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Lucy groans and sinks further into the couch. ‘What if you didn’t make me go to the hospital?’ Lockwood snorts. ‘Yeah, what if you ended up in a coma and I had to explain it to your family?’ ‘My family doesn’t give shit.’ She mutters petulantly. Lockwood learns a bit about Lucy’s family.
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a certain step towards falling in love
‘After a silence of several minutes he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began,’ Lucy knew this one, even without having read the book before. The infamous proposal scene. Lockwood had explained it to her at once, trying to stay awake on a long case. ‘In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.’ He’d underlined it three times. Lucy reads Lockwood's copy of Pride and Prejudice
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i’d appreciate some locklyle prompts to help me beat writers’ block pretty please
a certain step towards falling in love
chapter one: it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark
Underneath what Lucy considered one of Charlotte’s wisest, albeit rather pessimistic, assertions—if a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark—Lockwood had scrawled an articulate shut up, Jane, this time in blue ink. It looked more recent than the rest.
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a certain step towards falling in love
‘After a silence of several minutes he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began,’ Lucy knew this one, even without having read the book before. The infamous proposal scene. Lockwood had explained it to her at once, trying to stay awake on a long case. ‘In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.’ He’d underlined it three times. Lucy reads Lockwood's copy of Pride and Prejudice
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a certain step towards falling in love
chapter two: is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. Lockwood’s black pen spouted the connotations of specific words used to describe love and the pragmatic view of romance Austen was apparently endorsing. But the blue pen silently underlined the final clause.
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a certain step towards falling in love
‘After a silence of several minutes he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began,’ Lucy knew this one, even without having read the book before. The infamous proposal scene. Lockwood had explained it to her at once, trying to stay awake on a long case. ‘In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.’ He’d underlined it three times. Lucy reads Lockwood's copy of Pride and Prejudice
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Hi, Lockwood & Co. fandom.
PLEASE don't do to Cameron Chapman what the Stranger Things fandom did to Finn Wolfhard. And absolutely do not do to him what Pedro Pascal's fans are doing to him. It's sexual harassment.
It's totally normal and okay to crush on celebrities. But there is a line that needs to not be crossed. This goes for the rest of the cast, too. Don't turn Cameron and Ruby into the next Finn and Millie. That shit was miserable and abhorrent to watch.
WE CAN DO THIS! ❤️
Love this part! Definitely highlights Lockwood’s need for drama
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June 1st-Trend it on YouTube
On June 1st We are going to trend Lockwood & Co on YouTube.
At the beginning of you day open the playlist, hit play and then hit Loop Playlist. You can mute the sound on top of the tabs depending on your browser. Check on it periodically to click the still watching button and that it's still on the playlist.
Make positive comments on the videos with #savelockwoodandco. Like and reply to other comments.
Finally- Ask YouTubers to react to watching Lockwood & Co.
Ask them the question- Would you Renew or Cancel?
The play list is just two videos-the trailer and the interview where they talk about future seasons. Together they are a little over 5 min; so on loop they will play about 5-6 times an hour.
Here is a list @beachblue37 has of some YouTube channels to message or message your own favorites.
@damimina for the idea. @savelockwoodandco
Reblog and Spread the News.
#paramountforlockwoodandco gained a lot of attention today, including likes from the Paramount UK Twitter. Very encouraging!
In the spirit of hopefulness and drive to continue, I made another version of my DEPRAC posters for us to circulate to support the cause! I will post on it on Twitter, and I encourage you all to be on there. It is the hellsite supreme, but it's the best place to get attention right now. Peace, love, and biscuits.
It's the last Wednesday in September, and you know what that means -- it's time for another email day!
LockNation Email Campaign (Week 11)
September 27th → Hulu
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Lucy: I’m not going to stand here and be insulted
Skull: then stand somewhere else and be insulted I don’t give a fuck
After reading this post, I have had some thoughts, and because I'm annoying I'll be posting them here.
We all know that the world of Lockwood & Co is fucked up, right? Child soldiers, shitty adults, ect. But to understand just HOW fucked up, you kind of have to understand some things about the education system in the UK:
Okay so, for any readers who aren't aware, in the UK compulsory education generally goes:
Ages 3-11: Primary School
Ages 11-16: Secondary School
Ages: 16-18: College/Sixth Form (Note that in the UK they don't call University/Higher education 'college'- University and getting a degree generally comes after graduating college/sixth form.)
By law, you have to stay in compulsory education/employment/training until you're eighteen. I'm honestly not too sure what happens if you just drop out, but I'm fairly certain the parents/care givers get in some kind of legal trouble if the the govt is informed that the kid hasn't been showing up for an extended period without reason (ie, prolonged illness,) especially before they're sixteen and haven't taken their GCSEs.
GCSEs stand for General Certificates of Secondary Education, and kids generally sit for these qualifications at 16. You sit 1-3 papers for each subject you take unless it's graded differently, so around 12-15 exams. At the start of secondary school a student will generally be forced to study all the subjects that the school offers- for a specialist or religious school this could mean studying things like Intro to Buisness Studies or Religious Education alongside compulsory subjects like math and science. Then after a few years, usually at the age of 13/14 (or 12/13, in some schools,) students are instructed to choose three subjects to continue studying alongside the compulsory subjects and drop the others that they don't pick.
I won't get into how this is kind of a little messed up- due to how the education system works, these choices can impact a kid's economic future as an adult and it kind of requires the kid to already have decided on what career they want- but know that the GCSEs you take and the grades you get in them can determine what college/sixth form courses you'll be able to take depending on the college/sixth form.
A-Levels are one of the qualifications that can be studied at a college/sixth form and are generally the route taken when you're planning to apply to university straight after graduation (if you don't want to do that you can possibly just wait a few years and go to uni as an adult learner, but you have to study something because you have to legally stay in education until you're 18,) If you do that, then the A-Levels you have can determine what University courses that you're able to apply for, as some universities have specific requirements beyond getting good grades in your chosen subjects. Typically a person studies 3 A-Level subjects though sometimes if they think you can handle the workload they might let you take on 4, and generally you have to sit 2-3 papers for each unless they're graded differently.
On the other hand there are apprenticeships and Level qualifications that are also offered at some colleges (called FET or TVET colleges) . These generally teach you a trade instead of a subject and sometimes you can possibly get a paid apprenticeship with a company while you're studying (theoretically this can lead to a permanent job after graduation,) - things like plumbing, construction, health care, hair dressing, management, child care, etc.
This is all fine and dandy if you're under eighteen and have followed this path of education set out for you, but what happens if you decide as an adult that you want to get different qualifications so that they're, say, more relevant to your job, or so you're more likely to get picked for a promotion? Or you want to get onto a course at a specific university, and they have strict entry requirements? Well in the real world, adults can choose to study college courses for a price tag- education stops being free after eighteen. These usually consist of night-classes at regular colleges/sixth forms so that the adult learners don't interact with the regular students.
This is nice if you've got your GCSEs, but what if you don't? Most universities require at minimum a passing grade in Maths and English- if you go apply to university as an adult learner (or 'mature student', as is the used term,) then they'll sonetimes make you take a course in maths and English at your local college/sixth form and then sit an exam even if did take your GCSEs and passed those subjects if enough time has passed since you originally sat them, presumably to make sure that your skill in those subjects hasn't degraded. The vast majority of universities won't accept you if you don't pass this exam, and most colleges that offer Level qualifications would be dubious about accepting you too.
Well, not to worry! In the real life UK, there is an option: The Open University, where you don't need any qualifications to study with them. Originally the Open University was designed for working-class adults that may have been forced to drop out of education as children due to having to work to support their families before education until eighteen became compulsory, (Education until sixteen didn't become complusory in the UK until 1972,) therefore having no qualifications. Founded in 1969, originally the university mailed learning materials to students and broadcasted lectures on late-night television, recognising that the people forced to drop out of education as children were now adults with probable familial/job obligations that would prevent them from travelling to or staying at a campus.
Now, at last, let us address the world of Lockwood & Co. In the books, Marissa Fittes and Tom Rotwell discover the link between iron and ghosts, and ghosts and Sources, in 1962. To my understanding the timeline was moved up a bit in the Netflix series so that the 'The Problem has only been around for fifty years' can be true alongside the show still taking place sometime in the 2020s. (The books came out in the 2010s.)
The newspaper articles that show in the opening title sequence reveal that the conversation around 'Ghost Touch' begins in 1972 (I read that in an article about the show, but I haven't checked,) with the article about 'Waves of unexplained deaths,' printing around 1969.
Now, we don't know how this effected the education system for sure- you'd think that, at least in the early days, there'd be some sort of protest from people about taking a large portion of the youth out of school and making them fight ghosts, but the thing is, this isn't really far-fetched based on what we know about the state of education in Britain at the time. The vast majority of working-class adults had no traditionl qualifications, and taking kids out of school so that they could work was very normalised, at least in working-class areas and communities.
This fits in with what we see in the show: the world seems to have stagnated somewhere in the 1980s and Lucy, a working-class northern girl, is taken out of school at 13 in the show and begins an apprenticeship with Jacobs at 8 in the books (presumably while still attending school, its not clear,) whose world seems to have stopped in the 1970s, as there are no mentions of things seen in the show like tapes. Compare this to the 'Sensitives', children with Talent but whose families are rich enough that they don't actually have to do anything dangerous. I can see work as a Sensitive being a way for many middle-class kids to earn a bit of an allowance while still being able to go to school- if lives don't depend on the work that they do like they depend on an agent's, then they can probably afford to only work weekend nights or nights a few times a week, so their studies aren't impacted too much.
In the series I think they aged everyone up: Lucy is 16 where she was 15 in the books, Lockwood is 18 (15) and George is 17 (16.) Lucy at least should be preparing for her GCSEs and choosing whether she wants to go to a sixth form college ( which offer mostly A-Level courses) , a FET/TVET college, or get a job.
She isn't though, which begs the question: what happens to agents after they age out of their Talent? Jacobs was once an agent and now runs his own agency; in the books, (spoilers,) Kipps becomes an adult supervisor of agent teams and is given a pension by the Fittes agency for his years as an agent. It's not clear if all agencies do this, if the ones that do do it voluntarily or if it's some sort of government edict.
Is that all there is for ex-agents? Toiling along in the same industry that turned them into traumatised child soldiers? Given how early The Problem started, it's unknown whether alternative options for education like The Open University still exist; certainly adults wouldn't be able to take night classes at colleges and sixth forms due to the government-enforced curfew. You can pay to take your GCSEs as an adult, but as an ex-agent with a full-time job paying for the hours of tutoring and the book studying required depending on how much foundational stuff you've missed and then paying to sit exams you might not pass may not seem worth it when you have a paying job- or an alcoholism habit to fund, as seems the case with many of the adult supervisors in this universe. In the books, night-watch kids can be as young as six and seven, guys. There's a lot that they're missing.
How many kids have just vanished from school after their parents/carers found out they had Talent? How many kids without Talent see that their friends have disappeared, and know that that probably means that they've been forced into a profession with an absurdly high mortality rate? How many attended their funerals? The generations that were born after The Problem began are all traumatised in some fashion.
I mean, no wonder the economy's stagnated. A good portion of the youth is being taken out of school and not being allowed to innovate fields that need innovation! And the adults they become can't easily access education!
There will be, of course, exceptions. Ex-agents who did manage to get into university or trades outside of the Defence against Ghosts industry, just as there were working-class kids who managed to do the same prior to 1972. But they'll be rare. It'll be a roll of the dice whether you survive long enough in the first place, and whether you'll be able to cope with your trauma without resorting to alcoholism or other destructive methods. Whether you'll have the perseverance to put up with the slog of getting qualifications sixteen-year-olds who didn't have to go through what you did have. Of figuring out what you even want to do beyond this, all you've ever known, because you have to pick the relevant subjects to study for your chosen career.
Now excuse me while I go feel sad about this :")
Anthony Lockwood Examination Post
So much of the deleted scenes have been such a delight, and many of them I’d wished they’d kept, this montage with Lockwood included, but when I first saw this scene, my heart did hurt.
I looked at this exact snapshot and saw the face of depression.
He’s lying in bed with his eyes open, and we know he doesn’t get enough sleep. He is willing himself to get up at that very moment, and when he does, it’s routine for the next hour it takes him to prepare:
He gets out of bed, puts on the same clothes, and when he’s staring at the mirror, he puts on his face—not makeup, but—: that disarming smile, that sparkling charm, and the bold confidence.
He steps out of his room and gives that unopened door one flight up—a pedestal, really—a half-expectant look:
Any minute now she’ll walk through that door.
Then
Oh, right. She won’t. She’s dead.
And he moves forward, as he always does.
He files that hurt away as he joins George and Lucy at the kitchen, thinking about the many ways to grow the business, outsmart Fittes, and get bigger clients/more prominent cases.
He makes plans, giving safety and caution a cursory thought. His agents are smart, they are good at what they do. George will tell him if there’s anything they need to know. Lucy’s razor sharp intuition, conviction, and more than adequate skill with a rapier bolsters his confidence on the field.
Then when they’re all there, fighting for their lives, that little voice he had ignored all this time will ring in his ears and the rare panic attack would consume him. When he staves off the panic attack, regret would inevitably settle in when the danger was passed.
Lucy is the one that either pulls him together or vehemently calls him out, and then he couldn’t bear it, having her angry at him.
There’s something about Lucy that propels him to do better. George does not have this immediate effect because George doesn’t storm off and he never turns his back on Lockwood. Lockwood knows George will bend a long while, and Lockwood knows just enough when to appease George to snap him back. Lucy is not as patient. Lucy does not hesitate, because Lucy knows that her hesitation once got her friends killed and that was not going to happen again.
The danger of dying does not scare Lockwood as much as it should, at least not in The Screaming Staircase/The Whispering Skull/Lockwood & Co. Season 1.
He was, until Lucy, too reckless. Lucy has managed to talk him down to “just reckless enough”. She also impressed upon him that he had a responsibility to stay alive because if anything happened to him, she and George would be devastated, and if there was anything that motivated Lockwood more than winning a case at all costs, it was to spare Lucy and George any suffering. He could not bear the thought of Lucy or George getting hurt, especially because of him.
Before Lucy, he was numb, his ability to truly love dormant, but she woke him up, and I’ll tell you exactly when Lucy first punched a hole through that barrier.
In the Netflix series, I think it was the possession scene, and there were about dozens of moments where we saw it happen over and over again, but IN THE BOOK, The Screaming Staircase, it was after the well was exploded in Combe Carey Hall.
I knelt by him, brushed the ash from his forehead.
His eyes opened. He looked at me with a clear, unclouded gaze.
I cleared my throat. “Hi Lockwood…”
Awareness returned. I saw bafflement first, then gradual recognition.
“Oh… Lucy.” He blinked, coughed, and tried to sit up. “Lucy. For a moment I thought you were… It doesn’t matter. How are you, Lucy? You’re okay?”
This scene, knowing what I know now, is exactly the moment Lockwood remembered what it was like to be loved again. He thought she was you-know-who, and then he realized she wasn’t, but oh, it wouldn’t be the last time Lucy would remind him what it was like to be loved and looked after.
Lucy knew it, too, in her bones, even if she didn’t identify it, and—poor George, he saw it. He even said he saw it.
I stood abruptly. “Yes, I’m fine.”
George was watching me through cracked spectacles. “I saw that.”
“What?” I said. “Saw what? Nothing happened.”
(Lucy, so guilty)
“Precisely. Where was his slap in the chops? Where was his firm shaking? There’re double standards at work here.”
Ah, George.
So Lockwood isn’t exactly suicidal. The danger is there, but he won’t perform the act for its own sake, he just, until the events of the Bone Glass, convinced himself that his priorities were: defeating Visitors and Lockwood & Co. besting everyone else.
It was an easier focus than the dread of losing the people he cared about, yet again.
Thankfully, Lucy and George are setting him on a different journey.
So in a way, George is wrong. Lucy does slap Lockwood awake, just in a different way.
best headcannon I ever discovered was definitely "kipps is from lucy's old town. he was on her team." because damn it is so fun to imagine them getting in a fight when they first meet at the archives and then there's just the rest of them wondering what the hell is going on you guys don't know how many times ive redone this scenario in my head
Started watching yesterday I believe and now I have finished the entire season
This series is so great
I want the second season right now
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