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Percy telling Annabeth she’s done more for him than Poseidon in the week they’ve known each other

🤝.

Kaz telling Inej no saint has ever watched over him like she has

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Kaz Brekker is Ketterdam’s Mr. Darcy. In this essay, I will….

One thing about Kaz is that instead of thinking "I don't deserve her" he went "I will work on myself to deserve her" Bro is a simp, not a quitter.

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Sometimes I get enraged with my past self. I hate that I let so much happen! "you should've known" "you should've said something" "you should've done things differently" but then I realize that post betrayal me is talking. Post hurt me is thinking. My past self was simply doing what she could and what she knew, she wasn't trained for when people took advantage of her good heart and good intentions, she didn't have a class on betrayal to which she could study for and attain gold stars from. She just drank her coffee, read her books, lived her life and gave every little ounce of love and every fibre of her being to those she loved bc when she loves, she loves hard.

And suddenly I'm grateful that she carried me all the way here and suddenly I'm thankful for her and how strong she was. And suddenly I want to hug her

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No because I’m sorry but Lockwood and Co should be Percy Jackson level popular

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yes yes, i know you guys love lockwood and barnes as a father-son duo, but at least consider this:

lucy and barnes as a father-daughter duo and lockwood as the dumbass boyfriend who the father has to tolerate because his daughter is head over heels in love with him

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okay no but listen. lockwood & co has literally fucking everything. the found family nothing will ever separate lockwood george and lucy, sword fights with ghosts, one cocky little bastard and his concerned friends, everyone is slightly unhinged and it's amazing, "you can kill me don't touch her", the SLOW BURN, "please tell me there's tea", there is no semblance of normalcy at lockwood and co, no stupid love triangle just an amazing trio PLEASE go watch this show it's so so good

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WHICH ONE OF YOU MFS TOLD ME TO READ LOCKWOOD & CO….. I CANT STOP

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one of the most annoying things about being in your twenties is when you see an actor/actress on tv and you’re like 👀 but then you realize they’re a teenage so you’re like oh sorry that was weird oh no am I creepy 😬 or am I mentally still just a teenager but then you look up the actor/actress and they’re actually in their twenties too but just playing a teenager and it’s like do I feel better or worse because there’s no way I’d pass for a teenager and we’re the same age but at least I’m not a pedo

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ooh what's lockwood and co about should i watch it?

WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK THIS HERE WE FUCKIN GO BROS

So Lockwood & Co is a netflix series based on a book series of the same name. Essentially it's about ghosts and ghost hunters, but with a twist: It's set in our time, but not our time as we know it.

Basically, around the 1970s, ghosts just like. Appeared. For no reason we've been able to figure out. People would die, and their malevolent ghost would come back, especially if they died in a particularly traumatic way. They called this The Problem. The thing about these ghosts, is that if they touch you, you die, and if you make eye contact with one for too long, you become Ghost-Locked, which basically send you into a coma. We're not sure what Ghost-Locked victims see in this coma but they always look horrified so we can assume it's not great. There seem to be 3 types of ghosts: Type Ones are what you normally picture for a ghost, Type Twos can make illusions and are more powerful, and Type Threes are incredibly rare and they can talk and communicate with certain people.

Then there are the ghost hunters. Now ghost hunters are always children, usually teens, because as you grow older you lose your Talent, your ability to sense ghosts/death. There are 3 types of Talents: Seeing, Hearing, Touching.

Another thing about this world is that there's no Internet. You can see in the theme song piles of old broken computers, and I'm not sure it's explained yet WHY the internet was never invented, but we assume it's because of The Problem somehow. But this means that the newspaper and news on tv is mainly how information gets around, and any research done has to come from a library and books.

So basically in this world there are companies that pay teens to hunt for ghosts and get rid of them. The companies are usually run by adults though, so it's fraught with awful shit, they often treat these kids like they're just tools and not like they're actual people. Often the kids don't actually get paid themselves, because their parents can control where their money gets paid to, so parents will send of their kids to ghost war and rake in the money safe at home. Capitalism god ahold of The Problem and figured out how to make hella money of of it, so a lot of these companies that are supposed to help people are actually super corrupt and awful to their employees.

Unless of course, you're Lockwood & Co

These dorks look at em

50 years after the start of The Problem, Anthony Lockwood, the guy on the right, is an orphaned teenager who decided he wanted to start his own ghost hunting company, and the "Co" part of the name includes the two on the left, George Karim and Lucy Carlyle. They run their own 3 person company free from exploitation from adults, which other companies (run by adults) really really hate. Lockwood has a Seeing Talent, Lucy has a Hearing Talent, and George has a Touching Talent.

Basically, these 3 kids are hired for a job getting rid of a ghost, only they find out that this ghost is one of a woman who was murdered, and not of a guy who fell down the stairs like they thought. They look deeper and deeper into this murder mystery and keep uncovering shit that other ghost companies do NOT want them to be uncovering. Things that go beyond exploitation of kids, more murders, weird artifacts, things that might even explain the origins of The Problem itself. So Lockwood & Co decide they want to figure it all out, or die trying.

This show is heartwarming, it's funny, its mysterious, it's got ALL THE FOUND FAMILY VIBES and I think it's a real hidden gem in the piles of TV shows on Netflix. It's been in the top 10 shows on netflix for a bit, but I've never really heard anyone talk about it, I just stumbled upon it when looking for something to watch one day. All in all, yes, you should definitely watch it please please please do it, I swear to god of Netflix cancels this show I'm going to riot

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Me tomorrow @ the eclipse:

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This is yet another example of their cruelty and violence.

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I don’t understand why tumblr isn’t absolutely drooling over lockwood and co it’s everything that tumblr should love?????? it’s got ghosts and swords??? cozy British vibes?? ANGST THROUGH THE ROOF???? the best slowburn since pride and prejudice?? the “you can kill me just don’t touch her” trope is EVERYWHERE???

PLEASE I am beGGING YOU go binge it!!!

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NOTHING QUIET ABOUT IT

Quietly obsessiving over Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co.

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ugh. Every character in Lockwood & Co. are the biggest losers you’ve ever seen. They’re the coolest guys around. They hate each others guts. They love each other more than the world. They’re polar opposites. They’re the exact same. They’re literally unhinged. They’re the only sane ones for miles. They’re entirely incompetent. They’re the best ones at their job. They clash on the regular. They complete each other.

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Am I funny yet?

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ETERNAL BLESSINGS UPON WHOMEVER RECOMMENED LOCKWOOD & CO. TO ME

(INCLUDING MYSELF BECAUSE I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW I FOUND THIS SERIES)

THESE BOOKS ARE

E V E R Y T H I N G

and

100% for PERCABETH FANS

But also FOR EVERYONE

Ghosts! Gothic Modern England!! Angst!! Camaraderie!!! FOUND FAMILY!!!!! Great writing!!!! Realistic chaotic characters!!!!

A SARCASTIC TALKING SKULL!!!!!!

*and the audiobooks are next level FOR REAL*

(no really who took this gif of me that's me)

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Anyway. Sorry to be an English major on main but yes all stories have meanings and say things