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Images by Fabrizia Milia

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a stressed adult male protagonist splashing water on his face in the bathroom

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i am living proof of the adored by english teachers to disgusting pervert pipeline

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God I've seen what you have done to others

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every time i tell myself i will stop begging for scraps and then i run right back to my spot on the doorstep because what else can i do what else can i do what else can i do

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get in loser we're romanticising perversion

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i'm a substance abusing pseudo intellectual but you will respect me

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Here and then I think about Elias being a genuinely boring person to 99% of the world by the time it's the 2000s and all his circle of Good Society Gentlemen Horny for their weird Academic friend obsessed with Ghosts Stories are dead.

Not just boring, but easily dismissed, as well ("waste of a suit"), ("A dull little man" // "Gertrude was the one who scared me").

And I don't know, it always drives me a little insane in the BEST way. I love it. I love that his little joys in life are spreadsheets, filing, The Horror Stories of Other People that Are Not Him Thank You, and cake. I love that he is mild, that he looks utterly inoffensive, that he's passive and only shows glimpses of how Cruel and /how much he enjoys being Cruel/ in very specific situations (1. i have all the power and everybody in the room knows, 2. They want to see an evil man i'll show them an evil man 3. EVERYTHING I WORKED TOWARDS FOR CENTURIES IS SET INTO MOTION I AM WINNING)

It makes it extra tasty, with that additional external point of view from characters, that Jon explicitely says that Elias is the most knowledgeable man he knows when it comes to paranormal: Jon actively seeked out Elias enough to be aware of that. It's also delicious to have him say "Elias is a hard man to pin down" because it means that Jon RECOGNIZES that Elias is not just his boring, inefficient superior; that there are myriads of other things he's yet to uncover about him and all.

I think it's nice for us all boring people to have represention in villainy. I said it over on bluesky and all but I know in my heart his perfectly tailored three-piece suits are all different shades of grey (Ah,,), except for the black ones that are for fancy events, and the "extravagant" navy blue ones for "fun" events like Institute parties.

he has inside jokes with himself with his cufflinks and that's basically it.

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the authors barely disguised longing for acceptance

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cannot understand why people draw Elias with anything resembling style??? his employee is pissed cause he can’t quit or he’ll die and he tells him to do some filing because he finds mindless bureaucracy soothing?? y’all he literally dresses like this

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My piece for the 2025 TMA Regency Boys calendar: Magnus and Fanshawe November. Hosta wrote a snippet to go along with it!

He puts the kindling in the fireplace. He lights the match. He's going to rid himself of this vice, he swears. But to what end? What good is paper turned to ash, in the face of the unknowable? What good is it in the face of love? He lights a second match. The first has burned his fingertips. He tosses the letters into the fire and knows he's achieved nothing.

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*remembers these megs i drew for a comic idea* oh yeah

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Boy what are you DOING you'll get salmonella

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Behind closed doors

A Vivek-centered (guy in bg) piece of Enoch I've been wanting to do!! Despite his love for the most morbid of dolls, Vivek had a medical past before joining the Hounds(safety org for the border between undergrounds and upper level) and I wanted to capture one of his many povs of Enoch in regards to it

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faith in ruins [ shot by @ohseephotography ]

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silly guys in a silly parable (also me trying to figure out how to draw stanley)