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I posted this on my Twitter, but I thought I'd share it here, too! I isolated the audio from Charles' death scene to answer a commonly debated headcanon in fandom: did Charles go by something else when he was alive?

Well, at least in this video, I can confirm that all the "Friends" who killed him call him Charlie. 😭

I reckon that is what his peers, teachers, and, even his abusive father likely referred to him as... Charlie Rowland. Makes sense for a teenage boy in the 80s; particularly a sporty, alternative, charismatic boy like Charles who hung around "lad-types."

It's no wonder he flinched when Brad/Hunter called him Charlie Boy. This show really doesn't miss a single detail. It's brilliant and intentional in every single thing it does.

FUCK it deserves a season 2! It's so well-written and in its first season. *Chef's kiss* from beginning to end.

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Soooo we know Comic! Edwin has a newsboy cap, right?

Well it got me thinking.

What if Edwin was born a few years earlier... and lived in new york... and sold newspapers...?

Basically...

EDWIN AS A NEWSIE

I'm actually so obsessed with this concept. I feel like he would have taken on a Davey sort of position in the strike. He would totally try to balance out the newsies' chaos. Would it actually work? Probably not, but he would try.

Anyway, this is my formal request for someone to write a Newsies au.

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I fulfilled the prophecy

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same davey

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ah yes, hadestown, my favorite musical with songs such as:

let's get drunk!

go whiteboy go

man it's really coming down out there. orpheus play despacito

let's get drunk! but this time we're also depressed

you guys ever think about unions?

are we there yet (divorce edition)

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Maybe if Orpheus had thrown a grenade at Hades, grabbed Eurydice and legged it then they would have made it.

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If you're still taking requests, can you please have a little funny moment of Edwin talking about his life and the others or just Charles/Crystal being concerned (I love your art and how you draw them!!!)

I wouldn’t say they are too concerned here…more like intrigued. Thanks for the request!!

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It's good to have you back!

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I've assumed artblock is actually never going to leave me (false) so i might as well push through it while drawing, ARTHUR LESTER!!

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she's behind you Orpheus, oh god he's got his airpods in he can't hear

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Our Dead Boy Detectives Billboard is LIVE!

If you plan on traveling to see the Billboard please share photos! 💜 It will be up from today October 14th to November 17th! Thank you to this amazing fandom for making it happen!

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Why Chopping Dead Boy Detectives is a Mistake™ in a Single Image:

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Just when I thought this show couldn't break my heart again, I caught this little detail on my rewatch.

When Charles is in that lake getting rocks pelted at him, it's full dark. We see a light that's probably meant to be the moon through the trees, already a ways above the horizon.

But when Charles saves that boy from the bullies earlier the same day, it looks like it's late afternoon, judging by the light and the shadows.

If we go by the change in lighting, probably at least three hours have elapsed between when Charles saves that boy and when he finally escapes the bullies himself.

It makes sense, honestly. Those rocks pelted at him, slowed down by the water, would never have been enough to cause internal bleeding. They would have had to hurt him before he ever got in the lake.

In the comics, Charles is tortured extensively by the bullies who end up killing him.

If we go by the lighting and the implications here, it's the same in the show. We just only see the very start and the very end of it on-screen.

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Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

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I wanna talk about why I think Dead Boy Detectives means so much to so many people after only 1 season

So, we’re all angry and sad and confused right now and I think Netflix needs to understand why canceling this specific show was so upsetting to so many people, myself included.

First of all, they’ve made this a habit. The list of shows that they cancel after only one or two seasons is growing longer and longer, and there doesn’t seem to be any conceivable reason as to why. They hardly advertise their own show, they ignore its impact on the audience showcasing itself right in front of their eyes all over the internet via trending hashtags and campaigns to binge the show so Netflix doesn’t cancel it, and then they cancel it anyway.

The main question is why. Why do they keep canceling these shows that are so well received and manage to grow a passionate audience so soon in its run? The shows aren’t all necessarily similar to each other in the writing, casting, mood and what-have-you, but they do seem to have one thing in common: the audience is full of queer people. Regardless of how society has progressed in the way of LGBTQ+ acceptance, big corporations still have no interest in adding to that if it will hinder their financial gain in any way.

Whoever’s in charge over at Netflix HQ is not interested in taking risks. They seem to have forgotten that a show is rarely going to have record breaking numbers after one season, and if the show doesn’t specifically cater to a cishet audience, that’s all the more reason to pull the plug. That’s why shows like Riverdale go on for so long, that’s why Stranger Things hasn’t been cancelled yet (yes I know there is one single openly gay character in that show, but they’re not actually going to do anything with that and you know it), and that’s why there are countless shows with interesting and entirely unique plots and characters and settings who only get 8-12 episodes in total. Shows that cater to a cishet audience are safe, and despite the fact that Netflix is a multi-billion dollar corporation that can absolutely afford to risk having faith in something that diverts from the norm and attracts the weirdos of this world who just want to watch something that makes them feel seen, they just won’t do it.

I can’t really speak for a lot of these other shows, but Dead Boy Detectives was one of the most unapologetically queer shows I’ve ever seen. In just one season, it left us with some profound commentary on the horrors of hate crime against minorities and how when it occurs, it is all-too-often swiped under the rug and justice never comes. Edwin and Charles were victimized for being different and it is a very real-world issue to see kids like them simply ignored until it’s too late. Do you know how many queer kids saw themselves in Charles as we learned about his abusive father and all around terrible home life? Or how many saw themselves in Edwin when we learned what happened to him? That’s basically a tale as old as time but Netflix must’ve decided that it’s too uncomfortable to bring up to a cishet audience, once again deciding that going with what’s safe for them is better than giving an audience who needs it something to make them feel seen and heard.

It’s even more insane when you realize that the very first Netflix original series was Orange Is The New Black, because now it’s as if they’re going backwards.

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