W. Graham Robertson, inspiration for Dorian Gray and my very favourite Singer Sargent portrait. Apparently Sargent invited him for the portrait and “Why a very thin boy in a very tight coat should have struck him as a subject worthy of treatment I never discovered,” he reminisced later,” but he “evidently had the finished picture in his mind from the first.”
I also love that the book illustrator kind of used this painting in his drawings.
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Be the change you want to see in the world
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Charles Rowland & Crystal Palace
Dead Boy Detectives 1.03
meanwhile edwin in the bg:
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edwin is stronger than me because if I was dragged back to hell after spending nearly a century there and the boy I have a crush on came for me without hesitation, saw my darkest moments and offered me his hand, held me as I confessed my love to him, compared us to orpheus and eurydice, and I had to act like nothing happened... I'd lose my shit.
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in love with the consensus here on tumblr of simply calling Edwin “edwardian twink”
I see that and I immediately know we are talking about him
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my new mission in life is to get everything who watched dead boy detectives and fell in love with edwin paine to read a marvellous light so they can fall in love with edwin courcey because they are in fact the same person in different fonts
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So edwin was terrified of staying in hell but also getting out of hell because he knew he'd never be brave enough again to confess his love to charles.
He needed that much fear and bravery just to let charles know about his feelings. Can't imagine how much he would've been overthingking the whole way going up the endless stairs in hell- and charles responding with "love you too, can we go?" without giving it any serious thoght was so hillarious and lovely. They complement each other so perfectly
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LISTEN.
I am 100% an Edwin/Charles shipper, and that's not gonna change* but I just think the Cat King would be a delightfully awful distraction for a little while in all the best worst ways.
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Ok i just finished watching dead boy detectives and im gonna need everyone to check it out immediately bc if we dont get that season 2...
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I've started to watch Julie and the PHANTOMS and now I have another gay ghost to add to my collection yay :)
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I think edwin might actually be haunting me bc I keep thinking things in his voice entirely unprompted
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