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A goddess, a ghost, a crow and a cat all walk into an alley, Niko thought. It wasn’t a bad opening for a joke. She couldn’t figure out the ending, though.
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- Part 3 of we all have a hunger
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28 Dec 2025
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screaming crying sobbing actually. this is so beautiful and warm and I have chills from how warm it feels
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Psychomanteum, noun. A dimly-lit room containing a comfortable chair and a mirror angled so that it reflects only darkness, intended to communicate with spirits of the dead.
It is our privilege to welcome you back, one and all, for the Summer 2024 season at the London Athenaeum. As some of you will no doubt be aware, this past winter saw a spate of minor thefts, with one enterprising thief successfully removing a marble bust of the goddess Carpundia. We are pleased to report that the probate court proceedings are now complete, and all of the stolen artifacts have been returned to us. For safety reasons, we must now ask that all rosaries, japa mala, ojuzu, komboskini, misbaha and other similar prayer beads are left at the door and collected upon exit on account of one of our new acquisitions, a devil vitrified in a prism of glass, and the multiple recent incidents of attempted strangulation.
We are proud to present a slate of all new exhibitions and events, including the crown jewel of this season: an exhibition on the 170 year history of the Athenaeum itself by acting head curator Edwin Payne. This is the distillation of an extraordinary life’s work, and one not to be missed.
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- Part 3 of Wunderkammer
Bookmarked by clementine5
05 Nov 2025
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can’t believe I get to have art like this at my fingertips
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my home is your body (how can I stay away?) by KiaraSayre
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
12 Aug 2025
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Just because Edwin and Charles made out that one time doesn't mean anything has to change. Edwin will make absolutely sure of that.
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- Part 2 of ruin our friendship
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towards the sea (yearning for contact) by Sage_Owl for ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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Charles Rowland has a better-than-usual day.
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Rising from their woolen blanket spread over the forest floor, Edwin politely clasped his hands together. “I think I am going to turn in for the night, actually.”
Charles almost looked disappointed, though it was hard to pin anything down in the shifting lights of the fire. It was as though two different futures flickered over his face. In one, painted by the warm, orange glow softening Charles’ brow, and dipping into the inviting bow of his lips, Edwin saw a scene where he’d be allowed to pull Charles into bed with him. In another, cast by sharp shadows along his jaw, Edwin watched helplessly as Charles moved halfway across the world, and drifted further away every day.
“Right, I’m pretty tired myself. Won’t be far behind.” Charles said, and a selfish part of Edwin wanted to ask: but for how much longer?
Or, sometimes you just need a week long, post-university graduation camping trip to figure out the rest.
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09 Oct 2025
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summer ending and new beginnings oooh, honestly handled this so well
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Wildland (Notes from Heather Mountain Lookout, North Cascades, Chelan County, Washington. May 7 - October 18) by mellxncollie
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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It's Charles' third summer as the fire lookout on Heather Mountain. Edwin, a writer looking for a bit of fresh air and inspiration, is the new relief lookout. Before even meeting, they begin to leave notes for each other around the tower.
aka the fire lookout au, a story told entirely by notes, journal entries, letters, and lookout logs.
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Bookmarked by clementine5
06 Oct 2025
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finishing this right as October hits has made the end of summer really hit. i don’t even have a particular attachment to summer but this is so beautiful in a non-beach reliant way. oh pnw how i dream of you and your seasons
also fantastic payneland, their dumb, inconvenient, incredibly valid emotions and assumptions and insecurities made this all feel even more beautiful and sweet
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Charles could hear the sirens, dopplering closer as the lights painted the night blue. “I have to go,” said the boy, more to himself than to Charles. “If they catch me here—well. It doesn’t matter. You won’t remember this.” He smiled, and it was like the moon appearing shyly from behind a cloud. “Goodbye, Charles.”
Charles Rowland should have died at sixteen, but he didn’t. Three years later—eager to escape call centre purgatory—he joins the Lost and Found Department as a psychopomp, charged with escorting the recently deceased to their afterlives. But why does his new colleague seem so familiar, and what’s that persistent tugging feeling at his wrist?
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Edwin Payne was the best necromancer the Fifth House had ever produced. Death had touched his hands and his mouth and his eyes, had cradled his skull and marked him as its favourite son. He had plumbed depths of Fifth House history that had slumbered untouched for centuries, mining long-forgotten seams of knowledge. He had bled for it, starved for it, broken himself open and hollowed himself out. He had made a home of himself for spirit magic, his legs its foundations and his ribcage its vaulted ceiling. He had spoken with the dead, and he had walked the River.
Which was why it was so embarrassing that he was about to be murdered in his bed by some two-bit thug.
Seventy-three years after he was pushed into the River, a liminal place filled with hungry ghosts, Edwin Payne has finally succeeded in clawing his way out. All he wants is to be left alone with his research, but to his dismay, the head of his House insists he take a cavalier to protect him – and to make sure he’s behaving himself. But not everyone is happy to hear that Edwin’s back, and when an attempt on his life by the very man who pushed him into the River all those years ago almost ends in tragedy, it’s time to get even.
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Bookmarked by clementine5
28 Sep 2025
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this one was so beautiful, the unending darkness of space felt hopeful reading it
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InfoUnit E-1714 was designed to serve; SecUnit C-10247 was designed to protect. Doing what they were made for wasn't enough to endear them to humans. But it might be enough for each other.
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Of sunflowers and sunsets and the warm golden light on your face by ArtCanBeWrittenOnApc
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
17 Aug 2025
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Edwin wasn't dead. Not yet at least.
But the government had told them it would only be 48 hours more. And then he would be. They all would be.
This was the end for humanity, and Edwin did not know how to feel.
Or: In 48 hours everyone on earth will be dead. Edwin only wants one thing - to be happy, just one time. He finds a beautiful, scared stranger - Charles who seeks to be known, to be understood. This story follows them both through the last 48 hours of their lives. At least they don't have to do it alone.
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I love you (secretly, between the shadow and the soul) by AmaranthusCaudatus for Yadomik
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
10 Aug 2025
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"When they reached the door, Edwin peered through the glass as Charles pulled on the handle.
"Locked", Charles mumbled, unhappy. He straightened to look at the paper. The letters were clear enough, but they were mirrored, and it took Edwin's brain a few seconds to work them out. Charles did not seem to have that problem.
He read without hesitation: "Gym closed for the day due to weather warning."
Edwin stared at him.
"You read that mirrored so easily?"
"Yeah. Why?"
Edwin gestured helplessly, trying not to think about how attractive he found that. "That is witchcraft, Charles."
"One does try." Charles gave a modest shrug.
Edwin looked from the sign to the locked door and back again. "So. We are stuck.""
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A thunderstorm brings Edwin and Charles closer together than they expected.
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“Alright, listen,” Charles said, after trying not to think at all for at least five minutes. “Hear me out.”
“Any ideas?” Edwin asked, not looking up from his page.
“It’s just. What would actually happen if you cut my hand off?”
Edwin jerked his head up so fast, Charles wondered that he didn’t brain himself against the stone wall. He looked more offended than he had when he found out about the live snake in Charles’ bag.
“What the hell kind of a question is that?” He hissed.
“I’m not saying we should do it!” Charles backpedaled. “I’m just curious! These cuffs make us proper solid, don’t they? We could probably lop it off and get me out.”
“No,” said Edwin emphatically. “We are not discussing this. I don’t want you getting any ideas and chewing your own arm off like a trapped weasel.”
“Not my whole arm, just my hand.”
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Bookmarked by clementine5
21 May 2025
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chillingly good, the dedication and thought put into the whole fic amazes me
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It's been a year and some change since Edwin stood on a step below Charles, bloody, beaten, green eyes sparkling, and told Charles that he was in love with him. He told Edwin it didn't change anything between them, and it didn't. But it didn’t necessarily do nothing to Charles. No, he actually thinks it might have changed him irrevocably and all that. Because lately, when it comes to Edwin, he's been aching.
Then, Crystal and Charles take on a new case: a ghost, 90 years old, still in the asylum she died in over sixty years earlier; lost and confused, and looking for her missing baby. As they work to untangle the story of this woman's life, they realise Edwin may be more wrapped up in it than any of them expected.
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- Part 1 of Suo Gân & other melodies
Bookmarked by clementine5
02 May 2025
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i don’t know if i’ll ever be able to reread this but i feel a deep ache in my soul thinking about opportunities and possibilities lost to time and about regret and confusion and futile hope
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Niko's ears aren't actually pierced, despite the shinies she likes to hang from them from time to time. They're clip-ons. Unfortunately, she wasn't one of the few people lucky enough to get them pierced as a baby. And needles were terrifying.
However... the opportunity to change that presents itself when one Charles Rowland dances into her life- gold earring and all. Now.. if only she could get him to stop avoiding her.
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- Part 2 of Detectives and Their Earrings
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“You took my jumper.” And Charles hugged tighter, resting his chins atop Edwin’s head. He could feel the other shrug, and could hear the smile in his voice.
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Alive college AU,
I have so many ideas for domestic Charles and Edwin, so I put a few into a fic.
This will definitely be updated overtime, and tags will change as I add new ideas.
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- Part 9 of Dead Boy Detectives Fics
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“Rowland has recovered from his illness”—Edwin had heard, after receiving a text from the man thanking him for the pot of soup he had dropped off—“and you two will be sent to Minsk to disable the device before it’s set off.”
“Both of us?” It wasn’t unusual for an agent and their handler to be sent to a location together, particularly when going undercover, but Edwin had never left the tomb of MI6 headquarters on a mission.
“You expect me to trust someone else with Rowland and this mission?” she returned. Something inside Edwin instinctually balked, and it must have shown on his face. “That’s what I thought.”
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A Sparch (Spy March) oneshot.
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Go loud: a spycraft term, meaning to deliberately blow one’s cover — usually when there is nothing left to lose.
As Charles passes briefly through Edwin’s orbit, Edwin turns and leans in to kiss his cheek.
Charles feels the sting of the needle in his arm before he sees it.
“I’m terribly sorry about this, Charles,” says Edwin’s voice from the other end of a long, long tunnel, and then the dark rushes up to meet him, and everything goes black.
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Eleven years, now, and Nanami has made it here eight times. A pilgrimage, of sorts, if pilgrims had access to the bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka, and two meandering buses to smaller town and smaller village. It’s then only a short walk down quiet lanes to the cemetery where Haibara Yu is buried, a walk that Nanami usually takes alone.
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Two birthday cakes, twelve years apart.
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- Part 2 of salt
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The Lovers Festival (Let me take you to) by WorkInProgress84
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Feb 2025
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In the heart of winter, Prince Edwin's parents all but throw him out of his own castle with only an order to get to the kingdom of Port Townsend posthaste. Such is the life of a royal pawn, apparently.
But at least he's got Charles with him. Charles, his personal guard and best friend. Charles, who has a Lady he is courting at the castle. Charles, whom Edwin has loved in secret for years.
It's fine. Edwin is used to it. There's no reason traipsing through the kingdom on their own should change anything. It's only one week, after all.
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Bookmarked by clementine5
21 Mar 2025
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edwin being absolutely obtuse about charles’s feelings never fails to crack me up
good stuff
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"The spell forces honesty out of the afflicted target," Edwin says promptly. "I seem to be compelled to answer any question, as well as unable to lie when answering."
There's a brief silence while everyone takes that in - including Edwin, who immediately looks down at the floor, lips pressed tightly together.
"So this is your actual nightmare," Crystal deadpans. "Great."
After their near-miss in the Tall Forest, Charles feels that he and Edwin are finally getting back to normal - until the Cat King's meddling shows him just how much his best mate has been keeping from him. With the cat's magic forcing Edwin to tell the truth, Charles must help him navigate not only troubling questions and unwilling answers, but their own partnership and the secrets between them that threaten to change everything.