shoulder the skies

Official ominous sign(s)

I got inspired by this post

get out. And take your sad weird bisexual man with you

the dynamic between two people who love a third person so much and come to understand each other because of that is so important to me. you would put them first, and so would i. you understand why we have to save them from themself. i trust you with their life, and so, that means more than if i trusted you with mine. the love doesn't have to be the same, but it's powerful enough that you understand why you're not the only satellite drawn into their orbit.

Franz Kafka, 1912

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Unrestrained summer fun.

Today in "Animals that it didn't occur to me might be able to go to the beach and enjoy it, but apparently do and now that I'm seeing it makes perfect sense": Camel!

So, new theory for the explanation of the Loch Ness monster:

So, new theory

for the explanation of

the Loch Ness monster:

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Edwin Payne & Charles Rowland | Dead Boy Detectives 1.05 / 1.08 (insp)

Edwin Payne & Simon | Dead Boy Detectives 1.07

Just realized Charles probably has no idea that TV screens don’t make your hands fizz anymore. Cos like, he’s seen LCD/LED/OLED screens, obvs, but he probably hasn’t been able to feel the static/fuzz/tingle for decades already by the time he first encounters one and it’s not like people on the street are going around talking about how their TVs don’t make them buzz anymore so like. How would he know.

He’s probably so confused by touchscreen phones, he’s like, how are people standing putting their fingers all over that all the time, it seems like it would fuck up your joints or give you cancer or something

(Alternatively, the CRT fuzz was one of the very few things he could still feel as a ghost, and he was rather upset when it got hard to find non-flatscreens. Edwin hunted through thrift shops and got him a little portable CRT TV for Christmas in the late 2010s. You’d think it’d be hard to keep an electric device running in a ghosts’ haunt, but it turns out CRT tech is halfway to being supernatural anyway, so it works out.)

horniest battle moments:

- taking your ally's weapon out of their scabard to use yourself

- using someone else's shoulder as a rifle stand

- nudging someone's chin up with the tip of your weapon

- freezing with your blades against one another's throats, breathing into each other's mouths

i always click the "track package" button as soon as i get the email. "oh boy i wonder where my package is!" warehouse.

Been thinking about these scenes as I stare at them, trying to get the color consistent

And like

These two have been supernatural detectives for more than thirty years, and they've had to deal with the arcane rules of magic, the afterlife and the fae

And it strikes me that Charles would be braced for the worst of that going into actual Hell, no matter what he told the night nurse about being sure he could find his way

And this

feels like it could be so many things, but I'm wondering if it's a test. If he thinks Edwin being in love with him is so wildly unbelievable that this must be some kind of hellish trick.

And when Edwin gives an Edwin answer

bookishly knowledgeable and a little snarky, then Charles laughs, and I think it's with relief.

This is his Edwin.

It's only when Edwin calls him out for not taking the confession seriously

that Charles actually addresses what Edwin said, and then he replies with his whole heart, but he's still very careful, and very aware that they are still in Hell and need to get out without getting caught.

I just think he's barely able to process the information even then. There's so much going on.

first of all: irene your mind. i love all of this, pure genius

second of all: i am obsessed with the parallel this creates between charles and simon's "it's not real, you're just another trick", vs edwin immediately realising it's the real versions of both of them. sure, you could say charles has shown his impulsivity over the years and that edwin would come to expect it of him, but hell is a whole different game, and ofc the same doesn't apply to simon. i wonder if edwin has just never been tricked by hell like that, that he's so confident in what he sees, knowing that hell will always be straightforward about torturing him. or is it a skill he had to pick up in hell, one simon never learnt in a century, one charles will never have to pick up if edwin has anything to say about it?

third of all: why is it that charles only starts to doubt when edwin confesses to him, what is it about edwin's love confession that is either so out of character or so wish-fulfilling that charles has to check it's still his edwin and not a trick? what if orpheus didn't doubt that eurydice was there until she asked him to look back?

all of this to say, i love this interpretation of charles' initial reaction being to laugh it off (which i always saw as him being thrown and scrambling for the right thing to say), but what if, instead, it's him realising "all of this has been way too easy, and now i get to have this too? what if it was a trick all along?" and only edwin being his true self, the person charles loves and is in love with, can convince him that it's real, that he has to pour his heart out to edwin just like edwin did to him to make this right. and just another moment of doubt to convince him it's safer for edwin if charles doesn't love him back.

(also taking the time to plug @frogsondeckchairs' brilliant fic follow you to the end of time, which works with the reverse premise of charles actually being a trick of hell! <3)

this little cat is cheering for YOU 🫵

[video by tommcgovern27. original caption: this one’s going out to anyone living in a studio apartment rn]

haha pretty cool song shame it doesn’t have a keyboard solo that fucks super har-

There has NEVER been a more appropriate time to post this tweet

no fun buttons for april fools' day?....

wel....okay..