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Ships*: GriddleHark / HarrIanthe / KirIanthe (/The Tower Princes) / KiriHarrIanthe / HarAlecto (/Harrow and the Body) / CamPal / CamGideon (/Camilleon) / AlectoStasia / Tridentarius Twins / Augustine & Mercymorn / Harrow & Palamedes / Team SixtyNine (/Griddlehark CamPal) / The Pyrrhacule (/CamPalPyrrha) / JodyBeth

GriddleHark Variations: GriddleHark Modern AU / GriddleHark AU / GriddleHark (Harrow Nova) / GriddleHark (Kiriona) / Griddlehark Childhood

*ship names are used even in platonic settings

Books & Scenes

Gideon the Ninth: GtN / GtN Quotes / The Pool Scene / Gideon's Sacrifice

Harrow the Ninth: HtN / The Soup Incident / HarrIanthe Smex Scene / Gideon Returns / Harrow's GriddleHark Fanfic / The Coffee Shop AU / dios apate / Harrow's Sacrifice

Nona the Ninth: NtN / Nona's Found Family / Nona's Tantrums / Paul Gets Born /Get in line thou big slut

Alecto the Ninth: AtN / The AlectoPause

Characters

Gideon: (/Gideon the Ninth, Gideon Nav, Griddle): Gideon (solo) / Kiriona Gaia / Gideon in Harrow

Harrow: (/Harrowhark Nonagesimus): Harrow (solo) / Harrow Goblin Mode / Harrow's Mental Illness / Harrow Analysis / Harrow Nova

Nona: (/Nona-Palona)

Ianthe: (/Ianthe Tridentarius, Content Warning: Ianthe Tridentarius) & Coronaneth (/Coronabeth Tridentarius)

Camilla Hect (/Camilla the Sixth / Camilla solo) & Palamedes Sextus / Pal in Cam / Paul

Canaan Crew: Judith

Blood of Eden: Troia Cell

The OG Lyctors & Cavaliers: Alecto / Anastasia / Augustine / Mercymorn / G1dieon & Pyrra Dve / Cassiopeia & Nigella /

Extra fun things: Friendship Bracelets / Canaan House / Cosplay / Memes / Tamsyn Muir Interviews / CATS / Valentine's Day / Christmas / Halloween / Cow Jokes / Gideon's Chussy / Tattoos

Extra Official TLT Content: The Uninvited Guest

Locations: Canaan House

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #gtn #ntn #htn #tlt #alecto the ninth #ONGOING PROJECT that I'm slowly organising when I have time <3

catskullery

Hey Griddle. It's been a while.

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #griddle #gideon (solo)

vampire-apostrophe

Gideons first interaction with both of her parents is the two of them fighting… the poor girl she’s been conscious for the first time in nine months to watch a six person polycule all of whom were involved in her conception absolutely implode.

thanergetic-hyperlinks

The opening of the fight in question:

Dad: “now, we both know I'm an upstanding guy who would never stoop to torturing you for intel, but you are tied to a chair and I am immortal so like, I can wait for you to be reasonable for a very, very long time :)”

Mom: “I CHARGE YOU WITH ACTS COMMITED WITH INTENT TO DESTROY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, THE HUMAN RACE—”

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #griddle #jod #john gaius #commander wake #htn

nepenthean-sleep

first few months of alectopause: damn can't wait until atn comes out

2023 alectopause: you know it's ok we can wait. i got some fics to write

2024 alectopause: here is 30,000 words on how john's characterization as emperor and lyctorhood interplays with colonialism, imperialism, sexual assault, and misogyny, featuring a full bibliography, a reading list, and peer reviewed by three mutuals

2025 alectopause: gideon would not fucking say that

2026 alectopause: what is everyone's blood pressure headcanons for the characters. i think harrow is orthostatic and gets a regular 90/50

#the locked tomb #tlt #alectopause

wofworld

that terrible teen. I think about her all the time.

click for quality

#the locked tomb #tlt #jeannemary the fourth #jeannemary chatur

doityourselfbombs

ortus nigenad is a better man than I am bc if I was peacefully dead and my teenaged boss called my spirit back to play make-believe I would simply tell her to fuck off

#the locked tomb #tlt #ortus the ninth #ortus nigenad #htn

crochet-the-ninth

somebody come get Harrow, she’s fantasizing about shaving her head

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow #harrow (solo)#tlt craft #tlt crochet

grynwood

Remember to hydrate your necro 💧

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #griddle #griddlehark #gtn

finderheart

I can't believe it took me this long to post these I finished this like nine months ago

An idea I had for Blood of Eden propaganda/recruitment posters featuring some of our favorite guys - combo of digital-print cyberpunk graphic design style with oldschool Saturday Morning Post covers like you'd see Leyendecker paintings on

I was gonna post these ahead of tabling at a small con and selling prints of them but ended up not tabling because turns out grad school is hard

maybe next year... figured tumblr would like though

#the locked tomb #tlt #blood of eden #coronabeth tridentarius #pash #our lady of the passion #commander wake #awake remembrance of these valiant dead

bloodknife

WHEN I AM IN HEAVEN I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE

#the locked tomb #tlt #commander wake #pyrrha dve #wake's letters #htn quotes

pomegranatefae

Magnus Quinn was a fun little guy who just wanted to love his wife and cook good food and they fucking killed him for it. Like, he's a terrible sword fighter (admittedly we only see him fight Gideon who is a badass but she had a rapier at the time and still easily kicked his ass), he was only there because his wife was an awesome historian and necromancer and she wanted to study the First House. My man literally just wanted to be a house husband and he got murdered by a myriad old super necromancer because his wife was doing history too well.

katakaluptastrophy

I do see what you're getting at, but...

Magnus Quinn's tenure as Seneschal of Koniortos Court predates both his role as Cavalier Primary of the Fifth House and his marriage to Abigail Pent. Judith specifically warns about the power and influence that he wields as a Fifth House bureaucrat. He may exist in a domestic orbit, but it's sure not as an aspiring house husband.

It's unclear whether his role as seneschal is more akin to a contemporary senior civil servant, or something more classically feudal, as with Crux. But the most modest interpretation of Magnus' job would invovle him administering Abigail's presumably fairly substantial estates and their workforce (some of whom are likely indentured), and almost every interpretation deeply entwines him in the workings of the Houses' imperial machine.

While we don't have insight into Magnus and Abigail's thought process, it doesn't seem too off base to assume that Magnus became her cavalier in part because it supported their existing personal and political partnership. Magnus may not be on Gideon's level as a duelist, but his preference would seem to be for a softer power: he is friendly and affable... and before the punchline about cavalier middle names hits, his comments about bringing the Houses together has made the room so tense you could hear a hair drop. Cytherea makes a pointed comment about House unity, and how some Houses have profited from the empire more than others, just hours before she will go on to kill the Fifth.

In HTN, we have a moment where I suspect we get a rather more complex glimpse of Magnus:

“You need Ortus the Ninth to read a piece of paper with you?” said Magnus Quinn, with broad good humour, the type that was as resolute and inflexible and polite as a summons. She had been stitched up. She was a fool. She had lost her fear of the Fifth House, and now she had been boxed in as only the Fifth House might box you: smiling the whole time, and acting as though the whole thing might be a bit of a joke. (ch 28)

Which is not to say that Magnus is not a good, kind, man who enjoys his hobbies and loves his family and is willing to risk his immortal soul to help someone in need. But let's allow him the power and complexity that also made him a threat to Cytherea's plans and so concerned Judith.

oh-jod-dammit

😌 Five for tradition, and debts to the dead...

It's always fascinating to compare the Lyctors to their Houses, too. On the one hand you have Mercy so wildly opposite hers, the Eighth so clearly a monument to Cristabel, but for the rest... We've got Cyth close enough to Dulcie to at least briefly fool even Palamedes and Camilla, Ulysses and Titania the 'two dead kids' and founders of the child soldier house, G1deon who fights like (and might have been) a cavalier in the "necromancer focuses on enhancing their cavalier" house. And of course, Augustine "the closest thing you'd ever experienced to human plex" Quinque, all fake smiles and humorless laughs even as he helps plot treason and G1deon's death. Magnus and Abigail's smiles seem much more genuine more often, of course, but that's the general brand, the tradition, the Fifth leadership passes down.

Hell, there's even not-yet-Alfred described as "useless, but a darling" when he in fact helped with a lot of things, like working out the passenger manifests, when he was one of the two to go to such extremes to force the first Lyctors. The unassuming friendly demeanor of a Fifth cav runs back that far, too.

And of course there's all the association between the Third and Fifth, too. Those being the two Houses Harrow was most afraid of being absorbed by, the most socially oriented Houses; the strong parallels between Augustine and Ianthe and even between Alfred and Corona. The gleam of a jewel, or a smile. The Mouth of the Emperor. The flighty gossips who will get your guard down until you don't even realize how much information you've given up.

>:) So yeah, their preferred methods for achieving it are a little different of course, but never underestimate the diplomat houses. That's exactly what they want you to do.

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt analysis #magnus quinn #magnus the fifth #abigail pent