Jac!!

They/Them

[earnestecho]

I find it funny that Shane’s tell when he’s lying is “sure.” He says it EVERYTIME he lies. Without fail. Like my guy you SUCK at lying holy shit…you can’t come up with something more convincing than “sure”???????

[earnestecho]

Reading the golden raven and being like hey this isn’t actually that emotionally devastating😃 and then the second half hit…

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I rock climb a lot in my free time which means I am in a gym with a lot of very muscular dudes and there’s this one guy who is like 5 foot even and incredibly buff and always wears black armbands and, though he is not blond, I think you know where I’m going with this

[earnestecho]

Terrified at the possibility that Jean’s anger at Kevin is going to switch from mad that he left Jean behind at evermore to deal with Riko to mad that Kevin didn’t take him with him

[earnestecho]

The idea of Jean going to interviews now that he’s not a Raven is so funny to me. Because after the whole “he’s never spoken to the press we must find everything out about him” phase passes the simply about exy stage, I can so clearly imagine him pulling up to an interview expecting to talk about exy and being BAFFLED that they want to know what song he’s had on repeat recently.

[earnestecho]

Hello AFTG fans!! I urge you to consider commissioning for a great cause if you’re able. Me and a whole bunch of other super talented AFTG artists/writers/editors are raising funds for aid to Palestine! For more information: https://x.com/aftg4palestine/status/1852825521991684448?s=46&t=-aAO4OpVD2bPl4_cl-mxOw

[earnestecho]

Feeling crazy and writing a jean reincarnation au…trojan jean but he remembers every single one of his past lives….

[earnestecho]

Was listening to a podcast I like and they started talking about crows and I ended up falling down a rabbit hole of googling crow facts. With this new information I got struck with the realization: Jean is not a raven. He’s a crow.

Sure, if you don’t know much about birds they look identical. They’re both big and black. An easy mistake to make, though they’re rather different.

Ravens are found in isolation. In forests, wildlife reserves, and the like. Crows flourish in two types of areas: 1) large, open habitats like agricultural fields and 2) urban areas like parks and city centers. Jean belongs outside of the nest and in the light of day surrounded by others.

Crows are a large bird, but they’re smaller than ravens. The tail of a raven is tapered, causing raven tails to have a pointed end and giving an overall diamond shape to their appearance. Crows have tails that fan at the end. In addition, ravens have longer wingspans and heavier beaks where crows have shorter wings and thinner beaks which speaks to agility. Jean, like the crow, cannot be described as soft. However, in comparison to the raven, he is less harsh.

The two birds have different calls as well, which (for birdwatchers) is the best way to tell them apart. The crow has a high pitched caw, while the raven has a deeper, throatier croak. The crow call is similar to birdsong in that it is used to signify presence within a territory rather than mark it. In fact, both birds do not use their call as a way to mark territory but rather as a way to communicate with other birds of their species within the territory, specifically their families. The reason i bring attention to this point is because Jean has always been speaking in a language unavailable to his teammates. He has been using crow calls to speak to ravens that do not view him as family, in the species sense of the word. His words are only given power when he speaks to what becomes his own family, whether that be Kevin in the nest (who is also not a raven) or the Trojans.

The way that they deal with mean humans is an important point as well. Crows are extremely intelligent and inquisitive. A crow is known to never forget a face, and when encountering a mean and potentially dangerous human it teaches others in its family how to identify that human. I don’t think I need to draw the clearest line here to Jean “is Cody safe” Moreau. He speaks for himself.

My final point comes in the form of false beliefs about crows. One of the biggest beliefs surrounding them is their love for shiny objects (which i was going to evidence Jean’s experiences with bisexuality until I started to read more on it lol). However, this is a common myth. In fact, crows show little preference to shiny objects (the same is true of magpies!). It is simply a falsehood, if you would, that is believed by many people…sound familiar to any rumors floating around about Jean?

How in the hell is a crow supposed to survive in a raven’s nest?

[moonsnqil]

𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴

I initially wanted to draw something that represented a bit of Jean's grief over a situation and environment that doesn't deserve it, but then this took a turn and got away from me. so. this is what I have to offer.

[earnestecho]

Rereading the sunshine court and realizing…Coach Rhemann knows what happened with Jeremy:

After the whole Grayson incident happens, Rhemann offers to call the police. Jean immediately refuses. Rhemann, in an attempt to convince him says “I’ll send Jeremy away first” and Jean has NO idea why that’s meant to win him over.

Obviously, the reader knows about Jeremy’s aversion to the police from chapter eight, but Jeremy is cagey with everyone else, hence why Jean doesn’t know.

Which leads me to two interesting observations. 1) extremely cagey Jeremy has told Rhemann what happened which could just indicate that they’re close, but more likely indicates that the event that involved the police happened at the banquet and there was no way to prevent Rhemann from knowing. 2) Rhemann assumes that Jeremy has told Jean about whatever incident this was as he assumes the reason Jean refuses the police is to protect Jeremy. Thus Rhemann thinks they’re closer than they actually are which is just…funny.

Anyways, this leads me to a bunch of questions from who was involved, who exactly knows, how public was this event, ect ect.

[earnestecho]

Waiting for the inevitable scene where Jeremy finds out Jean has never had in n out and acts like every californian does by gasping and saying its the best and wtf you havent had it?? And when he finally gets Jean to try it Jean acts like every non californian does and is like “this is unbelievably average??” and Jeremy acts like Jean just lit Barkbark on fire in front of him. Like im sorry Jeremy is absolutely an in n out purist

[mirystelle]

Them 💛

[scholliski]

Neil is the most unserious character like what do you mean you develop a secondhand nicotine addiction purely because you want to remember the smell of your moms burning corpse

[earnestecho]

You know when you think about it Andrew looked at Neil and thought “hes 19 he should be at the club”

[hamrikaa]

Round two with Jean, Jeremy, Cat and Laila (and Barkbark von Barkenstein of course)🌈

The little illustration I made as a print for the aftg pride zine ✨️

@aftgpridezine or @/aftg_zine on twitter !!

I imagined them getting ready for their own little party or sth~

[earnestecho]

Charles and Niko beef where anytime he plays ANY song she’ll hit him with the “oh my god! they sung this on glee!” and it drives him absolutely fucking crazy

it has been going on so long that its too late to ask her what glee is.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

okay so idk what meta is but listen THE DIRECTION ON DEAD BOY DETECTIVES IS FUCKING SUPERB. UNRIVALLED. AND I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT TO THE HELLSITE VOID. SO LISTEN.

transitions. between scenes. it's so easy to cross-fade, or just hard cut, or fade to black and then open the next scene. sometimes, if a piece of media is putting in a bit of effort, you'll see things like water transitioning to sky or maybe a background being continuous while the characters change or vice versa.

but dead boy detectives. the transitions are fucking flawless. and so creative, like everything about this show. creative transitions are difficult to do, and they keep getting it right. whether it's someone holding up a circle and that melds into the next scene where the railing has a circle in it, or the camera moving downwards from the floor in one location to under a table in a different location, or them falling out of mirrors, they take the tiniest of elements and turn them into transitions so fucking deliciously, and everything is so dynamic, both the camera and the scene.

and that makes it so much more impactful when there IS a hard cut. like in episode 5 (where the You Know What occurs with Jenny). the cut from the mascot at the high school scene to the butcher's shop is BRUTALLY hard, with Jenny again slicing into things with her meat cleaver, and it lends an extra air of violence to that meat cleaver--which is such great foreshadowing for what happens later (even the initial establishing shot of the butcher's shop at the start of the episode makes the cleaver in the sign flash red, drawing attention to it).

the direction helps the narrative so much, giving both atmosphere and foreshadowing without needing to fatten the dialogue with it.

and apart from all that just the general camerawork is so creative and helps with the campy feel of the show, with characters being bang in the middle of frames or with the camera holding a lovely shot for longer than a beat like Edwin and Niko cocking their heads to the side it's all such a lovely, choreographed dance between the camera, the actors, the set and the script and NGKKK.