ok just finished the series and i am obsessed with kashina the adventurer who lives in angie the sea monster's belly and canonically has not had any trauma ever in his life

[He turns around and waves, grinning.]

Hi!

[A tired looking technician with strangely bright eyes is standing there]

Good morning! Or- heh, should I say, good night?

[He lets the joke hang in the air for way too long, just staring at them with a continued grin.]

[They just sigh.]

You’re the new night guard?

Sure am!

[He ignores the fact he's considered a trainee because he never. did his training.]

I'm James. What's your name?

[He holds out his hand to shake.]

Halley.

[they shake his hand with their gloved one.]

[He yanks his hand back at the last second.]

Heheh, too slow!

….right. God I’m tired. Okay, do you know what you’re doing?

Hahahaha. Not once in my life!

[They sigh]. Of course

So, what's there to do around here? FazEnt said they needed another guard with all the extra areas they added, but, uh. Looks like you've got staff bots taking care of that.

Yeah. Well. The bots aren’t perfect.

Except for Monty, of course.

….sure.

So, are you another night guard?

I’m the night technician. The other guard on duty right now is Gregory

Oh. Huh. That's cool. Anyway-

[He turns around and starts walking away. He immediately trips on a wet floor sign bot and eats shit.]

[Halley snorts]

Don't laugh!!!

[He stumbles to his feet, holding his bleeding nose.]

Oh shit! Uh…

It's not broken! Just bleeding.

You sure?

Yeah. I know what a broken nose feels like, and this isn't it.

[Halley rummages around in their bag and pulls out a large first aid kit. James gets a glimpse of some unusual tools in the kit: a vial of glowing liquid, electrical wires, a tazer, an IV kit, and exoskeleton tools. Halley pulls out some tissues]

Here

What's that glowy shit in there?

…that’s not important

Is it drinkable?

Do not drink that

But I wanna.

No.

[He reaches for it.]

[They yank it away]

Rude.

How is that rude.

Because I was gonna steal it out of your thing and then you took it away from me.

Look, it’s…that stuff can have really bad side effects if you’re using it wrong. It’s only for emergencies

It is an emergency. I'm emergencyingly curious now gimme it.

[He reaches for it again.]

[Halley stuffs it in their inside jacket pocket]

[He goes for their jacket pocket.]

[Halley grabs his hand with inhuman speed, holding it in an iron grip. Their eyes glow]

I’m not joking. You have no idea what the consequences are. This is not a toy.

[He's entirely unfazed.]

Oh-em-gee we're holding hands. How forward of you. But sorry, I'm taken. Lol.

[He instead uses his other hand to try to reach into their pocket.]

[something metal wraps around his other hand, preventing it from moving]

[James leans down and bites it.]

[Halley raises a brow, but the metal tendril? Does not move]

[He bites it again, tugging on it like a dog.]

Are you kidding me?

[He growls and looks up at them.]

Whar?

Are you feral?

wonderful friendship and cute sprites

What is Edwin Payne reading? : a closer look.

The Aldine Publishing Company was founded by Charles Perry Brown (1834-1916).

Some other titles included:

Arthur Conan Doyle was a huge contributor with novels, short stories, poems and articles.

The Strand Magazine was also published in the United States from february 1891 through february 1916 but with sometimes different content.

• 121 short stories

• 70 articles

• 9 novels

• 2 interviews and 1 poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Reblogging because I added some more things to the strand magazine image ;)

The patches and pins on Charles Rowland’s coat!

Also his whole outfit is inspired by mod and ska subcultures. From the chain, to his earring, to his shoes. Everything is reminiscent of the 80s.

Edwin Payne and his Edwardian clothes:

A breakdown of his outfit using some interviews and hours of research of Edwardian wardrobes.

Charles Rowland: an outfit analysis.

I had previously focused only on his pins and patches, but this is a more complete breakdown of his whole attire.

From the 1980s to Edwardian wardrobes, I also broke down Edwin’s outfit.

The Dead Boy Detectives and their board games:

In an interview with IndieWire it was mentioned that they had “every international version of Clue” and I had to take a closer look. Not only is it not exactly “international” versions, (considering that both Charles and Edwin are British, their national one would be Cluedo, so Clue does work as international in that sense), but the board games you see in the background are all vintage and from different decades!

I did not cover all the Clues, although they do have at least 8 of them in that closet. But their assortment of board games is quite interesting!

edwin is fighting his demons and the demon is homosexuality

Just saw this on Twitter and I'm trying my best to read what I can

On the left:

WANTED SPIRIT

Offense: Breaking out of hell, evading processing

1989 | London, England, Earth

Description

Edwin Payne was 16 years old at his time of death and was born 1900 in England. His height was 5'11 with a slender build, his hair colour was brown and his eye colour was blue-green.

Edit to include what's at the bottom (thank you @pluckyyoungdonna and @gendrsoup) :

"Due to Edwin Payne's participation in a ritual human sacrifice, he was sentenced to an [afterlife?] in Hell. He was fully processed and transferred to Hell but escaped in 1989..."

On the right:

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Edwin Payne was chosen to be killed in a ritual that demanded a virgin sacrifice.

"Edwin Payne is to spend the next (century?) in hell as punishment for living (...) sinful life. After completion (....) reassigned to a more pleasant state."

Years in limbo: ........ + [✓]

Years in assignment (?): ........

So uh

sinful life??? what sinful life??

YEARS IN LIMBO?

And WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WOULD BE REASSIGNED AFTER SOME SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF TIME THAT CLEARLY WAS MORE THAN 70 YEARS

I'm losing my mind

silly little wish for season two: I want there to be a case where they find some kind of magical creature that shows like an image of your greatest desire or whatever. Like the fish in episode 4 but as like mirages. And I want Charles to be the one who sees it, I want Charles to see him and Edwin together, maybe like kissing or just wrapped around each other. And I want him to have this little wake up moment like, huh I guess I do love him I’m that way as well. Then I want him to just start wooing Edwin. No panic, no ‘does he like me or not’ he just starts flirting with him like he did with crystal but 10x.

When Katya said “Of course we’re in love. That’s why i tried to shoot you.” And Goncharov said “If we really were in love you wouldn’t have missed.” 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

It IS true that being on here gives you a tumblr accent. This morning my mother asked me something and i replied "i don't know i've never heard these words in that order" and she nearly choked laughing. It wasn't even that funny

at my old job i had a coworker who was tired and made a coffee with like 6 or 8 shots of espresso and i just casually went up to them like “are you trying to meet god?” and not only was this absolutely hilarious to them but they brought it up in future conversations they thought it was so funny but to me this was just as casual as saying “woah that’s a lot of coffee”

Being funny on Tumblr and then going to be funny in real life is like traveling to a foreign country and baby the currency exchange rate is biased in your favor

✨️Joana Indi and the Queen of Egypt ✨️

[He turns around and waves, grinning.]

Hi!

[A tired looking technician with strangely bright eyes is standing there]

Good morning! Or- heh, should I say, good night?

[He lets the joke hang in the air for way too long, just staring at them with a continued grin.]

[They just sigh.]

You’re the new night guard?

Sure am!

[He ignores the fact he's considered a trainee because he never. did his training.]

I'm James. What's your name?

[He holds out his hand to shake.]

Halley.

[they shake his hand with their gloved one.]

[He yanks his hand back at the last second.]

Heheh, too slow!

….right. God I’m tired. Okay, do you know what you’re doing?

Hahahaha. Not once in my life!

[They sigh]. Of course

So, what's there to do around here? FazEnt said they needed another guard with all the extra areas they added, but, uh. Looks like you've got staff bots taking care of that.

Yeah. Well. The bots aren’t perfect.

Except for Monty, of course.

….sure.

So, are you another night guard?

I’m the night technician. The other guard on duty right now is Gregory

Oh. Huh. That's cool. Anyway-

[He turns around and starts walking away. He immediately trips on a wet floor sign bot and eats shit.]

[Halley snorts]

Don't laugh!!!

[He stumbles to his feet, holding his bleeding nose.]

Oh shit! Uh…

It's not broken! Just bleeding.

You sure?

Yeah. I know what a broken nose feels like, and this isn't it.

[Halley rummages around in their bag and pulls out a large first aid kit. James gets a glimpse of some unusual tools in the kit: a vial of glowing liquid, electrical wires, a tazer, an IV kit, and exoskeleton tools. Halley pulls out some tissues]

Here

What's that glowy shit in there?

…that’s not important

Is it drinkable?

Do not drink that

But I wanna.

No.

[He reaches for it.]

[They yank it away]

Rude.

How is that rude.

Because I was gonna steal it out of your thing and then you took it away from me.

Look, it’s…that stuff can have really bad side effects if you’re using it wrong. It’s only for emergencies

It is an emergency. I'm emergencyingly curious now gimme it.

[He reaches for it again.]

[Halley stuffs it in their inside jacket pocket]

[He goes for their jacket pocket.]

[Halley grabs his hand with inhuman speed, holding it in an iron grip. Their eyes glow]

I’m not joking. You have no idea what the consequences are. This is not a toy.

[He's entirely unfazed.]

Oh-em-gee we're holding hands. How forward of you. But sorry, I'm taken. Lol.

[He instead uses his other hand to try to reach into their pocket.]

[something metal wraps around his other hand, preventing it from moving]

[James leans down and bites it.]

[Halley raises a brow, but the metal tendril? Does not move]

[He bites it again, tugging on it like a dog.]

Are you kidding me?