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dead boy detectives shitpost: Happy Anniversary babes!!!! hashtag dbda anniversary 2026

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Sooo Im participating in Fandom Trumps Hate for the first time ever!!!

I'm kinda terrified lol

As of today, i feel like I would vibe the most with writing Catwin for Dead Boy Detectives, but I'm mostly open to writing about other pairings/characters.

I hope that once GO3 airs in May, I'll get back into Aziraphale x Crowley writing mood

Aaaand I created a niche for myself by offering Companion (2025) fic (Eli x Patrick deserved so much better. but if you feel like making them suffer, what the hell, sure!)

I'm offering up to 5k words (but maybe more if the mood strikes?), with rating up to E (but I'll gladly write G or T or M!)

See KissMyAsthma's works <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/KissMyAsthma" target="_blank">here</a>!<br /><br />Questions for the cre

#catwin #the cat king #edwin payne #dead boy detectives #catwintines 2

Well idk where the last 2wks went, but I do still have fic rec lists to share! ✨ This time: a selection of Fic Series for your enjoyment!

Happy Reading!

A taper in a rushing wind by The_Consulting_Werewolf Edwin Paine, amateur detective, and Thomas King, his assistant solve cases together and maybe fall in love along the way. Wonderfully long case-fic series.

The Ballad of Edwin and Cat - Catwin Continity by perseid_lion This series of fics is a shared continuity following Edwin and Cat's relationship. A few months after their return to London from Port Townsend, the Cat King shows back up in Edwin’s life. He’s bent on courting Edwin, and has somehow acquired a magical collar that allows them to properly feel each other. Edwin meets him in secret, unsure of whether he’s ready to tell Charles about the relationship.

a light shared is a light increased by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse) Dr. Edwin Payne, consulting forensic pathologist and part-time detective, finally feels at peace with his life. Until a case comes along, bringing with it a man from his past and maybe, his future.

Fading Soul by eyeneversleep In a desperate attempt to get Niko back and to, certainly not, see him again, Edwin asks the Cat King for assistance. In true Edwin and Dead Boy Detective Agency fashion things do not go according to plan and the script is fiipped but is this their way of starting over? Can Edwin do it all while navigating his newfound feelings and previous affections?

The Cat King Chronicles by grammarglamour Catwin, poly, and TCK/OMC shenanigans.

The Blood of the Covenant by Acehavens The Cat King had imagined meeting Edwin again, quite a few times. He's concocted a fair amount of different ways they could potentially see each other again. Yet this had never been the scenario. Because firstly, Edwin's little buddy Charles is storming into his warehouse, cricket bat at the ready. That's not necessarily a mood killer, considering winding him up while he's already on the edge would certainly be amusing. But Edwin is trailing behind him looking positively...off.

Catwin drabble collection by Popodoki A collection of Catwin thoughts, in short drabbles or ficlets. Many wonderful shorts and smuts.

Fic: Once upon a midwinter's night

Enjoy some wintertime fluff for the Catwin Discord's wintertime prompt event: Catwinter 2, mix&match style! ✨🎄 @catwinevents

I have a vague plan and lots of prompts and we’re gonna see how many I can fit in here. So, settle in with a cozy blanket, favourite treat, and hot beverage of choice — we are going full Christmas movie holiday magic in this one.

Once upon a midwinter’s night

(2350 words) by megs_bee Chapters: 1/?

Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Relationships: Cat King/Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne

Tags: Alternate Universe, holiday magic, Alternate Universe - Bookstore, Christmas Magic, Cat King is Called Thomas (Dead Boy Detectives), Catwin - Freeform, catwinter, Loneliness, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary: Edwin tells himself he is content with running his bookshop in solitude, and ignores how that solitude has been shading ever further into loneliness. It’s his own fault he’s alone, after all. But as winter deepens and the holiday season approaches, he saves an injured cat and brings it home out of the cold…

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* When Edwin was younger, he was often alone but seldom lonely, despite having no friends save those in his beloved books. But the books never chided or teased him, and always invited him into their world, and in many ways he never felt the lack of company from others his age.

What a difference a few years of a having a friend made.

But that thought is the first step down a road Edwin refuses to think about. He locks away the ache and concentrates on keeping his footing on snow-slick concrete, instead.

Chapter 2

Merry Christmas for those who celebrate! 🌟🎄 Please enjoy some fluffy Catwin with this latest chapter. May not be as polished as my usual, but I wanted to get this posted in time for the actual Christmas days. 💙💛

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The cat wakes and knows that something is different. For one thing, he has a name, now, the sounds an echoing whisper across his senses. Thomas. A king of cats, in the old stories. The cat doesn’t believe he had a name before, but he likes the name Thomas, he thinks. It feels right.

And this is what really makes it clear to Thomas that something has changed—because he is aware of, understanding of, himself in a way he’s never been before. He is thinking, not just reacting on instinct.

Cats, of course, are always very sure of themselves; very certain that they are cats. But this is something more. He is something more.

On Ao3!

Chapter 3

New chapter time before my holidays end and I return to the workaday world. This fic has gone deeper into the lonely Edwin feels than I initially intended, but rest assured this story has a happy ending guaranteed. This chapter is a little fluffier than the last, too. Enjoy! 💙

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To Edwin’s mingled amusement and bemusement, Thomas becomes quite recognizable over the following days. Not only as Edwin’s shop cat observing customers with his unblinking golden gaze, but also throughout the neighbourhood at large thanks to his insistence on accompanying Edwin for errands, trotting at his side or riding high on Edwin’s shoulder.

Like a slim black shadow at his heels Thomas never strays far from Edwin’s side or sight, chatters noisily from his post at Edwin’s feet or upon his shoulder, and treats every person they encounter with a haughty disdain that Edwin rather amusedly admires.

Yet perhaps the most interesting thing is how the presence of Thomas seems to encourage so many of his neighbours to talk to Edwin.

On Ao3!

Chapter 4

New chapter is up! This is the last angsty one, I promise 💖

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

For the first time in two years, with a close companion in Thomas and two new friends in Niko and Crystal, Edwin realizes he feels…mostly happy. Each day Thomas is at his side, curious and mischievous in equal measure. Each night they curl up together in the armchair before the fire. They talk about their day—or, well, Edwin talks while Thomas meows his approval or hisses disagreement as appropriate. Some nights Edwin reads aloud, others Thomas decides he wishes to play and they spend an hour catching ribbons and chasing toys. Sleep is shared in Edwin’s big bed, rendered a little less lonely with two wrapped in the blankets warm against the winter chill.

They are some of the loveliest days that Edwin has enjoyed in some time.

Then there are the dreams. Nearly every night, now, Edwin dreams of the same handsome stranger with dark curls and amber-green eyes and a honey-sweet voice.

On Ao3!

Chapter 5

I swear this fic was supposed to be fluffy and not nearly So Many Feels, but here we are.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Thomas watches Edwin carefully over the next few days. Edwin teases and talks to Thomas, and holds him close cuddled up in sleep, and smiles small and pleased when greeting their neighbours. But he’s still sad, and Thomas wants to fix it.

There’s only so much he can do as a cat—even though with each day and night that passes he knows he is something more than a cat, now. That living with, talking with, loving Edwin and being cared for in return, has changed Thomas in some indefinable way.

And that change brings with it desperate desires, for things Thomas wants so badly even knowing that they’re impossible. It hurts to think of those wishes, though, and he does his best not to dwell on them.

What he can do, however, is focus on the possible and so Thomas sets himself to figuring out how to make Edwin happy. To soften the edges of that haunting sadness.

The only thing he can think of is to find the friend Edwin thinks he’s lost. To find Charles.

Read on Ao3!

Chapter 6

The penultimate chapter!

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Edwin looks out through the glass and sees the ocean of stars glittering silver and gold across the ink-black sky, far above the city, clearer tonight than he has seen for a long time. He can’t help but think again it is somehow magical, that the stars so old and distant can be seen as though close enough to touch. Their light so pale and silvery, yet somehow warm.

But it’s wonderfully appropriate for this night—Christmas Eve, after a wonderful day reuniting with Charles, and now a quiet evening with Thomas, looking forward into the new year. One that Edwin now has no doubt will be better than all those that have come before.

With Thomas cradled in a warm ball against his chest, he settles into the quiet, his eyes on the stars. The longer he gazes at those glittering pinpricks of light, the more magical the night feels—as though anything were possible.

Read on Ao3!

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And a little bonus

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dead boy detectives cat king shitpost: the most sane and normal lovesick catboy

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freaky shit happening in the alley behind the butcher shop

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Catwintines Fic Recs!

Too Many Cats by perseid_lion

After an accident on a case, the Cat King is split into each of his five lives: Tabby, Brown, Orange, Black and White. The Agency must find a way to put him back together again, while also tracking down a sorcerer who has been slicing ghosts from their spectral energy.

In Between Breaths by makethisusername

He could smell the ocean, feel the sun shining on his face. They were at the beach. Finally a proper date, just like Edwin deserved.

Thomas opened his eyes to see the ghost looking at him with the brightest smile. Edwin framed his face, “There you are.” His thumb swiped over Thomas' cheekbone.

“Here I am,” Thomas murmured, eyes taking in every inch of the face in front of him. He covered the hand on his cheek and brought it to his lips. He landed a kiss to Edwin’s palm, then to the inside of his wrist. Then he nuzzled his cheek into the ghost’s palm again. “I missed you.”

When you catch the light by HeeroTheShiro

It's been 8 months since the events of Port Townsend have brought Edwin Paine to where he is now: back in London, solving mysteries, growing closer to his friends, and forever pining for something he can't have...

Is it even possible to fall out of love with Charles Rowland? Edwin Paine doesn't think so.

However, one day a stray, black cat shows up on the rooftop. Unexpectedly, this feline friend may just offer Edwin what he so desperately needs....

Falling In Love is The Easy Part by Sorion

Edwin is very happy to find a visitor waiting for him in the office of the Dead Boy Detective Agency. Charles has a harder time accepting what follows than expected.

Son of Desire, Friend of Despair by Sorion

Edwin and the Cat King come to an understanding to mutually battle their loneliness.

A taper in a rushing wind by The_Consulting _Werewolf

Edwin Paine, amateur detective, and Thomas King, his assistant solve cases together and maybe fall in love along the way.

Fading Soul (Try Again + Haunt The Earth) by eyeneversleep

The case of Niko Sasaki is reopened. In a desperate attempt to get Niko back and to, certainly not, see him again, Edwin asks the Cat King for assistance. In true Edwin and Dead Boy Detective Agency fashion things do not go according to plan and the script is fiipped but is this their way of starting over? Can Edwin do it all while navigating his newfound feelings and previous affections?

Sometimes it's ok to want something private and all to yourself and when the winds of change arrive it's ok to lean into it. Edwin will learn all of this. Eventually.

I will fall in love with you, over and over again by plutosapphicstay

“You’re a classic, aren’t you?”

Of all the descriptions the Cat King has given Edwin, a classic is not one of them. "I'm not quite sure what you mean."

"It's nothing bad to be, not in the slightest," the Cat King says, earnest. "You appreciate the way things are and the way they were, seeing the beauty in both sides. You probably got a bunch of first editions back home- Oscar Wilde, Allen Poe, all the best of the Lake Poets." He shifts forward on his knees to where Edwin sits, brings himself just an inch closer to the space between his legs. "Think Art Noveau, letters written by candlelight instead typed up in telegrams, dances in ballrooms instead of old clubs.”

The look in his eyes, the admiration, now Edwin sees where it’s familiar. The fascination, from that cursed first night- drawn out by Edwin doing nothing but being himself. “There’s just nothing like you anymore.”

Heartbreak is one thing, my ego's another by artemisadore

Edwin is a grad student who is sick of his friends trying to help him get over his crush on Charles by setting him up on dates. Thomas is hellbent on destroying his cheating ex's car right outside Edwin's window. And Edwin is having none of it...until he learns that Thomas' ex is actually Simon, his first-boyfriend-turned-bully.

Edwin needs a fake boyfriend. Thomas needs an alibi. What could possibly go wrong?

The smoke clears when you're around by KissMyAsthma

"I think I love you," Thomas said, his voice earnest and his eyes sparkling with emotion.

"Oh." Edwin sat down, and paled slightly.

Then significantly.

***

Thomas and Edwin go on a hike.

Thomas had something to tell his boyfriend… But the reaction to his confession is slightly unexpected.

The Truth Will Set You Free... Or something like that by Dramaduchess

When fate decides to force the Cat King and a Edwin into close proximity with each other, tensions start to run high. Will they be stuck like this forever? Or will the truth set them free?

#catwin #catwinromanticbookexchange #catwintines #Catwintines 2

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Catwintines Self-Rec

My Other Fish Is a Cat

He wasn't jealous (at least, he was fairly confident that he wasn't), but Charles would always be his first love, and letting that go was… hard. He wanted to move on from those romantic feelings and allow them to settle back into platonic friendship, he wanted to be happy for the two of them without the dull ache in his heart.

He was lonely.

It was in moments like that, when his heart ached and he felt the dark tendrils of loneliness creeping into his chest, that he thought of a kindred spirit. Someone who understood. He thought of a small scar above a teasing smile, of drawn-out honesty and of warm golden eyes that danced with longing, like the flickering of an open flame, of someone whose heart sang the same song of sorrow and hope as his own.

The Cat King had been right, of course. Edwin missed him.

The Case of The Cat, The Sword and the Light Show

After Edwin is injured in a brush with some Ghost Poachers goes sideways, he decided that it was finally time to learn how to fight for himself properly.

But fisticuffs were never really his thing. No, Edwin liked swords.

Who better to help him brush up on his skills than his very own Renaissance Cat?

Early Morning and the Mortal Coil

Edwin considers life and death and the concept of forever, and the people with whom he wishes to spend it. Love changes a great many things.

Happiness is a Cat Named Thomas

With a look back on how he got there, Edwin finds himself unable to move from his seat in the library as a certain cat has decided to fall asleep directly on top of him (not that he's complaining).

Alternatively: Edwin thinks about happiness and love and how lucky he is to have so much of it.

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I'M SORRY

im posting this and Im going offline I swear

My fav shitpost of catwin variety (mostly TCK tho lol)

can i count this as romantic? Not sure. But I decided that Valentine's day is the right moment to indulge myself in bringing back my shitpost and... honestly, who's gonna stop me?

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cat King/Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Cat King (Dead Boy Detectives), Simon (Dead Boy Detectives), Brad (Dead Boy Detectives), Hunter (Dead Boy Detectives) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Alternate Universe - College/University, Cat King is Called Thomas (Dead Boy Detectives), Homophobia, Meet-Cute, meet ugly, Slurs, the cat king does a brave thing in this one, i mean kinda, Short One Shot, One Shot Summary:

“Boys, boys,” a lazy voice drawled. “That’s not a nice way to play.”

Edwin’s eyes opened wide when he noticed the person - it was a man (a very handsome one), clad all in black, a black leather jacket and tight black jeans, and although he was clearly brave, he was also… Smaller than either Brad or Hunter. Or even Edwin himself.

As much as Payne appreciated the possibly fellow queer person standing up for him, now he was just worried about the man as well as about himself.

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bringing this one BACK

bc i originally posted it for the Valentine’s Day last year (I was so desperate to take part in Catwintines…!)

and the unexpected ch2 might’ve happened in August, BUT I still consider this work to be Valentine’s Day one <3

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#catwin #CatwinRomanticBookExchange #catwintines 2

To celebrate Valentine's Day, the Catwin Discord and @catwinevents are sharing our love for Catwin and all the lovely creators in the Dead Boy Detectives fandom with the Catwintines Romantic Book Exchange.

I've been wanting to do some fic rec lists for awhile now, so this is the perfect excuse! 💖 I've got a handful of lists planned to share over the rest of February, featuring fics I've read and loved from pals in the discord as well as others from across our lovely fandom.

First up, we have Longfics & Slow Burns for all your binge-reading needs!💕 (In no particular order except for where they showed up in my bookmarks.)

In Every Life by dormousescribbles What if Edwin didn't get dragged down to Hell? What if Death intervened and decided to reincarnate him while they sorted out all the mess in the paperwork? A story that follows Edwin through his many lives as he learns all he can about the supernatural, aids ghosts in passing over, and repeatedly runs into a certain Cat King.

Coming to Terms by KittenMuse It’s almost three months since Edwin left Port Townsend. Three months of mourning Niko, of watching Charles and Crystal grow ever closer, and three months of being unable ignore that London is a city full of cats. Three months since he admitted to the Cat King that he was lonely. Can an accidental trip back to Port Townsend help with that loneliness?

when you catch the light by HeeroTheShiro It's been 8 months since the events of Port Townsend have brought Edwin Paine to where he is now: back in London, solving mysteries, growing closer to his friends, and forever pining for something he can't have... Is it even possible to fall out of love with Charles Rowland? Edwin Paine doesn't think so. However, one day a stray, black cat shows up on the rooftop.....

Heart Shape/The Only Thing by eyeneversleep Edwin isn't shy. Thomas is doomed. Edwin is going to be the absolute death of him, maybe claiming his remaining lives, but Thomas wants this. Since he first laid eyes on Edwin in his warehouse and he whisked him away. It’s not about the game anymore. No bracelets or giving the detective what he thought he wanted. No ultimatums, or magicking himself to look like someone else. He wants a secure thing. A lasting thing. A true thing. The only thing. He just wants Edwin.

Hell As Only We Know It by Yeahyouwish Catwin Soulmates Sharing pain and pleasure AU. When Thomas' soulmate is born, he's alive with excitement, but he soon finds out that Edwin is destined to lead a life of pain and suffering, and that this will continue into his death.

In Between Breaths by makethisuseraname In which Edwin realizes he has to do something to get what (who) he wants before it's too late. And Thomas realizes that despite living for centuries, he still has a lot to learn. But he has to survive first. Featuring a lot of yearning and feelings.

i will fall in love with you, over and over again by plutosapphicstay The Cat King ditches an Endless-sentenced exile in PT to chase after a second chance, Edwin meets him again for the first time on his side of the sea, and what they find is more than any mere fascination.

💕💕💕Happy Reading!💕💕💕

8. Fish

This two illustrations go together with @brokenintrovert 's fic "Have you heard about that ghost...?"

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Reblogging this bc being privileged to have a peek at Uni's art and hearing abt her idea made me write the fic!!!! Istfg the way art and writing work together in fandom i love ittt

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19. Eye