homely

old writing is really bad, please don't read it. I pop in here sometimes when I need to ship. find me on ff.net and ao3 @homely

[vaultbunnie]

ghoulcy reunion hugs, yellow dress, you know the fuckin vibes

[waltzingbi]

*me, literally sick with want* whatever

[darlingshane]

Kastle Journey

[auguryintheether]

Lucy knows.

Season 2 gifs by @whereareyourightnow

[whereareyourightnow]

What say you, Vaultie?

FALLOUT - The Strip

[wonixiv-draws]

study of kishimoto-sensei’s art style

[aveimperator40k]

I have my issues with the S2 finale but hot damn do I love Ghoulcy.

This scene with them said it all in my opinion.

Cooper took her agency in the Wrangler and then he gave it back to her.

He saved her but he didn't take control of the situation.

This wasn't his fight or his choice.

It was Lucy’s choice and Cooper wasn't going to take it from her again.

She's his Vaultie and she has his respect.

Then he turns to keep the centuries old promise he made.

And what does Lucy do?

Before she remembers his betrayal, her father, her mission, the Legion or Max or Norm or anything else?

She takes a step towards him as he walks away.

Instinct.

Folks.....that says it all.

Settle in for Season 3 and Season 4, etc.

We have a ways to walk in the Wasteland.

They're endgame or nothing. Long haul ghoulfuckers. Long haul.

[sasukes-garbage]

shipping aside, that ghoulcy reunion... sigh. will they ever talk about what happened between them? I kinda feel like this dynamic the writers spent so much time building up is just gonna be written out or diluted... max and lucy are cute but they leave us with no tension to look forward to. we already know they like each other and get along great.

the whole thing with barb still makes little sense; why didn't cooper know where they were? why did she have space in an enclave bunker if she's supposed to be redeemed or something? what about the fact that she seemingly oversaw FEV and other cruel vault experiments?

did hank plant the colorado note? if it was left by barb... why??? why send bro on such a wild goose chase?

obviously these things will be answered in time, but I dunno. ghoulcy stocks are unsurprisingly low; I never expected a romance to happen, but their actual friendship was def watered down in the end there.

I suspect the next season will keep the trio separated until the end at least. the ghoul going off on his own again just isn't that exciting imo. and what reason would anyone else have to go to colorado?

ofc this is only season two and there are plenty more to go!

[thirdmagic]

listen. its about the way every single bit of cooper's ruthlessness and cruelty to lucy is something he justifies as being for his own self-interest and survival. how all of it is done to her to prove a point about her own naivete and how she is incapable of surviving in the cruel harsh reality of the surface world, and that selfishness is the only way to keep going at all. that it is the practical, realistic way to survive. and it doesn't work!!! he, in fact, completely fails!! quite terribly!!! all it does is lead him to his own doom! it all ends with him in the most precarious position we've seen him in yet!!! and in the moment with the vials he would very much not have survived if not for her unconditional, undeserved kindness!!!! that moment when he is completely dependent on her to survive, after all this time, after everything he's been saying and trying to prove to her!!! it's about the power play, the power dynamics and how they shift!! how spends so much time lording his power over her, and proving himself right by this use of power and force, but in the end it is she who overpowers him and he ends up completely and utterly at her mercy!!!

[valeriarts]

Celebratory fan art for reaching 300 followers on Twitter! Thank you everyone!

This is the first time I drew Cooper with such a sweet look and I melted while sketching him. ❤️

[story-girl-82]

[sasukes-garbage]

when Cooper is captured after the Super Duper Mart and walking for the first time without Lucy after all the BAD SHIT he did to her and then the GOOD SHIT she did for him, we cue a song that says "lonely hours away from u" then get the flashback of him noticing Barb's Pip-Boy. this flashback also ends with the "I love you cuz you do the right thing" line from him.

is he thinkin' about Pip-Boys cuz of Lucy. is he thinking about The Right Thing cuz of what she did for him.

most importantly: am I losing my sanity

[anetherealpoetess-deactivated20]

i'm not reblogging the original post because the op seems great and i don't want to hurt feelings. but this is such a fun-killing take i genuinely want to gnaw my arm down to the marrow of the sea-foamy bone:

"if the most interesting thing you can think of about a character is the ship you like them with, then I don't think you actually like that character very much."

romantic relationships where every lamb becomes the knife and every knife becomes the lamb are not interesting to you? or what about vampiric psychosexual laments full of blood-bound codependency where the lovers are each other's slow descent into decay and ruin? i mean, that's fun! that is objectively fun!

shipping is strangeness and sincerity and terror. it's vault-bright lucy and her irradiated wasteland-rotten ghoul. it's louis de pointe du lac's naked centering of lestat in a narrative other characters keep trying to invade but louis stubbornly just won't let them. it's these violent delights having violent ends. it's transgressing societal boundaries of right and wrong (an inherently empowering narrative for women and gay men who have been told what to do our whole damn lives.) it's paying homage to a cruel god but also that cruel god is an ordinary person traversing a post-apocalyptic landscape with you. it's hand in unloveable hand! it's hand on my cowardly heart!

the most intersting thing about many many many characters are their romantic entanglements. and that's okay! it's more than okay! it's lush and febrile nutritional goodness that incapsulates all aspects of fiction and therefore life, from horror to devotion, from tenderness to gut-shocking betrayals, from loving monstrosity to hateful divinity.

if you ever catch me not shipping, call a priest. i've been possessed.

[sasukes-garbage]

well put! romance often fuels us to give way more of a shit about characters than we would otherwise because we start to think all these deep deep thoughts about what they might be thinking and feeling and how they might react in all these situations that push them toward their happiest and darkest moments with each other.

honestly people who don't get shipping probably do not get the breadth of imagination it requires. I ain't just thinking "oh that's interesting" I'm maladaptive daydreaming five million deeply emotional scenarios. sorry ur so STABLE!! 😌

[hanchu27]

"You still upset with me?"

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...What did u do Sasuke??😏😏😏

[speakviolence]

Vault-Tec Presents: I'm You! Starring Lucy MaClean and Cooper Howard

[sasukes-garbage]

holy fuck this is awesome!

[looneyhead]

[sasukes-garbage]

excuse my unhinged rant but (as if we don't know this), here are more reasons why ghoulcy will never work as "father/daughter" relationship:

she's a GROWN WOMAN who HAD A FATHER. yes her dad turned out to be a piece of shit, but she was still raised well by a father who, as far as she was/is concerned, loved her. yes, he disappointed her in the end, but grown women who grew up in stable environments are not out here on the streets looking for new father figures. this dynamic could be possible if she had never had a father in the first place, or if she was still a young girl, which she isn't. she's a sexually mature adult with a fully developed brain (25+ easy). which brings me to point B:

Cooper has only ever had a daughter who is a literal child. Janey must not be older than 7. why would he look at a woman who is possibly 20 years older than his daughter as a daughter figure. why would he be LOOKING for a grown ass woman to fill the role of his daughter, when his daughter in his mind will always be 7

if you look at Ellie and Joel in TLOU, Joel's daughter died around the same age Ellie is when he meets her. no one is questioning the father/daughter dynamic they very clearly have.

nothing about ghoulcy's on-screen dynamic was father/daughter coded and I find it so strange people try to spin it that way. pupil/mentor, sure, but anything other than that is like. wut

(and yeah obv there's nothing romantic about their relationship in season one either but I hate this weird father/daughter topic, as if ghoulcy shippers are also somehow incestuous hahaha)

also, I'm sorry but there's no way the showrunners are not going to notice the aggressive popularity of ghoulcy as a romantic pairing. that doesn't mean they'll give it to us if it's not already in their plan, but idk man I'd be surprised if they collectively decided to put some sort of parent/child spin on it knowing the sheer number of fanart, fanfics, and (let's be real) porn that has already been produced about them lmaooooooo