>>4357332 I THOUGHT it was Harrowanthe but I just did a little research and it turns out they're the artist's OCs...made even more confusing since the artist also does TLT fanart with the gaybies. Oh well lol
Imagine having a separate general from the book thread and memory holing anything that deviates from the previous thread even though no one had anything new to add otherwise. Is this thread just shilled by the author?
>>4363844 The subject matter is also a bit crazy compared to the usual fare. Talking about necromancy and blood and death alongside regular literature could be a vibe kill.
>>4378382 The Gideon dynamic really suffers from being put on ice for so long. Muir goes actually hold that thought and then spends a whole book developing Ianthe in heartbreakingly vivid detail.
>>4378622 honestly I wasn't super surprised, the 'gall on gall' joke showed that they had similar senses of humor and could get along without the harrow rivalry. I was more shocked that Kiriona was so cold towards Pal and Camilla
>>4381501 She's constantly compelled to write a harrianthe ending, and has to start over. She's sitting on several dozen final chapters. One of them even brings back the coffee shop AU from HtN
>>4381521 >>4378386 Gideon x Harrow always seemed doomed to me honestly. Wouldn’t be surprised if Tamsyn did not intend to give them a “happy ending” and was scared to release the final book because 80% of the readers are going to be mad.
>>4381773 I genuinely think for the first book Muir intended for Ianthe to forever be a side character, but exploring the character more in HtN had her fall in love with her characterization. Not that the Gideon dynamic is boring per se, but two young women brought together by forces outside their control and mutually saddled with a power beyond either of their reckonings is kind of fundamentally more interesting than a childhood enemies to lovers setup.
>>4406839 Lovely start but there should be way more desu. I mean Harrow sliced a whole arm off, most of the floor should be slick and red and messy. Or maybe she cauterized it shortly after cutting, I actually can't remember.
>>4423837 Pretty much. Not to blogpost too hard but it turns out I have MS. It's early enough to be treatable but I'm going to need to be on medication my whole life with flareups every so often regardless. Needless to say, grappling with my own mortality definitely didn't put me in the mood for reading a series about death and life casually intertwined. But we're back now.
I dunno if people care (they don't, but this basically the only social media I use so shh) but I was the anon reading thru the series in December last year. Gird your loins for more analyses.
>>4424060 That's very sweet of you. I have something half written I need to stop procrastinating on but after that the last third of Harrow's book has been silently taunting me from my shelf. And Nona's book is here in the box. Keep an eye out.
There's something fun about being a 'local' (I guess) fan of the Locked Tomb series, which is that there's places mentioned in it you can visit when trying to fill the time waiting for Alecto to release. This is Dilworth Academy, where John Gaius got his education. It's one of the most prestigious schools in the country.
When I first read Nona and got to that point, I had to put the book down, message my friend who got me into the Locked Tomb, and ask her, 'So, was John Gaius molested?' Rather infamously, Dilworth's had a long history of predator teachers who've used the school's exclusivity to target the student body. Thankfully it seems nothing of the sort happened to John, unless it's revealed in Alecto that he was indeed a victim of the place.
When Alecto finally comes out I'll take a pilgrimage to Greytown, about 6 hours drive south in the middle of nowhere. The site of the great Resurrection.
>>4446419 I've kinda wanted to make a HTN animatic set to Head Like A Hole by Nine Inch Nails. Starting from the first lyrics "God money, I'll do anything for you" up to end of the chorus. But it would be like 20 different drawings and I'm lazy.
>Alecto never That's OK, I think I might prefer for the ending to be left up in the air because I'm sure it won't be Griddlehark. I just hope the fanfic community doesn't run out of steam, this is easily one of the fandoms with the highest quality writers out there.
>>4476788 The fanfic thread has always been worthless and full of autists who only watch het series, so can you recommend some Locked Tomb fanfics knowledgable anon?
>>4489335 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is unfathomable levels of peak. It's like the 4th book in the series for me at this point I sometimes forget stuff from it isn't canon
>>4357066 >Fingers crossed for Alecto sometime this year! >01/07/2025 we're now almost a year in and still no word this might be the biggest copium thread on /u/. At least TOWEM fans knows their second book will never come out
>>4516080 None whatsoever. But hey, it could always be worse. I'm expecting a HL3 situation where Alecto just appears from out of nowhere after a decade's wait.
>>4489842 Late reply, but I finally read it. You were NOT exaggerating. Made me get back into the series really hard and now I'm reading anything I can find.