#revive dead boy detectives

[starcrossedstarfishes]

[downbaddetective]

"He's calling the spirits of darkness... I saw him do this once before when a girl dumped him."

Might I present a one Mr. Charles Rowland! Very pleased with how he came out. One more down, many more to go!

[alexrod-dbd]

It’s me again, making even more dbd book covers! 🤭

I’m particularly proud of this one, I clearly let loose and played with some effects and I love the results! ✨

Big thanks to @hannaloony for providing me her illustrations (again) 🙏🏼 💛

Fic by @ghostinthelibrarywrites ✍🏼

(Still not for selling distribution)

[hey-there-22]

[i-need-of-a-hobby]

modern/alive boy detectives au headcanons:

-for the purposes of my headcanoning the boys met in high school, didnt die this time, and post graduation are sharing a flat

-its still slowburn ofc claiming theyre "100% platonic" despite sharing a flat for two years and sharing a bed most nights for cuddling purposes

-how did the "platonic" cuddling start you ask?

-charles has chronic nightmares and edwin has a caffeine problem so they both end up awake at the most unholy hours of the night and charles decided the best use of these times is catching edwin up on pop culture

-because even in a modern setting, he had a supper sheltered childhood

-the first middle of the night movie they watch is legally blonde, which edwin got more invested in than he'll ever willingly admit

-they're watching in charles' bed naturally bc he's got a tv in his room, and charles falls asleep halfway through the movie every. single. time. because he feels safer when he's (super platonically) curled into edwins chest

-these fucking idiots

-charles also has this really beat up SUV he loves more than anything

-its literally the ugliest car youve ever seen but he got it used right after moving out for next to nothing, fixed it up himself, and now calls it daisy

-edwin hates the whole personifying cars thing but charles will only acknowledge the car if it's referred to as daisy ("stop calling daisy it, it hurts her feelings!" "charles it's a CAR" "SHE'S a car")

-edwin is also a passenger princess

-charles didnt really know what he wanted post high school other than to get out of his parents house asap so he takes a gap year and moves in with edwin

-it takes him a bit over a year (and just so much therapy) but he eventually decides to go to school part time majoring in psychology

-in his year off he worked a bunch of odd jobs but his favorite was at a comic book store in the local mall because he got free pins for his jacket AND could use their database to track down out of print batman comics for edwin

-edwin does go to college directly after graduation high school, majoring in forensic science

-he refuses to let anyone know but he also volunteers at a local animal shelter

-but he keeps it so on the downlow charles only found out when he brought an elderly cat home but even then he didnt outright say anything

-charles: edwin... what is that

-edwin: that is georgie

-charles: ok, cool cool cool, why is he here

-edwin: he only has three legs, he needs us

[shipspainfulships]

I had a dream... Where Taylor Swift said that dead boy detectives was her current favourite show... And the very next day, the views of dbda skyrocketed.....and Netflix revived the show...

👁️👄👁️

[moonikabear]

more #savedeadboydetectives STICKERS!

Hi there DBDA friends! 👻

I got inspired by all the stuff people are doing to fight for the show, especially the stickers, so I made my own sticker design that will hopefully get people's attention when they see them outside!

Feel free to download and print them!

Also, sharing the sticker design online (or offline) is very much encouraged, I'd love for these to reach as many people as possible all over the world! It would be especially great if someone could share them on Twitter and Instagram since I'm not really on either of those.

It did take me quite a while to make them though, so I would appreciate it if you could link or mention this post when sharing these. Thank you! <3

[acaffeinatedrat]

“(…) when I tried to tell you, you just walked away. (…) I got so embarrassed thinking that we… we were the same.”

This has been living in my mind since I first saw the episode (ep. 7- The Case of the Very Long Stairway) so I am releasing it into the world so others may suffer with me. Misery loves company. You’re welcome.

[hoarder-of-dragons]

The fact that Netflix cancelled Dead Boy detectives but is renewing Emily in Paris for a FIFTH season is mind-blowing.

[pony-unicorn]

The goal for the petition changed to 25000, we reached the 15000 signatures!!! Please remember to share with as many people and social medias as possible!!!

[dbdhypetrain]

bring back my girls @netflix

[starcrossedstarfishes]

[downbaddetective]

I'm finally coming back to one of my previous posts. (Thank you to @m-eowdy for the reminder to finish the thought. I'm sorry if it's a little disappointing after the wait.)

Specifically these two shots of Edwin being completely covered in our two most important colors, because the symbolism here is significant to me.

I lost the original thoughts that I had (unfortunately migraines make me forget things) and by the time I was feeling kind of okay I knew that there were things I wanted to say but couldn't remember how. So, instead, I sat and rewatched the show, taking notes so that I could make sure that I wasn't making anything up.

So, color symbolism in this show is so stupidly important, and it's called out by characters in universe (thank you, Niko). We obviously see our characters in their colors, Edwin in blue, Charles in red, Crystal in purple, and Niko in pink. But it's also not that cut and dry. Edwin, in all reality, is very grey, Crystal wears a lot of different colors, and so does Niko. Obviously, part of that is because the girls aren't dead and have to change their clothes, but the colors that are worn are still significant to their state of mind and the events happening around them. With Edwin and Charles, it's very similar, though a little different. Charles' red gets darker as he is more and more affected by what happens at the Devlin house. Edwin, though, barely shows his blues most of the time, but when he becomes vulnerable, he sheds his grey layers, and we see it a lot more.

Now, I think that it's worth mentioning that Edwin and Charles swap their afterlife colors, so when they look at each other, they see their afterlife. The red and blue also give us clues as to things that they're hiding. Red being often associated with anger and blue with sadness. That being said, I'm now getting to the symbolism in the fact that Edwin is one of two* characters to be washed in both hell's red and death's (heaven's?) blue like this.

Edwin's entire journey is kind of impeded by the fear of getting caught by the afterlife and being sent back to hell. Red is his constant source of fear, hell being the biggest example, but Charles in his red is also the cause of Edwin's issues. Charles is the reason why both the Cat King and Monty have some type of red associated with them during interactions with Edwin. These colors are omens for Edwin. Charles essentially shared his blue afterlife light with him. They were meant to be detectives together, and that's where it all starts, right there in that attic. The red, on the other hand, is indicative of the bullshitery that is incoming, including the worst-case scenario, aka BEING DRAGGED BACK TO HELL. RIGHT THERE. IN THE APARTMENT THAT THEY GO LOOK AT RIGHT AFTER THIS. (Even though it is definitely at least partially his own darn fault.) The fact that we see these two scenes out of order also indicates that by the end of it all Edwin has overcome the previously stated bullshitery. We see Edwin interact with these two colors as a collective much more in the show, and it's seems it's because this was Edwin's time to learn and grow, and I suspect that if we get a season two at some point, we will see that flip so that Charles can have his turn.

All in all, I am absolutely in love with the colors in this show and I will probably have more to say later but I wanted to finish at least this part of the color analysis so that I could have a resolution to the previous post. I don't think I was able to recover all of my original thoughts about the significance of these two, but I think I got a pretty good chunk of it. I do want to say that I've seen the other color analyses floating around. I will be taking a look at some point, but before doing my own, I will be avoiding them for now because I want to write about my own perception rather than accidentally just stealing other peoples work.

(* Ngl, a little worried about Jenny if we ever see a season two)

[sfhvn-alltheas]

DAY 18

I am sad.

I feel hopless.

And a little bit stupid.

But I keep going.

Join me!

[hey-there-22]

Okay, I'm new to the fandom and getting used to their names and backstory but come on, their names sould be the other way around. Edwin is such a Charles. Charles would make a great Edwin. Am I crazy?

Left--------------------------------------------Right

[shipspainfulships]

They're stupid and in love.

(click on the pictures for better quality pls 😭)

The colors are not perfect I know, but that because I was so excited to make this that I grabbed the first shade I could find and made it 😭 sorry for that

All the beautiful people who were as excited as me and wanted to see them 🥹🫶🏼:

@iminfactcrying @hiitsiona @androgynous-bhajipav @kepodewers @gayfrenchfry @5ammi90