#lucy zillion

[apoemaday]

Field of Skulls

by Mary Karr

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night,    and if you're predisposed to dark — let’s say    the window you’ve picked is a black postage stamp you spend hours at, sleepless, drinking gin after the I Love    Lucy reruns have gone off — stare

like your eyes have force, and behind any night’s taut scrim will come the forms    you expect pressing from the other side.    For you: a field of skulls, angled jaws and eye-sockets, a zillion scooped-out crania.    They’re plain once you think to look.

You know such fields exist, for criminals roam your very block, and even history lists    monsters like Adolf and Uncle Joe who stalk the earth’s orb, plus minor baby-eaters    unidentified, probably in your very midst. Perhaps    that disgruntled mail clerk from your job

has already scratched your name on a bullet — that’s him    rustling in the azaleas. You caress the thought, for it proves there’s no better spot for you than here, your square-yard of chintz sofa, hearing    the bad news piped steady from your head. The night    is black. You stare and furious stare,

confident there are no gods out there. In this way,    you’re blind to your own eye’s intricate machine    and to the light it sees by, to the luck of birth and all    your remembered loves. If the skulls are there — let’s say they do press toward you against night’s scrim — could they not stare with slack jawed envy at the fine flesh that covers your scalp, the numbered hairs,    at the force your hands hold?

[gummi--shark]

Okay. I'm tempted lol on one hand I could be luci again, my favorite character, even if there's a zillion lucis out there

On the other, I could try rping lilith, even if I haven't rped a girl in years due to my uh being more comfortable w rping men idk why , or both, the power couple lol

[tammyfeabakker]

Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks play along with scrolling guitar chord...

This shout out goes to Lucy... our beloved Lucy time has come. I don't want sympathy... It's my eulogy to Lucy. We rescued her a few years ago. And gave her the best 2 years she probably ever had. She couldn't have had a better mum. My Katy is one of the best dog moms. She gives her everything the cost of her medical treatment was enormous. My Katy jus didn't give up she fought there no loops she wouldn't go through for Lucy... after the late great Bella her first dog. Who was rescued too. And again Katy did everything she could for bells. We decided to give geriatric dogs who have been abandoned. The best years they have left. This comes with the territory. This is for you lulu. Love you to the moon and back a billion of zillion times. See you on the other side.

[aidenoconnell]

a dino-mite birthday!

Aiden doesn't know how long he stays up the night before Ellie's birthday but the entire living room, kitchen and parts of the backyard are all decorated. It was a tag team for him and Luci for a bit, but then he told her she needed to stop and rest. There's a zillion balloons, different banners, streamers, decor with dinos but it's not over the top or cheesy in his opinion.

It's not like Aiden didn't have this growing up, Kim and Leo gave them everything they could. Aiden wants to do that and more for his own kids too, try too.

The next day comes way too quick and he's in the kitchen making blueberry pancakes, punching out dinosaur shapes with a couple of cookie cutters too. He really is that above and beyond dad, isn't he?

[connectingconstellations]

Another ch. 19 sneak peek

Because I know it's been a zillion years since I've updated lol

I am writing I promise I'm just also busy. But there's another ball in this one!

“We do what we must,” Mrs. Knox said. “Are you here to find yourself an American?” “Lucy!” Mrs. Adams chided, aghast. “Oh, no, I’m actually–”  “Most of the officers are married, of course, but I believe General Alexander – that’s Lord Stirling, technically – has a nephew about your age.”

[tenebris-lux]

Van Helsing is so reluctant to just tell Seward, “It’s vampires,” and really who can blame him? So he dances around the issue and leads up to it, trying to put Seward in a more “accepting of the strange and mysterious” state of mind, bombarding him with a zillion examples of the unexplained…. Finally, Seward has had enough.

“In God’s name, Professor Van Helsing, what do you mean?” I cried.

He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke:—

“They were made by Miss Lucy!”

Seward didn’t use his full name, but addressing him as “Professor Van Helsing” has the same energy. And now that he’s saying ‘get to the fucking point NOW’ and Van Helsing has run out of lead-ups and can’t stall anymore… he tells him. The way he’s covering his face with his hands is just so … ‘oh god, I have to actually say it now.’ He’s completely at the mercy of Jack’s reaction. Will Seward keep listening? Or will he kick him out and never listen to him again? Or will he try to have him committed? He’s probably silently begging that Seward at least keep listening and not just close off. (By the way, I LOVE the way Seward’s voice got more and more exasperated as the entry went on in Re: Dracula, until he said the line like, “what—do—you—mean?” Perfect. And then the slow inhale/exhale of rage afterwards. Chef’s kiss.)

[walkswastes]

☢ ╼ LUCY MACLEAN PLOTTING CALL! So I am attempting my return. Please, please plot with me. I have a zillion au and plot ideas I came up with while I was staring at my ceiling and barely functioning. And now I am prepared to share them.

[ellizablue]

Have you read/seen TBOSBAS yet? Watched it again today and then saw your fic update and my first thought was that your take on Lucy Gray’s pov would be AMAZING

Yep, read it when it came out and have seen the movie about a zillion times! I’m already having tons of fun playing around with the fact that elements of the snow/lucy gray relationship mirror elements of finnick/annie and the implications of how that might have colored snow’s response to odesta + his subsequent actions towards them in the OG series + WSMB canon (there’s a lil bit of this introduced in the recent update ���)

Would love to take a stab at LG’s POV one day!

[emmaross85404]

"Emmet Reese & Roger" Trivia: #25

Five of the main cast members of Emmet Reese & Roger also starred in animation TV shows and movies: Joe Keery (Emmet Reese) as Zillion Martinez the chimera/dragon/demon hybrid in Zoophobia; Hailee Steinfeld (Lucy Talbot) as Gwen Stacy the superheroine in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; Viola Davis (Stephanie Currin) as The Chameleon the shapeshifting sorceress in Kung Fu Panda 4; Benedict Cumberbatch (Charlie Ross) as Classified the leader of the North Wind in Penguins of Madagascar; and Idris Elba (Rick Laurence) as Snowball the black cat in Emma Reese & Rosie.

[tuulikki]

I’d love to see OP’s movie, count me first in line at opening night, but… I dunno about the opening shot at “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” At Mina was in that movie. At least Lucy was in it. At least Quincy was in it. At least Jonathan was in it. There are a lot of movies and none of that is a given.

I’m just so puzzled. Why does everyone hate the Bram Stoker’s Dracula movie and not all the other equally inaccurate whackjob Dracula movies? Is it just because that’s the only movie people saw, then they read the book, and so got upset because… they hadn’t read the book before and their impression of the movie’s accuracy had been wrong? That’s the only way I can make sense of this sense of betrayal directed at only one movie out of dozens. For heaven’s sake, where’s the Nosferatu the Vampyre hate? What about Dracula 2000? Any Dracula by Hammer Horror? Blacula? Dracula Untold? The 1924 stage play?

And if we’re really gonna talk about heinously faithless adaptations of vampire literature, how about literally every single Carmilla-inspired movie ever made?

Dracula movies have been in their own divergent path of evolution since the play. We all want to see an accurate Dracula one of these days, but if you roll up to an extant Dracula movie it’s gonna be weird and, if even slightly faithful, horny. The book was weird and extremely horny for its original audience, after all.

It’s really okay?

Dracula fans have already read the books and know Dracula movies are whack.

People who see the movies but haven’t read the books aren’t fans, so we don’t need to care about their uninformed opinions.

We have the option of choosing from among a zillion movies of dubious quality. Or we can watch none. It doesn’t matter even a little. So… why all this outrage directed at a movie that came out over 30 years ago?

Ok, listen up movie and tv people.

What we need 0 of: sexy Dracula, Mina as Drac’s reincarnated lover, Lucy being blamed for her murder because she’s ‘too sexy’ and ‘she wanted it’, blatant Jonathan erasure, blatant Quincey erasure.

What we need 100 of: the Harker Supernatural Detective Agency.

Starring:

Mina ‘I’ve got a typewriter and now that’s you’re problem’ Harker, following the paper trail of every monster that dares to step into her country.

Jonathan ‘Everyone I’ve ever met is my friend’ Harker, buying beers and chatting with all the witnesses to gather up more clues.

Dr. Jack ‘I’m supposed to be the smart one but I’m weirdly good at break-in’s’ Seward, the one who can do whatever science /technology/ B&E that is needed but loses his glasses when they’re on his head.

Lord Godalming, Arthur ‘The Bankroller’ Holmwood, giving them the funds to travel, send wordy telegrams, and buy sexy new all-black vampire-killing outfits each episode.

Quincey ‘The Muscle’ Morris, here to politely tip his hat at passers by and then pop into an alleyway to curb stomp Jack the Ripper or something.

Lucy ‘Everyone would die for her, how does she always end up in these messes’ Westenra, who is the sweet and beloved friend of everyone in this office but somehow remains blissfully unaware of the supernatural nature despite being targeted by nearly every monster of the week.

Guest Starring Prof/Dr/Esq Van Helsing (his title changes every appearance) who rushes in to lore drop and dunk on Seward, smile lovingly at Lucy, then rushes back off to Amsterdam.

And if it absolutely has to have a reincarnated character, then it’s not Mina; Van Helsing is the reincarnation of Dracula’s ex-spouse who constantly rolls in to ruin his plans whenever he shows up.

And Dracula has a mustache, damn it!

[bebe-benzenheimer]

so that bit about Lucy's teeth looking longer because her gums were shrinking just reminded me of this shitty YA book from a zillion years ago called Sweetblood (one word or two? Who knows, who cares) about this diabetic teen so goffick she makes Ebony Dementia D'Arkness Raven Way look hipster, and she's convinced her illness is connected to vampirism so she hardly ever takes her meds and maybe she falls in with a group of other vamp wannabees and lands in the hospital at the 85% mark, whatevs...

Anyway, early on she hands in some report about how people suspected of being vampires in ye Olde days could've actually been diabetic and one sign was the shrinking gums because old timey food and medicine was terrible...

Ugh, no thanks Mr. Stoker for reminding me of that chick and her constant internal monologs of "I am X, I am Y" like a worse version of Fight Club.

[su-angelvicioso]

@fuckmeyer Wifey these tags are not gold but PLATINUM!!!

You are right, no one likes to consider those things when it comes to her and it’s a damn shame because it makes her character SO much more layered and real, but ppl would rather label her as completely “evil” “unfeeling” as if that’s revolutionary and hasn’t been done a zillion times before lol. They’d rather her stay boring and one-dimensional so they intentionally disregard all of these really interesting details that give her wayyy more depth than the typical, unseasoned, copy-paste villain they so desperately want her to be L0L.

I never understood it because… how is that fun? Making her like every other cookie-cutter villain when technically, she’s not. You’d think ppl would want to explore that and play with it a lot more instead of fighting so hard to keep her in a box she never belonged to begin with…

I always thought it funny how some treated her as “cold” and “unfeeling” and then canon tells us the exact opposite. Clearly she was not unfeeling if her entire descent into darkness was the loss of not only her family but her entire sense of security. I don’t think people understand she was left with Nothing in the middle of a dangerous war among EVERYTHING else that had happened lol. In fact, ALL the bullshit they make up to degrade and undermine her is pretty much debunked in every piece of information you get about her in canon, some of it from Jasper himself lmao.

She’s supposedly some big bad unfeeling old hag that Jasper is repulsed by… Jasper says different lol. (his actions show different too but that’s another can of worms lmao). He describes her as a “tiny brunette” who “looks young enough to still be called a girl” and has a “soft, musical voice”… and technically they’re all old, they’re literally vampires. They’re all 100+ years old lmfao some ppl sound so goofy with their digs. XD

Not only Jasper, but all other sources state in some way that they had a bond. Therefore, it’s hard for me to believe she’s “unfeeling” if she’s able to form so many significant relationships with ppl that aren’t blood related… Jasper, Nettie & Lucy, Her vampire family…

Hard for me to believe she’s unfeeling when she found herself a whole loving family as a whole Vampire when she literally DIDN’T have to do that at all, and she went mad when she lost them… it licherally makes ZERO sense to completely disregard all of that and reduce her into the typical lacking ass type of characters/ships that they’re used to lol.

She has all of these RICH underrated details that make her MORE than “nothing but an evil temptress who wants to hurt everyone in sight for no reason” *eye roll*. I mean yeah it can be fun to play with that when it’s done the RIGHT, un-gross way, but when you seriously characterize her like that and that’s ALL you do?? Not cute, not original, BORING!😴, YAWNING!🥱, SLOPPY! 🤢 … LAZY!👎🏽 Tomato!🍅 Tomato!🍅. If you claim you like her, and you claim she’s one of your ‘faves’ and you do that bullshit Pick Another Fucking Fave please because ur lying lol! (Disrespectfully <3) like you can really tell who actually knows her character and who doesn’t lol. I won’t even touch on their useless denial surrounding Jasría because then I’d be here for hours afjdfjlskdk.

“She feels so much but is required to feel so little” -@fuckmeyer

EXACTLY QUEEN ILY!!! <3

The anniversary of the day Maria’s family were brutally murdered in front of her is always the hardest day for her to get through. It feels like it lasts forever. She mostly tries to avoid thinking about it but on days like those it creeps up on her.

I headcanon that María has something like Survivor’s Guilt. Sometimes she’ll relive that day over and over again and sometimes it’ll feel so real and it will send her into a panic attack.

She feels responsible for their deaths. Even though there was practically nothing she could do to stop or prevent it, she was raised to be prepared and capable and ready for things, to be a fighter and a survivor and protect the things/people she values. So to her; losing her family, watching helplessly as they were murdered felt like failure to her.

Sometimes she berates herself, feeling as she could have done more, to save them. Maybe one of them died trying to save her, perhaps they told her to run. To save herself but she couldn’t bring herself to do it until they were all dead and she had no choice.

When she met Jasper and they began working together it was easier for her to push those thoughts and feelings away and bury them. However, on the day of the anniversary all those feelings and thoughts come rushing back. He’d caught her alone whispering harshly to herself one time, having felt the depressing emotions coming from her domain he wanted to check on her. She reacted harshly ordering him to leave, not wanting anyone, him especially, to see her like that. There was another incident where he’d caught her, she’d been reliving it all over again, She was too far gone to try to stop and hide it and she didn’t have the strength and was in no shape to try to push him away so she allowed him to help her. This was the first time she opened up to him, even if it was just a little and it was the first time Jasper realized that she wasn’t all she made herself out to be. That she had another, deeper side to her, and that there was something going on. They bond over that. She becomes a lot more receptive to his offers of help when he notices it’s becoming overwhelming again. He offers better ways to handle it. To this day she is still thankful to him for that.

She feels as if she should have died with her family. This may manifest at times in her acting reckless and seeming to have a death wish, not caring if she dies or not. Feeling alone and empty, she sometimes wonders what’s the point in it all; but then she reminds herself that dying would be a waste. Her family would want her to survive, to live on for them and so she pushes it down and trucks on doing all she knows how. Hiding and escaping her pain through other means of gratification.

[anabelsbrother]

“If you and Richard were seen out together for a while, if the public believed you were a couple...” “Let’s just get this straight, shall we? Are you seriously suggesting I conduct some sort of faux-mance with Richard Troy in the tabloids, for the sole purpose of getting a few more bums in seats?”

| Act Like It, by Lucy Parker.

[dialux]

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night,   

and if you're predisposed to dark—let’s say   

the window you’ve picked is a black

postage stamp you spend hours at,

sleepless, drinking gin after the I Love   

Lucy reruns have gone off—stare

like your eyes have force, and behind

any night’s taut scrim will come the forms   

you expect pressing from the other side.   

For you: a field of skulls, angled jaws

and eye-sockets, a zillion scooped-out crania.   

They’re plain once you think to look.

You know such fields exist, for criminals

roam your very block, and even history lists   

monsters like Adolf and Uncle Joe

who stalk the earth’s orb, plus minor baby-eaters   

unidentified, probably in your very midst. Perhaps   

that disgruntled mail clerk from your job

has already scratched your name on a bullet—that’s him  

rustling in the azaleas. You caress the thought,

for it proves there’s no better spot for you

than here, your square-yard of chintz sofa, hearing   

the bad news piped steady from your head. The night   

is black. You stare and furious stare,

confident there are no gods out there. In this way,   

you’re blind to your own eye’s intricate machine   

and to the light it sees by, to the luck of birth and all   

your remembered loves. If the skulls are there—

let’s say they do press toward you

against night’s scrim—could they not stare

with slack jawed envy at the fine flesh

that covers your scalp, the numbered hairs,   

at the force your hands hold?

- "Field of skulls," Mary Karr

[onebluebookworm]

31 Days of Literary Spookiness: Poetry Edition - October 17

Art by Dragan Bibin

“Field of Skulls” by Mary Karr

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night,   and if you're predisposed to dark—let’s say   the window you’ve picked is a black postage stamp you spend hours at, sleepless, drinking gin after the I Love   Lucy reruns have gone off—stare like your eyes have force, and behind any night’s taut scrim will come the forms   you expect pressing from the other side.   For you: a field of skulls, angled jaws and eye-sockets, a zillion scooped-out crania.   They’re plain once you think to look.

[aidenoconnell]

Aiden shakes his head gently. He doesn't think it's that, he thinks it'll be the juggling of employee to boyfriend. So far he's managing well enough and that's all he can do, so he'll continue to do it. "I want to do this," he tells her and if Aiden didn't, he won't. Plain and simple in regards to who he is as a person. "I'm pretty resilient," he laughs quietly.

He breathes out, looks at Luci for a few moments before turning his head to the side and closes his eyes. August is trustworthy, he knows they'll be fine. Though his poor friend probably has a zillion questions Aiden will have to get to and he will, when he's fully concious.

On one hand, it does feel a little good he actually told somebody. In all honestly, he doesn't really mind the secret but eventually one day it's going to come out and Aiden would rather have it be on their terms compared to snoops or tabloids. Then there's the worry about Luci but she surprises him being okay with it, trusting it, trusting him. Aiden breathes out, a bit relieved about it all and nods.

Aiden steps to the bed and crawl back on right towards Luci and scoops her into his arms so they're both laying down again. He rests his upper half on hers, shaking his head a bit. "I just want it to be our terms," he whispers to her.