As a Lock Begets a Key

the bit of chapters like 75% of the way through htn are hysterical for a lot of reasons but im personally a big fan of how. Gideons going on and on about how Harrow doesn't even like her and never will and didn't even want to eat her etc etc and then we cut back to Harrow and she's in like. ghost group therapy grief counseling. post grief lobotomy. grieving so hard she's writing au fanfic

in the ninth house. straight up “locking it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. My tomb

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

Literally actually begging for you to release this as a dust jacket or something. I neeeeeeeeed this.

You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to Ianthe Tridentarius*

Ianthe would eat you while you were still alive

it really is so poignant how careful gideon is with harrow's body at the end of htn. she's furious and heartbroken and confused and terrified and under attack by giant evil bees and doesn't even have her own body to go back to at that point and she keeps mentally apologizing every time the body gets injured by mistake and she closes her eyes when she needs to change clothes. this is gideon about as upset at harrow as she's ever been and it has no affect on her desire to be respectful with her body, she'll cuss out and insult harrow for pages on end in her internal monologue and never ever think about looking at or touching her in a way she doesn't want. girl...

waiter! waiter! more characters grieving something they can't even remember please!