IProllyBlankedOut

Any pronouns | Adult | Pan Fuck Gen AI I draw.

[blanksam]

im so tired

My bestfriend is generating photos of her with an AI boyfriend

My other bestfriend is talking about how the environment going to shit for technology is necessary

How the fuck am I supposed to deal with this? Do we just make excuses for terrible shit till life is a fucking wasteland but oh look, I can get emotional validation from a non sentient machine in a matter of seconds?

I want to disappear from this world.

[blanksam]

I'm gonna get flamed for this but Stranger Things has been solely running off of fumes of nostalgia and ONLY nostalgia. Ten years seeing some kids run around and play pretend, of course anyone would get attached, of course even the middest of plotlines would seem like the world. The last time it was good was Season 1 and since then it's quality has been dropping season by season and the reason people tune in because the kids are adorable and 80s nostalgia (and it's not even done right, but oh well)

[wllbyers]

anyway. i’m being completely serious when i say that so many of you should be writing and publishing your own stories. if two mediocre white men can write a half assed story and get critical acclaim, just imagine what you can do

[blanksam]

Funny how there's ads on every square inch of everything I use, funny how they're all slowly converting to AI, funny how the jewelry and food and clothes and makeup you're trying to sell me isn't real, funny how all that aforementioned jewelry and food and clothes and makeup is made by child labour, funny how those AI ads used up more water than all water bottling companies combined, funny how people are starting to lose basic life and social skills like making a grocery list and researching and not having 24/7 unconditional validation at the cost of a few gallons per sob story, funny how none of my friends or family or anyone close even cares, funny how i can tell them how terrible it is to use gen AI just for them to post an AI generated image of them in the studio ghibli style and send me AI generated memes and AI generated videos of slop slop slop and is that enough no of course its not here's AI in google. heres Ai in a 3 minute YT video. heres AI in my reels. in my shorts. in the random app you're journalling in. here's AI in whatsapp. Meta's reading your chats. Open AI is reading your chats. Governments are reading your chats. Want a drink? they're investing in AI. Wanna listen to songs? they're investing in AI, in fact, the music itself is AI. Nothing is real. Nothing is real. Am I real? Is this real? I'm going to be replaced. You're going to be replaced. We're going to be replaced. They're not going to help us. They're not going to give us a single cent. We know. They know. They're reading our chats. They're reading our chats.

Isn't this AI dog video adorable?!

[blanksam]

"I use AI for therapy"

please. if you didn't need therapy then you definitely need it now.

[wcndertwins]

romantic byler aside, what really upsets me is how they managed to fumble platonic byler too. they barely interacted and mike wasn’t even shown to be worried for will. that just contradicts everything we’ve seen of mike’s character and their friendship in the past seasons.

[bylertruth3r]

yes I'm aware Byler is likely happening near the end of episode 8 or in the epilogue but I'm not apologizing to them even after they're canon because I'm sick of queer people and queer couples always having to be a shock value for straight people and for denying Will was gay since s1 and letting people be homophobic to Will stans for simply paying attention and understanding Will makes me so mad, and I'm mad about them making that weird coming out scene where Will acted out of fear instead of him coming out when he's ready and not because he felt threatened by his own abuser (Vecna) and for making him come out to basically the whole town when we literally got a beautiful coming out scene for Robin, homophobes literally turned Will's coming out scene which was supposed to be special and only between Will and Joyce into a joke and they're being so homophobic and don't understand Will at all, and doing that rn when the world is literally so homophobic is infuriating, and mocking Bylers for paying attention to your own show like you wanted people to, to only to hide the plot twist in episode 8 and making homophobes wrongly hate on us for actually understanding the show for years is so weird because people are attacking queer people for being right just because you wanted to keep a queer couple getting together in the last episode to keep your homophobic audience honestly fuck you oh and also Will begging people to not see him as different and weird just because he's gay when he had a whole arc about embracing his queerness was so weird

[mickaelaaaa]

The only solace that I have, is that they didn’t JUST assassinate Byler with this volume. Or Mike’s character. They assassinated A TON of characters and plot lines. They fumbled their own show SO BADLY. All this anticipation, and build up, and “genius” writing decisions were flukes. Which is the most embarrassing part. It wasn’t only Byler that was fumbled, it was pretty much everything.

[byerswheeler]

you cannot convince me in any way that will has just “a crush” on mike and that it was ever framed that way and the fact that it’s been reduced to that is insulting and a coward move

will byers i am so sorry you deserve so much better

[bylerworld]

the fact we can't watch will's coming out scene without being reminded that they made it about mike and compared mike to tammy and belittled will's love for mike to a crush and there are also 13 people watching and he's full on having a panic attack and he did it out of fear like wow that is genuinely so sick and twisted there is literally not a single good part in it we can't have ANYTHING

[hearteyes-wheeler]

This is THE coming out scene to me. This is what its supposed to feel like. Intimate, personal emotional and jusssst this side of painful. The good kinda painful where it tugs at your heart strings and makes you ache for this poor boy and relate to his struggles. Makes you wish kind, perceptive people like Jonathan existed in your life. Not whatever... The vol2 coming out scene was.

[drowning-venom]

Did the Will Byers coming out scene make me cry? Yes. Was it because it was good? Come back to me on that one I’m still processing

[blanksam]

Even if they pull a last minute last episode byler endgame, they are still goddamned cowards for stretching it out for so goddamned long. This isn't good queer rep. We shouldn't have to fucking settle between a 3 season long nothing burger or an offscreen lesbian relationship.

[queeleronwheels]

they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike they should never have made will in love with mike

[blanksam]

Since midder things released vol 2 im not even interested in watching the finale anymore. They can keep their mid to themselves lol

[luuuvelyagain]

"what did you think, that you were going to have good queer rep and cherish it fot the rest of our lives?"

"i guess i did. i really did."

[blanksam]

THOUGHTS ABOUT VOL 2

ALL APOILERS PLEASE SCROLL AWAY

I literally just finished Vol 2 and i have some...thoughts.

As much as i hate to say it, the best storyline was that of Steve and Dustin's. Angst, a full on fight, conflict, resolution, but not a fullstop resolution that means there's more capacity for angst in the final episode.

There wasn't much of Joyce and Hopper, though i feel that the Joyce's Terrible Plan pt 2 was uneeded and why oh why are we making her this stupid kind of over-protective person who can't read a room? I just hate everything they did with Joyce, AND MATTER OF FACT, I also HATE that they took the same godammned route with Hopper, there's no development beyond the selfish, self-important "El can't die and Kali/anyone who disagrees with me in the slightest is a punk ass bitch". I hate that both their roles have just deteriorated to that. It's like they have physically no clue what to do with Hopper and Joyce except make them the same overblown unyielding personality that just doesn't learn. At least Joyce learnt somewhat to not coddle Will, only to what? Get shoved back into her previous state? What is even the point?

I actually like what they did with Jancy somewhat. A bit annoyed that it relied so so heavily on the miscommunication trope, BUT YES GODDAMN NANCY IS AN INDEPENDENT GODDAMN BADDIE WHO DOESNT WANT OR NEED A GODDAMN RING OR SIX GODDAMN KIDS. I've seen some people interpret it as "Ou No Jancy Broke Up!" but i saw it as more of a "We're in love and we're a team" and honestly, that's the best resolution we could have hoped for. It was sweet, it was nice and i feel satisfied, but im open to have my mind changed.

Max and Holly. I think its one of my favourite storylines but its so goddamn long and drawn out and again, just so terribly LONG considering the way they've pushed and cut off a lot of shit that needed to be addressed. I do like it, but i really can't help but feel that it really, really is solely for the purpose of including the first shadow lore. And that bs in Vecna's mind lair where they're just standing around talkin about love? So unneeded. So out of place. The dialogue was empowering sure ig but like why draw it out. Max just on the spot hypothesing that it's not just music and it can be love too. So why didnt she wake up when Lucas was crying and holding her broken body, when that was easily the most heart wrenching romantic coded moments? It would have been so, so much better to have Lucas switch off the music/ have the demos break the radio (idk im not familiar with 80's devices) and have Lucas do an act of love and THAT'S how Max realises that it's not just Music? Why have Max lead this fucking CHILD through hell, just to find her own gate and tell her nope this aint your exit? All they did was dumping a truckload of exposition on our heads and said "Yeah, ts canon now" by making it happen.

Finally, whatever the HELL was that confession. Youre telling me, ever since Season 3 AT MINIMUM, Will has been aware that he's gay, and in love with his best friend and aware that the world hates him for it, and this is what his confession/ coming out looks like? It was impersonal, painful to watch, and EVEN IN HIS GODDAMN CONFESSION HE'S STILL HIDING and LYING BECAUSE HE DOESN'T TELL ANYONE THAT THE BOY HE LIKED IS HIS BEST FRIEND???? What in the? It was and i am not lying, i had to physically skip ahead just because it was so? Mediocre? Terrible? Oscillating between the two? TAMMY? NO ONE GETS THAT REFERENCE EXCEPT STEVE, ROBIN AND MAYBE VICKIE??? SPEAKING OF, WHY IS STEVE HERE? Why's Vickie here, why's Murray, and i don't remember if Hopper and Kali are there but considering everyone's there why not throw em in the mix too??? This is.....MILES worse than whatever the hell anyone was expecting, AND GODDAMN ROBIN, WHO WAS A SIDE CHARACTER HAD A BETTER COMING OUT SCENE THAN THE LITERAL MAIN CHARACTER OF THE SERIES EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS ACTUALLY FUCKING DRUGGED??????????

Mike does nothing, so it confirms that it was a conscious deliberate choice that they MADE him be an asshole for 2 seasons minimum to magically become better after an 18 month period, he even hugs Will after Lucas and Dustin, and for someone who's supposed to be the heart, he sure doesnt have any the way he looked blank throughout the confession.

Putting those nitpicks to the side, it was just....Mediocre, as much as it pains me to admit it. It made me feel absolutely nothing, and considering i was bawling at the Robin-Will-Tammy scene, that's a terrible goddamn sign. A whole lot of Meh, laced the fact that apparently, the writers did not have the balls to take risks at all, combined with they have 2 hours to solve the fact that the painting hasn't been brought up, Will's still lying, as well as Hopper is also lying to himself and El, El's influenced by Kali to kill herself, Mike has no depth or storyline, Murray, Vickie and Erica have close to no storyline, Holly did all that just to reach where she started AND THEN GETTING VECNA'D after beating up all her friends, it's just a mess, an unevenly paced, unevenly balanced mess, with a couple of Gatorage ads thrown in the middle. I'm afraid they lost the point after Vol.1 and the finale has to be some sort of a miracle to fix gaping holes.