[celebratelucychen]

Celebrate Chinese New Year and Black History Month! 💚❤️💛🐍

How this celebration event works:

This dual celebration runs from January 28th-February 28th

We will accept submissions for both Chinese New Year and Black History Month during this timeframe

You can create any fanworks including moodboards, art, fanfiction, gifs, poems, etc. and/or submit posts to @celebratelucychen to fill the prompts.

Whichever fanworks you want to do for the prompts is okay with us.

There is no pressure to complete a full bingo. Use whichever prompts inspire you!

A completed board comes with a prize at the end of the event!

Rules:

Please be respectful and DO NOT whitewash any people of color.

This is a fun and inclusive event. No bullying allowed.

If there’s something that’s not your cup of tea, skip it! 

Please please please tag all work as #yearofthelucy25 and/or #therookiebhm25 so everyone can see them and so that we can reblog them!

Prompts:

(Chinese New Year)

Year of the Snake

Red envelopes

A Lunar New Year Reunion Dinner … considered the most important meal of the entire year

New Beginnings: Sweeping the old, welcoming the new

Gong Xi Fa Cai … wishing someone a prosperous new year 

Lucy and Chief Coleman 

Orchids … symbolize fertility, purity, elegance, wealth, and abundance

(Black History Month)

Resilience (ex. overcoming Doug Stanton)

Continuing, establishing, and/or redefining legacy

The West family 

African Americans and Labor … this year’s official Black History Month theme

Jayla: where community meets policing

Missing scene: Wade eulogizes Jackson

(Either/Both)

Lucy setting out offerings for Jackson for the new year 

Grecy (Grey + Lucy): fatherly mentorship or bonding over culture 

Get creative ... There are endless prompts that could fill these squares. Is there something tied to these themes that inspires you to create? This box is your blank canvas—anything related to one or both of our themes can go here!

Q&A’s

Is this one or two events?

Instead of hosting two separate events that overlap, we are hosting one event with two parts. This event encompasses the duration of Chinese New Year (Jan 28th-Feb 12) and Black History Month (month of Feb). We are accepting fan creations for both parts of this event from January 28th-February 28th.

What is Black History Month?

Black History Month recognizes and celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans throughout history, highlighting their significant impact on American culture and progress.

What’s the difference between Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year?

“Chinese New Year” specifically refers to how the holiday is celebrated in Lucy’s culture while “Lunar New Year” is a broader term that encompasses the holiday across different Asian cultures.

Any other Questions? Please don’t hesitate to send us a message.

Please reblog to help spread the word!

[celebratelucychen]

Attention Fanfic Writers!

We now have a Chinese New Year/Black History Month Collection on AO3. If you have or encounter fanfics that fit our theme, feel free to add them here:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/TheRookieCNYBHM25/profile

[angelbutterfly-writes]

Family... More Than Just Blood

"Do you want to come in for a while?" Her gaze rises to meet his, finding a softness she hasn't seen in a long time. "Celina's out with some friends and I don't want to be alone right now."

"Yea." He places a gentle hand on her back, and she unlocks the door. It's not a second later that she lands with a soft thud, not expecting to be met with scampering paws.

"Kojo." She greets excitedly, patting the mutt as she struggles to get up between his slobbering.

"Heel, boy." Tim tries, but it falls on deaf ears, much to the amusement of the rest of the room's occupants. "Kojo, sit!"

"Tim's losing his touch." He hears Angela snicker as she leads Jack and Leah over to them, baby Emma still strapped to her front.

Helping her up, Lucy's barely caught her breath when she's face to face with the two small voices.

"Gong Xi Fa Cai!" The pair chorus, grinning from ear to ear. "Hong bao na lai. Mei you hong bao-"

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A mini fic about celebrating Chinese New Year... Happy Chinese New Year!!!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[celebratelucychen]

Our Chinese New Year and Black History Month celebration event is LIVE! 💚❤️💛🐍

Please reblog to help spread the word!

How this works:

This dual celebration runs from January 28th-February 28th

We will accept submissions for both Chinese New Year and Black History Month during this timeframe

You can create any fanworks including moodboards, art, fanfiction, gifs, poems, etc. and/or submit posts to @celebratelucychen to fill the prompts.

Whichever fanworks you want to do for the prompts is okay with us.

There is no pressure to complete a full bingo. Use whichever prompts inspire you!

A completed board comes with a prize at the end of the event!

Rules:

Please be respectful and DO NOT whitewash any people of color.

This is a fun and inclusive event. No bullying allowed.

If there’s something that’s not your cup of tea, skip it! 

Please please please tag all work as #yearofthelucy25 and/or #therookiebhm25 so everyone can see them and so that we can reblog them!

Prompts:

(Chinese New Year)

Year of the Snake

Red envelopes

A Lunar New Year Reunion Dinner … considered the most important meal of the entire year

New Beginnings: Sweeping the old, welcoming the new

Gong Xi Fa Cai … wishing someone a prosperous new year 

Lucy and Chief Coleman 

Orchids … symbolize fertility, purity, elegance, wealth, and abundance

(Black History Month)

Resilience (ex. overcoming Doug Stanton)

Continuing, establishing, and/or redefining legacy

The West family 

African Americans and Labor … this year’s official Black History Month theme

Jayla: where community meets policing

Missing scene: Wade eulogizes Jackson

(Either/Both)

Lucy setting out offerings for Jackson for the new year 

Grecy (Grey + Lucy): fatherly mentorship or bonding over culture 

Get creative ... There are endless prompts that could fill these squares. Is there something tied to these themes that inspires you to create? This box is your blank canvas—anything related to one or both of our themes can go here!

Q&A’s

Is this one or two events?

Instead of hosting two separate events that overlap, we are hosting one event with two parts. This event encompasses the duration of Chinese New Year (Jan 28th-Feb 12) and Black History Month (month of Feb). We are accepting fan creations for both parts of this event from January 28th-February 28th.

What is Black History Month?

Black History Month recognizes and celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans throughout history, highlighting their significant impact on American culture and progress.

What’s the difference between Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year?

“Chinese New Year” specifically refers to how the holiday is celebrated in Lucy’s culture while “Lunar New Year” is a broader term that encompasses the holiday across different Asian cultures.

Any other Questions? Please don’t hesitate to send us a message.

[celebratelucychen]

We’re back with another teaser for our Chinese New Year 🧧 and Black History Month ✊🏾 celebration event!

African Americans and Labor, the official Black History Month theme for 2025, will join our previously announced prompts: The Year of the Snake 🐍 and Legacy.

Stay tuned—the full list is coming soon!

[celebratelucychen]

Calling All Fans of The Rookie! 📢📢

With Chinese New Year 🧧 and Black History Month ✊🏾 right around the corner, we’re thrilled to announce celebration events for BOTH!

We'll be back soon with more details but in the meantime, get those creative juices flowing for all things Year of the Snake and Legacy! All fan creations are welcome.

PS: Send us an Ask (or two) with your prompt suggestions and we might just include them!

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[celebratelucychen]

Melissa O'Neil teasing Chenford at the Asian American Awards.

[nettyharp]

People are usually quick to post new Mel content. They go gaga when she’s glammed up on the red carpet. It’s quite surprising that her attendance at Unforgettable: The 22nd Annual Asian American Awards last weekend has gotten no mention on Tumblr 🤔

Feeling profoundly inspired by all the API excellence I had the joy of witnessing the other night. Thank you to @unforgettablegala and @amazonmgmstudios for the lovely evening. Nights out like this are very much out of my comfort zone so I’m sending out a massive love to my hair and makeup artists, Judy Yonemoto @jyomakeup and Ai Nakata @ainifer. Those ladies are working so hard on @therookieabc and they took care of me on their day off. 🥹 🎐 in his acceptance speech @prabalgurung said, “nights like this are a sanctuary.” Beautifully put. Whole-heartedly agree. -Melissa O'Neil

[deadlydelicious]

my kingdom to see Lucy speaking more Cantonese in season 7

[celebratelucychen]

It's not a want, it's a NEED!!!!! 💛

[lyristartist]

Chenford ❤️🌟

[celebratelucychen]

💛 Attention Fanfic Writers! 💛

We now have a 💛 Celebrating Lucy Chen 💛 Collection on AO3. If you have or encounter fanfics that fit our theme, feel free to add them! 💛

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Let's get a cool library of works going that celebrate Lucy's heritage 💛

[no-quit-lucy]

Strongly believe Tim and Lucy are both year of the Goat (makes Gerald reference 1000x better) Tim being born January 1980 (Capricorn) and Lucy sometime in 1991. I haven’t nailed down her sign yet but I want to say Pisces/Aries cusp.

At first glance, goat doesn’t seem to fit Tim very well but if you take into account he would be an earth goat, it makes it fit a little better. Lucy is definitely a gold goat to a T.

Does anyone else have headcanons/thoughts/arguments??

[celebratelucychen]

This is all kinds of BRILLIANT!

Chinese New Year occurred in mid-Feb 1980 so Tim being a Capricorn would've still made him a Goat. This explains why Chenford shares the same sign even though they're not 12 years apart. Meleric are both dragons and I LOVE the idea of Chenford sharing the same sign too.

They're both G.O.A.T.S. alongside GERALD!!!!!!!! 🐐❤️

I found this online about Tim Bradford Earth Goats: They may have a tendency to stubbornness and pessimism. Yep, checks out 😂

[celebratelucychen]

Been seeing some gifs from this IG story but they didn’t capture Mel exclaiming very loudly and clearly to Eric, ‘WHERE ARE MY CHOPSTICKS?!’ I thought her comment was cute, chopsticks are a huge part of her culture, and this was one of the main parts of Meleric's exchange, so I thought it important that this doesn't get left out of the caption. Culture is cool and it's cool to see them both engaging with it and talking about it. 🥢

Soooo I made my own gif. With chopsticks. It's the first gif I ever made and I made two versions. Feel free to use :)

[celebratelucychen]

While I doubt we’ll ever see this, I’d love to see Lucy celebrating Chinese New Year. Or gifting red pockets. It would have been such a small but lovely thing to see a red envelope tucked away in Lucy’s many gift baskets, like the one she gave with homemade lactation cookies for the birth of Jackson.

Hi there, lovely! Thanks for your message! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

That is such a beautiful idea! I thought it was such a sweet gesture for Mel to gift red envelopes her to castmates on Chinese New Year. I definitely wish that art would imitate life and that we'd see this through Lucy ... an envelope in a gift basket among other items is such a small thing but even this would make a world of symbolic difference. Red envelopes aren't just limited to a certain holiday either! It would show us that the props department actually get who Lucy is. Lunar New Year is one of those holidays that, it doesn't matter if your family's been American for ten days or ten generations ... if you're East Asian, it's acknowledged and observed. So yeah, I def think that Lucy would!

An idea I had that was inspired by your comment is Lucy and Tim checking on a Chinese New Year celebration because Karen called in a noise complaint. Lucy would be so giddy about the celebration while telling Karen off as Tim slips into his annoyed TO persona (but secretly loving her giddiness). It wouldn't exactly be Lucy celebrating but it does keep the patrol aspect of the show. Or Alexi could just straight up write a scene where she celebrates it. Maybe take out a Bailan scene so that Lucy gets her flowers. I def think that Aaron and Celina would be all in with that ... Celina would love the superstitions surrounding the holiday and Aaron would have connections and could get everyone a table at a fancy Chinese restaurant up in some skyscraper in LA.

Lucy as a child would've gotten red envelopes from family members. I can imagine her being excited about Chinese New Year every year. I read yesterday that parents place red envelopes underneath their childrens' pillows as a symbol of protection and I do imagine that Lucy's parents or her grandparents would've done the same for her. Maybe even her Aunt Amy. I think that Lucy would carry on this tradition for her Chenford kids as well ... and when she shares about it with Tim, he'd relish in another opportunity to be a fierce protector for his kids 😂. He'd probably even start putting red envelopes underneath Lucy's pillow!

[sailorscout]

Not Mel wearing her hair in a bun with some chopstick/hair sticks in it to the Disney Upfront thing 🙂‍↕️ a small little cultural nod during this AAPI month!!

[summerongrand]

It's Lucy Chen's first Mother's Day.

In the soft morning light filtering through the curtains, Tim bustled quietly in the kitchen, his heart brimming with anticipation. Expertly eyeballing ingredients into a large bowl, he prepared a breakfast fit for a hotshot: fluffy blueberry matcha pancakes with fresh berries, and decaf chai.

As he arranged the breakfast tray with care, Tim couldn't help but reflect on the journey that had led them here. Lucy and he had weathered unimaginable losses, yet emerged stronger. And now, as they awaited the arrival of their daughter, their hearts overflowed with gratitude for the miracle of new life. Neither had really dared to entertain the idea of parenthood until now.

Lucy's choice of their daughter's first and middle name, a tribute to a resilient little girl who had touched her heart at work, and a nod to her beloved grandmother Anna, spoke symbolic volumes of the strength that she wanted to instill in her daughter.

When Tim first met Anna, it all clicked for him. He knew exactly where his Boot got her tenacity from. Over time, Lucy shared with him that Anna gave her the confidence to stand up to bullies who made fun of her for being Chinese and supported her as she became a cop even as Vanessa had hesitations. Tim was at first a little intimidated by Anna because she's tough, loves fiercely, and could've whipped Tom Bradford into shape, according to his wife. He also has an immense appreciation for Anna, for all the adversity that she had to go through and overcome, to create a better world for people like his wife and their future kids - his family.

As he made a smiley face out of strawberries and bananas for Lucy's pancake, his phone lit up with a text from Anna:

I couldn't have asked for a better dad for my great-granddaughter.

With breakfast ready and a smile tugging at his lips thanks to his grandma-in-law, Tim made his way to their bedroom, where Lucy lay snuggled under the covers, still asleep. He gently woke her with a kiss and set her breakfast tray on her nightstand.

"Happy Mother's Day, Lucy."

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+1: here's an AI-generated photo of a Chenford baby using actual photos of Tim and Lucy.

[sailorscout]

saw u had girl dad! tim inspo, what abt a him taking her to a daddy/daughter dance??

Now here’s the thing, the whole time leading up to the dance, Tim is a little uncomfortable with the whole thing. The thought of spending a whole evening with a bunch of middle aged dads and their tiny princesses? Not his ideal Saturday evening. But Jade is so excited. She hasn’t shut up about it since she found out what a daddy daughter dance *was*.

“Me and my daddy are going to a special dinner this weekend!” She’s told just about everyone.

“We’re going to wear fancy clothes like in mommy and daddy’s wedding pictures!”

The night of, Lucy teases him as he fidgets with the suit jacket.

“I can’t believe I’m wearing a tux to hang out with 20 5 year olds…”

“Yes but think about how excited *your* 5 year old is about this! She’s been so mad at us for not inviting her to our ‘fancy party’ for years.”

Tim softens a bit at that. Jade loved his and Lucy’s wedding photos, and threw a fit when she found out she hadn’t been invited—even though she wouldn’t be born for another year or so.

“And she looks *super* cute.” It’s as if the word ‘cute’ spawns the girl.

“Daddy!! Look at me in my dress!” Jade twirls around in her qipao inspired toddler dress; it was in a light blue with navy blossoms covering it. A matching blue to his tie. He smiled; he couldn’t help it. She did look super cute. Like someone put Lucy in the dryer.

“Ooh! Okay let me get a picture!” Lucy pushes them in front of the fireplace, the wedding picture above them.

Tim picks Jade up, and presses a raspberry to her cheek and she squeals, “you look beautiful, Bug.”

“Thank you daddy!” Jade giggles.

Lucy snaps a few pictures before Tim insists it’s time to leave, but Jade insists herself on seeing one of the pictures.

She gasps. “LOOK!” She points at the last one taken. Then she points to the picture above the hearth.

“Just like Mama and Daddy.”