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One thing I love about Neil Gaiman’s new Netflix show Dead Boy Detectives is Crystal. Crystal is the female lead, and she is MESSY. She makes umpteen mistakes, she hurts people, she’s selfish, she frequently lacks empathy, etc, etc. And I kept expecting Crystal to be revealed as a villain in disguise, because female characters don’t usually get to be messy like Crystal unless they’re bad guys. Male characters can be anti-heroes, sure, but female characters are expected to be likeable.

Crystal is more than a collection of her least likeable character traits, of course. She is brave and tenacious right from the start, and she has growth over the course of the season. But I was fascinated by the ways she isn’t a typical female protagonist. She is allowed to be abrasive, and her sharp edges are allowed to cut other sympathetic characters to ribbons at times. But the narrative never takes the easy way out and makes her a villain for it.

Dead boys, but they detective

I love them so much so have some trashy doodles that I did half in the dark well watching the show :)

Niko is amazing and I love her sm she is so silly

also crystals wide eye stares kill me so much emotion in those big ol’ eyes :)

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GO WATCH THE DEAD BOYS DETECTIVE

Watch it to completion and give it a good rating so Netflix will renew it!! It’s so amazing and deserves all the seasons!! <3

Also here’s one of my favorite girls!! A whole page of Crystal Palace Surname-Von Hovercraft

quite the last name girlie pop has, huh? still love our queen, and I can’t wait to see how she redeems herself! She slays so hard even when she’s being a massive jeeeerk! Hopefully everything turns out good for her our other gals and our two dead boys! Love them!! <3