#yes this is about dead boy detectives

[reinanova]

me: i can be normal about this piece of media i just consumed

also me, 20 seconds later:

hello ao3 my old friend

[iiivanillacreamiii]

watching a canceled Netflix show is so heartbreaking bc i knew it would feel unfinished and i would be sad but

HOLY SHIT.

FUCK NETFLIX.

[lutheban]

Hey remember right before the pandemic when a season of a show was about 15-20 episodes? Remember when having 8 episodes what called "a mini-series"? Remember when we could get a season a year and not wait 2 years to get a continuation of a story? remember when shows had time to grow and form an audience? remember that? yeah? cuz i do

[eclecticworm]

if two ghosts kissed do you think they'd both be able to feel it?

[littlechameleonguy]

I'm so glad I have Tumblr and can ramble to all of you about every detail of my current hyperfixation instead of annoying the shit out of my people... ^^°

[romanticallyghosting]

the urge to write fanfiction about my new media obsession vs the fact that i have NO clue what the premise would even be.....

[dyketennant]

when the characters call each other their “partner” as some sort of formality (detectives, business, agency, etc.) but it also has a double meaning/homoerotic undertones

[noecantsleep]

ship so good they had to cancel the fucking show

[dextheartist]

Happy Pride!

I drew this June last year but forgot to post it anywhere and then pride was over. You cannot believe the amount of patience it took not to post this silly little mini comic.

Some close ups:

[technically-human]

Beings and entities, @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are has once again approached me with an amazing concept, so we present to you... a fusion, Steven Universe style! we're calling him Charwin because we can't be creative all the time.

AND there's lore. It's us, of course there's lore.

I tried to include it in the comics themselves, but basically, there was a case of dissappearing ghosts. Just like Esther, the people behind this were trying to use the pure energy to their advantage. These rocks are supposed to amplify the energy, but it kept resulting on the ghosts dissipating. The boys were captured and experimented on (yes that's horrifying. Not pictured here because... the reverse verse is angsty enough, so I wanted this one to be a bit more fluffy), but since they both went through Hell, they're stronger than your average ghost, and the rocks stayed on! The fusion was an unexpected side effect.

Plus he can make a weapon appear! it is just an oil lamp though.

[isnt-that-wizardd]

there is just something about the difference between edwin's love interests and having the cat king's reaction to edwin in hell being "i'll be waiting when he gets back" vs charles "no version of this where i don't come get you" rowland convincing a powerful trans-dimensional being to open a door to hell just so he could get him back

i am insane

[coloursflyaway]

As much as I love (and understand) everyone being wild about Edwin in Port Townsend, you can't tell me that clients don't fall in love with Charles left and right, too.

Have you seen the boy?

The softest, warmest brown eyes you could imagine, surrounded by the longest lashes. A nose so regal it would make Greek sculptors cry with joy. Cheekbones so sharp you could cut a diamond on them. Curls you want to card your fingers through and never stop again. A smile so brillant it could replace the sun.

I'm sure there's an army of people just swooning over Charles back in England.

And Edwin? Edwin would have hated that ever since it happened the first time, but now he knows why it hurts that much when someone calls Charles babe or luv or darling and I am pretty sure that that would make it so much worse.

[minnaeatsbread]

let us take a second to appreciate how well done the edwin-getting-sacrificed-to-a-demon-flashback is. it's insane

First of all: switching the picture to have the borders on the side is an amazing use of medium. it's creative and shows that a) we're in a completely different context than before and b) that context is from a long time ago. the black and white not only helps that but also shows a sort of bleak atmosphere, the dark is very pronounced and this is how edwin seems to see his world at that time.

Second of all, the music? having that unsettling, "knocking" sound is already very cool (traditionally i would interpret that knocking as the devil like in the opera "der freischütz". don't ask about it i'll yap for hours) but something about the instruments makes it sound like the music for a very old movie; it's sort of distorted because of the audio quality of these old recordings. it reminds me of those silent movies that are creepy because everything is - in lack of a better word - wrong. The picture is grainy, the audio is tinny. something about it is unsettling.

In conclusion: it's cold, dark, sort of claustrophobic. And that interestingly makes it very, very, different than Charles' death scene. I love this show.

[tragedy-machine]

You know what would be funny? If Niko got Edwin into a boy band, any boy band, preferably a slightly alternative one, and if he mainly just liked them because he thought the main vocalist is cute

Charles is very confused, like, "I've tried to get him into my music for years and nothing stuck, but he likes this??"

Niko buys Edwin a poster of the vocalist, which he dutifully hangs in a strategic position, so he's able to glance at it from time to time while sitting at his desk

And only then does Charles get what Edwin really likes about the band and he's confused as to why he feels the need to block the poster from view every time he talks to Edwin, but he just does

Just Edwin having fun with Niko fangirling about the band, but being all prim and Edwin about it, Charles getting an existential crisis about being jealous of a poster of a curly-haired punk boy with shiny earrings

[montyfinchirl]

when payneland eventually gets together i fully believe they date for one week and then send out the wedding invitations

[not-the-living-ghost]

people who see edwin as an innocent little lamb have him all wrong. that man is a complete bitch and a whore-and-a-half and i absolutely love that for him, put some respect on his name fr 🙏