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about to say something mean but i feel like every "male-specific" issue is something that also happens to women its just that a lot of you dont seem to see women as people

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no one teaches you how to become more affectionate and open to affection after living your whole life in a house where affection was never a thing

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I really would love to see Dream meet Edwin. They are so similar in so many ways and yet so different. I don't know what would happen if they met, I feel like they'd either hate each other or get along very well, but either way I really wanna see that happen, it would be very funny

#dream of the endless #dead boy detectives #edwin payne #dead boy detective agency #the sandman

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Literally him

#edwin payne #dead boy detectives

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absolutely adore how they made edwin so bitchy and sassy and strut and sometimes disguise himself as woman. like they really said let the repressed edwardian ghost serve cunt

#edwin payne #dead boy detectives

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Truly glorious watching the personification of bureaucracies paying too much attention to non-issues rather than actual matters of importance getting hit off a cliff by the kid who she had just tortured and then getting swallowed whole by a sea monster while a music box version of The Wellerman plays in the background

#dead boy detectives #dead boy detective agency

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The thing people don’t realize about writing is that time spent just staring out the window is CRITICAL

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actually can we acknowledge “if you punish yourself, everywhere becomes hell” because GOD DAMN EDWIN that is. a very good line.

#dead boy detectives #edwin payne

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If you come in you don’t have to come out

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Review: Dead Boy Detectives [Season 1]

Audience: 16+

Stars: 4.7/5

dear radish,

I LOVED this show. I felt so alive at the end of it. Go watch it!!!

Things I loved:

Found family

Tied to the Sandman universe but tells its own story in such a wonderful, engaging way

The way our titular dead boy detectives Edwin and Charles have been through the meat grinder, but still want to help others. The way they keep each other afloat omg. Precious.

A LOVE TRIANGLE THAT I ACTUALLY DON'T HATE OMG. I know who I'm rooting for though ;)

The way it doesn't shy away from depicting violence. Because the world IS brutal, even as there's pieces of light in it.

Crystal finding strength through the past women of her family. Loss of memories as a metaphor for how the slave trade stripped Black Americans of their history and identity (maybe). And the empowerment that comes with reconnecting with one's roots/lineage.

Pacing. Look, I admit it. I'm someone who often watches shows at 2x speed. Well buddy, this show moved so fast that I felt no such compulsion to speed it forward. Possibly because the show's creators needed to fit so much within just 8 episodes. But they pulled it off!

Niko's room is full of manga and anime posters, and I loved that for her.

Spoilers:

I HOPE NIKO COMES BACK IN SEASON 2 ARGHHHHHH.

WAS THE GUY IN THE FISH DESTRUCTION???

Night Nurse redemption arc I'm readyyyyyyy

CHARLES IS A BI-KING CHANGE MY MIND

#but i do wonder if maybe he is hobs friend from hobs leviathan #prev I was wondering the same thing #although the personality is a bit off the guy in the fish is a bit more chill than i recall hob's friend being #but our knowledge of immortals who might get trapped in a fish is woefully lacking #so that's probably the best guess for now #dead boy detectives

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sandman

#dream of the endless

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I think every repressed depressed guy in the sandman universe has to have a hypersexual antagonist who spends way too much time flirting interfering in the repressed guy's love life and just generally making their life more difficult while also causing him to gain a tiny bit of self awareness. They also have a connection to cats

#dream of the endless #desire of the endless #edwin payne #the cat king #dead boy detectives #the sandman

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I want all of you people to know that the Cat King gave Edwin a Lily Flower, which is deadly for cats but it symbolises rebirth, condolences, commitment and purity of adoration and love.

Cat King gave his crush a flower that's deadly to him to pay his respects and express his commitment.

Oh, I will not shut up about them.

#dead boy detectives

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*Sees a thoroughly rusted Cybertruck abandoned by the side of the road*

Me: "Wow, how far in the future did we go?"

My time-traveller friend: "About two weeks."

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I think I understand you better now. Ooh, do tell me all about me.

+ bonus:

#the moment i heard the words “you're lonely” my mind just went straight to dreamling #this went much better for edwin than it did hob though #dead boy detectives