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Stylites by beholdthelastparagraph
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
31 Aug 2025
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Harrow's favourite saint: Simeon Stylites. Ascetic, lived thirty-six years on top of a pillar, platform two metres square, ten metres up in the air.
They sent Simeon food up in baskets. Little baby Harrow always found that part fascinating – the idea that someone would lock themselves away and make themselves useless and do nothing but exist, and that despite that uselessness, that madness, the villagers would still come together two times a day and send baskets full of olives and bread up via some kind of elaborate pulley-system they had constructed.
She told her therapist once that that’s what love meant to her. The pulley system. The baskets.
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15 Sep 2025
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Apostate's Yuletide by sinshine
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
26 Dec 2023
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Gideon raised one eyebrow comically high. She smiled easily, erasing any hint of the anxiety that Harrow might have sensed. "What's with all the questions today?"
Harrow huffed indignantly and fidgeted with the blanket draped across her lap, worrying the frayed hem with her fingers. "I thought your ego would appreciate the interest."
"Yeah, but it's weird coming from you. I'm used to you monologuing, not playing twenty questions."
"Perhaps it's a Christmas miracle," suggested Harrow, with an expression so absolutely devoid of joy that Gideon couldn't help but laugh.
[Harrow and Gideon burn down a church on Xmas.]
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19 Jul 2025
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i sure knew eyes were watching me by Wavrlyshaught
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
24 Jul 2025
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it's the summer of *vague era* and gideon is a fire lookout.
fifteen (ish) miles east, it's the summer of *vague era* and harrowhark is a fire lookout.
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oh and there's some weird shit happening in the woods.Bookmarked by lycocarpum
21 Mar 2025
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The way things are by snowleeksoup
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
12 Mar 2025
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Sometimes they will go for weeks without speaking, tiptoeing passive-aggressively around one another until one of them—usually Griddle—breaks the layer of ice with a bowl of unseasoned rice or the rental of a classic horror film. And then the lid is placed back on the pressure cooker, and the waiting starts all over again.
It usually leads to blows. Sometimes it leads to other things. But it always ends the same way. Someone pulls away, someone tries for the wrong block in the tower, and everything comes clattering down with force.
Or:
The one where Palamedes lends Harrow a book he thinks she might find interesting. It’s not as though she has to tell him if she actually reads it. It’s probably nonsense anyway.
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13 Mar 2025
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Badlands by Ghostbitsforkicks
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
27 Sep 2024
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“This is my roommate, Gideon. She has a filthy mouth, and she wears only as many clothes as is strictly necessary, but please know that she is very dear to me.”
There was a joke in there that Gideon wanted desperately to explore, but she was struggling to decide if she wanted to yell or run away. She settled on the third option: neither.
“Nah, fuck that,” she growled, pointing the spatula like a sword at the tiny, emo interloper.
“Get that snitching-ass gremlin the fuck outta here.”
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A paramedic and a surgeon walk into a Boston hospital, and things go downhill from there.
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10 Sep 2024