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Favorites from the April Foolish Pairing Fest:

“Mystery Novels and Dandelions” by Vi0let_Baudelaire: Niko and Shelby: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/63992659

“She Paints a Pretty Picture in My Mind” by KissMyAsthma: Asha and Maxine: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/64274428

“Mail Call” by Asidian: Twitchy Richie and the Ghost Postman: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/64284733

“Reading Hats” by Asidian: Simon and Crystal: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/64312228

“Watch and Wait” by GenevieveFangirl: Tragic Mick and Angie: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/64322695

“Remembrance” by distracted_and_diffused: Edwin and the Ghost Postman: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/64342597

“A Prayer for Something Better” by dragons-dice (winter_travels): David and Twitchy Richie: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/64332487

“Extraordinary” by Asidian: Asha and Tragic Mick: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/64343986

“The View from Point No Point” by ChekhovsBBea: Dagfinn and the Night Nurse: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DBDA_April_Foolish_Pairing_Fest/works/64381072

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So I'm sure we all enjoy a reverse AU story in which Charles is the Edwardian who went to hell, and Edwin was born in the 80s and died in the attic.

If Edwin is to be the Brawn in these stories, I would like to suggest that instead of using sporting equipment as a weapon, Edwin would instead have a Cane Sword. Specifically, an enchanted iron edged Cane Sword can harm ghosts.

Just imagine Edwin standing in front of Charles and lifting up his cane, unsheathing the blade and telling Charles to please be quick with his spell.

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my foolish pairing was David x Hunter so here's an edit (added Brad cause they're a set)

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I’m gonna talk about Dead Boy Detectives for a second, specifically Charles and Edwin’s deaths.

Edwin died in a basement and Charles in an attic, and Edwin went to Hell and Charles was presumably meant to go to Heaven. Edwin died by fire (demons from Hell) and Charles died by ice (hypothermia). Edwin was targeted for his queerness and Charles for the color of his skin, the country his mother came from. Edwin never seemed to get along with the boys who would kill him but Charles called his murderers friends until they turned on him. Edwin died by supernatural means while Charles died by run of the mill racist teenagers. They died more than 7 decades apart.

When you look at the details there are so many differences but the story is still the exact fucking same. Two boys who died at the hands of a group of their classmates who decided that they did not fit with the rest of them and therefore must pay the price. Two boys who died on the same grounds of the same school, whose deaths were brushed aside and covered up by people who held the same titles. More than 70 years apart and not a single thing has changed, Charles’ death didn’t get any more attention than Edwin’s, because more than 70 years later the same fucking story happened again.

Edwin’s death didn’t change a damn thing, and it could happen again now because Charles’ death didn’t change a damn thing either. And then the ghosts of two 16 year olds decided that if the adults, if the living weren’t going to change anything then they fucking would. If the living would not grant them justice and would not grant them change, then they fucking would.

Because there was a difference, in the end. Edwin was murdered, and so was Charles, but while Edwin died scared and alone Charles didn’t. Edwin died in a cold, dark basement, but Charles died in warm light of a lantern, even if that warmth wasn’t enough to save him. Edwin died to the sounds of his own screams, his own voice pleading for mercy that would not come, but Charles drifted off to sleep to the sound of a kind boy reading him a book.

The living won’t change. The story could and will keep on repeating because the living will not make sure it doesn’t. The living are messy. But the dead, for all the ways they will never change, will never get any older, they can change the story, at least a bit. Charles and Edwin can’t make sure that no other boy dies at that school, but if the story repeats itself yet again they can make sure the victim is at peace. They can solve the murders and find the lost items and release the spirits who are trapped. The living won’t help the dead, but they can help each other.

So they call themselves the Dead Boy Detectives, form an agency and get an office and help who they can, because they didn’t matter to the living, and many of their clients don’t either. But they matter to the dead.

Their clients matter. And Charles and Edwin matter too.

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what if I was slowly dying of internal bleeding and hypothermia and you stayed with me and read to me. Because you know I'm dying and you don't want me to be alone and scared (like you were). And what if I chose You, instead of heaven?

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— Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places

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hey don't think about how edwin went to hell because he was loved (simon's crush) and charles met edwin because he was hated (racism)

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES S1 + TUMBLR REACTIONS

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do you ever think about how this was the first time Edwin laughed in 70 years. or are you normal

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First meeting.

(You guys should really watch Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix. It's really good (and really queer))

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Running Up That Hill

well, what if Charles did make a deal like that...