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"Don't be scared, Anthony", she said. "We'll always be together. I'll never leave you."

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A (devastating) Christmas present from Mr. Stroud himself, posted to Twitter.

Be warned: spoilers for The Hollow Boy.

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Kidnapper: I have your girlfriend.

Lockwood: What? I don’t have a girlfriend...

Kidnapper: Then who just called me a lowlife bitch and spit in my face?

Lockwood: Oh my god, you have Lucy.

inspo

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[with rizz]: Coffee? No, how about you see the dead version of me that turns out to be fake and then i will casually confess i'd die for you?

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Yet another thing I find absolutely wonderful about how Jonathan Stroud wrote Lucy Carlyle is how he betrays her with the narrative.

In The Screaming Staircase, at the start of her story, Lucy gives us an idea of how she wants to be perceived; unaffected, unbothered, unburdened by fear or particularly revelatory emotions. She drops horrifically painful realities about her childhood on us as if she were describing a dull gray rock she found on the ground. She tries very, very hard to school her emotions around Lockwood and George. And if she had been written by anyone else, she might have fallen prey to the "strong independent female character" tar pit of a stereotype.

But then along comes Annabel Ward's ghost.

And the narrative looks at Lucy and says "I know how you wish to present yourself, but that's not who you are."

And Lucy is repeatedly shown to be incredibly Sensitive in so many ways. She is under the influence of the ghost of Annie Ward, but the emotions are still partly Lucy's. And most of the time she has the emotional intelligence to differentiate which feelings are hers and which ones are Annie's, and where they overlap. She chokes up with empathy on multiple occasions in the process of uncovering what happened to Annie Ward. She becomes enflamed with the desire for justice for someone who was murdered decades before she was born. She's shown that by her very nature, her emotions are her strength and not her weakness. Because she has a narrative that loves her and isn't lazy about her. She is the narrator and she tells us who she is, but the narrative shows her and us who she really is.

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i relate to lockwood in the sense that I can't sit in a chair like a normal person, there is a giant box of costumes somewhere in my room, i always wear this one stupid jacket, people have placed bets on my adhd diagnosis, and nobody knows wtf is wrong with me except for this one girl but it took her like 3 years and even then

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Fittes agents have non-uniform days for charity every so often and have to pay a pound to come in in normal clothes. Lockwood suggested formal Fridays to Lucy and George and had salt put in his tea.

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The question is: who took this Polaroid pic?

I headcanon that Kipps has photography as a hobby.

I also headcanon that Lockwood stole his camera from time to time for a "very serious mission, life or death situation"

(it's a remake of my old acrylic micro-painting, I am finally happy with it)

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Happy Halloween season, the Lockwood and co show costumed Lucy all wrong. Anyway I’ll show myself out now

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i was bored, so i doodled the skull being annoying

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I have a Lot of meme reference pic on my pinterest, thats why i draw this. Yeah sorry if Its a bit silly

Idk how to draw Skull lol

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Harpy Hare | OC animatic

Brief summary of the plot (without too many details because I’m planning to write a book) under the cut:

In this world, children with magical abilities are sent on monster-fighting quests (I’m sure you’ve all read something similar before). ‘Protectors’ are assigned to supervise these quests to make sure the children don’t get hurt. At least, that’s the public’s belief. The truth is that the children are not there to be made heroes, but sacrifices, keeping the magic-hungry monsters satisfied so they’ll leave the kingdom alone.

Our main man here is one of those Protectors, with a long history of taking children on ‘quests’ and making them disappear. But things get complicated when an unremarkable little girl storms into the forest in search of her missing brother.

So, where has this Protector buried all his children? Or are they even buried at all?

P.S if I ever publish that book please forget all of this bc it’s major spoilers lol

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Happy spooky season

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After a job.

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Lucy reads the obituaries and visits the graves of all the dead agents when their parents didn’t bother to.

George leaves dinner out for the night watch kids and tries to find them jobs on his days off.

Lockwood stays in Jessica’s room for hours, rapier in his white knuckle grip, waiting for dusk. Fearful. Hoping. Dreading.

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Lucy as Ophelia! Ballpoint pen. I'm drawing pen sketches for donations to my London trip fund; gotta get to the LockNation meetup! 🖤💙🧡

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Very small Lucy drawing inspired by a Joji Kojima mask!!

Masquerade ball or???