#anyways stream dbd

[lavendermoonlitskies]

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.

[literallymikewheeler]

thinking about how in episode five, edwin fixes charles collar which was a form of courting back in the 1910s

[meangirlsautism]

more like.. dead by gaylight am i iright

[hyacinthi-mortem]

I am sobbing my eyes out over Niko's death, I can't believe this, there's gotta be a twist I need her back before the end of this ep. I love her sm they can't do this to me

[mint-mumbles]

Gonna use this image any time someone says something low key sexist about Sable (ie "she's showing too much skin" regarding a fucking bathing suit 😭🤦)

I don't hear you complaining about Spirit 😭

[fogsnatched]

DBD STREAM TOMORROW AYYYY!

[hyacinthi-mortem]

GO WATCH DEAD BOY DETECTIVES NOW. I DONT CARE IF YOU LIKE IT, WE NEED THIS.

Absolutely FUCKED that a show that literally JUST came out is in danger of being cancelled bc people didn’t immediately go watch it. The current landscape of streaming television is FUCKED.

[babisawyer]

when god closes a door, he opens a window. and by that I mean I was extremely depressed today and then I found a cow squishmallow that I've been looking for for literal years at the grocery store.

[thegempage]

i've almost certainly posted about this before and almost certainly will again, but there's a special kind of humor in looking over at chat while i'm clipping a stream and wondering "wait, i was home for this stream, where am i?" only to look over later and see my past self going "hey so i just woke up from a nap"

[dukes-hickory-horned-devil]

so disappointed with netflix for canceling dead boy detectives like atp they just have to hate good shows/representation fr

anyways thought i'd share some of the fanart i made for the show to tumblr as well in order to honor how this show got me out of artblock

dbd will always be the greatest show to me regardless of how many seasons it has and i will always take joy in drawing fanart for it 💯🫶🏻

and ofc i encourage everyone to stream the show/sign petitions/post on social media to show netflix how angry we all are and that we will not give up that easily on our dead boys!

[sourellie]

streamer!ellie

been seein this everywhere n i wanna partake!! ( º﹃º ) the usual bad grammar. not proofread. scared as shit to post this ENJOY!!!

streamer!ellie who met you over a game of fortnite. bear with me i haven't played fortnite in years. she ended up playing teams with you, hearing you talk shit made her and her stream love you!!! you two played quite a few rounds that day...From Then On....god if i got any of that right

streamer!ellie meeting you for the first time was a whole ordeal. she streamed the whole thing??? sweating buckets. spewing nonsense to her chat. this girl was NERVOUS. "Chat. Chat. I'm Scared. Chat Please."

streamer!ellie i can't decide if she's always shown her face or if she Was faceless at one point. but let's just say for shits n giggles the first time she showed her face Was the meeting u stream. "Big Things Are Comin'...Gunna Make Money Moves."

streamer!ellie she was so damn nervous for the face reveal. it was so awkward on her part. someone asked her what she was wearing and said "u know just a calm luh fit."

streamer!ellie let me talk about this real quick. you n ellie started dating Way before chat ever found out. obviously they had hints. aka the entire meeting u stream. she revealed it on accident when she called u babe and the whole chat basically said SAY WHAT!!!! so she had to confess....come clean if u will...

streamer!ellie starts all of her streams with "Hello All."

streamer!ellie OKOK THIS IS JUST PROJECTION ON MY PART BUT this girl cannot let go of "i i i be poppin bottles" she thinks it's so funny to play it at random points in her streams

streamer!ellie as for the games she plays i think she just likes to play whatever her stream tells her to. but she rage quits a lot...so. anyways i think if she had to pick her favorites it'd probably be dbd or any of the resident evil games. maybe even silent hill. but with you she loves to play minecraft!!! n you two even have a server with all your friends!!! she loves to see you interacting with her chat it's so special to her T . T

streamer!ellie when she walks away from her stream, you like to play pranks on her with chat. one time you told chat to ask what was behind her when she came back. she screamed in fear when she seen 'What's that behind you?' "WHAT IS WHAT?! WHAT IS WHAT?!?" she didn't turn around that whole stream.

streamer!ellie when she does just chatting streams all she talks about is you. "well my girlfriend-" "yeah my girlfriend-". she just loves u she wants to mention u as much as she can!!!! the amount of edits chat has made of you two...ellie had a stream where all she did was go through her discord and watch edits.

streamer!ellie chat loves you possibly more than they love ellie. 9 times outta 10 if ur with her, ur gunna get ur picture taken. borderline ur fans. they add u in group chats n stuff n sometimes u pop in to say hey!! and they never let it go.

streamer!ellie when she released merch she had u model :((((

streamer!ellie when u stay with her and she ends up playing something, she has a little place just for you to lay!!! it's like one of them big bean bags. it's right by her set up n sometimes stream catches her jus lookin at u :333

her username is elwilli cuz it's funny anyways enjoy these pics that are streamer!ellie coded

maybe one day i'll write more. anyways. bye

[gameo-archive]

"If the agency were to encounter a supernatural creature inspired by australia / new zealand, what would you want it to be based off? Also, what aussie food would you most like to try? Our top recommendations are timtams, milo, and fairy bread! For non sweets, vegemite (of course) and kangaroo steak are top notch Straydennation also keepss a leaderboard on who has the best Aussie accent. Currently George is winning, but could you give us your best accents so we can make a proper ruling (since Jayden keeps dodging the question in streams /lh) Bonus points if you recite a dbd line :]"

Edit: @pipwasreal kindly provided an Australian-to-standard transcription under the cut:

Transcript under the read more...

Jayden: This is another request in from Straydenation, from ethii. Thank you so, so much for another request. We are absolutely mindblown at the fact that you would do one, let alone however many you've done. So, let's get into it. "Instructions: If the Agency were to encounter a supernatural creature inspired by Australia/New Zealand what would you want it to be based off?"

George: Ohh love that question... [puts on an Australian accent] I reckon it would be a kangaroo. And then he [points to Jayden] would get his boxing skills out.

Jayden: That's actually so good! [laughs]

George: That'd be good, wouldn't it?

Jayden: Yeah yeah yeah!

George: And then I'd hide in your pouch and there'd be someone hiding in his pouch... [? Speech unclear]

[Both laugh]

Jayden: Ooh the backpack is basically the pouch anyway...

George: True!

Jayden: Wow, maybe Charles' spirit animal is a bloody kangaroo.

Both, in an Australian accent: Bloody kangaroo!

Jayden: Umm...

George, in an Australian accent: Come bounding over!

[Both laugh]

Jayden: I'm tryna think of other Australian things...

George, in an Australian accent: Koala?

Jayden: Yeah, maybe a koala bear.

George: Or a croc?

Jayden: Ohh a crocodile would be good. I was gonna say snake or a spider, but we've already seen that and, to be honest, I'd rather not see those again.

George: Maybe... I mean, maybe Australia and New Zealand, [puts on an Australian accent] Down Under, [returns to usual voice] has just generally informed already a lot of the creatures that you've seen.

Jayden: There you go. Umm...

George: But...

Jayden: Oh?

George: We dealt with the spider, we dealt with that snake.

Jayden: Yes we did. That snake got its head chopped

Both, in a Scottish accent: off!

Jayden: "Also, what Aussie food would you most like to try? Our top recommendations are Tim Tams, Milo and fairy bread. For non-sweets, Vegemite, of course, and kangaroo steak are top notch."

George: Oh wow...

Jayden: Well, we were watching I'm A Celeb, um last night or the night before, I can't remember which one, and they actually got like crocodile tail, and they put it into like fillets and, I'm not gonna lie, it actually looked quite good.

George: Really good, yeah it did look really good. I've always wanted to try Vegemite, umm cause I'm a lover of Marmite. [Points to Jayden] He's a hater. Um but, so yeah that would be my pick.

Jayden: It's weird, I like Twiglets but don't like Marmite.

George: Love Twiglets. "Straydenation also keeps a leader board of who has the best Aussie accent. Currently, George is winning [laughs] but could you give us your best accents so we can make a proper ruling, since Jayden keeps dodging the questions in streams?"

[Both laugh]

George: "Bonus points if you recite a DBD line."

Jayden, in an Australian accent: Charles, have you gone fucking mental?

[Both laugh]

Jayden: Sorry!

George, in an Australian accent: Is it your left or my left? We have the same left!

[Both laugh]

Jayden, in an Australian accent: Left!

George, in an Australian accent: Leeeft! [Sings] Leeeft! Or right?

Jayden: I can't think of any more. Bye guys!

George: Bye.

[deadboydetectives-confessions]

I just want to remind everyone that yes, while Edwin did froze when he was under a threats during the show in cases that involved physical confrontation, like in episode 4 with the Night Nurse that threatened on him to take him back to hell and Charles fought her, he absolutely did not freeze in episode 1 when Charles fought face to face with the WW1 soldier. Yes it was a chaotic fight, but that's how fights works, Edwin was under stress and kicked into action as soon as it was Charles that was threatened.

It's not the full protective Edwin scene we all dreamed of but we have that, and also Edwin saving things up in episode 3.

He froze in front of the night nurse because *he* was the one under threat. Because in his mind Charles wasn't under any threat, he was going to the good place. It's Edwin that is doomed, and he just freezes.

I think it's interesting how he freezes every time he is the one under danger, definitely a trauma response their worth talking about. But I just wanted to remind everyone that the scene in episode 1 existing, it's quite a cool scene really.

Did we as a fandom all just forgot about that and skipped over it when we talked about the show?

Anyway yeah I started to think about it when I streamed DBD to help adding more views.

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[highlyillogicalandroid]

So, I just want to talk about Dead Boy Detectives for a minute.

I first met the Dead Boys some time around…2007? 2008? when I first read Sandman as a teenager. They were immediately precious to me, maybe because I too was bullied—both at school and at home. We also share a birth month and year, which has always felt significant to me (Sandman #25, which introduced them, has a cover date of April 1991, and yes, you do now know how old I am).

After that first introduction, it took me another 5 years or so to read (I think) every other story featuring my boys. I didn’t have a lot of money, and my local comic book shop wasn’t super well stocked, or super welcoming to a femme teen/young adult. I spent a lot of time finding random back issues and trades on ebay—a collection my mother threw away when she decided she didn’t want my “crap” at her place back in 2013.

Now that my life is a bit more stable, I’ve been slowly rebuilding my collection. I treated myself to the DBD omnibus for Hanukkah last year, and it’s as wonderful as I remember. I’ve now watched all 8 episodes of the Netflix series as well, and I’m just so…incandescently pleased with it. It’s creepy and silly and poignant, and it definitely lives up to the spirit (ha!) of the comics. These boys have been so special to me for so long, and I really hope folks watch the series as avidly as I have.

I don’t think I’ll ever really be able to put into words what the Sandman Universe, and especially Charles and Edwin, mean to me, but it’s 2 AM and I’m feeling emotional, so I thought I’d give it a try.

Anyway, go stream Dead Boy Detectives, because I desperately want a second season, and I know there are many more adventures out there for our boys 🖤💀

[ilvero-love]

Vent 😡

So, I’m feeling incredibly down about the news that NF has a new show coming out and it looks suspiciously like they dumped our show for DBD.

It’s hard to see any positivity at the moment. I worry that our numbers just aren’t what they need to be to make it worthwhile for another streamer to pick it up.

I also have my suspicions that NF are such a*holes that they would block it any way possible.

👻BUT then I remember that they only have streaming rights.

👻I remember that Rachel Prior was fighting for this to be made for 10 years.

👻That it took 3 years of writing and prepping to get the first season to air.

👻That it received critical acclaim from multiple quarters.

👻I remember that Georgina Stroud backs us and has openly said she is marching alongside us in the fight for S2.

👻And most importantly, I remember that CF have not yet said, "all bets are off guys, it’s over".

I know we have the books📚. In a way that makes it worse because to see the full story brought to life would have been beyond amazing.

So I’ll keep hoping and praying and manifesting and doing whatever I can to do my part to see our deepest wishes come true. That means actively tweeting, sending emails and supporting our wonderful LockNation anyway I can 🤗💕

Because this story is worth nothing less than 100% effort.

Just reckless enough 🖤💙🧡⚔👻

[wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee28374728]

Until Dawn dead by daylight headcannons:

Not like if they were in dbd. Like if they all played dbd, how they would play, who would they main, etc.

Sam:

Either a Meg or Jill main for survivor

Likes sprint burst waaaaay to much and doesn’t understand how annoying it is

For this reason, on the rare occasion she plays killer, she mains either legion, hillbilly or blight

Definitely a survivor main

Chris

He has two loadouts. Friendly ghostface and Ace who throws the whole game to use pebble on the killer

The most obnoxious and colorful outfits on survivor and the wassssupp ghostface

Plays 200% more around new chapters and events

Loves the modifiers

Ashley

Incompetent but well meaning Steve main

Is really trying her best

The builds don’t make sense

Never advanced past trapper. Tried hillbilly once but can’t control the chainsaw

Josh

Also plays meme builds like Chris, but there’s also a 40% chance he’ll play the most cracked, insane build he can come up with.

Gives hatch to the last survivor as killer

Will loop for 5 gens if you give him a chance

Plays Myers as killer and Zarina as survivor

Loves boons and hexes and scourge hooks

Streams most of his games

Mike

Biggest no mither enjoyer

Plays the tough licensed survivors like Ash and Chris and Bill

Bad deathslinger player, but it's the only killer he’ll play because he wants to have a gun

Loves flash bang and blast mine

Jess

Mains Kate for the most innocent reasons, and tries to dress the character to match her own outfits

Kind of a baby survivor, crouches around the map and drops god pallet before the first gen

A shockingly good killer player on the occasion that she plays killer, and usually plays huntress, hag or plague

Emily

The meanest nurse main you’ve ever encountered

Only plays survivor when she has to because she hates dealing with solo queue survivors and none of the others will play with her anymore

Toxic Nea when forced to play survivor

Matt

David or Jake main

He likes side objectives; totems, chests, the turrets for xenomorph and vecna's chests and sadako's tvs

Anything but gens, it's too boring

Doesn't play much killer so when he does it's one of the base game 3

Hannah

Unironic spirit main

Most altruistic claudette player

Only brings medkits

Deliverance bcs she's always rescuing everyone anyways

Beth

If she doesn’t stream it did it really happen?

Mikaela main or just whatever killer came out more recently, but she’s partial to licensed killers, specifically odd ones like chucky

Her and josh crash and or sabotage and or feature on each other’s streams

Dr. Hill

Doesn’t play the game at all, but knows a shocking amount of lore from listening to everyone talk about it

Probably knows more than anyone else but it surprises them all when he randomly pipes up and corrects someone

Flamethrower Guy

What is this shit and why does he have to be part of it?

Literally just goes afk and hopes for the best

Everyone thinks he’s a basement bubba, but he never does anything at all and the game lasts almost an hour because they’re still trying to avoid him unnecessarily

Playing survivor with him is the prime example of a solo queue nightmare