Get That Sausage Girl!

Yet another thing I find absolutely wonderful about how Jonathan Stroud wrote Lucy Carlyle is how he betrays her with the narrative.

In The Screaming Staircase, at the start of her story, Lucy gives us an idea of how she wants to be perceived; unaffected, unbothered, unburdened by fear or particularly revelatory emotions. She drops horrifically painful realities about her childhood on us as if she were describing a dull gray rock she found on the ground. She tries very, very hard to school her emotions around Lockwood and George. And if she had been written by anyone else, she might have fallen prey to the "strong independent female character" tar pit of a stereotype.

But then along comes Annabel Ward's ghost.

And the narrative looks at Lucy and says "I know how you wish to present yourself, but that's not who you are."

And Lucy is repeatedly shown to be incredibly Sensitive in so many ways. She is under the influence of the ghost of Annie Ward, but the emotions are still partly Lucy's. And most of the time she has the emotional intelligence to differentiate which feelings are hers and which ones are Annie's, and where they overlap. She chokes up with empathy on multiple occasions in the process of uncovering what happened to Annie Ward. She becomes enflamed with the desire for justice for someone who was murdered decades before she was born. She's shown that by her very nature, her emotions are her strength and not her weakness. Because she has a narrative that loves her and isn't lazy about her. She is the narrator and she tells us who she is, but the narrative shows her and us who she really is.

Its been too long since I've properly campaigned for Mona's initiatives on my main blog! Since the last update we have a wide array of projects your donations have contributed to!

She has distributed essential hygiene kits including pads for women!

And a lot lot lot of food package distributions as you can see below!

Please do not hesitate to donate! Every single dollar helps!! P*ypal.

G*f*ndme for distribution of necessities.

G*f*ndme to help Mona and her family.

Instagram to track progress + above links.

(If you live in India or Pakistan and want to donate, contact her through the means listed on her account).

Cas - ‘A Nephilim has come into being.’

Deans facial expression - *are we pregnant?*

Messing around with a new art program, I liked how this turned out

"At the top of the steps the front gate swung gently, gently. It came slowly to a halt."

FRIENDS. HEAR ME OUT. LOCKWOOD FAMILY FANCASTS

So, I was watching @oceanspray5 's marvelous "Wait For It" Lockwood edit on YouTube, in which Kiera Knightly and Matthew Goode are fancasted as Celia and Donald.

Now, I have seen a few different Jessicas in the past, and they haven't meshed with me, but a recent thought that had some staying power is Natalia Dyer. She works pretty well, because she could feasibly be related to Lockwood but also has a face shape sorta similar to Ruby Stokes, so the whole "out of the corner of Lockwood's eye" thing works. And then I got emotional and edited the family together and well:

Lockwood is the spitting image of his father. Jessica gets her face shape and jawline from Celia. I just—

I think it was @/needleswitches on twitter who said if they all had dogs, Kipps’ would be a dalmatian. So I present: Kipps and pupper when they see a ghost

i need luke thoughts…… im having luke/charlie bushnell brain rot…….

ok omg hi i just saw this & i’m in the mood for it SOOOO…. first thought that came to mind is luke is DEF the kind of bf to let you colour his tattoos 😫 he’d also 100% have your initial or name or smth tattooed somewhere on him…. probs was his first one too actually! i imagine it to be on his chest right above his heart and whenever u get jealous or upset or smth he just takes your hand and guides it to where the tattoo is and says smth like “no one else lives here but you” HOW COULD ANYONE BE MAD AT THAT???? 😣 luke is also a very good cook/baker except he specializes in breakfast foods specifically cause if one kid in the hermes cabin woke up earlier than usual they’d wake up all the others (i feel like anyone who’s lived in that cabin turns into a light sleeper out of fear LMAO 😭) n then they’d all wanna eat breakfast so luke would sneak into the kitchen n make pancakes n wtv 😇 (soz if chb doesn’t have a kitchen my pjo has been RUSTY LMAO) he doesn’t seem like the type to be this good at making food tho so you’re a little skeptical at first but he eventually convinces you to try one bite andddd let’s just say you will never be visiting a restaurant ever again 😁 also he & jason r part of the ARMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! club 😫 his arms r acc his fave feature and he LOVESSS when you’re walking together and you have your arms wrapped around his 😣 he always teases you about it too but then HE gets all upset if you separate yourself from him while you’re walking 🙁

Holly: What are we doing for Christmas dinner?

Leopold: Revenge

Barnes: Booze. And lots of it

Ezekiel: Humans

Flo: Seconded 

Lockwood: What about small but hopeful slice of happiness

Marissa: I agree with Barnes

George: Donuts

Kipps: Stew?

Lucy: Death?

Skull: Definitely death

Holly: so pizza