I just finished the most recent book, the Creeping Shadow. I wish there was a concentrated Lockwood and Co fandom presence on LJ, but if there is I can't find it. It's on Tumblr but I find Tumblr a fucking nightmare to interact on.

Also... you know, I really don't like Lockwood very much. I love that that awful girl-jealousy bullshit between Lucy and Holly got dropped, the Skull and George are hilarious and Kipps is a really interesting character, more so with every book. But Lockwood... idk, he leaves me cold. I think when he was a bit silly in the first book, I was fine with him, but he's just so... ugh, you know, he's like the author's crafty wank fantasy and I don't understand why all the characters in-book think he's so great.

Anyway, given that most of the fandom I see on Tumblr is really Lockwood/Lucy centric, maybe I wouldn't interact all that much anyway, but if I could actually navigate and use the fucking thing, there might be a subset of people who'd get all excited over the books and the other characters without being all OMG LUCY AND LOCKWOOD KISSING YAY and I'm like, ugh, she could do better, he's a twat.

Wow, Lockwood is kind of a dick. I'm listening to the Whispering Skull audiobook, and the main police dude has hired Lockwood n co to find this thingie that peeps are killing each other over, that also independently kills peeps, and theyre at a party and Barnes (police dude) is all, oh hey Lockwood, any progress on that case that a) I am paying you to work on and b) that is costing people all across London their lives?

And Lockwood's response is basically, "Lol nope, ps also George is fat."

Even leaving aside the fact that it's a shitty thing to say about your mate when he's standing right there, YOU ARE TALKING TO A DUDE WHO HIRED YOU WHO IS ASKING FOR A PROGRESS UPDATE ON A THING HE GAVE YOU MONEY TO WORK ON. Be more professional, jeez!