#dead Boy Detectives show

[dead-boy-edwin]

20 reasons to watch Dead Boy Detectives

Queer people, lots of awesome queer people

Very binge-able

CATS. You will see A LOT of cats. Who doesn't love cats?

Niko is the DEFINITION of AUTISM 🔥

Lots of twinks and badass ladies

Awesome acting, perfect cast

Loveable and charming characters

Angry Scottish lady played by Ruth Connell (she hates paperwork)

Gay awakening via cat man

It's campy and quirky, in the best way possible

It's like a cross between Good Omens and Sherlock Holmes, paired with Sandman characters and lore

Kirby Howell-Baptiste returns as Death of the Endless (I love you Kirby!!)

Tragic and messy queer romance

The only acceptable version of the "bury your gays" trope (let them return as ghosts)

Everybody has trauma

EPISODE SEVEN KILLED ME AND THEN DANCED ON MY ROTTING CORPSE

Literally the perfect resolution. The ending is satisfying, all main subplots are resolved, yet it tempts a 2nd season

Authentic and respectful queer realization and coming out subplot

Likeable antagonists (except for David, fuck you David 🤬🤬)

Dead married couple on acid.

[jameslongforjimshortforgabriel]

@netflix please please please make dead boy detectives icons for your little profile thingy cmonn

[echosdaffodil]

Oh to be Charles Rowland knowing that you’re the reason a 108 years dead person’s heart, that never beat for anyone, suddenly started beating for you.

[skylie-spiderlillis]

I know most of the DBDA fandom probably thinks at paineland at the trope of "x fell first, xx fell harder" is Edwin falling first and Charles now falling harder; because Edwin was obviously shown first to express his feelings.

But consider this-

Charles falling in love with Edwin slowly a little more every day, falling a bit deeper for him every day they spent side by side.

And at some point later- Edwin is crushing hard. Realizing "oh shit, I love him-" and falling hard in a chaotic storm of feeling he doesn't know how to deal with, he's a complete mess.

Idk, I personally prefer the second version more but both options can be great interpretations of their dynamic.

[sirbarnb]

'Dead Boy Detectives' Canceled After One Season at Netflix

I NEED NIKO BACK AGAIN. She is worth more than this "Greg Peters" has. The fuck has he done? Started his career with a low loan of 30 mill from daddy?

Anyone wanna do a joint suicide? I can't live on without Niko (and Charles and Edwin, of course)

Oh well, at least we have them in comics... But we have no Niko in the comics... I NEED MY FIX

I'm freaking out over here. Clean up on Aisle 4. The boy has shit in his pants and is looking for squirrels in the dog toy aisle

What is life? If life has no meaning. Why not just do whatever the fuck you want? And if u can do whatever the fuck you want? Why not hang the CEO of Netflix and stage it as a suicide?

This would be his note:

I am sorry, fans of the Dead Boy Detectives TV show, that I pulled the plug for a movie with Gal fucking Gadot in it. But don't worry, We'll plug in a few references to feminism and people being gay to keep ur tumblr's alive. I wanna be known as the millionaire who tried to make you all happy. Whilst feeding you "The Sidemen show" and a show starring Tiktokers. Goodbye, world that gives me fuck loads of money for being a Nepo child.

I could have been president"

(Just to make it clear, I do not actually wanna hurt myself or the CEO of Netflix. But still, fuck that guy)

[azulso]

Love, Victor actors in Dead Boy Detectives

[kitstorm]

supposedly they are in Washington, but they keep show BC ferries. Are they in washington, Canada? huh?

[avidbeader]

I bought and read the first of the "Dead Boy Detectives" comics collections yesterday, because I was curious about what else they'd done to adapt the series for television besides the necessary aging up of the characters. (Kind of hard to portray the idea of ageless ghosts in a live-action program when your main characters are twelve.)

Doing a keep-reading for both spoilers and because I have no idea how long this might get.

One of the first things I noticed with reading "Free Country" was how child-like Edwin and Charles' thought processes were: the constant references to the detective stories they'd read, being a bit too trusting of others at first. The first DBD trade left off a lot of detective references other than Charles imitating 1920s-30s noir stories in his notes. It's amusing to see them snipe at each other in those notes, especially over the next thing that I saw. Comics Charles in the first stories is clearly a boy who was on the brink of discovering teen hormones and seems very stuck there. He is all about the girls and Edwin is very impatient with it. I won't know until I read more if the comics if they move into queer territory (or even let the boys grow mentally as their experience widens), but right now Edwin strikes me less as being gay and from a repressed upbringing and more as simply a boy who has not yet gotten past the stage of seeing romance in general as something grownups do. With the older characters, there is absolutely nothing holding the TV team back from exploring queer relationships and I do think they have done an excellent job so far. Charles at this point seems to be het but absolutely okay with LGBTQ+ people and issues - until it was mentioned that he was defending a Pakistani boy from the bullies in his era, my first assumption was that the other boy might be attacked on the basis of being perceived as queer. I so very much want a second season because it would be all too easy to tip Charles' general protectiveness of Edwin and flashes of jealousy into realizing that maybe his own feelings are a little more than platonic.

Edwin's development is just as excellent. He spends so much time and effort in repressing his feelings, because that was the era he grew up in and decades in Hell didn't give him much time for introspection. He keeps his compliments to Charles about their work but will reassure Charles in a heartbeat that he won't let Death separate them if she catches them. He spends the first part of the season being confronted with the possibility of romantic/sexual feelings coming from Monty or the Cat King and then the Cat King makes the subtext text by flinging the illusion of Charles in Edwin's face. And in what I think is one of the smartest moves in the writing, Edwin tries to talk about what he's feeling with Monty and Monty makes his move. Edwin's response is gentle but determined as he says that these new and terrifying feelings are not for Monty, and while Monty is clearly hurt, they get past it enough to keep talking. I think that experience is part of what makes Edwin brave enough to admit his feelings to Charles (yes, on top of the possibility that things are going to end up in the worst possible way as the demon is chasing them). And because Charles is a good and kind and generous soul who really does put Edwin at the top of people he loves and wants to protect, he says exactly the right things to make sure Edwin knows that he's not mad or put off by the confession.

The other major factor in the comics so far is Crystal. I love the changes to her character as, like our boys, she's older. She's had much more time in the toxic environment her parents created (judging from the brief glimpses we get in the show) to absorb their behaviors. Assuming that the memories she got from David are true (as Edwin said, demons lie and David had plenty of time to make fake memories if that's a thing he can do), then being hit with a giant reset button and dropped in the laps of two good-hearted lads was the absolute best thing that could have happened to her. I'm glad that David is only temporarily interred, as Crystal is getting close to being dangerously overpowered at a storytelling level by the end of the first season. It'll be fascinating to watch the possibilities if we get a second season: the price for getting David out of her life for good being giving up some of this extra power? Learning that she can only achieve that level when her friends are in mortal danger? Giving up that power in exchange for Niko's return? She's not in the comics yet (if she ever appears in them at all), but I fully expect we'll get Niko back in some capacity in a second season. Which means everyone who hasn't watched DBD but read all of this blather anyway....go. Watch. Add to the numbers so Netflix will renew.

[kwadlayns]

Good detectives do what they need to in order to solve a case. 💀🔎✨

[torisprlng]

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES S1 + TUMBLR REACTIONS

[fuusart]

THE AGENCY 🪦⭐️

[duckchaw]

May I offer you a group picture in these trying times

[wilderbas]

got hooked on dbd didn’t i

[echosdaffodil]

Dead boy detectives fandom, can we just call the ship of Charles and Edwin, dead boyfriends? I am tired of name combinations.

[ahyperactivehero]

personally, i think we don't give jenny enough credit. she took in two very obviously underaged people, dealt with all of their strange habits like yelling to themselves or "using" her shop as a hangout spot or cussing out her customers or even their strange lack of boundaries with her, survived an implied serial killer date, and was willing to follow crystal with a knife when she thought she was going to confront her abusive ex.

jenny deserves the world and i hope we get season 2 so she can have it