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Billie Eilish's Ilomilo is so Jonathan/Teddy coded ('said I couldn't love someone/'cause I might break' and 'tried not to upset you/let you rescue me the day I meet you/I just wanted to protect you/but now I'll never get to'? Come on).
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Finn Wolfhard's fans: OMG how can you assume he's straight, his sexuality is not of your bussiness, a puppy is tortured and dies every time you speculate about him being homophobic, he's a newborn baby and you're disgusting for thinking about him that way!😭😭😭
The same fan three Doritos later: oh, see how he dresses? He's queer 🤗
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STRANGER THINGS LADIES APPRECIATION WEEK day three: favorite underrated dynamic — el and kali
They kept showing El at her happiest with female bonds and they kept snatching them away from her and trapping her with men who never understood her at best (Mike and Hopper) and only saw her as a disposable tool at worst (the scientists and Henry). My girl, they did you so wrong 😭
I’ll never not be amused by the fact that I can drop the words “crucifix nail nipples” into a conversation and some of you who have been with me since the livejournal days will join me in the flashbacks, screaming and crying all the way.
I require context. Because this is a very interesting start of a story, and now I need the rest of it. Could I get a link, or a summary, or something? Pretty please?
All right buckle the fuck up kids, it’s the year 2012 and I’ve just been handed what should be an easy editing gig by my senior editor. It’s a vampire erotica story because one of the final Twilight movies is about to come out, and everything is vampires. Everything. I haven’t edited a single thing in months which isn’t about vampires. I am ready, I can do this. So I open the file and notice there’s a typo in the title, which really should have been my first inkling that something horrendous was about to go down, but you see I’m not quite dead inside yet so I carry on, bushy tailed and bright eyed with my faith in humanity intact. It’ll be dead by page 24, but I don’t know that yet. I’m just editing one more vampire boner fest.
The MC is a girl who we’ll call Sue. Sue is a Good Girl™, Sue is Not Like Other Girls™, she is pale and awkward and a virgin and has somehow managed to find herself a Bad Boy™ for a boyfriend. We’ll call him Dickhead.
Now Dickhead as previously stated is a bit of dick, he tries to pressure Sue into sex because he knows she is The One™ but he loves her really so it’s okay. Except it’s not okay because Sue is a Good Girl™ and holding out till marriage which he’s fine with except he’s got such a bad case of blue balls that one night walking home an attractive stranger lures him into an alley with the words “hey stud” and he follows, dick out before she’s even finished her sentence. Well turns out that was a mistake for Dickhead because she’s a vampire, but not just any vampire, a Dick Biting Vampire. So what started out as a skeevy blow job behind a club that he’ll feel bad about in the morning, turns into him being bitten on the dick and drained of his life essence and left for dead. Except DBV fucked up and now he’s a vampire. Are you still with me? Good, cause it’s about to get weirder.
Realizing he is now an abomination, Dickhead flees, becoming a creature of the night and feeding on animals rather than humans to repent for being such an asshole in life. Sue meanwhile is heartbroken, but carries on valiantly with her life and goes to bed each night crying for the loss of her One True Love™ who she would do anything to bring back. Well guess what Sue, Dickhead never really left you! He’s been “instinctively protecting her from rapists” by hiding out on her roof and fighting hobos who try to get to her open window via the fire escape for months now. Because that’s not fucking terrifying at all.
Upon learning of his predicament and how it happened, Sue can do nothing but blame herself. Oh if only she’d let him touch her secret places, then perhaps all of this could be avoided! Meanwhile Dickhead is having another dilemma of his own, realizing too late that his vampire powers have given him super senses and now he can smell her blood and he can’t decide whether he wants to get with her or eat her. And I don’t mean in the French sense. But he is strong! And over comes his base manly vampire instincts and neither rapes not kills her. Hurrah! And this is so romantic that Sue gives it up, but not before she launches into a theory about how in all fairy tales, True Love saves the day, so maybe her magical pure vagina that has never been touched by anyone, not even her, can bring him back to life. So Dickhead being a dickhead agrees and rips her clothes off, but not before he takes one last moment to marvel at the beauty of her purity, because he will never again look on her again and know she is Pure.
If you’ve only vomited once by now, I applaud your resolve.
So they hop on the good foot and do the nasty, except she is literally so pure in spirit, her flesh burns his. And I quote you from memory because these words are burned into my soul: “her breasts bit into his hands, like crucifix nail nipples tearing at his flesh, but he did not care because he loved her so and couldn’t stop”
This phrase haunts me. I dread that it will be the last thing I think about on my death bed and my last words will literally be “god fucking dammit” as I die, carrying that mental image with me into the afterlife. My own solace is in knowing that I inflicted it on other people too, like @ahzuri who is somehow still with me after all these years.
When the magical burning sex fails to heal him and leaves her bruised, battered and broken with “a dainty blue bells of bruises around her secret flower” (I am genuinely quoting this, I could never make something as horrendous as this up without being on acid) Dickhead leaves. Yeah. Off he fucks, leaving her to the mercy of the hobos at her window, and into the night to be the true monster he really is. But wait, there’s more. Remember the dick biting vampire? Well turns out she has figured out she made him into a vampire and has also been stalking HIM and is totally jealous of Sue, so tries to kill her. But again Sues Purity saves her, because sex before marriage which was done out of True Love is not a sin, so she is still a spiritual virgin and I’ll be honest, I started drinking heavily at this point and it’s all a bit of a blur.
A fight ensues some pages later after Dickhead returns, realizing the mistake he has made. And he rescues Sue from the Dick Biter, but not before he assaults Dick Biter, and calls her a slut for luring innocent men into alleys cuts her heart out by cutting her breasts off, at which point i screamed “THAT’S NOT HOW YOU REACH THE HEART” and my brain short circuited completely and I have no idea how it ends because I realized there was 30 pages left and my soul couldn’t take it. I emailed the chief editor like ?????!!!!!!????!!!!!! and the book was immediately pulled from the work line and the author dismissed from the publishing house. Turns out she was a friend of a friend and that was how she got the manuscript past our entry levels for requirement.
And that’s the story of how an author sent me death threats for over a month because I stopped her shitty vampire porn from ever seeing the light of day. You’re all fucking WELCOME.
EX-FUCKING-CUSE ME? WHAT DO YOU MEAN TV TROPES??
wasn't going to drink another "mike being morally grey when it comes to will" drink tonight but then i remembered that one scene where el says that she can't find him and mike basically says "well eat a granola bar i need will back"
In part, I think his obsession with her was at first motivated not only for survivor's guilt, but the secret shame of not regretting pushing her to get in harm's way to get Will back. He felt like he owed her. Because he'd do it again.
pass the info..
The only way the Duffers not coming out to deny the theories make sense if conformitygate is not real would be out of spite because Netflix did fuck up their intended ending. Still, they should have been able to do something a tiny bit less ass than what we got 🤔
How's it going to end?
Mike filtered through 'conformity gate' theory
Thinking about it, it's the perfect hell scenario to be both a nightmare to Mike and something to keep him trapped and fightless.
At first I thought Mike getting Vecna'd would have to involve Will dying or at least rejecting him harshly, but if Vecna's intention is trapping, I don't think it would work long term. That, Mike's mind would fight. He never accepted Will could be lost to him, even when presented evidence.
But due to his self-loathing, this 'bad future' when he loses Will but he's alive, well and happy elsewhere? He can take it. El's loss hurts him, but it was survivable before and can be again.
This is the boy who jumped off a cliff to protect his friend. He can be living his personal hell, but as long as he can believe everyone else is fine, he doesn't expect or thinks he deserves to get what he wants too. I think he and Will share that trait, only is more apparent in Will because his nature and demeanor are more gentle, while Mike is prickly and loud.
This is of course all moot points now, but theorizing is fun! Maybe I'll write fanfic and try to rescue that sad idiot.
NOT ANOTHER SONG DEDICATED TO EDDIE ON WSQK THIS TIME ITS PURPLE RAIN AND IT WAS DEDICATED TO HIM BY A GROUP OF METALHEADS INCLUDING ONE NAMED KRISTY. VS STEVE SAYING THAT KRISTY IS “THE ONE” IN S5 I CANT DO THIS ANYMOREEEEE
Hi, Byler fans. I don't usually post here but I just finished the Stranger Things finale and wanted to get something out that I feel needs to be said. My grandmother had an older brother named, coincidentally enough, William.
He was born in 1919 and he was gay.
Everyone in the family knew. It became an unspoken secret. And here’s the part people don't really say about the past: he wasn’t cast out. He wasn’t beaten. He wasn’t disowned.
They loved him. They were a close‑knit family.
What they did instead was play a game called pretend.
They never said it out loud. When the family gathered for holidays, his siblings brought their spouses. Uncle Bill came alone. His partner wasn't invited, of course. They didn't even want to know he had a partner. When children asked why Uncle Bill wasn’t married, the adults smiled and said, “He’s just a bachelor.”
That answer was given to my mother in the 1950s. To my sister in the 1970s. And to me in the 1980s.
People like the Duffer brothers seem to imagine that the past was only made up of violent, cartoonish homophobes. And sadly, there were a lot of those, just like there still are today. But some families were “fine” with gay people—as long as they were quiet. As long as they didn’t ask for the same things. As long as they didn’t bring love to the table.
Uncle Bill was accepted on one condition: He sat alone.
So when a modern show frames a gay boy’s arc as “learning to accept himself without expecting love in return,” that’s not radical. That’s not brave. That’s not new.
That story is over a hundred years old.
It’s the story of being tolerated, not chosen. Of being loved in theory, but denied in practice. Of being welcome—so long as you don’t make anyone uncomfortable.
My Uncle William lived that life a century ago. We don’t need to keep calling it progress.
I know a lot of people on here are young. So take the pain you're feeling now and remember it as you get older. Write your own stories that embrace what this show denied. Write the story you wanted Byler to be. Be the generation that stops telling this tired old story.
Do it for my Uncle Bill. Do it for Noah. Do it to give the middle finger to the Duffer brothers. Most of all, do it for yourself.
They could have done so much with the streaming format. They could have done a 'choose your own ending' thing like Black Mirror's 'Bandersnatch'.
They could have had the 'Jane's good ending' in which they manage to heal her mother's mind and she has her sister who no longer wants them both to die, and the 'Jane's bad ending' in which everything's the same except Kali is Vecna's Black Queen and it's all a Matrix-like illusion (yes, even with the unadverted racist implication as a treat to the GA).
The posibilities were endless, and instead we get this sad closet case who couldn't tell a girl he loved her in her final moments and will forever live in cowardice and regret, and uselessness. And a bunch of generic CGI, can't forget that 👍
At the end they made Mike a closeted character whose guilt about the girl he couldn't love will drown his life in despair forever. Good calling 😒
Don't let anyone gaslight you by saying it wasn't queerbait
They threw Mike/Eleven and Will/ and Mike's friendship under the bus ONLY to queerbait.
They CAN portray close platonic friendships: there you have Steve/Dustin, Steve/Robin, Robin/Will, El/Max, Nancy/Robin.
They can portray romantic relationships where, though they're not without drama, whether or not they have feelings for each other is never a point to doubt: Lucas/Max, Nancy/Jonathan, Hopper/Joyce.
They try to blame shippers, but though Ronance and Elmax do exist as ships you'd barely find a fan seriously thinking that, say, Max is a closeted lesbian who doesn't really loves Lucas and is pining for El.
But Byler, they did that knowingly. There's no reason why Will //had// to have romantic feelings for Mike. There's no reason for him to have to middle in Mike and El's relationship. Nobody was advising Lucas when he and Max were breaking up and making up. There's no reason why Will's feelings had to last until the very finale instead of him going 'you're dating my sister now, this has turned weird, moving on' a season ago. It's all on the showrunners.
MIKE STILL HAS THE PAINTING HE’S THE WORST CLOSET CASE EVER
WT actual F, didn't he have a picture of El, her letters, ANYTHING ELSE? The implied canon is that this bland MF actually chose the closet *facepalm*
