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Me, nostalgic for the time when I drew sketches for stuff based almost entirely on audio:

Epic: The Vengence Sage: hElLo tHeRe

Anyway, I've been having one of those horrid weeks that promises me pain, regret and guilt in the future, so in keeping with that theme, have this freaky Greek and his long-suffering crew in (slightly) less murdery times.

(Featuring Incorrect Quotes from @shebeafancyflapjack and designs based heavily on @gigizetz, because those are now the only canon designs to me, apparently)

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M'kay, so I was re-reading my DBDA + Lockwood and Co book and realised that I made a pretty annoying mistake that any detective could properly sniff out.

So, if any of you guys read through it and find the mistake, comment on the A/N chapter of the fic with what you think it is. If you're the first one, I'll make a fully rendered scene with either one or both of the fandoms that is entirely up to you! (Sexual or NSFW stuff excepted, of course).

If ya wanna give it a read or see if you can find my latest goof, here you go!

EDIT: It has been found! You can still give it a read and have a look at the comment below to figure out what went wrong.

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Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne & Crystal Palace & Charles Rowland, Jenny Green & Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne & Crystal Palace & Charles Rowland & Niko Sasaki, Night Nurse & Charles Rowland (DCU), Night Nurse & Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Characters: Lucy Carlyle, Anthony Lockwood, George Cubbins | George Karim, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU), Crystal Palace (DCU), Original Characters, Niko Sasaki (mentioned) Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Case Fic, Ghosts, I don know how to tag this thing, at all, POV Lucy Carlyle, POV Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Spoilers, post-canon Dead Boy Detectives, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, No beta we die like the ghost population of London Summary:

Lucy Carlyle, George Cubbins and Anthony Lockwood (of the not-really-very esteemed Lockwood and Co ghost-hunting agency) have been called to investigate a house by an overprotective brother/brother-in-law. Rather standard, one would think. Except for the boy who was staring down at Lucy - with his head through the wall. --- Charles Rowland, Edwin Payne and Crystal Palace Surname-Von Hoverkraft (of the carefully hidden Dead Boy Detective Agency) have been asked by a client for help regarding the relocation of her bones before a trio of ghost-hunters show up that night. Easily done. Except now Edwin found himself staring at an Agent with his head poking through a wall, revealing that he is, quite obviously, a ghost.

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So, Netflix cancelled two ghost shows. I loved them both. So I'm writing a crossover, because it's a crime that only one exists (that I can find). If I don't lose motivation and people like it, I might turn this into a little series - I have an entire Google Docs worth of world-building and plot notes to get through and a lot of characters that I reckon would have a grand ol' time together (I say this with both sarcasm and glee). (More notes inside!)

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I completed it!! May or may not make this a bigger series, but I've got SO MUCH worldbuilding still to get through :D

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That's such an amazing quote!

I do this and I was always worried that I was somehow 'doing writing wrong' because of it.

I've always got plot points that I want to hit each chapter, but I usually just I let scenes play out in my head like a film and then write them down as they happen without much thought beforehand. It keeps the writing interesting and keeps me on my toes as a writer - sometimes I genuinely have no idea what's going to happen between plot points.

And if that means that a demon-hunter called Duncan Sinners just spawns out of the Ether in my latest book with no real reason for being, then why the hell not.

"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

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When you haven't drawn anything more than tiny sketches for two months.

Pose refs from @nyxnaiastock and a Daz3D bundle.

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Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne & Crystal Palace & Charles Rowland, Jenny Green & Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne & Crystal Palace & Charles Rowland & Niko Sasaki, Night Nurse & Charles Rowland (DCU), Night Nurse & Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Characters: Lucy Carlyle, Anthony Lockwood, George Cubbins | George Karim, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU), Crystal Palace (DCU), Original Characters, Niko Sasaki (mentioned) Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Case Fic, Ghosts, I don know how to tag this thing, at all, POV Lucy Carlyle, POV Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Spoilers, post-canon Dead Boy Detectives, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, No beta we die like the ghost population of London Summary:

Lucy Carlyle, George Cubbins and Anthony Lockwood (of the not-really-very esteemed Lockwood and Co ghost-hunting agency) have been called to investigate a house by an overprotective brother/brother-in-law. Rather standard, one would think. Except for the boy who was staring down at Lucy - with his head through the wall. --- Charles Rowland, Edwin Payne and Crystal Palace Surname-Von Hoverkraft (of the carefully hidden Dead Boy Detective Agency) have been asked by a client for help regarding the relocation of her bones before a trio of ghost-hunters show up that night. Easily done. Except now Edwin found himself staring at an Agent with his head poking through a wall, revealing that he is, quite obviously, a ghost.

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Sooooo, DBD x Lockwood and Co, anyone? Basically, Netflix cancelled two ghost shows. I loved them both.

So I'm writing a crossover, because it's a crime that only one exists (that I can find). If I don't lose motivation and people like it, I might turn this into a little series - I have an entire Google Docs worth of world-building and plot notes to get through and a lot of characters that I reckon would have a grand ol' time together (I say this with both sarcasm and glee).

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Yes I know that love is like ghosts Oh, few have seen it, but everybody talks Spirits follow everywhere I go Oh they sing all day and they haunt me in the night Oh they sing all day and they haunt me in the night Yes I know that love is like ghosts Oh, and what ain't living can never really die

I did it again...

I need to stop listening to these songs while doing my Artfight attacks. It's really not good for my productivity.

Anyway, my housemate showed me this song and it's so sad, but also so good. And, of course, it inspired this quiet piece which I refuse to spend a bunch of time on because I've got OTHER STUFF TO DO.

Whether this is quiet and peaceful or longing and angsty is entirely up to you :)

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I'll be the light that guides you home when skies are grey There's nothing I won't do to keep you safe So hold on no matter what We'll take our bruises and our bumps But know until kingdom come, you're not alone And if this world goes up in flames Just take my hand, don't be afraid I'll fight for you until my days on Earth are done 'Cause two hearts are better than one

I love this song so much, and the other day it occurred to me that it works really well with the ghost boys.

Also, Dead Boy Detectives is one of the few cases in which I enjoy every adaptation equally and I couldn't decide which one suited the song best, so have both the Netflix and comic versions.

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Artfight Attack 2024!

For: silver_moth Character/s: Sirena (Brown-hair) and Moon (leopard)

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Artfight Attack 2024!

For: @duskiko Character: Tam

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Artfight Attack 2024!

For: @rayjeff Character/s (L-> R): Sam, Poki, Wren, Sophia

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Artfight Attack 2024!

For:  RevlisFox Character/s: Tsuin

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Art fight attack! (I forgot to post them on my other socials)

For: KittenPinkamations Character/s: Atlas (furry demon) and Azalea (brown-haired angel)

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Oooooooh, this actually sounds really similar to a piece of worldbuilding I had!

In one of my wips that will almost never see the light of day, I wrote that they hate silver because it's a super conductive metal and Magical stuff was just a build up of energy like electricity.

Like, imagine you're a fae who just gets zapped with static electricity everytime you touch silver. Mildly annoying, but you're sick of it so you avoid it.

And then the next thing you know, humans have decided that it's the best way to ward you off and now they carry around this freaking zappy metal everywhere.

......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"

*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all

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AYYYE, my first defence of the year!! I can't believe I found this through Tumblr first, of all places XD

Thank you for including Rin!

ARTFIGHT MASS ATTACK TIME I’ve been drawing this since this morning & now i’m gonna spend the rest of the day sleeping.

The gallifreyan is supposed to say “DANGER”

Attack on @dizzy-hat, tophatedfox, leechrot, @paintedcrows, @willowfernn, @idaaliis, and @lilartifex!

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I don't know nor care whether anyone who comes across this on Tumblr will participate in Artfight or attack me, I just think the card looks pretty :D If anyone is interested though, here ya go! https://artfight.net/~LilArtifex

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Somebody. Frickin'. Write this.

Sherlock Holmes modern adaptation but the main characters (Sherlock, Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Irene Adler, and maybe even Lestrade) are all vampires and they’ve just been doing their thing since the time period of the original books

Irene gets to be from New Jersey like she is in canon and she’ll occasionally show up and help Sherlock with a case but they don’t ever date or hook up or anything