#HARROWWWWW

[cl0udberry]

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[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

Harrow the Ninth

Honestly, even the cover is enough to give me feels. She looks so little, so vulnerable on it, despite the power stance and the face paint. Her face looks like she's grieving and furiously trying to go on, regardless. Am I projecting?

Let's get into it, then.

A fresh Dramatis Personae; this one has people crossed out, which is already unsettling. Oh, it's the cavaliers who are crossed out. Presumably, for the obvious reason. And the Lyctors including Cytherea, who, presumably, died.

Oh, and here's Ianthe, and Harrow. With Gideon's name scribbled out much more ferociously than the others.

Prologue

Oh, we love a second person narrator. If I hadn't already been told that Tamsyn Muir is a Homestuck fan, this would have definitely clued me in. How delightful! I have no idea what's going on. That's fine.

Oh, the "you" is Harrow? In the Prologue? The Prologue titled Emperor's Death???? This bodes. Uh. I'm scared.

Even the Emperor cautions Harrow to not be in such a hurry to die. I'm. I'm scared.

Ianthe is trying to protect Harrow? I barely know her, and this seems out of character. Narrows eyes.

“You always did think obstinacy the cardinal virtue,”

... Can't argue with that.

“Well, I tried, and therefore no one should criticize me,”

This along with "Choke me, Daddy" has me wondering if Ianthe is such a fan favourite because she speaks in memes.

Hell spat you back out. Fair enough.

<3 You go girl.

I still don't know what's going on. (That's still okay.) The Heralds of the Resurrection Beast seem to be insects, or at least function similarly to them - trying to kill whatever Harrow's in (spaceship?) and all life in it - by overheating. Like bees with hive invaders.

I have hope that even though the narrative seems hell bent on letting Harrow die here - that she won't, that the sounds of swords mean imminent rescue. Though I won't hold out too much hope.

The next chapter is a timeskip to the past - so I can't be sure at all. We will see.

[irishyuri]

mewling pathetically rn my HARROWWWWW

[yisanged]

nevermind they didn't have them grr. life is so hard for a guy who wants to play minecraft while listening to something. they have stolen on here i read stolen in like second grade and i remember it fucked me up even though i don't remember anything about it other than it was in second person. will never be harrow the ninth though. harrowwwww i miss harrow god. alecto needs to come out right now please. i can't wait till october even if it is gonna come out on my birthday please

[pawtistics]

harrowwwww i love ur writing so much it is always SO good and it makes me insane every time. i wish i could give it a more detailed compliment its !!!! ♡♡♡♡ ur so good

HI RY!!!!!!!!! sniffles sniffles WDYM you LOVE MY WRITING..!!?!? i appreciate that so much 💔💔 i adore u.

[bangtanintotheroom]

aj!! i am here with questions!!! 8, 10, 25, 34 <333333

Harrowwwww, welcome to the madness 😈💕

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

TOO MANY 😡 but I just discovered Broken by Lund and whew, the bitterness in the lyrics. Would definitely make a great heavy angst fic... 😏

10. How do you decide what to write?

If I get an idea, I sit and wonder whether it's viable enough to actually start writing. I might give it a day or two to stew over and see if anything sticks. And if it does, I'll open up a page in Notion and start jotting down details!

25. What other websites or resources do you use most often when you write?

I'm a fan of Thesaurus.com and I use these two pages as references for smut details! (Seriously, these are lifesavers for when I hit a wall in writing smut, highly recommend these)

34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?

A lot of the dialogue is pretty reminiscent of how I speak with friends irl. I wish there was more I could say, but I have a pretty tame life and can't say it inspired any of the crazy stuff I've been writing 🤣

[spushii]

LITERALLY SO GLAD THAT THE FEELING INSANE OVER THIS SERIES IS MUTUAL FR ITS BEEN ABSOLUTELY TEARING ME APART id love to hear your thoughts!!!! *_* I have been itching to read more posts about it but also trying to avoid spoilers rbdbdbjf

I just started nona yesterday, I finished harrow few days ago but god that one fucked with me good I needed a bit to just let everything that happened sink in. like ITS SO GOOD it’s so much darker than the first book and I still don’t have the words to express how much I genuinely enjoyed the second one it’s literally so fucking great. I was almost tempted to reread harrow after I finished it but I wanted to read all three before any rereads lol but the attachment I have to these characters is insane I just fucking cling to them so badly I am so unwell. love gideon, my best friend gideon I miss her sm…

SQUEEEEEEEEEE IM SO HAPPY YOU LIKED HARROW!!! its such a phenomenal book its so. um. Harrowing. lol. im going to have a really hard time articulating just all of the Shit That I Think About with this book series because there really really is so much.

getting right into the meat of my thoughts i guess. i really love how Gideon's bit with Ianthe at the end of HtN recontextualizes the bit of the pool scene where Harrow talks about the first time she saw The Body. where it really does feel like in that moment Gideon simultaneously realized that she was in love with Harrowhark and that Harrow would never feel the same. And i think it allows you to glean some of the genuinely a little bit selfish motivation behind Gideon's suicide. There were a lot of things that motivated Gideon to kill herself so Harrow and Camilla could live, but i think a significant portion of it was her not wanting to live a life indebted to Harrow in a way she would never be content with (Connecting mostly to Harrow asking her to return to the ninth house and care for it ((and by extension, The Body)) in her stead, in the event of her death), which is to say in the grand scheme of things, the choice between Living for Harrow and Dying for Harrow was a very easy one to make for Gideon Nav.

I dont have as much analysis for this but god i think all the fucking time. About Gideon the First attacking Harrow in the bathroom. and the subsequent Everything. It's just so fucking. Bleak. Reading it is physically exhausting. It's so. oh my god. I don't even know what to say. Fucking "Harrow, do something normal." I'm Going To Kill Myself. Im Going To Kill John Gaius. The fact that she KILLS him and it doesnt even KEEP. THE FUCKING. THIS. HARROWWWWW

HARROWHARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL IN MY LIFE AFTER IVE READ THIS

I do love John. as much as i hate him i love him as well. He's such a fucking coward. such a worthless piece of shit. such a suffocatingly interesting character. I love when Harrow tries to ask him about Alecto and he goes on about fucking "You'd make a hell of a daughter, Harrowhark. I sometimes indulge in the wish that you'd been mine." LITERALLY FUCKING WHAT. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOTU WHERE AM I.what if you had a crush on a girl but you had an even bigger crush on her dad's dead ex-girlfriend and then her dad told you that he wished you were his daughter. i feel so fucking abnormal

EDITING THIS POST BECAUSE I FORGOT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAKE. WHAT THE FUCK RIGHT???????????????? god i think forever about how much Gideon Nav loved her mother. how much she clung to the belief that she was loved. Has Gideon Nav ever been knowingly loved by anyone, in her life? Maybe Aiglemene loved her, in a way. But Gideon wouldn't have known that until it was far too late to treasure it. Harrow certainly loves her, but Gideon can't believe that. Not with The Body in the way. Not with Harrow, to Gideon, seeming so disgusted with her final act of devotion that she destroyed her own mind to be rid of the knowledge of it. Magnus treated her kindly, but kind is a far cry from love. But she loved her mother. Held the belief so desperately-yet-gently close to her chest, that her mother loved her too. Loved her enough to come crashing and burning through the Ninth planet's atmosphere and dying herself on the way down. Loved her enough to protect her life at the expense of her own. Imagine, then, for Gideon to learn that she was a tool. A key. Her destiny in life was to die within the first days of her birth; a blood sacrifice, as her mother willed it. Her mother hadn't brought her to the Ninth House in an attempt to save her, she'd brought her there on her way to kill her. Its So. God. Fuck this fucking book. Has Gideon ever been loved? Every truly been loved by anyone in this world? If she has, she doesn't know it.

[madou-dilou]

#lord viren /viagra/ Vegetable / voldemort/ valtor / vasectomy

The guy who is ready to give his LIFE for the king ...

and 2 minutes later, he is totally immobile in the middle of a battle where his own son risks his life.

I really have a problem with this character. 

AND I CANT WAIT TO READ FANFICTIONS ABOUT HIM AND HARROWWWWW <3