#and i always will

[twainxavier]

I am genuinely so devastated right now.

It might sound silly but I have actually been crying today. I'm not sure this post will properly articulate my thoughts but I'm going to try because this show and this fandom deserves that at the very least.

Dead Boy Detectives was one of the most amazing, agonisingly beautiful, and in my opinion perfect shows I have ever watched. The writing, the acting, the camera work, the cgi, all of it. Every single part. I honestly don't think I could name another show that comes close for me that I have actually watched all the way through and over and over again.

Losing this show has genuinely broken me. And I am not just upset for myself, and the fact we won't see a true end to the story that was started. I am upset for every single person who also found a home with this show and this fandom like I have. And possibly most of all I am upset for the cast and crew and everyone who was involved in making Dead Boy Detectives happen.

To speak on the first point, I know that everyone I personally helped find the show genuinely enjoyed it, even if it wasn't their typical thing. Every single one said that they would love to see where the show takes things in future. To have that taken from all of us is painful enough.

And I know that myself, and many others, found a home and a safe place within this fandom. I remember how we watched the show over and over again desperate to stop this from happening. We all came together and gave this show all the love we had, and I know we will continue to do so through the fandom and fanfiction and everything we can.

But for me, one of the things that possibly hurts the most is that this has been taken not only from us, but from the cast and crew as well. I think it is clear to see how much they loved this show as well, the characters they played, the scenes they crafted. They all deserve so much better than this.

And I think, personally, this proves that Netflix never will be better. They will always cancel the shows that people genuinely love and highly review (a 92% and 90% rotten tomatoes score clearly meant nothing to them) purely because it doesn't align with the views of the higher ups with the money. Funny how every single queer show with a strong queer fanbase doesn't last more than a season. To me, it feels like the platform is trying to queerbait. Not the show of course, never that, but it feels like every now and then Netflix will make a queer show to get us all back on their platform watching it, and then delays their cancellation decision to squeeze every last view from us. So much so I am not sure I will be able to watch it on Netflix's platform again, I don't know on that point just yet but that is how I feel in this moment. Dead Boy Detectives did not deserve this treatment, and I'm not sure why, but I still have hope that perhaps a different and better platform might pick it up. But even that feels sadly not plausible.

Rant aside, this show meant everything to me. It was raw and honest and funny and just everything it should have been. I hope that we as a fandom make sure this show never dies in our love for it and the fan works we create and will continue to create.

I have run out of words for now, eventhough I am sure there is more I could say.

I have so much love for this fandom and the cast and crew, all of whom poured all their love into this show. I hope we will continue to do so, however we can. And thank you, all of you, for giving me a home I felt safe in.

Dead Boy Detectives, forever 💜

[frownyalfred]

curious as to if you’ve seen Titans (the live action TV show)? Really terrible show, but GREAT jason

who can forget the iconic "fuck Batman!" line? not me. I think about it all the time. I can't tell if I love or hate it.

[mairaiscarrierofthepaperclips]

Holy 1k kudos, Batman!

For the first time EVER, a fic of mine has crossed 1,000 kudos! 😍 I'm shocked, stunned, and not a little amazed.

I'd like to say thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read, kudos, and/or comment on any of my work - it really does mean so much.

I appreciate all of you! ♥️

And, because why not, the fic in question!

Title (and linketh): and i always will

Author: Maira

Word count: 2.3k

Rating: M

Summary: When a ringing phone wakes you up from a dead sleep, make sure that when you answer it, it's actually your phone...

[kori-senpai]

Call the anime and games cringe or whatever but they went off hard with the character designs, christ alive

[gampiyah]

happy new yuri

[miquella-everywhere]

Remembers Miquella the Unalloyed: :)

Remembers Miquella the Kind: :(

[sillylunaa]

Taking another break with this one 🔥🔥🔥

But seriously ive been feeling hella unmotivated lately and i can barely make art rn (it is approaching finals week y'know)

Ill be back when its summer break gang (so in about 2 weeks or so)

Cya guys 🫶❤️‼️

[nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos]

System restore on my computer finally finished, but I don't know if I'll be able to do any writing tonight. I may be too stressed out at this point.

Like. I hate it here. The right wingers insisting this is a "Christian nation" are ignoring the whole "do unto others" bit. The left-wingers insisting that eye-for-an-eye punishment and violence are wrong on the whole are laughing about it.

And none of them are making any logical sense, and none of them are even concerned that we've reached a point where attempting to kill one another is not only acceptable but also funny.

People have been shot at in a public venue, people have been killed, and they're fucking laughing at each other.

Supposedly they both fundamentally agree that killing each other is wrong, but they're both trying to make light of it and justify it?

And nations have this funny little habit of fallling into turmoil when the citizens become so divided that they can approve of vigilante justice and/or approve of hatred and violence in the name of religion?

And I fucking HATE IT HERE.

For FUCK'S SAKE WE'RE ALL HUMAN.

WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO GRASP.

I JUST WANT TO PUT ALL OF THESE IDIOTS IN A ROOM WITH BLINDFOLDS ON AND NOT ALLOW THEM TO DISCUSS ANYTHING EXCEPT THEIR FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES

AND MAKE THEM ALL SEE EACH OTHER AS EQUAL FUCKING HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE BEING NEEDLESSLY STUPID ABOUT POLITICS AND RELIGION

But that's not going to happen, and I can't see anything coming from this except further division and animosity, and I hate it more than I've ever hated anything.

I have a niece that identifies as bisexual, who has never hurt anyone in her life and would support absolutely anyone for being themselves and stand up to bullies that say otherwise, who could be persecuted for the same reasons that make me so proud of her.

I have an almost four year old son who could grow up in a nation that tells him that thinking for yourself should be punished.

I wish I could say that I never thought I'd see the day something like this happened here.

But it's been coming for a long time. And it's more terrifying now than it's ever been before.

And it's happening pretty much everywhere at this point, in some way or other.

I really don't care if I'm being overdramatic. If it's overdramatic to care about people attempting to kill each other in the name of political affiliation, or religion or race or any other skin-deep difference, then I'll happily be a fucking drama queen.

Because fuck absolutely all of this.

I've always said this blog is a safe space, and this is what I mean. I don't give a single flying fuck who you are, or what you believe in, or what you look like, or what the dangly bits between your legs mean to you.

With all the collective knowledge we have at our fingertips, it doesn't mean anything if we can't coexist and just be fucking nice to each other.

So I just want you all to know, I absolutely love all of you.

Unconditionally.

And if you're scared or disgusted or worried or pissed off about the direction humanity is headed in, then you can still come here for reprieve.

And I'll be right here with you. I can't promise much else, but I can promise that.

And we can all fade off into a happy little sunset together while the rest of the world sets itself of fire.

[claude-hoenet-the-morningstar]

gemini

i loved you too much

And I think that was part of the problem.

Which sounds weird bc how can you love too much?

In what world is it sensical to say that one is imparting too much affection and adoration and care and support and amazement?

But it is somehow I guess.

It’s all paradoxical.

I was talking to someone about you and they stopped me and said “I’m trying to get a better picture of who this person is… because it sounded like you were describing two separate people.”

And I was. I was talking about you and your light and how it shone so bright and glowed so warm that I felt like it was spring everyday and I was ready to run through reeds and rows and grow and play and for once just be fucking happy and whole and not fucking alone. I would bask in the beauty of you forever. Like you had made me to believe.

But you were you. And that meant you were also the devil. That you were finite. You were vile and shadowed and menacing. You lied and cheated and scammed. You toyed with people like dolls and threw them in the bin when you were tired of them. You twisted words that’d turn into trauma and twisted arms that would turn into bruises. You served yourself and no one else.

And I was foolish. Foolish and in love. So I chose to serve you. I chose to kneel at your feet like the golden calf. I choose to piss god off because I’d had found my own and he was perfect in his malevolence and he was beautiful with eyes like a hazy ocean, adorned with earthy moss. But those eyes were a distractor. To transfix your prey and strike while unaware. I wanted you to hurt me, to abuse me. And you did. With heart. Then with hand. And I loved it. Because I loved you.

i loved you too much

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-17/02-22

Adelaide Kane as Mary Stuart

[sanelyinsanemiss]

"I had choices but I chose you."

[aru-loves-krishnaxarjuna]

It's not the slap that hurts,

It's the feeling that still lingers there and the mental train of thoughts of self worth that you somehow have inside your mind, thinking

"Was I really that bad?"

"Was I really that worthless that my efforts didn't count?"

[winesvein]

Sunlight spills into the room-- everything becomes golden, illuminated raw honey. Baba says I was named with this radiance in mind, with this sweetness in thought. I do not know that I am as radiant or honeyed as my true name promises. Instead I am built strong, resilient, like the honeycomb. Instead my blood runs hot, molten, like the sun. I am not anything my forebears thought I should be and I am still fighting to simply be me.

—Kali

[erisxdrifter]

Yippee! The results for my Drifteris color theme poll are in, with green in first place at 36.4 percent! And so, here's a couple silly smoochy green themed pics for y'all hehe 💚🐍

And Since pink was pretty close at 29.1 percent, and I'll take any excuse to draw more of them, I drew a pink themed pic as well🌺

[marcholasmoth]

OSRR: 3411

THE BED IS HERE AND IT'S SO COMFY IM SO EXCITED TO SLEEP

i'm hoping i'll get more than two and a half hours of sleep tonight but no promises lmao. gotta get used to a new mattress and all that. plus i'm top heavy so things that are extra squishy make me feel like im sinking head-first. womp womp.

at least my back isn't hurting! i think it might actually be aligned.

i'm so glad joel and i got a new bed.

this thing is so goddamn comfy.

and today at work was super busy. in the six hours met and i were there, we sent out SIX fyi's AND prepared a high-level briefing. fucking batshit. sophia said to us, "i feel like the world holds itself together until you get here." i couldn't agree more.

after all that and after getting back to town, i went to market basket to get snacks and stuff for the first time in a while. i got some gluten free things for mer.

also before i left work, i gave the card i got and some babka to my coworker who is jewish and celebrates hanukkah. since it starts tomorrow and i wont see him, i wanted to give him something to celebrate to let him know i appreciate him. when i told him i got him babka his eyes got real big and he got real excited. so i'm glad i could do something for him. he's cool. he deserves good things.

i'm working on appreciating the little things that i do that i think are "small," things i'd hope someone would do for me. keeping snacks on hand for everyone including those with dietary restrictions, giving a small gift to celebrate a holiday that might not be shared by everyone, offering to take over when someone is visibly stressed, bringing someone flowers and a balloon and get-well-soon care packages. i often don't realize that these things that i do, don't get done by many others. but for me it's second nature, it's just. i feel like it's something that should be done to ease the burdens of others or to lift them up. and honestly, im glad to say i do this stuff at all sorts of points in the year, not just around the holidays at the end of the year. the qualifications of "little" that i have are different from that which others have. but i'm glad that i can do them.

plus it makes me happy to do things for others to help them feel happy, too, or to help them feel better.

i just do what i can, yknow?