#lucy smith

[b3y0ndm3asur3]

fellow travelers + reductress part 3

part 1, part 2, part 4

[sgippy]

i have never, in my life, ever been moved like this by a show. i have never cried like this over a show. but that’s because this really is more than a show. this was reality for the thousands, millions of queer folk who came before us. it reminds us: we should always remember to celebrate those that made it possible for us simply to be able to exist and live and love freely. to be.

i honestly couldn’t think of many better ways to pay homage to those queer lives, especially the ones lost, who fought bravely even in the face of death than telling their stories like this; exactly as they were. intricate, raw and real. giving another voice to all that love. the fight might not be over yet, but their contributions have left a lasting impact on this world. telling these stories isn’t just necessary, it’s crucial.

i can’t thank the writers, actors and absolutely everyone else involved in creating fellow travelers enough for bringing this vital, beautiful, poignant, devastating and endlessly meaningful, impactful, important story to life. thank you thank you thank you

[kjaerestemin]

for a lot of scenes between lucy and hawk there is a parallel scene between tim and hawk that shows how surface level the relationship between lucy and hawk is. a few examples:

lucy was gifted a tiffany bracelet by hawk for christmas while a few scenes before we saw that tim was gifted hawks cufflinks with the initials h.f. on them. hawk gives tim something personal, a part of him while he gives lucy, while expensive and beautiful, something materialistic with no personality attached to it whatsoever.

episode six was full of these parallels. we see lucy and hawk having sex. they're both fully clothed, it's quick and unpersonal. hawk seems to have sex with her that night for two reasons: one, he wants to prove to her that he is, in fact, aroused by her. that he can be the man she needs. he wants to prove to her that he can be that man because he saw her flirting with Chet Stover. he saw them coming out of the house together during the firework scene. hawk is, after all, a jealous man that likes to claim his property. he does not want to be ridiculed by his friends and least of all by his wife.

if we compare that to the several scenes where we see tim and hawk being intimate, we can see a very big difference. first of all they're never fully clothed, this symbolizes that they're open with one another. there are no secrets between them, no barriers holding them back when it's just the two of them. secondly, they don't just "have sex" they're intimate. they play with their kinks, they tease each other; it's about pleasure between them, not about performance, like it is for hawk with lucy.

in episode six we also see lucy and hawk struggling with raising jackson. neither of them know how to talk to him, which results in frustrations on both sides. then we're shown jackson interacting with tim. tim understands jackson, he knows what the boy is going through (because he's been through the same; not feeling loved by hawk the way he wanted to feel loved by him). we get a glimpse of how happy a family tim, hawk and a child (jackson in this case) could have been. how great a team they would make if given the chance. the way hawk shows up differently for his son after his talk with tim, the way jackson opens up to tim and feels understood by him.

lastly, another lovely detail to show the personal relationship between hawk & tim vs the impersonal one between hawk & lucy. hawk gives tim the nickname "skippy" after 0.001 seconds of knowing him, while he keeps referring to lucy as "lucy smith".

i love how fellow travelers shows the hardships queer people had to face in the past. especially because it doesn't show just one story but different one's and includes poc voices!!

[cowboybuckleys]

[alorchik]

can we talk about lucy? about the fact that she also lost her son and had to go through it alone? about how painful it must be to find out that your husband, who left home, keeps in touch with his ex-lover and not his family? that she pulled herself together for her second child and grandchild? can we?

and according to the ep8 promo, she’ll come to tell hawk that it’s time to be honest, it’s time to correct past mistakes.

she’s nothing but strong.

[jabberwocky1996]

Allison Williams as Lucy Smith in Every Fellow Travelers Episode:

1x07 - White Nights (Dir. Destiny Ekaragha)

[creativelycomplex]

Hawk leaving all of his things at the hospital when Skippy was sick because he stayed there with him full time. The same Hawk who after Lucy had Jackson, went home to shower and was not present like that for her. If he wanted to he would, but he never had that love for Lucy even when she gave him a child, so he never did.

[half-an-hour-hence]

Something else that was completely ruined by restrictive societal conventions in Fellow Travelers is Hawk and Lucy’s potential for a healthy platonic relationship. I mean it was stated several times that they were exceptionally close in childhood, and it was pretty obvious that Hawk had no romantic interest in her whatsoever, even after Skippy left in the 70’s. If Hawk’s sexuality wasn’t seen as being wrong and if Lucy wasn’t under constant pressure to get a husband and start a family, I think they would’ve stayed really close friends. But being forced together by social pressure like that just made them miserable and unable to bare the sight of one another.

[effieandtim]

it broke my heart seeing this parallel between lucy and tim quietly admiring the gifts hawk gave them (while he was having sex with a stranger) not knowing that this was the beginning of a lifelong connection between them

[feelingpure]

Fellow Travelers | The Episode 6 Promo and Episode Guide

A lot seems to be going down in the next episode, so let's peruse it.

It’s 1968 and Tim’s an anti-war protester sought by the FBI.

Yesss, can't wait for rebel Tim! But also wtf, the FBI?!

(More under the cut.)

Hawk and Lucy have a settled life, two children and...

Hmmm, I have a feeling that family might not be coming first this time.

...a country house - the perfect spot for Tim to hide.

Uhh, why does this child have a gun?!

Marcus puts aside his career to care for his aged father while denying himself romance.

Ugh, triple pain incoming for Marcus.

Frankie becomes a counsellor for girls left behind by society.

Frankie: an angel.

Out of touch for years, Hawk wants Tim back in his life...

Ooh, Lucy's gonna yell at Hawk, ok! And who's that in the kitchen... I don't think it's Tim?

...and Tim on his way to becoming a priest – can’t resist Hawk’s charms.

Of course he can't resist it, as they said in episode 4. So, looks like everyone's going to be hurt in some way, cool cool cool, can't wait.

[b3y0ndm3asur3]

fellow travelers + reductress part 2

part 1, part 3, part 4

[littlepinkclown]

hope no one else has done this already

[uselessnocturnal]

started watching a new show where anthony bridgerton is the Saddest Boi because he wants more than sex from neal caffrey and is warned against emotional entanglements by kristoff especially with all the rumours that neal’s engaged to kit snicket

[satelarry]

fellow travelers x good luck, babe! by chappell roan.

[alorchik]

i heard someone said that ep6 will be weak, but I find it very interesting, i really liked the communication between Tim and Hawk's son, and how Hawk cared and wanted Tim to stay.

I was broken by Tim's letter from the army, their love is killing me. I couldn’t watch without pain at how they want but can’t be together.

in fact, i feel so sorry for them all, i really want tim, hawk and lucy to be happy, they need it so much

[jabberwocky1996]

Allison Williams as Lucy Smith in Every Fellow Travelers Episode:

1x06 - Beyond Measure (Dir. Uta Briesewitz)