#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

[moranahasbones]

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.....

[technically-human]

Welcome to the reverse verse! This is part 1 of 2 of a commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are and I can't wait to tell you all about it, because I'm incapable of being normal and chill about these concepts, so I ran with it.

Charles Rowland was born in 1900, his mum was from India and moved to the UK after marrying Charles' dad, a soldier who was not... very loving. Charles' heritage gave him some problems, but none as bad as that one time in 1916 when he was sacrificed to a demon and spent the next 7 decades in Hell. He doesn't like to talk about it, except when it can get him what he wants. He was always an angry boy, or so he thought, but after his time spent in Hell, it became so much worse. He's explosive and unpredictable, and so he mostly avoids conflict. He doesn't need to fight anyone, as his charming personality and sweet smile (plus a few smart calculations) always seem to be enough to convince people to give him what he asks for. And when the fight is inevitable... well, he has Edwin for that!

Edwin Payne grew up very sheltered, in a deeply religious home, and he is proud of that. Don't try to argue with him, because he surely has a Bible verse that will help him win (and if not, he is not above using his croquet mallet now that he has someone to keep safe). Unfortunately for him, he realized at a quite young age that he felt attraction towards other boys. Even worse, somehow other people could tell as well, including those peers that ended up killing him for it (the rumour spread throughout school was that he had died due to AIDS, and most people just accepted it). He never acted on those unnatural urges of his, but when he met this ghost who had just escaped Hell... he decided not to risk eternal damnation, and to stay here with Charles, instead. Edwin has no interest in the supernatural or in magic, and sort of looks down on them, but luckily his friend's got that covered.

[noecantsleep]

ship so good they had to cancel the fucking show

[skateboardtotheheart]

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

[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

[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.

[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

[alltimefail]

HEY UM ARE YOU KIDDING ME MR. REVRI??

(Bonus pic just for the sillies below the cut)

He's precious, just a silly guy. Relatable though because I also look at chicken sandwiches with sincere awe and adoration

[wordsinhaled]

I won't deny I've got in mind now all the things I would do so I try to talk refined for fear that you find out how I'm imagining you I'd be the last shred of truth in the lost myth of true love — Hozier // Talk

[sweetlullabyebye]

So I've already made gifs of both of the hug scenes but I really do love them so here is a quick (hopefully) compare and contrast (if i don't get distracted halfway through)

First of all, there is the first shot before they hug, where we see only one face clearly, and each time the person is litteraly beaming

Then we get a shot of Charles, who definitely looks very cosy there, look at these hands (it's like that meme with 'relax bro ain't nobody takin [him] from u')

Then it's Edwin's reaction... who looks like he has never felt human touch the first time and takes 20000 years to reciprocate before settling in with a (probably happy) sigh, while the second time around he's actually hugging Charles before Charles

Charles is the one pulling away first each time but keeping his hands on Edwin

And in both cases Edwin is the one who actually steps away except he takes way longer to do it the second time (they're like magnets, hard to pull away, good on them)

Then they definitely move away

And one of them puts his hand over his heart before looking at the other