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jayden revri i am in love with you

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my theory is that Death actually knows where Edwin and Charles are in any moment, but since she likes their will to live she's just like "oh god look a this gays, I'll let them live like I did with Hob"

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Shout out to Edwin Paine, professional detective and problem avoider

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UGH i feel like no one's talking about this enough but THE FEMINIST CONNOTATIONS IN THIS SHOW ARE LITERALLY SO FUCKING AMAZING LIKE???

i just finished ep.5 & the feminist undertones were the clearest in this one!!!! crystal not feeling any remorse for the death of two toxic dickheads™ who drugged a girl & ruined her entire fucking career and harrassed another? YES. FUCK YES. that's 100000% me.

edwin implied that shelby was hysterical!!!!! this ain't the first time. even while solving niko's case, one of his questions were "do women in your family have a history of hysteria?"

well, the history of hysteria goes something like this- the word "hysteria" finds it origin in the greek word "hystera" which means uterus so it was named to be a "woman's disease" & used as a way to invalidate women's emotions. this patriarchal myth is what led people to believe that men are more "logical"/"objective" & have the whole logic v.s. emotion debate in the first place. this myth originated in the West & has remained a massive part of the Western Medicine until 1980 when the American Psychiatric Association removed it from the diagnostic manual. i think charles was just taking a dig at this stupid patriarchal healthcare system that the West (& frankly, the whole fucking world) has when he said "c'mon mate, it isn't his fault that Western Medicine is so limited." i'm not sure but i like to believe that. :'D

last but DEFINITELY not the least, charles really & i mean, /REALLY/ wanted to believe that brad & hunter were the good guys. he basically was chanting "not all men" all throughout the episode & as frustrating as it was to see it -.- I GET IT. his dad used to beat the living shit out of him OF COURSE he's gonna hope that there are better people (especially men) out there in the world. this is more about the abuse he has faced rather than him being a boy & a potential misogynist. we should also not forget how he swung his bat at that Devlin guy 'cause he wanted to save the women from being stuck in that nightmarish loop forever. plus, the main reason why he keeps checking in on his parents is to ensure that his dad isn't hurting his mum!!!! so, honestly i get it when crystal said "i guess all three of us have lost our lives to boys who went too far." </3

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I'm sleepy and kinda migraine-y but. I just thought about how Edwin read Charles a good night story he fell asleep to, he died to. There is a post here going something like "I hope when you die its like as a kid you fall asleep at a party and someone you love picks you up to carry you to the other room where you sleep warm and cozy and you can hear the murmuring of everyone spill through the cracked door." I always loved that idea, so Edwin providing the best version of this comfort he could to a scared, lonely, bruised and shivering teen, just so Charles could die differently from himself breaks my heart in all kinds of ways

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Neil Gaiman knew what he was doing with Edwin, he knew tumblr is going to go feral over this suppressed pain ridden Victorian boy. It was intentional

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Every time i see someone hate on the cat king i'm like...You're not a cat person are you. It's a fictional character get over yourselves and stop tagging your hate, I need a gif where the cat kings says "And people call me the pussy"

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So a couple thoughts on Charles and his sexuality:

1. I do think he's Bi. But like in a Demi sexual kind of way.

2. I don't think he's ever allowed himself to actually sit down and consider his sexuality until Edwin's confession because

A. Why would he give his dad another possible reason to beat him when he could simply date girls and repress any thoughts on being with a guy

And B. Charles grew up during an age of progressively worsening attempts to recriminalize homosexuality (culminating in the Torries passing Section 28 literally the year before he died which basically made it illegal to "promote homosexuality" which as we've all seen in the past decades here in the U.S. means anything the homophobes don't like is promoting homosexuality) and progressively worse anti- LGBT+ sentiment among the general population.

C. Also grew up during the Aids epidemic and you know that had to be scary as hell to even consider and again another excuse to just repress any feelings for guys other than friendship.

So yeah, definitely think he's Bi but also he's more repressed than Edwin, if that's even possible, but it's 100% understandable especially in the context of when he grew up.

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bae <3

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Okay but can Edwin please get a FUCKING BREAK?

like my boy's been trapped by a sexy cat king, returned to hell, rejected by his crush and tortured by a witch in the span of like a week

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Edwin looked straight on without flinching at Dewlin's murders, at people jumping from the lighthouse but he jumped, physically jumped when he saw an old creepy doll. He had to turn it's head.

Poor Edwin. You need a hug

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edwin being catnip for a bunch of gayass supernatural entities is fucking hilarious. his victorian sensibilities and autistic mannerisms have bewitched them.

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"fuck you my child is completely fine" your child has an unhealthy obsession with two dead boys stuck in a homoerotic friendship for 30 years

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hey so i want to read up on dead boy detectives once i've finished the show, but i'm not sure where to start. do you know of a reading order i could follow?

In chronological order:

• sandman issue 25

• free country: tale of the children’s crusade (vertigo crossover event)

• vertigo: winters edge issue 3

• the sandman presents: dead boy detectives 2001

• death at deaths door

• the dead boy detectives 2005

• dead boy detectives 2014

• books of magic 2018 issues 21,22,23

• the sandman universe: dead boy detectives 2022

and if you’re a fan of the show, the original pilot episode is the doom patrol episode “dead patrol” season 3 episode 3, it’s a very fun episode and you don’t need the context of the rest of the show to watch it

they also have these single panel appearances which aren’t relevant but are adorable:

(get a job, stay away from them)

#dead boy detectives #future ref

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nightmare blunt rotation

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Something about Charles being half indian and his weapon is a literal cricket bat

#all the desi guys want to be this man #its me im the desi guy #and i dont even watch cricket #im just too surrounded by it

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I can't do this* again!!!!

*be obsessed with another Netflix show that might be cancelled after the first season because it's kinda bizzare