#Harrow is the nerd

[yourlocaltinsmith]

Hear me out

A highschool tlt AU called the locker tomb

[tanis-zed]

Sudden brain blast over morning coffee:

John Gaius, necrolord whatever, cringiest man alive, refuses to let the earth die. And not just in the literal sense of locking the earth’s soul in a barbie on ice, in subtler ways too.

The most obvious is the memes, John constantly references memes that are dated even to us, but are in universe from a culture that died ten thousand years ago!

Slightly more subtle is the years. Why does everyone in the Houses measure in earth years? It’s been ten THOUSAND years since anyone lived on the earth! But John keeps them as a unit of measurement.

Even more subtle is the language. In sci-fi and fantasy we’re all used to the idea of the translation for the reader, people don’t speak english in lord of the rings, or dune, but the dialogue is in english for us, the readers. Not in The Locked Tomb. In this series, they ARE speaking english. Modern, bog standard english, to the point where two people born thousands of years apart speak similar enough dialects that one can pose as the other (dulcie/cytheria).

Now, this could possibly fall under that standard sci-fi trope, EXCEPT!!!! In Nona The Ninth, we see the non-house humans! And they speak dozens of languages, like you’d expect after TEN THOUSAND YEARS of linguistic drift!

John is trying SO HARD to keep the earth alive that he’s forced a language to stagnate for, say it with me now, Ten Thousand Years, to the point where even completely new things with no equivalent in our world don’t even have new words, just repurposed old ones (flimsy, sonic).

John Gaius, the first necromancer, could resurrect the planet itself, and millions of people, but he couldn’t resurrect the culture. So, John, cryogenics researcher, tried to put the culture on ice, to keep it as close to the one he remembers as possible. And he still failed.

[tio-trile]

I've had several ideas for TLT animatics but never actually got around to making them, but I heard “嗵嗵” (Thump thump) by Doudou a few days ago and banged this out like a man possessed. CONTENT WARNINGS: Your usual the Locked Tomb content including eye imagery with needle like object, lobotomy, horror, suicide imagery, blood, FLASHING IMAGES, and whatever Mercymorn Augustine and Jod had going on

Spoilers for all three books in the series that's out now (ALECTO WHEN??? IM MAKING ANIMATICS TO COPE)

[wifegideonnav]

honestly if you can’t handle harrow the ninth at its “none house, with left grief” or its “hi, not fucking dead, im dad” or its “i love a little gall on gall” you don’t deserve it at its “you hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me” or its “the only thing our civilization can learn from yours is that we rarely become heroes” or its “we’ll still hate each other, my dear, but my bones will rest easy next to your bones”

[nerdasaurus1200]

Harrow was such a good dad to the boys

[joycrispy]

Gideon and Crowley could not be more different as characters but I do think it's funny that we currently have TWO golden-eyed redheaded goths with iconic dark sunglasses, who pretend to be sardonic and impervious but are actually the saddest beings in their respective worlds, who were both fucked over by Actual God and estranged from their (enemies-to) lovers (who are themselves something Holy and who have vanished into Hell/Heaven).

Also they are both gay.

[okay-letsdothisonelasttime]

Jesus, I'm always so slow drawing these, I really need to work on my efficiency with digit art.

But here (for the couple of people who are interest) have a baby badass Team 10 from the goat fic 'Of Harrowed Hearts' by @sablescribe.

I recon I've improved in some areas since the team 7 draw up, so hopefully we are ony going up from here....

[sherbertscarrot-head2]

Rewatching Moon Knight right now, Why does Arthur(Ethan hawke) always have a chauffeur 😭😭😭 His cult members have him KEPT.😭😭😭😭

[ghost-bard]

The locked tomb dark age au where katari and synnove are cavalier and necromancer… i dont know which house but lowkey i think theyd somehow be from different houses

Can anyone hear me

PLEASE

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Almost here 👻🎃💀

[absolutedestinyapocalypsse]

the secret to perfect lyctorhood is collectively being all four

[tanis-zed]

You know, as much as Gideon leans into the dumb jock stereotype, girl DEFINITELY did her reading. How else would she know a million ways to call Harrow a spooky weirdo?!

[cynicaesura]

okay but where the palamedes bitches at

[ataurusinabookshop]

Curry from The Hallow Faire series (appears in The Clown)

Instant Pot Massaman Curry

Ingredients

▢ 1 tbsp olive oil

▢ 1 1/2 pound boneless skinless chicken sliced very thin

▢ 1/4 cup onion diced

▢ 3 cups Yukon gold potatoes peeled, cubed

▢ 2 cups whole carrots peeled, sliced

▢ 28 ounces coconut milk (2 cans) full fat

▢ 4 ounces Massaman Curry Paste

▢ 1 teaspoon garlic minced

▢ 1 teaspoon ginger paste

▢ 1 Tablespoon fish sauce

▢ 1 Tablespoon lime juice

▢ 1 Tablespoon peanut butter

▢ 3 Tablespoon brown sugar

Instructions

Turn pressure cooker on to sauté. Add oil, onion, and thinly sliced chicken. Cook and stir for about 5 minutes until the onion is translucent and the chicken is browned. The chicken does not have to be fully cooked through.

While the chicken and onion are cooking, peel and cut the potatoes and carrots.

Add the carrots and potatoes to the instant pot. Stir into the chicken mixture.

Add the coconut milk, massaman curry paste, garlic, ginger, fish sauce, lime juice, peanut butter, and brown sugar to a blender. Blend until smooth.

Pour the sauce over the rest of the ingredients in the instant pot. Close the lid. Make sure the knob is on seal. Cook on manual or high pressure for 15 minutes.

Allow the steam to release before opening the instant pot.

Serve with cooked jasmine rice. Garnish with cilantro and peanuts if desired. Season with salt and pepper to taste

[nerdasaurus1200]

I saw this so you guys have to too

[tealfruit]

the only problem w me and June is that I very much enjoy emotionally harrowing shows that are really well-crafted, like Breaking Bad and Bojack Horseman, but June will start one of those and then at some point somebody will die or something terrible will happen to someone and they're just like "I can't watch this right now this is exhausting I'm not in the right headspace." and I'm like BUT I STILL WANNA WATCH IT THO.

and multiple times we've paused a watch of a series and I'll eventually be like "do you even wanna keep watching this cuz I wanna get back to it" and they're like "....no....." so I'm like cool I could've been finished watching that by now thank u