Please disturb.

Sesi. A child of the 90's. No consistency to be found here, only chaos.

[rosieandthemoon]

[dailyclassicart]

Édouard Rosset-Granger - "The Sleepwalker" (1897)

[crime-in-progress]

Is Will Byers being sus or is telemetry just that hard?

Remember in episode 1 when Dustin is a no-show for the crawl and Will offers to monitor the telemetry tracker in his place? He literally says: "I helped Dustin set up the antenna. I know how to work it."

But then in Shock Jock, when Joyce suggests they build another "telemetry thingy" to find the others and Mike argues they can’t do it without Dustin, Will just sits there and says nothing at all.

Is he staying quiet because he knows he can’t build one without Dustin? Even if that’s the case, wouldn't he at least say he knows something about it, since he helped set it up before? Instead, he just lets them believe they’re totally stranded.

Like, a) am I underestimating the required engineering skill level here (entirely plausible lol), b) is this inconsistent writing again, ORRR c) is he being sus as hell?

[rosieandthemoon]

By Maria Denise Dessimoz

[deadstonia]

[crime-in-progress]

Just thinking about how 'it was a seven' and 'it was eleven' are so visually and phonetically similar that you could easily re-dub it one way or the other and no one would even notice.

[enchantedbook]

A graveyard at night with an owl perched on a branch by Robert Paterson (active 1870-1889)

[stormborn]

We killed them, didn’t we?

[crime-in-progress]

Because I'm still stuck on Heroes and The Wall

In 1987, David Bowie performed a concert in West Berlin on a stage set right next to the Berlin Wall. Thousands of East Berliners gathered on the other side just to listen. "Heroes" was the highlight of the night, echoing over concrete and barbed wire to bring hope to the very people it was written for. It was a pivotal moment in the "soft power" movement that helped destabilize the regime, and a powerful example of how music has a way of finding you, even in the darkest of places. Two and a half years later, the wall that kept East Berliners imprisoned finally fell.

Naturally, "Heroes" was the end credit song for the Stranger Things season 5 finale. And look, here's a promo video featuring a piece of the Berlin Wall—totally unrelated to anything, I'm sure. Apparently it's just a coincidence and carries no storytelling significance whatsoever. (Sarcasm intended.)

In Pink Floyd's The Wall, the barrier isn't government-built; it's self-imposed. It represents the psychological bricks of fear, trauma and feelings of isolation the protagonist uses to construct a wall around himself. He only breaks free from the prison of his own making through a journey of self-awareness; by confronting himself and experiencing profound emotional catharsis, he finally “tears down the wall”.

Oh, did you notice that the Stranger Things S5 sets feature at least two posters of The Wall? An album that features the song Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2, which is also included in the official WSQK Collection? The finale epilogue even shows a literal brick being laid into a wall. Isn't that just wild and probably meant to reference nothing at all? (Sarcasm, again.)

And finally, in season 5 of Stranger Things, we have our own wall. Was it there to keep something out? Or in? It's never quite clear. I suppose this weird, slimy wall and whatever it was meant to represent was destroyed when El sacrificed herself for nothing? How inspirational!

*Crickets.*

Now: Why?

Why include these specific references to rock history and the history of oppression if you're not going to use them to frame your own story in some way? What's the point if you don't come full circle and tear down your own wall with something as meaningful as the events you’re referencing? I just don't get it.

Make it mean something, or keep your clammy hands off the classics.

[bob-belcher]

#this beautiful vampire is such a mood Jamie Campbell Bower for Rolling Stone UK

[requiem-on-water]

Agyness Deyn dances with death in ‘Spooky’ an evocative tale of love and lunacy by Tim Walker (2015)

[crime-in-progress]

Trying to put an ounce of positivity out there:

To all the lovely, crazy people behind conformitygate and related theories & analysis; you guys are so cool. You've made season five of Stranger Things make sense to me in a way the actual season five of Stranger Things failed to. You are so clever and observant, and I love reading your posts. Screw the party poopers and nay-sayers! As long as you're having fun, stay on that damn bus! I'll be rooting for you to the very end.

[roserosette]

The Insects’ Christmas, 1913, Wladyslaw Starewicz

[charnel-grounds]

Owen Gent, “Circle”

pencil on paper, 2017

[rosieandthemoon]

French Lacemakers, 1920

[merlinoutofcontext]

[kieselguhrkid]

There is a line from Shelley that haunts me, a single line from Adonais, I cannot get it out of my head. “No more let life divide what Death can join together.”