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Dead Boy Detectives Potion Week! October 2025
Hi! Very happy to announce DBDA Potion Week 2025!
A Dead Boy Detective Fan Event all about magical potions and spells!
It's an event celebrating all the possibilities that magic can offer so all of your magical creations are welcome - fanfiction, fanart, gifs, edits, moodboards and more!
The event will run from 5th of October 2025 to 11th of October 2025, and each day a new potion will take effect. You can choose one, a few or all of them, or even combine the prompts however you see fit.
Since it's an event for all things DBDA, all ships and characters are welcome here, same with both sfw and nsfw works. The sky is the limit!
You can submit your fics (and more) on the day of the prompt in the AO3 collection here (DBDA_Potion_Week) and you can tag it as DBDA Potion Week 2025 (Dead Boy Detectives) there.
Use the dbda potion week hashtag everywhere else and ideally tag this account in your posts!
Prompt list is HERE!
DBDA Creature Week 2025: At a glance
A Dead Boy Detectives prompt event celebrating all creatures, cryptids, monsters, beings, and beasts!
November 17 - 23, 2025, #DBDACreatureWeek
Day 1, 11/17: Divine & Infernal Beings Day 2, 11/18: Shape-shifters & the Undead Day 3, 11/19: Elementals & Nature Spirits Day 4, 11/20: Beasts & Hybrids Day 5, 11/21: Fey & Tricksters Day 6, 11/22: Cryptids & Legends Day 7, 11/23: The Unknown (Free Day)
Dead Boy Detectives Two-Year Anniversary?
Will there be a fanfiction writing event for the Dead Boy Detectives two-year anniversary on April 25, 2026? Yes, I realize that's almost two months away, but I'm a really slow writer and I like planning ahead when I can.
I don't actually know who to ask about this because I'm not in any of the fandom communities or Discords, so I'm tagging people who ran some of the past DBDA events and hoping someone will know something or else pass the question along to people who might know.
@dbda-fandom-event-calendar @dbdahauntevents @dbda-anniversary @dbda-potion-week @dbda-creature-week @paynelandpromptfest @palasakiweek @painlandweek @deadboyween @tragedy-machine @asidian @artemisadore @lesbicosmos @every-moment-a-different-sound @genevievefangirl @nocturnalnewsiestrash
DBDA Potions Week Day 1: Truth Potion
Very excited to drop something for day 1 of the DBDA potions week event! @dbda-potion-week
Enjoy a snippet from one of my many WIPs, in this case the third installment of my very first DBDA and Catwin series. (Which I will finish. Someday.) For now, this is a little sneak peek. ✨ On Ao3
Vox Veritatis follows from In nepeta veritas, and involves some truth-sharing (and truth-spells)...
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Edwin stares down at the Cat King standing inside his personal space, just enough to feel the force of him, the warmth of another body and the weighty pull of magic. It’s abundantly clear what the Cat King means when he says ‘take advantage’ and Edwin considers trying to simply give in to it, but the same chains are there inside, holding him back.
Yet the words bring to mind a conversation with Niko, and a thought that Edwin disregarded at the time, yet which had lingered in the back of his mind. And he’s not sure whether the Cat King will even be willing, but—
“The truth spell,” he says, rushing the words out before he can change his mind or hesitate again. “The one you used on me in Port Townsend.”
The Cat King’s expression shifts from seduction to curiosity. He tilts his head a little, eyebrows raised in surprise. “I’ll admit that’s the last thing I expected you to say. I didn’t think you exactly have fond memories of the last time.”
“While I was annoyed with you at the time, for your general behaviour and the interruption of my casework,” Edwin says pointedly, “You weren’t wrong when you asked me whether saying the truth felt better. And in this instance, here and now, I am asking for it. I trust that you will not ask for anything I don’t want to share, and that you will remove the spell the moment I ask you to do so.” And maybe, maybe, if the spell can pull the words from Edwin now, he’ll be able to speak them freely on his own in the future.
“That’s an awful lot of trust you’re throwing around, sweetheart.”
“Yet I do not feel it is at all misplaced,” Edwin replies.
“The things you say to me,” the Cat King groans, more than a little pleased if Edwin’s any judge. “Tempting me with your secrets.”
Edwin lips quirk in a small smile, taking that to mean the Cat King’s not against the idea. Curiosity and cats, after all.
The Cat King gives Edwin a warning glare that might be more effective if his slit pupils weren’t already widening with interest. “You don’t get to be mad at me later if you say something you meant to keep to yourself. I can control what I ask, but the spell will pull out the truth, whatever it is.”
“I reserve the right to be horribly embarrassed,” Edwin replies with a grimace, because even though he cannot say them, he’s well aware of the content of his thoughts. “But no, I won’t be angry.”
“Well, you’re very cute when you’re embarrassed, so I’ll take it.”
“Making me flustered does seem to be a favourite of yours,” Edwin acknowledges wryly. But truly, he’s not overly concerned over what he might say. He wants to share these things, the thoughts locked up inside his chest. It is hard, but he refuses to be ashamed of, afraid of, those secret parts of himself any longer. And in a very specific way, he wants to give the Cat King this vulnerability. Embarrassment and all.
Unsurprisingly, thinking is easier than doing. “I admit I’m not sure how to…begin.”
“Getting comfortable is always a good start.” The Cat King’s hands are still wrapped around Edwin’s elbows and he uses the hold to steer Edwin toward the bed, urging him to settle onto the soft mattress. Edwin removes his shoes and pulls his feet up to sit cross-legged, both because he is quite comfortable seated this way, and because he knows the Cat King finds it amusing.
As the Cat King sits next to him, leaning back on his hands in a way that stretches his torso very distractingly, Edwin can’t help but recall the last time he sat here with the Cat King lounging next to him. His memory supplies images of bared skin and eyes of gold-ringed black, seductive smiles and sounds of pleasure, and oh god the purring.
The thoughts he’d had but been unable to articulate.
Maybe this time he’ll manage to speak them.
Taking a deep breath – or the imitation of one, anyway – Edwin nods decisively to himself and straightens his shoulders. Meets the Cat King’s eyes and nods to him, as well. Permission. Agreement.
With a little smile, the Cat King lifts his hand and brings his fingertips to Edwin’s mouth. Drags the pads of his fingers with just a bit of pressure down over Edwin’s lips, and the warm brush of skin is followed immediately by the hot-ice burn of magic.
Edwin’s lips part on a soundless gasp. The sensation is as startling and intense as the first time, on that stone overlook by the Port Townsend lighthouse. But where then it felt like an intrusion, this time – now knowing the Cat King, inviting him in – it feels…intimate. Perhaps dangerously so.
The Cat King watches him steadily, waiting, with a curious tilt to his head. Edwin touches his own lips with tentative fingers, pressing against the magic burn. His eyes fall closed and he gasps a little. It’s even more intense than the sensation of skin to skin with the Cat King, and the thought that this is the feel of the Cat King’s magic is terribly enthralling.
“It feels like you,” he murmurs, opening his eyes again to see the Cat King dark-eyed and focused very intently on Edwin.
The Cat King makes a pleased purr, but visibly shakes himself out of the distraction. He winks playfully at Edwin. “Save that thought for later. You ready?” At Edwin’s nod, he grins. “For now, I’ll start you off easy, because I’ve been terribly curious. What were you thinking the first time we met?”
How is that starting easy? is what Edwin tries to say, but the spell takes hold and what comes out of his mouth is, “I thought you were uncivil, and garish, and much too far into my personal space—”
“Ooh, ouch,” the Cat King gasps in mock affront, but it slides quickly to a laugh with a teasing smile.
“—and yet you were quite unlike anything or anyone I had ever seen before. I could not take my eyes from you, which I know you noticed.”
Edwin shakes his head ruefully as the words continued to bubble up and spill forth, and it’s terrifying but freeing, too. “You could have had me right then, had you not put the bracelet on me. Although I would have run immediately afterwards, I’m quite certain. All the way back to London. I wasn’t anywhere near to understanding or accepting that part of myself. But in that moment, if you had pressed a little more, if you had touched me at all, I would have been on your bed in an instant.” The Cat King’s eyes are dark and shining, his lips parted on a pleased little smirk. “You set out to tempt me, and you succeeded, for all that it was in service of punishment for my actions against one of your cats.”
“And then of course there was the binding spell, and I felt…betrayed. Not just by you, but by myself and what I perceived as my own weakness. The knowledge that you took one look at me and instantly picked the perfect temptation, one that I hardly even knew to guard against, and exposed all of those parts of myself I’d never acknowledged, with little more than a few words in my ear…it made me so afraid of myself. Which made me angry, and I took it out on you, and Charles, and just about everyone. Certainly not some of my proudest moments.”
He gasps a little after the torrent of words as the truth spell lets go. It doesn’t feel quite the same as the first time; the words he speaks feel pulled out inevitably, but not as though it is against his will. Perhaps because he’s not attempting to fight the spell’s influence. “Goodness, that was…quite a lot.”
“A little harsh and hard to hear, but I can’t exactly blame you,” the Cat King sighs. He’s trying for a playful pout, but it does little to cover the actual sorrowful look on his face, one that Edwin wants to wipe away.
“It’s all in the past,” he insists quietly. “Suffice it to say I don’t think that about you any longer.” When the Cat King looks reluctant to believe him, Edwin smiles warmly and dares to reach out and gently run his hand down the Cat King’s arm. “Truly. Anything that may have wanted forgiveness is forgiven.”
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DBDA Potion Week Prompt List!
Here are the prompts for the event!
day 1 - 5/10/25 - TRUTH POTION
day 2 - 6/10/25 - AMNESIA POTION
day 3 - 7/10/25 - INTOXICATING POTION
day 4 - 8/10/25 - DESIRE POTION
day 5 - 9/10/25 - SHAPESHIFTING POTION
day 6 - 10/10/25 - BINDING POTION
day 7 - 11/10/25 - MYSTERY POTION - free day
Hope they've already sparked some ideas in your head, but if not, starting tomorrow, some supporting questions and keywords relating to each prompt day will be posted to hopefully provide you with more inspiration.
Here's the post with everything you need to know about the event, but if you have any more questions feel free to drop them in the ask box!
Happy creating!
DBDA Creature Week 2025: Begins next month!
A Dead Boy Detectives prompt event celebrating all creatures, cryptids, monsters, beings, and beasts!
November 17 - 23, 2025, #DBDACreatureWeek
Day 1, 11/17: Divine & Infernal Beings
Day 2, 11/18: Shape-shifters & the Undead
Day 3, 11/19: Elementals & Nature Spirits
Day 4, 11/20: Beasts & Hybrids
Day 5, 11/21: Fey & Tricksters
Day 6, 11/22: Cryptids & Legends
Day 7, 11/23: The Unknown (Free Day)
