#pls stroud

[krash-and-co]

Wait wdym Lockwood isnt canonically neurodivergent?? I didnt read the books but I legit just assumed it would be mentioned at somepoint in the books

ITS NOT AND I MOURN EVERY DAY

[blue-boxes-magic-and-tea]

today we start reading part two of lockwood and co’s the screaming staircase!!!

to celebrate here are some noteworthy moments from part one! [beware of spoilers!!]

there is a lot of incredible world building in this first part, but one of the bits i keep thinking of is how much these kids not only think about death, but are quite literally surrounded by it. they are constantly being informed by death around them. this is heavy emotionally intense labor that we’re expecting out of these kids

lockwood is a Silly, and he loves teasing lucy this is incredibly important information to me thank you for sharing this jonathan stroud

again with the world building, kind of crazy how pervasive the problem is that you see preventative measures in everything. we had a fun discussion about this in the discord too

okay lucy tell me how you really feel - but also the way his warmth for her is described (even when she is incredibly clueless) is so sweet to see. like talk about a crazy quote

this is an incredible closing scene like HELLOOOOO??? i’m obsessed with the dramatics like this would’ve had me HOOKED as a kid!!

these are just some of the moments that really stood out to me while reading (i had several more too but just to not make this post a million years long ya know) - i’d love to hear other ppls top moments from part one. but also YAY PART TWO HERE WE COMEEEE!!

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i’m reading Lockwood and Co as part of a book club. this week we read part two of The Screaming Staircase! you can join the discord here, or post on tumblr w/ the hashtag lockwood library to join in!

[silostosstuff]

I want Jonathan Stroud to be in the show. Nothing big just like a librarian or a random dude on a train or one of the DERPAC people in the background. Something like Leigh in S&B or Alice in Heartstopper. You know.

[thiefbird]

Hey. Question for the DA community.

Does, like, anyone care about Stroud??? Is there anyone who has blorbofied him?

[locklyle1kanij]

please this is me!! AND ITS ON MY MIND TWENTY-FOUR SEVEN!!!!!!!!

I NEED A SEASON 2 OF LOCKWOOD AND CO LIKE I NEED AIR TO BREATHE I CANNOT DO THIS ANYMORE NETFLIX PLEASE

[l3irdl3rain]

What are your da world states like? I love hearing about what other people have done!

I'm going to put this under a read more because it's a lot. I love to ramble and you have opened a can of worms.

I have one world state finished and a second one that I'm currently working on (Just got to Skyhold in DAI). I won't lie, world states A and B are pretty similar in choices. I've planned ahead for 7 total though, and the other ones branch out a lot more with different decision.

My first full play through I didn't save as a world state. I also do have a video game blog if anyone is interested @everyonebl00ms . It's mostly just me reblogging stuff but I do occasionally talk about my own play throughs and OCs and fan fic and such.

I am resisting the urge to list out every single decision I made for each world state so I will just give you some of the more major things.

Lila convinced Alistair to do the dark ritual and they remained Wardens together. Alistair killed Loghain in a duel. All her companions were alive and well at the end of the game.

Elena supported mages every chance she got. She brought Carver into the deep roads and he became a Warden. She killed the Arishok in a duel. She romanced Anders and supported his decision wholeheartedly, so obviously she sided with the mages at the end.

Katari (pls look at her. she's so hot.) allied with the mages. She reconciled Briala and Celene, left Hakwe in the fade, did not exile the wardens, let Morrigan drink from the well, and Leliana became divine. She romanced Blackwall and when she freed him from prison she promised him to the Wardens. In Trespasser she disbands the Inquisition and vows to stop Solas no matter what.

World State B is very, very similar. what can I say, I like what I like.

Darvas romanced Morrigan but he refused to do the dark ritual. Alistair ended up dying killing the archdemon. Darvas executed Loghain. All companions besides Alistair lived to see the end of the game.

Moira Hawke romanced Isabela. She supported mages whenever she could. Bethany stayed home from the deep roads and became a circle mage. She killed the Arishok in a duel. She understood and could have even supported Anders actions at the chantry. However, by involving Moira in this he put Bethany in danger. She killed him in hopes that it would help protect Bethany.

And Elgaris Lavellan is who I'm playing as right now. She's allied with the mages. She will be romancing Solas and drinking from the well of sorrows. She's going to leave Stroud in the fade and won't be exiling the wardens. I can't make up my mind what her decision will be regarding Orlais' ruler. Either Briala ruling through Gaspard or maybe the public truce? Also she will be redeeming Solas bc she luvs him xoxo

[callmearcturus]

i challenged myself to name as many nfl ppl as possible so here is the result

WOW I KNOW ALMOST 50 PPL IN THE NFL lmao

list under the cut

Arizona Cardinals ???

Atlanta Falcon Kirk Cousins Moony Koo is their kicker

Carolina Panthers ???

Da Bears I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THE NEW QB IS. huh.

Dallas Cowboys fuckin DAK. Dak Prescott.

Detroit Lions Jared fucking GROFFFFFFFFF 100% completion rate baybeeeeee coach is Dan Campbell, big fan AMON-RA ST-FUCKING-BROWN Sam LaPorta

Green Bay Packers is it still Jordan Love????

Kansas City Chiefs Patrick fucking Mahomes, the greatest to ever do it, the most beautiful arm, our favorite Kermit impersonator is Carson Wentz still our backup QB? yep he is Andy Reid, our coach CHRIS JONESSSSSSS the heart of the defense Rashee Rice, pls pls pls don't be injured too long bb Drue Tranquill (did NOT know that was his first name lmao) Carson Steele, who is our current… Isaiah Pacheco, maybe the best receiver of all time, who is injured and we need him back so bad Justin Watson, decent receiver Xavier Worthy, our rookie receiver who would be great if he stopped getting flagged for the love of fuck Travis Kelce, who is always Just Okay in the main season and then becomes FUCKING SUPERMAN in the post-season so we forgive him Jawaan Taylor, offensive line Kingsley Suamataia, also offensive line Harrison Butker, our shithead kicker who I wish we would through into the Missouri River

Los Angeles Rams no fucking idea who gives a shit

Minnesota Vikings wow i dunno

NOLA Saints ???

New York Giants they literally went through THREE QBS last season and finally landed on a fourth to finish their season, who even fucking KNOW

Philly Eagles Jalen Hurts, someone put this man out of his misery already Saquon Barkley lmao fucking Sirianni, who survived the coaching overhaul for some fucking reason

SF 49ers Brock fucking Purdy, the greatest Mr. Irrelevant, please pay this man McCaffery, Purdy's soulmate George Kittle

Seattle Seahawks uuuuuuuuh no idea

Tampa Bay Buccaneers that motherfucker Baker Mayfield

Washington Commanders NO idea

Tennessee Titans nope

Pittsburg Steelers JUSTIN FIELDS BABYYYYY HE'S FREE FROM THE FUCKING MCCASKEYS AND FLORISHING Russell Wilson who is supposed to be the starting QB but uh where tf is he? also who cares

New York Jets The Cryptofascist

New England Patriots who cares. coach is still Bellicheck I think, fuck that guy.

Miami Dolphins poor fucking Tua 8C 8C 8C Tyreek Hill, who used to be at KC

Las Vegas Raiders nnnnope no idea

Jacksonville Jaguars Trevor Lawrence is the QB Travis Etienne

Indianapolis Colts have I EVER watched a colts game…….

Houston Texans CJ Stroud is the QB

Denver Broncos i literally looked at a list and i don't know these people

Cleveland Browns Deshaun Watson is QB

Cincinnati Bengals Joe Burrow Kicker is McPhearson Punter is Rehkow who might be fired after today

Buffalo Bills JOSH FUCKING ALLEN. I HATE HIM FOR BEING AS GOOD AS HE IS.

Baltimore Ravens Lamar Jackson, the most inconsistent QB in the league Bateman is in there, catchin balls Isaiah Likely Devontez Walker

[l-herz]

Hi Lockwood and Co fandom. I wrote my first ever fanfic! It's a Lucy character study set after The Creeping Shadow. It combines both the show and books. It has alot of bonding with Holly about losing their teams. And all the feels. Pls feel free to read and review if it sounds like your thing:

[faux-fires]

For the WIP ask meme (tysm for the tag), you had me at 'political drama.txt' but I'm also very curious about 'gruffgriff' and Hawke rising from the trash??? Any of those, any combination, or whatever you feel like sharing I will be on like pigeons swarming half a discarded sandwich, pls and thank.

that's really kind of you to say so! 'political drama' is the vaguuuest. there's a lot of arranged marriage fics in fandom and i wanted one that fully leant into the court intrigue angle rather than the romance angle.

i love a particular genre of story that's like, an outsider comes into a poisonous and decadent court and struggles to rise to the top in the hope of reform it/sabotaging it from within against overwhelming odds while also struggling to hold onto their idealism and sense of right vs wrong amidst the scheming and the murdering. at the same time, people are getting dicked down.

this particular .txt is just vague outlines for a proposed series of stories covering the Intrigue, the cyber equivalent of a napkin at a bar with SOTRY: fuckingggggg written on it after a few glasses of your bev of choice. I STILL WANT A COURT INTRIGUE FIC but i have accepted that i would be writing it for an audience of like, five, because people on the whole read arranged marriages for the will they/won't they romance not the actual experience of government, which is a toss up between sausage factory gristle & gore and simultaneously armando iannucci death-of-stalin farce with grown men bickering about the symbolic arrangement of funereal flowers. :sob:

the thing about it was, it had been fun. he had been young and he had been in love and he had wanted, genuinely, to try and change the nature of the fire nation government - to dig deep into the depths of its machinery, pull apart its pistons and boilers and hissing steam valves, its ambition and appetites and pride - but he was a smart man, and at the end of the day, he had been pitting his mind against other smart people, and it had been fun. until (spoiler thing) had happened, and people had died.

"hawke rising from the trash" is one of the published ones! it turned into "a toast to distant friends", a story about varric + hawke's shitty gift choices.

as for gruffgriff, i signed up to a fenris & anders focused big bang a few years ago, somehow failing to realise this was a stupid idea when i don't care much for fenders and that was what a specifically fenris + anders big bang was inevitably gonna feature heavily, and was assigned a pic of the two of them on a gryphon. i took like six different attempts to start a story before giving up and withdrawing from the big bang (mikke wrote a much better story for the same prompt anyway so the artist wasn't left bereft). with this one i think the idea was to have anders having never left the wardens and then for fenris to enter the story in carver's place, having contracted the taint on the deep roads expedition? i kept the opening because i thought it could be used for something else but [laughs bitterly in writer's block].

The cavernous mess hall of the Warden base in the Anderfels could seat, with comfort, almost a thousand people if pressed. Here, within its sandstone walls and under the watchful eye of the First Warden, the Warden-heroes of ages gone had sat and made merry and celebrated victories without counting; had raised toasts to whole legions of the glorious dead before and after battles upon which the fate of Thedas hung; had been filled to the imposing rafters with the sound of an army of men determined to pretend, at least for a little while, that they were not, eventually, functionally, dead men. That the hall currently contained only Anders, Riordan and Stroud was a sad commentary on the state of the Order.

[penultimatestalematewithdeath]

A fic rec for you! Black Tie Cocktail by Aedsu. (if anyone knows their tumblr if they have one pls feel free to tag them!) Read this tonight when searching for fics to leave comments on, and it absolutely BLEW ME AWAY!! Delightful little Locklyle that captures Lucy's voice so well!! Very much recommend reading!!

[krash-and-co]

Tell everyone about our fic pls

*announcer voice* THE FIC YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEVER WANTED: 'STUPIDITY WILL FOREVER FLOURISH,' A LOCKWOOD AND CO MY IMMORTAL AU!!! IT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE, WRITTEN BY ME AND SLAG-FOR-THE-FETCH!!! BUCKLE UP AND ENJOY, FANGZZZZZ

[bowla-borscht]

so what is all this stuff about lockwood? I'm curious now /gen feel free to ramble ( also I accidentally unfollowed you sending this ask so I gave you an extra notification sorry)

Hdhshjd, accidentally unfollowing someone is such a mood😭

But anyways, hi!! Ok so Lockwood & Co is a new Netflix show that's an adaptation of one of my favourite book series, Lockwood & Co, written by one of my all time favourite authors, Jonathan Stroud <333

The story setting is basically that around 50 years ago The Problem appeared. The Problem is ghosts, of various power levels and hostility but if any of them touch you, you dead <3 unfortunately, only children can see them and as they transition into adulthood (~18-20) their powers fade until they're gone. The Problem effects everyone but adults can't do anything to fight it. So obviously it's time to throw child labour laws out the window! Though they still get adult supervision, not that it helps much. The Problem seems to only effect Britain, it's never really elaborated on or mentioned but this makes the most sense in story and I think that's hilarious.

The story centres on our protagonist, Lucy Carlyle, a no nonsense agent (ghost hunter) from the country who has run off to London after an Incident with her previous employer. Unable to find employment in any other agency, she stumbles upon a small company that's willing to take her in. The company, Lockwood & Co, is only run by two people, both of whom are Lucys age (~14-16) and very much not adults, but hey, who needs a childhood anyway?

The other members of L&C are the mysterious, stylish, kinda self centred owner deeply in need of a therapist, Anthony Lockwood, and his friend/employee the intially off putting brain of the group who is SO autism, George Karim (also known George Cubbins in the book, but the show decided to make him Iranian because honestly the books are. Very very white)

Together they try not to fall into debt, get killed on the job, get arrested for malpractice, and uncover a government conspiracy! Also there's a talking skull in there. He's a creep and I love him.

The show is an amazing adaptation of the book, keeping most of the good parts and improving others. It's a very sweet found family while also being an awesome and atmospheric supernatural mystery show. Also has the great message of Hey. Child Labour Is Kinda Bad

If you end up checking it out pls feel free to dm me so we can chat about it <33

[stroudve]

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[linguistlist-blog]

FYI, Public Lecture by Prof Ben Rampton: 'Localising Linguistic Citizenship'

'Localising Linguistic Citizenship' 24 Feb 2023 Friday | 3pm - 5pm | Nanyang Technological University SHHK Auditorium (Level B1-14) In-person Registration: https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe88/REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA23021318133459 Livestreaming on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS6-K9CM8fk Abstract: As “an attempt at a comprehensive political stance on language” (Stroud 2008:45), ‘Linguistic Citizenship’ (LC) deserves to be a mainstream concept in socio- and applied lingui http://dlvr.it/Sjbn21

[ysabelmystic]

Eyyyy fuck yeah

Currently reading: The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne (Jonathan stroud)

Favorite color: black

Last movie: Renfield (pls watch it it’s funny)

Last song: Vagrant (Feint and Veela)

Currently working on: silly Dazai birthday art

Tagging: @caffeine-or-death

thx for the tag @antlerangel !!!

currently reading: nothing much tbh. mandatory class reading mostly

favorite color: i cant ever choose so i always just say red. so, red

last movie: strange world i think? watched it w my little sister

last song: the stutter says a lot by saosin

sweet/savory/spicy: savory

currently working on: the wedding dress project, making a minature stage set so i can play around w lighting, 5 different watercolour paintings, a million different things honestly

tagging: whoever wants to :)

[da-incorrect-quotes]

Inquisitor: Whose turn is it to give the pep talk?

Stroud: [sighing] Hawke’s.

Hawke: Fuck shit up out there, but don’t die.

Varric: [wiping away a tear] Inspirational.