#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

[fogsnatched]

DBD STREAM TOMORROW AYYYY!

[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"

[foundationaldecay]

so how were the horrors today

[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

[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 🖤💙🧡⚔👻

[yellowraincoat]

they don't. know what's in your post is a common theory/idea often considered in the l&co fandom, do they..... 😭😭 like I have seen quite a few people talking about dead boy detectives and Lockwood and co's cancellation, along with other similar sounding shows, and although maybe a far fetched theory it's a theory nonetheless. ive seen it many times, none aggressive towards dead boy detectives itself (including yours)

and honestly man, I dont think the idea of banking on the success of another show (dead boy detectives expected to be successful even before release, for example) and trying to eliminate something that could lessen expected success (dbd fans watching l&co and vice versa, dividing the attention) is too far out there. which is neither the show or 'competing' shows fault ofc. it may not actually work like that but who tf really knows anymore, and it's just a theory anyway. no need for everyone to get pissy

anyways yeah sorry that happened and neil answered me saying he wasn't angry at you and I'm still reeling from that so 👍👍👍

You and Neil are basically like this now 🤞lmao. But yeah I've seen some tags like "this is wild conspiracy theorizing" and like... no it's just speculating based on how I know marketing works.

Like, I'm not in Netflix's walls, nor am I in their black box algorithm that determines which shows get renewed, but like generally this was my thought process: streaming services want to put out a diverse array of content that hits a lot of niches -> teen ghost hunters is a very specific niche -> if one show under performs expectations and you have the rights to another that you think will do well based on the creative team involved + the author bringing in a very large existing fan base, why keep the slightly under-performing show around and over-saturate that niche when you could direct more funds to other genres and try for another immediate hit.

Like I'll trust when Neil Gaiman says that's not how it works because he's actually worked with netflix, he is in their walls but I do not think my post was some far flung conspiracy theory. It's fucking plausible, at least based on the average person's understanding of these companies.

[jamesevans0]

i figured i should introduce myself if i’m going to keep posting! so hello, i’m syd! i have been on tumblr for quite awhile but just made my debut. i’m currently suffering (/pos) from dead boy detectives brainrot. i’m also a big hockey fan (leafs, flyers), which means i’ll most likely post about that as well. of course, i’ll probably post about almost anything that i like so just consider this a multifandom board, i suppose? anyways, stream dbd on netflix! have a good day/night <33

[fag-by-daylight]

Introduction to the Fog:

Hey, my name's Jonah [nicknames are Nightmare, Dredge, and Unknown], and I'm an autistic, transgender fella who loves playing Dead By Daylight :]

My pronouns consist of he/it, plus some neopronouns/xenogenders.

Max Thompson Jr Playlist || Unknown Playlist

Killer Mains: Hillbilly [p40], Trapper [p13], Unknown [p9].

Survivor Main[s]: Ace [p14], Leon [p9].

I play on Xbox, so if you ever go up against me, or we're survivors, my tag is FluffyFurry6663 :33

YouTube: FluffyFurry6663

Twitch: FluffyFurry6663

This blog is mainly so I can blog and talk about Dead By Daylight, so I am very open to any asks about this game, or we can talk about the game in DMs, if you want [I'm very shy, though, so I might not talk much]

Xbox Gamertag: FluffyFurry#6663

Original Tags:

-#jonah talks [for original posts made by me]

-#jonahs art [my art, mainly reblogged from my main

-#jonahs videos [original stream clips]

-#dbd pride flags [pride flags colour picked from DBD characters; requests open ^^]

Anyways, intro post over, hope everyone has fun in the fog <33

DBD Blinkie credit: me >:3

Trapper Blinkie Credit: @/blinkees