An old soul harboring modern ghosts.

Lucienne 🫧 she/her 🫧 30s ceramic artist and enjoyer of various media in a totally normal manner

[fleurdelucienne]

Lucienne

she/her ❦ 30s ❦ potter, writer, purveyor of fine irreverence

❧ Pottery. My ceramic art and my artistic process. ❧ Writing. MASTERLIST. [Ao3 link] ❧ Fandom ramblings. Mostly analysis and aimless musings.

If you want to browse any of my ceramic art, I’m inspired by: ❧ Red Dead Redemption 2 ❧ Cyberpunk 2077 ❧ Kingdom Come Deliverance ❧ General science fiction and fantasy, and lots of miscellaneous nerd stuff.

My inbox is always open and I LOVE to yap about almost anything - writing, pottery, fandom stuff, etc.! And, if you see a ceramic piece I’ve posted and wonder whether I’ll be selling that particular piece or any like it, please ask!

https://lucienneceramics.etsy.com

P.S. If you love the fandom stuff, but don’t care to see any pottery content, feel free to block or mute #pottery since I’ll always include that on those posts! And vice-versa you can block #fleurderamblienne if you love pottery but not my fandom ramblings. [Divider by @/saradika-graphics]

[lacnunga]

There are some characters where giving them therapy and cleaning them up is the fanfiction equivalent of buying antique furniture and painting it white

[monstergili]

[fleurdelucienne]

Feeling immeasurably touched and absurdly honored to see that this piece from my most recent batch of Arthur’s Journal mugs/cups was the artwork that @gordonfreemanreal had Roger Clark sign when meeting him at a recent con!

Thank you so much for sending this pic my way (and being okay with me sharing it). 🤍 I’m still in shock every time I look at it… 🤯

[gunslinginggoblin]

💭

[mossy-cobble]

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell

[mossy-cobble]

i'll always be here

[spice-ghouls]

[ID: The Norman Rockwell painting "Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party", where a young girl looks down from the top step of a staircase at a busy, bright Christmas party in the room below. End ID]

[fleurdelucienne]

bro you got me thinking about Arthur shooting Barry and I need to talk about how distraught sweet Mary would be if he did that 😭 she already wanted Arthur out of the murderous outlaw lifestyle and was leaving him because of his refusal to change, if he then went off and murdered her FIANCE? regardless of whether she actually liked/loved Barry or not, I can only imagine the devastation. the GUILT. the self blame. the angry? my poor angel Mary 😭

Listen, dear anon. My unhinged hypotheticals/AUs aside, I am so with you! 😭 I think you're SO right that she would blame herself, knowing her involvement with Arthur is what led to Barry's death. Her own guilt combined with the deep sense of anger and betrayal would be beyond devastating. She, like Arthur, is shown to turn in on herself ("I have made such a mess of my life, time and again. Why can I not change and be the woman I want to be?"), so the way such a violent end to Barry's life would impact her sense of self, her trust of her own choices, and even her sense of safety? 🥺 I truly can barely imagine. And honestly can only follow the hypothetical so far because it makes my heart hurt... 😔

For a woman who faced her fair share of tragedy in life (her mother's death; her father's descent into alcoholism, gambling addiction, and abusive behavior; the relationship with Arthur falling apart; Barry's death in canon from pneumonia), the last thing I would actually wish upon her is more heartbreak. She is my queen! 💕 I also believe, realistically, that Arthur isn't prone to the type of vindictiveness/possessiveness that would ever truly push him to do such a thing. Dutch, on the other hand... 😒

On a more canonical note, I have always felt one of the most beautiful aspects of Arthur and Mary's relationship is how deeply she must've trusted him. Not only regarding her physical safety, but emotionally, too. I believe she always saw the good man at Arthur's core and was one of only a few people who wanted more for him than the life he insisted on living. To ask for his help after all those years, after things between them ended badly? I think it shows not a woman looking to take advantage of a man, but a woman in a vulnerable position turning to someone she knew she could trust. I think that's what makes the "Arthur kills Barry" scenario especially unfathomable—I do believe that trust meant something to Arthur, as did what she always saw in him.

[fleurdelucienne]

It’d be so out of character and also an unfathomably Low Honor™️ move, but sometimes I just imagine Arthur losing his shit and shooting Barry Linton in the head when he finds out about him and Mary.

[frownyalfred]

me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you

[newskyillusion]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who hasn’t updated anything in four years: I think about you often and I hope you’re alright

[azrielgreen]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who wrote one life altering banger and nothing else: I hope your pillow is cool and your skin is clear and you find money in a forgotten jeans pocket

[jezebelgoldstone]

me, whispering to every single person on this post: please leave one singular comment saying literally any of that

[fleurdelucienne]

That feeling when the tag for a character you adore is rife with hate posts, criticism, and wild takes reeking of not-so-thinly-veiled misogyny like…damn. I feel like I just came back from the war wtf.

[fleurdelucienne]

I asked my brother recently what he names his horses in rdr2, thinking how a lot of people love a theme or re-use favorite names—I usually go with historical/mythological women warriors, figures from Greek mythology, or after one of my dogs, for example.

His answer?

“Either ‘Derek’ or ‘Cool Nathan,’ usually.”

…I think I’ve been naming my horses all wrong.

[haleyincarnate]

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[fleurdelucienne]

I watched so many videos on cattle handling as research for the rustling sequence in the most recent chapter of my longfic that all my youtube ads are now for farm equipment, ranching supplies, and pressure washers.

[sirellas]

the most beautiful woman you've ever seen was a series regular on a bad sci-fi show from 20-40 years ago

[justsayfkit]

forgive me father for i am back on my bullshit

[beacon-lamp]

hello beloveds ☺️

[iceslushii]

made an alternate version for the mutuals ive never spoken to

[thetreeofliberty]

You are appreciated

[4ngel-v4mppp]

all the hate on Mary/Abigail isn’t bc they’re ‘annoying’. They want their love interests to stop doing stupid dangerous shit and settle down and make a life, what’s wrong with that exactly????? stop hating on them bc they’re women and go away

[ghouljams]

holding you by the hands: you know that the "you" in a 2nd person pov isn't literally you right? you know that even in a "reader insert" story it is still a character, right? you recognize that because they are not actually you they may make choices different from the one that you would make for the sake fo the story, right? you know that? you know that the only "you" that exists in the context of the story is the you that is reading it? right?