#The Carlyle Group

[crescentcampbell]

Has anyone seen this?

[peachymaryobrien]

[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!

[gjdraws]

have you seen plankett and macleane (1999)? unfortunately my overall verdict is “not camp enough” but it has jlm and robert carlyle reunion! feat jlm being pinned to the wall again just like in trainspotting; liv tyler wearing men’s clothes for like one scene and making out w jlm; some questionable jokes; alan cumming as bisexual lord who has a weird gay thing going on w robert carlyle (underrated romance of da movie tbh); vague throuple vibes maybe?? but mostly jlm and robert carlyle

Oh you mean all of

MY

FAVOURITE

SCENES?

The true tragedy is that tumblr dot com hasn't caught on to this film (yet?)

[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.

[kramlabs]

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James fucking Baker, where are you….

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

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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!

[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…

[reportwire]

Citadel's billionaire CEO Ken Griffin becomes GOP $100 million midterm megadonor

Citadel’s billionaire CEO Ken Griffin becomes GOP $100 million midterm megadonor

Ken Griffin, Citadel at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha, Sept. 28, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Citadel’s billionaire CEO, Ken Griffin, is one of Wall Street’s biggest political donors in the 2022 midterms, giving more than $100 million toward state and federal candidates across the country since April 2021, campaign finance records show. The $50 million Griffin has donated to Republicans running in federal…

[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 🫶

[todaysdocument]

Photograph of Members of the Headquarters Company, 480th Port Battalion Set Up Between the Columns of the Ancient Greek Temple of Neptune

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

At desk, front to rear: Sgts. James Shellman, Gilbert A. Terry, John W. Phoenix, Curtis A. Richardson, and Leslie B. Wood. In front of desk, front to rear: T/Sgt. Gordon A. Scott, M/Sgt. Walter C. Jackson, Sgt. David D. Jones, and WO Carlyle M. Tucker. Italy. September 22, 1943.

Black and white photograph of soldiers working at makeshift desks in the middle of ancient ruins.

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 3, Match 3: Inspector Barnes vs. August

Submitted kids:

Inspector Barnes: Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle, George Cubbins/George Karim, Holly Munro, Quill Kipps

August: Hisoka Mikage, Chikage Utsuki

Propaganda under the cut!

Inspector Barnes:

1. “Mustn't be easy keeping those three (Lockwood, George, Lucy) alive”

2. “Serial adopter of waifs and strays, carefully hidden behind the guise of strict enforcer. He's a softie and we all know it.”

3. “Even though he'd never admit this be of his grumpy character Barnes really became a father for all members of Lockwood & Co. He was the only adult who cared about their lives and he tried to keep them safe and sound, but like all teenagers they didn't listen to him. But they always knew that if they had some prolems (which they actually often had) they could always ask Barnes for help, advice or support”

4. “Barnes adopted a smiling giraffe with a death wish and a blinding smile, a 5 foot Northern bitch who can and will fight god on a Tuesday, a researcher who likes sticking his nose where he shouldn’t and three people max, and a secretary who shot at least a dozen people and is way more badass than she seems”

August:

1. “august is the adoptive older brother of hisoka mikage and chikage utsuki. for context, these characters are all spies, and were invited into the organisation by august. (also known as misha sometimes). hisoka is december, and chikage is april! their collective group name in fanon is "gekkagumi."

the first interaction we see of him in game is him adopting hisoka off the street. he was a dying homeless child, and august invited him to join the organisation. at first he declined, but august kept coming back to him until he followed (despite chikage's protests about it) he fed fed hisoka gingerbread, and declared "we're a family now."

chikage was adopted before hisoka, but we only learned more about it later in the story. chikage was living in a "facility" when he runs into august who lives in the organisation.

despite their very harsh life, august really did everything he could to give hisoka and chikage the best life he could. he loved the idea of family, and always encouraged them to celebrate christmas and birthdays, and play games!

august had a cover job where he owned a candy store. despite it just being a cover, august loved it and had a genuine care for the children. he used to give away free sweets to the point his shop was actively going out of business, and whenever he saw a sad kid he'd try his best to cheer them up. people around the town came in just to talk to him, to the point where hisoka said when he was covering the shop for him, the first thing people would ask was "where's misha?"

in his shop, he also used to have a myth that if you wrote a wish on a certain brand of cookie's wrapper, the wish would come true. august spoke excitedly of the wishes kids would wish for.

events in the story lead up to august's untimely death. years later, hisoka runs into a kid who used to go to his shop. this child had wished to be a painter, and was now painting. he actually ended up in possession of a wrapper august wrote on which said ""a happy family."" however, the boy couldn't read japanese and didn't know what it said. despite that, he held onto the wrapper for years after august's disappearance. he also manages to draw a picture of him from memory. :((“

2. “he's so . gwahh he just wants to give them a nice family”

3. “please vote for august!! he is such a kind soul who shows so much generosity and selflessness despite the cruel circumstances he was stuck in.”

[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)

[azspot]

Private equity firms are buying up the US economy and stripping it for parts. From healthcare to education, utilities, and more, massive firms like Blackstone and the Carlyle Group have acquired vast holdings across critical industries essential to the health and well-being of everyday people. Instead of seeking to make these ventures more profitable, private equity firms are more likely to orchestrate to bleed their assets for short-term gains—even if those assets are univerisites, hospitals, or nursing homes.

How Private Equity Conquered America