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take me the long way home by wickedvoid
Fandoms: Knives Out (Movies), Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
08 Mar 2026
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The reopening of the Lady of Perpetual Grace marked a new chapter.
Well, it did, and it didn’t. Jud doesn’t like to think of service as something with a clear ending and beginning. Life moves in cycles, endless and natural, spring to summer, dusk to dawn—and people with it, because they aren’t people when they don’t try, and fail, and try again.
Only the fallible man can be redeemed. He would know.
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what if, after reopening the lady of perpetual grace, jud employs a new groundskeeper and things happen and they do and they do and they do? walk with me.
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08 Mar 2026
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Loving the Tsunami by redwinterbloom (poetforthefallen)
Fandoms: The War Between the Land and the Sea (TV)
23 Dec 2025
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And look, they didn’t pick Barclay because he was quick on the uptake, right? They picked him because he was empathetic. They picked him because he was the average person.
But he kind of gets it, yeah?
This glass of water is what they’ve been feeding to Salt’s children. And now Salt will feed it to him. At least it’s not his children.
He stalls a bit, but then Salt comes flooding back like the tide. “You. Will. Drink,” Salt orders.
This fic is for everyone else who wanted to see Barclay drink that disgusting glass of Thames water in episode 2.
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28 Dec 2025
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Crystal remembers the taste of fish. She remembers the feeling of skin tearing under her teeth, thick and slimy; remembers how the rotten smell filled her nose.
She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, trying to swallow it down—but then she just remembers sharp bones scratching her throat, and dead eyes staring up at her from above a gaping mouth.
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David's possession leaves Crystal with more scars than she thought. Thankfully, she doesn't have to deal with them alone.
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07 Sep 2025
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Port Townsend, 1932: the streets are dark with something more than night. Crystal Palace: a dame with no past—but she does have a dead man in her bedroom. Niko Sasaki: her neighbour—and maybe a little more than that. Edwin Payne: a private investigator with a knack for making trouble his business. Charles Rowland: a homicide detective who joined the police force because he believes in justice—though this case may break him of that habit. Why do Port Townsend’s girls keep disappearing? What’s the deal with the local speakeasy, the Cat’s Pajamas? And who really runs this town?
A noir AU for the DBDA Big Bang, with art by meip
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20 Aug 2025
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“And what’s stupid is that I could really use some parental advice. Right?” Crystal laughs. “Like… I want my parents to help me find my parents.”
Through the door, she hears Niko say, “Wait. Then who are those people that you’re with?”
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Charles and Edwin wear their disguises more frequently, so Crystal doesn't have to talk to herself. This changes how they relate to each other.- Language:
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14 Aug 2025
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mummy, can you hold me close and say it's okay to be afraid? by quietdetective
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Jul 2025
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The house was quiet, and it had been quite a pleasant sleep that Edwin Payne was having. That was till something woke him up, and he realized something was very wrong.
Barely a second passed before he retched, and he could only hope he was quiet enough to not wake his parents.
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24 Jul 2025
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Work It Harder, Make It Better by dear_monday, two_ravens
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
10 Aug 2024
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Welcome to Paris, 2024, and the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.
Meet Charles Rowland, twenty, beloved veteran skateboarder, fast approaching his expiry date, and determined to shag his way through as many gorgeous athletes as he can – and Edwin Payne, twenty-three, once-in-a-generation equestrian prodigy who can’t seem to stop saying the wrong thing and pissing off his teammates. Let the games begin!
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- Part 1 of Work It Harder, Make It Better
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27 May 2025
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The Beating of Our Hearts is the Only Sound by Anonymous
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
21 Jun 2024
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Two years after Edwin’s parents found out he was gay, two years after he moved into his flat, a year after Thomas and Edwin moved in together, Edwin and his three best friends moved into a house together.
Edwin did not plan his life like this. His goal wasn’t to become a sort-of-manager to three live-streamers, or to move in with said live-streamers, or even become best friends with them. But Edwin was glad that it happened.
Most of the time.
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Charles is an up and coming streamer, so is his friend Crystal. Popular streamer, Niko Sasaki, convinces her best friend and unofficial manager, Edwin Payne to get Niko and Crystal on a panel together. At the convention, Charles and Crystal are introduced to Edwin.
Edwin is a mystery, and Charles always did fancy himself a bit of a detective.
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27 May 2025
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It's not every day a jailbreak is filled with this many attractive people. Not that Charles is thinking about it much.
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24 May 2025
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“Edwin? What was that?” Crystal barged into the room, looking sleep-rumpled and grumpy. She frowned at Charles blearily before looking over to Edwin.
“Who’s this guy?” she asked.
Charles felt his whole world caving in.
“My question precisely,” Edwin stated primly. When he turned his gaze on Charles, it was cold and unfamiliar.
“Who are you?”
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Charles gets cursed on a case, causing Edwin, Crystal, and everyone he's ever met to lose all memory of him. Only one person, or rather, cat, is immune to the curse's magic, and Charles was really hoping he'd never have to see him again.Bookmarked by montyforever
26 Apr 2025
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Jenny Green's life got thrown for a loop when she killed a woman in self-defense in her own shop. And then again when she was possessed by a demon. And then when her shop was blown up. And then... Well, it was a lot to handle, okay? No one could blame her for passing out at the sight of a talking seagull too.
Or: Jenny isn’t handling the supernatural well, especially after the death of her young tenant. But for the first time in a long time, she's got people (and ghosts, apparently) in her life who care about how things turn out for her.
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- Part 5 of Fear and Response
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16 Apr 2025
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It starts with a genuine crisis. Niko doesn’t have a red shirt.
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13 Apr 2025
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“I want – I want to tear my skin off,” Charles says, strangled. “I can’t – anyone looking at me, Crystal acting like it’s not a big deal, fuck – you.”
“Me?” Edwin asks, almost affronted.
“Well, there’s no way you want me anymore, is there?” Charles blurts. Then he looks mortified.
Or, Edwin has known Charles to be transsexual since '89. It is only when Charles is cursed to experience one of his worst fears that they talk about it.
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- Part 12 of Not Orpheus and Eurydice
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25 Mar 2025
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1895, London. Wilde has been convicted. Edwin Payne invites his friend and housemate Charles Rowland to escape to Paris.
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- Part 10 of Not Orpheus and Eurydice
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20 Feb 2025
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Theodore Payne thinks he loved his brother. He tried to, at least.
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- Part 1 of on brothers and everything in between
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20 Feb 2025
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Partners, Parents, or None of the Above by DarkFairytale
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
03 Aug 2020
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Kenny's mom assuming that Diego and Klaus were A) a couple and B) Number Five’s parents was both bemusing and amusing at the time. But that was because it was the only time it had ever happened. Now though? Now they just can't understand why these misunderstandings keep happening.
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15 Dec 2024
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Love Letter From The Sea to The Shore by sulfuric for singtome
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Oct 2024
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A wave never crashes into the shore in quite the same way twice, but it crashes each time all the same.
or: Charles and Edwin, split apart. A choose your own adventure fic about falling and having fallen, the sea and the shore, and how many ways a name can fit inside a mouth before it simply has to be spoken aloud.
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03 Nov 2024
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The Inherent Horror of Having a Body by engineering_madonna
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
15 Mar 2026
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"In life, and in death in Charles' case, he's found that there is a certain rose tinted glasses aspect to hindsight. The places are always bigger, the food better, and you tend to forget the little frustrations that occurred along the way. The rough edges of existence are sanded away until what you have is an idealized version of how things used to be... He was starting to think they weren't actually worth the 35 years of pining now as he violently vomited into the barely functional toilet of their office. The warm hand on his back was nice, but the acid currently coating his esophagus mostly negated the pleasantness. Charles hated to admit it, hot blood flowing through his veins for the first time in three decades, but Edwin might have had a point."
While trying to get Niko back, the spell backfires and now the boys have bodies again...and it's awful. Turns out being sixteen forever is way worse when the sweat, bodily functions, hormones, and uncomfortably timed boners are part of the deal.
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02 Nov 2024
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objects in mirror are closer than they appear by qwanderer
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
27 Oct 2024
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"Try the cabinet under the sink again," the sorceress says in Kashi's direction. "It's got a false back." Then she sets her hands against the glass doors.
"Whatever you're doing," Niko tells her, willing her voice to stay steady, "I have to try and stop you, you know that, villain."
"You know, we don't have to get in each other's way here," the Mistress of Spirits says, sounding annoyed. "Go on, rescue the kids. I'm not here for the living."
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07 Oct 2024
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Lavender's Blue by LilArtifex
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
15 Oct 2024
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Lucy Carlyle, George Cubbins and Anthony Lockwood (of the not-really-very esteemed Lockwood and Co ghost-hunting agency) have been called to investigate a house by an overprotective brother/brother-in-law. Rather standard, one would think.
Except for the boy who was staring down at Lucy - with his head through the wall.
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Charles Rowland, Edwin Payne and Crystal Palace Surname-Von Hoverkraft (of the carefully hidden Dead Boy Detective Agency) have been asked by a client for help regarding the relocation of her bones before a trio of ghost-hunters show up that night. Easily done.
Except now Edwin found himself staring at an Agent with his head poking through a wall, revealing that he is, quite obviously, a ghost.====
So, Netflix cancelled two ghost shows. I loved them both.
So I'm writing a crossover, because it's a crime that only one exists (that I can find).
If I don't lose motivation and people like it, I might turn this into a little series - I have an entire Google Docs worth of world-building and plot notes to get through and a lot of characters that I reckon would have a grand ol' time together (I say this with both sarcasm and glee).
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06 Oct 2024