Edwin This You

EXCUSE ME THE TOP ROW MIDDLE PICTURE!!!????

SO CUTE I WANT TO AGAGAHHAHAB

I will talk for literal hours!

@netflix see this is why you should renew it you dumbasses

Sooooo wof oc!

(Don't mind dodgy lighting)

Drew her 2 ish years ago, maybe earlier and I LOVE HER :3 my two brain cells collided and they were like 'HEY! You know what would be great? EAR TUFTS!' So ear tufts it was.

She was born 5007 AS so 2 years younger than the first prophecy dragons I think. She's an icewing whose full name is Snow elf or elfie for short :).

Her mother is called Eskimo and her dad is called Polar, but he left some time ago because he was abusive and not very nice :(. Because of this her mother was kinda depressed and neglectful (she was s neglectful because of the mental blocks she was facing - she didn't choose this :( )

But she now has a step dad called _____ (haven't decided). He's a mudwing and has slowly been helping Eskimo and Elfie heal for a couple years now. Now Elfie has a younger sister who is half mud and half ice and her name is Caribou :DDDD I can't quite decide whether to nickname her Cari or Beau although I'm leaning to beau :3

That's enough rambling for today :))

Giant date caramel cinnamon roll (x)

:> @raven-thingie you're an American pie and I do it.

in the US we only have 3 genders. american beauty, american psycho, and american pie

every day should be Jayden Revri appreciation day, if you ask me. cue my favourite Charles gifs:

final gif by @mellxncollie

Jayden captured the duality of Charles perfectly: The boy he thinks he needs to be, and the boy he hides deep within himself. The boy who tries "to be extra happy for all of us" and the boy who "couldn't stop my dad from beating the shit out of me, no matter how good I was." The boy who fearlessly protects others, and the boy who couldn't protect himself. And it's all there in his eyes, all the pain and care and love. Jayden understands who Charles is and you can see it in every. single. frame.

Jayden is also the David Tennant of this show for how much the joy of playing Charles radiates from him, and the Michael Sheen of this show for how much he ships payneland. I love how much he loves the show and that he engages with the fandom, reminding us to not lose hope. He is the no.1 fan of the show and we love to see it!

And finally, I need to give a shout out to Jayden's incredible Charles playlist, because so many songs from that playlist have become so dear to me (Francesca, Family Line, Orpheus, Summer Child, The Mates of Soul) and I will forever cherish them not just for the beautiful songs they are but also for the connection to Charles and dead boy detectives. I already know that my wrapped this year will be dominated by them (and Swan Upon Leda, for Edwin) and I wouldn't want it any other way. Having a whole playlist to engage with and to deep dive into Charles' character was incredibly cool and I am so grateful to Jayden for sharing it with us.

Jayden Revri, you are a gem, and we are so so so lucky that you are our Charles forever.

this is just part 1. Yes. There's more. There's a lot. I almost died. But my brain wouldn't leave me alone part 2

This

The way Dead Boy Detectives handles queerness and labeling of sexuality is honestly so refreshing. The way it's handled makes is very obvious that it's not the kind of media in which characters are assumed straight until proven otherwise; the characters' sexualities are left undefined because the focus isn't on specific labels, it's on the relationships between characters.

As the show goes on, it becomes abundantly clear that the characters' sexualities are a non-factor. Sure, Jenny dates women, but a label is never put on that. Same with Edwin - he is clearly interested in men, but not once in the show is he labeled as gay. It's not necessary in either case; labeling these characters wouldn't add anything to their stories or character arcs. The show is completely relaxed about labels because they're almost never a part of or even relevant to the plot.

And so, in a show that is so utterly unconcerned with labels, it would also be exceeding strange to impose the label of "straight" on any character. Characters like Charles and Crystal, who clearly demonstrate attraction to the opposite gender, don't come across as strictly heterosexual, they come across as people experiencing human emotions. And a character like Niko, who never expresses romantic attraction to anyone, really can't be assumed heterosexual either, because it simply wouldn't be in line with what we know about her.

Heterosexuality never comes across as the default in this universe. It never seemed as if the writers automatically assumed any character, no matter how background, to be straight. Queerness is explored not as a defiance of the norm but as just another way of loving someone. In a world where being queer is always viewed as alternate or deviant, and where coming out is a lifelong process that begins again every time you meet someone new because you're always assumed cishet, this kind of complete abolishment of heteronormativity is a breath of fresh air. Seeing queerness handled in such a casual way onscreen honestly feels a little bit revolutionary.

She knows what's up indeed

No pipe cleaner

Idea: you send me pictures of your cat and I draw them stupidly

Yeah hope that pitch was successful :3