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Your "rare pair" has over 26,000 fics on AO3. That's not rare.
april fool :) (blinkies are f2u)
stupid ass sfawtde au where derlord lives and everything’s okay but he’s like 10% more evil now cause he’s still one with the king in yellow
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Problematic writing choices of the Duffers:
This post will be focusing on problematic tropes (more so than the many plot holes).Prior to this, I thought some of these writing choices were intentional subtext and symbolism for a greater plot point (and that these tropes would later be subverted) . This wasn't the case. I'm mentioning these tropes now: for people to grasp why we shouldn't reward the Duffers in their future projects. And how normalizing these tropes (in main stream shows) will negatively impact future story telling for the worse.
Fridging trope: El embodies this as her death is used as a catalyst for various male character's development in the finale. The Duffers saying El was never going to be with the gang in the end , because she "represents the magic of childhood" for the boys is just sad. Because yes-characters can represent something but writers need to understand they're MORE than just a symbol of something (they're also a person/character in the narrative). The fact she also represents the magic of childhood of all things is awfully portrayed since Jane herself never even had a real childhood - and because of the writers , she's also deprived of an adulthood .
In s5, bringing back Kali (one of the only brown girls in the show) to essentially just make her suffer and die. They brought her back: k*lled her found family , had her tortured by the gov again, and then she's shot by the gov. God forbid, a brown girl shoots her white oppressors (the writers have to k*ll her the same way she offed her abusers). Kali targeting her ab*sers was portrayed as morally questionable/nuanced in the show. But white Jim & Nancy mowing down random soldiers with bullets, or El killing a bunch of American/soviet soldiers was just to make them look 'bad ass'. The audience never has to question their morality for doing so- only Kali's. If you believe's mike's theory: that would mean they just used Kali to save and give the white heroine a happy ending (which is gross optics in and of itself).
If you believe that El died along with Kali (this is also problematic). They couldn't let El/Kali : the victims of government oppression and abuse get a "happy ending" . In fact both die due to the government .What an uplifting message during these fraught political times. Remember Hopper’s speech where the whole point was Kali/El shouldn’t have to off themselves since they deserve a happy ending (despite life being unfair to them constantly)? What was the point? Idk , if you don't die , off yourself if life has been cruel.Killing El / kali to stop the "cycle " isn’t empowering at all. It’s a harmful message to ab*se survivors!!!
Unfortunately we have to eat our dinner before we can have dessert.
...okay so... maybe I'm starting to be convinced there's a secret final episode...
In this video I've compiled the references we get to Enzo's in seasons 4 and 5, and the dinner and dessert parallels. You don't have to watch the video to understand the post but I've added it for clarity.
The innuendos are literally the same but don't get Robin and Vickie's Enzos date and just Joyce and Hopper's? Why?
Homophobia? Quite possibly. But then why make the parallel in the first place? If they wanted to queerbait they'd already learnt their lesson with El/Mike/Will that tying queerbait to a beloved ship sinks both. They even say something similar themselves about the Dustin/Max/Lucas love triangle, and then they intentionally dragged out the Steve/Jon/Nancy love triangle so that both ships would sink. How easy would it have been to just have Robin and Vickie in Enzos for some brownie points?
So. Say that wasn't the case and we have another episode, wouldn't this read like a meta reference to two finales? Dinner first then dessert later?
At Enzo's Joyce and Hopper order filet specials. They don't get their promised dessert either?
We could almost say that... they eat meat... but they don't get pudding... I could swear that sounds familiar..?
Is Mike the person being told to stand still behind the bike stands?
But then the epilogue opens up on a shot of someone literally putting another brick in the wall, Dustin literally has a struggle with his teacher, and Mike's college dorm has yet another reference to Pink Floyd's The Wall. I don't think that's a coincidence. They've reenacted the whole song at that point.
Also! It goes further back than that! In season 1 Dustin finds the chocolate pudding the dinner lady has been lying about and hoarding. But what happens before they can eat it? Literally the same events that are paralleled in episode 8. The government finds them, El sacrifices herself, Mike is traumatised, Will escapes, everyone moves on with life but something's still off. They're the exact. Same. Events.
No one gets any pudding.
Are the Duffers the kids? Are they saying Netflix wouldn't allow their ending unless they did this? Is that what the pushback was in production? Is it social commentary that's been planned from the start? Middle aged white man audacity? Are they just not interested in breaking the cycle? Is Robin's apology to Vickie for lying to her but promising they can still get dessert together a meta way for the Duffers to apologise to us? Absolutely no clue.
But I'm hopeful dessert is still on its way.
And if i said that us, the audience, begging for 'dessert' defeats the point of the song? If this is real I very much don't like how it has been handled. Having said that, having the guts to be pelted with tomatoes for 6 days before a second finale is something a very small part of me respects.
Never back down Never what 😂
let’s be VERY clear about what just happened. byler wasn’t canon which means
- in season 4, they used Will’s feelings for Mike and his pain as a queer character to uplift and push together a (toxic) straight couple
- they gave the queer main character a self acceptance arc and 3 seconds of epilogue boyfriend while basically every other character got a reciprocal love interest
- they seemingly ruined mike’s character for no reason in season 3 and 4?? making him homophobic and a bad friend to Will for no reason, and a bad boyfriend to El
- and rovickie?? some people are saying they were implied to have broken up in the epilogue, but even if they didn’t there was NO mention of vickie or their relationship. just sidelining the only canon queer relationship.
- i also feel like it was pretty bad taste to treat byler and more so Will being gay as a big plot twist, and reducing Will’s love for Mike to a crush?? insane.
- also, they recycled the ‘tammy’ storyline for two queer characters instead of coming up with something new, and Will calling Mike his ‘tammy’ didn’t even make sense
- but worst of all, they didn’t shut down byler. they knew how many people were invested in the ship and were speculating, and they had every opportunity to come out and say “no byler is not happening”. but they didn’t. they led us on for almost 10 years. this was ABSOLUTELY queerbaiting, and it is unforgivable.
we were never wrong, the writers were.
we were queerbaited gng 😭😭😭 atleast mileven AND byler bones ig
ion even wanna put tags SON IM CRINE 😭😭😂😂😂💔💔
to me byler is just a slowburn that lasted longer than the show it took place in. eventually they will find each other. i believe.
m*lkvans crashing out and call us byler fans schizophrenic, delusional, fetishisers and claiming our ship is "bones" knowing damn well their ship hasn't had a romantic interaction since s4 and mileven is basically fossil fuels now
FUCK IS ANYONE ELSE EXTREMELY HIGH ON BYLER COCAINE IM SO BUZZED ITS GETTING TO ME I GOT THAT BYLER IN ME FUUCK BYLER IS SO ENDGAME I HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE
lucas sinclair is the most unproblematic, realistic, and underrated character in the show. fight me
this man was the only one suspicious of el (i would be too), only one to accept max in their party at the beginning, having reasonable plans, being funny, being THE best friend, apologised properly to will in s3, kept trying to talk to his girlfriend during her grieving, saved the same girl, somehow managed to be friends with both the populars and the nerds, brave enough to betray the populars to save his friends, beat up popular jock to desperately try save his girlfriend, didnt give a FUCK when he was bleeding and beaten and immediately went straight to his dying girlfriend, kept visiting said girlfriend in the hospital, when will came out his expression didnt change and was the first to hug him.
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what the FUCK. was vol2.
everyone's characters were jst dumbed down, mike acting like a literal cardboard cutout, kali making el suicidal, jancy BREAKUP THROUGH A PROPOSAL..??, NO fucking byler moments, will somehow confessing he's gay to a room full of people..? joyce being a dumbass..? el barely showing emotion..? hopper being suicidal..? the corny asf dialogue..? jopper having like.. no romantic moments? dustin and steve arguing and FIGHTING when they couldve died..? holly being jumped by her classmates..?
tf is ts 😭 ai had to have wrote the script. lumax CARRIED idgaf
there's no way they're fixing all of this in the last ep, byler nation we are #COOKED goodnight. itll be so rushed.
ts better be ragebait or im suing the duffers
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler, Will Byers & Mike Wheeler, Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler, Holly Wheeler & Mike Wheeler, Holly Wheeler & Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler, Karen Wheeler/Ted Wheeler, Mike Wheeler & Everyone, Will Byers & Holly Wheeler, Eleven | Jane Hopper & Nancy Wheeler, Will Byers & Nancy Wheeler Characters: Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Holly Wheeler, Karen Wheeler, Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things), Eleven | Jane Hopper, Joyce Byers, Lonnie Byers (mentioned) Additional Tags: Bisexual Mike Wheeler, Gay Will Byers, POV Nancy Wheeler, Period-Typical Sexism, Internalized Homophobia, Homophobia, Ted Wheeler Being Homophobic (Stranger Things), Good Sibling Nancy Wheeler, Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler Bonding, Good Parent Karen Wheeler, Kind Of, Child Favoritism, Title from a Taylor Swift Song, Song: seven (Taylor Swift), Post-Vecna (Stranger Things), Song: I Think We’re Alone Now (Tiffany), mwtfdydgate, Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, these tags are soo out of order, ive unironically redone these tags like 6 or 7 times but idgaf anymore, Song: Last Christmas (Wham!), Eleven | Jane Hopper Goes by Jane, Confusing, Flashbacks, Confusing time jumps Summary:
I blinked. “…You’re gonna give him a cassette?” A soft laugh came through in my tone.
“Well, I… I don’t want it.” She shrugged.
“Did Mom get it for you?”
She blinked at me. “…No.” My eyebrows furrowed.
“Then where did it come from…?” She stared at me.
“….I dunno.”
Nancy recalls the story of her and her family finding out about a secret relationship between her brother, Mike, and his best friend, Will – including all the intimate moments in-between.
i wanted this out before christmas and it’s technically not done but here 💔
PEAKK
ok but they’re in a room with:
Murray, who has infamously Murray’d multiple canon couples
Robin, who’s aware of Will's sexuality (and after she finds out about his film tape will probably suspect who he loves)
Lucas, no. 1 byler viewer and third wheel since forever
Erica, who will not and does not sugarcoat ANYTHING she thinks is true
Joyce, who’s maternal instincts are currently probably the sharpest they’ve ever been
there's no way they're NOT getting clocked at some point. ESPECIALLY not when Mike’s practically falling over himself to correct everyone about Will