if you punish yourself, everywhere becomes hell

Witchgrass, Louise Glück || Edwin Payne, Dead Boy Detectives: The Case of the Very Long Stairway (2024)

Dead Boy Detectives

Season 1 Episode 2 | The Case of the Dandelion Shrine

“Charles, it’s alright.”

Of course the theater vampire and the Cat King would both be drama queens

i think charles rowland deserves to wear a pair of heelys send tweet

Crystal Palace | Dead Boy Detectives 1.08 → (requested by @featherandstorm)

Jayden Revri as Charles Rowland

Charles saying “you’re the smart one” and Edwin saying “he’s right I don’t always know what I’m doing” in the devlin house is so telling because like. Charles learned how to navigate a pocket universe! Charles comes up with using the lighthouse jar to trap the dandelion spirits! when they find the ghost devouring fungus, Charles is the one to identify it as the mushroom god!

Charles is smart! he just has a shitty dad in his head telling him otherwise!

Edwin memorizes information-the path out of hell, their books on supernatural creatures-as a coping mechanism. Books were probably a great comfort to him as a kid. Studying was the one thing he could control.

Schools tend to reward kids who memorize information, which is probably difficult when you’re dealing with, I don’t know, an abusive dad, and a whopping case of PTSD and the accompanying memory loss, AND likely some racist teachers who assumed he’s stupid or lazy and don’t care why he was having trouble reading (adhd) or why the kid in the back of class is falling asleep (dad screaming all night). I’m super normal and not protective of him btw. (lying)

some payneland emojis for the beloved mutuals <3

bonus problematic fave girlboss (in the end, aren't we all just chewing and shaking edwin around?)

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES – SERIES ONE (2024)

Kassius Nelson deserves her Emmy today like I do not talk about her enough but she was the first performer to really stand out to me when I first watched DBD. Her "HE'S OUR FUCKING DEMON NOW" in episode 1 made me QUAKE

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES PROMPTOBER DAY 31 — SPOOKY