#deadboydetectives

[adskayapanda]

I told Zack that we love him and that he is my favorite writer ❤️

because it so happened that I came to the DBDa fandom from another fandom where I argued with the writer and he is on my blacklist lol, there in the fandom the team of creators did not respect the fandom at all and everyone hated shippers.

Then I got here and I am grateful every day that I am here and we have such a wonderful team and I love Zack with all my heart. He is very talented, a very good person and loves our fandom very much ❤️

And I will never forget how he supported me ❤️❤️❤️

[painlandweek]

18 days until Painland Week 🔎

[fairandfatalasfair]

My contribution to the upcoming Dead Boy Detectives Pride Charity Calendar!!!

[ur-localkiwi]

tosses a wip into the void

[lilartifex]

Saw a post by @khorazir and couldn't resist XD

I'd like to imagine the reason Crystal is wearing a Christmas hat is because Charles made her.

Crystal: I'm not wearing that thing, Charles. Charles: Aw, c'mon, one of us has to, and Edwin and I are ghosts, so most of the people we pass won't see it. But if you wear it, then everyone gets a little bit of Christmas cheer from the Dead Boy Detectives! Crystal: I'm NOT wearing - Crystal, three seconds later:

[alterego77]

[jinchaeji]

Do you think that Edwin does some random shit and the agency thinks it's 1900's thing but in reality it's just Edwin being a sassy, fruity diva?

[soulfulsam42]

[gabriele2009]

[crispydonutcheesecake]

The amount of payneland fics I’ve read where they are “just mates” but for some reason they just choose to put their beds together or sleep in the same bed and they’re like “yeah it’s just best friends activities”.

I mean I’m not complaining, I totally dig it but it’s so funny how they just have no reason to be doing all that

[ticktockheartstop]

Something something everyone in Charles’s life turned on him at some point so he was always scared, deep down, that Edwin was going to turn on him one day even though they only really have each other in this afterlife. But after Edwin’s confession he knows, for the first time ever, that there’s one person who will never, ever turn on him. And that’s why nothing changed in their relationship, and yet everything changed

[adskayapanda]

THEY FUCKING CANCELLED KAOS A MONTH AFTER RELEASE. WHAT THE FUCK?? DBDA CANCELLED AFTER FOUR MONTHS, KAOS A MONTH!!! These bastards don't give the show a chance. Why the fuck buy a show if you're going to cancel it RIGHT AWAY and not give it a chance to grow and gain an audience and not even a fucking chance for the show to go to another streaming service. Assholes. I'm so fucking angry

[painlandweek]

Painland Week 2025 prompts

Jul 7 - Fake relationship/Flirting

Jul 8 - Songfic

Jul 9 - Accidental Kiss/Magic kiss

Jul 10 - Forced Proximity/Bound together 

Jul 11 - Love Potion/Love Spell

Jul 12 - Touch Starvation/Mutual Pining

Jul 13 - Free day

This prompt list was released as early as it was to give every participant enough time to preemptively create for each day. All 7 days are not required to participate. You could only create for 1 day and it'd be just fine.

Please let us know if you have any questions or need further clarification and we'll give an answer.

[fairandfatalasfair]

I've seen a lot of thoughts about how Edwin arrived at the worst moment of Charles' life and offered him uncomplicated kindness without asking anything in return. How he promised not to hurt him and proved his word was good. How he found him huddled in an attic, alone and painfully cold and stripped of all his usual charm and strength and ability to prove his worth, and offered him light and warmth and friendship just because. How of course Charles latched onto this boy who made his death a warm memory.

But Edwin's perspective on that meeting is just as powerful. It's not clear how much of the attack he saw, but he knows enough to say he can simply extinguish the lantern if the other boys come up. And the first thing we see him and Charles talking about is Charles' reasons for intervening - that it 'just didn't seem right to let that kid get beat on because he's from Pakistan.' He knows Charles is dying. And he knows it happened because he wouldn't stand by and let someone else be hurt.

Edwin was unpopular and isolated and visibly different and was murdered for it by a gang of boys who thought tormenting him was a good laugh. And the first thing he learns about Charles is that Charles doesn't let that happen on his watch.

How long has it been since someone protected Edwin like that? Have they ever? Certainly he had no protection in that cellar in 1916. Nor in Hell either.

And then Charles dies and Edwin tells him to move on, that he can't stick around with Edwin just because he feels like it. And Charles looks down at his corpse, at the proof that doing what he felt was right got him killed, and says that's how he lived his life and he's not going to change now. That he knows what being a hero cost him and he'd do it again.

How do you not fall in love with that?

[ur-localkiwi]

this art is pretty old, but still one of my favs I did last year! thought tumblr might like to see it

[lilartifex]

I'll be the light that guides you home when skies are grey There's nothing I won't do to keep you safe So hold on no matter what We'll take our bruises and our bumps But know until kingdom come, you're not alone And if this world goes up in flames Just take my hand, don't be afraid I'll fight for you until my days on Earth are done 'Cause two hearts are better than one

I love this song so much, and the other day it occurred to me that it works really well with the ghost boys.

Also, Dead Boy Detectives is one of the few cases in which I enjoy every adaptation equally and I couldn't decide which one suited the song best, so have both the Netflix and comic versions.