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theyre hunting for ghosts!!

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Umm… this is Holly and Lucy. I love this art and is my child. Because I made it. It’s not obvious it’s them but. OH WELL!

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Lucy: I can’t believe Kipps is dead.

Kipps: I’m not dead!

Lucy: Sometimes I can still hear his voice.

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Jonathan Stroud is so magnificent at writing female characters that my jaw dropped when I looked at the book jacket.

Lucy being abrasive but also nervous when first meeting Lockwood. Holly describing Sir Rupert Gale getting too close to her and breathing down her neck. Flo being severely traumatized by ghosts, leading to her mania and homelessness.

I seriously cannot even get into how good so much of the commentary was in Lockwood and Co. Talking about CPTSD, Lockwood’s suicidal behavior, child labor, capitalizing off of tragedy, large corporations, like Stroud is that guy. But there is something so amazing about him writing such relatable and compelling female characters that makes him one of my favorite authors of all time.

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locked room

bonus! the background by itself and close up

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jonathan.stroud instagram story update

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Hi are you still taking submissions for the lockwood and co art book?

Yes, I’m hoping to get any last ones over this weekend if possible! Shoot me a DM for the link to submit :)

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Lockwood: Look Barnes, if I make you breakfast in bed, a simple "thank you" is all I need

Lockwood: Not all this "how did you get into my house" business

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Happy Friday! Almost the last post about this from me!

Thank you to all how have submit artwork so far, it looks incredible and we’ve got over 60 pieces of beautiful work laid out in the book 🤩

Everyone else, IT’S NOT TOO LATE! You’ve got over this weekend to submit as I’m hoping to have the formatting done and dusted and sent off to print by Friday next week. Just DM me if you’re not sure if I’m still taking subs :)

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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Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne. Drew these a while ago because I miss them

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This was my first artwork with a deadline in a LONG time, but thank you to @bobbys-not-that-small for the amazing project and motivation to create a new Locklyle piece :) all my love to Locknation. Happy two years <3

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Come find me in the next life

Locklye x North and South (2004) crossover

An au in which Lucy and Lockwood are reincarnations of Margaret Hale and Thornton

An idea I had bc of Ruby and Cameron’s resemblance to Daniela Danby-Ashe and Richard Armitage

A version in which ghost! Margaret is less disappear-y

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HAHA I JUST WATCHED THAT EPISODE TODAY 😂 which is why I posted this! I was sitting there thinking …now hang on a minute…

This is like the time I watched Little Women (2019) and I got really confused as to why I knew the LYRICS to the piano piece Prof Bhaer was playing only to later discover that Billy Joel nicked the melody from Beethoven’s Pathètique Sonata…

So when were y’all gonna tell me that Tears Run Dry is just a Burns poem?? Huh??

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The first of hopefully 5 Polaroid style l&c drawings I plan on doing :3

Also guys did anyone else low key ship Norrie and Lucy during that flash back????

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So when were y’all gonna tell me that Tears Run Dry is just a Burns poem?? Huh??

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Everyone very kindly wished me happy lunar new year when I posted this last year… gang I want you to know I have never celebrated it in my life 😂

I posted this everywhere else, so y’all can have it too!

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR FROM THE LOCKWOODS!!! 🥳🧧 新年快樂!!

do not think too hard about the 🧦

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I’m honestly still in denial about this… my one solace is perhaps that I see them how Lockwood does: a slightly constructed picture of two loving parents

Me reading Jonathan’s latest Lockwood short story and immediately retracting all of my thoughts about Celia and Donald and reconsidering them in a new light