#The detective versus the christmas tree bandits

[drownedscribe]

JUMPY DONNIE :D

[dearreaders-things]

underrated moment of the newest longform was when tom as frankie got very animated explaining to luke as donnie how he's been taking care of him. "all the spreadsheets! all the admin!" and then sam bursts out laughing backstage and luke pauses and goes "i feel like you're bringing a lot of reality into this scene" 😭😭😭

[je-lurk]

RIP Donnie, you were loved

[farraday-yes]

Memes I made because I gave another watch to The Detective vs The Christmas Bandits again :)))

All those characters are precious to me and I love them. They all have happy endings and definitely no tragic death at all.

[i-may-be-an-emu]

I’m crying they’re so jumpy

[thinkingabout-girls]

“family resemblance” and then your brother has to go and be a whole head taller than you

[youling-the-ghost]

I fucking love how this fandom saw this guy

and went "he looks so biteable. I want to squeeze him and microwave him and put him in a blender."

[solo-walker]

Hear me out: Frankie and Rupert Sr.

One with a brother he loved deeply and lost and one with a brother he has barely known (or that's what I'm assuming, considering their perceived age difference). One knowing he was irreplaceable and loved in return by his only remaining family member and the other returning from a living hell to find that nothing has changed and that he's been buried already. Both misunderstood. Both abandoned. Both survivors.

[sunwayholm]

This show has brought me back from the dead

[goingroundincircles-ontrack]

Like the rest of the fandom I am insane over donnie and frankie so I have done a little doodle of them

I've been going insane over how donnies jacket is too big and how frankies is too small

[drownedscribe]

The way he just... flops

[moulinruno]

So, we've all collectively adopted Donnie it seems

[i-may-be-an-emu]

hi hi hi do you want to make me sob (/lh)

Something something how Frankie's hair matches Donnie's jacket and how Donnie's hair matches Frankie's jacket. They're both always together even if no one realises it because they've become so important to each other that they subconsciously choose things to wear or have around them that reminds each of them of their brother. How that makes the death at the end even more tragic because they're finally apart, but Frankie still has the jacket to remind him of Donnie, so he'll always be there but never again physically, something something.

[farraday-yes]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Detective v The Xmas Tree Bandits - Shoot From The Hip Sketch, Shoot From The Hip - Fandom

Donnie put a hand on them, feeling for the sticky residue of sap at his fingertips. If his touch faltered at a tree for even a second, he’d leave it off for another week.

He knew he wasn’t good at a lot of things, it was obvious from the pity those kids at the orphanage sent Frankie’s way. Donnie’s hand slid up and down the zipper of his leather jacket as he thought about it. Donnie was the hand full, the screw up, the twitch. If only those ankle-biters could see him now. He’s got his uses, even if they’re only pine tree-related.

--- Donnie and Frankie's got a hard life. At least they got Christmas trees. And Each other.

I just finished writing this and I had a grand old time writing 1950s New York brothers! I gave Donnie some hobbies and expanded on their story before the events of the play :D

[i-may-be-an-emu]

puts him in my pocket

[thinkingabout-girls]