Shoutout To My Lady Jane For Having A Young Girl Watch Her Sister Get Married To A Horrible Old Man And

I’ve been thinking while coloring my hair and tbh, if I had 3 genie wishes (ones that wouldn’t backfire on me) my first wish would probably be “I wish that candy and soft drinks were not unhealthy for me”

Hey, what if Charles was struck with a love potion, which makes you fall in love with the first person you see. And guess who Charles is standing right in front of and looking at in that moment? Well, Edwin, of course.

The whole gang scrambles to get back into the office to try to figure it out (and Edwin is freaking out, he has to find a counterspell immediately because he's not going to cope well with Charles acting as if he's in love with him only for that to end along with the spell).

Crystal and Niko are asking Charles questions about how he feels and if anything has changed, but he claims he's fine and that the potion must have been a fake or something.

Because he's supposed to be in love with his best mate now, but nothing really changed in how he feels about him.

Interesting, isn't it?

I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked "Do you know what a banshee is?" and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn't know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT

I’m gonna talk about Dead Boy Detectives for a second, specifically Charles and Edwin’s deaths.

Edwin died in a basement and Charles in an attic, and Edwin went to Hell and Charles was presumably meant to go to Heaven. Edwin died by fire (demons from Hell) and Charles died by ice (hypothermia). Edwin was targeted for his queerness and Charles for the color of his skin, the country his mother came from. Edwin never seemed to get along with the boys who would kill him but Charles called his murderers friends until they turned on him. Edwin died by supernatural means while Charles died by run of the mill racist teenagers. They died more than 7 decades apart.

When you look at the details there are so many differences but the story is still the exact fucking same. Two boys who died at the hands of a group of their classmates who decided that they did not fit with the rest of them and therefore must pay the price. Two boys who died on the same grounds of the same school, whose deaths were brushed aside and covered up by people who held the same titles. More than 70 years apart and not a single thing has changed, Charles’ death didn’t get any more attention than Edwin’s, because more than 70 years later the same fucking story happened again.

Edwin’s death didn’t change a damn thing, and it could happen again now because Charles’ death didn’t change a damn thing either. And then the ghosts of two 16 year olds decided that if the adults, if the living weren’t going to change anything then they fucking would. If the living would not grant them justice and would not grant them change, then they fucking would.

Because there was a difference, in the end. Edwin was murdered, and so was Charles, but while Edwin died scared and alone Charles didn’t. Edwin died in a cold, dark basement, but Charles died in warm light of a lantern, even if that warmth wasn’t enough to save him. Edwin died to the sounds of his own screams, his own voice pleading for mercy that would not come, but Charles drifted off to sleep to the sound of a kind boy reading him a book.

The living won’t change. The story could and will keep on repeating because the living will not make sure it doesn’t. The living are messy. But the dead, for all the ways they will never change, will never get any older, they can change the story, at least a bit. Charles and Edwin can’t make sure that no other boy dies at that school, but if the story repeats itself yet again they can make sure the victim is at peace. They can solve the murders and find the lost items and release the spirits who are trapped. The living won’t help the dead, but they can help each other.

So they call themselves the Dead Boy Detectives, form an agency and get an office and help who they can, because they didn’t matter to the living, and many of their clients don’t either. But they matter to the dead.

Their clients matter. And Charles and Edwin matter too.

One extremely cool costuming detail that I absolutely missed my first couple of watch-throughs is that:

When the Cat King moves on to his next life, he's a different kind of cat, and his entire aesthetic when he's in human form changes to match.

The first time we see him, he's this fluffy orange cat, and his human form costume and styling reflects the same look.

His hair is always fluffy and once is dyed lighter. His clothing is flamboyant and eye-catching, with brighter spots in cream, white, or brown.

After he loses one of his lives, he is reborn as a sleek black cat.

Every time he appears after this, he is in all black, with a sleek, close-fitting silhouette to his outfits. His hair is always dark, and always slicked back.

The amount of attention to detail that went into this show is seriously next level.

Heres to hoping 🙏

This is so amazing, I really hope that at least something wins. Selfishly I hope it's George as Outstanding Lead Actor, that man deserves it, but any of them would be AMAZING

Also I hope this means renewal is imminent lolll

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me after episode 4:

I don't know if this makes me toxic but after Francis slept with Lola literally root for everyone but him

watching s2 of reign has reminded me how much I adore louis conde. francis can kick rocks.