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charles rowland save me… save me charles rowland……..

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One of the things that I appreciate (and because of the cancellation, also find frustrating) about Dead Boy Detectives is that I am intensely curious about how the story was going to continue, not because there was one big cliffhanger (the first season actually ends in a reasonably narratively-settled place, last-minute teaser aside), but because there are so many things I wanted to know about almost every single character.

I was rather surprised to realize that David the Demon was one of those characters that I wanted to know more about, not just in terms of how Crystal is going to deal with the obstacle that he represents, but in terms of who he is and what he actually wants.

I didn't really think about David the Demon as a character very much until I saw Episode 06. I was focused on him as a force that Crystal was going to have to deal with, and on trying to evaluate how he was operating and what, if anything, of what he was telling Crystal was actually the truth. But that changed with Episode 06 and Episode 07.

In The Case of the Creeping Forest, we see David taunting Crystal from the mirrors in the woods, and she tells him that she doesn't have her powers anymore. And while says "there's no way, Crystal," his face in the mirrors changes — it's out of sync with his words. He looks scared and uncomfortable, and that made me sit up and take notice.

If anything, I had expected disappointment, or maybe disbelief, even if they didn't quite line up with the swagger. But as soon as David looked scared, I went "Wait -- what's that about?"

We never find out. Charles smashes the mirrors with the cricket bat just a few moments later.

And then in The Case of the Very Long Stairway, when Crystal demands that David open a doorway to Hell for her, not only does he say that he can't, he says "Don't you think I'd go back if I could?" and again I thought, "What's up with that?"

Why is David unable to go back? Why does he want to go back rather than spend more time on Earth? Is he exiled? Is he hurt? Is he on some kind of mission? Does Crystal have something to do with any of that?

And then after David gets locked away, we see — for a lack of a better name — David the Human Guy, unsure where he is and presumably stranded an ocean away from home. I felt a little bad for him, but I also had even more questions... chief among them being why David had picked this guy again after being forced out of Crystal's body, and how that happened.

(Is David the Human Guy complicit? Was he convenient? Or was he just really unlucky? — and then that made me wonder if *Crystal* was just unlucky to have met David, or whether she was a target all along…)

One of the things I was certain we'd get to see in Season Two is the continuation of Crystal's arc with David as she realizes she can't just bury her problems indefinitely. But I'm also really curious as to what else we would find out about David himself, and the start of that was really these tiny little hints from his reactions about who he is beyond just the swagger and the sneer and the blatant manipulation.

And I think that David Iacono portrayed all of those things quite well.

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still trending heck yeah

take this cute gif to celebrate

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#i miss her a very healthy amount actually thanks for asking

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Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.

It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.

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gives you this

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PEOPLE DYING

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nobody:

charles (as seen by fanartists who are absolutely enchanted by his fuckass star earring and the need to make it POP):

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Okay, but now I'm imagining fairy dust flags for the others. Once learning that it's harmless, Niko is only all too thrilled to be all the shades of pink and orange from the lesbian flag, Crystal rocks some neon bi hues as well, and Edwin either gets the elegant shades of blue and green of the gay male flag, quiet and dignified and Charles thinks those colors suit him and his eyes very nicely, oooor... he's a Disco Rainbow Caremelldansen strobe light (because his gaydar levels are off the charts lbr) 🌈🤭

Together they make a rainbow!

ko-fi

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I still sometimes think that the way boys fell through the mirror in the opening scene was not only their character’s introduction but also a very strong and obvious reference to “character A fell first (in case of Edwin — with definite struggling but anyway gracefully and gently), character B fell harder (in case of Charles — with all his might right on his face)”

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happy pride to the scene we all thought was crystal having a sapphic moment but was actually symptoms of nikos parasitic dandelion sprites

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Commenting on a fantastic fanfic but being so overwhelmed by its beauty that all you can say is

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via SaveQueerStories

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Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

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I don't wanna @ anyone because I understand how fast things seem to move in today's landscape of streaming shows dropping entire seasons in one day, and networks pumping out new series constantly to try to attract more subscribers with no intent to actually maintain those shows over time but I just saw someone self-deprecatingly lament that they are still thinking about a show that ended almost a year ago, making fan art and playlists for it, and I want to be very clear:

you can still create fanworks when it comes to old media!! PLEASE do!! there are always going to be new fans who will appreciate it, and veteran fans who are dying for new content and new perspectives. also, less than a year is NOTHING. the original Star Trek series was on TV six decades ago and there are still people losing their minds over it, writing stories and reblogging gifsets daily, and that's only one example.

a fandom lasts as long as there are people who love a thing, even if it's only a handful of people. love what you love and write and draw and make gifs and playlists about it!