#justice for dbda

[cadewitha]

[0zziejoints]

ive already said but genuinely the cancellation of dead boy detectives makes me feel incredibly distraught, hopeless and frustrated. whats with all the good shows with representation of minorities getting cancelled early huh? i cant help but think its not just a coincidence that the shows that have a million seasons are heterosexual rubbish. dead boy detectives, even in its short run, has the best representation of queer characters i have ever seen. its everything i have ever wanted as a gay teenage boy. this show very very quickly became my life. i watched the whole thing in just one day. when i caught my dad watching it i got so incredibly happy. i hadnt mentioned it to him before but he was watching it and i told him how much i love it and was getting my best friends to watch it. at some point im gonna watch it with my boyfriend and im so excited. i dont care if ive watched it once, twice, more times i'll watch it again.

@netflix @netflix

[imqueerandadeer]

sign this petition to help save dbda

personally I signed it because I hate when NETFLIX cancels good shows with amazing queer rep just because it didn't get stranger things levels of success within the first months/weeks

[thats-a-little-queer]

how i feel about @netflix until they bring back dead boy detectives

(@netflix that’s a threat)

[dead-boyfriend-detectives]

this is so stupid typical of Netflix and i’m SO ANGRY

That show was AMAZING it did excellently with reviews, streamed relatively well, and was overall a success

but they tossed it the fucking trash because of greed or stupid fucking gaimen or whatever

Guys im NOT taking this shit i know it never works, but let’s get petitions, online protests, and everything else going

let’s fight it and see where it goes

[quintiselfcostume]

The last time I was this active on Tumblr, I was fighting Netflix to get a different show about ghosts renewed, im nothing if not consistent, lol

[aric-arts]

my favorite show just got cancelled i can’t do this 😭😭

justice for Dead Boy Detectives!!

[printershorts]

im so so so upset

im going to go dye my hair and watch dead poets society again to cope

i better wake up to see this was a joke or they took it back or something else picked it up

please i literally might cry

[alexwilltellyouthings]

The campaign to renew/save Dead Boy Detectives doesn't have one singular goal.

Yes, there is a main goal, but there are also other objectives in the meantime:

Strengthen the community and keep the fandom alive and tight

Get new people to find out about this wonderful show that can very well change their lives as it did ours

Make ourselves feel better about the cancellation by doing something instead of just being sad and angry with nowhere to put the energy into

Join the voices of other fandoms to criticize the TV industry as a whole

Reinforce our love for the show, creators, crew and cast

I know it might feel like there's no point, but there is. Saving DBD is where we're headed, but there's so much on the road. Remember every fight ever fought felt hopeless at some point, and not every battle was won, but it always means something.

[lezabeththetheodoraimposter]

i love dbda but i also love fashion history so i was very triggered when edwin said emma died in the late 1800s when she very clearly died in the mid 1800s

i would say the 1850s but the latest she could’ve died was in the 1860s

i used this as the reference because you can’t see her full outfit in the show. it’s not very historically accurate but it is clearly 1850s

just look at how similar they are. you cannot tell me she isn’t from the 1850s which classifies as mid 1800s not late 1800s edwin

[xjade-lotusx]

I know we all think the Night Nurse is like the "villain" of the story for trying to break our boys up but listen, girl was just trying to do her job. She's probably the most relatable character to us living under the heel of Capitalism, going about our day, working our little 9 to 5's. To her, Charles and Edwin are the equivalent of an annoying customer you have to deal with, lest you get fired. I'd be pissed if I was her too.

[cadewitha]

[0zziejoints]

I have written to Netflix. im trying my best to make a difference

[imqueerandadeer]

so Netflix says they support the queer community and then cancels every show with good queer rep,,,,,, yeah okay,,,,,, just call me a slur at this point

Sign the petition to save dbda

[thats-a-little-queer]

SIGN!!!

[ticktockheartstop]

DBDA catch/theory time, are you ready?

First, let me remind you of the fact that Tragic Mick gave Niko the bear charm-thing because she listened to his story and tried to help. And then he tells her, “You never know when the good you do may come back around.”

*Big skip through much of the episode*

So. The Night Nurse’s supervisor showing up at the agency in the final episode kinda makes sense, right? The Night Nurse has clearly had a lot of trouble with Edwin and Charles and could use some back up. And the supervisor acts whole lot like the Night Nurse, telling the boys when they protest that she can’t just take them to the afterlife: “I can do anything I like!”

But then: She turns to their case file. And as she’s telling them some technical jargon about forms, she’s looking over the case file. Near the end of her sentence, she squints at something. But then she turns back to the boys and asks them if they have the form she’s talking about.

AND THEN she puts her glasses on, turns back to the case file, and asks about it. And as Charles is explaining, we switch to the supervisor’s POV as she is scanning over all the cases. Her gaze stops at the top and lingers on the file labeled “Niko Sasaki.” And then the camera switches back to show her face, and we see her begin to point at the Niko’s file. Her facial expression changes so that she’s frowning, almost looking sad, and she reaches a hand up to her neck/shirt collar.

That’s weird, right? But it gets weirder.

The supervisor behind listing all the people the boys have helped, and though she doesn’t say Niko’s name, her eyes linger on that file:

After this, she makes the decision that the boys will stay on Earth to keep doing what they’re doing, much to the surprise and horror of the Night Nurse. This isn’t what she asked for help for!

The supervisor turns to Edwin and Charles and says, “You never know how the souls you help, the marks you make — you never know when the good you do may come back around.”

And then she pauses and just looks at them like this:

Idk about you, but she seems emotional to me. So here’s my question: does she know Niko!?!? Because why would she change her mind when she saw Niko’s case file if she didn’t know her or wasn’t connected to her somehow?? And why would she give the boys the hint of using the exact same wording as Tragic Mick used with Niko if she wasn’t trying to tell them something!? She knows they’re detectives! So she’s giving them a clue to figure something out, is she not??

My brain hurts.