#griddlehark gonna be the death of me

[harrowharksoup]

*hollers into megaphone*

THE SUNSHINE ONE AND THE GRUMPY ONE

[mockingnerd]

Say It, Loser: A Griddlehark Playlist That Goes a Little Hard Hello I am sharing this little beast that’s been rattling around my head for a while!! I listen to metal and punk rock almost exclusively and am also a gay nerd so I kept stumbling across stuff that follows their dynamic chronologically through the first two books (and then there’s a “bonus” at the end). Gorgeous cover art by @softbrambles​ used with permission. Tracklist and favourite lyrics below!

1. Death To All But Us! | Blood Command Now we have to do what I say Go where I may or be gone

2. Big Shot | IRONTOM I want your fingerprints all over me Cause if they find me dead they should know who it be

3. Do What You Want | Electric Enemy Galvanisе every part of me whеnever you want You're going to do what you want

4. Wake the Dead | Fit For Rivals Wake the dead, it's time to break down Follow me until, until we waste away

5. Stunner | World War Me (this is my peak griddlehark song, i could put literally every line here) Yeah, I'm a bit of a psycho baby I'm my own worst enemy You keep me lit like a lightbulb feeding off the pain and misery Cause' you were a bad bitch I was a savage Livin' off our own extremities So wе tick like a time bomb set to dеtonate eventually Little did I know you were gonna get the best of me Goddamn!

6. Unspun | Jackie It might be suicide To mix your blood and mine But call me crazy I feel it lately You’re my new favourite thing

7. Misery | Dope, Drama Club I'd kill myself or anyone else for you

8. Blind and Frozen | Beast in Black God, I miss you like hell I was wrong, I can tell For the heart can be blind and frozen

9. Trust Fall | Pinkshift I dug a deep hole to bury you, oh

10. Liar | Papa Roach Take my secrets down to the water 'Cause I can't keep them down any longer I swear to God but he knows that I'm lying Liar, liar your world's on fire

11. Talk to Me | Scarlett O’Hara Are you still around? I can feel the air getting heavy I’ll sit on the ground Beside your hollow soul Sharing your world but I get the feeling that you got nowhere to go Losing the fight inside, locked inside your mind

12. Cynosure | In Flames Who’s at the wheel? Say a word, say anything, I will be healed Who’s at the wheel? Say a word, say something that will make it real

13. Back From the Dead | Royal Republic You, you can bring me back from the dead You just gotta use your pretty head

*BONUS Kiriona song because NtN brought the pain: 14. Exit Wound | Otherwise I'm not thinking this through Living my life like an exit wound Blow back, blown out Throwback, thrown out No more scars left to hide Thrill is gone, still in the firefight

[harrowing-of-hell]

it is 4am and i have consumed alcohol and i'm having tlt thoughts but they will probably not be coherent and this will be a very stream of consciousness post you have been warned

ok so to be very honest i was baffled that people read griddlehark as like, explicitly romantic whenever i first was browsing the tlt tag

like they were very obvs homoerotic and like i will directly quote tazmuir here and say there were "elements of a love story there" but i was not getting the same vibes that apparently everyone else was??

and maybe this is the difference between reading GTN in 2019 and then having to wait a year for HTN, because to me that allows a lot of time for your mind to sit and think on things and speculate

meanwhile i read GTN and HTN back to back. from my notes i finished GTN sept 14, 2022 (and i started reading it like, at MOST a week before that) and then i started HTN on sept 22 and finished it four days later (rip to people who say HTN was hard to read couldn't have been me. saw that it was in second person and nutted on the spot literally my favorite POV. guess im just built different. anyways)

so like, very obviously little down time between reading those 2 books so not a lot of time to really sit and think on it given that this is TLT we're talking about

but even now having read NTN and it now being a full year later since starting the series i still... don't get it

rather, i do not get it trying to read their relationship from the way that most people in the fandom seem to be reading it.

the pool scene and like, the drastic shift that it caused in harrow and gideon's relationship made very little sense to me and seemed kinda out of nowhere until i started thinking about it in this way; harrow and gideon do not love each other for who the other person is but rather what that person might mean for them.

to me gideon is vrry obviously someone who craves purpose after being treated like shit and generally just viewed as someone as disposable. so it makes sense to me that her goal was to escape the ninth and go join the cohort (so she can go be disposable but With Purpose).

but when they got to Canaan house....

bro cytherea groomed her SO FUCKING HARD. it's actually kinda fucking funny in a fucked up way because cytherea was like "noo gideon don't let anyone treat u like this" while gideon was getting her life force succed out of her but LITERALLY every one of cytherea's interactions with gideon just... reinforced and instilled the idea of cavalierhood in gideon

so much so that by the end of GTN gideon was like "no harrow YOU'RE the one who doesn't understand what a necro and cav are supposed to mean to each other." brainwashed. absolutely brainwashed.

ofc being surrounded by other necro/cav pairs who were Properly fulfilling their social roles influenced her as well, but cytherea had such a big part to play in it.

so naturally gideon's Search For Purpose shifts from being disposable-but-with-purpose in the cohort to being disposable-but-with-purpose as a cavalier.

so for gideon a relationship with harrow as her cavalier might mean a chance at having a Purpose, and this is why gideon loves her

meanwhile for harrow... the girl is 200 dead children and has been suicidal about that shit from day one. so here is one of the children that was supposed to die for her, but didn't, and fought her every single day of their lives, and it's this child that's offering her forgiveness???? like bro ofc she's gonna take that it's literally the salvation she's been looking for that even God, as we learn in HTN, can't offer her.

so naturally when the answer to lyctorhood is "ok now kill her and vore her soul <3" harrow would be like FUCK no. harrow has only now really beginning to think of gideon as a person and not a slave, as someone who is OF the Ninth house and not just beholden to it. so whyy would she ever kill her at this point.

and we KNOW this means so much to harrow because, thinking she's on the brink of death, she just straight up asks gideon if she's really forgiven her.

this is why i think they love each other and also i think this adds up with where they are now in the series. their reasons for loving the other person are completely at odds!!! so even with their now "Repaired" relationship it is still hopelessly fractured!!!

and tbh i do think griddlehark at this point is more, but not at all completely, one-sided than most people think because like, i think (or at least i hope??) harrowhark is slowly snapping out of this line of thinking and is realizing that's Not a healthy way to view gideon (idk i may be wrong) while gideon is DOUBLING DOWN SO HARD on being a cavalier. like that is her Purpose now it is her Identity!!! she needs to be someone's cavalier, and if she can't be harrow's then she'll try to be her father's.

not a fucking word out of her mouth when alecto kisses harrow but when alecto pledges herself to harrow?? she called the soul of the earth A SLUT!! absolutely insane.

anyways that's it that's all i had to say. i hope harrow and alecto fuck nasty in ATN <3

im not tagging this as anything tlt related but this will prob still some how show up in tags anyways because tumblr is stupid and broken

[loch-genesis]

elaborating on my previous post:

i’m gna focus on the tortured poets department right now but i can do this for midnights and folkmore too if the need arises. let’s begin. (under the break cuz this is A Lot)

imgonnagetyouback: a harryanthe banger

the entire bridge of this song is just the Ianthe pov chapter of htn like:

“Say you got somebody, I'll say, "I got someone too" Even if it's handcuffed, I'm leaving here with you”

and also “Told my friends, "I hate you but I love you just the same" Pick your poison, babe I'm poison either way”

is soooooo my evil girl

I Hate It Here: Harrows river AUs

the song is all about escapism but specifically when she says

“I hate it here so I will go to lunar valleys in my mind, When they found a better planet only the gentle survived, I dreamed about it in the dark The night I felt like I might die . . . I'm there most of the year Cause I hate it here”

but most of all “Nostalgia is a mind's trick, If I'd been there, I'd hate it, It was freezing in the palace”

Guilty As Sin?: i am gay and love this song

but also the bridge is soooo harrow and the body, to the point that i think taylor has read these books

“What if I roll the stone away?They're gonna crucify me anyway. What if the way you hold me is actually what's holy? If long-suffering propriety is what they want from me, They don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly. I choose you and me religiously”

like hello?

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived: why i hate jod

“And I don't even want you back, I just want to know, If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal, And I don't miss what we had, but could someone give A message to the smallest man who ever lived?” jod when i find you jod. when i find youuuu.

“I would've died for your sins, instead, I just died inside. And you deserve prison, but you won't get time” taylor and i are gna help Mercy with her acid prison i’ll tell you that much

bits and pieces:

“Beauty is a beast that roars down on all fours Demanding more. Only when your girlish glow flickers just so, Do they let you know. It's hell on earth to be heavenly” Coronabeth my beloved i love you

“I just don't understand. How you don't miss me in the shower and remember how my rain-soaked body was shakin', do you hate me? Was it hazing? For a cruel fraternity I pledged and I still mean it. Old habits die screaming” gideon in htn

“Say it once again with feeling, How the death rattle breathing silenced as the soul was leaving. The deflation of our dreaming leaving me bereft and reeling. My beloved ghost and me, Sitting in a tree, D-Y-I-N-G” :( griddlehark

“Please. I've been on my knees Change the prophecy” me when i’m 200 dead babies

“By all accounts, she almost drowned When she was six in frigid water. And I can confirm she made A curious child, ever reviled By everyone except her own father” ME WHEN IM 200 BABIES

[valancietrinit]

said i wasn't gonna do this bc i have some irl stuff to deal w before i can really take on another project, but i'll put this out there to gauge where interest is sitting

expansion on fic premises below the cut

option 1: harrow/kiriona/ianthe; left in charge of varying aspects of the empire post-ntn, following alecto nabbing jod for a tour of the universe (threat); sort of court intrigue; much sexual tension; nobody is truly happy w this arrangement but the girls look stunning + sulky anyway

option 2: modern setting, sort of post-htn au; gideon uses newfound nepotism to kickstart dormant rockstar dreams; a la sir chloe's "michelle", writes a song abt harrow that blows tf up + encounters info that harrow might actually be dead + feels really bad abt it all; later finds out harrow is not dead + just found out abt the song + is heading to her location (ft. cam&pal + corona&ianthe as fellow musicians/bad influences)

option 3: fresh out of the psych ward, harrow is staying in crux's hunting cabin to deal w her issues abt her parents' deaths six months earlier; aiglamene (who crux left in charge of making sure harrow's not dead every week while he fucks off somewhere else) breaks her hip, so gideon is delegated the job of weekend check ins + grocery runs + picking up harrow's meds; shenanigans ensue

option 4: harrow is an og lyctor brought to a war front to help the Cohort break through enemy lines; gideon escaped the ninth at age 16 & (4 - 5 years on) is now reasonably highly ranked; they work together in battle & then harrow recognises gideon's eyes...

option 5: griddlehark phone sex fic; ft. corona & ianthe shenanigans + background cam/pal/pyrrha; heavy on the comedy, light on actual plot; rep for butches w/ bad knees & goth's w/ no fashion sense

option 6: cam/pal/pyrrha; canon divergent post-gtn exploring canaan house redux; still tossing up whether this is a modern-setting fic or not; pyrrha pov; cam&pal scheme like absolute nerds to seduce pyrrha & she does not notice bc she is a professional

option 7: g1deon pov; non-linear narrative following his final hours in melbourne w/ the suitcase nuke -> his 1v1 showdown w/ varun; probs back to back pain & comedy; if it ends up containing smut, it will probably include john, + g1deon/pyrrha (/wake as well, let's be real)

[the-knights-who-say-book]

it might be your wound, but they’re my sutures // a Griddlehark playlist

reposting playlist because i made some changes to it for AO3 posting, but have to take it down from AO3 now as it's too much quotation

I. They fought each other bloody and grew up in each other’s pockets

Pyrokinesis - 7Chariot Neither one of us could gain control over our powers Over one another we could fight like this for hours Words deep soaked in gasoline and it will never change And even if you loved me now it’d just feel cold and strange

Need Nothing - VÉRITÉ Oh, I’m sorry I’m so condescending The pride on my shoulder, it keeps me standing And I’d call out an ending If you’d hold it against me

The Last of the Real Ones - Fall Out Boy I was just an only child of the universe And then I found you, and then I found you You are the sun and I am just the planets Spinning around you, spinning around you

II. Immersed in salt water (one flesh, one end, bitch)

Flaws - Bastille All of your flaws and all of my flaws They lie there hand in hand Ones we’ve inherited, ones that we learned They pass from man to man

Holy Water - Freya Ridings I bathe in holy water In holy water for you You don’t feel the torture Feel it like I do

Fear & Delight - The Correspondents I don’t show it but I quiver whenever you come near And I cannot decipher between the thrill and the fear I wanna stop it but like it too much to let it stop here It’s wrong but I want you tonight

Graveyard - Halsey I would’ve followed all the way, no matter how far I know when you go down all your darkest roads I would’ve followed all the way to the graveyard

III. The cruelest thing anyone has ever done to you

I’m Not Your Hero - Tegan and Sara Feeling like I am now, lighting up the hall I was used to standing in the shadow of a damaged heart Learning all I know now, losing all I did I never used to feel like I’d be standing so far ahead

The Knife - Maggie Rogers The knife of insight tore its way in me A brash collision without sympathy

Bleeding Out - Imagine Dragons So I bare my skin And I count my sins And I close my eyes And I take it in I’m bleeding out I’m bleeding out for you, for you

Medusa in a Stone Garden - molly ofgeography I laced my fingers round the things that hurt me The way he looks when all my words desert me We weren’t bad just young, but that just makes it worse He said love does not compel, no, it converts me

IV. I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it

Control - Halsey I paced around for hours on empty I jumped at the slightest of sounds And I couldn’t stand the person inside me I turned all the mirrors around

Somewhere in Between - VÉRITÉ Somewhere between living and dying Making believe the walls have gone quiet My soul concedes, we’ll set it on fire So I can sleep in smoldering silence

Shots - Imagine Dragons Am I out of touch? Am I out of my place? When I keep saying that I’m looking for an empty space Oh, I’m wishin’ you’re here but I’m wishin’ you’re gone I can’t have you and I’m only gonna do you wrong

Bitter Water - The Oh Hellos Well, I still taste you on my lips Lovely bitter water The terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue And I know I shouldn’t love you I know I shouldn’t love you, but I do

Saint - VÉRITÉ Baby, I’m magnificently shut down Take me to the water, watch me drown Watch me drown Cause I know I’m not innocent But if you let me, I could show you how it feels To be buried underground

29 - Run River North Your words are cold like the wind They hold no weight around me Let go, you're telling me to let go I know the shadows are the only ones

V. The quick death to anyone who looks at me in fear

Immortals - Fall Out Boy Sometimes the only payoff for having any faith Is when it’s tested again and again every day I’m still comparing your past to my future It might be your wound, but they’re my sutures

The Lighthouse - Halsey And I’m glad I met the devil ‘Cause he showed me I was weak And a little piece of him is in a little piece of me

Cold War - Janelle Monáe I’m trying to find my peace I was made to believe there’s something wrong with me And it hurts my heart Lord have mercy, ain’t it plain to see That this is a cold war Do you know what you’re fighting for

I am not a woman, I’m a god - Halsey I am not a woman, I’m a God I am not a martyr, I’m a problem I am not a legend, I’m a fraud So keep your heart, 'cause I already got one

Blue Flame - Gio Navas I’ve discarded my skin Cremated your sins Held onto your eyes, its color staining mine

VI. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end

Demons - Imagine Dragons They say it’s what you make I say it’s up to fate It’s woven in my soul I need to let you go Your eyes, they shine so bright I wanna save that light I can’t escape this now Unless you show me how

I Bet My Life - Imagine Dragons Now remember when I told you that’s the last you’ll see of me Remember when I broke you down to tears I know I took the path that you would never want for me I gave you hell through all the years

Ya’aburnee - Halsey I think we could live forever In each other’s faces 'cause I Always see my youth in you And if we don’t live forever Maybe one day we’ll trade places Darling, you will bury me before I bury you

Like Real People Do - Hozier I had a thought, dear, however scary About that night, the bugs and the dirt Why were you digging, what did you bury Before those hands pulled me from the earth

[ultimate-tragic-couples-showdown]

hi! i want to submit griddlehark from the locked tomb series, i know you said it has to end in tragedy and technically there is still one more book that hasn't been published so they Could get a happy ending but i personally think. given the fact it is a tragic horror series i doubt that they will, and also i think they have already been thoroughly established as tragic figures and a tragic relationship with the way the story is told. their relationship is really one of grief? the whole second book is about. harrow grieving gideon in a sense. they have both died for each other, (necromancy series so that doesn't really mean permanent death but.) their misunderstanding of the others motivations means they each think the other Doesn't Care and i really do think. despite there still technically being hope. they win most tragic couple TO ME by a long shot. there is an ongoing orpheus and eurydice parallel and they died for each other and whatnot. again tho maybe i am missing the mark and the authors gonna make a sharp turn into happy-go-lucky town so! asking if it's ok if i submit them if not i won't!

go for it! im p sure other ppl have regardless

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

If there’s one thing I want from Nona the Ninth it’s Camilla getting her pussy ate and maybe a nap. She’s been through too much… third wheeling two different annoying couples going through dyke drama, the loss of her special boy, keeping an immortal shebeast from eating fries directly out of the deep fryer… someone please give this woman a bubble bath and some orgasms

698 notes - Posted February 23, 2022

#4

John Gaius is so MUNDANELY UNSPEAKABLY evil. He has the Just Some Guy energy of a tenured professor, and he wears a laurel wreath made out of BABY FINGERS. Hi, yes, welcome, have tea and a bikkie while I show you how to kill a planet and every living thing on it. He is become death, destroyer of worlds, and he has a yogurt stain on his shirt.

709 notes - Posted February 12, 2022

#3

You are Mercymorn. You have scattered memories of a world pre and post-apocalypse. You know few and many things. You know you love Cristobel. You know you hatelovehate Augustine. You know what parts are supposed to be in a body. You know that John is God.

You sit down at the canteen to have your peas and your cannoli. A looming shadow drifts over to sit across the table from you. An image from your past that seems to sit on the tip of your memory. Blonde, teased out hair, a small nose, small ears, wide pink lips, and luminous yellow eyes. An eight foot tall Barbie doll setting her tray down to eat. You see she has cannoli and peas too. You nervously take a bite and watch her mirror you. She wrinkles her nose at the taste of food and begins eating the fork instead. You watch in fascination and horror as she starts chewing the tray next, mechanically moving a jaw with far too many sharp teeth. She blinks at you and tells you, “It wouldn’t make you happier if you kissed Augustine, but it would make you less tense about it.”

You say to John, “She has to go.”

2,030 notes - Posted September 24, 2022

#2

Just gonna share some pictures of Māori people here for the members of the fandom calling the Nona cover white washing

Jemaine Clement is Māori

Rima Ti Wiata is Māori

See the full post

2,040 notes - Posted January 30, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Must we gender blorbo as default male? Is there something inherently masculine about the fixation on a fictional character? I read blorbette and it gave me psychic damage. Blorbo is genderless you fools.

4,519 notes - Posted October 27, 2022

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[incomprehensiblelentils]

1, 2, 8, 15

Favorite fictional characters this year

oh this is so much lower pressure than the fictional true love question thank goodness lol. Just in the other in which they come into my brain:

Battinson

Morpheus (Sandman)

Valkyrie (MCU)

Kamala Khan (MCU)

Sundry Syndey (A Starstruck Odyssey)

Lord Squak Airavis (A Court of Fey and Flowers)

Nona (Nona the Ninth)

Queen Míriel (Rings of Power)

Em Haywood (Nope)

Waymond Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Mei Lee (Turning Red)

Margot Mills (The Menu)

Jack Russell (Werewolf by Night)

Elsa Bloodstone (Werewolf by Night)

Layla El-Faouly (Moon Knight)

Boba Fett (Star Wars)

2. Favorite ships this year

Again as they come into my brain lol, and also some repeats:

BatCat (The Batman)

Thor/Jane (MCU)

Hardwon/Moonshine (NADDpod)

Ed/Stede (Our Flag Means Death)

Oluwande/Jim (Our Flag Means Death)

Obi-Wan/Padme (Star Wars) (I went insane while watching Obi-Wan idk man!!!)

Griddlehark (Locked Tomb)

Mac/KJ (Paper Girls)

Andhera/Binx (A Court of Fey and Flowers)

Jack/Elsa (Werewolf by Night)

Nightheart/Sunbeam (Warriors) (lmfao. they're cute shut up!!!!!)

Sunny/Izzy (My Little Pony) (...what the fuck else was I supposed to take from this movie huh)

oh and a special honorable mention for Galadriel/Halbrand, which I wasn't into up when I thought he was just Some Guy, until he was revealed as Sauron and then it became HILARIOUS to me because it made so many people mad, and everyone who did ship it was having so much fun and memeing a lot, I was so happy for them!

8. First fandom of the year

lmfao I had to go look at my blog archive and I think the answer is The Book of Boba Fett specifically! I'm....bad at being a Star Wars fan because I only care about like, 30% of Star Wars probably. but I looooooooooooved the Boba Fett show so much. I don't know what happened bc I never cared about Boba Fett before but everything about it worked for me! I love that there was an entire episode about him being a horse girl, I love that he spends most of it awkwardly trying to be a human and only sort of succeeding. I loved his and Fennic's weird friendship. I loved the dumb Power Ranger team so much. This is the only Star Wars show I need tbh, all others have been fine but I adored this one.

15. Favorite f/f ship of the year

I JUST remembered that I wanted Fennic and Drash to fuck, lmao, so I'll say them. B and I are gonna cosplay these guys too.

[ninthhousedyke]

Nona The Ninth Live Blog - #8

I just finished chapter 25 and it felt like each chapter was punching me in the face and kicking me in the dick simultaneously.

When I tell you I SCREAMED at Cam challenging Ianthe again.

Cam is wearing GIDEON’S glasses fhskshdkshddjkdj these glasses are gonna be the only characters to survive.

Poor Judith is just here.

Palamedes Sextus you genius little man I would have loved to have seen that fight with Ianthe, but mostly just her reaction to seeing you again.

Dkshdkshsjdh THEY KISSED

WE GOT A GRIDDLEHARK KISS AND IT AINT EVEN GRIDDLEHARK

I’m fucking suing.

Kiriona casually playing dead and getting carted around like a doll is a hilarious mental picture because I know damn well Gideon’s body isn’t small and easy to toss around. Hell Pyrrha in that big G1 body was having a tough time.

Oh my god she was kissed by Harrow’s body and now Corona is touching her, how did she hold it together. The Gideon of book 1 would have fainted.

“Good morning, Gideon” Pal baby you just thought she was dead; we’re past casual

John WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER BODY

Love how Gideon’s hatred of authorities continues even in death

Hearing her introduce herself as Kiriona fucking hurts on another level.

Love how after her long ass name all Cam can question is, “Kiriona?” Like that’s the strangest part of the entire thing.

No don’t shove Cam!! She’s your friend!!

I missed Gideon so much and I’m so glad she’s back and I can’t wait to see the havoc they’ll cause on the Ninth.

WAIT

CRUX

Oh my good he better be alive so he can witness Kiriona Gaia and fucking lose it.

“No one locks me away” AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

My baby is in so much pain noooooooo! Harrow where are you!? Come get your girl and tell her what happened! Who is in Nona then??

Wait never mind I just realized it’s probably Alecto or Anastasia.

Ugh Pyrrha talking about how much Gideon reminds her of Wake is beautiful.

Cam, bloody and exhausted, really said lemme fight the reanimated corpse of my friend and Palamedes is wondering how tf his cavalier is still alive.