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Part of what’s so fascinating about Ianthe is that in our cast of house heirs raised deep within the imperial core, she’s the one who seems least taken in by propaganda

When Teacher leads the group in prayer she’s the only one who doesn’t even mouth the words

Corona talks about how she and her sister were always deeply interested in learning about how the empire is run and had a difficult time understanding the justification for its activities

Ianthe seems to have understood cavalierhood as consumptive from the very beginning, allowing her to avoid the fundamental mistake every other lyctor made and prevent the most important person in her life from becoming her cavalier

Overall the picture this paints is that Ianthe simply doesn’t buy any of John’s lies - not his divinity, not his imperialist expansion, not his sacred bond between necromancer and cavalier. The other lyctors were compelled by circumstances and blinded by devotion but Ianthe chose to serve John, knowing the full cost

Tlt brainrot

Did I cry while I was making some of these?

Absolutely yes.🥲

hello soup bone and lady enthusiasts my data has shown that you find this very funny. purchase for less than the cost of tumblr plus probably and please don’t choke or explode your torso I’m not culpable for that

Some sketches and perhaps a wip

I recently started reading the tlt books and these boney lesbians have my heart 😔🙌🏻❤️

My rationale for House planets is as follows:

First: Earth. Only planet with water, birthplace of humanity.

Second: Mars. The military core of the empire, Ares/Mars is a war god.

Third: Neptune. Tridentarii, Neptune/Poseidon had a trident.

Fourth: Saturn. Mostly process of elimination, but makes sense to be close to the Fifth.

Fifth: Jupiter. Described as the house with the greatest size and metaphorical gravity. Magnus quotes Fifth poetry describing a great red spot.

Sixth: Mercury. The Sixth is closest to Dominicus (the sun).

Seventh: Venus. Cytherea is the birthplace of Aphrodite, Greek counterpart to Venus.

Eighth: Uranus. Also mostly process of elimination, but the objectively funniest planet for the Eighth house to center on.

Ninth: Pluto. The most distant house, a house that was never meant to exist on a dwarf planet kicked out of the formerly nine planets.

And if it is a prayer, it might as well be a confession.

thEy hAd aN aRgUmEnt

Harrow the Ninth, chapters 48 and 49:

If Gideon had been there—no, if Gideon had been there, Harrow still couldn’t have hoped for a running commentary. Griddle didn’t know how to do running commentary. She would suck her breath through her teeth, or mutter in ecstasy words that meant nothing to anyone who wasn’t her, things like, “right foot,” in tones that suggested that if she died on the spot, that right foot would have somehow been the apex of her existence. Nor could she ever explain a fight after the fact in terms that Harrow could understand. But if her cavalier had been there, Harrow was fairly sure that she would have sucked her molars out of their sockets from sheer intensity of feeling.

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It was your curt, aggravated handwriting, curter and more aggravated than ever, like you’d written it in a hurry. I’d gotten so many letters in that handwriting, calling me names or bossing me around. You’d touched that letter, and I—you know it was killing me twice that you weren’t there, right? You must know it was destroying me to be there in your body, trying to keep your thumbs on, and I couldn’t even hear your damn voice?

tonight’s breakdown theme: soft mutual yearning for small things about each other that no one else could appreciate

so i've been reading gideon the ninth

The classical vibes of griddlehark are impeccable. Yes, they have Hades and Persephone aesthetics; the lord of the cold dead and the blooming flower her heart keeps trapped in the darkness. They also have the courtly love of a knight for her untouchable Lady, if her Lady were also her King. Then they're Orpheus and Eurydice too, she's kept alive as long as she refuses to look at her. One of them is also lesbian Jesus with Mordred's origin story, why not. And of course they're also Achilles and Patrocles, naturally; an unstoppable force on the battle field, together from childhood, there is no me without you, at the end of everything a final blurring of their edges. Mingled blood, mixed ashes. It's a Lot.

camilla the sixth i love you so much

one of the funniest things ive noticed rereading gideon is that there are MULTIPLE times when cytherea is clearly trying to radicalize her but gideon’s too stupid and gay to notice and then palamedes interrupts to do something chivalrous for his crush

My affection towards Harrow knows no boundaries like i just saw a cutesy skull hairclip and tag it “for Hawwow” when the girl is literally a 5ft warcrime

if i was mercymorn i would’ve been writing hatemail regina george style. imagine her going to her room every night and opening her secret journal to write “john gaius is the nastiest skank bitch i have EVER met. do NOT trust him. he is a fugly slut.”

⚠️🚨 IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE LOCKED TOMB? ⛔☠️

LMAO: lyctorize me at once

OF: one flesh (one end)

TBH: try being haunted

WTF: weak thanergy, friend

SMH: siphon me harder

I read the The Lightning Thief book and it was very utterly amazing and epic and slaytastic and iconic and fabulous and yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 so yeah woo

Camilla Hect my beloved

Hades Locked Tomb au

Ianthe by her lonesome

Thus saith the lord

Thus saith the lord

I feel like Muir isn’t afraid to tell a story. In the sense that she writes like she doesn’t care what a reader thinks of her.

When I first read GtN, I found it as very average SF/F fare and my heart was barely in it. I felt like the ending was messy with its battle royale aspects and I wrote Gideon off as a standard edgy YA-style protagonist. The narrative sounded so simplistic and I didn’t feel attached to the cast of characters. On its surface, GtN is a very standard high-concept story with a stereotypical summary on goodreads. I was ready to write Muir off as an ok and middling debut writer.

Then I picked up Harrow.

It was like Muir was a sleeper agent and just blew my mind. I could see her skill in her craft and my investment did a complete 180. I had to reread GtN and realized all the things I missed and all the things that were planted from the start that were hidden by Gideon’s ignorance, flippancy, and naivety—the reasons why I wrote the book off. I underestimated Muir because I thought Gideon’s voice was her voice.

The writer is a liar, an illusionist, and a conman and I fell for Muir’s game. And that is so refreshing.

…Ianthe Tridentarius

Tlt doodles

Tlt doodles

Bugs when you lift up a rock

Decided to make Coronabeth’s eyes more purple. Ianthe’s eyes are the same color and not her lyctor colors because i think it would be cool if occasionally the lyctor’s original eye colors could still be seen in glimpses

I'm crying like obviously we know Percy's powerful but this show has held back in the fight scenes so him threatening Ares is. SO funny. baby you've got nothing to back that up. you're just a yappy little baby chihuahua right now.