I’m Dancing, Baby, But I Feel Like Dying

Anne | Stranger things etc sideblog | they/them | Jewish | lesbian | 19 | ao3: mellojelllo

[buyinglines]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Heyyyy if you want to read about the painting and letters and misunderstandings and Mike writing dumb poetry u should check out my fic 😳😳

[givehimthemedicine]

El fresh out of the lab and having to learn food

Mike wiping El off with a washcloth: "I know yeah they look the same when they're hard boiled"

"El what do you do with your banana peels?" "what" "whenever I bring you a banana to eat I never find the peel, where do you put them?" "what is peels?" "wait have you been just

El, very weird face, watering eyes: "Mike.. why are they called oranges when some of them are yellow" "what do y- no.. no"

El, pretending to bring an onion to her mouth "wait El that's-" "joke! haha" "oh haha, ok" "peel first, I know" (bites in)

Mike finds a whole bowl of peaches all with one big bite taken out. "rocks" "what do you mean rocks?" "there was a rock in it. all of them"

"pineapple hurts. I ate the wrong part?" "yeah no that's the right part actually it just makes your mouth hurt"

"Wait El don't bite into chicken like that, watch out for the bones" (horrified whisper) "bones?" "yeah" "like people have?" "I... guess"

"Mike help me find my popsicle" "what" "I left it on the table earlier and it went away, there is only the bone now"

El lying on the lawn, crying, leaking snot: "how do you know if a pepper is nice or mean"

El taking notes after every meal

[lumism]

[itadorii-deactivated20251228]

couldn’t help myself

[ki-flor]

The vision is there

[aemiron-main]

the way will is just staring at his hand here after bumping it against the desk is so funny to me idk why hes staring at it with such awe

[rotisseries]

stranger things textposts you say?

[bikuwana-still-on-discord-deact]

girls when the media they're obsessed with is never going to be as good as they wish it could be

[finalgirlbyers-deactivated20230]

robin buckley definitely lays on her bed horizontally and lets her head fall off the side when she’s on the phone w her girlfriend and she also has little stars on her ceiling and connects them with hand motions when she’s looking up there

[lumism]

"will has been acting weird" but not like he's twirling his hair or anything our boy is just staring at walls. which is so real because that's what i look like while thinking of romantic scenarios too

[aemiron-main]

*shows you a horrifying (hilarious) vision of stranger things as textposts*

[stbyers]

OCTOBER MOODBOARD 🏳️‍🌈💙

[lumism]

"cali plot was useless" untrue we literally got to see will byers sway in place and sing a little song. ten out of ten

[proud-mama-joyce]

the way Mike says goodbye to Will after he’s finally, finally back safe and sound from the UD, but his goodbye overlaps with Dustin’s so he turns to watch Will as he leaves and says it again to make sure he heard him 

Noah: “Even in Season 1, they hinted at [Will’s love for Mike] and slowly, slowly grew that storyline.” no one can convince me they weren’t also doing this for Mike.

[revengeismygender]

Caleb McLaughlin once again having to address how poorly he’s treated in comparison with his white co-stars by the fan base is once again a reminder of how fucking ugly this fandom can be. The fact that Lucas is a main party member and has been since day one, has been shown having important arcs, important relationships, and has been extremely vital to the plot in every single season and yet receives far less fan attention than his white counterparts is still the reality four seasons in and there’s a reason for that.

It’s the same reason Erica gets ignored and abused by the fandom. The same reason Argyle has received 1/100th of the attention Eddie has and the reason Steddie is far more popular than Jargyle despite Jonathan and Argyle actually having a relationship (and I like Eddie and Steddie so don’t come at me I’m just saying). The same reason Billy still has an extremely devoted fan base who call him a sweet baby boi and write endless fics about him despite him canonically being a racist asshole who literally threatened Lucas’s life just because he was black. It’s the reason Caleb gets snubbed for awards despite some extremely phenomenal acting, especially in the S4 finale. (hint: it’s racism).

Anyway, Lucas and Caleb are amazing and deserve everything and I just think the ST fandom as a whole needs to be cognizant of how the (very few!) POC in the cast are treated.

[lookingforketrick]

[lovesitcomsandgaystuffs]

Sure, Will is a sensitive kid and the sweetest boy but he's also very