#Lucy Thread

[morethanweseem]

Tag drop. Have a gifL

[jakeperalta]

"The show's not over until the mockingjay sings," she said. "The mockingjay?" He laughed. "Really, I think you're just making these things up." "Not that one. A mockingjay's a bonafide bird," she assured him. "And it sings in your show?" he asked. "Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol's, anyway."

[pabloalaalatoa]

Pablo was well loved by the dentists in town. When sales were good at the candy shop it often meant dentists would be seeing more business as well. “It’s a very soft caramel,” Pablo explained. “It melts in your mouth more than it is sticky especially this fresh. It’s only really firm if you keep it in the fridge,” he explained. Not that he was going to force her to take a sample. They sold plenty of treats that weren’t sticky at all. “I’d stay away from the salt water taffy though. That’s been known to pull out a filling,” he cautioned. That was the first candy that stood out to him as especially sticky.

@lucydriscoll

Lucy couldn't help but feel as if she was being unfaithful to Sweet Nothings. Sure, there was a significant difference in options between bakery goods and candy, but the sugary aspect often left a sugar crazed Lucy feeling like a cheating spouse. Her mother Noelle and cousin Liza wouldn't care, either. Luckily, the giant Lollipops made the unnecessary guilt subside as quick as it developed. "Hi!" Lucy chirped, in her usual fashion, striding straight up to the tray of Caramel delights on the tray Pablo had set out. "I can't try anything too sticky today. Dentists are real buzz kills."

— @pabloalaalatoa

[theywereroomies]

[street-of-mercy]

Fallout Mythology AU - Hades & Persephone

he thought he knew her, little goddess of sunlight and flowers but she bit into the fruit and spilled the red stepped into his kingdom without fear and the god of the underworld had finally found his queen

[caseydundrich]

Casey could relate to not seeing much of the ren fair this year. Running a booth meant he was kept pretty stationary. “Blowing bubbles sounds like fun, I’ve mainly just been camped out at my booth,” he informed her. He knew what it was like to entertain kids. He’d done a lot of babysitting growing up of his cousins and neighborhood kids in his day. That was probably why he wrote children’s novels in some capacity. He’d always thought it would be cool to help enrich adolescence for the better. “Honestly, I’ve mainly just been going out to grab food,” he confessed. He was going on his third day of fair food and it was certainly taking a toll on him and he was long overdue to eat a vegetable.

@lucydriscoll

WHO: Open ( @aurorabaystarter ) WHERE: Dealers choice !! Somewhere around the Ren Fair.

"I've spent most of the day blowing bubbles out to entertain the little kids, haven't really seen much just yet." Lucy, dressed up as a Fae for the occasion waves her 'Fairy Wand' made out of a long bubble wand, with a few gems stones glued on marked with dried bubble liquid. "I forgot how much energy it takes to amuse kids, I haven't babysat since I was a teenager." She mindlessly picks at a clump of glued glitter from her DIY wings, before finally turning her attention back to the individual she'd been chatting with. "Found anything you like around here?"

[savingthrcw]

@bucketofdrugs sent: kissing your lover because you believe you're going to die.

The funny thing about knowing you were about to die, while everyone around you still had no idea of what was about to happen, was that it gave you time. Or at least it made her feel like time had slowed down, and gave her time to look at Cooper, at her violent, protective, rude, funny, ghoul who had not only accompanied her far longer than he needed to, but had kept her safe - and yes, sometimes held her at night, even if they hadn't talked about that - and she knew she couldn't watch him die. It was the one thing she just would not accept in this hard but free life. She couldn't lose him here, she couldn't take him away from his own mission either. But they were out of stimpacks, their temporary comrades were also pinned down, Dane and Max upstairs, the rest of the Brotherhood was late, the others who had joined them when she has asked her to pay her back for her past help were fighting the robots, so it was up to her, the only one with high enough science skills. It was up to her to get to the console, and she was never going to see Cooper again, because running away wasn't an option to her. "Dang, this is a sticky situation," she piped up, looking at the door that would lead her to the console room. "...'Waste not', right, Coop?" Protected by the pillar they were using as a barrier from the bullets, Lucy brought a hand to his shoulder to pull him close and pressed her lips against his. Besides him being hot, it just felt like kissing a man; a man who made her feel confusing, positive but distressing things, and Lucy took the little time she had left to allow those feelings to be there, her lips moving slowly but with the hunger of someone who wasn't going to be having a second one, and her hand gently touching the rough skin of his cheek. Enough.

She pulled back, licked her lips and gave him a wide smile, eyes sparkling with affection and unshed tears. No time to think or talk more, she used all her strength and speed to fling herself towards the door, hearing people yell for her; a few bullets did hit her, but she still kept on running and stumbling until she grabbed the console and started typing it. She didn't have the passkey to disarm the security system, and that meant that before hitting enter she had what felt like a spear go through her chest, but she still managed to press the key, and reprogram all the robots, before dropping to the ground, blood pouring from her fast. But it was okay. Vault Tec had lost control of the town, her friends were alive... Cooper was going to stay relatively alive too. He'd know what to do without her, he'd be fine. She wished she had kissed him sooner.

[bottomsonlybar]

dan and phil as boygenius

[sherwood-scribblings]

Sunrise on the Reaping theories + thoughts so far (pt 1)

here's a collection of the most likely and most interesting head-canons and stuff I've seen, both fandom-made and my own

NOT MINE BUT EXPANDED & CONNECTED BY ME:

• Tigress pov, as an audience member, maybe she's Haymitch's designer

• we got a tribute pov, a mentor pov, now we could get an audience pov because of the themes of propaganda she emphasizes... we could also get multi pov if she wants to do smth crazy and appease all fans

• Unreliable narrator, perhaps screwing with the reader's head on what actually happened in the games, capitol editing footage out

• Perhaps Tigress observes the games and originally starts off oblivious to the truth but the more she watches and helps Haymitch the more she begins to see the truth, and so the capitol punishes both her and Haymitch for it

• Lucy Gray is midnight, Haymitch/Maysilee is sunrise, Katniss/Peeta is sunset (symbolic of the progression of the games. Lucy Gray wiped out and forgotten, Haymitch the escaped glimmering sliver of change, Katniss the blazing fire and finale)

• Maysilee wore the mockingjay pin in the arena but the capitol edited it out of all the footage

• Themes of light vs dark, truth vs lies, the audience starts out unaware and conflicted but comes to see how things really are

• Katniss parents could appear??? Maybe we'll see Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen fall in love??

MY THEORIES + THOUGHTS:

• (canon) The arena is an illusion. Flowers, water, fruit, mountains, animals. It's beautiful, heavenly, too good to be true, it doesn't seem real... well, it's not real. Everything seems normal and like you know what it is, but the Entire Setting is actually poisonous and deadly. JUST like the theme of propaganda and lies, she says the book is about. The arena itself is a meta layer to things not being as they appear.

• the cover will have a mockingjay and a sunrise or sun-flare, gold against purple

• the "sunrise" in the title is symbolism, for a person and a theme, likely symbolic of Maysilee Donner because of her kindness and humanity and spirit casting light in the face of violence and war (the reaping). A light the capitol would've snuffed out, to hide the truth. (I have a whole essay on this + maysilee's importance pls check my feed)

• Maysilee is the real mockingjay, and very important, not just a random dead background character who passed down the pin to Katniss. We know how Collins' brain works. Look at TBOSAS. Look at how she foreshadowed Lucy Gray as early as the first book. 

• the mockingjay isn't just one person, but a symbol of resistance and goodness and freedom, that anyone can take on as a mantle, an idea rather than tied to one thing or person. Lucy Gray, Rue, Katniss, and likely Maysilee.

• a rebellion almost happened with the mockingjay pin and Maysilee and Haymitch and perhaps Tigress seeing the truth last minute, but the capitol snuffed it out and destroyed all the evidence of such a thing ever happening, including Haymitch's family and punishing Tigress, leading Panem and the readers themselves in the dark and at peace. Maysilee is the warm sun to bring the spark of a fire, her pin symbolically passes onto Katniss through her niece, thus passing on the resistance and legacy. ....symbolic of how the mockingjay had the will to survive, even when it was destroyed and wiped out.... It escaped and became stronger in the face of its enemies....

• ...for all we know, Katniss' dad didn't die in a coal mining accident, but perhaps was a rebel himself and the capitol planted explosions in the mines to get rid of him. we can't just blindly trust the narrative.

• If Haysilee is a parallel to Everlark, what if Haymitch's girlfriend is a Gale figure? This isn't just because I'm a haysilee shipper I'm built to be a multishipper I'm FIGHTING not to be biased I'm openminded, but i feel the haysilee content in my bones and it's definitely a possibility

• the capitol (and Snow) believes that humanity is vile, that humans will always give into instinct and fend for themselves, that you can't trust or love or anyone lest it lead to your downfall. So... If Ballad was about humanity's corruption, perhaps Reaping is about humanity's goodness (the bond between Haymitch and Maysilee, Tigress seeing the truth despite being a capitol/audience member, perhaps the Capitol cut the footage of that bond to prevent a rebellion like Everlark's relationship later induces) 

• Most people are saying this book will be super depressing and focused on the capitol's propaganda succeeding to stop a rebellion, and I do agree, but, that doesn't cancel out highlighting themes of goodness and friendship but rather enhances them. Perhaps that very thing is what we're missing from the footage, what the capitol succeeded in covering up, raw humanity being the thing that defies their propaganda the most, and punished anyone who acted otherwise (Haymitch, Tigress...)

PART 2 IS COMING SOON to address the fandom discourse with my personal thoughts on whether this book will be about Haymitch and if we need more District 12.

and why Collins would logically choose to tell this story (regardless of pov because that could be anything at this point she'll upset someone either way)

[morethanweseem]

She laughed and shook her head. Starting to run with him, the hardest part wasn't matching pace with him. Not swinging her arms felt strange after the training she'd gone through. She was kind of concerned that they might lose the magician-nee-shoplifter. But maybe the universe just wanted a laugh, because the man was only three blocks away. In an alley. Stuck between a fence and a brick wall, trying to wedge his way through.

"He lost his and I'm not sure he found his but like I said he never gave mine back." He nods a bit when she agrees that he really doesn't want to know. Tim wrinkles his nose a bit. "And have the word spread that we got handcuffed together by a perp? No way."

He glances over at her and nods as he takes a step and soon another step, hoping Lucy is keeping up as his steps start to get faster as he follows after the perp.

[morethanweseem]

"Before you start, I can explain everything."

[arrowsandwolves]

Just saw someone talking about how Ace saved Nancy at the bluffs and that Nace got to complete the love story Ryan and Lucy weren't able to have.

That is beautiful storytelling. Coming full circle.

[ask-cota]

We're getting close.

*begins to sing* Hungry woods... Reaching high... Snatch the light out from the sky...

@buksu-a-deer-drone @solvar-the-drone @theblackcubeofdarkness @xen-or-xavier-wylde

The song she's singing:

[caseydundrich]

“Oh yeah?” Casey began. He’d sort of been agreeing to join since she brought it up months ago but there hadn’t really been any movement on it so he’d forgotten about it. “What are you wanting to read?” Casey asked. While Casey was an avid reader he was pretty particular with the books he chose even though they ranged from reading his childhood favorites over again for the zillionth time or starting the next great fantasy series. He wasn’t sure how helpful he’d be at recruiting others though. He wasn’t exactly the most social person. “I could probably make a poster you could put up,” Casey offered. He was skilled enough in graphic design he could probably put something together in Photoshop real quick.

@lucydriscoll

Starter: closed @caseydundrich Where: The library

"I want to start up that book club I've been talking about for months." uni classes got a little but in the way. "But I need some help..." Here came the puppy eye's, as she sits down across from Casey, "And if you're interested, pretty please, could you help me find some people that are interested?"

[savingthrcw]

@bucketofdrugs is ruining Hank's day

Lucy had been nervously clutching at her little bouquet while Overseer Jackson stepped in to discuss the exchange with her dad, happy to reunite with a friend. "So... who am I marrying?" she asked playfully, but with a hint of nervousness, and the Overseer moved aside to let her future husband come in. Oh. He was a charming looking man, now that was sure. Older than her, which raised a few questions - had he chosen to not marry? had he not been given the chance before because there was something wrong with him? He was married and divorced or widowed? - but she noted with relief that there was nothing scary or immediately displeasing about him. He was not a cannibal or full of tumors either, no matter what Norm said. She hadn't seen his butt yet, to finish refuting everything her brother had suggested. Plus, since he was handsome, it would not be difficult to do her part in repopulating America, and that was great.

So Lucy smiled, her wide, happy, friendly smile, "Hi, I'm Lucy. Do you have a name?"