#l&co.

[psychicbluebirdmiracle]

I think what always gets me about the scene where the double agent guy gets murdered is that while Lockwood is freaking out as anybody would Lucy is completely calm and clear headed and focused on getting out of there and I realized it's cause this isn't the first time she's had to watch people die she had to sit by while listening to all of her friends die in the first episode knowing she could have tried harder to keep them from going in so to her she knows that's what she needs to focus on and seeing how lockwood reacted I think just made her know more she had to stay calm for him since he was having to deal with that guilt of thinking his decisions caused this that scene breaks my heart so bad in so many ways

[mellkellyismyhero]

i reread the empty grave last night and this is all i could think of during the final fight when skull comes in with a steel chair at the 11th hour

[fishfilletinacan]

ahaha…

[softelectriclight]

the fact the Lockwood definitely wasn’t thinking that people wouldn’t date Lucy, but instead his dumbass lover boy brain was probably like ‘lucy doesn’t even like coffee’ when the whole Kipps thing got brought up because we all know he knows how she takes her tea (and vice versa)

[yellowraincoat]

Alright, I call this using my polls for good:

It pains me to say “reblog to increase sample size” but it would also be cool if our fandom could actually reach a consensus on this, and for that we need as many votes as possible

[dont-offend-the-bees]

someone ate Lucy's last packet of smokey bacon crisps and she's reacting really okay and proportionally (based on this post)

Bonus:

[locknationupdates]

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[eliias-bouchard]

would anyone in the lockwood & co fandom be interested in hyper-detailed notes about the world building taken directly from the books? pls comment if so

[lockwoodandcosource]

Welcome to Lockwood & Co. Source, a source blog dedicated to the new Netflix TV series and the book series by Jonathan Stroud! If you’re interested in seeing more L&Co. on your dash, give us a follow and reblog this post to spread the news!

We reblog all fanworks—gifs, fics, art, vids, etc.—so be sure to tag us in your L&Co. fanworks. Now tracking #lockwoodandcosource and #lockwoodandcoedit.

[secretlyatimelady]

Trying to figure out Lucy Carlyle’s face

[psychicbluebirdmiracle]

Lockwood: We do our work discreetly and bespokely

Also Lockwood:

[mellkellyismyhero]

Jonathan Stroud and Kipps

You know, as a kid reading Lockwood and Co., I LOVED Lucy, George, Lockwood, and Holly. They were all my age! Every time a new book came out I’d imagine Lucy was growing up with me.

But that meant that I didn’t have much of a connection with Kipps, who was kind of L&Co.’s punching bag (affectionate). I liked him, but I never loved him the way I loved everyone else.

Now, I’m older than L&Co. Reading the books and watching the show feels like revisiting my younger self. I was expecting to love the L&Co. trio dynamic- and I did! But one thing I really wasn’t expecting was my newfound appreciation for Kipps.

Jonathan Stroud’s decision to focus on Kipps’ transition from brilliant teen agent to terrified, washed-up adult... It didn’t speak to me as a kid because I was too busy identifying with how cool Lucy’s Talent was. But now that I’m in Kipps’ age range, I identify with Kipps a lot more over Lucy. I can’t really put it in words- this is probably going to be the first of many posts of me spewing emotions and love for Jonathan Stroud’s writing skill- but I’m going to try.

Minor Kipps-related spoilers for L&Co. books under the cut.

Kipps, in the show and books, is 20-22 years old. He’s college-aged. And he cannot do the one thing that he has trained his entire life for, and needs to adjust to that. As a kid, I just kind of saw that as the same kind of “kids rule, adults drool” thing that happens in all kids adventure stories. Can’t have the responsible adults ruining the kids’ fun!

But Kipps was unusual in that you get to SEE him go from ‘competent rival agent’ to ‘technically a useless adult’. He’s straddling the line in the way that other series, where kids get to have magic because they’re good and pure or whatever don’t.

The thing is, it would’ve been easy for Kipps to be forgotten. Just let him fade into the background and never be mentioned again after book 2. But he’s there in book 3, and 4, and 5, still doing his best to fight ghosts even if he can’t see them. As a kid, I was just like ‘huh, okay, that’s a choice’ and kind of ignored him. Who cares what Kipps is doing when Lucy and Holly are having an epic argument that’s going to bring a million ghosts down on their heads?

As an adult, I LOVE that Stroud chose to keep Kipps around. I love that Kipps found a new way to keep fighting (the goggles). I love that Kipps kind of became a member of Lockwood and Co. I love that Stroud made the readers and the characters confront the reality that one day our beloved main characters would lose their Talents too, that even Lucy would go deaf one day, instead of just ignoring the generous but very real time limit the characters had hanging over their heads.

(Side note: part of my love for this series might be stemming from my complicated feelings about the Seven Wonders book series, where a kid is told he has less than a year to live and will likely spend months in debilitating pain and then... spends that year fucking around looking for magical artifacts and not actually having any kind of physical consequences for LITERALLY HAVING A DEADLY ILLNESS-)

Anyway.

Kipps is fantastic. The way he represents the inevitable future of Lockwood and Co... the way he represents the thousands of other agents who grew too old to sense ghosts and couldn’t keep fighting even if they wanted to... the way that he tries so hard to keep the kids he’s in charge of alive but can’t because he’s only one person and he’s losing his Talent...

He’s going through such a major transition and doesn’t know what his place in the world is anymore, and honestly, what early-twenties person does? There’s something there about Talents and childhood trauma and taking your first few steps into adulthood without the tools that saved your life as a child because they don’t work anymore...

In conclusion: Kipps was an amazing character, and I’m sorry I didn’t appreciate him sooner.

[fishfilletinacan]

them 24/7

based on this post by @maarigolds <3

[softelectriclight]

little known fact that once Lockwood finds out about Lucy’s camera he always tries to steal it and when he does he either takes funny photos of himself and George or candids of Lucy

[red-in-every-sense-of-the-word]

Screenshot redraw of concerned Locklyle.

[kiki-has-a-cat]

I LITERALLY JUST FOUND OUT THAT NETFLIX WILL BE RELRASING A SHOW BASED ON MY FAVOURITE BOOKS WTFF im frEAKING OUT RN

and also like when did they release some announcements??? i've been living under a rock i swear im so late