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[mcr-themed-brain]

"Not platonic not romantic but a secret 3rd thing" its called a QUEERPLATONIC PARTNERSHIP and u better put RESPECT on its name!!!!

[idliketobeatree]

no actor interpretation will ever fuck me up as badly as mr. rexstrew's "he starts to crave it", i think. "he's touch-starved" is very general and also fitting to charles, probably. but edwin, craving charles' touch specifically is— like. do you know what happens to people who are craving. how they cannot focus on anything else besides the singular point of need so bad it writhes and itches under their skin and wants to crawl over to their source of affection. and the slow-stretching, maddening timeframe which encapsulates the graduation from "this is not hurtful" to "this is... nice?" to "oh. oh" to "i need it i need him i need him i need him" like he can feel it in his teeth and fingernails and how charles once nuzzled his neck briefly during a hug so he makes sure to bare his whole throat the next time he has a chance to have a heart-to-heart. hoping, wishing for, yes, craving as much as charles will give him. perhaps, if the confession goes well, edwin will get to feel charles' phantom breath on the side of his neck or even the tip of his nose— if he's lucky. and it won't be enough, but a few moves with a shovel to cover a deeply dug grave is not either, so. what can you do

[king-of-colors]

i love charles rowland and his fuck ass dangly earring <3

[bluepandaears]

I could not help but reading this while picturing Edwin taking it much too seriously.

After nearly four years of construction at an estimated cost of 750 million souls, Corpadverticus, the new 10th circle of Hell, finally opened its doors Monday.

The Blockbuster Video-sponsored circle, located in Nether Hell between the former eighth and ninth levels of Malebolge and Cocytus, is expected to greatly alleviate the overcrowding problems that have plagued the infernal underworld in recent years. The circle is the first added to Hell in its countless-millennia history.

“A nightmarishly large glut of condemned spirits in recent years necessitated the expansion of Hell,” inferno spokesperson Antedeus said. “The traditional nine-tiered system had grown insufficient to accommodate the exponentially rising numbers of Hellbound.”

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[ent-is-indecisive]

so i spent 10hrs on this (didnt mean to) and i didnt like the colours, so i did some bullshit and voilà. the gang all having fun. i realise this is not ideal for viewing on a small screen. however tumblr lets you zoom into images so i don't feel too bad about it. shout at me if it's still inconvenient and i'll post some closeups or something. artist out (past my bedtime)

putting the og colours and some alternatives under the cut as usual.

also dont question me on the bg.

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

For more joint research with @ingridmatthews (we actually agree on this one though)

This feels like a WOULD YOU PRESS THE BUTTON thing lmao

[pringle-slut]

charles going all moon-eyed over edwin on a regular basis after they get back to london, completely unaware of it. he'll get distracted thinking abt their conversation on the stairs, about what it might've been like if he'd answered differently, and he thinks he's keeping a chill exterior but really he's looking at edwin all awed and reverent. crystal bemoans that she cant snap a picture of it to torment him with later, but manages to draw a sketch of it she thinks will suffice. edwin, for his part, is very much not oblivious to this and in fact just trying to ignore it. he almost questioned charles about it a week or so into the long stretches of 🥺 but never managed to work up the nerve, and by time he catches crystal snickering to herself about it, he's more inclined to poke her brain about it. they confer while charles is out, which is how crystal accidentally lets edwin know she knows, but only because she'd kind of assumed based on charles' whole vibe. edwin wishes ghosts didnt blush, but asks what she, as a detective, deduces charles feelings to be. she goes all serious and tells him exactly what she knows to be true: charles loves you more than he does the rest of the world combined. he couldn't see the forest for the trees, but you gave him a map. he's finding his way there, just give him time. and maybe some hints.

[shadows-and-starlight]

Imagine Crystal has a daughter that can see them. Or a son who can't, but then years later a granddaughter who can.

"You look just like your grandmother." Edwin says with a fond yet sad smile.

(the idea of an immortal befriending a family of supernatural lineage is dabbled with in Sandman, so the framework is there)

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.

[ur-localkiwi]

some cute beans go to Universal Studios

[once-more-with-anxiety]

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[ouchmyghostskin]

Everything Nice pages 24-28

Pages 1-14

Pages 15-23

Crystal: "Why? What happened with the original ghost flavors"

Edwin: "Ah. It was very experimental. We were transported and subsequently trapped in the Cretaceous Period for approximately 6 months "

Charles: "Also it tasted rank"

[diangelodork]

they can’t btw also who put water in my eyes lol that was so weird haha

"...curious whether either of us can survive separation..." - Will Graham (Hannibal S3E6)

[arrow-jsy]

[sthilarions]

Canonically-queer British supernatural PI in the supernatural sector of the DC universe who’s mostly-good but doomed to Hell and spends much of his time and energy trying to legalese or flee his way out of that, whose primary trauma involves a child being dragged undeservingly to Hell due to a botched demon summoning, who does his PI thing largely to try to cosmically compensate for his metaphysically-assumed-guilt, who has a weird relationship with the Endless, and is deeply in gay love with his concerningly loyal British BFF who can viably go by the nickname Chas, who is his muscle/meat shield and spent the 80s in the British-punk-music scene

Am I talking about John Constantine or Edwin Payne?

[genevievefangirl]

Okay, there has been a lot of discussion about Edwin saying Charles' actions were "extreme", but I actually think that, from Edwin's perspective, Charles' reaction is extreme.

It's not about Charles hitting the Night Nurse, Charles hits things all the time. It is the way that Charles is clearly *freaking out* while hitting her. Charles' emotions are all over the place, and Edwin both isn't used to that and has no idea why. Edwin doesn't get to see into Charles' memories like we have. He doesn't know the trauma that Charles was just put through.

From Edwin's perspective, Charles goes from being his usual protective but relatively calm self to all of a sudden being *furious* and *upset* and putting those emotions into the violence.

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