an unforgettable fourteen hour experience

elcor, she/her. i multifandom a lot. currently in Stranger Things hell with a side of Bauldur's Gate. icon by @liskade

[elcorhamletlive]

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

Chapters: 5/8 Relationships: Will Byers/Chance Characters: Chance (Stranger Things), Will Byers Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, Period-Typical Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Chance Loves Will Byers, Slow Burn, Gay Chance (Stranger Things), Grief/Mourning, Pining Chance

Chapter Summary:

“Thanks for coming,” Will says, after a moment of brief silence. “I know this isn’t the kind of party you’re used to.”

Understatement of the year. Truthfully, it’d be the kind of party Chance would find lame, if someone described it to him. But the group energy is contagious, and so is Will’s smile, under the now lit backyard string lights. He sips his soda and feels a little drunk anyway.

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[angelsaxis]

i went to queer history and signaling and i didnt see taylor swift

[elcorhamletlive]

The obsession with wanting every single woman in television to get their picture perfect “happily ever after” is so weird. The problem isn’t with female characters getting killed off, the problem is with female characters getting killed off for shock value, to service a male character’s arc, or in a way that feels narratively unearned. Rue’s death was a long time coming, and it was a beautifully tragic end to her character arc.

Yeah I think we may be veering into "the movie about Freddie Mercury (a real gay person who died) is Bury Your Gays because a gay man dies in it" territory in terms of unhinged discourse. Like. Similarly as in Bury Your Gays, fridging isn't about every single time a woman dies in media. It's about a specific phenomenom of female characters getting killed for the development of the men around them.

To be clear I have only watched bits and pieces of Euphoria, but from my understanding Rue's death is definitely not about any male character, nor was she the only main character to die. Clearly the show has issues in about 45737377 other areas and consensus seems to be this final season was especially bad, but her dying does not seem comparable to El's situation at all.

[dogposts]

This is Daisy. She’s a 4 year old rescue. In her free time she enjoys playing and being cute.

[elcorhamletlive]

Is there a Stranger Things fandom calendar for fandom events? Or anything similar? Trying to possibly plan one and I'd like to make sure the chosen date doesn’t conflate with anything else.

[elcorhamletlive]

people complain about female characters dying, but then when you ask them how they want said female character’s arc to end they almost always bring up marriage and a nuclear family which is, often times, even more misogynistic of an ending than what she got.

Yeah, which, I mean, I can see it even more as an issue when canon supports it (flashbacks to that interview when the Duffers mentioned El living and all detail they gave to this timeline would be that she'd be married to Mike). I don’t think getting married and having a family is necessarily a bad ending (for El specifically I can see the logic behind it) but the way people express this makes it clear that it's more of a shipping gripe than a gripe about the character's fate in itself, if that makes sense.

[elcorhamletlive]

I. I mean. I don’t think that's true. Not for the problem in question but also not for literally any other thing that went wrong in the show.

[ichiro-artosaki]

kees the feesh 🧜🏽‍♀️(siren au is consuming my brain!)

[galundead]

you must be an angel

[guchaigue]

“Hey I’m an L2”

[elcorhamletlive]

surely there must be a way to not let "female characters getting killed for the development of the men around them is lazy at best and misogynistic at worst" turn into "no woman can die in any story, ever, or even be unhappy, and in fact if a story about a woman makes me sad this is a crime against feminism." surely we can see how the first statement does not imply the latter one. and yet

[elcorhamletlive]

the problem is that my brain has become able to digest and not absorb most compliments, and instead latches onto the idea that the absence of a compliment is a critique, processing "great!" as "okay" and neutral silence as "you suck." and then it views most compliments as just people placading me, which means that when people are complimenting me they're only doing it because they find me lowkey annoying. you'd think there are too many mean-spirited logic leaps in this line of thought but that's how it works.

[shizuwan]

hi everyone I know it’s been a while I haven’t been around much because I’ve been drawing for another fandom

been practicing chibis lately and getting ready to open chibi commissions 💪

[arteei]

i am cringe but i am not free 💔 im cringe and extremely self conscious

[bopbyers]

chance and will in an rv driving across america >>

summer before college. chance’s dad’s old rv is finished being fixed. chance had fixed it up himself (with Some help) solely for this reason. it was an idea they’d had after the final battle. now that it was here, they were beside themselves. they go grocery shopping together, make and go over lists, plan out stops along the way, etc. will’s left hand spends more time in chance’s right then it does out of it. diner stops where they drink way too many milkshakes and ignore way too many looks for being such an “odd pair.” they can’t keep off of each other at night. will loves looking up at the stars through their small skylight, over chance’s sweaty and scratched up shoulder. morning cuddles and kisses and sex. they find a stray kitten along the way. they agree to figure out custody later. they aim to see cheesy tourist spots and beautiful national parks. will takes photos with an old camera of jonathan’s. they always cook meals together. they sneak their kitten in places sometimes. they almost forget they can’t be free like that forever, but the reality check doesn’t slow them down. only spurs them on. they only fall deeper in love.

[girls4losers]

happy pride. please reblog with your big 3 lesbians

[knightclubbing]

can the medieval physician tell that i keep trying to contract plague just to see her or am i being chill about it