The Earl of Bats

read my shit

[earlofbats]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Disco Elysium (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi, Harry Du Bois & Kim Kitsuragi, Kim Kitsuragi & Jean Vicquemare Characters: Kim Kitsuragi, Harry Du Bois, Jean Vicquemare, Émile Mollins, Chad Tillbrook, Original Characters, Eyes (Disco Elysium) Additional Tags: POV Kim Kitsuragi, Kim notes, Getting Together, casefic, Mystery, Crimes & Criminals, Racism, BDSM, Dreams and Nightmares, Sexual Content, Angst, Police, Post-Canon, Canon-Typical Behavior, Character Study, Loneliness, Pining Summary:

Kim Kitsuragi navigates his first case with Harry since Martinase and begins to reconcile his feelings about towards Harry, himself, his past and his future in the RCM.

Case fic and getting together fic all through the lens of Kim Angst!

[pantyha]

[cuubism]

do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!

[cuubism]

Reblogging cuz I’m once again in the middle of adding an entire new plot arc to a fic because of a comment - and you know what, it made it better!

[station18908]

Re-reading your own fic is wild.

Okay, that's a really good sentence. Typo. Typo. Huh, did I write this? It's actually not bad. Typo. Hm, I would cut out that part now, but it kind of works. TYPO. Oh, this part is really good. That is the wrong word, wtf? I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. ANOTHER TYPO? FFS.

[andypantsx3]

i love fic authors who are gooners with such closely held artistic sensibilities that it nearly eclipses the goon. we shall goon, but first we shall follow 70k minimum of a meticulously-plotted and spectacularly-executed character arc replete with several devastating psychological portraits and some trenchant political commentary on what it means to be a human in this world.

[isoprozac]

“There is a radio in the distance. A radio of the world. Playing sounds: Good morning, Elysium. Soon you will return to the world.”

[kashacroissant]

My recent doodles! All of them are Cuno and C…!😔

[earlofbats]

I live off the high of this comment.

It does truly seem that Eight Hours of Vigorous Praxis is my magnum opus.

[ebookporn]

[emmettkane]

[tigerator]

[illustromic]

The second piece I contributed to the @mcyt-couture-zine , this one in collaboration with the incredible @earlrot ! I did the lines, he did the gorgeous colors/rendering, and we both brainstormed together on the outfit design. It was super super fun to collaborate with Earlrot on this artwork (everybody go compliment him rn!!!) and I absolutely adore how it came out :D

Design/progress sketches:

My lines before color:

[airplaner]

harry dubois if he was a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbors cat in a small village in the alps

[mecha-cthulhu]

congrats on the transition Harry🏳️‍⚧️

[earlofbats]

This belongs here.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58264852/chapters/148376113

I won't say why.

[anthonybourdyke]

Neoliberal country when the election goes wrong 😡: *elects the fascists*

Neoliberal country when the election goes a little less wrong 😇:

hooray!! we've elected the liberals 51/49 meaning we've defeated the fascists once and for all!! now that we, the very leftist government the liberals are in charge, we are still going to work with lobbies, still not going to respond adequately to climate change, still going to vote conservatives laws with our frenemies the tories, and finally still going to bomb third-world countries and fund genocides 😇 because we are the leftist party the liberals!! we may pass some progressist laws to keep our very leftist electorate happy so they keep voting for us the next time, but not too much obviously we wouldn't want to be mistaken for communists 🤢 oh! would you believe that! the fascists we vanquished the last time are back 😡 we need your help to defeat them once and for all and keep our country in its rightful neoliberalistic state!! everyone knows there's only two realistic political options to solve all of our country problems and those two options are us the liberal good guys™️ and them the bad bad guys conservatives 😡 you wouldn't want to vote for the bad guys would you? of course not you're one of us, you're one of the good guys™️ so vote for the only good political party on earth the liberals 😇

[earlofbats]

If I wanted to make a cover for my fic

Live by the Sword Die by the Pen

What do you think it should be?

[earlofbats]

i finished reading "Live by the Sword Die by the Pen" this morning, it was really fun! you had me at the edge of my seat for the entire thing! i love how you characterized kim

Thank you so much for reading! I had fun writing it

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58264852/chapters/148376113

[katestuliy]

[earlofbats]

[mrtequilasunset]

Sorry big guy