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Endless compliments to the 173 amazing artists who poured their hearts into this.💛

Here's what we made, with love:

Check out all the frames closely: https://sites.google.com/view/the-best-frames-we-know/home?authuser=1

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Yearly redraw 2025! 🎉

His name is Caspian, please be nice to him

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GORGEOUS ‼️‼️

"Oh hush now... what you're about to experience will be MUCH worse..."

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"Being a detective, it's not always about reading people's minds and ta-daaa!"

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Canon Queer of the Day:

Edwin Payne

Edwin Payne is a protagonist from Dead Boy Detectives! He is canonically gay and has feelings for his best friend, Charles Rowland.

Submitted by Anonymous

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Criminal that you can't see his earring in this one

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I promised some friends I'd do all four out of the group, and here's Crystal. Her hair was a struggle and people were mean and didn't let me make her bald (I think she'd pull it off) or wear a hat (it's cold in Port Townsend). I've also reached that point where I could probably spend 10+ hours on her hair, but at some you gotta give up for your own sanity. I love her hair. But boy, do I need to draw more hair for practice. I'll return to both her and Charles once I've drawn Niko to polish up the hair a bit more.

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"Doesn't feel like I'd imagined, being dead."

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oh also!!! who loves bugs, and who is terrified of them?

We loved this question! Bugs are so divisive among even our littlest friends.

Niko and Crystal actually love bugs! They're not scared. Niko loves ladybugs, especially.

Thomas really wants to be friends with butterflies. If only they would stop running away!

Charles and Edwin hate bugs—especially Edwin hates spiders so, so much. He has nightmares about them that cause him existential terror for weeks. Charles will try to protect Edwin from them, but he's really scared, too.

And Monty...?

Well, you guessed it...

Monty tries to eat the bugs.

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dead boy detectives textposts part 6

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"It’s hard to score a non-miniseries on only eight episodes. Simply as a show, it was entertaining, engrossing, atmospheric, and fun. Even as someone who isn’t a fan of the YA/teen genre, I enjoyed it. And, the show’s bi shortcoming is one that I believe would, with almost 100% certainty, have been resolved in a second season. It feels a little like assessing the life of someone who died too young, before realizing their full potential. Kind of like Edwin and Charles. Except, the boys weren’t ready to pass on, and neither were their fans. Hopefully, the Dead Boy Detectives can be brought back to life. Otherwise, we’ll all be left wondering what might have been."

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tagging @whatthehorsedoicallthisblog because i forgot to 😢

The Smell Of Coffee and the Sound of Old Bones 🎨

link 🔗

This is my absolute favorite fanfic for the DBDA fandom!!! I knew I had to draw something from it and this part spoke to me. I really hope I did the confession scene justice, it's so well written and beautiful ❤

more versions because the colors get messed up on my phone:

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Charles Rowland Week: Chorb

Having a little nap in Edwins ribcage

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Good detectives do what they need to in order to solve a case. 💀🔎✨

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merry christmas <3

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Charles Rowland week #1

The Brawn/Cricket Bat

Bit late but shhhh. I didn't have time yesterday and I don't what "drawing before the week" means.

Guys. I'm using ✨colors✨. This life is amazing. I don't like how Edwin looks but meh, I'm tired, I almost break the page bc I erased it a lot so I'm done. It doesn't look thaaaaaat bad... Aigh?

Words can't explain how much I struggled with Charles' arm, but I'm pretty proud of how it looks, so, yaaaay. I realized I been drawing a lot of sports lately and I improved with my understanding of the musculature and blablabla so I'm happy.

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Edwin Payne (1900 – 1916)

Dead Boy Detectives Agency

[source: wasted by marya hornbacher || dead boy detectives, episode 1 || all-night pharmacy by ruth madievsky || notion by the rare occasions || pin by margaret lee || dead boy detectives, episode 7 || anecdote of the pig by tory adkisson || dead boy detectives, episode 1 + a study in scarlet by arthur conan doyle || the duchess of padua by oscar wilde || tumblr]

edwin / charles / paineland / niko / crystal