#mr stroud please

[vangoghsmissingearr]

I am BEGGING Mr.Stroud to bless our hearts with a short story written from Lockwood's point of view.

I would lose it.

#lockwood and co #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #save lockwood and co #cameron chapman #george cubbins #jonathon stroud #ruby stokes #holly munro #mr stroud please #fuck netflix #newtflix please im begging you #renew Lockwood and co #lockwood and co netflix #lockwood #lockwood netflix #locknation #lockwood and lucy

[finnlongman]

A couple of my childhood author heroes follow me on social media these days, and I'm mostly being normal about it. Like, they'll be nice if I post book news or like a post with writing updates, etc, and that's fine, we are Being Authors Together, I'm fine.

It's when I post something extremely random and weird and then get a notification that it's been liked by someone whose books I borrowed six times from the library when I was 12 and never expected to actually meet – THAT is what I haven't quite got over yet.

#every time jonathan stroud likes my instagram story i have an out of body experience #I'm there like. ah. the bartimaeus author likes my swan picture #moreover the bartimaeus author knows what the inside of my house looks like because he's seen my selfies #interesting. excuse me. i am going to go and scream #mr stroud if you are on tumblr and see this somehow please don't tell me I can't take it

[carlyleandco]

Campaigning for Lockwood & Co:

Prepare the kit bags and oil the iron chains Lock Nation. We aren’t done with this case yet.

I thought I’d compile a list of methods to voice our displeasure with Netflix’s recent decision for those of us who want to engage in saving the show.

The only string of hope I am holding onto right now is that Netflix was not the production company for the show, and as such Complete Fiction may hold more weight in its future than the former. Whilst Netflix doesn’t have a history of passing over cancelled shows to other platforms, that doesn’t mean it has never happened at all. “Uncoupled” recently got renewed by Showtime after being binned by Netflix. It’s not outside possibility.

We need to use streamlined hashtags to accompany posts on Netflix’s socials, on fan edits, and fan art; #bringbacklockwoodandco and #savelockwoodandco seem like good options to start with.

You can seek out the feedback options on Netflix’s online homepage to express your dissatisfaction.

Commenting on all of Netflix’s socials. And I mean all. For instance on Instagram alone we have Netflix US, Netflix UK, Netflix Geeked, Netflix ANZ, Netflix Brazil, Netflix Italia, Netflix Deutschland, Netflix Espana, Netflix France, Netflix KR, Netflix Queue and many more. As always I implore people to be passionate but POLITE AND RESPECTFUL. I know we are all upset, but let’s maintain composure whilst we voice our complaints. To further elaborate on this, our commenting needs to be sustained over a month at the very minimum for maximum impact.

Engage with other potential future streaming platforms. Disney+ isn’t worth our time as they have already announced massive cuts to productions due to the strike. Amazon Prime (specifically the UK branch), Paramount+, Apple TV, HBO, and the BBC are just some examples. Let’s comment and bring the show to their attention. This is what was done by fans of “The Expanse” when it was cancelled and Amazon eventually picked it up.

Consider writing to Netflix’s headquarters via old fashioned letters voicing your displeasure!

Take part in the watch party happening May 20th/21st!!

And let’s just keep spreading lots of love and share our joy for the show!

Will these methods most definitely ensure Lockwood finds its way back into production? No, I can’t attest to that. But will they at the very least let the creators, the actors, and Mr Stroud himself know how loved and appreciated this story was to us all? Absolutely yes.

If anyone out there has any other ideas, please feel free to brainstorm!

#lockwood and co #l&co. netflix

[worldofkaeos]

there's an unasked question of mine that i had for mr jonathan stroud that i really wanted an answer, so maybe i can ask yall...?

we see marissa fittes who had such strong talent to be able to communicate with ghosts when she was young, but now she is definitely past her prime, yet she still can see ghosts.

lucy has a similiar power, so do you think she would still be able to see ghosts and have her talent when she gets older, even when her friends' talents fade?

please comment on your thoughts! :D

#lockwood and co #lockwood and co headcannons #lockwood & co #lucy carlyle #marissa fittes #l&co #i need ideas #lucy's talent is so interesting

[sailorpalettes]

I'm totally need another book of Lockwood and Co BUT that one retells the events of original story from the perspective of Lockwood himself

*please please please please Mr. Stroud pleaaaase*

Like in the midnight sun you know <3

*Ohhhh come on he'll never do that*

*WHYYYYYYY 😭😭😭*

#lockwood and co #lockwood #anthony lockwood #jonathan stroud #locklyle #lockwood and lucy #stroud is a genius #save lockwood and co

[renegadeshroom]

i see lucy being jealous of other girls who know lockwood, but that's nothing to me. i have gotten so platonically jealous in friendships before, there's a perfectly platonic explanation here! please mr stroud let me have this

#fungus ramblings #lockwood & co /

[asexualreptile]

Re: your tags I was already planning to illustrate these two hanging out, but the idea of upping the contrast between them like Sol is some kind of Disney princess is so funny - I need to incorporate that somehow.

Mr Stroud sir why are the characters in this book like this I am LOSING my fucking marbles over here.

Go ahead, I don't think I have the time right now. If you really get around to it, please tag me or something so I see it for sure!!!! Stroud really popped off with his characters, I agree. It's rare that I go insane about characters in works of fiction, especially over such a large stretch of time. Usually what draws me into a story are things like themes, worldbuilding, writing style etc.

Thank you btw for making me fall in love with RoS a little more everytime you scream about it. I always loved that book and it's the one I reread the most along with AoS bc it doesn't drag me down like PG and doesn't remind me where we're headed like GE. But you really make me appreciate things about RoS that I hadn't thought about that mich before (my aro/ace ass did /not/ pick up on the Khaba/Ammet /at all/ for some reason when I first read it and then just didn't the times after either haha)

#answered #:)) #bartimaeus trilogy #the bartimaeus sequence

[pictureofdoriaaaaaangay]

chaotic book ramble so I can stop spiraling into the abyss: my childhood favorite books that I've been thinking about lately

I start college in four days, where I'll be pursuing an English degree. I've been both a reader and by extension a writer my whole life. lately, I've been thinking about the books I loved when I was younger that fueled this passion and thus helped me along to where I am now <3

The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer. I still have my old copies of these books, and when I tell you they are well-loved, I mean they are well-loved. they're sort of fairytale retellings, and take place in the Land of Stories, which exists as a parallels world to this one where fairytale characters are real and living beyond their happily ever afters. the books follow twins Alex and Connor, who find out (spoiler?? lol) that their grandmother is the fairy godmother. all sorts of stuff goes down, and honestly I only remember half of it like a fever dream, but I remember really loving it in book five (?) when they get to meet the characters from stories Connor wrote. honestly, I probably read the entire series over fifty times, and that's not an exaggeration. first read them the year the third book came out, when I was nine. waiting for the rest was, I recall, absolute torture.

the Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. this is so funny to me, because these books basically set me up for my later teen years and loving the Folk of the Air series by Holly Black - but I digress. I first read these at age eight in a high-stress time of my life, and as a result they were likely deeply formative. they follow twins Jared and Simon (more twins ??) and their older sister Mallory (thinking back, she was absolutely part of my bi awakening). they move with their mother into the old Spiderwick mansion, and soon discover a fieldguide all about faeries and different fae species that live in the woods surrounding the house. I honestly think that the plot of these books is batshit, but I still sort of love them. there's a movie, but it's terrible, and aggressively condenses the plot into something completely unrecognizable.

Harry Potter, by... Harry Potter. isn't it great that, after his time at Hogwarts, he decided to write a seven-book autobiography?? so funky of him!! anyways - I read these at the ripe age of ten, and stuck by loving them since. HP was my first fandom, and maybe the one I'm fondest of (actually, thinking on this, no), and Hogwarts in general holds a lot of nostalgia for me. this being said, I still love the books, but I have to say that I reread them last year for the first time since I was maybe 14/15 and um. wow. Mr. Potter you are?? problematic??? someone please tell me why the adult man who was allowed to abuse children in a position of power for sixteen years got a redemption arc but the literal CHILD who was born into an abusive and power-hungry family didn't. also why is Dumbedore hailed as such a bloody saint?? he's worse than fucking Voldemort. I said what I said. also it's super confusing that Harry never mentioned in his autobiography that his Sirius and Remus were happily married and living at Grimmauld place. weird storytelling choice I guess!!

all those damned Warrior cats books by Erin Hunter. I swear to god these books had crack in them I ATE THEM UP from the ages of like. eight to eleven?? maybe??? genuinely, I must've reread them a hundred times, but I could tell you NOTHING about the plots. a few vibes, maybe, but zero plots. did they even have plots?? were plots a thing in those books??? how was I so obsessed with them???? funniest part is the fact that I see people talking about them on the internet now and it's just. insane. actually insane.

Lockwood and Co by Jonathan Stroud. full transparency: I read these for the first time at age eleven (around the time the fourth book out of five came out) and now remain an active member of the fandom. I love these books, and these characters, with my whole heart and I want nothing more than them to be happy. the Netflix show, though I have some pretty severe gripes with it, is still really amazing and absolutely deserves a second season. the books are set in London, where ghosts are real deeply dangerous, and follow the main trio of Lucy, Lockwood, and George. I reread them at the start of the year in preparation for the show, and they're genuinely just incredible works. I sobbed a lot reading them. they're absolutely comfort reads for me; 35 Portland Row is home.

wow. that was a lot. there's honestly several more I could talk about (School for Good and Evil, Percy Jackson, etc), but this is a long enough post for now, ha. love you all <3

#books #childhood books #childhood #childhood favorites #the land of stories #tlos #the spiderwick chronicles #holly black #harry potter #hp #warriors #warrior cats #lockwood and co #chaotic academia #dark academia

[liaaila]

Im asking mr stroud to please write more lw & co books.

[somecleverreference]

“Hi I’m a dark-haired white man named Jonathan and these are my dark-haired white boy OCs John/Nathaniel and Anthony John” sir?????

#jonathan stroud #bartimaeus trilogy #Nathaniel #John mandrake #lockwood and co #anthony lockwood #mr stroud I love you but please explore the rest of the alphabet

[chronomally]

Making a J. Stroud bingo card so far we have

Upper-class bastard child

12 year-old kills an old rich white man

Group of kids with pseudo-military training exhume a body/rob a grave

The body/grave is haunted

#please feel free to ignore this #I'm reading The Whispering Skull #I'm reading Lockwood & Co. #Mr. Stroud please explain these themes #I'm reading The Bartimaeus Trilogy

[blulula]

feel like absolute shit just want him* back

*skull in a jar

version without words:

#in the year 2020 i'm still hung up on the theory that the fortunes lucy got were about skull and not lockwood #like i love him!! #lockwood and co #lockwood&co #l&c #lucy carlyle #skull in a jar #l&c skull #mr. stroud please i just want to see my boy again #anna draws #my art

[jesuisgourde]

Please please please give me more Richey book recs! Especially with suicide as a theme, but if you know of any others, I would love to hear about them too! Thank you for being a fountain of a Manic knowledge and sharing it with us <3

Here's two lists! List one is stuff Richey definitely read, as in it's something he mentioned or referenced in lyrics/interviews/album booklet or setlist quotes/etc. List two is stuff that I can extrapolate he likely read, due to the things I know he did read. Note that a fair amount of these come with various trigger warnings. Again, I've read most but not all of these, so I can answer questions about a good number of them.

Oh, also, this totally slipped my mind from the last list somehow. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides was definitely a book Richey read; the Manics use a quote from the film version (which came out after Richey's death but they said in an interview they thought he'd have liked it) at the end of Doors Closing Slowly.

Definitely read: -Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger -American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis -The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides -The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart -1984 by George Orwell -Confessions Of A Mask by Yukio Mishima -The Plague, The Stranger, and The Fall, all by Albert Camus -A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams -Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus -The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche -The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau -Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan -The Divided Self by RD Laing -Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky -Novel With Cocaine by M Ageyev -Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald -Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse -Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry -Frisk by Dennis Cooper -Bartleby The Scrivener by Herman Melville -Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell -Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (which is what Apocalypse Now was based on, and the film was one of Richey’s major obsessions at the end of his life) -Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -Rumblefish by SE Hinton -Being And Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre -Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite -The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard -High Rise by JG Ballard -Birdy by William Wharton -The Trial by Franz Kafka -Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams -Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin -The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon -Lord of the Flies by William Golding -Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis -One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey -Birdy by William Wharton -Thirst For Love by Yukio Mishima -Miracle Of The Rose by Jean Genet -The Drowned And The Saved/So This Is A Man/Escape From Auschwitz, all by Primo Levi -The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank -Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr -The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe -Four Quartets by Hart Crane -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -The Pursuit Of Loneliness by Philip Slater -Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord -The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer -Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl -Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud -Dialectic Of Enlightenment and Minima Moralia by Theodore Adorno -The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan -One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn -The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell -Naomi by Junchiro Tanizaki -SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas -The Lives Of Michel Foucault by David Macey -Rethinking Camelot by Noam Chomsky -The Anxiety Of Influence by Harold Bloom -The Unrest Cure And Other Stories by Saki (HH Munro) -King Lear by William Shakespeare -Confessions by Saint Augustine -The Day Of The Locust by Nathaniel West -Tom Jones by Henry Fielding -Bird Man: The Many Faces Of Robert Stroud by Jolene Babyak -The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr -The Waste Land by TS Eliot -Songs Of Innocence And Experience by William Blake

Likely read: -The Outsiders by SE Hinton -Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury -Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (features a suicidal main-ish character) -Post Office by Charles Bukowski -The Prophet by Khalil Gibran -Knots by RD Laing -On The Road by Jack Keroauc -No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre -The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard -Junky & Naked Lunch, both by William S Burroughs -Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susanne -The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey -Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller -The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass -Austerlitz by WG Sebald -Betrayal by Harold Pinter -Invitation To A Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov -The Story Of O by Anne Desclos -Lucie’s Long Voyage by Alina Reyes -120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade -The Traitor by Andre Gorz -The Man Of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie -This Way To The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski -The White Rose by Inge Scholl -It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis -On Revolution by Hannah Arendt -Being There by Jerzy Kozinski -Heliogabalus: or, the Crowned Anarchist by Antonin Artaud -Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson -Mysteries by Knut Hamsun -We by Yevgeny Zamyatin -Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami -Venus In Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -How I Became One Of The Invisible by David Rattray -The Story Of The Eye by Georges Bataille -The Blue Of Noon by Georges Bataille

Also, there's a lot more of my ramblings and writings about the Manics on my other blog @meta-squash under the "manic street preachers" tag, if you're interested. (And I do love talking about them, and Richey especially.)

ETA: I went through all the (text) interviews of the Manics and wrote down every book they mentioned in interviews or lyrics and posted it up here.

#squash rambles #i've read about 80-85% of the books on these lists

[oswald-privileges]

thinking about the incredibly solid ending of the bartimaeus trilogy vs the bizarre misfire ending of lockwood and co.

mr stroud please i just want to talk

#did i bring my old bartimaeus books with me when i moved? i gotta check

[currypuff]

+tagged by @henriettia, thank you!! 💝💞💖

five favorite books:

the iliad ; homer

a tale of two cities ; charles dickens

the bartimaeus seq ; jonathan stroud

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe ; benjamin alire sáenz

the raven cycle ; maggie stiefvater

five favorite drinks:

tea

water

ribena

screwdrivers

lychee punch

five favorite songs (right now):

please don’t... ; k.will

tokyo love hotel ; rina sawayama

me and mrs. jones ; billy paul

it ain’t easy ; david bowie

pointless ; dune, crayon, ichon

five favorite quotes:

“a man takes his sadness to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river. a man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.” ; richard siken

“such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. but we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.” ; haruki murakami

“let everything happen to you. beauty and terror. just keep going. no feeling is final.” ; rainer maria rilke

“we were lied to. the women of my generation were told that we could have it all, as long as ‘it all’ was marriage, babies and a career in finance, a cupboard full of beautiful shoes and terminal exhaustion—and even that is only an option if we’re rich, white, straight, and well-behaved.” ; laurie penny

"i have never been allowed to be holy. i have never been forgiven for wanting.” ; gwen benaway

five favorite fictional characters:

declan lynch ; trc

annabeth chase ; pjo

hermione granger ; hp

henry winter ; tsh

inej ghafa ; soc

—tagging: @wymck @minyardx @daywymack @blueganzey @branstark @oceangods

#the quotes one was so difficult... #thank you!! #tagged

[slothssassin]

15 for sellia!

Thanks for the prompt!

15 - a letter to your OC from a companion they haven’t seen in a while

Pumpkin,

We haven’t seen each other for too long and it annoys me that I have so much to do in this city. On the other hand, it’s also a good feeling to actually change something here. Nevertheless, I could use a few days of vacation - didn't you write that you and Curly moved into a small house by the sea? Of course I would never invite myself, but if you ever miss me, I can drop everything and come by (I bet you'll laugh when you read this, I have to laugh too).

How’s Curly doing? I imagine he enjoyed seeing his sister and her family again. Even if they were probably more interested in his wife - a Dalish Elf even, how exciting! Anyways, I hope you all got along well and especially that you’re still happy as Mrs. Rutherford.

Have you heard from the others? I haven't had a lot of contact with anyone for some time, but what I heard from our charming Lady Nightingale - sorry, Divine Victoria - seemed quite positive to me. She's tackled a few good things. Sparkler and Tiny seem to be doing well too. Sparkler wrote me a letter a few weeks ago, said they'd taken some time off together. If you hear from the others, please let me know.

I still have a lot to do here in Kirkwall, but Marlow and Fenris are doing everything they can to help me. Still, I can see they're not really happy here, just doing an old friend a favour. Fenris in particular is quite restless. He doesn't talk much about his problems, but I can sense it. Marlow is a bit torn - she likes Kirkwall, but hasn't been here for a long time, and this freedom seems to have done her good. She's still looking for a way to get Stroud out of the fade. I really hope she succeeds, and I know you do too - Stroud was a good man is a good man, alright? I'm sure we'll find him sooner or later.I’ll stop with the  gloomy thoughts now. I didn't mean to remind you of that very chapter, I know you wanted to get away from it all for a while.

I hope we can meet again soon. Don’t you feel like stopping by? Though come to think of it, Kirkwall’s probably not Curly's favourite town. Maybe you should just invite me to stay with you for a few days, what do you think? (Totally not inviting myself, though, you know me)

Let me know how you’re doing and take care,

Varric

P.S. For a writer this letter wasn’t very poetic. Forgive me, I put all my energy into my last book. Cassandra will be pleased.

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #sellia lavellan #dai #inquisitor lavellan #my writing #Anonymous