Too Much or Not Enough?🤔

atm this is where imma posting all my Stranger Things theories (so I don’t forget em) & reblogs, and possibly whatever else has caught my eye to theorize

[harpersplay]

Narrator:

Wilson Cruz became the first out actor playing an out series regular on network television.

Wilson Cruz:

I really believed it would be more powerful if young people understood the person playing that role stood behind that story. But when we made the pilot in 1993, ABC didn’t pick it up. So we went through a whole year where we were put on hold. I made a pact that if we got picked up that I would come out to my parents. We got picked up, and I told my mom first. It went okay. I told my dad, and my dad threw me out of the house. We had about three months before we started to go into production on the series. And between my car and, um, some friends’ couches, I made it through three months. And when I told Winnie my story, she decided that that was also gonna happen to Rickie on My So-Called Life.

Winnie Holzman:

I was starting to feel this sense of responsibility toward just expressing what I understood was really some young gay people’s experiences in life. I mean, obviously not all, but, unfortunately, too many.

Wilson Cruz:

So Christmas of ‘93 I tell my father, and we stopped speaking. And in December of ‘94, the episode in which Rickie is thrown out of his house airs. Ten, fifteen minutes pass, and my phone rings. And it’s my dad. And, uh…he says, “You know, I think it’s about time we talked.”

There is not a day that goes by that I don’t get a message from somebody who says their life was changed because of Rickie. And I wonder sometimes, you know, how many fathers turned to their sons or daughters and said, “I think it’s time for us to talk.”

That’s the power of TV.

– from Visible: Out on Television

[2much0rnot3nough]

This warms the cockles of my heart so so much!!! My So Called Life was everything and the fact that it only got one season was an injustice to mine and every following generation. Getting to see my brother represented on national tv, seeing what high school was really like before I got there, the types of peers I would meet and friends I’d make and fall out of friendship with, the raw unfiltered teenage angst of it all, nothing and I mean NOTHING will ever top nor come close to, My So Called Life.

Also, I LOVE RICKIE SO MUCH!!! ❤️

[mejcinta]

WAKE UP EVERYONE!!! THEY’RE BACK!

[2much0rnot3nough]

Where can I steam this in the us or Mexico? Like do I really need to get a foreign vpn to watch it?! Why can’t peacock already have season 2 now!

[leavemeslowly]

big congrats to the fanfic writers who wrote 1940s Steve losing his virginity to an original female character

[2much0rnot3nough]

Thought they were talking about Steve Harrington and then I read their tags and I…

🥴😭💀

[tentacion2099]

The Lincoln County, MO Drug Task Force arrested a pirate.

When arrested he begged to walk the plank, he decorated a pontoon to sell drugs from. Which he required customers to say, “Ahoy matey, I come to purchase ye party favors.”

His nickname was Red Beard.

[odd-vox]

Free Him.

[thebloomreport]

He literally did nothing wrong.

[2much0rnot3nough]

If only Stede “The Gentleman Pirate” Bonnet had recruited him for his crew, he’d be free to sail the open sea!

[hephaestn]

Billy Hargrove + Dean Winchester  — Parallels Part I

[2much0rnot3nough]

I’m fully aware that my type is a pretty sad sack of shit, but damn did this parallels post take me by surprise. Ok, I see me. 👀

Absolutely gorgeous gif set! I hope there’s a pretty boy tears parallel in the next one, because they’re both very pretty criers.

[umbrum77]

I think....when I see people say they don't want to see "x" on AO3 and it's pointed out to them that tag system allows them not to see "x" and they insist that no that is not enough they reveal there hand.

It's not that THEY don't want to see "x" they don't want YOU to see "x". They have decided that you can't be trusted with your own decisions. That you can't make your own decisions. And that only are qualified to be the arbiters of what is good.

I think it's condescending, insulting and reveals more about how they want to control others.

[2much0rnot3nough]

What a succinct observation on what it’s like to live under oppression.

[spader7]

murray bauman would make it happen

[2much0rnot3nough]

He. Most. Definitely. Would.

[rylandsgrace]

Okay, I’m confused. What’s going on here? A lovers’ quarrel? (insp)

#We like Nancy, but we don’t love Nancy

[2much0rnot3nough]

Steve and eddi both said, “it’s gonna be a no from me, dogg.”

[laurapalwer]

[2much0rnot3nough]

Sometimes though they come back, so it’s worth checking in every now and then if only for the rush of euphoria that washes over you at unexpectedly finding a new chapter!

Also it’s not complete if it’s some series with wip, why do you tag it as such? It’s so heart breaking to think you’ve found a brilliant complete work only to realize too late that it’s an incomplete series and only that specific fix is complete. Please tag that shit so we can make an I formed choice as to weather or not to break our own hearts.

Thank you kindly for all your hard work and wonderful stories!

[racheld93]

I've seen a lot of fics fixing Billy's home life and I've loved them all... Susan bettering herself and Neil getting arrested, Joyce taking Billy in as one of her own and being the mama bear he has always needed, Hopper adopting another child of abuse and protecting them both so fiercely that they help him grow from his own trauma too, I've even read rarer fics where Mrs Henderson or the Harringtons take him under their wing and help him be independent.

But where are the fics with Murray, crazy eccentric incredible karate fighting Murray, seeing the aftermath of this young boy fighting a monster with his bare fucking hands and surviving only to despair about the thought of finally being able to leave the hospital and go home? Where are the fics with Neil getting his ass handed to him and screamed at and frightened by a guy with crazy eyes and spit flying from his mouth with righteous fury? Where are the fics with Billy being seen and heard and protected and loved by a wonderful freak of a man that doesn't think twice about showing compassion and understanding and forgiveness and acceptance?

What I'm saying is, Murray Bauman may not be the first person you think of as parent material, but he'd certainly be a great one.

And he'd have no compunction about getting rid of the bastard before him. No one would ever find the fucking body.

[2much0rnot3nough]

Also I’d doubt he’d give two shits if billy came out to him as gay. Wouldn’t even be phased, he’d just help billy win his crushes heart (steve), and give him a very blunt “birds & bees” talk and also a very blunt don’t be a shitty uncommunicative boyfriend talk too lol

He’d not only totally support him, but also be very proud of him for being brave enough to share that part of himself with him. And then go to every pride wearing a one of those “proud of my gay son” shirts. He’d be a super wholesome dad!

[martianclown]

why is argyle the only one without a surname though is what i'm wondering

THATS WHAT I'M SAYING!! Even the side characters in the Hawkins plot line had last names. Were the duffers not creative enough to come up with one?

Anyway we were talking and came up with one ourselves and @geormenia sticks to it.

It's Molina~

Run with Argyle Molina if you want!

[2much0rnot3nough]

Because duffers clearly hate Mexicans, shit POC period. That’s why it took them four season for their to be more than 1 black family in Hawkins.

[calypsolemon]

are some of the people newer to tumblr aware of the joys of theme customization on desktop? I know some ppl are just on mobile so they can’t really change things but like SO many blogs nowadays have 0 theme customization and just use the default theme and I’m beginning to wonder if they even know about the option. It’s one of the main reasons why I still use tumblr

[2much0rnot3nough]

I know, I just don’t care to put in the effort. I have and it’s too much work. But I do enjoy when others do!

[2much0rnot3nough]

🤣💀⚰️

The ONLY right response to having read this interview

[not-a-dis-a-ppointment]

Lucas Sinclair is the only party member whose biological parents are actually in love

We need more Charles and Sue appreciation, they're fabulous parents

[2much0rnot3nough]

That’s called Black Love and it’s beautiful! 🖤

[candied-cae]

In the Stranger Things debate between "Mike and Dustin should've gone to the tournament" vs. "Lucas should've gone to Hellfire" it feels like people are forgetting that LUCAS HAS BEEN AT EVERY OTHER SESSION OF THE CAMPAIGN! It's why they needed a substitute, because Lucas has been showing up.

He wanted to be there. He has invested just as much time as everyone else did. And the ONE TIME that he couldn't make it work with basketball, everyone dropped him. The one time it was something in his life that he couldn't reschedule or just choose not to show up to, no one else even tried to figure it out.

Sure, Eddie and the Hellfire crew didn't care about sports, but they cared about Lucas. They all had plans to be together that night and even though Lucas was supposed to sit on the bench, they all could've gone to the game anyway. Sat together and had fun because they were hanging out, even if it was at a Basketball tournament, and they would've even gotten to see Lucas play at the end in a surprising and exciting moment for him.

Yeah, they would've had to re-plan their schedules to make another night work, yes, Mike was going to be gone for the next week and some of them were graduating that year. But it was Spring Break. They had MONTHS left to have fit the end of the Venca campaign into. What? Did Hellfire have no plans to do anything else for the rest of the semester once they wrapped up that story?

They could've made it work. They just chose not to.

I've seen stuff about how "Lucas was moving away from D&D to be popular". He wasn't, he was doing both while trying to protect himself. He was still playing D&D, but he was just also trying sports and being friends with his teammates. Yes, he was trying to align himself less with the nerdy stuff publicly, because (in case we've all forgotten) he has been relentlessly bullied with the rest of them for it and the previous school year he was literally targeted by Billy before he went after him to attack him for being black. He was nearly the victim of a violent hate crime had Steve not been there to help enough that Max was able to scare him off from that point on.

For Lucas, gaining popularity isn't just having cool friends and going to parties. It is a layer of protection that would've made him (and his sister) less likely to be hurt or killed for being a black kid in a 1980's, overwhelmingly white, small-town in Indiana.

[2much0rnot3nough]

Welcome to being the friend-of-color, your are expendable.

Bet six bucks that the wheeler parents don’t even feed him dinner unless they’re having a campaigner too. Dustin & Will’s moms do, because their single mothers and they don’t let babies go hungry.

[fandomfoundmyart]

milf (man i love fanfiction)

[nerdybluephoenix]

Alien: You need technology to correct your written language?

Human: Our grammar, yes. Spelling too.

Alien: But it's your language. Can't you just write it correctly the first time?

Human (offended): I'm trying. I was never great in school, okay?

Alien: I didn't realize this could be a problem. Does the technology help, at least?

Human: *sigh* no.

[2much0rnot3nough]

As a polyglot who’s only dyslexic* in English & ASL I feel that *sigh* on a viscerally personal level. Bone. Deep.

*it took me 3 tries to spell that word and I actually know how to spell it, ugh!

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