#DBDA

[ouchmyghostskin]

[i-can-see-the-stars]

Charles Rowland

Love love love characters that present themselves as emotionally open social butterflies but the more you see of them the more obvious it is that they’re the most closed off fuckers in the story. Sure, they want to help you with your personal problems and messy emotions, but if you turn that shit back on them, they’ll shut down or deflect every time. Why are you sticking your nose in their business anyway? It’s not like it matters. They’re not a person, they’re just a role being played. They’re the guy who fixes things and saves people. Please ignore the man behind the mask, he’s fine. Everything’s fine.

[mellxncollie]

Niko Sasaki | Dead Boy Detectives 1.08

[idliketobeatree]

— michael, the good place | s04e09 the answer + dead boy detectives

[tragedy-machine]

“Edwin, do you ever think about… what it’d be like if we went to school together?”

“I cannot say that I do, Charles.”

“I do, sometimes. About how life would be like if we were both alive and attending St. Hilarion right now.”

“I assume your vision does not include any of our classmates being killers?”

“Nah, ‘course not. Times are different now, aren’t they? So… what do you think?”

“Well, you would be a star of the cricket team, no doubt. And you can certainly bounce a ball without letting it fall for a very long period of time, so maybe a football star, as well.”

“I don’t know about being a star, but– cheers.”

“Of course. Indeed, given your natural charisma, one might readily surmise that people would be most inclined to gather about you. If they possessed any sense whatsoever, your classmates should eagerly seek to make your acquaintance. You would graciously give everyone the time of day, much as you do with our clients, and they would be endlessly charmed by you. ”

“Now you’re really overdoing it, mate. What about you?”

“Me? Oh. I would… greatly delight in the study of languages. I have heard it said that schools nowadays offer a wider array of them within their curriculum. Literature, too, holds a special allure for me; indeed, I might even volunteer my services in the school library, simply for the opportunity to spend more time there or attend a study club. Science has also been a source of fascination for me—chemistry in particular, I could well imagine devoting a lot of time to it.”

“Mhmm, go on.”

“Whatever do you mean?”

“What of your friends?”

“I have not considered– perhaps other members of the literature club? Our recent adventure in the States have shown me that although people are decidedly still not my forte, it is possible for me to make acquaintances with them if they share my interests. If they are not dreadfully insufferable, that is to say.”

“And…?”

“And?”

“C’mon, how do we meet?”

“Oh. Realistically, I do not think our paths would cross. You would have more than enough friends interested in sports and music and other activities you enjoy, and I would never set foot near a gymnasium or a music room. We are an unlikely pair, after all.”

“...what? You don’t think we’d be friends if we were at school together?”

“I merely mean to say— as I have mentioned— with a sufficient company of good and worthy friends around you, you would have little cause to seek me out at school, particularly as we would be spending our time entirely differently.”

“Edwin, that’s horrible. A load of tosh, if I’ve ever heard one. I refuse to believe that. We could meet in class, or– maybe I’d have trouble with English, it’s never been my favorite, could never get my letters correct, could I? And since you’re so good at it, you’d offer to tutor me.”

“You believe I would offer?”

“‘Course, you’re proper kind like that, aren’t you? Or I’d ask you and you wouldn’t be able to say no to me.”

“So certain I would not be, even right from the beginning?”

“Isn’t that how our first meeting went?”

“...touché. You can be quite persistent. However, that does not mean you would have to befriend the boy who tutors you.”

“I liked you right when I met you, didn’t I? It’d be the same.” 

“You are awfully confident regarding the matter.”

“Yeah, mate. Think about it, we may be an unlikely duo, but against all odds, we met. We stayed together. And will stay together. We’d find each other in every universe, just like we had in this one.”

“...who is the one ‘overdoing it’ now?”

“Come off it, mate! But just think about it, we’d go to uni together, you’d study– English or, or Law, you’d make a great lawyer, you know, and I– I don’t know, I’d study something too, and we’d live together.”

“Would we start a detective agency together as well?”

“I don’t see why not.”

“Alive Boy Detectives does not have the same ring to it. Neither does Alive Men Detectives.”

“We’d figure something out.”

[wordsinhaled]

Edwin Payne's toothy smile ♡ requested by @edmcmayonnaise

[qwanderer]

for @tragedy-machine

[manicpixiedreamedwins]

The Good We Do (Comes Back Around)

Hi everyone ♡

The Love of My Afterlife Server invites you to participate in The Good We Do (Comes Back Around). This is a fundraiser to support survivors of domestic violence. In light of recent events, our goal is to raise funds for the organizations womenslaw.org and wave-network.org. Both are organizations with broad reach that connect DV survivors with shelter and legal resources. We would like to offer you a fan work of your choice if you donate! Here are the guidelines:

Select a user from the list below. Find their post tagged #thegoodwedo

Contact the user you selected via DM. Each artist is offering limited art, writing, or edits for donations of 25/50/75/100 USD. Discuss what tier you would like to donate to, then share your request. All participants reserve the right to deny requests. This event will run until all slots are filled.

Once you have agreed on a tier and an idea, make a donation to womenslaw.org or wave-network.org and send your artist the donation receipt. Your writer, artist, or editor will keep you updated, and you will receive an awesome fan work!

We may not be able to erase the harm done, but the love we share through our community is strong - strong enough to make the world a better place if we work together. Let's do some good!

Here are the participants:

Artists: @deadboyslullaby @ent-is-indecisive @hobbitsdoitbetter @majorlb @ouchmyghostskin

Editors: @saltyoaktree @wordsinhaled

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A special shout out to all of the artists, editors, and writers listed above. Their whole hearted engagement and genuine drive to do good in the world is what brought this event to life ♡

[mementomoriwithacherryontop]

And the exact moment she became Edwin’s favorite living person.

The moment she became my favourite

Dead Boy Detectives Character Appreciation Week Day 4: Niko Sasaki

[ouchmyghostskin]

Here's the basic break down for the different commission options detailed in the previous post.

[spacegirlsgang]

"Ok! Now do a silly one!!!"

For the final day of character appreciation week I'd like to present my grand vision of our characters on a school field trip with their favorite teacher Ms. Nurse! I saw a bunch of the bts pictures and felt such a school trip vibe I had to make this!!!

[shadows-and-starlight]

I had a dream where it's 10 years from now and Dead Boy Detectives was given many more seasons, and it had plenty of episodes to weave plots and narratives.

And in the final episode of the final season, when Charles and Edwin are canonically a romantic couple and they've gone off to their joint Afterlife, they're relaxing on a lovely shore and the camera pans down to those 2 red and blue starfish holding hands as the waves gently lap at them, and it fades to black.

[sasakisniko]

I suspect we are going to the surface.

Dead Boy Detectives Character Appreciation Week - Day 8: Kashi

[mrnightingale]

I don't know why I thought this was a good idea.

Btw, original gifs by the amazing @qwanderer, I absolutely love their limited palette gifs!

[edwinspaynes]

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