#harrow the ninth experience

[therosejamjournal]

less than an hour into harrow the ninth's audiobook and i hear ianthe say 'choke me daddy' tamsyn muir you evil woman

[neutral-towards-mindmaps]

can't stop thinking about tamsyn muir's choice to present her deep, morally and politically complex science fantasy world with a central web of magic, secrets and lies reaching back ten thousand years through the eyes of three characters who:

1. tune out and start thinking about hot women whenever the magic system or worldbuilding are being explained

2. experience hallucinations on a daily basis, have brain damage and are being deceived and misled by their peers, authority figures, themselves and God

3. don't know who they are, have spent their entire life in one place and are, on all levels but physical, six months old

[kayleerowena]

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD, FOR NEW PEOPLE / IT IS TOO LATE FOR US

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[finiel]

the body ever-watching

version without the texture:

[mayasaura]

I don't wanna further hijack that poor poll, but the thing about Harrow's schizophrenia is that it's canon. The author has confirmed it, and shared that it's based on her own experience.

It's a pretty obscure bit of canon, so of course there's no shame in not already knowing, but that's why I'm so obnoxiously persistent about letting people know.

Whatever else is up with Harrow, autism or cptsd or any number of likely headcanons, she is also schizophrenic. I feel like that's too important to be handwaved away as a difference of opinion.

[awzominator]

Bone Lady 🖤

This is done for now but it still feels unfinished but I don’t know what else to do with it for now

[lady-harrowhark]

For me, the thing is that "confusing" just... isn't the right descriptor for my experience reading the Locked Tomb books. I wasn't "confused," I just didn't have all the pieces of the puzzle yet, and I was aware of that fact. I feel like I generally knew what I was meant to know, as a reader, at the point in the book where I was at. And for a very significant portion of the series, what the reader is meant to know is, "not much." I was less "confused" and moreso "searching for the explanation that will connect everything." This is absolutely a series on the very high end of the "unknown quantities" spectrum. They're an intellectual escape room.

But the shorthand way to convey that is just that yeah, no, these books are super confusing.

[lylahammar]

Been wanting to draw the pool scene since I read it 😩

[cinnamonhex]

Harrowhark the First, Saint of Devotion

[doomed-prophetess]

In HtN Ianthe claims she helped Coronabeth pretend to be a necromancer for over twenty years but she's twenty-two, which must mean she did necromancy since she was one year old contradicting herself in GtN when she reveals she's been doing Coronabeth's work since she was six years old. Did Ianthe lie? Or did the author make a mistake? Or is this hinting that something deeper is going on?

[goldinavonlea]

did god just reference none pizza left beef

[sea-of-eden]

IANTJE!!!!!!!!! GRGBWHBBBDGAHHAHH

[fablesage]

Me aged 12, reading the Lightning Thief: “wow I really like Luke, he’s so nice and kind and genuinely takes an interest in Percy. He such a great person, I don’t understand why people don’t talk about him more!

Me aged 21, reading Gideon the Ninth: “wow I really like Dulcinea, she’s so nice and kind and genuinely takes an interest in Gideon. She’s such a great person, I don’t understand why people don’t talk about her more!

[marshmallow-marshadow]

Just finished Gideon the ninth and honestly i love how Gideon never passed up the oppertunity to be a lesbian disaster. Shes writing sonnets whenever she describes a woman like "ah yes this is prettiest women i've ever seen, she is graceful and gorgeous i need her fr. Oh and some guy is standing next to her i guess, he looks douchy." Shes so me

[housesalad]

10-1-23: "Death"

I'll be trying my hand at a different prompt list every day- this one's from @stephpotterart's drawtober prompts! I thought Harrow was fitting- but mostly I'm just reading HtN and couldn't help myself :)

[mayasaura]

Re: your post about Harrow fantasizing about Gideon’s arms, she did see Gideon’s arms in full right at the end when Gideon rolled up her shirtsleeves before she… did the thing she did at the end. Anyway I’m sure that’s why Harrow fixated on that particular detail.

In full? If I'm rolling my sleeves up from the wrist, I can usually only go to about the elbow before it gets awkwardly bulky. And I don't have eleven out of ten biceps. I stand my ground that the exposed forearms Harrow's so enchanted by in the coffee shop are as much skin as Harrow's ever seen from Gideon.

But good news! Gideon rolls up her sleeves in that scene as a nervous habit, just for something to do with her hands. Odds are real good she does it a lot, and had done it in front of Harrow before. The hot barista of Harrow's dreams was drawing on long repeated exposure to Gideon's stupid sexy forearms that Harrow certainly didn't lie awake at night thinking about.