Commissioned for The Good We Do fundraiser by @bluejayadler who requested the boys crafting together! Thank you so much for participating!!! 💜💜💜

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It's okay if your ship is not yet canon!

It's okay if your ship never becomes canon!

It's okay if your ship was canon and has since broken up!

It's okay if the members of your ship have literally never spoken to each other!

It's okay if the members of your ship hate each other's guts!

It's okay if the members of your ship are in completely different media!

It's all okay! Ship what you want! Let other people ship what they want! Ship and let ship, and all that good stuff!

Enjoy canon for what it is, and have fun in the sandbox that is fandom when canon doesn't provide what you're looking for.

Half your ship died? Not in fanfic they didn't.

A character left the show? In my mind, they're on vacation.

People keep tearing each other to pieces over whether or not their ship exists in the source material. Like... when did that become relevant? Of the twenty ships I currently have saved as faves on Ao3, only 3 were ever canon. No one used to care. And now suddenly everyone does.

Let's go back to not caring. Fandom was more fun back then, I promise.

Like, sure. It's fun when your ships set sail, but it's not some moral failing on your part if they don't or never will.

not furniture but love this 1930s radiator with bread warming addition

やっと。At last.

The dead boys are detecting...!

Charles I said not to touch anything 😔 that boy's getting cursed by whatever's in there for sure

random extra stuff under the cut ↴

The sweetest ghosts around

Dead Boy Detectives Character Appreciation Week - Day 2: Charles Rowland

So these cases matter. They have to matter.

The boys taking advantage of their incorporeality to literally share the same space, anyone? Hugging so tightly it’s like they want to merge bodies and then they do.

The sofa doesn’t have room for both of them to lie down (doesn’t really have room for one of them, to be honest) but they just both lie down mostly overlapping, their bodies inside each other in a way no living humans can achieve, their unbeating hearts nestled against each other

Joining space with most of their bodies while their arms are flung about separately so that Edwin can hold a spellbook while Charles holds a magnifying glass and an enchanted candle over it and they can look at the book with their eyes at the exact same angle (the first time Crystal comes in and sees them merged into a “four-armed monster” she screams)

They did it a lot at first because it’s the only way they can feel warmth in any real sense; it’s not quite the same warmth as the living sense of temperature, as human thermoception, but sharing space with the thrumming spectral energy of another ghost is as close as they can get, and it helps, they learn after months of Charles shivering against cold that only he can feel, that isn’t real thermoception, either. They spent quite a lot of winter nights, the first few years, curled up inside each other, curled up against each others’ souls like a cat against warm laundry.

着替え・Change of clothes

Today’s art is for @babyseraphim, who asked for Charles I with crust punk influence. Thanks for the inspiration and validation, friend!

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.)

Holy shit… please…take this quiz…

My mom is a pharmacist and got 16 out of 30. SHE’S SO MAD.

HAH! I got 18. Barely. But I think one I got wrong by accident (like the screen was still loading when I pressed the answer but still, 18 isn’t bad?)

Here’s an updated link:

Ahhh!

AHHHHHHHH <3333333

Damn! I was about to be all, “Ahaha, it’s so easy once you know the way names work in Quenya and Sindarin, certain letter combinations simply do not appear, blahblahblah…”

And then, motherfucker, I got four of them wrong??