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Allow me to finally break and enter this fandom with my humble offering!

I just wanted to do something with them all being good friends. Love, love, love their group dynamic! Also I have like 20+ pages worth of silly little dialogs that I want to turn into equally silly little comics, so hopefully I'll be sticking around.

Aaand a lot of rambling under the cut.

I'm an avid reader, you see. I generally don't watch things (sometimes not in literal years), it's just not something I do. So when at the beginning of fall tumblr exploded with outrage over the Dead Boy Detectives cancellation, my first thought genuinely was "what a stupid f*cking name" and then immediately "people are overreacting, it's just a series, nothing is worth that much of a fuss". But after observing for some time from a safe distance I eventually grew curious. I thought I knew what I was getting into.

(I had no bloody idea)

Well. Here I am now, almost four months of obsession later, eating my words with shards of glass and no sign of reaching the bottom of this cursed rabbit hole. I've been drawing more than ever and for the first time seriously thinking about honing my artistic skills. I have some drafts for at least two stories, and even though I'm a little hesitant to write (not being a native and all), I'm pretty determined to give it a go anyway. I tend to avoid social media and digital public spaces in general, but #SaveDeadBoyDetectives campaign changed that as well. To my great regret, there is not much I can do or participate in, so I settled for trying to be supportive of all the lovely people who created probably the safest and most comfortable online space I've ever encountered. I'm not as good as Charles at keeping spirits up, but damn I wanna try.

It honestly feels like if I had something like dbda growing up, I'd turn out at least 40% less traumatized as a person. It grew to mean so much so quickly. It's like some moments were plucked right out of my life and then embedded in the show. I felt (and still feel) so seen, and understood, and reassured, and safe, and hopeful, and accepted when watching (pretty much everybody's but especially) Edwin's side of the story. It's so much more than "just a series", and these Dead Boys deserve every good word that's being said about them.

Okay, I'm wrapping it up now, and the only thing left to say is thank you to all the people who put their effort into keeping this wonderful story alive and making the fandom so friendly and welcoming.

(right now I'm working on a big Christmas comic that I definitely won't be able to finish in time, but it will appear here at some point)

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'Four To The End' Series by @dovahtobi, Book 4, Chapter 3.

This time a really quick and lazy one 'cause I was supposed to be working on the other thing but then this chapter dropped and I just couldn't resist the temtation to scetch a little.

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Congratulations on finishing the Third Book, Tobi! An illustration for 'Four To The End' series by amazing @dovahtobi! If you are a Marauders fan and haven't read it you simply missed (in my humble opinon) the best thing this fandom has to offer. Give it a chance, check it out! It's long, it's elaborated, it patches original plotholes with the skill of a professional tailor. And the worldbuilding is astonishing. I tried to come up with an idea for a month before deciding on the boys hanging out at their secret place, Fort Dragon. I wanted to do something with all of them happy and in their element and Fort Dragon felt like a kind of safe space where they can be themselves without suffering any prejudice. The Third Book has certainly been a journey, in many different ways for many different people. I'm so glad I have a chance to tag along and move forward with the story and everyone involved. So very much ready (but also not) for the Fourth Book! Thanks for writing and sharing, Tobi!

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Well, I am no artist but sometimes the need to express all the headcanons is simply too strong. An illustration to the best book series of my life – "Four To The End" by incredible @dovahtobi! If you still haven't read it you should absolutely check it out, it will change your perspective entirely. So! The teeny-tiny moment from the Book 3 Ch. 127 that hopefully doesn't contain any major spoilers – just Remus making a model plane with his friend Aegis during Muggle Studies. And some doodles of the Marauders being dorks that I couldn't squeeze into the main thing (but really wanted to).

Also it's the way to say thanks to Tobi for all the amazing work he does. I adore your headcanons and if they don't fit the overall view we'll just have to make some very special fanart specifically for your series!