PLUS Alecto asks "where did you put them?" and Varun says "there is a hole at the bottom of their tower", but, well, Teacher said...

“Down there resides the sum of all necromantic transgression,” she said, in the singsong way of a child repeating a poem. “The unperceivable howl of ten thousand million unfed ghosts who will hear each echoed footstep as defilement. They would not even be satisfied if they tore you apart. The space beyond that door is profoundly haunted in ways I cannot say, and by means you won’t understand; and you may die by violence, or you may simply lose your soul.”

And ten thousand million sure is another way of saying ten billion!

So if Varun implies these things are coming from the bottom of The Tower and Teacher says they were put down beneath Canaan, WELL... That math sure checks out, doesn't it!

[katakaluptastrophy]

And we've been rather Chekov's gunned for a very specific unexplored space in Canaan House:

“I’m not trained for this. I think our chances [of summoning Nonius] are very small. I think we’ve got a similar chance of Magnus tripping over the secret entrance to the lost chambers of the Emperor Undying. Actually, that’s significantly less unlikely, as I’ve come to believe they run sidelong to the facility rather than—never mind."

[revoltinggirl-urethra]

semantics are the ultimate vessel to objective truth . keep splitting hairs and youll reach the atom !

[revoltinggirl-urethra]

99% of all pedants stop cross referencing definitions right before they construct the infallible observation ‼️‼️‼️

[catticry]

Anatomy of The Archivist 👁

You try to listen for their heartbeat, but all you hear is the faint hissing of a running tape.

[catpocalyptic]

Ashamed to say i spent all day on this

[xxlunawarriorxx]

sorry i didn't post for a year. it will probably happen again

[eyeball-jam]

drew my own timsasha designs for once ! gosh i love them

[varibean]

situationship so bad that decades after the break up you decide to just fucking kill yourself in front of him

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2024: the salt grows heavy by cassandra khaw

i would follow them into the demise of the universe where every heaven and each hell is shuttered, and there is nothing of us but motings of wan light, and there is no bodily apparatus with which to express affection, no recourse save to glow weakly in worship until at last, such things are swallowed too by the dark. i would love them even then.

[1-jar-of-stars]

“Just keep dancing with me like this, Garraty, and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.” - The Long Walk, Richard Bachman

The Long Walk 2025, dir. Francis Lawrence // @/starpiece //The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket // I Swear Somewhere This Works, Trisha Mateer // The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket // H of H Playbook, Anne Carson

[ellenripleyworshipper]

i love them so much wow like they literally changed each other’s worldviews and saved each other in a way soooooo fucking beautiful

[thaliiiq]

[justalittlebluetiefling]

I know it sounds dramatic but it was genuinely a little devastating to lose interest in CR over the course of c3. I mean I was clinging to watching live by the tips of my fingers. So feeling this excited about CR again is such a relief and feels like part of myself is being revived. I know that’s dramatic but I have missed being invested in something like this.

[illegitimatechildren]

there you are you sack of shit. eat fuckin lead you bastard. if i drown i die. but if i die im dead. nat 20.