#fandom solidarity

[alltimefail]

Hi Supernatural fandom! 🖤

I'm writing on behalf of The Dead Boy Detectives fandom who could desperately use your help! Our show was canceled in its first season, cut off without a care for its dedicated fandom or its insane amount of potential. I made a post about how our shows are similar in that they're niche fantasy/spooky shows with an active fandom, and just like our show Supernatural nearly was canceled unfairly in its early days (after its second season). It then went on to have 15 seasons, as you know, so obviously it would have been a loss on The CW's part if they would have gone through with that cancellation. We believe Netflix is making the same huge mistake!

We're heartbroken, but that hasn't stopped us from trying to convince them to reconsider their decision. Could you guys please sign our petition and help spred it by reblogging?

We have shared custody of Ruth Connell and Steve Yockey, among many others, so it felt right to reach out to you all for help! Here's some support Ruth has received from Supernatural cast and crew that we appreciate so much:

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Your fandom is a tight-knit family just like ours, and we desperately want a chance for our show to make its own legacy in the way Supernatural did!

Thank you in advance to any of you who read all of this. If you sign and share our petition in an act of fandom solidarity please know it means the world to our detective agency and we appreciate you so much!!!💀🔎💜

Last thing I promise this post is not intended to clog your tag in any way, I wouldn't want our fandom to bleed into your space! We're just desperate for help and there's so much overlap in our fandoms and shows that it made sense to reach out to you all. Thank you again 🖤

[witchinatree]

mourning umbrella academy fans i have a proposition for you (also i am one of you LMAO)

there is a show that has similar energy to the umbrella academy called 'dead boy detectives' that got cancelled by netflix on friday

if you could show some support by watching it (also it's just a really good show and i think it could help with the season 4 pain) we would all really appreciate it

fight netflix with us pls they are evil

also i am not trying to clog the tag in any way i am just doing everything i am told to do in order to have a chance at getting this show renewed. it is my favorite show pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls

[purpleyin]

Dear fandom friends, please can you sign the petition to Save Shadow and Bone. We're trying to get to 200,000 signatures by Jan 22nd when our save the show billboard goes up, to make an impression on Netflix (just passed 184k today!), and it would mean so much to me if you could sign to show support for a show I dearly love <3

If there's any cancelled shows you want to trade signatures for with another petition let me know!

[myflagmeansace]

Welcome, Good Omens fandom, to the depression robe era 💜

please line up to receive your complimentary robe and jar of marmalade

we shall escort you to our lovely blanket fort where our scribey person will be happy to jot down your lyrics for you

feel free to curl up into a ball and cry it out for as long as you need ❤️‍🩹

[how-do-i-turn-this-thing-off]

So the writer's strike is over, now the actor's strike is over, and Netflix is punishing their fans and all the people who make their shows actually possible reacting to these oh-so-serious budget adjustments by arbitrarily axing five shows at once. And if they want to play the 'woe is me, i just has no monies' card, cue their latest quarterly report:

Remember, kids, companies aren't allow to lie in their quarterly reports because that information is intended for their shareholders. They can lie to YOU all they want, but they go to Actual Prison if they lie to rich people.

Here's the link for the full article, if you care, which is backed up by many other reputable news sources if you want to get tetchy about it being from 'The Hollywood Reporter':

So all this to say, you good, 'Shadow and Bone' fandom? Rough times, getting invested in a Netflix show; we've all been there. Hope y'all are doing well <3

[oh-no-bummer]

Can someone with priority entry please shuffle me in tomorrow (today) at MCM london I'm desperate at this point

[big-fudge888]

And the 9 Days Queen getting axed at 8 episodes 🙃🙃🙃🙃 #savemyladyjane #saveDBDA

honestly, so poetic to kill a queer show about two queer boys who got killed

@netflix ur literally a supervillain with a masters in homophobia and racism i hope ur knees hurt from all the time you’ve spent sucking capitalism’s dick

[kooldewd123]

i'm noticing some themes this season

[16woodsequ]

"Your show might be delayed by the wga strikes!"

I watched Sherlock, mate. We waited three years for the 3 worst episodes you've ever seen. This is nothing

[eye-spy-an-eye]

So about last episode huh?

Most of these are somewhat fusions of animals and bugs to some extent

[chaosandwolves]

All you lovely ppl from other fandoms who celebrate with us

I love you!!

You sharing the joy with us is so amazing!!!

If you have the energy and motivation and mood for it may I ask for your help to leave some positive comments on certain articles?

Check out this post if you feel like this

911 has been the most viewed scripted TV show for years (as to my knowledge)

It's massive

And this rep is like TV history

So if you feel like it, leave some positivity and show the execs and Hollywood that ALL sorts of queer storylines belong into mainstream media

I do not know what is happening in the 911 fandom but do you need me to call 911 for y’all

[alltimefail]

Hello Good Omens fandom - I'm reaching out to you in a plea of fandom solidarity! Please help us!!!

I'm writing on behalf of The Dead Boy Detectives fandom: our show was canceled in its first season, cut off without a care for its dedicated fandom or its insane amount of potential. Yet another queer, diverse, supernatural show suffers an unfair fate and we're bloody sick of it! We believe Netflix and Warner Bros. are making a huge mistake!

Could you guys please sign our petition and help spread it by reblogging?

We're not just trying to get a season 2: we're trying to get justice for the cast, crew, and writers behind this unapologetically queer show. They had the writers write a season 2 just to cancel the show and, frankly, that's objectively a slimy thing to do. I believe Dead Boy Detectives is a casualty of its time, that shows cult-clasic, niche shows like Buffy or Supernatural for instance would suffer the same fate today if held to Netflix's callous and cruel standards and their blatant disregard for creatives.

Lastly, our shows are actually quite similar, and I think if you enjoy Good Omens you would enjoy Dead Boy Detectives as well! Please don't let the cancellation deter you, it really it a phenomenal show that will have you laughing one moment and crying the next. It has so much heart! Please help us save our boys who defy heaven and hell with their love! 💜

Thank you in advance to any of you who sign. Netflix has gotten far too comfortable nuking shows, especially those with queer themes and diverse leading chacters, in their prime. If you sign and share our petition in an act of fandom solidarity please know it means the world to our detective agency and we appreciate you so much!!!💀🔎💜

Last thing I promise this post is not intended to clog your tag in any way: this will be the only post I make in your tag! I wouldn't want our fandom to bleed into your space! We're just desperate for help and there's so much overlap in our fandoms and shows that it made sense to reach out to you all - I figure the least I can do for the show I love so much is to try. Thank you again 🖤

[witchinatree]

hi school spirits fans!!

i made this same proposition to the umbrella academy fandom, and now i bring it to you; while you await season 2 of school spirits there is another netflix show called 'dead boy detectives' that i believe you would enjoy

it also centers around dead teenagers solving mysteries, except there is no mystery of their own deaths, it's more like commissioned cases. there's also living people who can see them! like simon!

as someone who enjoyed both shows, i really think this show could be your next watch! and it will help boost its viewing numbers and hopefully save the show!!

win-win situation!! if you watch the show, i hope you enjoy it, and if not i understand. watching shows that got cancelled sucks, but i still truly think dead boy detectives is worth it

[randomness-is-my-order]

something about wei wuxian and wen qing’s relationship is so profoundly heartening and i think it’s because, in that first life, they were each other’s confidants in the sense that they voluntarily allowed the other person to see them at their most vulnerable and trust the other to take care of them. wei wuxian trusted wen qing to carry out the golden core transfer and trusted her when he was helpless on that bed, his core cut out from him. and wen qing could think of no one else but wei wuxian to help her when she was in her most dire circumstances, trusting him to help her and her family out when no one else would.

“all that pride–all gone.”

at her lowest, wen qing went to wei wuxian and allowed him to see her that way. partly because her family was so much more important than a game of saving face and partly because if there was someone who would see her in such a state and not think ill of her and continue to respect her, it was wei wuxian. because he’s also been at his worst, circumstantially, and it was exactly in those days that their initial bond/friendship was forged.

there is alot of talk about debts when wwx and the wens are concerned but i think the way they helped each other transcends the obligation of debts. of course, you simply cannot overlook who was owed what, given the setting but it’s interesting that we have this passage to make us reflect on the true nature of wei wuxian and wen qing helping each other:

when wei wuxian had bid her farewell, carrying jiang cheng on his back, wen qing had told him this: “no matter how this war ends, we do not owe each other anything from now on. our debts are cleared.” her haughtiness was clear as day in his memory. but last night, she had clutched his hand in a death grip and almost dropped to her knees as she pleaded.

“wei wuxian…wei wuxian…wei-gongzi. please help me. i have no one else to turn to. you have to help me save a-ning! i really have no one else, i can only come to you!”

it’s the way that following wen qing’s refuge of wei wuxian and jiang cheng, there was a sentiment of: oh the wens did this to you and now we, also wens, have helped you just to compensate a little. let’s settle these debts and leave them behind. and this is despite wen qing clearly stating that the wen clan’s actions do NOT reflect her own and that she’s only ever saved lives, not taken any. and yet she declares “our” debts as cleared as if she had taken some accountability anyway. it’s part that and part her attempt to obscure what her actions towards wwx and jc truly were: an unconditional show of support and help. and wei wuxian knows this and it is only reasonable and honorable to still see the help as a debt owed later down the line.

and the same thing repeats itself when wen qing comes to wei wuxian and explicitly asks for help. there is a sense that this isn’t about some give-and-take or reciprocation of prior debts. it is simply a person reaching out to someone in their most desparate times, hoping their hand will be held. and wei wuxian does hold her hand and they remain each other’s staunch supporters through the rescue and the hellish survival in the burial mounds that follows.

wei wuxian trusts wen qing with his wounds and wen qing opens up her most loved ones to wei wuxian’s care. for two people who spent their lives looking after their loved ones, shouldering massive burdens and going through the destruction of their respective clans, their intrinsic understanding of each other makes their bond so special, so grounded. they both took massive risks to help each other out and they both did what was right over what was easy to extend that help to each other.

despite my fair share of problems with the cql, i appreciated that scene with wq and jc where wen qing made it clear that she couldn’t pursue anything with jiang cheng because he wouldn’t stand by her. he simply didn’t have the guts. and this is reflected in the novel canon, in the sense, that if debts owed are the metric to measure who could have helped wen qing, jiang cheng was also on the list and he was obligated to aid her as much as, if not more than wei wuxian (and i say this because the whole reason wwx ended up staying under wen qing’s extended care was because jc was injured. he would’ve left as soon as he was discovered had he been alone). and yet wen qing doesn’t ever approach jiang cheng. her only option is wei wuxian because she knows, deep down, that he would truly help her and go to greater lengths for her than any debts would warrant. that he would understand.

and thing is, despite being the outliers of their clans, they both (+wen ning) embodied their mottos. “attempt the impossible”/“knowingly do what you know you cannot do” for the jiangs and “every kindness should be returned” for the wens (very hilarious ik) and that is just one amongst the hundreds of commonalities they shared.

and all of this doesn’t even account for the fact that they basically died for each other. if this isn’t platonic love at its best, most brutal, most beautiful, then what is?

[cupilette]

flower husbna....hudsbnansdw......

i need to see scott with jimmy wrapped around his finger please im obsessed with them and keep drawing them out of spite because people say theyre dead ⭐️

[beifong-brainrot]

I need Jimmy to stay alive for a while on red for at least a little longer because the absolute feral honeybadger energy he brings to the table is my fave thing ever. He murdered Grian (and Mumbo) with his own trap right under Skizz's nose and gloated. He killed Joel using the man's own wife as a distraction and taunted him about it. And this isn't even a Wild Life thing either. He was an absolute menace in Secret Life when he was helping Joel try and kill Scott. And in 3rd Life too, remember when he basically started a war with the Dogwarts crew by setting their banner on fire in front of them and constantly acting standoffish even as Scott tried to de-escalate the situation?

Like the Canary Curse ensured he never really got to menace too close to the sun but I have high hopes for my boy now.