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This fandom's generosity continues to absolutely blow us away! We've already reached our second milestone: $1,000 raised for LGBTQ charities through the DBDA Charity Calendar project!

Our next goal is $1,500. If you haven't gotten your calendar yet, why don't you hop in to help us reach it? You can find more information on how to get a calendar of your own here 🌈✨

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The Case of the Year Ahead, a digital Dead Boy Detectives Charity Calendar, is now available! 🌈✨

To get a copy of your own, just fill out our proof of donation form to show that you've donated at least $10 USD to one of our chosen LGBTQ charities! Happy Pride, everyone! Thanks for helping us put a little kindness out into the world 🌈✨

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June 24th is Kassius Nelson's birthday, and to celebrate, we're holding an Appreciation Day! ✨

Get ready with your art, fic, edits, or anything else you can think of to celebrate Crystal and the actor who brought her to life!

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The end of the road, the final round of the final episode! And how poetic that we have two hugs at the end again, just like for the finale of the payneland tournament. But there can only be one winner, so choose wisely!

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The art is in for the DBDA Charity Pride Calendar, and an incredible 74 artists have contributed a combination of brand new art and beloved fandom favorites 🌈✨

It's slated to become available next week, so keep an eye out to help an LGBTQ charity and get a copy of your own!

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21st June 2025 - Happy Midsummer ☀️

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ComicLists placed Episode 7 of Dead Boy Detectives on its list of 17 outstanding episodes from comic-based TV series 💀🔎

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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 he 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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Monty | Iris (Tink’s Version)

Dead Boy Detectives | "Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls

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Well, all four hugs are still in the running, but we're bound to lose one of them in this round (as two are up against each other). Which ones will it be? We'll know more in 24 hours!

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I need to post this again because I love them so much

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Dead Boy Detectives is on MovieWeb's list of the 10 best shows like the Bondsman ✨

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My good friend's @sirafel-blog house has been severely damaged due to today's ruzzian attack.

If you can, please share or send her whatever amount you can so she can relocate.

Paypal:

zmiukka@gmail.com

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I am so excited to have submitted my piece for The Case of the Year Ahead (the DBDA Charity Pride Calendar), and am thrilled and honored to have been able to contribute!

The calendar is currently planned to launch on June 23rd (so soon!)

There are so many incredible pieces, and so much talent and love and care that has been put into this project — I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to this!

Calendar FAQ Lineup of Supported LGBTQ+ Charities

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ROUND TWOOOO!!!! Half the gifs are gone, and so are nearly all of our side characters - the night nurse, the sprites, Jenny and Esther... But tragic mick and the cat king are still around, as well as of course our core four ❤️🩷💜💙 So let's remember the ones we have lost but focus on the ones we still have and vote in this second round 👻