#lock bridge

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[unicornpubes]

lock bridge favs.💗🔒🗝️

[opiumfortheppl]

[snowshinefivez5]

Seeing multiple romance movies I have lately bumped into love locks. Not only that but in the movies a couple goes to put one at the gate, bridge, or fence to symbolize lasting love with their initials. Finding the idea cute, while crying because the last movie I saw with it had a sad ending, I decided to go for some happy feels.

[52dreamer52]

Inspired by the bottom of a bridge I saw in my own city that is a more urban and less than lovely Pont Des Arts. Natsu and Lucy are putting their own promise of forever underneath.

The chill breeze ruffled Lucy's hair, tickling the spots on her neck that her scarf and jacket didn't cover. She shivered, but Natsu brought her closer, soaking her in warmth only he could possibly hold on a cold December midnight.

A giant smile was on Lucy's face as they stared at the locks hanging on the metal wiring that covered the walls of the bridge. She knew Natsu had never been much of the romantic type, and putting a lock on a bridge probably didn't seem like that big of a deal for him either, but the fact that he had come despite all that was what mattered to her most.

Living in Magnolia for the majority of her life, Lucy had driven under this bridge more times than she could count just to get to school. She had seen it as a kid when her parents drove past it, and even before she understood what it symbolized, she knew she wanted to see it up close and personal for herself.

The metal in her left hand felt cool as she glided her hand against the ridges and locks, her right hand clutching Natsu's. She released a breath, the puff of air showing up in front of her. She had no doubts that her nose was red.

"Cold?" Natsu asked.

Lucy turned to look at him. "Obviously," she said, smiling.

He smirked. "Do ya wanna leave?"

Lucy guffawed. As if leaving was an actual option. "Never," she said. She released Natsu's hand to reach into her pocket, grabbing a lock of her own.

She held it up to his face, his eyes crossing as he looked at it. She giggled. "Today is when I put my own lock on this wall."

Lucy smiled up at him with her bright brown eyes. Excitement shone in them, along with the ever-present curiosity.

"It's really that important to you, huh."

"Of course!" she shouted, unlocking the lock. "Today, I promise my love to you eternally. Forever and always."

A breathy laughed escaped Natsu, though she wasn't sure what the cause of it was. Maybe he found this whole ordeal silly, or maybe he wondered why she chose a raggedy old bridge of all things to promise her love to him.

Maybe she would wonder the same thing in the future too, but she didn't care much for where the place was as long as Natsu was there.

Lucy grabbed one of his hands and wrapped it around her own hand holding the lock. She brought them forward, drawing the shackle over one of the spaces in the fence that was empty. With both hands, she closed it, sealing the lock in place.

They stepped back to admire it, silence forming between them as cars zoomed passed them every now and then. There was shouting from people feet away and the sound of the harsh wind crashing against things to light to stand on their own.

"Forever?"

She nodded, bring herself back to Natsu's warmth as he engulfed her into his arms.

He was her home, and the person she could always trust.

There was no hesitating with Natsu, no questioning how she felt. She would dive right off the crumbling cliff people called love again and again for him if it meant they could be as happy as they were now.

"You're not gonna ever want to turn back, right?" he asked, though she didn't know where he was joking or if he truly wondered this.

Lucy turned her face to the side, so he could hear her speak. She sighed, watching the air from her mouth turn white and slowly dissipate.

"Never."

[angstyrose]

Heart shaped locks I saw in Paris ✨💌

[carnegiemuseumnaturalhistory]

Road Trip to Pittsburgh: Schenley Bridge

In an age of digital romance, there are still ways that humans have found to communicate their love for one another. A love lock or love padlock is a padlock which sweethearts lock to a bridge, fence, gate, monument, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Its key is thrown away to symbolize unbreakable love.

The practice of ‘love-locking’ first begin at least 100 years ago. There is a Serbian tale of a romance gone awray during World War I, after a woman’s fiancé, a soldier, falls in love with another woman on duty, only to break off the engagement. Honoring the woman’s broken heart and becoming weary of their own, other young women from Vrnjačka Banja wanted to show a way of protecting themselves and started to affix padlocks to railings of the bridge called Most Lubavi.

The Oakland neighborhood has been placing these locks on the Schenley Bridge since the early 2000s. Here, you can see hundreds of multi-colored, shaped, and sized locks that line this popularly traveled space leading to areas such as Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, Carnegie Mellon University, Phipps Conservancy, Carnegie Public Library, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Known as the Steel City to many, Pittsburgh’s moniker isn’t the only thing that’s strong. Filled with local and tourist favorites alike, the city’s quirky charm has an unwavering presence in every neighborhood. Road Trip to Pittsburgh is a blog series that features delicious restaurants, historical landmarks, and unique events closest to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. For more information on visiting Pittsburgh, check out artandnaturalhistory.org.  

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