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"Whatever this was, it wasn’t an emergency." - Michael Robinavitch, having a medical emergency.
"This fucking guy." - Jack Abbot, leaving his shift to go get him.
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18 Jun 2026
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No one thinks Robby talking to the press is a good idea, but if its the only thing that will stop the ER from being sold, then he'll just have to do it. How bad could it be?
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17 Jun 2026
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Do you think it all ends in flood, Robby wonders against the man’s carotid, or fire?
What?
I think hell is full of water. Maybe he’ll never know why other people’s mouths always taste better than his own. I think it’s everything we hope we’ve avoided, all the shit we tell ourselves we’re above caring about, drowning together in one big fucking bathtub.
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09 Jun 2026
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"A glimpse through an interstice caught . . .
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word."
Walt Whitman
A motorcycle accident, and all that comes after.
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07 Jun 2026
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Sometimes Dennis misses Broken Bow.
It’s not like he isn’t glad he got out. He had to. That was non-negotiable. But still, he tells himself, he’s allowed to miss it without regret. The two are not indivisible from each other.
Which is why, when his father calls him ten times in one night, Dennis almost picks up.
or, Dennis hasn't talked to his parents in four years. Until one day a certain John Whitaker shows up in the ER, hand infected and demanding to see his son.
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28 Mar 2026
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amaranth, ambrosia, adder's-tongue, asphodel by KiaraSayre
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
15 Feb 2026
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Charles is getting very sick of coughing up flowers every time he feels something.
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- Part 14 of KiaraSayre Does Febuwhump 2026
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14 Feb 2026
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December 31st 2001
New Year’s Resolutions:
1. STOP SMOKING!
2. Get a better job so no longer have to dread social functions.
3. Enter into nice respectable relationship with nice respectable man; see above.
4. Develop interesting hobby as talking point in the event of failure on points 2 and 3 – anything to avoid being introduced as Edwin Payne who had a nervous breakdown after two terms at Cambridge, holds a pissant little job at a publishing house of no significance or renown and couldn’t catch a man with both hands and a bear trap. Will be 32 years old this year, for heaven’s sake. Feel strongly that now is the moment to take charge of my life. At the stroke of midnight tonight, the year 2002 shall begin, and I shall be a new and improved Edwin Payne.A Bridget Jones’s Diary AU.
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05 Feb 2026
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An extract from the Cryptozoological Society’s quarterly newsletter, issue 588:
I reached out to Edwin Payne earlier this week in the hope that he might be prevailed upon to share some of his great great great grandfather’s personal diaries, so we could perhaps organise some readings. When I eventually succeeded in making contact, he said, “How in god’s name did you get this number? Bugger off and leave me alone, I’m terribly busy.” Assuming this to be nothing more than the famous Payne family sense of humour in action, I naturally called back, but haven’t yet managed to get hold of him again. Nevertheless, I have no doubt that you will all join me in wishing the very best of luck to Edwin and to Charles Rowland, who are currently preparing to mount an expedition to look for evidence of the Lambton Worm early in the new year.
Clarence Pembroke-Wetherby, Society secretary, September 22nd 2024
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18 Dec 2025
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“Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield (potion version) by bitterdesert for tragedy_machine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
14 Dec 2025
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“Edwin, don’t say it.” Charles groans, keeping his voice low and hushed.
Edwin strains against the rope infused with just enough iron to make them solid, but not enough to hurt beyond a light-sting, and tries to catch a glimpse of whatever this witch is doing around the corner. God, he hates dealing with witches.
“I told you this would happen,” Edwin replies, smug and sing-songy. They may be hopelessly trapped and seconds away from being subjected to some new horror, but at least he was right.
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18 Dec 2025
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A decennial hunt draws neighboring princes to Camelot to track a dangerous three-headed beast, but things go south when one of them starts pursuing Merlin instead.
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28 Oct 2025
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Merlin has a secret. Arthur, it turns out, also has a secret.
It's the same secret.
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05 Oct 2025
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Most ghosts didn’t celebrate their birthdays.
But Charles Rowland wasn’t ‘most ghosts’.
Indeed, Charles’ birthday was a high point of the year, a guaranteed day of fun for himself and Edwin. The fun always helped to push down the unvoiced emotions below: the loss, the unresolved pain of his death, the feelings of failure and inadequacy. Charles saw no reason why this state of affairs shouldn’t continue forever.
But then he turned fifty.
Or:
How a medieval poem changed Charles’ afterlife forever.
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- Part 1 of The Knight and The Pagan
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29 Sep 2025
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Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne, semi-professional ghosthunters. No haunting too small, too strange, or too dangerous. What could go wrong?
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31 Aug 2025
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It’s only when he’s dragged down to Hell because of a foolish clerical error that he comes to appreciate the existence of his soulmate.
The words on his heart aren’t just from an imaginary person anymore; they become a guideline. Because, he realizes one time, when the spider takes a little longer than usual to catch up to him—rip him open, devour him, remake him—he’s supposed to be there to hear his soulmate’s last words. And knowing now there’s a life after death, he understands there’s a chance he could get out of here, even if it takes a thousand years.
So, he memorizes the pathway he’s just run through, the corner of the room he’s hiding in, and raises his head determinedly.
From then on, they’re not just words anymore. They’re a thread out of a maze, and Edwin gladly grabs it with both hands; he knows there is someone out there who is holding on to the other end.
Or, having the last words your soulmate will say before their death written on your skin is given a whole new meaning when you find life after death.
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23 Aug 2025
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Charles could hear the sirens, dopplering closer as the lights painted the night blue. “I have to go,” said the boy, more to himself than to Charles. “If they catch me here—well. It doesn’t matter. You won’t remember this.” He smiled, and it was like the moon appearing shyly from behind a cloud. “Goodbye, Charles.”
Charles Rowland should have died at sixteen, but he didn’t. Three years later—eager to escape call centre purgatory—he joins the Lost and Found Department as a psychopomp, charged with escorting the recently deceased to their afterlives. But why does his new colleague seem so familiar, and what’s that persistent tugging feeling at his wrist?
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11 Jul 2025
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Edwin's voice comes to him like a whisper on the breeze.
“Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.”He cries then, clinging to the branches of the tree outside Edwin's window, for their lost future, for everything that wasn't and would never be. When his tears finally run dry, he climbs down the tree and strips by the pond.
“You can't just use our pond whenever the fancy takes you,” Edwin says primly, playful indignation in his tone.
“Can't I?” Charles says, and dives in. The water is freezing, a chilling embrace.
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24 May 2025
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“Personally, I think you could stand to be much more selfish.”
Charles blinks. “What?”
“I would like it if you were–if you would be selfish with me.” Edwin clears his throat, fussing with his cuffs, and raises his chin stubbornly. “I would like you to know that you are very well loved. By me. I would like you to be greedy, with my.. with my love. As you permit yourself to be with nothing and no one else.”
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21 May 2025
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you knew very well what was coming next by boysforbugs
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
29 Apr 2025
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You can't blame Charles for his brain turning to mush— really, you can't. It's not his fault.
If anything, it's Edwin's. Edwin, who is currently stood at case board, hands clasped behind his back. Charles can't focus on much of anything other than his outfit, though.
It's nothing too different from his usual clothes. He dawns a light blue sweater, the collar of his stark white shirt peeking out. His knickerbockers are a light brown with matching brown socks up to his calves. Edwin is wearing his usual boots, and his hair seems all prim and proper like usual but Charles can't focus on that.
All he can focus on is the outfit.
This would be insignificant to Charles, if it were anyone but Edwin. Hell, Crystal and Niko changed their clothes every day and he didn't go around ogling them. He'd get a proper smack upside the head if he did that, but that's besides the point.
It's because this is Edwin. Edwin, who doesn't like change. Edwin, who had only ever changed his look because of—
No.
No, wait.
Not because of Monty, Charles reminds himself.
Edwin hadn't dressed up for Monty, had he?
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30 Apr 2025
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Her daughter is five years old when Ursa realises what she and Ozai have been doing to their children. By each choosing one to bestow with their approval, they’re pitting them against one another. Perhaps Ozai is doing it on purpose, but Ursa isn’t. She resolves to heal the damage she has done.
In which Ursa tries to be a better parent to Azula, and it doesn’t change very much. And then, quite abruptly, it changes everything.
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19 Apr 2025
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When Azula is nine, she becomes an only child. She hears the Fire Lord call for Zuko's life, and in the morning, her mother and brother are gone. Azula may be young, but she isn't naive. She knows what happened to them.
Which makes it all the more surprising when Azula tracks the Avatar down and fights his group of peasant friends, only to find herself staring into an eerily familiar face.
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19 Apr 2025