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lockwood's lucy / lucy’s lockwood

#😍😍😍😍#oh fuck I am NOT immune to TCS

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womaninwinter · 12 hours

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For the rosary fic (my beloved): 11, 16, 20

For The Intruder: 7, 12

And 8 and the wild card question for whatever fic(s) you desperately want to talk about

aaaayyy bestie, you're predictable (we love that for you)

11. Was there a scene that you hadn't originally planned to include? Why did you decide to fit it in?

Bold of you to assume I planned this. Lol, okay, I do have a plan for the rosary fic, but I did not really have one when I started. I didn't intend for it to be so damn long for one thing. It was supposed to be like 4 chapters, one for each set of decades. So the decision to write one chapter per decade for the sorrowful mysteries (and maybe also the mysteries of light??) was totally unplanned. But I decided to do it because the Hollow Boy arc just couldn't be compressed into one chapter, there's too much of Lockwood's perspective there that needs to be unpacked. And also, as I was writing, I realised I wanted to explore Lockwood's journey to the Faith, so that definitely required more space. Another unplanned scene was Lucy's visit to St James' church. I added that in because I really felt that she grasped the idea of the rosary too quickly and more context was needed.

16. What was the easiest scene to write?

It's been so long that I don't remember, but I think the opening chapter was something I knocked out in an hour. The idea came and it flowed. The rest has taken more work, as the themes I'm weaving in have become more and more complicated.

20. What is something you wish more people noticed about this fic?

I think people are actually pretty good at noticing the stuff I'm proud of in this fic. Catholicism is overthinker central after all. I can't think of anything that's gone under the radar.

For The Intruder, I've answered 7 here.

12. Was there a scene you wished you could have included? Why didn't it fit in?

I think so far I've managed to fit in everything that I wanted to do, although it remains to be seen if that will continue to be the case. I did have a scene where Holly checks Altwood's injuries, but I cut it because I didn't like it and it wasn't really conveying anything new about the characters. So no is the answer to this one I'm afraid. In general I don't cut a whole lot because I tend to draft in my head.

For a fic I'd like to talk about, I'm going to pick Gutted, because I haven't been asked anything about that yet.

8. What inspired the title for this fic? Is that usually how you choose titles?

I like my fics to have punchy, memorable titles as a general rule (this is why I try to avoid song-lyric titles, and also because I'm a snob). I also love a good double meaning, so Gutted ticked all these boxes. It reflects the physical event (Lockwood getting impaled on a metal spike) and the emotional ramifications — "Gutted" being slang for "bitterly disappointed or upset" in UK English. As for inspiration, it just kind of came to me in a flash: I was turning over possible titles in my head and this occurred to me and I was like, yep, that's it.

26. Wild Card! I'll tell you a fun fact about this fic!

Fun fact: as soon as I'm asked for a fact, I forget all the knowledge I've ever contained. Anyway, here is a sort of fun fact about Gutted? I was in a very rough place mentally when I wrote the first chapter (as is probably obvious to anyone who's read it lol), and I was feeling very bad about writing fic in general actually (something I have since gotten over, again obviously), and I deleted it, and my whole AO3 account, shortly after posting. Then I calmed down a bit, and retrieved the deleted version, remade the account and posted it again, along with chapter two. So, for anyone that remembers back that far, that's why my fic vanished for a while and then came back.

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womaninwinter · 12 hours

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For The Intruder

7. What inspired the idea for the plot?

16. What was the easiest scene to write?

20. What is something you wish more people noticed about this fic?

26. Wild Card! I'll tell you a fun fact about this fic!

intruder my beloved! You know how all parents are like "i don't have favourite children" and then they lean in and go "but actually..." Well. I don't have favourite fics. But The Intruder is my "but actually..."

7. What inspired the idea for the plot?

Hm. It's been a while so I don't fully remember, but I know I read another fic that involved using the Other Side as a means of time travel, and somehow this got me thinking about using the Other Side to travel between alternate universes. But what it was that made me decide that the difference between these universes should be Lucy being dead, I cannot remember. I also don't know why I decided to make alt-LW half-starved and feral, apart from the obvious reason that I am sicko and it gratifies some part of me that is best left unexamined.

16. What was the easiest scene to write?

This prize goes to two scenes from future chapters, so I cannot share it I'm afraid. However, I will say that one involves Altwood getting a long-overdue hug and the other is him telling the story of what happened in Combe Carey. Which will be insanely angsty and I am so excited for the day when I can finally share it.

20. What is something you wish more people noticed about this fic?

I think I've said this before, but I wish people picked up on the fact that Lockwood's interpretation of Altwood as a threat is legitimate (IMO anyway). He knows himself well enough to know how dangerous he can be when he puts his mind to it (remember TEG? "Some day I'm going to have to kill him"? "I've been holding back until now"?), and he also knows himself well enough to see signs that he's not in control. So yeah, his responses to Altwood aren't just jealousy over Lucy (although that's a big part of it lol) but a genuine awareness of the risk he presents.

26. Wild Card! I'll tell you a fun fact about this fic!

Hhhhuuhhh I'm bad at fun facts. Um, how about I decided to have the gang call Altwood "Anthony" (despite hating the trope where Lucy/anyone other than his parents or Jessica calls him Anthony) because I found it incredibly awkward to write "the other Lockwood" all the time. Or, here's an actual new fun fact: I didn't have a plan originally for why Altwood would hate Quill Kipps, just that their relationship would never have had a chance to warm up if Lockwood's development essentially halted after Combe Carey. But then people started wondering why he was so vehement in his dislike of Kipps so I was like, shoot better come up with a reason, and I now have a very angsty reason for him to hate Kipps. Which I also cannot wait to reveal. Ugh. I miss writing the Intruder.

#fic talk #my fic #lockwood and co #the intruder

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womaninwinter · 12 hours

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they have simply got to stop putting porn in books

#please #i'm begging you

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womaninwinter · 13 hours

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For From the Cutting Room Floor and In My Father’s Words: 6, 11, 12, 19, 26 🥰

yay thank you for enabling me in my hour of need!!

6. What do you need to write? Is there anything special you need to do/have to help your creative flow?

Uh, a community it turns out. I got the idea for Cutting Room Floor because there was this fan theory floating around about "what if Lucy and Lockwood were secretly actually in a relationship and Lucy just doesn't mention it because she's being private" and I went to sleep with the idea revolving in my head and woke up with the fic more or less fully formed. Then I spent about a whole day vomiting it onto a page when I should have been working. Oops? In My Father's Words came about because @synestheticwanderings came into the Cutting Room Floor comments and said she wanted Lockwood's side of the story, so yeah, it seems I really need input from others to write.

11. Was there a scene that you hadn't originally planned to include? Why did you decide to fit it in?

Listen I planned nothing with either of these fics. Cutting Room Floor wrote itself and possessed me, Father's Words has been entirely seat-of-my-pants writing. One scene that did come as a surprise to me was the confession scene of Father's Words. It was never meant to be a Catholic Lockwood™ fic, but it ended up being the only way I could write myself out of the hole I'd dug in previous chapters.

12. Was there a scene you wished you could have included? Why didn't it fit in?

I do occasionally think about what might have happened if Lucy had expressed some definite sign of interest in Lockwood beyond the physical in Cutting Room Floor. That fic is very much based around a silly miscommunication trope, and if she'd had the nerve to initiate at any point, the fic would have gone differently. So I do sometimes think about doing a Cutting Room Floor alternate ending where they actually communicate, but I have too many WIPs to take that on.

19. Is this one of your personal favorite fics? Why or why not?

It used to be, but looking back, I kinda wince at how clumsy some of the writing is. I do however think that Cutting Room Floor has one of the best openings I've ever written, and I will quote it here for reasons of vanity:

Reader, there is a part I didn’t tell you – you’ll see why. It goes like this: picture me, about a week after the Bickerstaff case, lying in my attic room, listening to the rain on the roof. My expression was somewhat shell-shocked, my fingers pressed to my lips. No, that’s a bit too late. Let’s go back another twenty minutes or so. I was just waking up, feeling stiff and achy still from all our exertions, when Lockwood knocked on my door.

I absolutely adore when the narrator addresses the reader directly so I will always be terribly proud of this.

26. Wild Card! I'll tell you a fun fact about this fic!

I don't know if it counts as fun exactly, but the day I wrote and published From the Cutting Room Floor (July 28th) was my longest Spotify listening day of 2023. As a result, I know almost exactly how long it took me to write it (~8 hours). Another fun fact that probably only I think is fun is that the fic was originally sexier, but I didn't like it, so I cut the "steamier" descriptions (and I think the fic is stronger for it. I think romantic scenes are way stronger when you focus on the characters' reactions and emotional experiences rather than physical mechanics).

Behind-the-scenes fic asks.

#ask games #lockwood and co #fic talk

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womaninwinter · 15 hours

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Here's my DTIYS for @savelockwoodandco its been a while since ive done a screenshot redraw lol. As yall now im a very cartoon orientated artist lol, so here it is lol. Not exactly animation friendly but It's still cartoon adjacent! also for some reason I always draw Lucy with shorter hair then she has in the show- idk why. JK i know why, its cuz i suck at drawing hair and this style is the easiest for me to do lolololo I also could not do a flanel soooo paterns it is.

hope you enjoy :3

#their expressions 😂😂😂

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womaninwinter · 17 hours

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🎬 Behind-the-Scenes Fic Asks 🎬

Send me the title of one of my fics, and one (or more) of the following:

How long did it take you to write this fic?

What program did you use to write this fic (Word, Google Docs, etc)? Is that the program you use for all your fics?

How did you find the visuals for this fic? Is there a method you have?

What programs did you use to edit the visuals for this fic?

Where did you write this fic? Is that your favorite spot to write?

What do you need to write? Is there anything special you need to do/have to help your creative flow?

What inspired the idea for the plot?

What inspired the title for this fic? Is that usually how you choose titles?

Was there anything from canon that you pulled for this fic?

Share a screenshot of the original outline (if you dareee😈)

Was there a scene that you hadn't originally planned to include? Why did you decide to fit it in?

Was there a scene you wished you could have included? Why didn't it fit in?

My favorite line of dialogue from this fic was [xyz]. What inspired it?

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Was there anything you had to research for this fic? Do you usually do a lot of research?

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How would you describe your writing style for this fic, if you can?

Is this one of your personal favorite fics? Why or why not?

What is something you wish more people noticed about this fic?

What is something you didn't expect people to notice or gravitate towards in this fic?

Does personal experience ever inspire your fics? What about this particular fic?

Did you have a beta reader(s) for this fic? How did they help you during the writing process?

Did you write every scene in order? What was the first scene you wrote, and what was the last?

Is there anything you would change now about this fic? Why or why not?

Wild Card! I'll tell you a fun fact about this fic!

#pls I am pms ing and need enrichment in my enclosure

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womaninwinter · 17 hours

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Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati is going to be canonized!!

#heck yaaaa #verso l’alto babies!!!

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womaninwinter · 18 hours

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Locklyle is only slow burn in Lucy or Lockwood’s point of view. In George’s point of view, the two were basically married after the first interview.

#‘asset and ass’ skakskaljahaha

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womaninwinter · 18 hours

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Some screenshots from Jonathan Stroud`s instagram!

The gravestone 💔

#studying his brain not enough any more #I need to sautée and eat it

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womaninwinter · 18 hours

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Nevertheless, the difficulties of the season had enabled some companies to thrive. One of these was Lockwood & Co., the smallest psychic detection ageny in London. Up until the beginning of the winter, I'd worked for them. It had just been me; Anthony Lockwood, who ran the show; and George Cubbins, who researched stuff. We'd lived in a house in Portland Row, Marylebone. Oh, there'd been another employee as well. Her name was Holly Munro; she was new, a kind of assistant to the rest of us. She sort of counted, too, I guess, but it was George and Lockwood who had meant the most to me. Meant so much, in fact, that in the end I'd been forced to turn my back on them, and go a different way.

- Lucy Caryle, The Creeping Shadow

#😍😍😍

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womaninwinter · 2 days

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one day I’ll finally write that ridiculously elaborate fanfiction that I’ve been carefully constructing in my daydreams for months and then you’ll be sorry. you’ll all be sorry.

#I am writing it and you will all be sooooo sorry

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