#my DMW agenda

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Back on the bullshit!!! Yeah, sorry, four images of canon Skulduggery Pleasant stuff was too much, now I‘m back fangirling over the Dead Men Walking AU by @purplejabberwock. I‘m currently rereading book 6 and I‘m celebrating with this drawing of Solomon Wreath, who is covered in sigils because he contains Lord Vile‘s Armor (it‘s a long, but very awesome story). Go check out this amazing AU! I won‘t rest until all of the SP fandom has read it!

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Yes, that‘s very reassuring, thank you! I hope your muse finds you well. I know people asking when sequels are coming can be stressful and It’s not my intention to put pressure on you, just know that I‘ll be patiently waiting for whenever you manage to keep going. I have the „oh my god it‘s happening“ gif ready to send to my friends when there is a next part, no matter when that may be. Until then I‘m happy rereading and drawing my little fan arts about it. Thanks again and all the best!

Hey, I‘m kind of a die hard DMW fan. Since I discovered them in 2021, your works have replaced Canon in my heart and I‘ve been much happier about the SP fandom since my friend recommended me your fics. I‘ve actually drawn some fan art on my Tumblr if you‘re interested, and last year for Christmas I (very clumsily) bound the first book for myself and 3 of my friends.

All that being said, I‘ve been dying to know if you‘re still planning on continuing the series eventually. I know you‘ve been busy IRL and I‘ve been trying not to get my hopes up, but it would really give me some closure/make my day to know.

You deserve the world for DMW and all that you and AmaraqWolf have already written in that verse, I‘ve never loved a fanfic that much before. You made me love characters that barely even existed in canon and DMW makes me feel safe while still being exciting and suspenseful. Just, thank you for writing.

Oh and if you would like to have the pdf I formatted for the books I‘d be happy to send it to you.

'Clumsily'. Those are gorgeous is what they are. I'm very glad you've taken them offline where you can't lose them, especially in such a lovely manner. Not that I remove my creative works, as a rule, but there's no quite telling what the Internet will do, so I always encourage people to make copies.

To answer your question: yes, I am still writing DMW. I've been thinking about it a lot lately. When I might, I dare not speculate, let alone promise. Sometimes the knowledge that people are waiting on it has its own dampening effect, so I'm slowly training myself not to be bothered by the expectation. (Don't feel bad about being hype, though. I'm a reader too. Sometimes you just Want.)

It's funny to me when people say 'I know you're busy irl' because honestly, writing *is* my irl. If I'm not writing one thing I'm writing another (or trying to figure out my shit so I get back to writing. Unpacking from the move comes under this header). The biggest competitor to my time is video games. And the need to work for income for shelter and sustenance, I GUESS.

There's a lot I want to write and each has their season, but the writing will always be there. The series is not over yet. Until it is, it will be there waiting for me. Hopefully that's as reassuring as I meant it to be.

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Hell Breaks Loose - Thoughts

First of all, the book is extremely short. Like less than three hours read. It's 320 pages long, because it is written in the largest font I've seen in over a decade. I read books with font this large when I was six. Part of me feels like I'm being made fun of for being 23 and still reading Skulduggery Pleasant, the other part of me thinks they just desperately wanted to stretch this so it seems longer. To give you an idea, here is a comparison between HBL and my copy of SP10:

Apart from this, yeah, it‘s a fun read. On par with the last few books of the series. I laughed a couple of times, but tbh I‘ve become a bit jaded with the recent books and I wasn‘t expecting anything amazing. I got what I expected. There‘s some nice tidbits of new info about the war: A character who‘s been a mentor to Skulduggery and Ghastly, Hopeless appears obviously, and Ghastly‘s mother gets a name. So yay for that? There were things to like for sure, but let's just say there's a plot twist that made me groan bc *of course* in a not good way, and people die (again) and it doesn't matter (again).

I still think everyone would be better off just reading Dead Men Walking by @purplejabberwock (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976) which is an incredibly well thought out alternate universe Skulduggery Pleasant Book Series (literally Books 1-6 so far with several prequels) where all the Dead Men are still alive. Hopeless has an actual personality in that one, so does Larrikin, Erskine isn't evil and it's both comforting feel good hilarious Dead Men shenanigans and also really exciting and suspenseful. If you still like canon, good for you. If you've become disillusioned, read Dead Men Walking. Trust me on this.

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hey! i saw your dead men walking bookbinding! it looks INCREDIBLE!!!! i've been trying to do the same thing for months lol. if u ever want to talk about the series, i'm always down. best wishes!!!

Oh thanks! Good luck with your own project! If you need bookbinding tips, I've joined this discord server https://discord.gg/UHkUCU2n there's lots of really good book binders on there who were always happy to help me with my questions (tbh DMW was my very first project apart from little notebooks, so while it turned out pretty cool, there's A LOT of room for improvement)

I'm also always very happy to talk about DMW, it's always so refreshing to meet people who get it when I rant about how great Descry and Rover are and how Erskine is great, actually, he didn't kill anyone, he built a magical city and it's awesome. I'll hit you up when I get around to another reread :)

In the meanwhile, I tag all of my DMW fanart as #dead men walking, theres a few on this blog if you want to check those out. (</end self promotion> :D)

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When Baron Vengeous returns and uses Vile‘s armour, Skulduggery‘s secret must be revealed in the truly heartbreaking chapter 18 in book 2 of Dead Men Walking (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976). There‘s much more to the scene but drawing everything would take forever. And fyi Saracen and Erskine are also there, they just didn’t say anything so I didn‘t draw them.

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Solomon Wreath and Erskine Ravel in Dead Men Walking (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976) 😁😎 If you‘re a Skulduggery Pleasant fan and want to love Erskine again, please read this. It‘s soooooo good.

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Let me introduce you to Descry Hopeless. If you thought the Dead Men were cool and impressive, well, let me tell you about the coolest one. Hopeless is an immensely powerful mind reader. He reads the thoughts of everyone around him at all times. He spied on Mevolent during the war, he's the reason Meritorius was never assassinated, he's saved the Dead Men countless times and is as close to omniscient as a person can be. His magic is one of the best kept secrets around.

Due to his abilities, he's also the most empathetic person you have ever known. He knows you better than yourself and is a phenomenal therapist because of it. He can read a person so deeply that not only does he know all their secrets, even the ones they hide from themselves, but he also becomes them in a sense. You think you're fighting Hopeless? No. You are fighting yourself.

If you want to know more about Descry Hopeless, his origins, his friendship with Skulduggery and Ghastly, his ascent to Grand Mage of Ireland, you should really read https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976 and some of the other works of the amazing purplejabberwock on AO3. If you've gotten disillusioned with Landy, give this a chance. I promise, you will love it.

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This is an OC from the Dead Men Walking Series (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976). Bonza Digger is a Detective in a City where Mortals and Sorcerers live together in harmony and everyone knows about magic. She‘s a burrower like Sanguine and pretty cool. For example, she pulls Sanguine out of a wall and doses him with platypus venom, which interrupts magic and is pretty painful. She‘s also pretty funny and calls everyone „mate“ 😄

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Mistress Aoife is Ghastly‘s mother. She‘s short, buff and boisterous, flirts jokingly just like the Dead Men and adopted Skulduggery as soon as she met him. (With his pants down in Ghastly‘s shop while Ghastly stitches up a gunshot wound on his butt.) She‘s from the Dead Men Walking Universe (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976) and can be found in the prequel stories by purplejabberwock and AmaraqWolf on AO3. Honestly I wish she featured more because she‘s amazing and everyone should have a mother like that. Also the fact that she was around for much of the war and probably mothered all the Dead Men is such a cute thought….

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Seven sleeping Dead Men and one Dead Man who is taking a picture because he finds them adorable 🥰 (Descry Hopeless and Rover Larrikin are from my favorite SP fic https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976 by purplejabberwock on AO3)

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Anton Shudder and Rover Larrikin. This is part of my crusade to make every SP fan on Tumblr read Dead Men Walking by purplejabberwock on AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976). Please read this, I need people to draw fan art with me. Also it‘s the ultimate Erskine redemption and perfect Larrikin and Hopeless. God Hopeless, I love him so much…

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Rover Larrikin from purplejabberwock‘s Dead Men Walking (https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976). Rover is an Elemental with a tragic backstory, but he‘s also a people person who keeps the team together. He is the one who brought everyone back together after the war, he and Dex also got married once because they needed an excuse to throw a party. There are frequent discussions about who is the husband and who is the wife 😄

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Miss Liliya Artemis, another Dead Men Walking character. She is a confident sorceress who‘s biggest pain in the ass is that annoying Skulduggery Pleasant who keeps who keeps following her around and needling her in a misguided attempt to flirt. Yes, this is Skulduggery‘s wife and she‘s as cool and competent as any partner of Skulduggery would have to be. You can read about her in purplejabberwock‘s Dead Men Talking on AO3.

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Explanation: This is again from purplejabberwock‘s Dead Men Walking AU, this time from the work https://archiveofourown.org/works/913237/chapters/1770154 which has origin stories for the Dead Men. This is Rover Larrikin, an elemental with a past so tragic he often turns himself to stone to escape. I re-read Larrikin‘s story again yesterday and I have so many feelings that I needed to draw something.

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Macha Morrígna is another cool character from the Dead Men Walking Series. She‘s an ex-cleaver who didn‘t become a ripper after her service so she could care for her daughter Gail. She now heads security at the sanctuary and trains Cleavers.

DMW by purplejabberwock: https://archiveofourown.org/series/49976