#but i wouldn't really want to nor do i think it'd be super interesting currently

[savelockwoodandco]

Hi! Do you think the show has a good chance of being saved? It's been a month and 11 days since the cancellation and everytime I rhink about that it drives me crazy

Hi Anon, thanks for the question!

We've said a few times our feelings about the timeline, so I won't go super into-depth here, but we do want to reiterate that a month and change is not at all a long time for a show not to be picked up. Short of B99, shows just aren't picked up in their first month of cancellation, nor announced to be picked up.

This is going to be a months-long -- emphasis on the plural -- fight, but we are still fully confident that we're going to come out the victors. We haven't even hit a month and a half yet; these are early days. Let me state clearly again: we think the show has a great chance of being picked up, "even" at this stage.

However, we get that it can be discouraging, especially since in current culture there's a sense of "if it doesn't happen immediately it won't happen at all" that's rather pervasive, only getting more intense the younger the person in question is. That can make it hard to work towards a goal that doesn't have an end date and that'll take months.

So here's a fun little tidbit to keep our engines revved and moving: CF has been very, very quiet this last week.

Why is that a fun fact? Well, because CF has been relatively aware after the first week or so of the campaign with us fans.

On their Twitter -- which we know some people (Tumblr Mod included!) aren't really involved with -- CF tweeted the phrase "Nice Things" (their capitalization, not ours) with a piece of fanart. Afterwards, a tweet went around praising CF for their use of coded messages in Tweets -- which CF liked. Previous to this, CF had tweeted that they wouldn't try to trick us or falsely build us up, so this like had a number of heads scratching.

And since then, CF has been quiet.

There are so many reasons for a business to be loud on twitter -- it helps build their brand, they enjoy engaging with fans, they're having time between projects, etc etc. For a company as small as CF, it's likely that, unlike Netflix and other Giants, Someone from CF actually is in charge of the twitter, rather than a faceless intern. Many fans have theories on who it might be, but it's not the purpose of this post to speculate on that.

The important thing to note is that while there are many reasons to be loud, there's really only one reason to be quiet: they're busy.

Which is something very much in our favor.

We know that media business isn't something that everyone's interested in, so here's the facts: signing contracts for a show takes a long, long time. Signing contracts for renewing a show takes a long time as well. Meetings are scheduled, meetings to discuss those meetings are scheduled, both sides have to have separate meetings within their teams, then between teams, then company-wide, and then schedule follow-ups with the other party. It's a process and even if both parties (CF and whoever picks it up) agree immediately on terms, which never happens, contracts still have to be drafted, considered, debated, re-drafted...

It's a process, and we don't get to see any of it. Lucky for us, honestly, because it'd probably drive us crazy. The only thing we get to see is the end result -- the show being saved -- popping up like a bolt from the blue.

But we have to remember it's not from the blue, it's from weeks and weeks of hard work and negotiation. If CF is smart -- and CF is very, very smart -- talks of saving the show will include the ability to tell the whole story, whether that's negotiating for 2 more seasons, or for 1 season of ~16 or so episodes.

We have no say in contracts or anything like that for S2. What our presence does have a say in is helping out CF with negotiations. The louder, more passionate, more demonstrative, and yes, more consistent we are, the more negotiating power CF has. They have great numbers to present for the show itself, growing every day, but because of LockNation, they can demonstrate the ongoing market appeal of Lockwood & Co. That translates to the opportunity to earn more money and clout for whoever it is picks us up, and that puts CF is a very good position.

We're of the firm belief that the best mindset going forward is not "it's already been X amount of time", it's instead "it's only been X amount of time".

It's only been a month and 11 days.

The things we do help. The things we do matter. They will continue to matter as long as we do them.

So let's help our show out as best we can, and be cheerful about it. Take breaks -- please, please take breaks, or you'll go crazy -- and take care of yourself.

Good things are coming. Or, to use CF's words, Nice Things are coming.

[nobody-knose--archive]

OH AND on that note can you share more about your fullerenes characters 👀👀

to start, i've got some ocs from a damn while ago called adrian & daniel, based on adrian from temporary boyfriend. i typed up a decently long thing about them a while ago but can't find it anymore so basically, the year is 2002 and adrian capaldi (he/she/it/they) could kick anyone's ass, and daniel matthews (he/him, she/shells, e/em, blank/blanks) is some nervous schmuck who tends to prefer written communication to verbal. after some shenanigans in which his friends egg him on a whole bunch to arrange some kind of date with them, they actually start up more elaborate communication over letters, at first, then, once adrian's introduced it to em decently, online forums & chat rooms! they hang around queer servers mostly, having fun on the wonders of digital communication. daniel's black & jewish, and adrian is of scottish descent.

more recently (& far less developed, as in i am going to make up all their names on the spot right now), how about arlet cisneros ibarra (she/her, ble/bleeps, byte/bytes, zi/ziz), the titular tetris girl of that very song, and her girlfriend fatima saleh (they/them, she/her, ve/vim, pri/prer). figures of legends in two completely different social spheres. nobody ever sees them like, hanging out together, but whenever someone asks out arlet zi's like nah i have a partner, and fatima is frequently going oh man thanks for the free dress my gf will adore it, and so on. arlet is mexican & puerto rican, fatima is liberian.

in contrast, the two guys from abigail- logan engels & ryan yang, they/he criss/cross & he/ze/xe respectively -are never apart from each other. ever. they're the number one slightly annoying, incredibly affectionate, and dysfunctional-seeming gay couple you'll ever meet. they are most commonly seen: bickering whilst cuddling in public, offering unwarranted relationship advice to the hets, and fucking it up in gay bars. i'd say they also date abigail but that's up to june because she's more his oc. regardless they are bi4bi solidarity And hostility. logan is wichita native and ryan is (east) chinese.

i don't have much to say about grace, other than: protagonist/pov character of glamour, transfem she/ey, the girlfriend of not my girlfriend. the (not referred to as such but, c'mon) not my boyfriend of not my girlfriend is adam (transmasc he/vae/it, mouse/mouself), extremely t-not-4-t-because-they're-both-acespec-and-arospec solidarity with grace. the specific line "no, but thanks for asking, she is not my girlfriend" i imagine takes place at a party where some fuck took a look at adam & how much it was hanging around grace, decided to hit her up through him, and misgendered em in the process, to which an extremely emphatic She is not my Girlfriend is like. the only response adam could think of making. mouse is a bit of a mess <3. both of them are african american, adam of sudanese descent.

what else what else. more miscellaneously i like to imagine every hapless guy who's just kind of a pov for songs like andrea, rosemary's baby, secretary of state, geo, and so on (mostly better dating through technology songs. huh) just kinda hangs out sometimes to lament about the struggles of life, girl-related or not. except the gravitational pull guys. they never suffer because they have physics.

the pov guy from satan is a baby (that lives in the sun) is like 6 years old and definitely one of the dudes' younger brothers (maybe they share older brotherhood of them or something) and they also have a younger sibling who's like. 3. and watches the teletubbies a lot. terrifying hir older sister. one time they tried asking their teacher for help with the teletubbies problem but their older brother told their teacher ahead of time to prank them and instead they just ended up crying and because of that i think their older brother took them to one of the Hapless Fellows meetings as compensation. it all worked out in the end because the baby sibling got put watching sesame street instead. god knows why ze was watching a british show in the first place.