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(heck of a) Becca • they/she • artist, writer, editor, enthusiast

[keikomivra]

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES | THE CASE OF THE TWO DEAD DRAGONS

All I feel lately is angry. I'm worried that maybe I'm like Brad and Hunter. And like my dad. I don't wanna be a bad guy, Edwin.

[deadtwinksdetectiveagency]

A commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are for their and @technically-human's amazing Reverse Verse AU, where Charles is the Edwardian who went to Hell and Edwin is the brawn from the 1980s! I'm in love with these lads in any universe ♥️

[deadtwinksdetectiveagency]

‼️ Content warnings: blood, gore, dead body

Dead Boy Detectives has been out for two years today. It's been a joy digging my teeth into such rich, brilliant, and queer horror with such a wonderful community <3

[bodhimcbodeface]

Do u ever read a friend’s fic and it’s like holy shit how do you consider me qualified to talk to you?

[wanderbythewayside]

No

Y’all need better self-esteem

[wanderbythewayside]

Alright I have been enabled so I’m gonna say somethings.

Fatalistic sarcasm is a thing, however, it usually hides deep feelings of insecurity, and whether you consciously recognize this or not, it validates them. Seriously, I used to constantly make jokes about how other people’s work was better than mine, and it did nothing for my self-esteem, it was a tool to deflect from my own feelings of inferiority and it actively worked against me thinking critically about my own and other people’s work. If it was a joke I could put myself down instead of analyzing why someone’s work was better and trying to incorporate that into my own

As someone who took creative writing courses I was constantly surrounded by other brilliant people, if I hung my head in shame every time I read something as good or better than mine I never would have lifted it. 

As someone who has watched a lot of writers with very good idea’s crash and burn I mean it when I say you either develop a healthy sense of respect for your own work or you stop writing. 

There’s three things I really wish more people consider

1. Do you think their work is better because it’s a different style, one that you like? There’s an element to ‘the grass is greener on the other side’, I have seen people work in some amazing styles that I wished to god I could replicate, some I managed, some I never did, but there’s nothing wrong with either. having a different style Is Not the same as having a bad style, each has their own strengths and you can admire one without putting yours down

2. Knowing someone who is a better writer is a blessing and if they knew you were using their work to bring yourself down they would not be happy, mooch off that friend, analyze their work, ask them to edit your shit, as long as you’re not annoying them be shameless about it. the best thing creative writing did for me was give me the confidence to ask people to critic my work and shamelessly better each other for that sharing 

3. People need to normalize being confident in their work, the quality of your work has literally nothing to do with your worth as a person, the quality of your work has nothing to do with your worth as a writer. You can write something really shitty and the only thing I’d say to you is that your trying and I respect you for that

[januariat]

this is true for art too btw

[deadtwinksdetectiveagency]

‼️ Content warnings: blood, gore, dead body

Dead Boy Detectives has been out for two years today. It's been a joy digging my teeth into such rich, brilliant, and queer horror with such a wonderful community <3

[edwin-of-the-day]

Day 15: omg look at him 😭

[renchurro]

I dont think i’ve ever got around to sharing the drawing i did for the @dbdazine almost an entire year back! 😭

But i really loved this series and wish it got a lil more love!

[oddessea]

Crystal Palace is the character of all time because she spends the whole show telling everyone (but especially Edwin) that they’re sooo weird and annoying. like can you guys PLEASE be normal for just a second, you’re killing me. but at the same time, she’s in NO WAY the sane one there. girl you’re a psychic who made people walk into traffic recreationally. when someone’s being a dick you physically fight them even when you’ve got your acrylics on. you saw enough weird shit that your asshole boyfriend said “im a demon you should totally let me possess you” you were like “this is not only not weird, it is normal and romantic” you are NOT the barometer for regularness

[starrypawz]

[agerblade]

Monty raided Esthers closet for her good clothes... And boyfriend Edwin approves 😏

Closeups under cut

I love reusing assets holy shit the chrome hearts necklace was on another two drawings 🤤🤤

[aliasmard]

a cut scene from the last episode

[rhinco]

you know what dad? maybe i don't wanna be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned. it's a lot of pressure to put on me and honestly i've been feeling stressed recently because of it

[concentrated-mug-of-me]

hold on lemme google something

[concentrated-mug-of-me]

ok yeah this is funny

[edwin-of-the-day]

Day 7

[meradorm-archive-deactivated202]

*sits down to write a smut fic* The plot of this smut fic is that Character A believes himself abandoned by God.

[deadtwinksdetectiveagency]

"i asked chatgpt" ok well i asked the dandelion sprites trapped in an enchanted jar on my desk and they said that i might be a piece of shit but you're a festering heap of rancid babydollspider fingernails and piss

[hyperpixating]

[danielsarmand]

Dead Boy Detectives 1.02 · The Case of the Dandelion Shrine