So Dead End: Paranormal Park basically got cancelled where the first book ended. I read the second book last night, and here’s some of the stuff we missed out on:

-Badyah takes up learning magic after Pugsley’s death

-Norma gets turned into a vampire by Zagen

-We find out how Courtney broke her halo. She disagreed with something God was doing and broke her halo as a refusal to comply

-Barney and Logs move in together

-Courtney gets her halo fixed to separate her from the group, erasing her memories of being a demon

Fuck Netflix for canceling this show

[ID: An image of Camila Noceda from

The Owl House next to an image of Swati Khan from Dead End: Paranormal Park]

✅ Supportive mom to a bisexual neurodivergent daughter

✅ Dead husband

✅ Reacted to seeing their daughter face down a magical threat by insisting on helping them defeat it

I just feel like they’d be really good friends. I think they’d have a lot to talk about

All 13 planes in DE:PP!!

1st-6th planes

So far we have only seen Naraka!

7th-13th planes

So far we have seen Earth (Obviously), Bathmos, and Necropolis

Can everyone please go watch Dead End: Paranormal Park? It’s a comedy/horror cartoon on Netflix that has some of the best representation I’ve ever seen in any piece of media.

Netflix didn’t do shit to advertise it but it’s amazing!

One of the main characters is a Pakistani-American autistic bi girl with anxiety whose special interest actively contributes to the plot. The other is a fat, Jewish, gay trans man with blue hair, pronouns, and a pug voiced by Beetlejuice.

Not only that, but they’re also allowed to say the words! Barney says he’s trans, Norma says she’s bi, and Logs says he’s gay!

Also, several episodes acknowledge the ways in which those things affect these characters : Barney deals with transphobia(without anyone ever misgendering/dead-naming him on-screen. Also, he deals with a type of quiet (??) transphobia that is almost never acknowledged in tv shows and I could talk about just that for so long), an episode of season 2 is mostly dedicated to coming out, episode 3 of season 1 has a scarily accurate representation of Norma’s anxiety, etc.

Also, despite the fact that Barney is trans and fat, no one ever gives him that look for having feelings for someone who’s cis, fitter, taller and more ‘typically attractive’ than him. It’s made clear early-on that his feelings are reciprocated, and no one gives him shit(however, he does briefly talk about being body-shamed when at the gym).

Honorable mentions :

-“I’m sorry you’re straight.”

-Gord

-Amazing worldbuilding

-No punching bag character (I mean that as, like, degrading jokes. Because physically there absolutely is)

-Courtney

-Time travel but done right

-There’s a main character who dies twice

-It has actually funny moments, which is great for a comedy

-It has actually scary moments, which is great for horror

-The way Logs talks about coming out(I know it’s already in the post but that scene was so fucking great)

-MUSICAL EPISODE (the music is AWESOME)

-Barney asks Norma for permission to hug her because he knows she doesn’t like being touched

y'all... please don't sleep on dead end: paranormal park

it's a fantasy-horror-comedy that balances monster-of-the-week plots against an overarching storyline with a similar deftness to gravity falls and the owl house.

the main characters are a gay jewish trans teenage boy, an autistic pakistani-american teenage girl, a talking pug with like 5% of a demon king inside of him and a chaotic demon named courtney banished to the human realm for crimes unknown. they work at a dollywood-like theme park that has a portal to hell. there's a musical episode with songs written by fall out boy's patrick stump.

season 2 comes out tomorrow, october 13 and there's barely been any buzz from netflix about it. please support the show by watching it legally if you can, talking about it online, and/or creating fanworks.

the full first episode available on youtube for free. it's a great start to the series and things only get better from there: https://youtu.be/8Z7qAdpus4I

I AM ONCE AGAIN REQUESTING PAULINE PHOENIX’S ENTIRE ACTING RESUME 

Okay but you have to admit she DOES look good with the side shave

Okay I was joking before about being gay but I feel like wanting to stay in a world where she can be whatever Pauline needs is pretty damn gay.

But, jokes aside, this world is so much easier for Norma. Think about it. It’s all a set. The sounds affects, the voices, the lights- it’s all controlled. Norma can settle into a world with far less chances of anxiety, or surprises, or sensory overload. The Norma in this world was hugged by Pauline Phoenix and it didn’t send unpleasant shudders and panic down her spine. It’s the wonder of a controlled environment without the added displeasure of all the people running it.

I get it. Watching TV is a kind of like that. Things are a lot easier on TV. Even hard situations have clear-cut endings. And rewatching episodes is the comfort of knowing what someone will say, when they’ll say it, and with what inflection. 

But it’s not real. And this Pauline isn’t real. You don’t need a soundstage to be happy. You’re happy with your friends- you’re happy in a strange, confusing world full of strange, confusing things. A world where you can be Norma Khan, and sit quietly beside them without fear of being judged, or saying the wrong thing, or being touched. 

It’s time to go home, kiddo. 

God, I know exactly what she means.

When you’re an autistic kid, you don’t have the basic social skills most kids have. Well, you do, to an extent, but there’s so many things you don’t understand. Facial expressions, certain jokes, tones of voices. It’s so confusing. 

So you do a little patchwork. You find patterns. Okay, this person makes this face when sad, so that must be a sad face. This person uses this tone to convey this meaning. Try to copy it. On and on as you refine and work towards understanding people in ways most have built into them by birth. My way of socializing is a quilt of weird 90s slang and overly complicated words from bouncing between cartoons, old books, and my peers. 

Pauline taught Norma how to act. Taught her how to wow a room or what to do when a demon possesses your friend’s dog. Pauline was literally this girl’s Frankenstein, and she’s the “monster” made from it.

But not the real Pauline. She admires- she grew with- the fake one. And that’s the one she’s singing to. A goodbye. 

I may be spending too much time on this website