LucidLucy

I write things down and put them on the internet. AO3: lucidlucy • HP acct: @xeline • Twitter: lucidlucywrites

[lucidlucy]

Given the current on-going issues with fandom works being monetized by unsavory people against the wishes of creators, and fan bindings being sold, please note that all my work will no longer be available to the public (people without AO3 accounts), and I am no longer giving permission for my work to be bound. While I may not own SW or HP intellectual property, I am the owner of the words and sentences I strung together for the benefit of fandom and request that these boundaries be respected.

I will not be pulling my works, but have no qualms in doing so if I start seeing people being shady and going against the above.

[lucidlucy]

Hi!

I feel like, a few years ago, I listened to a wonderful recording of your fic A Proposal by Any Other Name. I can’t remember who it recorded it and thought maybe you would know? Unless you hadn’t approved it to be read aloud. Idk. I just know that I loved listening to it on the way to and from work. I hope that your days are all that you need them to be 🖤

Take care, Natalie

It was recorded by the beautiful peeps at ELT Echo!

I don’t have the link on me but I believe it’s on spotify?? Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit

[strange-aeons]

(thanksgiving turkey meme) idk who needs to hear this but (you all do, it's important) the 20th anniversary of the publication of my immortal is March 6th 2026

[dogpuppy]

[botan]

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon ‘美少女戦士セーラームーン’ - Original Picture Collection, Vol. IV

[klodwig]

Stalker

[lucidlucy]

Well…

I’m alive. Sorta. Kinda. Life’s been beating my ass for over a year+ but I miss this space, and having something just for me, somewhere to be creative, outside the craziness… so.. hi, friends.

I wanted to thank every person leaving me comments or notes both on AO3 and here wishing me well and hoping I’d return. I’ve read them all, and thank you all for keeping me in your thoughts 🙏 I’m rusty as hell so I can’t promise any updates any time soon-ish, but at least I’m cracking my laptop open and looking at word docs again, which is progress.

I’ve missed you all.

[geopsych]

Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

[geopsych]

Sharing this again for anyone who could use a few seconds of peace and light today for whatever reason.

[kuno-chan]

Some of us really need to be doing “Finish That Fanfic We Haven’t Updated in a Year November” 💀

[lucidlucy]

WTF, America.

[darth-ej]

I find it hilarious that Americans get a participation sticker for voting.

[lucidlucy]

Yes we do and legit I look forward to it 😂

[nicijones]

Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

[awordwasthebeginning]

@bonsaibovine being absolutely correct in the tags

[darth-ej]

Here’s to our long and happy relationship that started exactly this way @lucidlucy

[lucidlucy]

100% cant believe it’s going on a solid 6 years now??????????

(Wtf?!?!?!?)

[lucidlucy]

hello! are your works still published on the internet? i’ve been wanting to re-read them, if not it’s alrighty! thank you and have a good day

My works are on Ao3 and require users to be logged on to read them :)

[birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv]

I cannot emphasize enough how much of a life hack it is to exclusively be friends with, date and marry people who are not constantly mean assholes to you.

[angstmonsterwrites]

This may seem like basic common sense, but one interesting (and kind of terrifying) thing I recently read was that some individuals who grew up in an emotionally abusive environment find that their anxiety level actually decreases in the presence of those who are mean or overly critical of them because it's familiar. Their nervous systems are hard wired to react to that kind of treatment as "normal" in the sense that it knows what to do with it--what defense mechanisms to employ when, etc.

Meanwhile, kinder, more peaceful, and healthier relationships are quite a dramatic adjustment, and ironically feel less predictable because of all the threats that are absent and never materialize. It feels suspicious or too good to be true, which in turn ratchets up hypervigilance and hyper-arousal. Instead of knowing what BS is coming because it always does, there's the nebulous sense that the other shoe is just waiting to drop. Safety and respect can feel the most unsafe for a while, because as far as the traumatized nervous system is concerned, those things don't exist, or if they do in any form, there must be a million unseen strings attached.

This is part of what traps a lot of people in abusive relationships, consistently draws them to want to please assholes, or keeps them moving from one unhealthy environment to the next--a highly toxic comfort of familiarity where being on the receiving end of cruelty feels like "home".

[headspace-hotel]

This does a good job of explaining WHY this phenomenon occurs. The brain prefers an open threat that can be anticipated and predicted, as opposed to what appears to be a concealed threat that could strike at any time unexpected.

[femalestunning]

ANA DE ARMAS photographed by Greg Williams before the 2023 Oscars After Party

[biscuitsarenice]

Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women