#dbds

[daffydilled]

Watching the Cat King and Edwin talk is like. The Olympics of queer bitchiness. It's amazing

[netflix]

poll via @baddywronglegs

post via @aliteralchicken

[not-janelle]

The brainrot is real guys, i cant stop thinking about them...

Pls go watch dead boy detectives

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Edwin blushing because he's holding the magnifying glass and Charles is insisting that they both try to look through it at the same time, so their faces are touching

[nikalibres]

Aside from the fact that it was given at the most inappropriate time (real hollywood style), the confession scene in dbd is so heartwarming.

I'm usually not a big fan of friends to lovers romances if it's revealed that one of the people was in love with the other one for ages until they gathered the courage to confess. It makes the friendship a bit deceitful, when for a long time only one person knows that there is something more there than friendship.

But I don't believe that's the case with Edwin. My man was repressed and suddenly sent on a journey of self-discovery whether he liked it or not. Maybe he had some thoughts before, but I feel like Crystal appearing in their life was actually the trigger that made him think "Wait, I'm not sure I like sharing Charles." And then, well, it all snowballed.

Yet almost as soon as he realised that he did like like Charles, he just had to tell him this, he could not hide it, because yes he loves him but they're friends first so he would never knowingly hide anything from him.

And don't get me started at how wholesome and relieving Charles's reaction was. Their friendship is so precious, whether something comes out of it or not, it's beautiful.

[luka-101]

mau mau king

[boys-genius]

The only thing ive been able to think about this week is dead boy detectives. Need season 2 like actually.

[ispeakintypos]

francesca by hozier is the ultimate edwin and charles song send tweet

[akascow]

Dead Boy Detectives and The Divine Comedy

Dante's Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purgatory), and Paradiso (heaven/paradise)

its not a complete one-to-one but its a neat thing to think about in regards to dbd

it kinda makes sense because the levels of hell in the show are based off the depiction we see in Dantes Inferno, and the next in the trilogy of the divine is where they travel the mountain of purgatory

but anyway edwins file in the night nurses book said he either goes to Hell or PLV-4s

okay this is kind of a long one so strap in

Overall:

this is based on shotty memory bUT

in the trilogy you would be put to the respective layer you belong (hell, purgatory or heaven)

if youre a sinner, hell, but Dante goes through all layers going down, then to lucifer who blocks the path leading to purgatory.

youd then have to climb up the mountain of purgatory depending on your sins for like a number of eons until you cleanse yourself of the sins, once you make it past a layer youre free of it forever and one step closer to paradise

and only then are you able to get to paradise and i THINK the layer of paradise youre placed on is based on how good a person you are or smth

Purgatory:

someone pointed out it could mean Purgatory Level V (5) or just level, and the 4s could mean how long he should spend there (?) but layer 4 is also Sloth so theres that too (the souls being that theyre forced to run all the time which is lowkey what edwin goes through in hell)

which is the path you have to travel AFTER getting through hell you would normally go through up purgatory in order to get up to heaven once youve proven ur self worthy and ur sins righted iirc

so i think he would have to be placed somewhere in the middle (based on the level V if thats the right theory, theres 9 layers total) of that mountain based on his life and unfinished business and everything hes done while as a ghost he would have already been pushed up a few levels

so im assuming the night nurse's book was like glitching out because he was supposed to be in hell (on a technicality) but he served time there being passed around demon to demon, made it out of hell, but in the opposite way of purgatory

according to Dante's i believe he would have gone to purgatory IF he had unfinished business but he made it back to earth (the wrong way), and because of the things he did helping ghosts it technically counted towards his unfinished business so like he should be in hell because thats where he was placed last BUT everything hes done post-post-mortem wouldve counted towards purgatory and (maybe up to heaven ?)

Paradise:

on another theory, PLV could either mean paradise level Venus (the lovers) being the 3rd layer but the layer of heaven granted to those who in life were deficient in the temperance of love (smth smth edwins repressed feelings and never engaging in then smth smth)

the 4th layer is the Sun (the wise) -4s maybe?- which hold the souls of the wise, which kinda plays into edwin being the brains of the team so to speak, and he was seen reading in his mortal life before dying, as well as knowing a bunch of languages and probably a whole bunch more in his afterlife (in the comics they taught french at st hilarions so im assuming he knew that before he died)

the 5th layer is Mars (the warriors of faith)- maybe layer V?- i dont really believe this is the case bc this layer is given to those who gave up their life in the name of faith, but i would like to believe everything he went through in hell and also everything he gave up eternal virtue for to help the lost souls left on earth could grant him to be a warrior

heres a diagram to put into perspective

but yeah theres a little divine comedy lesson for yall

idk take it all with a grain of salt because i learned about dantes inferno like last year and really only remember the hell part of it all. also dante thought that gay people were worse than murderers in hell so thats another issue. aND the sandman universe takes into account all faiths and religions and gods and mythology theres not actually a true one god. and the divine comedy is very much a catholic read so yeah

[bisonaari]

It's dbds time in north america

[daffydilled]

I feel like Dead Boy Detectives handles Crystal with such kindness. She has the ability to be cruel and... Just a terrible person. She also has a silver tongue and knows her aunties and grammies, she will suffer to save her friends in an instant, and she is better than who she was. She is the kind of person who would have brought about the death of the boys but she is working and doing better. I adore her. She spits fire and warms all around her

[hansoeii]

Ohh look, it's the dead boy detectives!

[nikalibres]

not long ago I randomly binged dead boy detectives and I absolutely loved it and now I not-so-randomly binged dirk gently's holistic detective agency and I absolutely loved it

whoever recommended dghda in the dbd tag I owe you my life i'd never get to it otherwise

now I need a dead boy holistic detective agency crossover

[kwadlayns]

Good detectives do what they need to in order to solve a case. 💀🔎✨

[alistairlowes]