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any dead boy detectives stans on here wanna be mutuals? 👀

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We’ve got forever to figure out the rest

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can we talk about how fucking incredible the dead boy detectives soundtrack is like using burning by the yeah yeah yeahs and apocalypse by cigarettes after sex and hang on to yourself by david bowie all in one series is so slay

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(via Quiz: How Much Do You Know About 'What We Do in the Shadows'?)

hey besties!! take this wwdits quiz i made :D

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne & Crystal Palace, Niko Sasaki & Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Niko Sasaki (mentioned), Charles Rowland (DCU), Niko Sasaki Additional Tags: Hanahaki Disease, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-Canon, this initially started as an analysis of grief but also turned into a whole thing about love, because both are inherently connected, Love Confessions, Hurt/Comfort Summary:

Edwin is in love with his best friend who doesn’t love him back, and the world has not ended.

In some ways, he wishes it had.

(or, in which Edwin deals with the pains of losing a friend while living through the consequences of falling in love with his best friend)

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES (2024-) RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2024)

Something, something... "I'd only have two nickels, but it's weird that it happened twice."

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES 1.01 "The Case of Crystal Palace"

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nightmare blunt rotation

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Date night!

Glad to know it wasn’t just me who was disappointed that it was a parasite and not a crush :)

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES S1 (2024)

Niko & Edwin

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dead boy detectives reading list

with the show finally out i figured it was a great time to share my reading list again! check it out below the cut 👻☠️🔎

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⏳ the sandman #25 (1991)

this is their first appearance!

🐇 the children's crusade (1993)/free country: a tale of the children's crusade (2015)

1. the children's crusade #1

(2. black orchid annual #1

4. animal man annual #1

5. swamp thing annual #7

6. doom patrol annual #2

7. arcana annual #1)

8. the children's crusade #2

alternatively you can just read free country. whether or not you read the annuals i recommend reading free country's middle chapter

!!! in place of the annuals there is an additional middle chapter that was created for the book "free country: a tale of the children's crusade" where it is placed between the two children's crusade issues. the boys don't actually appear in most of the annuals (they are in two panels of swamp thing and appear in doom patrol) and reading them isn't necessary but i figured i would include them as they are part of the story.

❄️ winter's edge #3 (2000)

this is an anthology. their part is the 'books of magic: waiting for good dough' story starting on page 19

🐦‍⬛ the sandman presents: the dead boy detectives (2001, 4 issues)

i believe the tv show's esther finch was partially based on this run's villain.

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(they do have a part in 'death: at death's door' from 2003. it's short and really just a retelling of events from sandman #25 with some minor changes. the entirety of their appearance in death: at death's door is included at the end of the next comic im listing so i am not really adding the death: at death's door book to the list)

☠️ the dead boy detectives (2005, one-shot)

this book was made by jill thompson in a very cute manga-esque style

👻 ghosts (2012), time warp (2013), the witching hour (2013)

these three are anthologies. the story 'the dead boy detectives in: run ragged' runs through all of them. 'run ragged' kicks off the next run.

🔮 from the pages of the sandman: dead boy detectives (2013, 12 issues)

this is the comic where crystal is introduced! a book collecting all 12 issues titled 'dead boy detectives by toby litt & mark buckingham' was released in 2023

🔎the sandman universe: dead boy detectives (2022, 6 issues)

the most recent run, centered around some really interesting thai mythology and featuring multiple edwin moments that i am sure you will love

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and that's everything! i also recommend buying the omnibus if you can. it includes everything minus the 2022 run plus some additional bonus content!

i hope this is helpful! feel free to ask me any questions you may have about the comics. dead boy detectives is my number one interest so i should be able to answer

have fun reading! 👻

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dead boy detectives stans lemme introduce u to los espookys its a queer found family supernatural mystery show also!!

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NIKO SASAKI AND EDWIN PAYNE Dead Boy Detectives (2024-)

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Jayden Revri as CHARLES ROWLAND

Dead Boy Detectives (2024 - )

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Edwin Payne & Charles Rowland - Dead Boy Detectives (2024)

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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

as of april 15 ct dissenters (new york and connecticut) need bail funs for arrested activists: zelle: ctpalestinesolidaritycoalition@gmail.com cashapp: $BristolAntiRacism (use "april gift" in your memo so contributions can be tracked)

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸