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Yes he will and it’s wonderful

SAS: shitposts 299/∞

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I’m heartbroken thank you

the wisp sings | paddy x eoin

when it was the desert, and you, and me. you and me.

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Funny because it’s true

Neil Josten has the same constant stress level as that fuck ass squirrel from Ice Age

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This is art

L&C Fancast!!!!

kermit the frog as lucy carlyle:

kermit the frog as anthony lockwood:

kermit the frog as george cubbins:

kermit the frog as holly munro:

kermit the frog as quill kipps:

kermit the frog as skully:

kermit the frog as flo bones:

kermit the frog as montague barnes:

kermit the frog as penelope/marissa fittes:

Bonus

kermit the frog as lockwood looking at lucy:

kermit the frog as quill and bobby:

kermit the frog as the client’s house:

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Sometimes I’m glad that Netflix cancelled l&co because I just KNOW I wouldn’t have been able to handle the angst of THB and TCS on screen. And the edits people would make? I’d be hysterical…

This is a lie. I hate Netflix. Screw you for cancelling it.

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Community x criminal minds?? What? I’m crying

Reid: I'm making a documentary about my life. Hotch, I think you should play the role of my father.

Hotch: I don't want to be your father.

Reid: Perfect, you already know your lines !

Garcia:... That was incredibly sad.

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psych + textposts bc it was about time i did one

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Funny ‘cause it’s true *cries*

(I hope someone gets this reference)

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*nods*

When it rains it means you should be in a bookstore

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sammy posting!

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l&co book 1: there is something wrong with anthony lockwood's self-preservation instinct

l&co book 2: there is something wrong with george cubbins's self-preservation instinct (but in a different way)

l&co book 3: there is something wrong with lucy carlyle's self-preservation instinct (but in a different way from either lockwood or george)

l&co book 4: lockwood's lack of self-preservation instinct somehow gets even worse

l&co book 5: lockwood's lack of self-preservation instinct gets better again (still bad)

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Someone had to do this :D

Series: Lockwood & Co, source: Brooklyn 9-9

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There’s too many.

has anybody else been struggling with thoughts

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Yes.

has anybody else been struggling with thoughts

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Multiple times

ok wait, reblog if you’ve cried at least once because of math, doesn’t matter which grade i’m trying to prove something 

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I’m not crying, you’re crying…

stating the obvious here but 35 portland row is so beautiful as a whole.

i mean theres death and misery and reminders of what's lost soaked into the very floorboards, stained carpets and horror stacking up, tragedy you can touch and something you can't look in the eyes waiting with your blood under its nails. but there is also sugar on the table.

there are pictures on the wall and dishes in the sink and beds with extra blankets and laughing you can hear from the stairwell, and i mean you know who it is because you've heard it enough and you know hes throwing his head back because that's how he sounds when he laughs that hard, and I mean sometimes youll still take a blanket from your bed and sit under it with her because it feels even more like home that way. sometimes youll find your clean laundry on your bed and it's still warm.

I mean it is so so so cold outside and its cold inside here too, but ours is a different cold. cold like a hand in yours right before you grab it with your other to bring warmth. it's a gentle kind of thawing when you feel boiling waters steam on your cheeks and it's a gentle kind of thawing when you start to hear the house creaking as a contented sigh, and then you'll sigh too, and i mean theres death and misery and reminders of what's lost soaked into the very floorboards, but when its spring again we'll do spring cleaning together like those happy families on tv. there is sugar on the table for you because someone remembered how you like your tea.

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THIS^^

Lockwood's Lack of Self-Preservation Instincts

In the show, the writers make a big deal out of Lockwood's recklessness stemming from borderline suicidal intentions, but in the books this doesn't really get brought up until The Empty Grave. Even then, by the end of The Empty Grave, there doesn't seem to be a completely clear answer to what Lockwood has been thinking, and what he is thinking now. While the show has the scene that Lockwood admits he used to think the bottom of the Thames was a nice place to be, but that he doesn't think that anymore with Lucy present, the books simply don't have an equivalent conversation. Which got me thinking about the exact nature of Lockwood's recklessness, lack of self-preservation, and arc.

I think that his recklessness started with a super broken view of self-preservation, since he didn't have anyone to live for and missed his family and thought it was all for nothing. He literally says all you can do in life is try to help as many people as you can before you die. He chooses to be so reckless over and over thinking that going out in a blaze of glory is the best he can do for himself. It's not that he ACTIVELY wants to die, it's that he doesn't particularly care if he does, and in his mind it's better to die on a dangerous, reckless mission ridding London of ghosts than live having never risked anything to help people. Which is good, until he takes it too far and is chasing the thrill and willing putting himself at huge risk for no good reason. And I think Lucy and George help him rein that in, because he subconsciously has something to live for again. But Lucy leaving sets him back to self-destructive tendencies. Blaming himself for Lucy's departure, he once again loses any sense of self-worth beyond his capability to efficiently get rid of ghosts.

And then, after Lucy is back and he starts to realize that his families' deaths weren't meaningless, and Jessica's death glow was there to help them, and maybe there is a wider, more organized story they are taking part in, his recklessness doesn't go away but it becomes a testament to what being alive means: being so full of life you do not fear death, not out of a desire to die but out of knowledge that death isn't the ultimate victor.

I think the difference between Lockwood in books 1-4 and Lockwood at the end of book 5, is that originally his recklessness was a product of believing death is the ultimate inescapable end and thus nothing really matters, and it changes to the realization that everything DOES matter, and while death is inescapable, it doesn't have the final say.

He becomes the embodiment of the ND Wilson quote, "Run faithfully to the end, and like all good men, you will die of having lived."