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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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the canon event that is new magnus archives listeners declaring that a particular entity isn't scary followed by the slow realisation that they'd be aligned with them instead

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jon, melanie, and daisy all directly state that they chose to do the things they did while in thrall to their various patrons because it felt good and they wanted to, and a lot of fan response doesn't really know how to deal with that and so overlooks those statements, but even people who are really into melanie as a character seem to straight up ignore her "it stayed because I wanted it" thing. and that sucks, because removing that motivation from the bullet arc turns her into a damsel being possessed and held hostage by an evil ghost until a man makes the hard decision to save her, instead of her actual role as an complex agential character making decisions in response to conflicting influences in a fraught situation.

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He's a 16 year old Edwardian ghost. He's gay. He's oblivious. He's in love with his best friend. He's got internalized homophobia. He's occasionally a woman. He's been dead for 70 years. He's never felt more alive. He is the kindest man you'll ever see. He is destined for hell. He has no rizz. Everyone wants him carnally. Edwin Payne really is THE most character of all time no one is doing it like him

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“You never reply to messages” I am just one person okay I am understaffed

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i would probably have a better sleep schedule if i could put my phone down and stop having insanely long phone time before bed

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r.i.p. edwin paine you would have loved listening to conan gray and writing in your diary

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Charles quoting tragedies he did not know where tragedies part 2

Edwin: do you ever think what would happen if like... The resentment and injustice of our time alive eat us and we become evil ghost?

Charles: well I'm sure that as long as we stick together we could calm each other, don't worry I'll be to you like Patroclus was to Achilles

Edwin: ...you did not finish the Iliad did you?

Charles: it was very long and in greek

Edwin: THERE ARE TRANSLATIONS CHARLES!

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edwin payne devoting his afterlife to saving others so charles looked at him and was like. okay then. i'll devote my afterlife to saving you

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Pretty sure there’s some deeper meaning between Edwin get caught in the Lust area and yelling for Charles but I’m not looking into it (I totally am)

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One more ghost boys thing I have wanted to talk about.

The boys being so afraid of Death from a viewer perspective is so funny because they're scared of the Endless that made some random guy immortal for funsies because her brother showed interest in him.

Same Endless that told a guy that because he was so confused and scared she decided to let him be instead of collecting him.

If the boys saw Death she would probably take one look at them and go oh you're the boys helping me do my job keep at it.

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I'm so emotional about how Niko reacted to Charles forbidding them to come with him to hell

Because like... well, Crystal goes and actively seeks out her asshole ex who she only just got out of her head. Which says so much about how kind and caring and brave she is at heart and I love her for it but it doesn't ultimately end up being all that helpful to the situation at hand.

But Niko... it seems like Niko just passively accepts it. She knows she can't help with literal actual hell so she just stays behind and waits. And no one questions that. Everyone has always respected her ability to tap out of the scary adventures and that's lovely and if that was it that would be perfectly fine storytelling.

But it gets better. When Edwin and Charles return, we realize that she hasn't just been sitting and waiting. She realized that she couldn't help with Hell, so she looked ahead to what the next obstacle would be for her friends, and she looked at the Night Nurse and she realized there was a way she could help. So she sat with this woman who wanted to take away her friends and she played the fool and asked questions and convinced the night nurse to let her see the rules and regulations just to stop her chattering - knowing that if she could just find a loophole, she could buy them some time. So she dove into this book of regulations, and she found a loophole. She probably found a few, just in case the first didn't work.

And no one - not even the audience - realizes what she's done until it's done. It's brilliant and she makes it look easy. It's something only she can do, and it works with Charles' plan, even if he isn't trying to work with her.

Edwin might be book smart but Niko is the one who is willing to ask questions and listen to the answers. And the information she finds this way is always so critical.

I love her so much.

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happy pride month to the dead boy detectives!

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‘mothers day’ ‘fathers day’ eldest daughter day when

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niko saving edwin and charles from their deal with the night nurse vs edwin not being able to save niko from esther

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I need so so so fucking bad a season 2 of this people netflix please don't make me sad they are my happiness 😭😭