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Gideon Nav - Blog Posts
First post here in some time!
I'm celebrating the spooky season drawing the Ninth because the books are amazing and I'm obsessed ✨
I'm trying to figure out the designs still, so i have just some concept art for now
Gideon is about to break couple bones
close ups:
Gideon raised by Wake Au!
Character, book, and author names under the cut
Gideon Nav- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
Andrew Minyard- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic
this isn’t how it happens
A Gideon (Kiriona) sketch ive been working on forever and am unsure if I'll finish🫠
i've been neglecting drawing gid with curly hair... righting my wrongs
Reread time! I take annotating very seriously 👆
Omg this is the best thing ever!!
IT'S HERE!! MY GIDEON THE NINTH (UNOFFICIAL) ANIME OPENING
i will sell my soul to have (or work on) an animated tlt adaptation. in the meantime.. fan opening >:)
made with sweat, tears, bones and a lot of love <3
i NEED nona from gideon/kirionas point of view. i know the second she was resurrected she was trying to figure out where harrow is. the first thing she even ASKS nona is where harrow is. "listen, she can be in hell for all i care, i wont get mad. she can be at the bottom of the sea or at the bottom of space. i just need to know– where." i know she was going insane for MONTHS
griddlehark modern college au because this book is metaphorically placing me in the jerma meat grinder hypothetical and i need something nice
guys can we talk about for one second how nona kissed gideon as soon as she looked at her and her reasoning was "You looked like you wanted to be kissed."
lets backtrack. Gideon. Opens her eyes. The first thing she sees is Harrow('s body). Harrow. Harrow. And Nona, who reads people like books (joke is nona cant read) sees how badly Gideon wants to kiss Harrow('s face) and kisses her.
Can we talk about what this meant to Gideon for one moment. Can we talk about the implications of this please. guys please.
PLEASE CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS. PLEASE. GUYS PLEASE -
"For a normal swordswoman? To reach the standard of a House cavalier primary? You'd need years. For Nav? Three months—" (here Gideon died briefly of gratification; she revived only due to the rising horror consequent of everything else) "—and she'd be up to the standard of the meanest, most behindhand cavalier alive."
— Gideon the Ninth, p. 53
"Your cavalier," said the Lady of the Ninth quietly, "drew on my cavalier." As Gideon died gently of shock, buoyed back to this life only by the weird bruises forming at the top of her spine ...
— Gideon the Ninth, p. 75
The world rocked, but it was mainly because Harrow was shaking her shoulders. "Ha-ha," said Gideon, "first time you didn't call me Griddle," and died.
— Gideon the Ninth, p. 228
"Average dyke dies 17 times per year" factoid actually just statistical error. Average dyke dies 0 times per year. Resurrections Nav, who lives on Pluto & dies and comes back to life whenever a woman shows respect for her, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
The entire Locked Tomb Trilogy.
Gideon is oblivious or perhaps in denial, Harrow is so in denial she makes herself get a lobotomy, and Nona is oblivious, to say the least
do you all see my vision here
I love them I love them I
gideon & harrow OR rd and sf as cowboys please please please
It's the cowgirl necro and her gunslinger cav! Who is so damn extra she's got three guns: one left, one right, and one in pole position! (She swears the ladies love it!)
Ive rewatched this a million times it's just too good-
I couldn't put it as a thumbnail so here's just Gideon seperatly
this is the dumbest thing ever but I had so much fun with it
Watched this video before reading Gideon The Ninth, then read it and rewatched the video. HARROW LOOKING DISTRAUGHT AND CRYING OVER GIDEON FUCKING GOT ME IN TEARS.
i don't know how many people know the existence of it, but this is genuinely:
a) one of the best covers of take me to church i've heard
b) made for the LOCKED TOMB??? like it is the entire animated sequence of gideon the ninth scenes that fit the cover so fucking well
THIS SONG WAS MADE FOR THIS ARE U KIDDING ME
THANK YOU REINAEIRY (AND HOZIER OF COURSE!!) FOR GRACING US WITH THIS MASTERPIECE
Griddle from last month
Harrow fanart
Ref 👇
Found on Pinterest
I NEEDED THIS IN MY LIFE OMG
Saw the meme and i just had to do it. Might do a switched version as well since for these idiots it works both ways
well well well...
how interesting that we ended up with two from the same fandom for the championship when we started with such a large assortment.
My 0 experience in animation is showing but uhhhh I love them your honor. Also this needs like so much more work lol but I need to let it go for a bit and studyyy
“You asked me if I’m angry, well, hell yeah I fucking am. Can’t help the way God made me, but he won’t get away with that again.”
But it’s about Gideon asking Harrow if she’s angry at her for sacrificing herself, and Harrow tells her YES and she can’t help God (by extension her parents) making her strive towards Lyctorhood, making her make herself into a graveyard of souls, but God won’t get away with his crimes again.
“You asked me if I’m angry, well, hell yeah I fucking am. Can’t help the way God made me, but he won’t get away with that again.”
But it’s about Gideon asking Harrow if she’s angry at her for sacrificing herself, and Harrow tells her YES and she can’t help God (by extension her parents) making her strive towards Lyctorhood, making her make herself into a graveyard of souls, but God won’t get away with his crimes again.
Spot the difference
My Gideon art nouveau esque bookmark to the Harrow piece <333 love these funky little religious guilt girlies (my eight years of catholic school say hello lol)
finished the last couple of chapters of Nona yesterday and when I tell you I was sobbing!!
the amount of times that Nona says she’s hot and beautiful while in Harrows body, but then detesting the body John gave her, the one that looks like a Barbie. I read a post about it maybe being understood as the Earth liking her indigenous body (Harrow) versus being horrified at being put in a westernised ideal of beauty? and I think that’s a great interpretation.
also,, the writing style of Alecto’s chapter?? please, let the fourth book be mainly written like that I’m on my knees begging. it was a trip but sooooo fun to read (including Gideon’s (get in line, thou big slut) and Ianthe and Harrow’s exchange (I think it’s them) of ‘my sweet I only die of longing for thee’ ‘then perish’.