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Crystal has to resist the urge to take out her earrings and fist fight Charles when he tells her that Edwin is in love with him and he's not sure what he's feeling.

like what do you MEAN!? that's your HUSBAND!! of course you love him. STOP involving me in this bs and go kiss him! idiot

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Cameo week highlights so far, payneland edition:

- if Edwin and Charles could choose their afterlife it would be each other

- puppy debacle of 06 was Charles bringing in a ghost puppy that turned out not to be a normal one (maybe a hell hound??)

- if they weren't detectives Edwin would go into smth editorial and Charles would go into fighting

- IF they went on a date, Charles would want to take Edwin to do smth outdoorsy that they don't usually do e.g. doing something sporty

- they would want to take the other on vacation to the Maldives and to Scotland (guess who chose which lol)

- Charles uses physical touch as reassurance, and feels reassured by Edwin's praise like "excellent job today, Charles", Edwin takes care of Charles by fixing up his clothes

- Charles likes how intelligent, competent and organized Edwin is, Edwin likes how protective and brave Charles is

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Edwin Payne & Charles Rowland | Dead Boy Detectives 1.01

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I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

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a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features

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Agatha All Along I Death's Hand in Mine

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and just like that it's already round two of the Niko gif tournament! Thanks for another brilliant turnout in round one, I'm so happy you seem to enjoy these tournaments as much as I do :) and what better way is there to pass the time waiting for the first cameos to arrive tomorrow than to look at gifs of our beloved Niko? 🩷 as always, the other choices are in the reblogs!

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I love how many small moments there are in the show where Charles and Edwin just look at each other to check in with each other. As if their reaction only makes sense if it is mirrored by the other. It's in this kind of synchronicity and their seeking & giving of reassurance that we can really see that they have been together for over thirty years..

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Someone commented about drawing something with Nicky, so here's a sweet AU moment. If only...

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I’m emotional right now

Beautifully done by @prol_x on twitter

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The saga of Peanut the Squirrel

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That moment when Agatha’s Tarot Card followed her through her entire life.

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Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

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By the way, since Lilia experiences the entire timeline at the same time and not linearly, she's known her coven for her whole entire life, all 450 years of it—even if she doesn't realise it until the end.

They've always been there, because the flow of time is an illusion. They've always been with her. And as she reads her tarot spread, she realises it.

They're her family.

They always have been.

The gaps finally filled it.

She didn't die in a fake reality to save a group she'd known for 24 hours.

She died to save a group whose presence she's felt in her heart for hundreds of years.

Whose presence she lacked, like a memory she couldn't grasp. Nostalgia she couldn't quite place anywhere. Nostalgia for something you've never even had.

Because she had them.

In the future—she always had them.

And she was always going to protect them.

And even in death—

She's still with them.

Still fighting to protect them.