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Published: 2017-02-15 08:04:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 505; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 1
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"It's how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our back, and Lockwood standing in between them, calm and unafraid." ~Lucy Carlyle (The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud)"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know." ~Sherlock Holmes (The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*)
"I’m the Doctor. I’m a Time Lord. ...and I’m the man who’s gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?" ~The 10th Doctor (Voyage of the Damned)
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Mission: Draw awesome fanart of three epic British characters who all just so happen to wear Badhat Longcoats .
Result: Failure.
Conclusion: I'm pretty much super lazy and easily frustrated. Oh well. XD
Anthony Lockwood, of the psychic detection agency Lockwood & Co.; Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective; and a certain travelling Time Lord; all being awesome against the backdrop of their respective universes.
I do love British things. >v<
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Lockwood & Co. (c) Jonathan Stroud
BBC Sherlock (c) BBC
Doctor Who (c) BBC
*(Technically this quote is from the books rather than the show, but still awesome.)
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Comments: 25
'Course not! It's only the Time Lords and detectives who wear long coats. u-u
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XD And over-fashionable women and men (Cough cough Lockwood)
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You forgot the rest of the title: Brits in log coats are frickig adorable
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AND I HAVE FOUND ANOTHER LOCKWOOD FAN! YAY!
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Yus! I love that series!
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I can't do horror, but these were perfect. Except the red room.... Not the red room.
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Yeah, I feel the same. Except about the red room. I was mostly just impressed by the creativity of that scare.
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It was extremely creative! So spoop!
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Very spoopy. Mr. Stroud never fails to impress me with his ghosts!
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I'm glad you like it. XD
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These are actually really good! Longcoats are terrific fashion accessories. ^^ I like the glowy lighting you drew on Lockwood and the ambient green haze in the background. I also like how you kept the one with Sherlock really minimalist and grey--it fits so well! The 10th Doctor is probably my favorite, though. 
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Just curious: Are you at all familiar with the book series Lockwood & Co.?
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Not really, no. 
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Such sophisticated taste. >v<
I've always loved children's books myself. I think it's because I love the whimsy in them. I guess the writer part of me just doesn't want to grow up. XP Even Mortality, as morbid as it is, tends to imitate the whimsy and fluff of children's novels.
Lockwood & Co. on the other hand is a YA book series about ghost-hunters, and actually did quite a bit to inspire Mortality. It has a very unique and well-thought-out world, and a whole lot of great humor. >v<
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lol I'll also read kids' books too if they've got a good story and characters, like 'Howl's Moving Castle' (and 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' xD).
I'm thinking Mortality is more like older childrens' stories from the 1800s, like maybe the darker stuff by the Brothers Grimm, or the fairytales that Disney drastically changed to make them more kid-friendly in their movies...
I'll have to see if they have that at my library when I go home for the summer!
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Really? Hm...Mortality is pretty morbid...but I think it's practically a Disney movie compared to Grimm's fairytales! Did you read the one with the little girl who shopped off her pinkie?!
Oh wait, no. I could totally see a character in my world chopping off their pinkie if necessary. Huh.
...Actually, that does makes a lot of sense, come to think of it. I think the weird, old-timey morbidity of classic fairytales may have been in the very back of my mind, early on in development. In fact, I think I've carried that subconciously up until now even! Maybe I should embrace that a little more. o3o
And yes, do! It's quite fun and spooky. ouo
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Haven't read that one! I need to look for an anthology of their stuff, since I only know the watered-down versions.
That tends to happen a lot with my stories! You start incorporating elements from stories you like after subconsciously filing them away for later. I heard somewhere before that you should write the story you want to read (good advice that I stick to!).
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Ah, yeah! My sister gave me a copy of the Harvard Classics collection of Folk-Lore and Fable, which has everything by Aesop, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Anderson. (It looks so fancy and important on my shelf. ouo)
It's...not the cutest book I own, lemme tell you.
Yeah, I think that's one reason that I often have a difficult time categorizing my stories. XD
And, yus! That's always been my motto. In fact, that may have been one reason I first started to want to be a writer: it felt like the world didn't contain enough of the kind of books I wanted to read! ;v;
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Oh nice! I know my mom has some fairytale books she decided she didn't want to use in her classroom (because they're nice quality), but I don't know where they are because we've moved so many times in the past few years.
That's what got me started on making my comic too! (that, and I was tired of having to wade through smut in comics to get to good art and stories...)
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Interestingly, right after our conversation I stumbled across the Complete Grimm's Fairytales at my local library (apparently there are much more than the ones my book has! 
And yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
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