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yo Pinterest 🤣😭

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but also I think this only works when you have good worldbuilding, because then there’s loads more to dissect!!

honestly its funny when really long standing fandom is starved of new content, because people start dissecting the source material in really specific ways. not in analytic way, because that was done long ago, but like in "desperately using microscope to try find very last scraps of meat" kind of way.

what i mean is that at some point i saw lotr gif set that was like "frodo + looking to left"

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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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Me: hooray, I made into bed by midnight tonight!!

Also me: spends 30 mins feverishly storyboarding a lockwood and co edit in my notes app instead of sleeping

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4K CELEBRATION: FAVORITE SHOWS THAT DESERVED BETTER ↳ Lockwood and Co • Melone (@disenchanteds) The world's mad, and normal never fixed anything. We understand that.

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[id: a pencil drawing of Lucy Carlyle from Lockwood and Co books and a carrion crow. Lucy sits on the bench and is bent forward, looking at the crow sitting on her rucksack that is next to her. the crow looks at her as well./end id]

an old au that ive been simmering lately. au in which after the events of TEG, after skull's been silent for months, lucy keeps being followed by crows (or a crow) that keeps almost laughing at her and others whenever they fail at cases, keeps sitting at her windowsill and insisting on riding on top of her rucksack. lucy respects it's resentfulness of being invited inside though, she let's it be free.

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Hello LockNation artists and friends! You are all so creative, and I’m always so impressed by your art.

There’s literally SO MUCH art, I’m drowning in art, I can’t reblog art fast enough.

Each social media platform is different, and I love our little community and would love to share the amazing artwork of tumblr fans with Jonathan.

My plan is to take your art submissions and compile them into a photo book, which I will then figure out how to get to him!

PLEASE READ THIS WHOLE POST BEFORE PROCEEDING!! THANK YOU!!

DATE TO NOTE: Midnight GMT on Friday 24th January 2025

WHAT TO SUBMIT:

Artwork can be from any Stroudverse book! You may need to specify to me which universe if it’s not clear, but I know there are other brilliant pieces out there for Bartimaeus, Scarlett & Browne etc.

Please only submit your own artwork.

Some of you are brilliant, prolific artists, but I will be limited by page numbers and I have no idea how many submissions I will get, so please only submit your favourite pieces of artwork, and not your whole portfolio! Can we please limit it to a maximum of TWO pieces of artwork per contributor. Thank you. If you upload more than two, I’ll just have to pick my own favourites 🤷🏻‍♀️

(In the event that we have more space, I’ll open up to additional submissions, but we’ll see how it goes!)

SFW artwork only please, obvs

LOGISTICS:

We’re working with Google Drive here.

Please name the file so it includes:

1. Your name (if you want to share)

2. Your tumblr url (so we can credit you!) (and also in case something goes awry and I need to contact you about resending etc.)

3. And, only if you’re happy to share, what country you are based in (because I think that would be cute)

4. If it’s your first or second submission (1 or 2)

Examples:

Bobby (bobbys-not-that-small) UK (1)

random-weird (submission 2)

If you don’t have a Google account (I.e. can’t upload to the drive), please let me know and I would be happy for you to email me the files or try to work out an alternative.

I think for virus-avoiding reasons I won’t be able to accept submissions via you guys sending me things like Dropbox or WeTransfer files.

Please submit files of a decent enough quality that they can be printed (probably in CMYK colour if able/you know what that means) but NOT humongous file sizes, else my GDrive will Freak Out!

If physical artwork, a scan is always best if possible, else a good quality photograph in bright enough lighting please. Consider zipping files if they’re big, but again, insane quality is not needed!

PLEASE NOTE:

This Google Drive will be visible to all contributors and those with the link, so please do not include personal information that you are not comfortable with others seeing.

Now, it feels a bit mean to say “only art from artists that call tumblr home”, but that’s exactly what I’m going to do for simplicity’s sake. Please can we keep it to people that predominantly share their artwork on tumblr rather than, say, people based on instagram who have an auto feature on that cross posts to tumblr. This is a project for our community, at heart.

If you have any questions about this, then please ask them in the REPLIES of this post, so Q&A doesn’t get lost in reblogs.

HOW TO SUBMIT

If you have art to submit, please DM me and I will share the Google Drive link with you directly. I ask that you don’t share this link or post it out anywhere so we can control who has access to the folder.

Be patient please! I am not always on tumblr every day, plus it’s the Christmas period for me so I’m going to be at home with family a fair amount. Uploading doesn’t take very long, and I will make sure I get back to you as soon as I can.

CUTOFF DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Midnight GMT on Friday 24th January 2025

Lastly, please tell your tumblr artist friends so we can get as many people involved as we can!

Much love,

Bobby x

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Hello, Bobby!

It's your Lockwood and Co Secret Spectre here. I hope your Christmas preparations are going well!

I was wondering if you are an enjoyer of fanfiction or if that's not so much your jam.

Also wondering your favorite color!

All the best to you!

Hiiii first off I’m SO SORRY I was so vague in the form 😅 when I received my own recipient and saw their response I was like… dang… so I’m very glad you reached out!!

Yes I do enjoy fanfic! Generally any type is good, AUs are cool, and all canon ships are good with me.

I’m so awful at favourites, but I’ve been on a pink kick recently! (Otherwise also blue & purple)

Honestly most of all I’m so excited to participate in this so I know I’ll love anything you make 😊

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Holly: Treat spiders the way you want to be treated

Lockwood: killed without hesitation

Holly:

Holly: no

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HELLO?!?!?!

— ## scene redraw of lw&co

originally was going to be part of an edit type video with george & joplin w/ the audio being like him by tyler the creator but i never did it LOL ... so just a redraw of the scene where they had dinner n' shit

maybe i should do that idea again , but i need space on my phone LOL ... anyway two posts in a day joy to the world

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MAYBE SHE LIKES PENS hahaha

Anyway it’s only the show version where there’s a code! In the books they are expecting it to be locked but it isn’t

why is the code to the black library 1888. what is the significance please i have been trying to come up with something since my second watch

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*after Lucy leaves in TCS*

Holly: Lockwood-

Lockwood: *suppresses sob*

Lockwood: Lucy used to call me Lockwood

George: because it’s your bLOODY NAME

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“He didn’t answer. It wasn’t a place for conversation.”

more like

Lucy: wow turns out your house did have useful stuff in it, who knew

Lockwood, in his head: bitch, what u saying about my mother’s collection?!

oH MY GOSH

WALKING TOWARDS THE LIGHT

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after a job

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wow blaming the french keyboard for the typo in this haha

what if au set my 2025 reading goal to 25 books again and I just read the Lockwood and co series five times??? what if???

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I just wanted to say... don't give up on us. Please.

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what if au set my 2025 reading goal to 25 books again and I just read the Lockwood and co series five times??? what if???