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Kaleidoscope by Chappell roan but it’s Gideon Nav

kind of regretting not actually making my thoughts on each chapter throughout tlt coherent. i was spamming one person's twitter dms 24/7 and that was it. half of it was 'what the fuck' and 'i miss gideon :('

what if 200 children were killed so you could be born and you carried this guilt with you and you thought you were the most rotten most awful thing in the universe and then your parents killed themselves bc of you so that’s 202 deaths and you were the saddest most desperate loneliest girl in the entire universe and you thought you would never be loved and then a girl loves you so much she KILLS HERSELF for you. so that’s 203 deaths. she loves you so much she wants to be one with you she wants to mingle your souls and so she kills herself even though she knows you’ll hate her for it. and THEN you have to perform a lobotomy on yourself so you’ll forget her so you can’t consume her soul completely so there’s still a part of her that’s alive and untouched by you. because you would rather keep her in a shackle inside your mind than lose her completely to yourself. and also there’s ghosts in your brain. well this all happened to my buddy harrow

realizing i actually only absorbed like 60% of tlt due to reading it over the course of a week at various times (mostly 12am-5am because my sleep schedule was fucked). anyway that's fun

bro we’re literally in the end times rn i wouldnt even be surprised if i open the news and hear about some guy in new zealand starting a cult because his cryo project funding got cut atp 🙄

YOURE ON KEVIN BATHROOM DUTY FOREVER FOR BEING A ZOMBIE. THATS FAIR. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

i haven't engaged with the fandom very much so idk if this is the common read of this or not but i'm OBSESSED with the way john changes characters names when he resurrects them and strips them of so much of their identity. gideon becoming kiriona, an attempt to connect her with heritage that has been dead for ten thousand years. but more than that, the lyctors. mercymorn, pyrrha, cytherea... those are fucking HOUSE NAMES! those aren't their names!! only referring to them by their initials when recounting their story to harrow... that's all that remains of who they once were. m----, a-----, these names are lost to time. john's the only one who knows them, and he doesn't even tell us. he is such a compelling villain

a few months off this hellsite and i've already forgotten how to tag. fucking twitter and its useless search function

harrowhark getting her lobotomy done at claire's

(ps: merry christmas eve! you can't see but we just hit 10k on here... my christmas gift to the world, thank you dearly)

(same as the last...three anons. i sound obsessed i'm sorry) i miss tumblr too!! my friend keeps sending me fanart from here and i have officially gone down a rabbit hole of alecto theories on the tlt tag

not many thoughts because i swallowed the entire series in a week and it gave me so much whiplash but i am constantly thinking about harrow and alecto. their dynamics have the potential to be so fucked (especially when you think about gideon too) and i am very here for it

YOU SHOULD GET BACK ON TUMBLR AND JOIN US... also pls consider my tags. u know. just to get lost in some more

#tlt art. #tlt worldbuilding, #tlt thoughts, #tlt meta, #tlt theories, #alecto bingo card, #alectopause, #alecto x harrow. #gideon

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.

one thing i find absolutely fascinating about the griddlehark dynamic and specifically gideon's relationship to her sacrifice/harrow's ascension

bc recall that at the end of gtn, the very last thing she says to harrow before fence time is

at this point, gideon seemingly understands that harrow doesn't actually want to become a lyctor *at the cost of gideon's life.* gideon fully understands that to harrow, losing gideon is the worst thing that could happen. the CRUELLEST thing in harrows life, when gideon is intimately familiar with the lifetime of cruelty that harrow has already endured. she's sacrificing herself so that harrow (and secondarily cam lol) can live, fully aware that this is something that she's doing TO harrow, not FOR her.

and yet we get to htn and gideon seemingly can't comprehend that harrow would try to reverse the lyctorhood process in service of saving her life. she thinks that harrow doesn't want to accept her sacrifice because she hates owing gideon anything. which is the opposite of what "the cruellest thing that anyone has ever done to you" implies.

i think the simplest answer is that gideon severely lacks emotional permanence. gideon and harrow got along for like a week at canaan house. it's been months and months since then, months where harrow isn't affirming her devotion to gideon because she literally doesn't remember that gideon exists. and i think that's another crucial piece - gideon wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, she wanted to matter to harrow for the rest of eternity, she wanted to be missed, because she has no conception of what a healthy interpersonal relationship looks like. can't wait to see whether gideon is ever going to understand harrows lobotomy the way that harrow experienced it - as the ultimate expression of love and devotion and grief.

the griddlehark reunion is going to make me ugly cry for days.

Alright, I've got another fic question for you! What are your favorite tlt gen fics?

you say “what ARE” I took this as permission to rec Many

A Mild Sort of Resurrection by sigaloenta [Bari Star AU]

In all the extensive special briefings and all-hands bulletins and strict sets of orders preparatory to the Emperor Divine's inspection tour of the Avernus, no one had considered that God might desire to fetch Himself a coffee.

An Impromptu Christening by orphan_account

The Ninth house finds a body and a baby. Nobody who matters is really thrilled about this turn of events.

believing in everything (and knowing nothing at all) by LesbianJesusLovesYou

A series of childhood memories from the Ninth.

“Fuck it, I'm adopting her," said John Gaius, not knowing the paperwork wasn't necessary by @naamah-beherit

Gideon, a highly distinguished Cohort lieutenant, saves the day—and the girl—and then gets stuck in the lift of The Erebos with a man feeding her peanuts as if they have all the time in the world. They don't, but if he doesn't mind, then why should she?

High But Very Drear by @honorarycassowary. (written pre-NtN)

Aiglamene and Crux receive the five hundred ancient dead gifted by the Emperor for the renewal of the Ninth, and also do something that could be construed as mourning.

John 25:12 by @halfeatenmoon

John and his friends escape the cow fortress to spend Christmas Day at the beach. With beer, salads, pavlova, and the corpses of a million fish killed by nuclear weapons testing.

Mortification of the Flesh by @theriverbeyond

In the myriadic year of our Lord—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the Lord of the Sharpest Edge!—Harrow Nova challenged the cavalier of the Ninth for his title.

Purgatory Is Mandatory by @urban-sith (written pre-NtN)

Ianthe figures out the true secrets of Lyctorhood while stuck in a time loop at Canaan House.

recognize them by their fruits by @ceruleanvulpine (written pre-NtN)

John and Ianthe deal with the fact that his only remaining Lyctor is the one he never liked much. Maybe they can bond over the fact that they're both egotistical manipulators who lie like breathing? No?

so I open the window to hear sounds of people by @sunderedstar [but really that whole series!]

John misses the beach. The real beach. The current one is mostly soil with a lacy veneer of nuclear ash, clammy and streaky and hilariously radioactive, which is a real bummer when he thinks about it too hard. But the twenty-five meter sea level rise that came when all the freshwater ice finished melting around the mid-century mark ate away at the shoreline, rolled in between the skyscrapers on a new tide, swallowed up all the people who couldn't afford to move anywhere else. Have you seen the rent rates lately?

some part of me must have died by @theriverbeyond

What if Wake survived long enough to bring her newborn baby to Tomb, and killed her. and then the baby didn't die.

the kingdom of heaven by bittybelle

John puts that first-draft dream of his to bed.

Two Things by Isis

There were two things Jeannemary Chatur wanted: to fight for the Emperor Undying by the side of her necromancer, and for the stupid pimple on her chin to go away already.

when I call, will you come to me? by LesbianJesusLovesYou

“My Lady,” Ortus wheezed, shifting uncomfortably. “I only thought you should know… Gideon Nav was flogged before the congregation.”