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Oh no what am I doing here

[denimjacketkarl]

Ive heard that fandoms are disconnected from the plot but some of you people are actually watching a different show i think

[gamoraswonder]

STRANGER THINGS 3.08 "The Battle of Starcourt" | 5.04 "Sorcerer"

[denimjacketkarl]

LUCAS IS THE GOAT

[heroesbyler]

What the hell, sure.jpg

But all you....what Derek. Please Derek can you tell me things please please please

[literallyidontwannadothis]

tbh, most unrealistic part of Stranger Things is that they don't reference things that happened in previous seasons more. I choose to believe that they make fun of each other a-la-Lucas and Max singing Never Ending Story at Dustin a lot more than they show:

Dustin: not right now, Lucas-

Lucas: BuT wHy ArE yOu KeEpInG tHiS cUrIoSiTy DoOr CLOSED Dustin??

Steve: I don't care-

Dustin and Robin, simultaneously: I don't CARE about Tina, or Uncle Jack's party-

Steve: I WAS STRESSED OKAY

El: Hop wants to talk to you

Mike: oh is it about my SICK FREAKING GRANDMA

Lucas: I need to tell you something, but it's a secret,

Max: should we go to the arcade

Anyone: Who do you work for?

Steve and Robin in unison: SCOOPS AHOY

Mike: I'm going over to the Byers to study with El and Will

Nancy, innocently: Oh, what's your test on, human ana-

Mike: SHUT UP SHUT UP RIGHT NOW

Dustin: I'm feeling low, I could really use a win

Steve: Aw, I'm sorry buddy, do you want-

Dustin: I'm going to challenge you to a fight

Steve: ... what the hell, dude

AND NOW THE ORANGE MOHAWK, I call bull, real life friends would be all over that: Don't let Mike make any decisions, he wanted to get an orange mohawk last year.

[fallingthruspace]

can't wait for that Hopper/El/Kali dynamic it's going to be SO GOOD I can feel it in my nuggets

[denimjacketkarl]

Waiting for Hopper to say something to Kali about “wait you’re the reason she came back all punk that time?- wait You 🤨??? Really?”

[howtobecomeadragon]

lucas sinclair's preferred mode of transportation: jumping

[571rr-deactivated20251227]

I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.

A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.

AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.

Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.

There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.

I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.

If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...

then it's real.

Edit: I did NOT expect this post to get this much attention. I'm truly sorry I made some people feel I'm doubting their genuinity as writers. This was not the point of this post; actually it was the opposite. My words aren't flawless, either; sometimes they come out wrong. I despise "AI witchunts" (if you read my earlier posts about this matter, you know). I tried to say, your love for your art is what makes it yours. No matter how you show it. I believe art is a connection between souls; a machine can't replicate that. It felt nice to hear that professionals in the industry (at least this one person) still search for that in what they choose to publish, too. That's why I wanted to share.

Edit 2. Please be kind in the comments. We're artists and writers, so passionate people, but we're on the same side here. Lift each other up. ❤️

Edit 3. (the last one, I promise) I'm restricting the comments for now to let this conversation cool down a bit. Once more; I did NOT mean, nor did the person I spoke with, that you need to remember every detail of every story or it's AI. This post is not about detecting AI. It's about love and passion injected to art by those who create it. With "not knowing their own story" I didn't mean having a perfectly crafted marketing speech about it. I meant just... knowing it. Loving it. In any way that feels natural to us. That's how I feel about my stories, anyway.

[denimjacketkarl]

Which one of you was going to tell me about the first shadow????!!?

[hellfire--cult]

Oh.

[spaceoddity6]

i watched season 3 when i was in like 6th grade so istg i was on some bs like i didn't really understand gay people (my family is lowkey homophobic and religious) and i fr thought will was just destroying castle byers and losing his shit cause his friends didn't wanna play dungeons and dragons 😭

[denimjacketkarl]

Bruh same

[rockmerobin]

and if i said i think kali deserves fatherly love as well and a chance to be with hopper and jane?

[denimjacketkarl]

Hopper gets to be the overly stressed father figure for all three people with superpowers lol

[littlefreakboy]

season 5 spoilers

i have been IN. THE. TRENCHES FOR YEARS saying kali wasnt a throwaway plotline and y'all needed to just have patience. foolish they called me. delusional. BUT LOOK NOW

[shieldofiron]

In every universe they will wear silly work uniforms together.

[denimjacketkarl]

Okay, is Byler realistically actually happening guys?

[losversaki]

I KNEW THAT 008 WAS THERE

[stalisoulmates]

Controversial but like. I still don't completely buy that Kali got her powers from Henry/One/Vecna and here is why:

The First Shadow takes place in 1959, with the final jopper scene taking place in 1963 when Hopper leaves for Vietnam, and then years after that we see Brenner tell Henry the blood transfusions worked and he is introduced to the "numbered children".

Kali was born in 1963/1964 and she wasn't born in the lab. She wasn't even born in the United States. She was born in London, and Brenner had to go through a lot of trouble to get her. Why? Why pick across-the-pond Kali and not some other random 5-year-old?

ST, TFS and Suspicious Minds have a lot that contradict each other, I can admit that, and really only what we see in the show is canon, but the book Suspicious Minds has Kali already having powers when Brenner takes her.

The show will probably prove me wrong, but for now... I don't think Kali is one of Henry's.

[squiddysides]

Kali also has different powers to the rest of them, she's much more explicitly focused on mind control powers/telepathy rather than telekinesis.

[denimjacketkarl]

Yes that to, everyone else does the same thing with telekinesis and stuff while Kali is unique so that makes sense, but why did the government have her trapped? Like I get that they figured she was a threat and could track her down one way or another, but why? Why the upside down? Why not kill her? why have HER TRAPPED in THE UPSIDE DOWN? and for how long?

TELLLL MEEEE WHYYYY

[losversaki]

I KNEW THAT 008 WAS THERE