I never should have called his bluff

ST sideblog I think

[fooledforlove]

oh Kali Prasad, if I were your writer you wouldn't have been treated as a disposable asset to die and be mourned by literally no one.

Also, yes I'm predictable so have a "Jonathan tries to be nice to Kali" fic

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

[things-yet-unknown]

I do enjoy a Jonathan gets taken instead AU but any time I try and have serious thoughts about it all I come up with is him exploring the woods in the upside down, finding one of the portals, crawling through it and being like, well, that was an upsetting 48 hours, time to never think about it again or tell anyone about that! And just goes back to his life.

[jonathan-byers-week]

Hi there! It's been a while, but Jonathan Byers Week 2026 is right around the corner, from Jun-21-27, in just a couple of weeks.

I hope everyone who's participating is having fun working on their projects. Reminder that works of any medium will be accepted and there are no minimum requirements for participation. Guidelines can be found at this link and in the sidebar.

Can't wait to see your creations!

[fooledforlove]

on occasion the director jonathan + actor steve vision does come to me clearly.

both tweets are Sam Raimi talking about Bruce Campbell btw bc I crack myself up

[strickland527]

How is the “teen” epilogue even WORSE in the script? It’s insane how bad it is. No Jonathan movie mentioned. No Robin at Smith. All about Steve wanting to, I swear to god, teach those little nuggets about vaginas. And Nancy dropping out. That’s it. Jonathan gets a line about NYU. And Robin’s weird uncle lived in Columbus.

At least if the PDF going around is true (and it seems to be).

Also worse: the Jonathan/Steve Abyss convo.

There’s no Jancy bit in the MAC-Z either. Nothing at all in the script about Nancy going to Mike.

Awful, embarrassing stuff, but that’s no real shock.

EDIT: added a screen shot of the convo. The Duffers. What else can you say?

[fooledforlove]

nsfw more or less

There comes a time when you have to ask yourself in the middle of writing a fic whether you feel confident enough writing a version of events where prior to s5, Nancy wants to acquire a strap-on but the only way to do this is asking Murray if he can please bring her one on his next supply run

[vicquoria]

help! they're still at the restaurant

[luminarywaves]

hc that when mike wants to read a new book, when he's at the byers' he'll go see what's on jonathan's shelf and use it as a tbr

[mochiiparadise]

their friendship >>>>

bonus:

[fooledforlove]

Byers brothers + Animal Mask by the Mountain Goats

[fooledforlove]

The other week I saw this artist posting a few drawings where the running theme was very clearly stated by op to be the Byers brothers and someone in the replies was quite rudely saying r0nance should be added and op asked "how are either of those characters a Byers" and they replied "they could adopt them". and I don't think I've experienced such a clear-cut example of why I don't care for how a lot of those shippers act before or since

[throttlegainwell]

The funny thing is that I would have been okay with Jonathan and Nancy ending the series as friends if it were written well (or at least consistently), and... okay, look, at the end of the day, I clearly care more about Jonathan's ending than anyone else's. I was never shy about that. (I was, in fact, pretty loud and annoying about it!) And if that ending saw him single, yeah, whatever. I could see that. It's sadder for him, certainly, but not a deal breaker.

But the ending they actually wrote just made me incapable of seeing them apart in the long run. How do you fuck up a breakup so bad that the characters just seem inseparable?

[yankee-with-the-brave]

The reason there is no Jancy in Tales of 85’ is because there is nothing PG about them, at all.

And we like for it to stay that way, please and thank you.

[heavencasteel420]

I’ve been operating under the assumption that the spin-off animation show is targeted at a young audience and will pull some cheapie children’s entertainment moves indigestible to any adult viewer, so (a) I’m not going to watch it and (b) I’m not shocked that they introduced a visually incongruous new girl. I did see someone (from the show?) defending the character’s getup by citing Eddie Munson’s metalhead look, and that’s kind of funny. First because Eddie is somewhat incongruous as a character, at least to the point that it’s a little eyeroll-worthy how the characters act like he’s been at Hawkins High all along. Second because Eddie’s clothing, hair, and accessories are all plausibly attainable for a small-town teenager with a little disposable income. Nikki’s look is too polished.

[heavencasteel420]

Honestly I’ve thought about it and that’s a way weaker defense than just going “it’s a cartoon aimed at a younger audience, so there’s a different aesthetic.” Why would you remind people of the main show, which is totally different, with a comparison that doesn’t hold up?!

[things-yet-unknown]

The way people talk about Jonathan you'd think he left Mike to die in the shoot out

[willswalkman]

thinking about jonathan byers for more than a second can fucking kill you

[fooledforlove]

if I hadn't known the war for Nancy's characterization was lost a while ago then I think the twt trend of making duo/ship names for her using the word "gun" to represent her would have probably done it. like gunwise for Nancy and Will. I thought we all had an agreement that s4/5 making her the terminator came at the expense of her characterization bc the duffers wanted girlboss brownie points wdym her core trait to you is Gun