#pearlcaddy.eml

[pearlcaddy]

omg congrats on your milestone!! <33 for the celebration, would you mind giffing #6 + abbott elementary??

Thank you! And thanks for the request--I loved having an excuse to spend some time with my favorite teachers! The gifset is here.

[pearlcaddy]

Favorite Locklyle scene :)

Your request is here! I've been meaning to make a companion set to my other favorite Locklyle scene for a while--thanks for giving me the perfect excuse!

[pearlcaddy]

Just wanted to say that I hope you’re doing well!!! I’ve been so busy on Twitter with fighting for Lockwood and Co that I haven’t checked in! But I’m cheering for you!!!

Aww, thank you! I'm doing okay--thesis is in, so just job hunting and waiting for results at the moment!

[pearlcaddy]

Happy follower celebration! 🥳

May I request #12 for JatP?

Thank you!

Thank you! Your request is here--thanks for the motivation to pay a tribute to my favorite wee studio!

[pearlcaddy]

what's your favourite locklyle moment?

Ooh, I feel like this changes minute-to-minute for me. On average, it's probably something in the 1x04 bandaging scene, but right now I'm especially feral about "Frankly, you're more of a liability than an asset." After spending her whole life only being valued when she's an asset, Lucy finally has someone tell her that they "can't give her up" when she's a liability, that she is valuable in and of herself even if she is a burden. Lockwood begs her to stay even if she makes his life harder sometimes.

Obviously it's partly a joke from Lockwood, but it's also not, and it's very near and dear to me because it's what she (and everyone) deserves, especially with her backstory.

(Also the fact that he then looks at her lips and she looks at his. The way that they both interpret the line and the moment as romantic. Feral, I tell you. Absolutely feral.)

ask me about my favorites!

[pearlcaddy]

Lockwood & Co, 14, specifically the moment where Lockwood swears never to lie to Lucy again and lights a flare in the most dramatic way possible, as she fondly asks him, “why’d you do that? So you’d look cool?”

Here is the gifset--thank you for the request!

[pearlcaddy]

Congratulations on submitting your thesis!!!!!

Thank you!!! It feels very weird to not be working on it, but I'm excited to finally have some time for fun things again!

[pearlcaddy]

Here we, here we, here we fucking go!

you got this!

💚🥺 Genuinely can't express how happy seeing this in my inbox made me--thank you!!

[pearlcaddy]

Thankyou SO MUCH for all your beautiful L & co gifs!!

🥺🥺 I'm so glad you're enjoying them!

[pearlcaddy]

hey! just wanted to let you know i think this user on tiktok has stolen some of your lockwood and co gifsets :(

Oof that's super frustrating. Since I can't find the username on tumblr and I'm not on Tiktok, I can't even block and I assume there's nothing else I can do. But thanks for letting me know!

[pearlcaddy]

maaaaaybe no one asked for your locklyle buffy AU (though I wouldn't be surprised if someone Had asked) but I sure as heck am reading it!! and I'm so glad you're writing it <3

💚💚 I'm really flattering you're reading it, and I hope you're enjoying it!

[pearlcaddy]

I am just letting you know I loooovee your aesthetic posts. I think they’re SO cool!!! And you always pick such great lyrics and quotes for them ;;

💚 Thank you! I’m really glad you enjoy them.

[pearlcaddy]

29 for the wrapped fic vibes?

29. Don't Get In My Way by Zack Hemsey

Ooh this one was very difficult, cause it feels like an edgier, angrier Juke than I tend to write. But:

I'm too many years in the zone Too many years to have built what I own And many dumb fool try to take what I've grown But these roots go deep and you can't blood a stone

Aged-up Jukebox AU where Julie and Luke are separately famous. Bobby steals Luke's songs and looks set to record them as Trevor and win a bunch of awards for his stolen goods. To make matters worse, the label backs Bobby in the dispute and refuses to investigate further.

But with rumors circling about Bobby's theft, Julie figures out that all of the songs on Bobby's first album were written by and stolen from her mother. When Julie realizes that Bobby's first hit, Wake Up, was supposed to be a private gift for Julie from Rose on her deathbed, Julie hits the roof. She wants to spark a media storm about it, but without evidence, her team warns her that she could be on the hook for major legal trouble.

Instead, she reaches out to Luke to do a revenge collab. Writing an album of furious masterpieces that will 1) point the finger at Bobby with just enough plausible deniability, and 2) hopefully be good enough to beat Bobby's knockoffs come award season.

And what if they fell in love along the way? haha jk... unless???

Send me a number between 1 and 101 and I'll tell you what Jukebox fic I would write based on the corresponding song from my Spotify Wrapped playlist!

[pearlcaddy]

8, 31, 34 for the ask game :)

8. do you prefer week-to-week content, or just binging all in one go?

Ooh, so with more episodic shows, I really enjoy having the story stretched out week-to-week (and also being forced to have self-control with my TV watching.) It's like inviting a bunch of beloved friends into my house once a week. But with serialized shows I can get really impatient, and I also love that feeling when you watch a show for hours on end and the real world dissolves for a wee bit and gets replaced with this amazing fictional universe.

So it depends on the show and the viewing experience I'm looking for.

31. do you use subtitles while watching TV if you can?

Subtitles my beloved! Though it's a point of contention when I watch with my partner because he finds them distracting, so with shared shows, whoever is suffering more makes the final call.

34. what are your top 5 shows right now?

Lockwood & Co., Abbott Elementary, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, and Shadow and Bone!

Thanks for the ask!

TV ask game!

[pearlcaddy]

I'm so glad you shared those gifsets!! I hadn't seen the second one! In your new gifset with Lockwood checking on Lucy and asking if she's okay, what scene is the first gif from? I don't recognize it and I don't even wanna admit how many times I've seen the show (if I have to put it on to help boost for getting a season 2 so help me I will)

The first gif is from 1.03 and it's directed at Ellie when she picks them up from the train station (the only gif in that set that isn't said to Lucy. I could have cut it and made it explicitly Locklyle, but I liked the way it showed that checking in is a broader impulse Lockwood has beyond Lucy.)

Also, if you're rewatching the show because you enjoy doing that, definitely keep doing that! (I've rewatched it loads too!) But I keep seeing posts where people talk about rewatching L&Co in order to get it renewed, and as a Netflix Expert™, I just want to point out that the primary metric Netflix looks at when making renewal decisions is the completion rate within 28 days (aka how many people finish watching the show in the first month of its release.) Rewatching the show boosts the overall viewing hours and definitely doesn't hurt, but I don't want anyone to feel like rewatching the show is a chore or something they have to do to get the show renewed. If you've watched the show once, you've done your bit!

[pearlcaddy]

Pearl out of curiosity have you read the Lockwood books??? Also in the show what was the part you found funniest?? And what’s your favorite gifset you’ve ever made?? <3

I haven't yet! My partner got them for me as a present, but I'm saving them for a post-thesis treat.

Probably George's "They'll appreciate the work, but this is Phoenician." George in general, but especially in 1.04 he really unleashes his sass and it brings me so much joy.

For L&Co, this one and this one! For Julie and the Phantoms, this one.