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something gay and self-indulgent :)

(fully stole this pose from an 1883 painting btw, because it looked so much like them already - The New Bracelet, Henryk Siemiradzki)

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🥹 thank you so much for keeping the tradition alive and thank you everyone for participating this year!!!

With the Ides past and gone, we have wrapped up Rafflesweek for this year! If you still have works to post though, go ahead! I'll continue to check the tag through the week and I'm sure others will too. And of course, #crime and cricket is there throughout the year 💎

Thank you to all who have created and posted - I was impressed with the amount of work put in this year! It's been wonderful to see. Whether you filled all the prompts or did one thing - thank you. You are creating and putting lovely things out into the world, and that is a great thing.

Same goes for all of you who have reblogged and commented and spread the works around for others to see! ✨

And thank you to @rififis for making the lovely artwork for the prompts post, and for figuring out the prompts together with me! (And for starting Rafflesweek to begin with, but that goes without saying!) 💖

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Me (Arriving late to the party with whisky and sullivans): Happy ides everyone!

Made for #Rafflesweeks2025 / prompt: Literature

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thinking about ham common on this ides of march

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‘The Ides of March, the Ides of March, remember.’ Eh, Bunny, my boy? You won’t forget them, will you?

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happy ides of march everyone, i went to look at my old raffles art and found some silly stuff i never posted

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Raffles Week Day 5: Cricket 🏏

Here’s my first piece for Raffles Week! You get Raffles for today's prompt! 🎩

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"And there knelt A. J. Raffles, with his black hair tumbled, and the same watchful, quiet, determined half-smile with which I have seen him send down over after over in a county match!" -The Ides of March

Raffles Week Day 5: Cricket 🏏

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The aftermath of Bunny's cricket practice, for today's Raffles Week

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A triptych for Raffles Week day 4, Photography.

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Raffles and Bunny if they were unemployed actors on holiday by mistake

Raffles Week 2025 day three!

(theme: theater)

"we want them here, and we want them now!"

So this is supposed to be Raffles and Bunny as the main characters of the movie 'Withnail and I' in the scene where the Withnail and 'and I'/Marwood visit a tea shop (the quote comes directly from that scene). Somehow the main duo in this movie reminded me of Raffles and Bunny, aesthetic British pals at the end of an era

Here's the original Withnail and I scene:

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Super Rough Sketch for Raffles Week 2025!

(theme: literature)

This is supposed to be Bunny typing out some of the Raffles stories (particularly ‘The Knees of The Gods’). It didn’t turn out how I was imagining it to and it’s very rough but oh well it’s all practice!

(Also, song recommendation for ‘The Knees of The Gods’: ‘The Soldiering Life’ by the Decemberists)

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for Raffles Week Day 2: Poetry! Did we all know the poem Raffles quotes in Field of Philipi is actually one Hornung published in his real school magazine from 1883? Its very cute and im so charmed by it <3

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RAFFLEITES, IT'S TIME TO GO A-RAFFLING!

The week leading up to the Ides of March will per tradition be dedicated to E. W. Hornung's stories about A. J. Raffles and Bunny Manders. This year's theme is THE ARTS OF RAFFLES - so go get your kits ready and prepare to have some fun! All sorts of works are welcome and encouraged - the main point is to celebrate the Raffles stories together as a fandom!

As usual the prompts are there to ignite your imagination — interpretation is free and what you do with them is up to you! If you have any questions at all about the concept of Rafflesweek or the prompts, do not hesitate to send me a telegram.

✨ The official tag is #rafflesweek2025.

✨ Please reblog this post to help spread the word!

✨ Cover artwork by @maturiin 💎

Prompts list in regular text below the cut:

day 1 / 9th March: LITERATURE

day 2 / 10th March: THEATRE

day 3 / 11th March: PHOTOGRAPHY

day 4 / 12th March: POETRY

day 5 / 13th March: CRICKET

day 6 / 14th March: PAINTING

day 7 / The Ides of March: BURGLARY

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I was over the crest of the hill, the gray road reeling out from under me as I felt for my brake. I looked back at Raffles. He had put up his feet. I screwed my head round still further, and there were the boys in their pyjamas, their hands upon their knees, like so many wicket-keepers, and a big man shaking his fist. There was a lamp-post on the hill-top, and that was the last I saw. -The Wrong House

these keep getting more polished and less sketchy woops dfkdkh

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happy "bunny gets into a life of crime" day!!

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RAFFLEITES, IT IS TIME!

The week leading up to the Ides of March will be dedicated to E. W. Hornung's stories about A. J. Raffles and Bunny Manders. The week starts on Saturday and above you have the official prompts list. The prompts are meant as inspiration, so you can use all of them, pick one or two, or disregard them and do your own thing! All sorts of works are welcome and encouraged - the main point is to celebrate the Raffles stories together as a fandom!

To participate, tag your posts with the official tag #rafflesweek2024. You can in addition use #rafflesweek to add your posts to the general collection of Rafflesweek works from past years.

A reminder that the official Raffles tag on all other days of the year is #crime and cricket, which of course also can be used in addition!

If you have any questions regarding participating in Rafflesweek, do not hesitate to send me a telegram.

Let's go a-Raffling! 💎

Banner art by @maturiin ✨

Prompts list in regular text below the cut:

day 1 / 9th March - AUDACITY

day 2 / 10th March - INNOCENCE

day 3 / 11th March - FEAR

day 4 / 12th March - ADMIRATION

day 5 / 13th March - JEALOUSY

day 6 / 14th March - LOVE

day 7 / the Ides of March - ENTRANCED