Helsie Moon

[helsiemoon]

It's mid-febuary, but since I haven't taken down my Christmas decorations yet it's surely not too late to share my gingerbread build for last year? 😆 It's inspired by old london bridge and somewhat less ambitious than my usual builds, but still turned out quite cute. I especially enjoyed making the market out of sugarpaste 😊

I should probably take down my chistmas decor now...

[pianapplez]

Okay so i watched Lockwood and Co. maybe a month ago, read the books, and now i'm rewatching the show for funsies, just finished the second episode, and it got me thinking a bit. There Will be spoilers for the books so beware:

That one guy from the Jacobs agency that was a "conspiracy theorist" was a really nice touch and they do acknowledge from the start that the problem gets worse no matter the agencies efforts (mmh) great forshadowing for the latter seasons, if only they HADN'T CANCELLED IT

For some reason they switch Lockwood and Lucy's dialogue, since in the book he's the one that goes "adults just get in the way" (cheeky), and Lucy very politely explains their reasoning for not having a supervisor. They also skip Lucy reprimanding Lockwood and warning him not to imitate their clients (at least while they can hear him) "You know I have an excelent ear for accents. I copy people without thinking" Idk I really wish they would have kept that childish side to him. He Is a teenage boy after all and has been unsupervised for god knows how long.

I think it would've been smarter if they'd kept the order of the objects presented as in the books: George's toothbrush cup first. Clever way to get rid of the phonies real fast.

Love that they kept a lot of the dialogues (and scenes) the same. George and Lucy's couch exchange, Lucy and Lockwood talking in the library, the library scene with Kipps, although I wish they'd've kept George's lines. He really liked to get under people's skin since day one. Sad that the actor they chose for Kipps wasn't shorter than them because they could've kept so many more lines.

Something I don't think i ever quite understood is how the Problem (a Thing only on England as far as I'm aware) affected technology development. I know, alternate universe, whatever, but around the sixties TVs and phones were already a thing, and mobile phones were developed not long after. George could at least call them with more info about jobs they're about to get into But it wouldn't be much fun then, would it?

I would have Loved! If they had at least some scenes in complete darkness. I know everyone complains about shows being too dark nowadays but an emphasis on the fact that their Talents work better in complete darkness would've been nice instead of using flashlights all the time. Like just a little scene where they wait a bit until their eyes adjust to the dark, idk.

I also would like it if the actors didn't mumble so much 😭 could barely understand a thing without subtitles.

Lucy's shitty relationship with her mom and lack of sisters got me thinking how they would've gone about the whole Holly thing because i doubt she would've willingly gone back unless it had to do with her mom dying or something Norrie related (although i read somewhere that Norrie was going to be experimented on by Rotwell ? mmh)

Nothing more i can think of for now but i might update this as i keep watching it :P

[helsiemoon]

In regards to the technology, I like to think there are some stirrings of ghosts in other countries, just more isolated. Orpheus society could have international cells, for example.

But, even if that isn't the case, discovering that ghosts are real and can kill people would almost certainly disrupt societies outside uk too. They would probably at least partly pivot to protecting themselves against ghosts, in case it comes to them too. Computers existed in the 60:s, yes, but personal computers weren't common until the 80:s. Before that it was mostly mainframes and workstations, and there is no reason to think companies and universities don't have those in l&co. Carphones might exist too (it's not like the teens we follow would ever use them), but mobiles only became common once there was good infrastructure for them. The biggest predecessor to the internet was arpanet, which was military, and as such ties into the cold war. How would that change with the discovery of ghosts? I imagine quite a lot.

I aslo think there are some hints that ghosts disrupt modern technology in the books, but I could be wrong. Either way, uk must be a poor country in this au, and likely behind the rest of the world. I usually imagine usa and similar countries (like my home sweden) as roughly 80:s level and uk on a 70:s level, but that's just my personal headcanon 😉

Anyway, the real reson is obviously just because stroud felt like it lol. I work as a web programmer and have written fanfiction for l&co, so i've spent *a bit* too much time thinking about this part of the lore 😆

(Also, the "why is penelope daughter instead of grandaughter in the show" from another post is probably just to simplify. Tv shows have less time for exposition)

[leftontheforestfloor]

Mr. Stroud could easily have gone down the Nathaniel route for Lockwood, like, it'd be too easy to kill off another boy wonder in another explosion, leaving a bereaved Lucy to look for hope as the Skull also disappears and the company falls to her, George and, Holly to manage

But he didn't. Mr. Stroud decided that the poor boy who's learned to hope and have new friends, who's learned that someone is waiting for him when he leaves home for work, that he's got friends who cares for his wellbeing, that they do return to his side when they do leave... gets to live

[helsiemoon]

Lockwood dying doesn't really work with his character arc. He has survivor's guilt, keeps people at a remove and doesn't really plan to survive. His arc has him opening up, choosing life and moving on with his new family. His childhood home getting destroyed and rebuilt as something new is kind of symbolic. If he died, the message would be much darker. No moving on, the broken boy had it right. I love his ending so much. ❤️

Now nathaniel i don't know as well, so I might get this wrong. I remember him as being part of the problem in the books, or at least moving towards being part if it. His vanity and desire for power seduced him to it, so his dilemma is about chosing power or empathy. In the end he is selfless, so his death can work as a cumination of that arc. It't horrible of course (and death as redemption always feels a bit cheap to me), but it doesn't ruin his arc. Lockwood in book one would have sacrificed himself for others, nathaniel in book one maybe not. 🤷‍♀️

[ravenjulien]

In honor of completing the reading of all books

[lunyselene-art]

the l&co gang as some kind of... video game sprites?

[helsiemoon]

Oxventure tapestry part 3/3

The skellies called forth from the magic hammer are very helpful. Surely that will last.

Embroidery in the style of the Bayeux tapestry for the og Oxventure dnd actual play series. Specifically the Stop Hammer Time episode.

Size is about 35x65cm, wool thread on linen cloth, stem stitch for borders and bayeux style laid work for the rest. 🙂

[helsiemoon]

Bumble tapestry part 2/3

Retrieving Aethelfrith's Hammer

Oxventure dnd embroidery in the style of the bayeux tapestry. About 35x65cm, wool thread on linen cloth, stem stitch for borders and bayeux style laid work for the rest.

[helsiemoon]

Bumble tapestry, part 1/3

This is more old fanart from me, previously not on tumblr.

The bumble tapestry is a dnd embriodery somewhat in the style of the bayeux tapestry, telling the story of the oxventure episode "Stop Hammer Time". That's the wishmaster skellies and unfortunate orphans 😉 I've made three parts, so basically everything that happenes before it all goes badly wrong.

Size about 35x65cm, wool thread on linen cloth. Stitches are stem stitches for outlines and laid work (the bayeux stich) for the rest. All my own design of course 🙂

[helsiemoon]

I found my old oxventure fanart in a book. This will always be my personal favourite 😆

[ev1lw1zard]

me n my killers

[helsiemoon]

2021's gingerbread build was the Crow Club from Six of Crows. 😁

By my standard this is a pretty simple build. It's just two houses (see my page for this year's big tree with houses in it for a comparison lol). Next to the sugarpaste Crows it's also populated by some DnD figurines from a build from a previous year. Let's just pretend they're masked revellers. 😉

[poolseason]

i like the idea of Lucy being the "author" of the Lockwood&Co books. after her talent fades she decides to be a writer. cue the team reading through her manuscripts like "wow Lucy you really hated us back then, huh?"

[helsiemoon]

The one I always think about is the poor team she's with at the start of creeping shadow lol. I really hope she cleared it with them before publication 😆

[mo-racca]

I was in the middle of a very intriguing l&co fanfic when AO3 went down for maintenance, so enjoy this doodle I made based on the fanfic while I wait for AO3 to come back up

Context: in the fic, l&co end up the owners of two kittens: a tabby and a tuxedo. George comments that the tuxedo looks like Lockwood and the tabby looks like Lucy. Collectively, they refer to the kittens as “the nightwatch”. The fic is actually not about the cats at all, and they barely show up, I just think they’re cute.

The fic is “The Fractured Face” by HelsieMoon on AO3

[helsiemoon]

Aw it's from my fic! 🥰 I edit my stuff so much that keeping the kittens was a pure indulgence 😁 like, the story doesn't need them but I really wanted to keep them.

No regrets 😁

[helsiemoon]

My gingerbreadproject from 2022. It doesn't really have any fandom connection so I doubt it will get much traction on tumblr, but it's pretty cool 😊

[helsiemoon]

Gingerbread project 2023.

I'm adding my yearly gingerbreadbuilds to tumblr, and 2023 it was Lockwood & co themed. It's a British style haunted Georgian mansion with tiny l&c sugarpaste figurines.

It's not as fancy as the tree I made this year, but the windows gave me so much trouble. The caramel kept slowly melting and I'm too much of a perfectionst to let that be. Anyway, enjoy this spooky bake 😊

[helsiemoon]

Like my first in 2019, my gingerbread build for 2024 is once again Oxenture themed. That one was a ship, this is a tree. Kind of. It's supposed to be the tree city from the excellent new oxventure wyrdwood campaign. Now, it did end up more of an overconfident tree house, so let's just call it lightly inspired 😉

I genuinely didn't even know if this one would be possible. The amazing power of subbomness 😆