1910's Music: Edwin Payne Style
The Doll Spider & The Blue Danube Waltz
How did Edwin listen to music in the 1910's?
What were Edwin's first/favorite piano pieces to play?
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Fanfics
my healing needed more than time
beautiful fanart: ch. 1 - ch. 4 - ch. 5 - ch. 6 - ch 10 - hand sewn plushie
Chapters: 21/23
Word count: 144k
After tangling with the spirit of a mad scientist, Edwin is left with a seven-year-old Charles that has no memory of him or their afterlife together. Edwin learns about Charles’s childhood in steps, as Charles finds his way back to the family he’s built by working through the trauma of his past.
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lux animalis
joint project with Tash for the DBDA zine
Chapters: 1/1
Word count: 4.3k
Edwin gets obsessed with the outcome of a personality quiz and casts a spell about it. Both he and Charles get more than they bargained for.
(features illustrations!)
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The Curious Misadventures of Ghosts & Glimmers
joint project with Tash
Chapters: 3/?
Word count: 3.3k
While on a case, Edwin accidentally summons magical, animalistic representations of his and Charles's emotional states.
Their presence is only supposed to last a few days.
The agency collectively decides that the little animals, despite their unpredictability, are too cute to let go.
(ft. chapter-specific illustrations!)
Sequel to lux animalis
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dye it all, rosary
beautiful fanart: ch. 1
Chapters: 2/2
Word count: 9.2k
Edwin doesn't understand how trauma works. He and Charles learn the hard way.
(A fic based on the long-lasting consequences of the Lust circles of Hell on Edwin's psyche)
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your virtue's my vice
Chapters: 2/3 (probably)
Word count: 6k
Charles spent a full year making making sure Edwin was comfortable with intimacy. Now, Edwin wants to know why Charles never talks about himself.
Sequel to dye it all, rosary
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foolish flame
beautiful fanart
Chapters: 1/1 (+ fanart)
Word count: 5.6k
Orb-based will-o'-the-wisp mythology case fic written for Painland Week. Charles finds out what it's like to be the brains for a day, and Edwin is enraptured by his partner's endless talents. They kiss about it.
Overloaded
Chapter: 3/3
Word count: 9.1k
The aftermath of being used as a witch's magical battery has left Edwin's spectral body wracked with daily pain. Despite Crystal's protests, he does not think that Charles needs to know.
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By Lantern’s Light
Chapters: 3/3
Word count: 13.6k
matching playlist
Edwin is kidnapped by a demon during a case, leaving Charles and Crystal to pick up his trail. It takes them four days to find him. AKA, a heartbreaking story of love and near loss told from three separate perspectives.
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I'm So Aces at Babysitting
Chapters: 2/2
Word count: 3.7k
Edwin babysits little Charles, and Charles babysits little Edwin. They go to the planetarium and the skate park, respectively.
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All of the below fics are part of my pre-canon series and should be read in order
The Case of the Selkie’s Skin
Chapters: 4/4
Word count: 14.1k
matching playlist
Charles and Edwin are hired by a recently deceased selkie to track down her skin, which was stolen from her and hidden away by her husband before he passed on. Charles finds that her story hits a little too close to home.
Victrola Blues
Chapters: 1/1
Word count: 3.6k
"[Edwin’s] past with music had unfortunately set him down a road that eventually ended with being murdered and imprisoned in Hell for seventy years. Most days, Edwin cannot help but believe that if his love of music hadn’t been so all-consuming, he may have gone on to live a full life."
Finally done this after a couple days! I love drawing movie stills.
When I initially started this I hadn't seen any art of Grace as the sun with planets orbiting him, now I see so many!!! It's an obvious idea so I was wondering why no one had done it. People had LOL. Anyway, here he is <3
I tried very hard to make the constellations Sirius and Vulpecula (Greater Hound and Little Fox)
andy weir claiming his story is apolitical is weird and incorrect for a lot of reasons but the biggest one for me is that the two main characters are entirely, vastly different creatures from each other, meeting for the first time in deeply scary and vulnerable situations, and each choose to greet the other as an equal, with excitement, curiosity, and, pardon the pun, grace. I just think that's a really remarkable story to tell in the world we live in.
anyway every time i post about ocd people start tagging the post like "wait this isn't normal?" and i always like to remind people that intrusive thoughts are normal. pretty much everyone experiences them. "what if i jumped off this balcony?" "what if i crashed my car right now for no reason?" "what if i yelled a curse word in the middle of this wedding?" everyone thinks these things from time to time. it's disordered thinking when the distress starts becoming intolerable.
"am i normal" is not as helpful question to ask as "are intrusive thoughts causing me frequent distress?" and "would my life be better if i could find a way to feel less distress/learn to tolerate the distress?"
millions and millions of people have ocd. having ocd is normal. you're normal. but what if you could feel better? what if living everyday in your own mind and body could be tolerable? is that something you want? need? these are questions to ask.
hiiii, yes I am! I'm just being slow because life is kicking my ass rn. in the meantime, have some Emotional Repression from my healing needed more than time, ch. 22
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"Then we should get back to work." Charles reached into his bag and pulled out a paper file. "We have another case on the docket, don't we? That grave-robbed nun at Westminster Abbey? Her rosary isn't gonna find itself."
"Sister Clarice died over a decade ago, Charles. Her rosary can wait another week if need be."
"Another week?" Charles protested. "How long do you want to shut the doors for?"
"For as long as necessary! You need time to rest."
"Ghosts don't need rest," Charles countered. "Pretty sure you taught me that."
"Nor do they have regular lapses in memory, but here we are."
Charles sighed and held out the file. "Look, mate. I get why you're worried, I really do. But we have cases to solve. We can't close, spirits need us."
Gingerly, Edwin took the file. He toyed with its corner, brow furrowed. "You're absolutely sure this is what you want?"
Charles paused. Was it what he wanted? It's what he wanted to want. It's what he should want. Never mind the small part of him that begged to ignore it all; to close his eyes and collapse into in Edwin's arms. He thought of his younger self again, small and warm and safe. What he wouldn't do to feel that way again.
"Love is Love", Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter [Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, & Francois Arnaud from Heated Rivalry], digital art
Mar 2026
A redraw of a redraw of a redraw, with an edit and an overhaul, plus an added "C" for the other two captains and not just Ilya. Please don't look too closely at their feet, I really messed up the skates in this version (then tried to steal those parts from the original, and then messed them up even more so went back to the less messy mess). There was almost a plan to "paint" the inside of each locker in the colour of the applicable pride flag, but it would have been way too busy.
