DEAD BOY DETECTIVES LETTER PROJECT WEEK 2

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES LETTER PROJECT WEEK 2 🔍

Starting tomorrow we will be sending letters to Netflix and Max! Please prepare letters with all of your love for the show! 💜

NETFLIX: 5808 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 US

WB DISCOVERY (MAX): 230 Park Avenue South, New York City, NY 10003

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 Max to show them just how much you love Dead Boy Detectives!

edwin thinks charles will leave him and more on to his afterlife. charles thinks edwin will leave him and find someone better or more interesting. edwin thinks charles will leave him for a new, shinier partner. charles thinks edwin will leave him if he can't always protect edwin. i mean, i wonder at what point their devotion transcended their anxieties. they are both so traumatized and so repressed and so sixteen. so i wonder when their love became so strong that they weren't scared of the rest

Probably not, but it won’t stop me

Thinking too much about Charles Rowland is probably not good for my mental health

HES SO HANDSOME I CANT

THE BRAIN ✨

I’ll really lose my shit if Netflix don’t renew this show

i think it's interesting that in episode 3 of dbda when all the ghosts are coming in to get the boys on there case, there's a man who comes in like "hey this painting keeps getting younger and younger while i grow older and older"

like. did we collectively forget that that's the inverse of the plot of dorian gray. dorian commits a faustian deal (sells his soul) for immortal beauty. there's a painting of him that ages instead. for those uninitiated, dorian is a homosexual. he's a gay. the whole book is gay. it was used in oscar wilde's (the author's) sodomy trial, that's how gay it is

look dbda is an incredibly well made show. and there are so many details and i KNOW i'm not picking up on them all, but many of the details i have noticed are all queer-coding in nature.

"orpheus and eyrudice" look obviously charles is comparing them to a romantic story and it's like oooh romance but far beyond that, o&e is a greek myth. greek myths & allusion to them have historically been used by authors -including oscar wilde- to intentionally queer-code characters at a time when they could not write about it plainly

the painting thing i mentioned before? guys oscar wilde was gay as shit. man fuckin' went to jail for it. like it's NOT a coincidence that they're referencing queer media here!!

(and, i would like to note, that i think the fact that (a) edwin immediately knew how to handle the situation, and (b) the man was aging instead of the painting, that symbolizes something. perhaps edwin's lack of vices, seeing as he has not yet given into hedonism and/or homosexuality. perhaps the fact that this story will not end as dorian's did. perhaps that by not giving into homosexual desires, it also wears on the soul. or perhaps it demonstrates how they didn't wanna get copyrighted.)

look i am not SAYING that payneland is cannon or that it is the only valid interpretation. all interpretations are valid. but i AM saying that there is repeated intentional queer coding. they're busting back the 1800s use of subtext and i think that's banger actually

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