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[overtea]

Santos telling Whitaker she's mad about Langdon being an asshole and that being what Langdon apologizes for (being an asshole) in his sincere but not good apology. her projecting about him potentially relapsing while she's on the verge of her own relapse of self-harm. oh, Santos and Langdon parallel arcs are so good when people aren't trying to tell you one is totally wrong and one is totally correct. luckily for us the writers know that yay

[divorcedfranklangdon]

Ren Faire girlfriend, history museum boyfriend

[vampiricalxdata]

I’m so ready for mateo to show up and make javadi lose her mind and ogilvie jealous and for joy to have so much fun that she’ll never leave the ed ever

[maidragoste]

GUYS PLEASE I NEED MORE FANFICS ABOUT THEM 🛐🛐🛐

[eldeservedbetter]

As a very avid Ogilvie hater who has recently discovered him growing on me like a disgusting rash, I’m gonna need everybody to drop what they’re doing and go read Actually by Heavenbait rriGHT neow. Like embrace a little whimsy, a little happiness perchance, maybe a little academic rivals with a healthy fixing of enemies to lovers even. Walk with me now

[wildandgreen]

robby can lash out in self-hatred and be a misogynist at the same time. robby can be written to be purposefully hypocritical and incidentally misogynistic at the same time. robby can be suffering from ptsd and be a misogynist at the same time. “actually the point is he’s lashing out because he sees himself in samira and hates it” correct. AND he’s being misogynistic while he’s at it

[eldeservedbetter]

I just can’t believe they built up such a beautiful, deep character who had so many things go wrong in her life, and when she finally had the opportunity to maybe get a happy ending, they killed her and used her entire existence as a plot device to give their straight white male character some sort of conflict because they were too scared to give him any real level of complexity

[eldeservedbetter]

Send help cause why am i in my behavioral research class thinking about two fuckass little gay boys

[tlockish]

what if your sister got KIDNAPPED and your best friend comes out as GAY and you show NO EMOTION and your other sister almost gets EATEN and your girlfriend fucking KILLS HERSELF and you were a SHIT BOYFRIEND for NO REASON APPARENTLY and you graduated in an ugly ORANGE COLOUR and you’re a SHIT storyteller and you have no clue who PAINTED THAT FUCKING PAINTING

[uhgo6d]

everything about eleven’s character is misogynistic. she barely escaped her abusers and, within a week, they put her into a relationship when she didn’t even know how to form a sentence or understand what privacy, friends, or a promise were. they never explored her personal interests. she never had the chance to live a normal life or to have a moment where she knew everything was going to end. she talks about feeling like she doesn’t belong anywhere, and in reality, she’s right, she doesn’t belong anywhere. she didn’t even get the chance to see her mother one last time. they gave her a female friendship that helped develop her character beyond the men in her life, and in the last season they don’t even seem close anymore. they had to remove max from her life so mike could be the center and so she could say that he’s the one who understands her the most. she was born out of the “born sexy yesterday” trope, she’s mike’s manic pixie dream girl, and to top it all off, she died as one of the most well known misogynistic tropes, the woman in the refrigerator.

they turned her death into a man’s story. her father, who spent every season crying over his daughter’s death, got over it in a matter of months. her friends don’t even mention her. the duffers really wanted to make it seem like mike is the only one who cares, because this is the story of a straight white man. she was only there to be the magical girl who changes his boring life and takes him on an adventure, only to die afterward, because she isn’t a person, she’s a symbol of the male protagonist’s childhood. even her own creators talk about her as if she were a dog, an alien pet of their self insert character.

the same misogynistic story as always.

[willelbyers]

the last thing el said to hopper was “i’m not sara.” she gave him back her bracelet. she let him believe she was safe. she never said goodbye to the man who chose to be her father.

she never said goodbye to the mother who took her in when she had nothing, the woman who inducted her into her family with a haircut everyone made fun of but she treasured as her own.

she never said goodbye to the older brother who looked after her in an unfamiliar home, who drove blindly into the desert on the idea of hope that they would find her.

she never said goodbye to her best friend, the only girl who ever took the time to try to understand her, the only girl who wanted to help her learn who she was to herself, the girl whose life she refused to let end before its time.

she never said goodbye to the boys who found her in the woods, the boys who were scared of her at first but who became some of her most trusted friends in the world. the boys who saw her as, yes, a hero, but also as a girl, too.

she never said goodbye to her brother, her twin in everything but genetics, who saved her life as she saved his from the monster who destroyed both their childhoods. she never said goodbye to her real brother, the one who understood her to her core, the one who showed her that the monster was not the family she deserved.

she said goodbye to her sister, after a years-long separation, as she bled out in her arms.

the last thing el said before her final goodbye—to the first boy who ever showed her kindness, the boy who never quite understood her the way she wanted him to but who cared for her regardless—was “i love you.” and she never heard it back.

[jancys-blue-bayou]

It really sucks how 99.999 % of the Stranger Things fandom don’t remember Jonathan Byers crying alone in his bed hugging himself because he thought his little brother was dead and his mom was going insane. It sucks even harder that the Duffer brothers have no recollection of it either.

[willfreakbyers]

She dies two years later because she thinks the only way to end the cycle of abuse is to sacrifice herself btw.

[significant-ace-nnoyance]

i love queer people bc wdym the writers of your favorite show threw you to the wolves and mocked your ship on a global stage to get you to shut up and you instead pulled up less than 24 hours later with rock solid theories backed by 900 million pieces of evidence as to why the show is actually even GAYER THAN BEFORE and then your theories become a worldwide phenomenon with writing better than the show itself. beautiful stunning incredible. truly fuck you duffers ❤️

[eeriesilkworm]

They actually killed her. They fucking killed Jane Hopper and her sister. Young abused girls who never got to become full-fledged, healed young women.

And they had the gall to self-insert with Mike and say, “Hey guys—imagine an ending where she didn’t die! Imagine an ending where she was finally free after a lifetime of being imprisoned and in hiding!” Oh, but even in this hypothetical “good” ending, her brown sister still dies. Of course.

They very lazily resolved Jane’s fear that she was a monster, and then had her call the next generation of innocent abused children like her “more monsters” which was entirely out of character.

The children who did get their happy ending were “normal” and shoe-horned into the final season.

We talk about the Will Byers humiliation ritual… what about the Jane Hopper humiliation ritual?

After a fight in which her boyfriend triggered memories of her abuser (while too busy focussing on his “relationship” problems with his platonic bestie) he brings her cold eggos and refuses to apologise for not being supportive of her struggles. He makes it about him. He calls her ridiculous. She begs for him to verbalise his affection for her—write it even—and is then thrown into another prison where she is re-traumatised by her abuser, only for said boyfriend to chauffeur her away after days of homoromantic heart to hearts with his best friend.

They had her wear a fucking collar. Her abuser was the one to unlock it. They didn’t even let her remove her own literal and metaphorical shackles.

Mike professes to her while kneeling at a fucking pizza dough freezer as she’s being choked out. No eye contact. No intimacy. Because his gay best friend reminded him to. She never even gets to respond to this monologue in the canon series, because I guess her feelings don’t actually matter.

Even in her final moments before death, her character was reduced to her love story with the boy who found her in the woods and kept her in his basement. And he still couldn’t say “I love you” back for some reason.

She was never free. She went from being trapped in the lab, to being hidden in Mike’s basement, to being hidden in Hopper’s cabin. She got in trouble and yelled at for leaving these confined spaces and doing normal teenage things. The only exception was when she made herself useful to them by using her powers, endangering herself, and often to the point of physical exhaustion.

Her father figure supposedly learned to allow her more freedom at the end of season 3, but he returns to being over-protective, angry and condescending at the beginning of season 5, undoing all character development.

And we’re expected to thank these men for “taking care of her” all these years, when everything she ever accomplished was no thanks to them but to her own merit, her own desire to do good, her own zest for a life and freedom she never got to have.

Was she… really just used as a tool to help Hopper process his daughter’s death? Was she used as plot armour to ensure our characters could survive the supernatural antagonists? Was she used to give Mike Wheeler something to do other than play games in his basement?

I’m going to throw up. Jane Hopper I’m so sorry. Millie Bobby Brown I’m so sorry.

[bulionzkury]

ok but this shit is so ooc

they could show him painting or doing something he loves, but they decided to make being gay his only character trait

[l0sersitsbyherself]

I think the worst thing they did this season was say that snowballs turn into an avalanche and just… did absolutely nothing with that information