#Dandelion King

[shaylogic]

AU where everything's the same but trickster Cat King charges Edwin the more problematic task of Counting All the Queers in Port Townsend and Edwin's gonna have a harder time ignoring thinking lgbt thoughts

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Edwin, with his little notebook, interviewing Tragic Mick: ... where would you say your romantic proclivities take you?

Mick: *silent stare, tons of ace cards crowning behind his head on the wall*

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Edwin: there are 122. queers. in port Townsend

Cat King: you forgot to count Charles

[flower-dagger-gay]

This show has infiltrated my brain send help 🧍. (Also (re)watch it!!! My guess is that we're running out of time for an approval of s2)

[itolerate]

dead boy detectives textposts part 6

[bugenjoyer]

uhhhhhhhhh

[megdchristopher]

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES: THE CASE OF THE NETFLIX SHOW

Final render of my Dead Boy Detectives faux-comic cover. Though there are some changes I’d probably make if it didn’t mean a ton of extra work, I’m very happy with how it turned out.

A .png of the final inks has been added to my Ko-Fi page for anyone who’d like to try their hand at coloring. I just ask that you don’t share the piece without crediting.

[evilmichealcera]

One of the many things that makes dead boy detectives such an amazing show is that all the antagonists are so cool. Like every time Esther is on screen I’m immediately sent into a frenzy and bouncing off the walls. The cat king serves so hard. The costume department did amazing work on all the outfits but they truly outdid themselves with the antagonists. Also whoever was behind making the cat king so so charming yet the most pathetic man I’ve ever seen THANK YOU!!! The night nurse is so badass I wish we got to see way more of her and I loved the sprites bitchy input so much. I love this show so much more than even I can comprehend!!!

[periwinklepanic]

“we are best friends, if you must know” ooookay🤨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

the Dandelion Sprites were necessary in the show because otherwise, Niko Sasaki would have had exactly zero canon haters, and they needed to balance out the ecosystem...

Crystal fell head over heels the very second she saw Niko's face. "it was just the parasites-" shush. it was also a certified yuri moment. my evidence is... trust me <3

one of Edwin's very first lines to Niko was, "honestly, i just find her so charming." and he maintained a surprisingly affectionate friendship with her throughout the show!! this is Edwin Payne, who believes he does not mix well with other people. yet, he clicked with Niko immediately. the power of autism to autism communication.

not as often as his partner, but Charles seemed similarly fond of Niko, always smiling at her various whimsical ways. it's also notable, and really funny, that Charles had been shown to get very jealous of anyone else who got too close to Edwin. he disliked both Monty and The Cat King for flirting with him. but Niko regularly hugged and held hands with Edwin? Charles didn't even bat an eye!!

after that traumatising date that Niko accidentally caused, of course, Jenny avoided her for a bit. but she couldn't stay upset at her for long, could she?

their interactions were very brief and limited, but Niko did seem to be the person that Monty was nicest to, after Edwin. he disrespected Charles in broad daylight by innocently refusing that handshake with a grin, ignored Crystal's entire existence, but he was friendly enough to Niko. even though it was probably fake </3

Tragic Mick gave Niko the charm that saved her.

even The Cat King showed respect for Niko!!

truly, our dear Niko would have been completely immune to haters. so they had to throw in a couple for stability </3

love is stored in Niko Sasaki.

[libertyeveningsun]

dbda textposts part 2

[downbaddetective]

On one of my recent rewatches (note taking for color analysis), my partner sat and watched with me, and I thought I would share some of the things he had thoughts on in no particular order:

•He also believed that Niko's sprite attention cloud was a physical manifestation of soulmatedness/lesbianism directed at Crystal like the rest of us did

•He owns an older Miata, so he was pretty pleased with the fact that Esther owned one (the first time I had watched, I involuntarily clocked it (I am not a car person), so when she confirmed that I was correct in the last episode I had told him that he should be proud of himself, lol.)

•Loved Esther up until the very end

•He enjoyed the music

•I don't think he was fully sold on Niko at first, but she quickly became one of his favorites

●He liked Crystal the most from the beginning (He asked how people hated her because I talked to him about my frustration with some weird takes that were going on, to each their own, but that one also still confuses me.)

•'You're my best mate' "oof, not the friend zone"

•Both Esther and Niko seemed to have all of his favorite lines

•I accidentally spoiled the fact that Niko 'dies' but I didn't say anything about what happens after the fact, so when the last couple of episodes were foreshadowing her dying, he basically went 'but I don't want her to die :('

•In addition to the previous point, the morning before we watched the last two episodes (we had to watch it in chunks), he was talking about how he doubted that we would get renewed (not in a mean way) but the last episode closed out he immediately said he was angry there was no season 2 and that this show deserves at least a season 2

•He wasn't fully convinced that it's Niko in the Igloo at the end

•He wants Jenny to go to London because he loves her

•He got frustrated with nobody listening to Tragic Mick's story and cheered when Niko asked him to continue

•He wants Mick to be able to be a Walrus again

•He essentially said 'My god, he wants to fuck the cat' lol

•He struggled to describe the vibes he was getting off of the Cat King, he has yet to find the words

•He loved the cats (probably because they said fuck and other such words)

•He also enjoyed the dandelion sprites

•There wasn't a whole lot that he had to say about Edwin and Charles, just kinda vibed

•He apparently missed the Cat King's cat form the first time, so he saw the second instance and said,"Of course he's orange"

•I also asked the rhetorical question, "Who told the ghost population of Port Townsend that the Dead Boy Detectives and their new medium were there?" Without hesitation, he went, "It was the Cat King."

•He has been exposed to Orbwin and Chorb content on here and is deeply entertained by it, so he looked really worried after the explosion at the butcher shop so to help I pointed and said "Look, it's Chorb!" It helped

So, needless to say, if you haven't already watched it, you should watch Dead Boy Detectives.

[jaysbraindump]

Dead Boy Detectives characters as things from this article

[ummultea]

Ik Dead Boy Detectives literally just came out, but I need someone to write a long slapstick-romcom of Edwin entertaining the Cat Kings feels- For Charles to be jealous. An coming to terms w/ his own harbour feeling, all slowburn - like intended. Pls n thank you 🙏 😭

[fandoms-run-my-life]

For pride this year everyone should be watching Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix. 99% of the characters are either outright queer or queer coded.

Edwin - Gay

Charles - Queer (will be explored more in season 2 if we get one)

Crystal - Queer coded? (She starts to flirt with a girl (you know that one scene im talking about))

Niko - ???? (Find out next season maybe)

Monty - Queer

Jenny -Lesbian (goth butch butcher)

The Cat King - Queer

Ester - Queer vibes (that one scene with Crystal???)

Night Nurse - idk her deal but it doesn't give straight energy

Dandelion Sprites - Queer coded (nothing they did was straight)

It has a 30+ year slow burn.

It also has one of the best confession scenes I have ever seen in my life.

@neil-gaiman is a part of this show so you know it's handled well.

All I'm saying is if you like shows that ooze queer energy then definitely check out the Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix

[melefim]

Swearing in Dead Boy Detectives: Masterlist

My Dead Boy Detectives swearing posts are on the way!

I went through each episode and tallied up every curse word I could find, and the results are in!

I’ll be putting up posts for individual episodes, characters, and words- with lots of interlinks to hopefully make navigating everything easy. This post will be the Masterlist, updated with direct links each time a new individual post goes up.

Each post will have charts and graphs, as well as the original lines containing each swear.

Lines in red below are posts that have not gone up yet. Lines in black are up and links should be live. All posts will be tagged as “#dead boy detectives swearing” on my blog.

Episodes:

The Case of Crystal Palace

The Case of the Dandelion Shrine

The Case of the Devlin House

The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers

The Case of the Two Dead Dragons

The Case of the Creeping Forest

The Case of the Very Long Stairway

The Case of the Hungry Snake

Characters:

Edwin Payne

Charles Rowland

Crystal Palace

Niko Sasaki

Jenny Green

David the Demon

Esther Finch

The Night Nurse

The Cat King

Tabby and Calico Cats

Litty

Kingham

Maxine

The Boys Who Killed The Boys (Simon & Charles’ ‘Friend’)

Ghostly Clients

Brad

Hunter

Maren

Twitchy Richie

Crystal’s Parents

Girls in Crystal’s Memories

Non-Cursing Characters

Words:

Fuck

Shit

Bitch

Ass

Damn

Hell

Bloody

Bloody Hell

God

Jesus

Screw

Words said only once

Words said only twice

Words said only thrice

Overall notes/caveats:

-I did a couple double check rewatches, and tried my best to be accurate, but I still might have missed something- if you spot one I’ve not included, please let me know!

- I did not include the episode recaps in the tallies.

- Variations of the same word are grouped together- for example, ‘Shit’ ‘Bullshit’ and ‘BS’ were all counted towards the total for ‘Shit’.

-The exception to this was ‘Bloody’ ‘Hell’ and ‘Bloody Hell’- all three were counted separately.

- If a word was not used as a curse, it was not counted. For example, ‘I spent seventy years in Hell’ was not counted, while ‘What the hell?’ was.

- I am not British, and therefore I’m not 100% on all the British curses. If there were words I wasn’t sure about, they were not included in the tallies, but will appear in the relevant posts as bonus comments. Again, please feel free to correct me if any words were categorized incorrectly and I’ll update the posts!

- I’ll do my best to get them out as quickly as I can, I’m aiming for minimum one a day but will be trying to do more whenever possible.

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If you like lists of things like I do, you can check out my other Dead Boy Detective ones here!

When Charles’ Shirt Color Changes

George Rextrew’s Edwin comic inspo board

Full Soundtrack with timestamps

Moves, Incidents, and Cases masterlist

First pass at finding where the songs in the score are used- full post with timestamps in progress.

[stasyalovem]

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