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Billboard in Hollywood, 5 mins away from Netflix's HQ. I LOVE THIS FANDOM

Hey @netflix this show is too good for you to just cancel like this

Dbd Episodes as Comic Covers

Part 5: The Case of the Two Dead Dragons

Now you can get this as a print HERE 🥳❗️

Our Dead Boy Detectives Billboard is LIVE!

If you plan on traveling to see the Billboard please share photos! 💜 It will be up from today October 14th to November 17th! Thank you to this amazing fandom for making it happen!

me, incorrect: everyone is probably sick of me drawing this character by now...

my inner voice, wise: ah, but this cannot be... because I am part of "everyone"... and until I am sick of drawing them... it will not be everyone

me, opening a new blank canvas: ur so right

Hey Detectives! We have an event running from October 20th through the 26th, and that is our Cast Appreciation Week! Every day, we will focus on showing our love for the incredibly talented actors that made this show the masterpiece it is. There will be a different chosen actor or group of actors for each day. For every post, make sure to use the tags #DBDACastAppreciationWeek and #SaveDeadBoyDetectives! Write as much or little as you want, draw something, have fun! Show your appreciation for these actors and their characters! If you have any questions, reach out to the event organizer Guy @that-trans-autistic-guy

thx obama

So when I saw that the prompt for Day 12 for DBDA Promptober was "Magic 8 Ball", I realized today was the day I wanted to post about this.

I made a bunch of little paper tokens to include in my letters to Netflix. For luck, for laughs, and (mostly), to further illustrate a bit of the love for the show behind what I'm saying.

And each of them has a specific reason and meaning that I'll maybe talk about later, but the first ones that I made were the Magic 8 Ball.

I had the idea that I'd like to include a little Magic 8 Ball in each letter with "Renew Dead Boy Detectives" written on it, and had a vague idea of how I wanted to make that happen. I got construction paper, and some little tags with ribbons to sandwich inside each one, since I wanted it to be something you could hang up if you wanted. (They are two-sided: one side has the 8 and the other has the window with the die).

But it was when I found the blue glitter cardstock that I absolutely knew I was making these.

The glitter is in honor of someone important to me -- I don't know for sure if she would have liked the show, but I like to think that she would have. But I know she would have listened to me ramble on about it, and I 100% know that she would have approved of me participating in any fan action where I could incorporate at least a bit of glitter. (So not unlike Niko, in that way, now that I come to think about it 💖)

And knowing that made it feel like each one would be just a little bit extra lucky (and surely it can't hurt to have the Magic 8 Ball's recommendation).

Day 4: Eternity

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛𝑒𝑑? 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚? 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑛-𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒?"

- Welcome to the Black Parade, My Chemical Romance

... Why does Netflix cancel ALL the shows I fall madly in love with? 🥺😭 Charles, Edwin, Jenny, Crystal and every GORGEOUS characters in #deadboydetectives : you will remain all in my heart and I promise, other fanarts will follow, despite the cancellation 🫶🏻❤️ (and... I still don't lose hope ❤️ because this is one of the best fandoms ever and *they* will hear us! 💪🏻)

Edwin looking at Charles

Charles version

i am 100% positive that crystal's parents made up that stupid shitty name to be more notable in the art world. ain't no goddamn way that their families just happened to generate 'crystal palace surname von-hoverkraft' like do not lie to my face

Bisexual crisis Crystal edition

Love a female character who does illegal acts and is living her best life. Look at her killing people and smiling. Honestly, this is the best time she's ever had. Probably the best version of herself. Yeah ignore the viscera in the corner. Oh she just announced she's killing someone/ everyone? That's cool I mean look at her! This is the best her life has ever been! She had character development into a worse person (to other people) and a danger to society but this is the best she's ever felt before!!

"the dead boy detectives fandom is dying" nah dw we're hanging out on discord and working on long projects now. We're not dying we're driving our roots deeper. Also I'm rewatching this until I'm removed from my account fandom or no fandom

Re: The DBDA fandom is dying (inspired by @crafteeauthor)

Can't speak for other creators but:

Am I uploading fewer fics than I used to? Yes! But what you don't see is that I'm writing a 100k word longfic in most of my writing time. This is true of many writers in the fandom, too! We all are devastated by cancelation and are working on long projects to get justice for our faves.

But for my shorter oneshots, fine. I have been getting fewer hits on my DBDA fanfic lately but the hits-to-kudos ratio is genuinely insane. Like, for every 2-3 hits I'm getting a kudo. I'm getting a veritable smorgasbord of comments at that.

(Also the hits are far from bad like I get 500 regularly still. They're just, like, not like the 2k-3k I'd get in the beginning.)

Plus, the fan events on here like @dbdpromptober (the one I've been doing) are immense successes!

Sure, some more casual fans are dropping off, but the fans who engage are staying. The fans who CREATE are staying, based on the sheer volume of wonderful fanworks (art, fics, etc) we're getting daily.

This is very obviously becoming a creative community that is here for the long haul. Which is wonderful, a rare and beautiful thing.

Also! The magnitude of people who are still discovering the show is awesome. Every day, I'm seeing new people in the tags going "just watched Dead Boy Detectives and learned it was CANCELED!?!?"

Like, the community is growing! Please!!

As someone whose other main fandom genuinely did die out after the last book was released, this is not what the death of a fandom looks like at all.

So don't worry! We're clearly in a Fireflyesque situation, and as Charles once said, we're not going anywhere.

So.... if you had to have Charles say a shortened version of Edwin's name, what do you think it would be?

Got back into painting to support the fandom

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES PROMPTOBER DAY 9 — PAST

Yep, Kaos has gone the same way as (deep breath) Lockwood & Co, Dead Boy Detectives, The Society, Fate: The Winx Saga, Warrior Nun, Archive 81, 1899, Sense8, The OA, Jupiter's Legacy, and more - cancelled prematurely by [Netflix]. (Griffin, Louise. "Netflix Robbed Kaos fans of a proper ending -- and it won't be the last time." Radio Times. 08 Oct. 2024.)

Radio Times

Netflix robbed Kaos fans of a proper ending - and it won't be the last time

The series has been cancelled after one season.

WTF Netflix.

I had thought that Kaos was safe. Big name star power, consistently in Netflix's top 10 all month. I wasn't worried.

I only heard about the show at all a couple of weeks after it released. I didn't have much idea of what it was about until at least a week after that. Even then, my research didn't give me a great idea of whether or not it would be something that I would like, but I was hopeful.

It's been a busy month -- I still haven't watched it yet.

But Kaos has only been out for 40 days, and now it's cancelled. Same pattern as before; word comes out via one of the cast or crew on social media maybe, and then Variety makes the announcement. Never Netflix themselves.

I just…

It's frustrating, when Netflix won't say why.

It's even more frustrating to feel forced into a way of relating to the service where if I want to see a new show for more than eight episodes, I have to watch all of it within 28 days of it launching, and I have to do my part to make sure the watch numbers only go up each week and never down. Or else there won't be any more of it ever.

And being consistently in the top 10 is not enough.

And I'd get it if we were in the old days of broadcast, but we're not, are we? And I didn't get to watch 8 episodes of a show in a month then, either.

What is the point if my choices are "binge it now or regret not having watched it in time later?" What if I don't want to binge-watch a show?

What if it takes me actual time between "I have no idea what this is, I've never heard of it" and "Oh, hey, I know what this is about and yeah, that does sound like something I'd be into?" Why does Netflix's approach to marketing not ever seem to do anything to help me reduce that turnaround?

(Oh, Netflix will occasionally tell me "we think you'll like this" -- and my response is always "Why?" and "Are you sure? Because sometimes it feels like you push things you'd like me to like instead of things I'd actually enjoy." And then they somehow fail to make it easy for me to get answers to those questions, when it should be the easiest thing for them.)

I just…

It's frustrating. And disheartening. And once again I'm learning more about a show in the wake of its cancellation than I knew about it when Netflix was supposedly promoting it, and I am so, so sorry for all of the fans. Again.

Netflix, WTF.