DBDA Reverse Bang

for the @deadbangdetectives reverse bang i drew a vigilante au for payneland. @ghostinthelibrarywrites wrote a very fun fic for it here:

here's my drawing for the dbda reverse bang (@deadbangdetectives), which is accompanied by @wordsinhaled 's super amazing fic "somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond" (https://archiveofourown.org/works/88913941/chapters/235981241)

i had a blast working on this! (despite this being a challenging piece with the background)

a huge thanks to everyone who cheered me on in this process, you are all my beloveds and i owe you everything!!! and thank you as well to @handwrittenhello for your hard work organizing such amazing events for our fandom with @deadbangdetectives!!!

adding more about my fic here! it features magic, portals, parallel universes, a different first meeting for edwin & charles, pining galore, surreal shenanigans, and more!

here's my drawing for the dbda reverse bang (@deadbangdetectives), which is accompanied by @wordsinhaled 's super amazing fic "somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond" (https://archiveofourown.org/works/88913941/chapters/235981241)

i had a blast working on this! (despite this being a challenging piece with the background)

my art for the DBDA reverse bang (@deadbangdetectives) is here, and i'm so stoked to share it with you!

it's an around the world in 80 days historical AU!!!

i have had such a blast poring over so many fashion plates and drawing the gang in fancy historical fashion ca. 1872. it was such a joy and a pleasure from start to finish to work with the incomparable @dear-monday on this project - i really couldn't have asked for a better partner from start to finish. she saw the vision 100% and has written the most fantastic fic that i am beyond excited for everyone to finally get to read!!!

thank you so much for being so amazing, hayley! and a huge thank you to @handwrittenhello for all of your hard work organizing this event!

odyssey on odyssey, land over land (40947 words) by dear_monday Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland Characters: Charles Rowland (DCU), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Crystal Palace (DCU), Monty (Dead Boy Detectives), Simon (Dead Boy Detectives), David the Demon (Dead Boy Detectives) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, Based On Around The World In Eighty Days Summary: “Pack?” said Charles, trailing along behind him as Mr. Payne went charging into his own bedroom and threw open the wardrobe. He hadn’t even known that Mr. Payne owned such a thing as a suitcase. “Where are we going?” Mr. Payne emerged with an armful of clothes—expensive, quietly lovely things in slate grey and brilliant white and fathomless midnight blue and that deep, impossible black—and deposited them in a heap on the bed. When he turned to look at Charles again, there was a feverish light in his eyes. “Dover,” he said. “Lovely.” Charles wasn’t sure anyone had ever been in such a hurry to get to Dover before, but perhaps a few days away from the city would be just the ticket for Mr. Payne. Poor bloke was wound so tight something was bound to go sproing sooner or later. “Nice little jaunt to the seaside, is it?” “And then to Paris,” Mr. Payne went on. “Then to Brindisi via Turin… Suez… Bombay… Calcutta… Hong Kong to Yokohama, San Francisco, New York. Oh! And then back home, of course. We shall return by precisely one o’clock in eighty days’ time.” “Right,” Charles said faintly. “Well. Better get packing, then, hadn’t I?”

[detail shots under the cut!]

writing by @artemisadore | art by @tragedy-machine | part of @deadbangdetectives' Reverse Bang 2026 🤍

Rated E, 11k words, Complete

After a confrontation goes too far between Edwin and the bully who refuses to leave him alone, Edwin is made the subject of a cruel prank with dire consequences. A beach, a sacrifice, and a stranger from the ocean…

My reverse bang art for @ms-zilia's wonderful fic something that’s shimmering and white

As always, it's been an absolute delight working with you my love! And massive thanks to @deadbangdetectives for organising another fantastic event 💜

HI! it's been while!

I had the chance to work with @bitterdesert again for this edition of the Reverse Bang @deadbangdetectives

As always, she's an incredible storyteller ✨️💕

from the grave, chapter 1 [Link]

Written by @antichrists-plus1 with illustration by @edmcmayonnaise

It's dead quiet in the room as Charles searches for something less horrifying to distract himself with. So quiet that he notices the faint drag of a wooden frame. He turns, and catches the corpse he just dug up trying to escape out the window. Charles screams.

Working as a body snatcher in the early 19th century, Charles digs up the body of a familiar boy, who he discovers may not be as dead as he seems.

from the grave, chapter 1 [Link]

Written by @antichrists-plus1 with illustration by @edmcmayonnaise

It's dead quiet in the room as Charles searches for something less horrifying to distract himself with. So quiet that he notices the faint drag of a wooden frame. He turns, and catches the corpse he just dug up trying to escape out the window. Charles screams.

Working as a body snatcher in the early 19th century, Charles digs up the body of a familiar boy, who he discovers may not be as dead as he seems.

Part 3/3 of my art for the @deadbangdetectives reverse bang! (Part 1: Thomas / Part 2: Charles)

I had the absolute joy of pairing up with the incomparable @artemisadore to create the GhostCat mechanic AU:

something unholy (getting hot at the body shop)

It's fun, it's sweet, it's sexy, go please read it AT ONCE and tell Art how amazing she is!

Classic posh boy refusing to get his hands dirty. But he's not immune to a charming mechanic or two; and it looks like he missed a spot ;) The car is mostly traced because I truly cannot stand drawing cars and I had enough on my plate getting to grips with the new style/app, but I had to include one in this case; after all, Dorothy's the reason our boys found each other in the first place!

No-grease stains version under the cut!

Part 2/3 of my art for the @deadbangdetectives reverse bang! (Part 1: Thomas / Part 3: Edwin)

I had the absolute joy of pairing up with the incomparable @artemisadore to create the GhostCat mechanic AU:

something unholy (getting hot at the body shop)

It's fun, it's sweet, it's sexy, go please read it AT ONCE and tell Art how amazing she is!

It was such a fun little exercise finding ways to pose and style these lads in ways that messed around with the different conventions of how male and female pin-ups are presented. None of our boys are extraordinarily 'butch' by conventional standards, but they can have a little of that flavour! Charles here is probably the closest we have to a traditional lad's lad, but it's never stopped him being a pretty boy <3

No-grease stains version under the cut!

Part 1/3 of my art for the @deadbangdetectives reverse bang! (Part 2: Charles / Part 3: Edwin)

I had the absolute joy of pairing up with the incomparable @artemisadore to create the GhostCat mechanic AU:

something unholy (getting hot at the body shop)

It's fun, it's sweet, it's sexy, go please read it AT ONCE and tell Art how amazing she is!

We were soooo excited to join onto the bang with this concept, and I had such a fun time playing with a different style to paint these silly little pin-ups! The images are fucking massive (A4 size) in case anyone actually wants to print out a sexy boy or two for their wall/locker/garage etc, but apologies for any online quality crunches this results in 😅 digital art and the finer points of sizing it is not my forte!

No-grease stains version under the cut!

This time I joined forces with the wonderful Darkchi13!!! Check out the absolutely incredible story they’ve written up!

I had an absolute blast, and loved seeing this story come to life! 💙

Happy Summer Solstice everyone! Finally get to post my first official @deadbangdetectives reverse fic project, where the art came first, and the lovely @madnessiseverything wrote a story based upon it! Come take a seat and see what happens when your ordinary life turns out to be extraordinary...