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this is the single saddest thing I’ve ever seen on cutthroat kitchen

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me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

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you never know when the good you do may come back around

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Source

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Charles Rowland, V2.

Also known as: Chazza 2: Electric Boogaloo - now with hair and a cool background. This lad might have tagged a wall or two, the lil' rascal.

Disclaimer:

I used a photo of a concrete wall that was free on CSP as the background and then drew the cracks on top of the graffiti (which I painted) for the texture. And some of the graffiti is from references, I'm not that imaginative. I used to draw the cool S in school, though. So... I'm almost a graffiti artist.

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Actually kind of love the idea of Crystal growing old beside the boys. What a journey it would be, her relationship to them changing and deepening as she matures and grows, experiencing things they never have or will. I mean, I see a lot of the default assumption that it would cause her pain to get old while they stay young, but I think that comes from the same place as all youth-worship/age-terror and it doesn't ring true to me. The inverse of that hurt in the boys, where they watch her grow up and live a life they'll never have, is much, much sadder. Crystal is not Esther, and my guess is the older she gets (and finds out what that actually means beyond getting crow's feet) the more acutely she'll feel the tragedy of Edwin and Charles' lives being cut short.

They'd eventually be older than each other in various ways. The boys with more time on earth, Crystal with more lived experience. The boys with more investigative experience, Crystal with more practical wisdom. There would be so many overlapping, swirled together dynamics, richer and deeper and more intricate as years pass.

The boys getting a front-row seat to what it means to travel through time, Crystal experiencing the strange way time travels past the boys. Adventuring with them keeps her young, walking through life with her keeps them dynamic, connected to the living world.

And then Charles and Edwin would have to face her death. The pain of loving something that doesn't last forever, losing it, and then carrying their ever-shifting grief, the way memories become a presence, how they change and fade and turn to gold. And what an inescapably human experience that is. What an elemental part of life.

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I've seen a lot of people who think that Charles would initiate the first Payneland kiss. And while that's very possible, I think it would be one of the only impulsive things Edwin has done in his (after)life. Plus, I think Charles would be too worried about messing something up to kiss Edwin first.

What I imagins is Charles finally realizes his feelings towards Edwin are more than 'he's my best mate.' He immediately confesses cause we all know these two can't keep anything from each other.

As Charles is rambling about how he loves Edwin but he's sorry that it took himself so long to realize, Edwin is just staring at him with the most loving face.

He leans in and cuts Charles off mid-sentence. When the two pull away they're both giggling, blushing messes.

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Every Edwin Payne Scene (13/?)

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Character Aesthetics: Charles Rowland

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Take 40 seconds out of your day to be immersed in the chicken coop

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i think you should be allowed to cite scholars who are bad people but only if you put the word (oof) or (yikes) after their name

like Parker (yikes, 1989) or Obbink (big oof, 2007)

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Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

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charles can't get drunk like a living person anymore, but when he's kissing edwin it feels like he can. his mind narrows down to one focus, his sense of touch is magnified, he's nearly dizzy with elation and want, he's unstable on his feet and prone to dropping onto the nearest semi-flat surface - but there's no unpleasant burn down his throat from liquor he doesn't like, there's no underlying nausea, waiting for the other shoe to drop when he gets too drunk, when his giggles slow down and he just wants to be held; there's none of that, because this drunkeness is something altogether different. altogether more lovely and loving and addicting than anything he'd experienced while alive. edwin's lips on his, his hands in charles' hair, on his waist and hips, pulling him closer, closer, closer, and holding him there. edwin's mouth leaving marks on him that scream he is wanted, loved, and entirely belonging to the boy he loves. he knows he tends to kiss edwin back a bit frantically, a bit desperately, but he can't ever bring himself to hold back when he's drunk on edwin's kisses like this, and the sounds edwin makes when charles shows him how much he wants him back, loves him back, ensure that he doesn't have any reason to stop. they're ghosts drunk on each other

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I’ve been in a bit of a writing slump so here is some soft Charles and Edwin in Animal Crossing style

I also figured that my line art looks so much like a colouring page, I would let others colour if they would like to!

Please tag me if you do colour it, I would love to see how others do it :)

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Friendly reminder that you should

Write that fic

Draw your OC

Redesign that blorbo

Plan that comic how you want

Create the content you want to see

Be cringe

Be free

The only thing that matters is you having fun! Not what others think!

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* 02/23 EDIT: The survey is now closed! My assignment is not due till Thursday, but I need time to make venn diagrams and do the write-up report, so I am closing it now. Thank you so much to everyone who responded to it!!! I got 112 responses, which was way more than I needed and I am so thankful for each and every one of you who responded!! I'll share the results from the survey later this week for those interested!

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Hello DBDA fandom! :D

As part of an assignment for one of my college classes, I need to conduct a 3-question yes/no survey. I chose to do mine about ships from Dead Boy Detectives, as I felt this was the easiest way to gain a lot of responses. If you are indecisive about any question, just answer which way your heart is leaning more towards(for example, if you only kind of like Charles/Crystal as a ship- say yes, if you're neutral or don't feel much for Crystal/Niko- put no, etc).

Note- Names are required, but will only be used for data organization purposes. If you wish to put your username, a nickname, or a random name, you may! You don't need to put any part of your legal name if you don't want to, but I just need something.

Let me know if any of you are unable to open or access the survey for whatever reason! I need at least 30 responses, so please reblog and share around if you can! Thank you in advance to all who participate in the survey!