Lucas for King.

I've always been a pirate.

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Lucas. He/Him. Demisexual. OCD and Bipolar 1 Just a gay dude with two three horses (they're insane, all ex racers), ), two kittens (chaos), dog (has lupus and epilepsy) and a weird hobby trying to beat bipolar and OCD one day at a time through writing, video games and books while balancing my career as a behavior analyst. i have a weird love for mass effect and high fantasy novels + the best partner in the world <3

I like to pretend I'm a writer. i'm trying to get back into reading so please feel free to yell about books or message me about anything at any time! I like making gifs but I like making friends more. I read multiple books at a time so i will absolutely start what you recommend when i have access to it!

Currently reading (update dec 1): what the river knows, the seventh floor, the secret history, the shadow of what was lost currently re-reading: stalking darkness, winter's heart

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lucas north + every episode, 8.02

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lucas north + every episode, 8.01

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joe + the goo / 4.02

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joe + arresting john washington / 4.02 ↳ he's not to die under any circumstances. no suicides or death leaps or anything like that.

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joe + trying not to lose it in the background / 4.02 ↳ well, there's lots of dodgy windmills all over whitechapel...

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Just curious why you put "Joe" in the captions of your gifs and not "D.I. Chandler" ? No hate !! The other creators I've seen use D.I Chandler

you mean besides the fact that every time i see it typed out with that shorthand, all I can see is DIC(k) handler ?

okay, but .. all jokes aside .. thank you for sending me this. I have a couple of reasons actually but i think they sort of all meld into a single main one..if that makes sense.

First off, I make these gifsets for my roleplay blog which is strictly writing. Obviously anyone can enjoy them and reblog them or whatever, but I make them (first and foremost) for my writing blog (can i call it a writing blog when i accidentally deleted my old one for him and am still remaking now?? oof). As a writer (i dont do fanfiction but if i did, this 'rule' for me would remain the same) ... I don't want just a and then this happened and he said that and this canon character came in and blah blah blah .. I want a character my readers connect with. Most of my friends and writing partners don't know who the fuck D.I. Chandler is. Most of them haven't seen whitechapel.

D.I Chandler is stiff and formal. Say is out loud. Read it in your head. It's professional. It's distance. It's heavy with authority and it kinds of sits like a weight on your tongue. If you say D.I Chandler out loud, like you're talking to (or about) someone .. it sort of just .. drops to the ground as soon as it leaves your lips. I don't give a shit about D.I Chandler, man. D.I Chandler can go fuck himself, he better not come to my party and make it a crap time. But Joe? Joe can come to my party. Joe is my neighbor who waves at me every morning when I'm trying to get into my car so i can go feed my stupid horses. Joe is my dorky friend that has always been different but is so damn funny and has the cutest snort laugh. Joe can absolutely come to my party. Hell, Joe probably helped me plan it.

I like to interchange the two when I'm writing him because you can sort of treat it like a dr jekyll and mr hyde thing. bear with me. it's not really like that at all, i know. but i'm a writer. i reach. i stretch. i take you on this wild ride and eventually get to the point and leave you no choice but to agree with me (kidding). In season 3 episode 2, when Ed invites Joe to his little trivia night gang, he doesnt introduce him as "hey guys this is DI Chandler". He says "Everybody this is joe". It's familiar. It's warmth. It's the man under the title. The show itself has visuals. You can see expressions, behaviors .. you get a vibe from the visual aspects. Writing doesnt have that. I want my readers to care about Joe. Using his name sort of invites an intimacy. It gives us a chance to relate to him, to see bits of ourselves in him, to agonize over his losses and cheer for his triumphs. I sort of see Joe vs DI Chandler being a mask off / mask on thing. Detective Inspector Chandler is not a name. It's a coping mechanism. It's a title. But it's not a person.

also (this is no one's fault but my own) ... whenever i started writing him a year and a half ago and wrote just his surname ("Chandler")... I'm would do a read through super quick and be like .. why are we in the middle of a friend's episode?

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joe + study buddies / 4.02 ↳ okay, uh ... so, ergot poisoning can cause convulsive seizures and mania. it's also been said to be the cause of accusations of bewitchment and there are examples of whole communities believing they were cursed.

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joe + mansell and kent drama / 4.02 ↳ i will not have this kind of behavior in my incident room. are we clear?

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joe + ed saves the day again (eureka!) / 4.02 ↳ ed .. ed! it's not the 17th century anymore, the worlds changed [..] we need a reason why our killer would think that perfectly ordinary people might be witches.

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joe + challenging stereotypes / 4.02 ↳ we were wrong. we believed if a victim died like a witch, then they must be a witch.. but anyone could be accused, anyone could be next.

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joe + wingfield's notes / 4.02 ↳ wingfield thought the information in these files were to blame for his death. someone's gonna have to read them ..

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joe + goodbye, stella knight / 4.02 ↳ i can assure you nothing sinister is going on. why are you so paranoid, DI Chandler? ... hysteria is contagious, you know. you should be careful. you're starting to sound like wingfield.

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joe + wingfield's suicide / 4.02 ↳ wingfield just fell out of the sky, i didn't see anybody

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joe + recovering cherry thrapston / 4.02 ↳ i thought i could, but i can't .. drownings bother me.

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okay my little whitechapel buddies. in addition to me giffing as many joe scenes as i can from every episode .. is there anything from this list that anyone wants. feel free to dm me if you dont want to leave suggestions in the comments for whatever reasons

what to do next

finish season 4 and focus on season 1

finish season 4 and focus on season 2

specific scene/event (specify in comments)

specific pairing * (specify in comments but also see tags, please)

more miles

more ed

focus on another character (say in comments)

Voting ended onJan 26, 2025

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joe + freak out / 4.02 ↳ that's what they did, isn't it? if you drown, you're innocent. if you swim, you get hanged.