#The Thomas Witches

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

It's Kinda Hard to Stay Mad at the Girl Who Stay Losing

Chapter 4.

Voya's Matriarchal Era is abysmal.

She's avoiding her family to stalk that boy. She's not telling her family anything that she would have told them before.

Her relationship with her mom is awkward

Her relationship with her dad has been undone again

Keisha respects her but is in the minority

And they do not get HOW MUCH SHIT she's been going through, whether or not some of it is her fault.

Shit is sad.

And Keis? Keis has never done anything wrong in her life. Voya can gon' and receive the L she deserves from Keis.

Deserved.

A little less deserved, but what with what she did to her, I won't judge Keis for it.

She so pitiful I simply cannot keep being mad at her... until the next time she makes me mad.

[rebecca--barnes]

Minor Agatha All Along ep 6 spoilers!!!!!

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“I can sense him. I just… can’t find him.”

[hannaloony]

[a-foggy-maggy]

no Edwin no Charles just amazing side characters

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

[akascow]

i love the cat kings whole ‘omfg why are you HERE fucking go AWAY’ attitude towards esther when she just appears hes so me

[erinwantstowrite]

Duke Thomas stans i need help,,, i can't figure out what creature/mythical whatever he would be in this au,,,, i have everyone else as something but Duke evades me here

[foursthemagicknumber]

ah yes the Magneto family: A doctor who could halt earth rotation, holocaust survivor who is the face of mutant rebellion, reality warping witch who can not be killed, carries a peace of the devil’s soul parts one and two, and a guy who runs through shoes fast

[livinginadumpster]

One thing I really like in Dead Boy Detectives is the use of blood/gore/horror. With a TV-MA rating, a show with horror themes is obviously going to have some blood and violence, and there are clear instances if this in DBD, but while it's definitely there, it's almost never gratuitous. That's because scenes like the Devlin murders or Maxine's death aren't really about those deaths, rather, they're about the characters' reactions to them and the way the story is shaped by them.

In the Devlin house, the camera focuses not on the girls being killed but on Edwin, Crystal, and particularly Charles reacting to their murders with horror, shock, and anger. The blood splatters in a meaningful way, rather than simply a horrifying one, over the TV and the popcorn and the younger daughter's stuffed rabbit, tarnishing the innocence of everything it touches. While the tragedy of the murders themselves are important, the main focus is Charles' reaction to them as a result if his own trauma. Showing the minutia of the killings would take away from that, so it simply isn't there.

Even Maxine's death, while definitely played off more for shock value than the Devlin murders, serves a purpose. Episode 5 focuses on the failure of romantic relationships, on betrayals from those you thought you could trust, and the Maxine subplot adds to that. It begs the question, who can you trust in this world? At the end of the episode, the answer we are given is your friends, your found family, because love will kill.

It seems to me that the blood in hell represents the guilt of those it touches - Simon's wounds heal when he forgives himself; Edwin loses the blood covering him after Charles turns up to rescue him (albeit by a horrifying cause); the people in the Lust room are drenched in blood and get it on Edwin when they try to drag him down. It's not just there to demonstrate the horrors of hell, but to brand its inhabitants.

There are lots of other examples. The blood when Niko dies is there obviously because that's what happens when you get stabbed, but also (in my opinion) as a visual callback to her saying that red is the color of courage. The cat king's bloody corpse and Monty's blood-splattered face show Esther's ruthlessness and disregard for anyone in her path. Lilith is covered in blood as a symbolic part of her character design. Everything serves a purpose, narratively or symbolically.

(The only example of gore that served no particular purpose that I can think of was in episode one when the WWI ghost drooled blood all over Charles' face, but it was the pilot episode and that whole scene was meant to be shocking, so it can be forgiven.)

Anyway, I really like the way they use blood in DBD, because it shows such a level of detail and care. I enjoy horror but not gore so much, and to me it's refreshing to see it used so tastefully and executed so well.

[nix-vulpis]

I don't know how I ended up here, but I'm vibing with this. 😎

A whole new world I've discovered, and what an amazing discovery it was 🥺🥹

I'm here for more Peter in the DC universe with the Bat Fam (and if we have Dick as Peter's dad, oh, it’s game on!!). ❤️

[brokoala-soup]

NO Y'ALL DON'T GET IT

they're so marauders coded I'm crying

Bonus:

WOLFSTAR

I'M SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

[pony-unicorn]

Lukas Gage saying that Esther and the Cat King were once a couple changed my life

[illustratus]

''Hey! Up the chimney, lass! Hey after you!'' Rob Gilpin and the three witches, Old Goody Price, Old Goody Jones and the young Madge Gray taking to the air on broomsticks with three black cats.

The Witches' Frolic, from The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby [Pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham] — Illustration by Arthur Rackham.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Thomas J. Scheff - Being Mentally Ill: a sociological theory - Aldine - 1966 (design by David Miller)

[steam-beasts]

The Pumpkin Rabbit, but it's just Edward

(and Emily as Witch Sha)

[a-foggy-maggy]

don't mind me staying up all night just to make these

part 2, 3, 4, 5

[akascow]

i cant tell if cat king outed monty as a crow bc he was jealous of his and edwins actual relationship (situationship?) or if he just hated esther and her crow that much but either way i salute him for it