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You IMPRISON the sprites? You put them in a jar like the fireflies?? Oh! Oh! Verbal abuse for protagonists! Verbal abuse for protagonists for ONE THOUSAND YEARS

whenever @netflix brings up budgeting for their reasons for cancellation i want to laugh in their faces, because i promise you that Dead Boy Detectives had a small budget, and you wanna know how i know?

the fact that they have a "magic item" for detecting a spirit's presence, and it's literally fucking rocks

they could have made anything they wanted for some kind of cool device or artifact, but nope; plain-ass grey rocks. they're not even cool gems or have any kind of engravings on them or whatever. just fucking rocks.

but please, @netflix, tell me again about how "expensive" it was to film this show. i'm ready to believe you any minute now. 🙄

i need to draw these guys more !

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES (2024)

1.06 - The Case of the Far Too Many Big Brown Cow Eyes

Hit my subscription renewal date - Thoughts Part 2

At this point, my subscription to Netflix is functionally a subscription to Dead Boy Detectives.

That's partly because I really, really love the show -- and I do! Partly because I've been rewatching the show as much as I reasonably can in hopes of supporting the fandom as we hope to change Netflix's mind about the cancellation. And partly because -- for a lack of time, to get a point across, out of stubbornness / spite -- I haven't been watching anything else on Netflix since the cancellation.

My Basic subscription was recently dropped, and before the cancellation news, I was actually telling myself that the forced move to new plan would have an upside, because this show is one of the very few things that have made me wish I had that higher resolution subscription.

I want to see all the details, and it feels rewarding to notice little things in the show, like the plaque on the moose bobblehead in Episode 2, or the wording on the label on the black salt, or the different ways that Esther accessorizes with the evil eye necklace that she wears constantly. I've paused the show so many times to get a better look at things, and it's almost always been rewarded.

And also, before the cancellation news, I thought that I would give "with Ads" a try for at least a couple of weeks, to see if I could live with it, since I couldn't keep my Basic plan.

But I can't imagine, now that rewatching the show is part of my routine, having ads pop on in between scenes. (It would very much be a "flames on the sides of my face" situation if they messed with the timing and transitions of the show at this point. I don't feel like this is a show that is written to have ad breaks.)

And that's not even counting the whole targeted ad situation I talked about in my previous post.

Because of this show and this fandom, I'm watching more Netflix right now than ever. (I'd previously have bursts of watching, at most, a few 22-minute episodes a day while I cooked, followed by weeks of nothing as I watched shows on another service. Now I'm averaging at least 14 hours a week, while I do other things.)

Now, I'm renewing so I can keep up the rewatches (round 12 right now!), and in hopes that Netflix, too, might choose to renew (hint, hint).

But frankly, I'm considering my options, in the event that they don't.

If there's ever an official DVD/BluRay release, I'm going for it. (Very much hoping that Warner Brothers will put one out; what can I say, we're a passionate fanbase, and at the very least I hope they'd see that it would be worth it for them to do so.)

And if there's no hope of further seasons, I can't see myself keeping up a subscription full time. I'm sure I'd want to come back and visit the shows that I already like that have ended, but I don't think I'd have any motivation to try to keep up with anything new that's exclusive to Netflix as it comes out. What would be the point?

(Since the cancellation, I've learned about multiple Netflix shows I've never heard of before that sound interesting to me. I've heard about them specifically because they have also been cancelled -- and because Netflix's recommender thinks I'd be interested in them since I like Dead Boy Detectives. The fact that they have multiple recently cancelled but well-received shows in that segment seems somewhat damning.)

If I do drop back to part-time, I don't think I'd be coming back for enough time to make up the revenue they'd lose compared to the last price point, so that, too, seems like a loss for Netflix. (For the cost of a year's subscription at the last price point for Basic, I can manage almost 8 months of Standard. But I'm not sure I'd be coming back for 8 months at a time, if I knew I wasn't planning to stick around.)

Maybe I'm not the customer that Netflix is thinking of. Maybe I'm not the demographic that they want, or I'm not motivated by the same things that they think I should be.

But for a service that wants steady revenue and is concerned about cancellation/subscription churn, Netflix has been making some odd choices lately, as far as I'm concerned.

Hit my subscription renewal date - Thoughts Part 1

I hit my Netflix subscription renewal date today.

I had been wondering how they had said that moving people from "Basic" to the lower-priced "Standard with Ads" plan would bring them more revenue. How would ad revenue -- particularly at the relatively low amount that I typically watch -- make them more than $5/month?

Then they asked for more demographic information when I logged in today, and I went, "oh. that."

And I don't want to give them more demographic info to share with their advertisers, even if it's just a gender and birthdate. And I don't particularly want them connecting that info to the shows I watch, but even less do I want them connecting that info to my internet browsing, device logins, or other apps I watch on those devices.

I don't really want to see ads in general, but targeted advertising particularly rubs me the wrong way:

it's usually badly targeted

it's usually invasive in the amount of data collected, for very little reason

the idea of making sure that one audience segment only sees a particular message, while another audience segment sees a different message is… unsettling to me, at best

If advertisers are paying more to make sure that ad gets out to people specifically (exclusively?) of any nominal gender, I probably don't need or want to see it. And I'm skeptical of the idea that it is bad for people of other genders to see that ad.

If advertisers need to make sure that I'm 18 or 21 before they show me an ad, I probably don't want to see it. I don't mind seeing adult content that I have chosen to see, but I don't need to run across it at random, and I'm not the target audience for alcohol ads -- which there is not a separate way of opting out of, and what if I was watching alongside a family member who is in recovery? What if I'm watching with family in general?

I logged out, then logged in on my computer (in a limited container) and changed my plan to Standard without giving them any of that info. But it really sucks that this is where we're at -- especially because it's been 9 months since the last price increase, and now I'm paying another 30% of that price.

I like to think the Cat King was damn near shaking in his Gucci leather boots when Edwin made his first guess. Right out of the gate he was swinging “142”. The correct answer was literally 146 not counting himself. He took all that time setting up this elaborate cat and mouse seduction play only for the Edwardian twink to nearly chuck the game board out the window. He didn’t even give him the chance to make another guess before the bracelet fell off and Edwin still took the time to sassily beat him at his own game. “Not even close” he was WORRIED

They will haunt you if you do not renew them. My other art

My head is screaming, "Get a grip, girl"

"Unless you're dyin' to cry your heart out"

Tried to do too much last week (thought I was on top of everything, and then new things kept popping up). Now I'm fighting my way out of sleep debt. :-/

Finally got a chance to read back through the fic again for the first time in a while, though.

I made minor edits to every single chapter, but I'm feeling good about it again -- the only areas I think need significant rewrites are on the recent two, and I'm planning to do those after I write the next two chapters so I know for sure where I'm going with them. (That leaves me with about 40% left to write, but hey, getting closer!)

Also, I officially added another chapter to the outline. Again. (Whee!)

*wakes in the middle of the night in a cold sweat* but crows give gifts! Shiny things and pebbles and whatnot, what if Monty had brought little tiny trinkets to Edwin, what if it confused the hell out of Edwin but he kept them anyway, what if Monty kept trying to court him with this method until edwins desk was full of keys and coins and rocks and tin foil and wires, what if it was spring cleaning and Crystal dumped the desk drawer into the trash and Monty had to start all over, what if I actually get some sleep at some point, goddammit this show

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Why we need more queer art, not less

Dead Boy Detectives is the latest in a long line of queer shows on streaming platforms to be cancelled. Now, queer fans online are fighting

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

Yes, Steve Yockey (one of the people) who wrote Supernatural also wrote Dead Boy Detectives. Yes, it's supernatural. Yes, it's gay. Please go check it out and help us punch netflix in the face.

"I will stop playing fucking nice" is threatening until you remember TCK has basically been having Edwin do the census as a punishment for mugging his citizen. Like oh no now what are you gonna make him do, some volunteer time? A few hours opening cans?

Btw Netflix this is who you're being mean to

there are genuinely a lot of shows on netflix (and other streaming services, but the main one I'm talking about is netflix) that i would LOVE to watch right now, but i can't help but wonder why i would bother? they are probably just going to cancel it anyways, and the ones they don't cancel (umbrella academy) have some of the worst endings

cancelling dead boy detectives hit me harder than any other cancellation or ending and i really don't know what to do about that.

one thing i love about dead boy detectives is the amount of hurt/comfort that can come from the episodes alone. like, fanfiction has always been full of it (and for that I will be infinitly grateful as it tends to be one of my fave tropes in fics) but the sheer amount that is CANON is insane.

we've got two main characters literally being murdered, one of them getting sent to Hell (TWICE), one having to relive his father beating him, a witch who builds a literal torture machine to keep one of them captive forever, three other characters who are murdered by the same witch (but don't technically stay dead), amnesia, demon possession, and I haven't even listed everything

like, what is on screen alone is like a fanfic author's craziest trope list in the best way possible. and there is still a lot of comfort, still enough time even though the show is only 8 episodes to show that these characters still care for each other.

Honestly, I wonder if this is all on purpose. Just a marketing scheme Netflix is trying out.

Step 1: Get Variety to announce that you're canceling a show without officially saying it yourself.

Step 2: Fans of the show spam the internet with hashtags and petitions while streaming the show constantly. Hundreds of articles are written about how stupid you are and how outraged and dedicated the fans are.

Step 3: Announce that you've changed your mind or that the article was "misinformation" - either way the show gets renewed.

Step 4: Hundreds more articles are written about this "crazy" moment.

Basically: a massive amount of free promotion. Truthfully, can we really put it pass them?

To be honest, I wouldn't even be mad if gets the show renewed.

Here's hoping that it's true and we're just in Step 2 of the scheme.

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES LETTER PROJECT

Starting this Thursday we will be sending letters to Netflix! Please prepare letters with all of your love for the show to convince Netflix to reverse their decision! 💜

Please use the following address: 5808 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 US

Every other week will be a letter mailing week so everyone has time to prepare their letters to send them on the selected Thursday's! You can send as many as you want to Netflix HQ and show them just how much you love Dead Boy Detectives!