#dead boy detectives aesthetic

[wolfboy88]

Thiam as Dead Boy Detectives Edwin & Charles

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

Charles Rowland: Pain, Love, Desire.

"For love is no part of the dreamworld. love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel" — Death of the Endless, from The Sandman: The Doll's House.

[sources: quote by katie maria // cover for documentary film dance craze by joe massot // cover for do the dog by the specials // seasons of mists, episode 4 // vamperinee on tumblr // seasons of mists, episode 4 // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // (?) // quote by friedrich nietzsche // i would leave me if i could by halsey // dead boy detectives, episode 8 // poster for donnie darko by let's eat grandma // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // (?) // poster for do you really want to hurt me by culture club // dead boy detectives, episode 4 // poetryforall on tumblr // to the busted among us, sharks in the rivers by ada limón // a pearl by mitski // dead boy detectives, episode 1 // letter to ruth tiffanny beuscher written by sylvia plath, july, 1962 // quote by katie maria]

[timecrayon]

"Dying a second time, now, there was no complaint to her husband (what, then, could she complain of, except that she had been loved?)"

Dead Boy Detectives (2024) / Hadestown (2016) / Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) / Kaos (2024) / Talk - Hozier / Metamorpheses - Ovid

[i-live-in-my-bookshelf]

I live for *insert any homoerotic male love interests that were not canon but also so down bad for each other even the actors want it to happen*

[humanperspective]

Charles Rowland - Dead Boy Detectives

[technically-human]

The cat queen…?

The Cat Queen

ko-fi

[hisbodycorpse]

𝐂͟𝐚͟𝐭͟𝐞͟𝐝͟𝐫͟𝐚͟𝐥. 黑河邊燭光守夜、 ⛪️

𒉴 ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ⌖ ©💭 I̸̝͍̟̙̔̉n̸̙̝̙̓̏̑ͅs̴̱̠̳̙̤͑͗͛̉t̴͈̤̃̒̆͊̚r҈̬͚̖̥̳͐̈͐̓u҈̖͖͙̞̫̌̉i̶̗͔̫͍͆̌̉d҈͍̭͇̜͋̃̈͆a҉̬̤̳̠̩͛̎̇̂̈́

[aruart]

Isn't he handsome?

[bones-clouds]

series i watched in 2024:

dead boy detectives

(2024)

[ksjb3rry]

“You can’t go around telling people ghosts are real. They’ll think you’re insane, which, maybe you are, but they’ll make things messy”.

— Edwin Payne, Dead Boy Detectives

⪩͜⊹͜⪨ ݁ ִ  ۫ ꔵ 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗯𝘆 @𝗸𝘀𝗷𝗯𝟯𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗿 ꒰ 🖋️ ꒱ ༉

🪦:: 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼 𝘄 𝗻𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 ! ༄ ⌇ ⚗️

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland (1910s Artist AU)

And Edwin's heart stops when he sees the uncovered canvases, these glimpses into Charles' soul, because finally, Edwin understands. 

Because Edwin looks at the paintings and he sees the city, captured in expressionistic brushstrokes. He sees the same damn city he fell in love with, even with its smog and its underbelly and its crampedness and its bustle, because it was the city that brought Charles back to life. He sees the golds and the blacks and what might have been called chiaroscuro in another lifetime, another art movement. He sees Charles’ masterful ability to capture life and translate it into brushstrokes and shapes and colors.

And most importantly, Edwin sees himself. Sees a figure in some paintings and a face in others, all familiar sharp planes and dark hair and a bowtie and an overcoat that Edwin could not abandon back at St. Hilarion’s. He sees gray-green eyes the shade of lake water, except these are not waters a boy could drown in- these are the eyes of a boy who once pulled another boy from a lake.

And Edwin knows, in this moment, that Charles loves him. God, does Charles love him. 

Because Edwin sees the way that Charles paints him, all haloed by the bronze and gold streetlights, capturing the planes of Edwin’s face in the way that no photographs ever could, painting him sharp and witty and tired and beloved and alive, alive, alive.  

-aletterinthenameofsanity, you always look so lovely (paint how you see me)

@tragedy-machine @every-moment-a-different-sound @pappelsiin @mellxncollie @nix-nihili

@anything-thats-rock-and-roll @tumblerislovetumblerislife @catboy-cabin @bitterdesert @idliketobeatree

[inezrable]

How are they both so pretty???

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

Edwin Payne (1900 – 1916)

Dead Boy Detectives Agency

[source: wasted by marya hornbacher || dead boy detectives, episode 1 || all-night pharmacy by ruth madievsky || notion by the rare occasions || pin by margaret lee || dead boy detectives, episode 7 || anecdote of the pig by tory adkisson || dead boy detectives, episode 1 + a study in scarlet by arthur conan doyle || the duchess of padua by oscar wilde || tumblr]

edwin / charles / paineland / niko / crystal

[midnight-is-here]

[homoquartz]

get hype for my most rotten poll yet

[humanperspective]

Edwin Payne - Dead Boy Detectives