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it’s 6/9. happy funny sex number day and happy team 69 day and happy colum asht day (st columba’s feast day) to all who celebrate

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Modern harrow is so fun bc like. It feels like you have to pick, right? What side of Harrow do you transpose? Do you make her a super conservative religious kid who is trying so so hard to be what the adults in her life expect her to be? Do you make her the pretentious little goth edgelord she hashtag represents in aesthetic and ambiance and attitude?

And really, it depends on what story you're trying to tell. They're both real and true representations of aspects of Harrow.

But I think it's also worth noting that they are not mutually exclusive. Harrow's religious upbringing was not mainstream, in that it was so concerned with the adversary, it became a fearful kind of worship. Easily analogous to a small-town church so preoccupied with warding against the devil, they forget to do anything else. Such an establishment wouldn't be put off by a devotee who wears head to toe black and has a strong preoccupation with bones. And there are so many beautiful and varied goth freaks in this world, an antisocial devoutly religious weirdo who may or may not contrive to worship the devil in a god-fearing way wouldn't even turn heads.

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tlt short stories

for those who might have missed it, the locked tomb trade paperbacks come with bonus content, including three in-universe short stories by tamsyn muir! these stories are free to read online through reactor magazine (previously known as tor.com).

The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex

Each of the Empire’s houses keeps secrets, even from themselves. For the bookish academics of the Sixth, every secret is a mystery, and every mystery is a puzzle to be solved or a paper to be published. Deep in the bowels of their house, one such secret is about to reveal itself. The study of the famed academic Donald Sex, sealed since the moment of his death, is about to open, and archivists are ready to dissect what he left behind. They are not ready for the macabre surprise that awaits them.

Enter Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect, age thirteen.

As Yet Unsent

Culled from Judith Deuteros’ secret report on Blood of Eden activities, this story was originally published in the trade paperback edition of Harrow the Ninth.

The Unwanted Guest

Palamedes Sextus and Ianthe Tridentarius match wits on a dreamlike battlefield.

This story was originally published in the trade paperback edition of Nona the Ninth.

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See, the ending I see for John and Alecto is. They're not going to both die. No one is going to kill Alecto just so they can kill John. Talk about reenacting the cycle of violence. Nah, I think they're gonna do the Paul thing. The lyctor thing. Complete the eightfold word. but instead of a merging of two equal souls, John will be subsumed by and become a part of something greater than himself. absorbed completely into the world he loved and fought for and changed and killed and resurrected. I'm not sure he'd even fight it. On some level, I think he's wanted it for ten thousand years, just as badly as Gideon wanted it from Harrow

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Aiglamene this, Aiglamene that. but where's the love for these cunty old ladies? Blessed Sister Lachrimorta and Blessed Sister Aisamorta, stand behind me

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I laughed so fucking hard at this

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“Juno, do you want the honours?” and she said, “Do I,” and she sliced the ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT tape seal, and she fitted the key within the lock.

or, Unsealing the study of Dr Sex after >400 years with mama (linked to OG post that inspired me to draw this <3)

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Imagining Yzma when she’s been potioned into a kitten being surrounded by the other anthropomorphised guards

GUARDS!! console me

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i’d say “sorry for swinging a bat at the hornet’s nest,” but i’m not, actually! it’s been almost five years since harrow the ninth was released, and i STILL see people insist that harrow isn’t schizophrenic; she’s just being haunted. fandom takes representation of an intensely stigmatized mental illness (that the author candidly says she has!) and ignores it!!!

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I was actually planning to draw this for last year but here we go

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one of the bookmarks that went with the t-shirts

both Nona and Corona won by people's vote on whom to draw

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fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love

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the face of a woman who is having the world’s most normal time, she is not about to devote the next ten thousand years to revenge no not at all

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Grattis på födelsedagen Sverige!! Another perfect Hetalia character’s birthday and also another favorite one of mine. I liked him before, but my closest online friend has made me like him even more.

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Things definitely said by Gideon Nav during her time spectating in Harrow the Ninth

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harrow is sick of her

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Paul The Apostle (Redux)

Update of an old illustration I did of Paul from 2022

love never fails. but where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Saint Paul, First Corinthians 13:8