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@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

that moot who posts up and down about the whole series to the point you have no idea they haven’t read nona

@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

@vminlvletter Right! The ‘get a long shirt is gone’ as per Muir’s tumblr post when she announced harrow and mentioned bits about what’d happen in alecto

@DeactivatingFN yeah i mean i support doing whatever you want in fics! but i think in canon it would not work i actually… ive kind of started thinking griddlehark would be at odds once again in alecto

i don’t think harrow worshipping gideon would be compelling im sorry she’s a believer without a church sure but i think the way for her character is actually to learn to separate love from worship

@vminlvletter I support people putting it for fun in their smut and arts tho obviously. But yeah separating intrinsic duty & worship from love is important and I agree!

@vminlvletter I don’t know why she’d wanna worship Gideon specifically 😭 I do think next book will play with Gideon being the daughter of god & there will be a relevation that Gideon was responsible for her opening the tomb and there will be a power dynamic there

@_Honey_Wasp their connection while harrow denies it, but nonetheless i do think the line sheds light on aspects of their relationship

@_Honey_Wasp to gideon, but that line constitutes a sense of owing that is very...well akin to the keeping going at her until she lets her defenses down. i dont think it's the exact way that harrow and her relationship played out at all, i think it works moreso where ianthe insists on

@hrrowhark look, when pal probes about her opinion about gideon shes like 'eyuckkk!!! too many ass jokes, needs to stop speaking so much', and then when gideon greets her shes happy. yeah girl i know which one of you is lying

@DeactivatingFN wait that’s so funny yes

hey, so can we go back to the reddit ama thing where muir said she cant answer if the nona kiss was gideons first kiss, like, whats happening dude

still, the answer is different depending on who you ask is funny ngl. im gonna be different and be like ianthe would be the one who denies them having done anything together

while i love the kirianthe situations everyone is describing in my mentions... muir's evasiveness is making me think something else....girl what happened!!!

@hrrowhark this was also @/kirionagaia question btw

@hrrowhark well. reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comm…

@AnarkAlex she's quite literally the only other possibility. or, kiriona might mirror john and she did stuff w/ other ppl in the cohort. honestly i think of ianthe's attitude in the unwanted guest as disproving that she'd marry gideon atp, but who knows, alecto might prove me wrong

@DeactivatingFN What if Gideon kissed Ianthe. Maybe they even fucked. Maybe the friendship bracelets are wedding bands.

@jtacmas @korrasatx and i do wonder if this is revealing aspects of herself that gideon's pov are unable to reach (i think this is defintively true for her struggles with psychosis) and if it incorporates her supressed grief and depression in her reworked canaan house experience that makes her diff

@jtacmas @korrasatx she does, take the grave dirt to alleviate the effects of space on herself unlike in gtn. rather than being someone who is operating on unraveling truths like in gtn w/ some emotional blindspots, harrow has huge blindspots and is less probing and curious

can’t even think about atn being largely harrow’s pov or i will start crying i miss her so bad