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PAINLAND week 2024
Day 4: Domestic
reorganization of bookshelves
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PAINLAND WEEK 2024
Day 5: Case(fic)
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Ghost don’t sleep, but if they did they would cuddle
Day 5 - Canon divergence/Casefic✨️
I know I'm a bit late but here's my fanart for Painland Week day 4: Domestic AU
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Don’t forget to request a new season for Dead Boy Detectives through Netflix!!!
Old married couple on acid
Based on this bobs burgers scene
Day 6 - Free day, Dead Girl Detectives 🗣💥❗️
When I feel the warmth of your very soul
I forget I'm cold and crying
-damaged people, depeche mode
Inspired by @hannaloony's "true ghost's forms" series
Payneland day 7 - soulmate au
Oh soulmate AU, my most favourite alternative universe type!!
Day 7 - Soulmate AU/Crossover✨️
Day 7 of @painlandweek - Soulmate AU
It's hard to believe that today is already the last day of Painland Week. I haven't gotten around to reading the fics yet and I'm looking forward to it! :)
Hell (1355 words)
Each day, your arm reveals a different location where your soulmate will be that day. For Charles, however, it had always displayed only one word: Hell.
@painlandweek Day 5: Canon Divergence
In this timeline, Edwin manages to save Charles' life, that first fateful night. They remain friends, and deal with the fallout of the attempted murder well enough.
Edwin keeps watch over Charles, helps him when his former 'friends' try to intimidate him; and tries not to fall too deep for that charming smile (he does not succeed). Charles tries to learn all he can about the supernatural world at the same time he educates his new best friend on all he missed. He tries very hard to remember, after each visit home that ends with bruises or each time he gets another threat from his former-mates-turned-attackers, why he fought so hard to survive that night. (He often succeeds). Most things are well.
Until Mr. Rowland has a bad day; and takes it out on his son. Edwin tries to intervene but Charles forbids it, thinking it will blow over, as always. Only it doesn't. One push too hard, one bad fall, and this one boy still dies at 16 years old.
Edwin is crying in the corner, in loud weeping sobs, as he hasn't done since he learned silence in all things was vital for survival in Hell. (His grief is strong enough that it has made him forget, at the moment, how important it is to keep running from Death.)
Charles, just coming to in his new incorporeal form, is taken aback by the sheer amount of pain his death is causing his friend. He knows himself loved. With no second thoughts, he offers his hand to his friend, and together they run away from misery and hurt and Death, into a new (after)life.
I love Photo Booth pictures sm and they would too
Yall know that the first kiss would be at the most inconvenient time
Some very late, very quick sketching for Painland Week Day 6 : Free Day
my contribution to payneland day 2 is that in the myth of Achilles and Patroclus Charles would be Patroclus and Edwin would be Achilles (I’ve seen most everyone else say the other way around, but let me explain)
First of all, their relationship is similar to Achilles and Pat in the sense that Achilles never really had anyone to truly understand him before Pat. And while he may have been surrounded by others (Cat King, Monty, Simon), it was never in his cruel “destiny” to forge connections with anyone. That’s, of course, until he meets Pat and a friendship/ love affair is forged between the two of them, making them inseparable. Edwin was never meant to be happy. His life sucked, and he went to hell unfairly. His destiny was written in such a way that he should never experience joy, and YET.
Charles comes from a similar place as Patroclus. He had inattentive/abusive parents, never really felt a sense of belonging, and was inexplicably drawn to this one boy (Achilles/Edwin). Once meeting his Achilles, he found himself dedicated to this boy within a number of HOURS. Such devotion has only ever been written of in myths.
I feel as though we can get really caught up on the VISUALS of myths. In the story of Achilles and Patroclus, Achilles is this buff, golden, god-like man (just like Jayden Revri amiright haha) while Patroclus is a weaker, scrawny and nervous boy. When given these descriptions, it’s easy to say that Edwin is obviously the physically weaker one, and Charles is the brawn. Even knowing their personalities we can fall into this assumption, as Achilles is undoubtedly more of a people person then Patroclus, but I still feel this way of thinking to be incorrect. The answer, for me, lies in the dynamic.
Patroclus views Achilles as his savior, his light, his hope. Charles absolutely feels this way towards Edwin, as showcased by the emphasis on the lantern and warm lighting often used when the camera is showing Charles looking at Edwin. Achilles views Patroclus to be his reprieve, his comfort, his heart. Edwin, obviously once again, feels this towards Charles, as showcased with the only scenes where Edwin acts or appears relaxed are the ones where the two boys are interacting or simply together. Even the whole Hell segment could be considered a metaphor for this, as the times when Edwin feels most lost are the times when he doesn’t have Charles. Again this is a huge theme in the myth of Achilles and Patroclus as shown with Achilles’s grief at Pat’s death, and depictions of him being lost anytime he is without Pat.
My last point is that Edwin, to me, feels like a classic greek hero. He has gone on a massive, gods damned journey, he has discovered comfort that has been ardently tried to be ripped away from him, but ultimately in the end found an eternal peace. Edwin is a hero. I’m not saying that Charles isn’t, as he too has many traits, I just feel that this myth isn’t quite his. Maybe Hercules because of the anger issues, lol. Either way, I believe that in the case of Achilles and Patroclus, Edwin is most likely to be Achilles and Charles as Patroclus.
Guys we need to keep the fandom alive and thriving, yes it is tragic that we won’t get another season but we’re all still here we still have palasaki week and the haloween events, there’s still so many ideas to explore so many theories to share, we can still keep the fandom alive.
I just realized the last season of The Umbrella Academy is going to come out during painland week. This blog is about to get really annoying
My first fic for painland week!