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[khorazir]

Ink spot art created for the @dbda-nsfw-zine for the lovely fic He Loves Me by @pipwasreal

I drew another piece for the zine, but I’ll post it at a later time as it’s going to be an illustration for one of my own fics, namely another installment of my Wispy-Verse series.

[jube-art]

Edwin presses his right palm to the mark on his own chest, Charles mirrors him, then Edwin takes Charles' free hand in his. He says a few brief words in an unfamiliar language.

Charles doesn't have to ask if it worked because he can feel it, pulsing between them. He laughs, delighted and oddly relieved. When he closes his eyes he can see it, a gold thread guiding him home.

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a commission for the lovely @pipwasreal for their fic, "Day 5: Magic and Marking"

[atariakana]

Yayayay hi I would like a music please! 🎧

yippee! you get Strauss' Dynamiden Waltzes, Op. 173

coincidentally, apart from Strauss being known as the king of waltzes and extremely popular in a certain Austrian city, I'm pretty sure this particular one got added to my library after it was used in a payneland fic as the piece Edwin used to teach Charles to waltz. I wish I could remember which fic it was...am I way off the mark thinking it was by @babyseraphim?

it's a very beautiful, sweet piece. I especially like the opening. thank you for asking! <3

send me a 🎧 and i'll give you a song!

[gameo-archive]

"Cameo from George Rexstrew

#SaveDeadBoyDetectives #GhostsOfNetflixPast"

George Rexstrew for Synne (sin)

Connect with your favorite stars.

"We are all so excited to see you in Appearences. We are curious: how many cameos did you end up doing with Jayden? Also, if you and Jayden were painting a wall together, how much paint would end up on Jayden? Last, do you have any book recommendations?"

Deadkidsongs by Toby Litt

Trish Arnold by Lizzie Ballinger

And of course, A Study in Scarlet

Transcript by the always excellent @pipwasreal

Hello Synne! It's George here, accompanied by my dog Raffy. Um… thank you so much for reaching out, it's lovely to hear from you. I really hope you're doing okay, as we truly, truly approach the most festive of festive periods.

Um… let's get into this. So, you've said: "We are all so excited to see you in Appearances." Thank you, Synne. I'm very excited to do Appearances, written by the wonderful Christian Tucci, who was part of our Dead Boys writers team.

Now, you've said: "We are curious, how many cameos did you end up doing with Jayden? Also, if you and Jayden were painting a wall together, [laughs] how much paint would end up on Jayden?"

How many cameos did I end up doing with Jayden? I… wish I could tell you. I think we lost count. Um… there were a fair few, though. There were a fair few.

If we were painting a wall together, how much paint would end up on Jayden? I think… [laughs, whispers] I think a lot. [Normal volume] I think a lot. Um… because we'd probably be throwing paint on each other.

Having said that, it is worth mentioning Jayden is a very skilful painter. There's a scene in the pilot of Dead Boys where he is, where Charles is preparing the sheet with all the runes on, to trap the demon in the tube carriage. And Jayden was actually, he actually painted. I mean, he had a kind of model to go off, and his artistic skills are such that he actually improvised some of it and they then had to match the continuity according to his work, so that was, um… funny. I was just walking around him in a semi-circle, coz they were only capturing Edwin's boots in that shot.

Last, do I have any book recommendations? Well, conveniently, my books are right here.

Well, this one sticks out because it's yellow. This one is deadkidsongs by Toby Litt.

Toby Litt was the writer… is the writer of the Dead Boy comics that were released in… I wanna say 2015? And we met up for a coffee, in between the pilot and the series' filming. He was lovely, and he had so much interesting stuff to say about Charles and Edwin. And he is, he is actually the creator of Crystal Palace. And this is his book. He lectures creative writing at Southampton Uni and he also has published works, such as this, and he very kindly sent this. So that's a little Dead Boys family shout-out.

Is there anything else… William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, no. [Laughs] Let's not do that.

Maybe I would recommend one more, actually. [Holds up a large pink book, Trish Arnold: The Legacy of Her Movement Training for Actors] This is book by my movement teacher at drama school, Lizzie Ballinger. And she bases all of her teaching on a practitioner, Trish Arnold. I'm pretty sure Trish Arnold taught Lizzie. Lizzie is Head of Movement at RADA [Royal Academy of Dramatic Art], a drama school, and she taught me at LAMDA [London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]. She's… her… I, I, I used her, I used Lizzie's work every day when I was filming on set. And this is a book that, kind of, just, kind of, takes you through some of her methods. So if there are any actors out there, I couldn't recommend this highly enough. It might be a bit late for Christmas, but you know…

Um, is there anything else? [Hums a little thinking tune] I mean, this is literally the first one on the pack [holds up a blue paperback, A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] but I think that's fitting, isn't it?

Thank you for your wonderful questions, Synne. It's lovely to hear from you. Have a lovely evening.

[cannibalisticcorpse]

Outfit ask meme! Oh we crossdressing those boys? Forcefemming em? Giving them dragsonas?

Whatever you want to do with it <3

Charles in 1C, Edwin in 4C, pretty please!

from this ask game

always crossdressing. ough dragonsonas would be so fucking fun too tho

[thenightisland]

Aaaand 13, 14 and 35, 36 for the bookish asks! <3

13. Name a book with a really bad movie/tv adaption. i can give you one that has a stellar tv adaptation and an absolutely godawful movie adaptation. tv miniseries of brideshead revisited? impeccable. flawless. no notes. 2008 movie of brideshead revisited? couldn't even watch it all. wastes a stacked cast. does not understand the source material. attempts to villainize a character who isn't the villain and shoehorns a really awkward love triangle into a part of the book one of the characters isn't even in.

14. Name a book where the movie/tv adaption actually was better than the original. fight club 100%

35. Name a book you consider to be terribly underrated. [bernie sanders meme] i am once again telling people that the heart is a lonely hunter is doing everything to kill a mockingbird is doing with more thematic depth, more richly drawn characters, and did it twenty years earlier

36. Name a book you consider to be terribly overrated. at the risk of getting taken out by snipers, i am so unbelievably weary of hearing about pride and prejudice lol

[pasiphile]

Ficlet prompt! The Locked Tomb. Gideon gets away and joins the Cohort. But it's not exactly all she'd hoped it would be. She doesn't actually miss the taunts of the Reverend Daughter, does she? Gross.

The food’s good.

The food’s good, and having non-geriatric company makes for a nice change, and Gideon’s fucking ace at sword practice and she gets high-fives after training and people laugh at her puns and she’s pretty sure that cute Fourth-house blonde is gonna ask her out on a date any time soon and it’s great, it’s everything she’d hoped for and more, and –

And every day she feels deeply, staggeringly lonely.

Space blinks back at her, forlornly, her own face – oddly bare without the paint, even though she hated it, even though she avoided wearing it every opportunity she got – staring back at her.

There was a bit at the end of every fantasy, where she got mentioned in dispatches, or got some kind of medal, and Her Royal Boniness would be there and grudgingly nod, or shake her hand, or even – in Gideon’s wildest and yuckiest dreams – smile with some sort proprietary pride.

But Gideon’s been in the Cohort for two months and it’s clear now that’s never gonna happen. As soon as basic training’s done they’re gonna send her to one of the colonies, and she’ll be literal light years removed from the Ninth. Even if, somehow, she’d perform some glorious feat that set her apart from the thousands of other soldiers, she’d never get close to orbit again.

And fuck knows Harrow would never leave her precious planet alone unattended.

And that should be a good thing, fucking hell, why is she moping about this? The Reverend Daughter hates her guts. Being away from her should feel like a release.

But it’s a familiar hate. A hate she grew up with.

“Hey Nav, coming? We’ve got a beer pong competition to win.”

“Yeah, sure. In a minute.”

There’s a rumour going around, of all the House Scions and their Cavs being called to some special meeting thing, and wouldn’t that be a rub. On the one hand she was loyal to the bone – hah – to their Kindly Prince, but on the other hand, to leave her House alone…

And it would be with Ortus at her side. Yuck.

Gideon closed her eyes, rubbed her face, for a moment let her thoughts wander. Imagined what it would be like to go in at Harrow’s side instead of Ortus, be her cavalier, challenge people to duels in name of the Ninth. Maybe then the Reverend Daughter would begrudgingly show her something more than outright contempt. Gideon would absolutely trash some jumped-up little Fifth House pampered Cav and Harrow would look on from the shadows, ominious in her ceremonial robes, the tiniest smile pulling at that thin line of a mouth –

Yeah, as if.

“Nav!”

“Yeah, I’m there.”

Gideon threw one more look at the porthole and space outside, full of promises and adventures that had lost their allure, black as the Reverend Daugher’s eyes…

Yeah, no, this was good. This had been the normal, healthy choice. Fuck Harrow and fuck the Ninth, she had an ensign to flirt with and beer pong to win. Besides…

Only a madman would have believed Harrow to ever regard her with anything but hate.

She pushed off and strode down the hallway, her boots clanging on the metal floor that seemed almost obscenely shiny compared to the Ninth rusty squalor, leaving behind dreams of black eyes and bone-ringed hands and gritting her teeth against the sharp pang of loss.

[penandpage]

✐ PLS DO ALL THREE FOR ME PLS ILY