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"I don't wanna be the owner of your fantasy // I just wanna be a part of your family"
anything ~ Adrianne Lenker
Here are my frames for The Best Frames We Know project !
It was amazing to be able to join the project, everyone on the server is so nice and so skilled. Thank you Ez for making all of this possible !!
I had a lot of fun working on these, I experimented a lot and I think I finally understand how krita works ? (fingers crossed)
Tagging this with gay fandoms sorry
There's currently a European proposition to ban conversion practice in Europe
If you're European please sign it
If you're not please reblog
Edit 1: Just in case the previous link doesn't bring you where you need here
Edit 2: It's EU not Europe sorry
"Kill them with kindness" Nah, fuck that, CRICKET BAT 🏏 🏏🏏🏏*SMACK* 🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏
Une autre crossover qui je vraiment désir est un univers parallèle de Dead Boy Detectives et BHNA où Kirishima et Niko sont des jumeaux avec des personnalités similaires et des esthétiques très différentes.
Movie Night with the sillies!: <33
Was actually so excited for a cute sapphic story cuz I had expected crystal to just b forced with charles 😭 (that is what ended up happening. I was disappointed)
This… Netflix needs to see this.
I think one of the most overlooked factors in Netflix's cutthroat approach to deciding wether to renew a show is that they wholly underestimate the power of fandoms.
They seem to think that unless a show is record-breaking or award-winning it will not be profitable to renew but they fail to recognize that most people don't give a shit about the accolades as long as a show is good.
And even then, it is normal to take more than one eight-episode season to pick up real cultural traction. Plenty of now-beloved shows did not reach mainstream popularity until they were multiple seasons deep.
Netflix fails to consider the longevity of their IPs over the initial peak of interest, and have thus cultivated a self-fulfilling prophecy as people avoid starting new shows because they don't want to become invested in something that is more likely than not to be cancelled, and thus these new shows don't reach the ludicrous viewership standard they have set to justify a renewal.
Sure, they get new subscribers for new shows but what keeps them there? Maybe they'd actually stay subscribed if a new season of something they are invested in is on the way (barring the cost itself, which is a whole different can of worms).
Plenty of people subscribe only for one or two shows- I remember people cancelling their subscriptions when they took The Office off because that show alone was keeping them on the platform.
Supernatural did not get 15 seasons because of its exceptional writing or cinematography (ha), they got 15 seasons because of devoted fans who wanted more. Who kept rewatching and buying merchandise and paying for con tickets.
Daredevil is one of the best shows I have ever seen, and that was at the time where the "early" cancellation was common after three seasons (with 12+ episodes). Inside Job is one of the only adult animated series that I have ever thoroughly enjoyed, and it was lucky to have two seasons. Shadow and Bone had the potential to be a franchise based in the extended Grishaverse, and yet it also ended after two seasons.
Finally- not everyone watches shows the day they release! We don't all have that sort of time, and it's ok to discover a new show a week, a month, a year after it releases! Word of mouth and fan culture/communities have been the rock upon which lasing series are created, from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
All this to say, @netflix yall get your act together and renew Dead Boy Detectives before you lose your captive audience 🫠
Harpy Hare, where have you buried all your children?
You can't keep them all caged
They will fight and run away
Mother, tell me, so I say
catcrow coded--
There needs to be a catcrow edit to rule 34 by fish in a birdcage, hear me outtttttttt 👌👌👌👌👌✨✨✨✨
I present our favorite handsome little crow stuffed in a boy suit.
@montythehumancrow
i love you fics that have other members of the agency offer Monty their own family names to help him remove his association with Esther. "Monty Green," "Monty Sasaki" what if i cried
(apologies for turning a sweet thing silly, but i can imagine a scenario where Crystal is (lovingly) annoyed by being teased for her elaborate surname and asks Monty to take it so she's not the only one xvsbbdnxnsnskksjdhsn)
can we all take a minute to appreciate Monty for waiting outside the butcher shop for Edwin at an ungodly hour in the morning? He only met Edwin the day before and probably went straight home and made his little astrology chart, and then needed to show Edwin as soon as it was done. The trio was in the Devlin house overnight and they get out just before dawn, so it must have been sooo early in the morning but Monty was already there when they get home, sitting and waiting. All for a chance to speak to Edwin (and I know it was all part of Esther's plan but I also just know that he was sitting on that bench being just soooo excited to see Edwin again)
Charles: I like your new pants! Edwin: Thanks, they were 50% off! Charles: I’d like them better if they were 100% off. *winks* Edwin: The store can’t just give away clothes for free. Charles: That’s… not what I meant. Edwin: That’s a terrible way to run a business, Charles.
DBDA DND AU (great abbreviation)
Half elf Wizard Edwin, used to be a cleric but the "God" he was following turned out to be a bad one who gladly accepted one of his own followers as a sacrifice when Edwins companions decided to sacrifice the half elf. (they were all elves, and looked down on him in many ways)
Half elf Barbarian Charles (no one expects it, when the half elven smiling boy suddenly rages and takes down several opponents in one swing) also would he dabble as an Arteficer. (I was considering Paladin, but the only Deity he'd swear to is Edwin)
Half elf Druid Crystal, speaks for itself honestly. It suits her nature (lmao)
Elf Cleric Niko, her little gods live in her pocket 💙
Guys I'm definitely on time for this, trust me-
Week 1: Putting Up Decorations
This HC thingy is set in an AU where Monty, The Cat King/Thomas and Niko are left at Port Townsend while Edwin, Charles and Crystal return to London. The Case:Dismissed trio.
The Cat King often magics the smallest bit of holiday decor in the cannery for his servants: sparse tinsel, glittery snowballs, and lots of fragile ornaments dangerously hung on Christmas trees. When he adopts Monty off the streets he spots the crow-boy's eyes googling at the glittering ropes of Christmas lights that litter most of the neighborhood houses. He didn't judge Monty and instead mulled over making the cannery look less of a minefield. Plus he wants to entice a certain ghost that has been depressively loitering around Tongue and Tail and stares at him heartbroken.
So Thomas stays up one night and digs around to see what his two 'captives' enjoy. Monty's interetst are distastefully obvious; astrology. He was unsatisfied however and looked a bit deeper and noted that the pretty boy liked shiny things: bracelets, rings and other trinkets. Maybe Thomas will get something like a friendship bracelet for Esther's past familiar. Niko was more difficult to find a gift for. He easily found that she enjoyed yaoi but he had not been able to find what she had and had not read. Plus he has little knowledge on such things (as of now) so he wouldn't know where to start so he spots this small crocheted T. Rex and he magics his own yaoi version(s) of the plush and tracks back home satisfied with himself.
He manages to convince Niko to come to the cannery later that week. And despite easily being able to put up more decorations with a snap of his fingers he invites Monty to go shopping at their local department store. Watching the crow prance through the aisles feverishly emptying things into their cart. He didn't let Monty believe he went soft though, he nitpicked a few of his items, mostly things that looked like rainbow vomit and anything too cute; or things that his cats would immediately shove down their throat. Thomas and Monty make it to the cash register with a cart full of dusty rugs, partially dead flowers, seasonal candles, and a tube of premade cinnamon roll dough.
Monty turns out to be a rather dangerous baker, spilling half the pack of frosting on a cat and somehow in his hair before Thomas can stop him. The cinnamon rolls themselves are for some reason mouth wateringly delicious and it lures the ghost inside. He summons a pot of tea with china cups and keeps an eye on the pile of cinnamon rolls making sure they never truly run out cause fuck they're addictive.
The three murmured, hunched over drinking out of a classy set of tea cups that would normally be in the thousands, and covered by furred blankets Monty couldn't part with so Thomas bought three for this exact situation.
They didn't talk much about anything, avoiding the sour topic of the dead boy detectives that had changed their lives and opting for shoving their mouths with delectable sweets. Monty was the first to start rambling on about useless things and Niko made a few comments about her yaoi sometimes wrapped around that. Thomas sat back as the two calmly bounced back and forth in their conversation and only requested for Niko to stay during the holiday season just until new year's. Niko mulls over it and decides to stay. After all watching Jenny struggle while tearing down her room is only making her feel worse. Plus the cats were very persuasive.
So the three spend their holidays in the cannery enjoying tiny sweet pastries and warm drinks. Hanging garland and wrapping up make-believe presents as if they're close friends and really do want to share time with them. Monty and Thomas curl up next to each other as Niko recounts one of many plots of her yaoi or all three of them wrap up in a blanket and watch Scooby Doo and ignore how teenage detectives ruined their lives. One day however Thomas finally chooses to present the small little gifts he got for the two. Melting when Niko squeals when she spots the tiny plush and his eyes widening as she envelops him in a warm hug. Monty's reaction is a bit more reserved but his eyes sparkle the same mystified when he saw the eye watering christmas lights earlier that winter. He doesn't shrug off the childish gift and instead sincerely thanks Thomas for everything.
Niko, Monty and Thomas spend that night a tad bit familiar with each other, weaving roots in each other's presence and seeing each other as family moreso friends. Even if it was December 29th, four days after Christmas, it seemed like the most magical day of their troublesome years. A holiday belonging to them and only them. They didn't need a group of dead boy detectives and a psychic girl, they just needed each other and life would be brills.
Day 5 - Snuggles
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Cat King, mockingly: Well, aren't you sugar and spice and everything nice? Charles: Well, aren't you rudeness and sarcasm and everything… uh… Cat King: No, go on. You find something that rhymes with sarcasm and makes sense and I'll stop acting like an asshole.
absolutely enamoured with edwin and niko’s friendship. they are so perfectly on the opposite ends of the same scale that they loop back around to being exactly the same. same weirdness different fonts. true tism4tism bestie rep i adore them
Ghost detectives so fruity they got me to write a 4.5k words outline for a fic. No one is doing it like dbda I'm afraid
What if I was a repressed gay ghost from 1916 and I confessed my love for you on the Stairway To Hell™️ and you made an Orpheus and Eurydice reference and you admitted you're not in love with me back but a secret third thing (so devoted the lines blur) and told me we had an eternity to figure out what that means for us and that we're still best mates just like we've been for the last 30+ years. What if I was Edwin Payne and you were Charles Rowland. What then.
My brain cannot stop turning around the idea of Niko watching Buzzfeed Unsolved in her room, reaching a hauntingly familiar story, and freaking out because why is Edwin on Buzzfeed Unsolved
She thinks he'll hate it, but he's kind of chuffed instead. At least those Buzzfeed guys remember him. He asks to watch the episode, and they spend the entire time laughing at the weirdass theories of what happened to him.
(Niko teases him for weeks about the alien abduction theory, of course. As any BFF should.)
if dead boy detectives doesn’t get renewed i will cry for DAYS
the gang slaying
