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I posted Chapter 3 of my Crystal fic: Show and Tell
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Realised that it's been a month since chapter 2. /o\ Anyway, I'm having fun. Plz head over to AO3 & leave a kudos or a comment if you like it? <3

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In other news then we started watching 'Only Murders in the Building' (since we got Disney+ anyway). This show is really rather good. Not in a fannish sense, just in a wildly entertaining and funny and well-written way. Recommended.

Happy Birthday to George Rexstrew, the best Edwin Payne we know! 🎉
^this fandom is just next level:

To honor him, a birthday billboard for George is being displayed in Times Square! You can catch it on the 6th minute of every hour. You can expect to see it at 12:06 am, 1:06 am, and so on until the end of the day!

In addition to the billboard, our Save Dead Boy Detectives Campaign Team has also donated $150.00 to The Parkinson’s Foundation as a special gift to appreciate George and honor the memory of his father who passed away due to Parkinson's disease.

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And speaking of DBDA:

Medium article: Can the Record-Breaking Dead Boy Detectives Fan Campaign Pull Off a Resurrection?

Two recent articles:

Fans Rally for a Resurgence of the Canceled Series Dead Boy Detectives

Fans Fight to Bring Dead Boy Detectives Back to Life

I love this fandom.

Petition in case there's anyone who hasn't signed.

Steve Yockey (writer, developer and executive producer) is impressed with the billboard campaign(s). :)

Yes there are so many terrible things in the world, but art and stories always matter. 💙❤️💜💗

So, week before last (17-21 April) Darcy and I went to Barcelona on a mini-break - our first holiday without 'children' for 25 years... It was truly lovely, and Barcelona is so utterly gorgeous! (I hadn't been since I went there on a school trip when I was 18.) We went to both Park Guell and Sagrada Familia, the latter which is properly awe-inspiring.

And then we got home and I had to go back to work and just be a normal person again, instead of wandering through narrow European streets filled with tourist shops. Boo.

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However I have managed to write fic (Dead Boy Detectives of course...). Chapter 1 of many:

Crystal Gets A Boyfriend

Summary:

“You okay?” a voice asked, and Crystal turned to find a boy next to her, looking at her with concern.

For a brief moment she wondered what it might be like to be the sort of girl who could let herself get chatted up by a cute boy. To be a regular seventeen year old who could have a fun little fling, maybe even indulge in the kind of fluffy relationship that you saw in teen dramas…

Except she had never been that sort of girl. The last boy she had kissed had been a ghost. The one before that, a demon.

So yeah, the likelihood of a cute teen romance was basically nil.

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OR: Crystal deserves good things, so I decided to give her a boyfriend. However, what started out as a single, fun idea became a sprawling story, delving into all her issues and then some… And she does get that teen romance, it’s just a bit more unusual.

You know what would be perfect to watch tonight? A show about ghosts! ^_^

A fab song from Hua Chenyu:



(I don't even know what it's called, it came up in my suggested and I liked it.)

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In Save Dead Boy Detectives news, fandom has gotten a billboard. <3 <3 <3

I also keep forgetting to mention that Promethia & I are writing fic (just posted the 3rd chapter):

In the Sight of Angels (and Ghosts)
Summary: The story of how Edwin Payne, Dead Boy Detective, met and befriended Aziraphale, Angel and Bookseller. And how that friendship flourished despite initial set-backs.

I also wrote a Catwin oneshot: talk dirty to me, which is fic-of-fic...

No idea how many fans are on my flist (except for the 2 I already know of), but hey ho, here's why I am so absent. There is nothing like being in love with a show. 💜💜

Netflix cancelled Dead Boy Detectives. This was not really a surprise, that's how Netflix works, but I am just devastated. I can't remember being this upset since Ianto died. (And hey, he got 3 seasons!)

If someone offered to cancel S3 of Good Omens & give me S2 of Dead Boy Detectives instead I'd take the offer without hesitation.

I think the thing is that it's so good (it's 8 episodes, and they are so tightly written, so clever & complex that they could teach most shows a thing or two), the characters are so compelling and rich, and the premise is just great and infinitely extendable - it's a show that could just run, the way Buffy did, for years and years.

Also, the main characters are two ghost boys who were murdered when they were 16. It feels like they have been killed all over again.

(sigh)

It's better to have loved and lost, and goodness knows there are terrible things happening in this world. But this just stole my heart and now it is broken.

Also, you should all watch it. Because it's aces.