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If I had to choose a moment in time to take with me into eternity,
I'd choose this moment, with you in my arms
d'you ever just. think about gideon and harrow as two people who lost everything, had nothing their entire lives, and then just when they had each other in a more positive way. another sacrifice. another loss. and then in htn they still have nothing. a fucked up temporal lobe and a well to stick a soul in to show for it all. DO YOU EVER JUST ---
- Harrow repeated fumblingly, and then could say no more.
My fanart debut for the books that overtook my life this Halloween, brought to you by @winterscarf ‘s commission fund (and book pitching agenda)~
It's only a tiny detail, but I love that Gideon is fastidiously tidy while Harrow is a slob who leaves mounds of dirty clothes lying around her living space. It goes against stereotype for Gideon's boisterous jock personality and Harrow being a fussy nerd, and it makes sense when you think about it
Tlt brainrot
Did I cry while I was making some of these?
Absolutely yes.🥲
Some sketches and perhaps a wip
I recently started reading the tlt books and these boney lesbians have my heart 😔🙌🏻❤️
discovered this 2018 tweet from tamsyn muir and I don’t know what to do with this information
Harrow the Ninth, chapters 48 and 49:
If Gideon had been there—no, if Gideon had been there, Harrow still couldn’t have hoped for a running commentary. Griddle didn’t know how to do running commentary. She would suck her breath through her teeth, or mutter in ecstasy words that meant nothing to anyone who wasn’t her, things like, “right foot,” in tones that suggested that if she died on the spot, that right foot would have somehow been the apex of her existence. Nor could she ever explain a fight after the fact in terms that Harrow could understand. But if her cavalier had been there, Harrow was fairly sure that she would have sucked her molars out of their sockets from sheer intensity of feeling.
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It was your curt, aggravated handwriting, curter and more aggravated than ever, like you’d written it in a hurry. I’d gotten so many letters in that handwriting, calling me names or bossing me around. You’d touched that letter, and I—you know it was killing me twice that you weren’t there, right? You must know it was destroying me to be there in your body, trying to keep your thumbs on, and I couldn’t even hear your damn voice?
tonight’s breakdown theme: soft mutual yearning for small things about each other that no one else could appreciate
The classical vibes of griddlehark are impeccable. Yes, they have Hades and Persephone aesthetics; the lord of the cold dead and the blooming flower her heart keeps trapped in the darkness. They also have the courtly love of a knight for her untouchable Lady, if her Lady were also her King. Then they're Orpheus and Eurydice too, she's kept alive as long as she refuses to look at her. One of them is also lesbian Jesus with Mordred's origin story, why not. And of course they're also Achilles and Patrocles, naturally; an unstoppable force on the battle field, together from childhood, there is no me without you, at the end of everything a final blurring of their edges. Mingled blood, mixed ashes. It's a Lot.
Can people actually draw gideon and harrowhark with darker skin. Specifically with like proper brown to black skin, not the pale shit most people do. Like, that's whitewashing these characters (the only locked tomb characters that should be white are those described as such, the third trio and that's like it)
Problematic Femslash Ship Tournament - Round 4
Sakurin - Rin Tohsaka x Sakura Matou (Fate/Stay Night) VS. Griddlehark - Gideon Nav x Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb Series)
Info and propaganda under cut! This will not be spoiler-free.
Problematic elements for Sakurin:
It's incest + Even just in canon Sakura's dark evil side not only shows attraction to Rin but is specifically pretty rapey toward her, including a bad end to the VN where she forces Rin to experience her (Sakura's) own sexual abuse until she breaks mentally.
Problematic elements for Griddlehark:
Awful to each other since childhood, Harrow especially abusing Gid. Then they got better, then they got worse, then they (maybe?) got better again.
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Propaganda for Sakurin:
Sisters separated as children who experience mutual guilty crushes on each each other is already good, and making it so one wants to sexually abuse her sister the second all of her darkest impulses come out is so much fun.
Propaganda for Griddlehark:
They are both deeply horribly traumatized and they are the biggest triggers for each other and also the only ones who understand each other's pain it's great
GRIDDLEHARK SWEEP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Propaganda:
Harrow and Gideon; the power imbalance and pining and inability to communicate and understand each other and oh god the pining they just want to be loved and they're so bad at it
Juri and Shiori: They both love eachother right but shiori is insecure and has comphet and hates juri for being better than her!! It was confirmed in the original dialogue and by the series creator that Shiori does return Juri's feelings, but was antagonistic towards to her because she held Juri in such high regard that when she found out that Juri loved her it made Shiori feel powerful and on more equal ground with Juri than she initially thought, so she tried to maintain that power in the hopes of having Juri to herself
Louis and Lestat: In the original book Lestat literally turns a 5 year old little girl into a vampire to trap Louis in their loveless, abusive relationship, because he knows Louis will worry about Lestat (whom Louis now recognizes as a remorseless monster who sees humans as nothing but food) using this child (Claudia) as a tool and creating the most evil and messed up surrogate child of all time. (He was right, btw, bc she grows into a woman trapped forever in a child's body and hates them both for it. but this isn't about Claudia.)
In the TV series, Lestat is a white devil offering aid, sympathy, and love to a gay, closeted black man in the 1900s. He offers him company, capital, a friend who sees him as an 'equal' Once he turns him into a vampire, his desire to possess and control Louis becomes apparent. He displays TEXTBOOK narcissistic and abusive partner behaviors, apologies for how awful he was, promises to change, makes romantic gestures to try and smooth things over. They start having an 'open relationship' where Lestat loses it over Louis taking advantage of being able to see other people. Lestat writes a love song for him and sends Louis a recording sung by the woman he's having an affair with; Louis confronts him at the singer's apartment and they have angry sex in her bed.
Late in the TV series, they get in another fight, and Lestat literally drops Louis out of the sky and leaves him paralyzed, with Claudia (in this adaptation, a young woman who is more like a sister/mother to Louis) to nurse him back to health and re-teach him how to walk. Louis still takes him back.
In both the book and the TV series, Claudia convinces Louis that the only way they can be free is to kill Lestat. In both, they poison him, slit his throat, and dump his body in a swamp. In the TV version, Louis sobs over Lestat's dead body, refusing to allow Claudia to burn him and ensure he can't come back from it. (Spoilers: he gets better. and he's pissed about it! He follows them to Europe.) Their gay divorce drama eventually results in the destruction of an entire enclave of over 400 vampires in Paris and the death of their surrogate daughter.
LETS GO LESBIANS LETS GO! GRIDDLEHARK PLEASE MAKE A COME BACK
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PLEASE GRIDDLEHARK SWEEP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
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Griddlehark sweep please omg
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Gideon the ninth doodles
These fuckin books. Amazing. Crushed them in a week- my brain is full of bones + space opera + sapphic yearning + ass jokes
Spire shenanigans
