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“The field and the flooring are a few micrometres apart—maybe the Ninth could make a very very weeny construct to go through that gap,” said the Seventh helpfully.

Harrow said, in bottom-of-the-ocean tones: “The Ninth House has not practised its art on—weeny—constructs.”

(Gideon the Ninth, chapter 20)

This bone you unfolded into a seething web of phalanges and nuggety clumps of palm bones, pressed into the door; then those distal tips you turned into fluid, and this fluid you turned into liquid ash a micrometre thick, a very—weeny—construct.

(Harrow the Ninth, Chapter 31)

This callback absolutely delights me. It’s so minor and ridiculous, but that makes it all the funnier to catch. I like to imagine that it’s Gideon distantly ragging on Harrow, because she’ll never let her forget the time Harrowhark Nonagesimus said “weeny”.

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Hello Locked Tomb fans, I feel like we all need to address the drastic lack of John content in this fandom. I feel like I’m simping for this bastard all alone and thus, during my reread of Harrow the Ninth I have kept a small collection of some of my fave John moments, which I will now post here because I’m taking matters into my own hands. Please clap for world’s okayest God, he’s the funniest bitch here.

And also, obviously spoilers for Harrow the Ninth

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“what if, LOTR but little animated animals.” by jessica a. m

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I made a really long Nine Houses sorting quiz!

It’s 40 questions. You can take it here.

If you want to put in the tags what you got that would be cool!!! I’d love to know! I hope you guys like it.

Verrrrryy minor spoilers for a scene in the later half of Harrow the Ninth (It’s just mentioning the existence of it, not spoiling it at all!)

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Of all the things Gideon and Harrow call one another I'm still mooning over "first flower of my House" like. Fuck, Harrow, how long have you been holding that gentleness in? As cruel as Harrow has been to Gideon before, now when their souls have been bared and they're covered in blood and about to die Harrow touches Gideon's face and calls her precious, beautiful, and hers. This wiseass meathead with huge biceps who can literally pick Harrow up with one hand, the first flower of her house.

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“Of course we’re not running,” said Harrowhark disdainfully. “I said a necromancer alone. I have you. We bring hell.”

[…]

“We do bones, motherfucker,” she said.

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the thing about rereading gtn is you realize how well the perspective works in terms of keeping things a mystery on account of gideon’s absolutely clueless himbo brain:

she talks about how rigid and unnatural harrow’s parents are as puppets, meets protesilaus and describes how rigid and unnatural he is in the exact same way, and her only analysis is “well i bet i can take him in a fight”

she zones out right as abigail starts talking to cytherea about communication between the original lyctors (which obviously has major implications) and calls it “boring”

she doesn’t realize corona’s facade even when corona demonstrates MULTIPLE TIMES in front of gideon that she’s incapable of doing typical necromancer things AND ianthe explicitly refers to herself as the singular necromancer of the third to gideon

palamedes also points out that gideon should know how many keys are left in play and she DOESNT because she just hasn’t been paying attention or bothered keeping count

dulcinea also surprises gideon with her perceptiveness and unexpected ability to win TWO keys and harrow even warns gideon she’s dangerous and gideon STILL doesn’t perceive her as a threat cuz hnggg hot lady nice

and it’s very obvious Things are Happening but because gideon dismisses it, we kinda do too. and we aren’t privy to any of the extra insight because our narrator is too busy simping over cougars, blonde bimbos, and her boss to take note of any of the big stuff.

but hey at least she figured out that camilla is ambidextrous and uses dual blades as her primary weapons instead of a rapier?? go you funky jock lesbian! but gideon i am begging you to do some critical thinking babe. if harrow had even half of the information gideon was given gtn would have been over in fifty pages

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In case you’d like a summary of the book, that pretty much sums it up 💀

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So, uh, this is from Tamsyn Muir’s twitter back before the book came out

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miss camilla the sixth are you free on saturday

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I started reading Gideon the Ninth and it’s so good 💀

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I really like Fallout villains because they range from “cronenberg meat abomination that can assimilate other people’s flesh and is literally fused inside of the walls” to “julius caesar cosplayer’

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13 saying she specifically set the coordinates so that she’d land at the same time as the fam, implying that she fully planned on pretending nothing had happened, and that the “space jail” thing was just like, a fun short adventure instead of who knows how many decades of imprisonment….. no wonder the tardis shifted the coordinates around akjhfkjds she saw the doc about to repress everything all over again and went “Oh No You Don’t”

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@with-love-anu Number ONE🐐 (Julian @ Lucio)

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look to the stars

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anyway made a uquiz which IF oc of mine do you relate too strongly to?