[vryfmi]

another thing that i really like about Stroud's writing and especially his writing of L&Co characters is that all of them have polarising traits. not just with each other, but with themselves.

Lucy is empathetic but mean-spirited

Lockwood is selfless but selfish

George is confident/stubborn but indecisive

Holly is collected by chaotic

Kipps is commanding but in need of guidance or a figure/cause to follow

Skull is manipulative but is a servant (and youthful but dead)

[ablueberrysky]

re-reading the wicked king and Jude the whole time is just:

plot plot plot plot plot scheme plot plot plot plot scheme some more scheming plot plot plot he sucks so much (oh no he’s actually good at this) plot plot betray scheme plot plot plot plot plot plot plot plot it hate him ugh gross (most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen) plot scheme plot plot plot plot plot plot plot plot plot oh I got shot plot plot plot plot betray plot plot plot plot well guess I’m underwater plot plot plot plot plot plot plot plot plot plot scheme sure I’ll be queen (screams internally) plot plo- wait THAT ASSHO-

I love her so much

[silverfeatheredserpent]

Okay, it was long and painstaking, but it was worth it I think I need to pick up a pencil brush more often

[nellectronic]

ultimately i do think that the real horror of lockwood & co is not the ghosts or the relic men or the people who caused the Problem for their own personal gain but the way society treats children

[ablueberrysky]

yes, and it is a main theme in basically ALL of strouds books! These amazing, capable kids are put into terrible situations and exploited by the adults in their lives.

- Thinking along the lines of the (1) child agents, (2) what happened to Nathanial in the bart series, and then you have (3) the telekinetic kids in the other series (ie. Albert and Mallory).

They have to use their wits to survive and find other like-minded people to support them - and then basically take down the corrupt systems that did this to them in the first place ….

wait ya…. That’s literally all three of his series 🤣.

[nerd-in-distress]

THIS ISNT REAL

[ablueberrysky]

HUHUHHHHHHHH?????? WHATTTT????? HUHHH? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN???

[hapalopus]

Do you ever think about how all the third person chapters are narrated by Bart after he absorbed Nat's memories, that Bart chooses what to highlight for us, and that this the very first moment of Nathaniel's life that he highlights for us?

Just... man... between this and Kitty and Ptol, the affection and protectiveness Bart has for children is one of my favorite character traits of his, even if he'd deny it and probably say something about how he eats children for breakfast.

[theloverislost]

gods i love the scarlett and browne series. i just finished the last book today in class (bad idea; i felt the need to scream and punch a wall and laugh maniacally but unfortunately i was in public) and i will never get over the writing of this series. it unlocked new emotions for me that i didn’t even know existed and don’t know how to name. the book felt…almost haunting, at some points? it gave me the sense that i was watching two characters reshape a tragedy with their bare hands so they could have a happy ending.

[paranormal-taters]

i love Scarlett and Albert so much because you could spend forever trying to figure out whether they're strictly platonic or not but they blur the lines so well that by the end of the series you're just like. these two people care about each other so much. in what way? who knows :) and it just doesn't even matter. because any box you put them in immediately cheapens their beautifully complex dynamic that, at its core, is full to the brim with love.

[justjudethoughts]

Lockwood and Co + textposts

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

If I’m being honest I think part of the attraction to Lockwood is the fact that he’s so in love with Lucy even though she’s such an accurately written female character. A female character, who may I add has had affection be based on usefulness her whole life. Yes, she’s a brat, she can be unnecessarily mean just as a default. She’s sickeningly jealous of Holly, not only because she feels replaced and all the complex emotions that come with that, especially with her background, but also because she thinks Lockwood has a crush on Holly and that makes Lucy hate her. She goes off to live on her own and fails phenomenally, she eats burgers and has complexion that says so, her house is messy and not in an aesthetic way. She swings from being incredibly confident in herself to spiraling in self doubt. She makes mistakes, she can’t leave well enough alone. She is nothing like any of the perfectly imperfect female characters we see so much of. I think the real allure of Lockwood is the way he would live and die for a girl who may seem as unlovable as we often feel.

[jc-writes-bullshit]

Has anyone done these yet

[yeonggisbitch]

the funny thing is nora didn’t say shit about love letters, but that’s just where shin-ae’s mind went. #interesting

[insignificant457]

genuinely i feel so bad for obiteum vis though. like he is running around that poison nightmare, only ever half dressed at best, and he is getting. shit. done. he is the only one in the group project pulling his weight. he’s getting speared through the chest, he has to DANCE, he’s drowning in an acid river, he’s busting through the walls of duat like jack torrance. and then when he’s like hell yeah i smashed it i stopped the bad guy you’re WELCOME everybody’s like. look at this. you fucked up a perfectly good cataclysm is what you did.

[insignificant457]

[insignificant457]

all of the people from the academy when vis shows up: oh my god vis is here! look everybody it’s vis we love him. hi vis!!!

random farming family and a band of child warriors in luceum: this is daeglan we love him he’s orange. he wandered in here one day and we don’t totally know where’s he’s from but he’s ours now.

vis and netiqret in obiteum:

[shxpeshifterr]

[readingpastdark]

me reading the raven scholar and connecting the dots in my head...