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Need this to break out of tumblr only circulation because “at the met off a 20 bag like allen take my photo” has become part of my eternal vocabulary

@eggs_gremlin @hrrowhark Yep!! Part of shipping them to me is lending weight to that arc in HTN

@DeactivatingFN @hrrowhark The major reason I believe in them is, in a book all about someone having destroyed her previous self out of grief, Harrow is offered the most poetic moment possible to let Gideon go when she has that conversation, and she outright refuses to take it. You can't walk that back.

fandom being so griddlehark pilled will make you forget that actually shipping gideon and harrow together is an act of resistance to the text, see...

@benthicCyborg Yeah I definitely agree and my assessment of the whole series kind of relies on whether she’d stick the landing with it in Alecto. I’m not entirely sure how it’d happen

@DeactivatingFN yeah the thing is tamsyn hasn't really actually taken a strong overt anti-imperialist stance in the books thus far. cuz like when nearly every character is a fascist and you're also meant to empathize with them to a degree you've kinda lost the plot

tamsyn muir lowkey being a cop enjoyer is so crazy. wtf is wrong with her

@hrrowhark said that harrow has one more obstacle/temptation in regards to that in alecto that we havent seen yet. i do believe in them, because harrow 'wants to save the last dance' and of kiriona's strong headed devotion so!

@hrrowhark yeah i definitely think the text wants to play up your anxiety on their relationship. for one, their relationship has been out of grasp for two books. there's the overhanging thing of whether harrow's objective for the work is *even* possible, and muir in her interview

told in direct words. also the author has obviously pointed out their attraction and actual romantic interactions with other women much more explicitly. and yet we will presevere

i am weaving the subtlest narrative beats that signal their fixation and romantic interest in each other. they are always seperated by boundaries. they cannot communicate functionally. gideon is a kind of a c*ck whose potential romantic feelings will never ever be

@LillyDeLiller40 tbf in the text of the book we only have the passage where they said that gideon has a warm skin tone similar to harrows. nothing about either being darker. iirc muir's tumblr post from 2019 said she imagined gideon as being darker-skinned than harrow tho

Why do so many people draw Harrow with lighter skin than Gideon when she’s canonly got darker skin than Gideon… Makes u think….

@benthicCyborg especially because thus far we are inundated with povs of those in the empire, and only in nona we are distanced from them and see them as figures of this invading, life-destroying empire.

@benthicCyborg i had a personal critique where i felt like her sympathethic portrayal of *all* her characters along with the intention of neutrally presenting both the imperialist side and the rebel side in her series kind of muddies what she wants to contrue as approaching anti imperialism

@fatedfragment this is such a good thread, loved the analysis, I like literally took my first read as harrow being unwillingly hospitalized for the first month before they moved to the mithraeum

ofc! what really solidified this reading for me was that tamsyn herself is schizophrenic and mentioned it in her author’s note in the book. for starters: harrow wakes up in a hospital gown in a padded, white, artificially bright room. the mithraeum itself is described as (1/?)

@belsisreading hahaha no but it’s about a moot who posts about characters from Nona like Kiriona so the fact that they haven’t read it was surprising 😭

@DeactivatingFN if i had seen this a couple of weeks earlier i would have thought it was about me ahshsj

@sairosvky @_Honey_Wasp That statement was pertaining to *love* which is funny because Ianthe’s response to losing love / having it questioned is to stab harrows hand, and demand Coronabeth and harrow as hostages lol

@sairosvky @_Honey_Wasp For Ianthe is as you say, her path to lyctorhood & the ongoing plan she has that hasn’t been revealed yet.

Theres a something behind ianthe's obsession with harrow and her persistence on altering her in any way but im far too tired to put my finger on it and i dont wanna just say the SA line cause i feel its a lot more complicated than simply that

@sairosvky @_Honey_Wasp Can keep them on**

@sairosvky @_Honey_Wasp Yep, and her framing of harrow as the kind of person who can’t keep their hands on the reins after they’ve taken it off and implying that *she* is the kind of person who can’t keep. Which is honestly interesting because to me the only thing true