#ghost strike

Thanks for the question, Anon!

This week when I've heard "at this stage of cancellation", my knee-jerk response is the possibly uncharitable: "at just shy of a month?"

Netflix cancelled L&Co on May 12th, so Monday coming up will make a month. A month is, to be frank, a very quick time frame for a renewal. Excluding outliers like B99 (which may be the only show ever to have a next-day pickup), the one-month mark is generally when you see the fastest pickups start to happen (think Lucifer, a v quick pickup at a month).

That's the point that we're a weekend away from.

It feels like so much longer than that sometimes, mostly because Netflix waited nearly 5 months to cancel a show they never had any intention of renewing (for proof of this, see their cancelling of free publicity before the show even aired). It feels like we've been in the trenches for months, rather than just shy of a month.

Long answer short, we're approaching the point when shows have begun to be picked up, the one-month mark. One month is still quite quick, in all honestly, and many shows, including One Day At A Time (we hate to use ODAAT again as an example, but it's a great example) take months longer than that.

In other words, we think it's possible at this stage because it's been possible at this stage for the vast majority of cancelled-then-picked-up shows. We the mods are still as optimistic as we were in week 1, and at this stage we keep getting more crew interaction, more articles, and (most significantly) adding more viewers and fans every week.

LockNation is growing, not shrinking, and we intend to rise to meet it! As always, when you start to doubt, lean on us.

talk about arson a little bit more so it gets to a point where it's hard to discern if you're joking or not [I DO NOT CONDONE ARSON].

post stock images of people sobbing that look a little too realistic.

speak in tongues on social media and end the posts with "only lockwood and co fans would understand".

if you see people speaking in tongues, hype their posts. reblog, retweet saying YASSSSSSSS or I TOTALLY AGREE OML or even better, speak in tongues back.

I present to you, my first bit of Lockwood and Co. fanart! I took inspiration from today's daily tag and made it a Ghost Strike rally.

(I hope you like it, it was kinda rushed.)

Anyway, I appreciate all your organizing and expertise!

Thanks for the question and the compliment! We're honored to be of some tiny assistance.

Honestly, it's hard to say one way or the other. Calls are always nice, as unlike emails/etc. they can't just be deleted -- every call that a business gets has to be answered and logged in the system, no way of getting around it. If you're (the general You) up to calling and live in a place where you can do so without incurring fees and such, we encourage it.

Continuing to reach out any way that we can is, I think, a good idea. While emails and such might fall on deaf ears, they also might not; companies keep track of viewer engagement through a host of ways, one of those being the amount of Contacts they receive over a certain title.

We've sent out a bevy of emails, and have no idea if they've done anything -- but we also have no idea that they haven't. There are thousands of moving pieces involved in getting a show picked up, and we the audience only get to see the final piece click into place with the announcement of a pickup.

The only concrete advice that we can give is that there really isn't any such thing as wasted effort in campaigns like these. So long as we're being polite, kind, and professional, we should continue to do the best that we can with what we have.

Cause I’ve seen so many variations on here and I know that tumblr is one of the only platforms I know of that you can use spaces in a hashtag and I’m not sure if this is affecting the possibility of us trending etc.

What an amazing question that we don't know the answer to XD

For our personal use, the Twitter mod doesn't use spaces, and the Tumblr mod does (probably out of a rather fussy, fastidious nature, says the Tumblr mod herself).