ALL HAIL LILY

ALL HAIL LILY

EVERYBODY

LOOK AT MY DOG

“Jasmin” 2008

One thing I really like about DBDA is that it doesn't even attempt to inject humor into the deaths of either main character. They're never portrayed as anything besides horrible tragedies, atrocities. A hate crime and a violent, slow murder.

Other shows (that I enjoy) almost always try to inject humor into deaths. All four mains in The Good Place die in semi-comic ways; the boys in Julie and the Phantoms do as well with the hot dogs. School Spirits attempts to inject humor into some of the deaths as well.

Not knocking these shows - I really like them. But I appreciate DBDA going off-script a bit and going "no, these deaths were tragic failures of human hatred and systemic oppression, and they are going to be uncomfortable and horrifying to watch."

I love this. There's no sugar coating a bunch of boys kidnapping Edwin in his sleep and murdering him while chanting a homophobic slur. There are no punches pulled when Charles is stoned to death by his "friends," terrified and alone in a freezing lake for preventing a hate crime. And there's no sugarcoating that they were both wronged after deaths with religious nonsense and cover-ups that impeded justice.

I'm really impressed by this. We're shocked, we're appalled, we feel the pain of these deaths. We understand how much Edwin and Charles are hurt because we feel a fraction of that hurt watching the deaths. It's a great detail.

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he fall on my demon till i disgrace

Have you ever eaten a crayon?

im not sure where you heard this. However, it was not A crayon, it was 11 crayons. They were all dandelion, and that is why it's so hard to find them nowadays.