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happy [redacted]th birthday percy!!!

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Tumblr really stumbled into a beautiful feature with the whole "tags are separated from the main post" (as they should be, they're metadata) + "tags can be as long as entire tweets" thing. They make a really nice form of textual subvocalization/whisper mode/aside/whatever (they're flexible!).

I keep finding myself wanting to make such asides on other sites and find myself subtly irritated that I can't. I wanna elaborate in a way that is diminished compared to the main post!

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Say what you want, but I'm feeling super lucky today.

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thinking about charles rowland, and how a lot of other characters would become (justifiably) jaded after being killed by their friends after defending someone else from them, and would be wary of making more friends, or sticking their neck out for someone again

and instead he just doubles down and decides: not only am I going to immediately imprint like a duckling on edwin, I’m also going to protect him for eternity

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Sometimes, if I’m wanting to feel extra insane, I remember that scene in Shadow and Bone tv where Jesper goes “Oh I remember you” as Wylan is laying under him

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Also, hear me out on a headcanon really quick for the Dead Boy Detectives: Edwin Payne does not have a good memory at all.

And he swears up and down that before Hell, he had a damn near perfect memory but 70 years in Hell will screw something up about you, if not everything.

Why do you think they document every case with time cards and why he carries a journal around? It’s because without it, he’d genuinely would not remember a lot of shit. If it isn’t written down, to Edwin, it’s almost like it never happened. And not to mention how I think he’s terrible with names too. He confused Charles’s name with so many things for years, and only just recently got better at remembering them. And Charles never really got pissed off or faulted Edwin for it, because at the end of the day, Edwin is REMEMBERING.

He genuinely panics about the passage of time too. Quickest way to get him in a dissociative shutdown? Manipulate the clocks around him to have passed faster than they should, you will have him actually having a panic attack over it. His concept of time was so fucked in Hell, he prefers to have a clock or some kind of watch with him to keep track of time. Because he knows if he didn’t, after he finished a book or solved a case, he wouldn’t know if 20 minutes or 20 years had passed.

The memories were fuzzy for the longest that when Edwin finally felt safe, felt adored and appreciated and loved and cared for, THAT’S when the memories starting becoming clearer. And trust, it was not pretty in the slightest. Like Charles could do something or say something so small and it’d make Edwin freeze up for a good ten minutes. Like not blinking, an entirely unresponsive demeanor and it’d make Charles panic and when Edwin snapped out of it, he wouldn’t have a single clue what actually caused it. It could’ve been a smell, it could’ve been a doll head, it could’ve been a certain screech from a monster, he wouldn’t know. He never really knows.

I wish we would talk more about how 70 years in Hell would’ve fucked Edwin up so much because ghosts appear to have a subconscious, and if you have a subconscious, you have a psyche. And 70 years in HELL would’ve caused permanent damage to just about ANYONE’S psyche.

Thank you for attending by Ted Talk. Feel free to grab a pamphlet on your way out.

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I had a lot of fun with this one <3 And yes, I will always incorporatethe bi flag where I can when colouring drawings of Charles.

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Tresspassers will be given a beer and a commemorative "Tresspassing is baddass" lapel pin.

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A year or so ago I went to wood carving club with a bruised eye from my dog slamming his nose into my eyesocket and like every old lady there pulled me aside at some point to ask if my partner hit me here are some of the solutions they had in case he did.

-Replacing his vitimens with poision

- getting her brother to invite him out onto his boat and then killing him and dumping him in the ocean and saying he got drunk and fell off.

- get tboned with him in the passenger seat and then once he was in the hospital theres all kinds of easy ways to kill him like not washing my hands after a poop and then touching his wound casually.

-replacing his drink of choice with moonshine!?

- take him on a hike thats locally notorious for a rapid otter attacking hikers and once he had rabies I could just kill him any ol way and say self defense.

-One lady just cheerfully informed me she had a gun and only a few years left anyway

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I MADE IT TO LONDON!! 😁

I spent my first half day pretty much just walking around and revisiting some places

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Good morning. I just started learning digital art, and I'm looking at your colouring style for inspiration. I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm having fun.

Oh nice!! Having fun is the most important part, so you're already doing great!

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NHS is better than me bc if my brother burned all my precious treasures i would have teamed up with the guy trying to murder him

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If I had the wherewithal and mental capacity, I'd be so tempted to plan a DBDA Canada meetup in Banff in November. I don't think it would work though.

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Musing over a DBDA Soulmates AU. The trick is that Charles and Edwin aren't soulmates though. Edwin is the most disappointed about this, as he feels like Charles would make the best soulmate. Truly he's never felt as seen or as cared for by anyone else.

Then he meets Niko Sasaki and he inexplicably likes her before they even truly meet. Then when she can see them, her first words to him match his soulmark. Charles knows, and congratulates him. "That's brills, mate." And it is. And she's wonderful. They understand each other on a level Edwin didn't even realise he was missing, but he's torn about...so much really. He meekly tries to discuss the typically romantic nature of soulmates, and in the same conversation as she tells him that boys can like other boys, she explains that soulmates can be platonic. And it's such a breath of fresh air, and a novel concept (and ignore the part of him that had been hoping Charles was his soulmate while also holding onto the concept that all soulmates should be romantic)

If you ask Charles, he doesn't have a soulmark. Edwin should know seeing as he's seen Charles down to his vest and shorts, and has never seen it. The truth is, it's a bit more complicated than that. He had one. It was on his back so he couldn't even really read it. He's sure his mom must have read it to him once, but it's so long ago now and so much happened in between. Namely the number of times his dad beat him with a belt happened. The whole thing is mangled by a mess of scars to the point that most of it is illegible. That's okay though. Aces really if you ask him. Soulmates are...complicated at best. His parents were soulmates after all, and look how that turned out.

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I don’t think I can stress enough how many people on here need a hobby like 95% of what people refer to as jobless behavior is actually just hobbyless behavior. Take up watercolors or tabletop or join a hiking group or something you probably won’t feel as much of an incessant need to freak out on the internet every day

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do kids these days know about The Game?