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Anke Eissmann
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illustrator, graphic designer, teacher, writer, cyclist, #Tolkien #Sherlock #DeadBoyDetectives …
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The Night Nurse 2025

The final of my #DeadBoyDetectives Letters to Santa (for now). Thanks to all who followed the stories and the art.
archiveofourown.org/works/761596...

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Ink and watercolour art showing the Night Nurse in front of a typewriter rereading a letter.
February 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Reposted by Anke Eissmann
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REMINDER: signups for Fandom Trumps Hate, a fandom auction benefiting progressive nonprofits, are now open!

Creator signups close this Sunday, and craft bazaar signups close on March 3rd. Check out fandomtrumpshate.tumblr.com for more info! 💙

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February 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Illustration for chapter 4 of my #DeadBoyDetectives & BBC Sherlock crossover fic A Study in Living. The chapter will be up in a few minutes.
archiveofourown.org/works/734000...

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Ink and watercolour art showing Edwin and Charles in profile with Edwin kneeling and Charles leaning forward where he is sitting on a bench. Their foreheads are touching. Both have their eyes closed. Charles is touching Edwin’s cheek, and Edwin is holding a ring of keys, the iron of which is burning his hand.
February 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Fandom Trumps Hate 2026 Signup are open
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#FTH2026
Photo of Edwin and Charles looking at each other while standing in their games cupboard. Charles is grinning. Below them stands in yellow lettering DEAD BOY DETECTIVES TRUMP HATE
January 28, 2026 at 8:56 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Lineart of the illustration for chapter 4 of my BBC Sherlock and #DeadBoyDetectives crossover A Study in Living. The chapter is about two thirds written.
archiveofourown.org/works/734000...
Ink lineart showing Edwin and Charles in profile with their foreheads touching. Both have their eyes closed. Charles’s right hand is touching Edwin’s cheek, Edwin’s right hand is resting on Charles’s knee. In his left, Edwin is holding a ring of keys.
January 27, 2026 at 12:38 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Several people asked for a Cat King chapter in my #DeadBoyDetectives Letters to Santa series. So here it is.
archiveofourown.org/works/761596...

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Ink and watercolour art showing the Cat King wearing a silky black shirt, grey trousers and black boots sitting in his lair under the glowing Pacific Cannery logo. He is writing a letter with a peacock feather. He is surrounded by cats watching him.
January 25, 2026 at 10:30 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Ink lineart for the illustration of the Cat King chapter my #DeadBoyDetectives Letters to Santa. What might he be writing? Hoping to reveal the finished art and letter tonight.
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Ink lineart showing the Cat King wearing a silky black shirt, trousers and black boots sitting in his lair under the Pacific Cannery logo writing a letter with a peacock feather. He is surrounded by cats watching him.
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Kashi 2023

Another one of my #DeadBoyDetectives Letters to Santa art and ficlets. A letter from the Cat King and one from the Night Nurse are in the works.

archiveofourown.org/works/761596...

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Ink and watercolour art of Kashi in frontal view wearing a dark-green tunic with black organic-looking ornaments and many rings on his right hand. He is stuffing a letter into a bottle. Behind him, the inside of Angie the Anglerfish can be seen. Above his head is written in curly cursive script: Greetings, dear friend, I hope you are keeping well and that this past holiday season has not been too stressful for you.
January 24, 2026 at 9:04 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Ink lineart for Kashi. His letter will be another installment in my #DeadBoyDetectives Letters to Santa series. Also planned are the Cat King and the Night Nurse.

The letters so far: archiveofourown.org/works/761596...

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Ink lineart of Kashi in frontal view wearing a tunic with black organic-looking ornaments and many rings on his right hand. He is stuffing a letter into a bottle.
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab
jacobdavison.bsky.social Jacob Davison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 17d
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
drewdietsch.bsky.social Drew Dietsch @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 17d
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
January 21, 2026 at 8:18 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Illustration for chapter 3 of my BBC Sherlock & #DeadBoyDetectives crossover fic A Study in Living. In this chapter, some of the characters from both worlds finally meet.
archiveofourown.org/works/734000...

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Ink and watercolour art showing Charles in profile in the left foreground sitting huddled in an orange blanket. He is looking towards where John, Sherlock and Sally Donovan are standing in the background. John is holding a doctor’s bag.
January 18, 2026 at 8:59 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Lineart of the illustration for chapter 3 of my BBC Sherlock and #DeadBoyDetectives crossover A Study in Living. The chapter just went to my beta. In it, characters from both fandoms finally meet.
archiveofourown.org/works/734000...

#SaveDeadBoyDetectives
Ink lineart showing Charles in profile in the left foreground sitting huddled in a blanket. He is looking towards where John, Sherlock and Sally Donovan are standing in the background. John is holding a doctor’s bag.
January 17, 2026 at 3:59 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
“Planting the Mallorn” (watercolour, 2022)

For today’s #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday Treasures
Watercolour painting showing hobbits Sam and Frodo hunkering on the ground from a slightly elevated point of view. Sam is lowering a mallorn seed into a hole in the turf. Frodo is holding an open wooden box. Behind the two hobbits stands another of whom only a foot, a spade and the hem of a yellow skirt are visible.
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
My two pieces for the #DeadBoyDetectives Colouring Book, which you can download here: samart21321.gumroad.com/l/dbda-color...

It contains lots of wonderful art from this talented and creative fandom.

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Ink lineart showing Charles and Edwin in profile looking at a hanging carnivorous plant with little elves flying between them. One of the elves is looking out at them from one of the plants. Edwin is holding his pen and notebook ready to take notes. Ink lineart showing Charles and Edwin standing in an old graveyard with ivy growing over the gravestones. They stand close together with their heads touching and one arm around the other respectively.
January 10, 2026 at 12:34 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Ink spot art created for the Besotten Little Fanzine for the lovely fic He Loves Me by pipwasreal
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Ink greyscale spot art showing Edwin kneeling at Charles’s gravestone and putting down a small bunch of flowers.
January 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Monty & Tragic Mick 2024

Another chapter for my #DeadBoyDetectives Letters to Santa. If you would like other DBDA characters to write something, let me know.
archiveofourown.org/works/761596...

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Ink and watercolour art showing Tragic Mick writing a letter (shown in frontal view) with Monty the Crow standing to the right of him on the table watching him. To the left side of the drawing, a piece of red sea-glass is lying on the table. Above Mick, the beginning of the letter is written in blue sharpie: Dear Santa, my name is Monty, and this is my friend Tragic Mick, who is writing this letter for me. I can’t write myself, because I’m a crow.
January 6, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Received a parcel from the wonderful (and generous) @edmcmayonnaise.bsky.social today containing cute stickers and keychains and a brilliant pencil case. Thank you so much 😍

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Photo of a light-blue pencilcase with white print saying Dead Boy Detective Agency Est. 1989 London England in cursive white lettering. The case is surrounded by two DBDA keychains showing Edwin and Charles and two stickers, one of the boys and one of a tyrannosaur with George Rexstrew’s head.
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Spent the past two days cross-country skiing in Rehe, one day with sunshine and one with fog and hoar frost.

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Snowy Westerwald
Spent the past two days cross-country skiing in Rehe, one day with sunshine and one with fog and hoar frost.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Since folks have been asking for more of my #DeadBoyDetectives Letters to Santa, here is the first of two additional ones: Jenny 2006

archiveofourown.org/works/761596...

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Ink and watercolour art showing teenage Jenny sitting on her bed wearing ripped jeans and a shirtcontemplating what she has written with a pen touching her lips and her other hand holding a ring-bound folder on her knees. Behind her on the wall is a poster of My Chemical Romance The Black Parade.
January 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Finished watercolour of Treebeard’s head, created as a logo for this year’s summer moot of @germantolksoc.bsky.social

Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien #TolkienBirthdayToast
Watercolour painting showing an ent’s head with a scraggly beard surrounded by oak leaves.
January 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Anke Eissmann
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The Dead Boy Detectives "Everlasting Seasons" Coloring Book has been released! ✨

If you'd like a digital copy, you can download it for free via GumRoad here: samart21321.gumroad.com/l/dbda-color...

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DBDA Everlasting Seasons Coloring Book
THIS IS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. NO PHYSICAL PRODUCT WILL BE MAILED.This item is 100% free! Please do not pay anything for it.Introducing the Dead Boy Detectives Coloring Book! This includes 50+ pages of a...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:21 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Linearts of the illustrations for two additional chapters for my #DeadBoyDetectives Letters to Santa. Will post them as soon as the watercolour versions of the arts are done.

archiveofourown.org/works/761596...

#SaveDeadBoyDetectives
Ink lineart showing Tragic Mick writing a letter (shown in frontal view) with Monty the Crow standing to the right of him on the table watching him. Ink lineart showing teenage Jenny sitting on her bed contemplating what she has written with a pen touching her lips and her other hand holding a ring-bound folder on her knees. Behind her on the wall is a poster of My Chemical Romance The Black Parade.
January 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Illustration for my new #DeadBoyDetectives and #Payneland fic I Lay You Down in which Edwin out-grammars a demon that’s come to take him back to Hell.

archiveofourown.org/works/76716006

#SaveDeadBoyDetectives
Ink and watercolour illustration showing Edwin standing with his arms crossed in front of his chest looking cross with Charles next to him which his cricket bat on his shoulder. Behind them, the window of their office is decorated with multe-coloured fairy-lights. Next to Charles is a Christmas tree with candles. In the right-hand foreground is a horned demon with red, scaly skin staring at the boys.
December 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Got my Cameo from Lindsey (who plays Maxine in #DeadBoyDetectives). She is doing a fundraiser benefitting Alzheimer’s research in honour of her dad. I asked about Maxine’s costumes.

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Lindsey Gort for Anke (Khorazir)
Connect with your favorite stars.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
khorazir.bsky.social
Today is my 34th Tolkien anniversary. As is befitting, I’m working on new Tolkien art, in this case a watercolour of Treebeard.
Photo of a half finished watercolour painting showing the head of Treebeard the ent with a scraggly grass-like beard and oak leaves surrounding it. Next to the watercolour pad are a waterglass, a paintbrush and an open watercolour case.
December 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM