#The Carlyle Group

[crescentcampbell]

Has anyone seen this?

[peachymaryobrien]

[unbeeleaf]

The Iron Trio 👻⚔️

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

AU fanfic where instead of Jessica Lockwood dying we get her attempting to raise the world's most reckless child (Anthony Lockwood) and oh fucking shit Anthony when you made friends (George and Lucy) you couldn't at least have made ones less insane than you?

[bendgineer]

Brandi Carlile was at the Reign's pride match yesterday!

[hillerska-official]

Lucy internalized misogyny thoughts

Brought out by the first person narration

Very appealing to a target audience of young girls but shitty to read as an adult

POST FUCKING CANCELLED I LOVE YOU FOREVER HOLLY AND LUCY FRIENDSHIP

I absolutely adore the way in which Lucy truly comes to appreciate the ways Holly is different from her - once she begins to recognize the value Holly has she's able to stop pushing against her and that let's her recognize that, more than being a valuable team member, Holly and Lucy's differences actually make them a particularly strong pair.

By the end of the series it's moved past even a grudging respect, those two are friends!

And I love that this friendship develops BEFORE Holly makes it clear to Lucy that she was never a threat to her relationship with Lockwood - instead that's something that gets revealed to Lucy BECAUSE they've become friends. To some extent their clash was about him, but they really become friends despite him and his dumbassery.

Lucy still has her moments of internalized misogyny (that's life) but the book depicts that really fundamental experience of being 'not like other girls' and then learning that other girls kinda rule in their own way. Which feels so incredibly REAL as a former not like other girls girly. I actually think the Holly and Lucy arc is a really great depiction of female friendship, especially at their age.

[delicatebluebirdruins]

House tour

imagine if in the show Joe and Esmerelda were featured albeit mildly. like in the basement Lockwood says that they sometimes use dummies for more straight foreward swordplay (it'd be funny if Lucy also called him a dummy without actually calling him that)

[soup-sponge]

i am so obsessed with this whole scene it is so good.

first, the framing?? the lighting?? even the still frames are so nice to look at, it is just so visually pleasing. i love love love a good backlighting moment, and here it highlights the amount of training that the actors had in order to prep for this, the gorgeous fight choreography, and just all the work that went into it behind the scenes.

second, it feels so accurate to the characters. lockwood is back on his flippant dickhead bullshit with the all the fancy little moves he does purely for the sake of making himself look cool (source: he told me), and he has great technique, as the golden blade points out. i adore the fact that we can still see that he's shaken from the auction. he's pulled himself back together, but you can still see some of the cracks in his armour that he's trying so desperately to hide.

just by watching the Golden Blade™ you can tell that this man is properly trained, but is also confident enough to break a couple rules and be a bit less (consciously) focused on his own technique, and he leaves us with so many questions, which i feel is a fun little extra we didn't really get as strongly (?) from the post-auction scene in the book.

lucy is out of it for like half the fight but that's important in and of itself. at this point in the show we've seen her do so many amazing things and prove her worth a million times over, but she's also still genuinely not trained for this. her lack of training makes her actions way less precise than lockwood's, but she's still giving it everything she has. GB points this out, and i think it's such a nice detail, especially paired with the fact that she comes out and clobbers him with a board a minute later. lucy very much fights from the heart, and that means that even if she isn't "properly trained" with a rapier, she can still kick ass if need be.

and also i just love a good sword fight.

[alanshemper]

[16 Jan 2019]

“Most private equity firms lacked the insight into how those [military weapons] purchasing decisions were being made, as these decisions often involved a political dimension,” Schwed says. He posits Carlyle’s origins in Washington, D.C., may have had something to do with its early willingness to make investments in aerospace and defense.

“What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers.”

[kramlabs]

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James fucking Baker, where are you….

Previous resume from Baker, before Carlyle and Austin Private Wealth:

[displayheartcode]

lucy is a route-witch. lockwood and george are cryptozoologists. not much is different in this fusion with mcguire's sparrow hill road/incryptid books.

another niche fusion!

[youthchronical]

What Trump's election to White House could mean for EVs

Production is now set to begin at the former Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, less than two years after GM announced the massive $2.2 billion investment to fully renovate the facility to build a variety of all-electric trucks and SUVs. Photo by Jeffrey Sauger for General Motors DETROIT – President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to send the U.S.…

[uniqueeval]

Oil glut is a dramatic overestimation by markets: Carlyle

An oil pump jack is shown in a field on June 27, 2024 in Stanton, Texas.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Global markets are severely overplaying an oil supply glut, said Jeff Currie, chief strategy officer of energy pathways at private equity giant Carlyle. Concerns about a supply glut in the markets are “completely overplayed,” Currie said at the annual Asia Pacific…

[mystephaniewilderuniverse]

Saying Goodbye to Johnny B

John Bresnan I lost a good friend this week. I first met John Bresnan in the nineties when he and his family moved to Charlotte, and even though we could not be more different, we became close right away. Julie has runway model good looks and exquisite taste, and John was a Wall Street wunderkind and came to Charlotte to take his place at the top of the First Union tower. Our daughters became…

[locklyle1kanij]

I’m gonna make a list of my fav Lockwood and co fics in the hope that someone will see this list then reblog it and say “wow good choices! You should really check out this fic!”

(PLEASE I NEED FICS) (Warning these are basically all mainly Locklyle fics just letting you know)

(okay obviously we need Policy 8 on this list!)

“Policy 8” written by by: The_Biscuit_Agreement

Ongoing

Plot Summary :

Policy 8 was established in the hope of encouraging the birth of increasingly powerful agents. All agents 18 and over must accept the marriages DEPRAC assigns them. Agents between the ages of 16-18 can volunteer to enter the programme or else be forced into it due to minor illegal behaviour.
Lucy Carlyle volunteered. Anthony Lockwood was forced. In an effort to protect the two teenagers from being turned into pawns in the games of the rich and powerful, Barnes ensures Lucy and Lockwood are married. But just because they aren't stuck as pawns, doesn't mean the teenagers aren't forced into the same dangerous games.

“As London Burns” written by: ScienceFantasy93

Ongoing

Plot Summary:

An AU About locklyle in the middle of world war two with Lockwood fighting as a RAF pilot and with Lucy as a news reporter. (very angsty) (idk what else to say about it tbh… BUT I LOVE THIS FIC!)

“The bones of our past written” by: moon2pluto

Finished (but has a sequel that’s ongoing)

Plot Summary:

Just a few months after the destruction of the bone mirror, the team of Lockwood & Co. has another big case to tackle:
When Lucy gets a letter from her little sister, begging her to come back and help her with a haunting doomed to kill them, she doesn't need long to make a decision, and neither George nor Lockwood are going to let her face this alone. To not get any unwanted attention in her hometown, Lucy and Lockwood agree to take a closer look disguised as a couple while George is busy researching. But when the haunting turns out to run much deeper and wilder than any of them thought, and other players enter the game, one question arises: Will Lockwood & Co. also make it out of this case unscathed?

(This one’s my all time favourite)

“The hidden archive” written by: BrooklynBooks

Ongoing

Plot Summary:

Ghost possession doesn't happen often, but fatality rates are high. Even if an agent does survive, there are the aftereffects to worry about. After surviving a possession, Lucy Carlyle struggles with recovery, delving ever deeper into the memories of Visitors and, in the process, stumbling into the world of blackmarket Sources. Meanwhile, George Karim races to learn the truth behind ghost possession in order to protect Lucy and save future agents. And Anthony Lockwood must face his own past with the London underworld if he wants to save his friends and himself.

“Connections” written by: The_Biscuit_Agreement (I’m sorry i’m so obsessed with their fics lol)

Ongoing

Plot Summary:

Lockwood forms a psychic link with a dead young agent and the group try to use it to work out how the agent died with disastrous consequences.

“Crushed” written by: itripandfallalot, Salvoirfaire

Ongoing

Plot Summary:

A bad case and broken leg leave Lucy no choice but to return to Portland Row until she recovers. Lockwood is definitely not using this as an opportunity to persuade her to come back for good, because that would be unfair. And he never plays dirty.

“Because everything is the same until, very suddenly, it isn’t” written by: Netflixcapricorn

Finished

Plot Summary:

What happens when the only way out of this mess is a fake marriage?

(Here’s a warning, extremely angsty)

“Lucy takes the long way home” written by: agents_cxrter

Finished

Plot Summary:

Lucy might have left Lockwood and Co, but she can't get Lockwood out of her system.

(So many annoying emotions in this one like WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME!!?!)

“This is going to end badly” written by: The_Biscuit_Agreement

Ongoing

Plot Summary:

When Fittes Agent Lucy Carlyle is cornered by relic-men alone in the woods, she is rescued by an unlikely source: Anthony Lockwood, run-away and relic-man. When Fittes gets tasked with trying to track the young man down, Lucy finds herself in an interesting position.

“Perfectly Incandescently Happy” written by: OceanSpray5

Finished

Plot Summary:

After the death of her best friend, Ms Lucy Carlyle is given the opportunity to be sponsored for the 1815 London season by Norrie's aunt. Instantly compared to the Diamond due to their astonishingly similar looks, she befriends Lord Lockwood quite unexpectedly yet is left wondering if she was a fool for believing he'd look twice at a mere country girl.

(This fic is literally the cutest thing to exist… if you exclude the angst lollll)

“No One Cares About The Nightwatch” Written by: Nomolosk

Ongoing

Plot Summary:

Lucy Carlyle is a Listener, a failed agent, a runaway, and now works the nightwatch in London. One might think her life a failure from start to last- but Lucy has goals. She will get a grade four certificate, and reapply to all the best agencies, and her life will get immeasurably better.

However, firsthand experience of the treatment most people give the nightwatch, and a chance encounter with Lockwood and Co. have her reevaluating those goals... maybe she can do some good before she moves on...

“The Injury of Finally Knowing You” written by: booknerds_unite

Ongoing

Plot Summary:

Anthony Lockwood, the only surviving male monarch from the Lockwood line, has six months to find a wife or Parliament will make a case to keep him from the throne. Lucy Carlyle has just arrived at the palace to work as a maid and to escape her horrific mother. They were never supposed to meet.
On the night of Lockwood's birthday celebration, their paths cross and nothing will ever be the same.

“What lies between the lines” written by: The_Biscuit_Agreement

Ongoing

Plot Summary

When she arrived in London, Lucy Carlyle took up a job at the British Archives, spending her days determining which love letters, suicide notes and other collected paperwork could one day produce a visitor. It's a taxing job, made easier by king archivists and the presence of young agents doing research nearby. As Lucy becomes close with some of these young agents, she starts to receive love letters herself and finds herself using her under-utilised talents to try to work out who might be behind the notes.

(at this point just go through all of The_Biscuit_Agreement fics tbh… There all perfection)

(okay i’ve read a ton more really good Lockwood and Co fics but i feel lazy now so maybe i’ll post a part two of fic recs later)

[wellgoslowly]

if you had told me 2 or 3 years ago that i’d become obsessed with a random series called lockwood and co and spend every day thinking about it, i would’ve looked at you and asked “what’s lockwood and co?”.

and now here i am. 20 years old, about to officially be a junior in college and spending my second birthday apart of this fandom. throughout my transition from 18 to 19 and now 19 to 20, i have met some of the most amazing and talented people i’ve ever had the privilege to meet. i have made some of my most beloved memories and i have grown so deeply in love with this tv show/book series that had been unknown to me just years prior. i can’t imagine my life now without lockwood and co or the friends and memories i’ve made as a result of lco. yall are truly the most amazing group of fans that a silly little audhd person like me could’ve ever asked for.

thank you to locknation for creating a space and a home for me here, thank you to jonathan stroud for creating this beautiful series and thank you to the characters themselves for becoming such a big part of me.

lucy carlyle you will always be my girl. you will always be the curvy girl rep i wish i could’ve seen when i was younger. you will always be the loveable but at times unlikable girl who is still teaching me that i don’t need people to like me to be worthy of love. you will always be the representation of a teenage girl just trying her best that i needed when i was younger. you will always be apart of me and my soul.

thank you locknation for the amazing birthday wishes. i can’t wait to spend another year around the sun with you 🫶