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while gathering pictures of edwin covered in blood i noticed something!!

pretty much the whole time he’s in hell, it’s like THIS ^ with his non-bloody side in shadows, UNTIL charles comes

and then it’s like THIS ^ with his bloody side in shadows

i haven’t studied cinematography or anything but that’s definitely intentional

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The Best Frames We Know, frame #389 / #196 DBD Frames Project on Youtube | animation link + slowed down

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alive boy Charles for you. oh to be a teen boy in the 80s applying makeup in a grimy bathroom at a ska show because you know your parents would never let you put it on beforehand at home

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“Ananda Lewis” is it’s own category.

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there's a stage in sandwich consumption where it's falling to pieces & you're desperately cupping it in your hands & it's like this poor wounded animal that is covered in mustard & wants to die

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bit mad innit. This whole thing

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Drag Queen Detectives for @sirafel-blog as part of @dbdayuletide gift exange

Sirafel's og request under cut

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Happy Pride!

I drew this June last year but forgot to post it anywhere and then pride was over. You cannot believe the amount of patience it took not to post this silly little mini comic.

Some close ups:

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my contribution to the DBDA pride charity calendar, coming up this june!! :)

this was extremely fun to work on and I'm so happy to be a part of this project with so many other talented artists, this fandom is truly amazing 💜

she's an icon, she's a legend and she is the moment

*open the image for better quality

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just one today

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I’m interested in how both Charles and Edwin treat the whole idea of being “detectives.”  Obviously, they are detectives.  They have formed a detective agency, they run cases, it’s their whole thing; it’s how they spend their afterlives.  But it’s more than just that.

They both take the detective work very seriously.  Edwin comes off, generally, as more serious than Charles about it, with his little asides about being a “proper” detective and the methodical ways he likes to do things, but Charles is clearly into it, too.  And sometimes it feels so clearly like they’re playing at the idea of being detectives that it’s almost like a game or a roleplay for them.  They want to be (and are) detectives, but they are two teenage boys who have styled themselves after the idea of being detectives.  Then there are moments where this “performance” of detective work begins to break down.

For Edwin, this happens earlier in the season.  In the first episode, he admits that the detective work matters because he needs it, emotionally, to matter.  His and Charles’s cases didn’t get solved, no one cared.  He needs someone to care.  That’s his investment in being a detective; its more than just a game for him.  When the Cat King casts his truth spell, this is only built upon.  He says he does the detective work, too, because he wants to stay out of hell.  For a while, though, I was trying to find Charles’s investment.  Yeah, his case was also written off when he died, but didn’t seem as upset about that as Edwin.  On the first watchthrough, I wondered if Charles’s investment in the detective work was simply because Edwin was invested.

Then there’s episode 4, when Charles beats the Night Nurse, and part of the speech he yells at her is about being a detective.  I think that’s when it started to click for me that there was something deeper going on with him, too, about the detective work specifically.  Charles is upset he died, he never came to terms with it.  I wonder if part of the reason he’s so invested in being a detective is because it gives him a sense of purpose and impact that he misses from being alive.  He could never stop the things he wanted to stop, never protect the people he wanted to protect, but at least he has this, with Edwin.  At least they are detectives, and Charles can feel needed, feel like his life didn’t end so early for no reason at all.  

I think a lot about the concept of ghosts having unfinished business and how that might apply to both Charles and Edwin, and I think that the detective agency, despite how it sometimes comes off as playacting, is deeply tied to both of their psyches.  Edwin needs the detective agency to feel like there was a point to everything that happened to him.  That maybe no one cared he disappeared, and maybe he ended up in hell, but it wasn’t for nothing.  They can try to keep it from happening to anyone again.  And Charles?  Well, he needs the detective agency because there was no point to what happened to him.  He shouldn’t have died, and he’s not ready to move on to an afterlife.  He needs to feel like he’s needed, like there’s something he can do.  If it hadn’t been a detective agency these two formed, it would have been something else because they had too many deep-rooted issues that have been sublimated into the agency itself.

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it’s so. it’s so They

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A very abbreviated wip progression of my recent Montwin artwork: Lament of a Waning Ember

There's 311 individually rendered feathers in this drawing lmfao 💀🙏

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TODDLER NEEDS EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Baby Ayla has struggled with malnutrition all her life, causing severe diarrhea. For a toddler, this is absolutely life-threatening. Her widowed mother URGENTLY needs funds for medicine, saline solution, and diapers. Every moment that Ayla remains sick, she gets closer and closer to kidney failure!

🚨Need to raise: $500 USD

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doesmyfriendhateme.com

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a girl and her tampax radiant applicator tube of a jacket against the world

had a crashout while drawing this bc the color i had originally picked for her jacket looked completely batshit on my phone 😞 bc of the way colors display on different screens ig? still i have NEVER had a difference that stark. it was only the jacket color too so it fucked up the color relationships 😭😭 rip the obnoxious bright lavender i was going to use </3 just couldn't get it to work