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he's been listening to "good luck, babe" for three hours now
REALLY proud of this animation, this idea has been stuck in my head since the vol 2
AND the point of this gif is that you can make him listen to any song you want (internalised homophobia playlist)
Having a queer character believe he won't find love and proving him right is not good writing.
Having a character grow up in solitary confinement and then ripping her away from the only family she's ever known to live a life of solitude once again is not good writing.
Having a character be in love with his best friend and then just compare it to a high school crush is not good writing.
Having Eleven say that Mike has always been the person who truly understood her after showing us in the previous seasons that he only sees her as a superhero IS NOT GOOD WRITING.
Having two girls be abused by a man with power for the majority of their lives only to leave them dead and alone as a direct consequence of the trauma they suffered IS VILE WRITING
GIVE IN TO DEPRESSION!!! STAY IN YOUR CHILDHOOD HOME FOREVER!!! THINK ABOUT THE GHOST OF THE CHILD YOU USED TO BE!!! MEMORIES ARE ALL YOU HAVE!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!! HOLD ONTO THE PAST!!! MEMORY WILL NOT SLIDE THROUGH YOUR FINGERS LIKE SAND THROUGH AN HOURGLASS!!! YOU WILL NOT FEEL LESS WHOLE AS IT LEAVES YOU BECAUSE YOU DO NOT BRIDGE THE GAPS IN YOUR SOUL WITH NEW EXPERIENCES!!!
GIVE IN TO DEPRESSION!!! STAY IN YOUR CHILDHOOD HOME FOREVER!!! THINK ABOUT THE GHOST OF THE CHILD YOU USED TO BE!!! MEMORIES ARE ALL YOU HAVE!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!! HOLD ONTO THE PAST!!! MEMORY WILL NOT SLIDE THROUGH YOUR FINGERS LIKE SAND THROUGH AN HOURGLASS!!! YOU WILL NOT FEEL LESS WHOLE AS IT LEAVES YOU BECAUSE YOU DO NOT BRIDGE THE GAPS IN YOUR SOUL WITH NEW EXPERIENCES!!!
will byers there are no words to express how proud of you i am
“friends? no.”
longest pause ever
“best friends.”
that is genuinely the equivalent of dangling a fucking carrot on a string over a bunch of queer kids and luring them into a hole filled with spikes.
steve harrington’s love for children is so important to me. when he freed derek, and he cleaned derek’s little glasses on his shirt i wept. derek needed that hug so bad😭😭😭 steve’s not the step-dad, he’s the dad that stepped up, to all the little boys in hawkins. they’re getting to have friends and mentorship on their baseball team, and be properly educated on sex (which was very rare in the 80s bc it was so taboo). even with all that, he still finds time to drive up to visit dustin at college. he’s just. he’s just the best.
well yes
el cant stand mike's bs when he's talking about a happy ending with three waterfalls and the party escaping hawkins, but yknow who would love that? william byers :(
i really cannot emphasize enough how much it means to me that queerness is shown in will’s flashback scene (and robins memory) as childhood innocence. so many people see queerness as something that is inherently sexual or inherently adult, and then for robin, it’s remembering how confident she used to be before the world made her feel so scared. it’s will remembering how happy he felt when mike asked to be friends with him. how loved he felt when playing d&d and building castle byers.
it poses the question: “who were you before you tried to be everything that society asked of you? who were you before the world, and all its expectations, got its hands on you and made you feel like you were broken? who were you when you were five, and seven, and nine, and the world was so vast and beautiful and nothing mattered?”
who are you at your most authentic, under all the layers of fear that you’re clinging to? that is the only person who can save you.
btw lucas being the first out of the party to say will won't lose him and his face didn't change at all when will said he doesn't like girls. still s tier friend no notes lucas sinclair you will always be famous.
Mike wheeler always at the crime scene
the hug after the coming out scene shows who Will ACTUALLY wanted there 😭
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"And you'll never lose me."
Jonathan & Will Byers.
I teared up making this, these two brothers mean the world me. Despite all the criticism for that scene, it is still important that Will came out and was shown love and support. Their love for each other is truly touching.
Vecna did not just use Will to find Max’s room. He could’ve found the room number in any number of ways. Will was in a trance for hours.
Vecna needed to break him.
Because Will was being empowered. He found inner strength in his love for Mike and had hope that Mike felt the same (ie “how obvious?”). He finally had some level of autonomy over himself. He had control for once.
So Vecna had to destroy both of those for Will.
Take away his autonomy. Make him feel like he belongs to Vecna, like he only has his powers because of him. Like any strength and resistance he had was only within the constraints of Vecna’s abuse. Make him feel like no matter what, he will never escape.
Make him give up on love. Because love is stronger than fear. The only way the Mindflayer was able to take Henry? By manipulating him to give up on his love Pattie. He needs Will to give up on his love for Mike. To believe it could never be reciprocated. To believe that he must move on from it in order to find strength. To believe Mike is just his Tammy.
Will was getting too powerful. Vecna needed to get rid of Will’s source of power: love.
And Vecna succeeded. Will internalized what Vecna showed him. He believes he is still under his control. His agency was taken from him again.
He believes Mike is his Tammy. That’s why he says that during his coming out when it goes against everything we’ve seen so far.
Will has unknowingly walked right into Vecna’s trap. And I believe he has fully accepted what he’s been told. He has given up hope. He has lost his sense of self. This is also why I think Will is going to attempt to sacrifice himself.
He thinks he has to die for this to fully end. That’s why he’s no longer afraid. He has accepted his fate.
And in his moment of weakness, Vecna will try to take control of Will.
And he will be so close to succumbing. But Mike is going to be there. He will finally, truly become Mike the Brave by being honest about his feelings. And he’s going to have to do something drastic to reach Will in this state.
I really hope that we’ll find out to some extent what Will was shown because this is heartbreaking. I believe there was a lot missing from vol2. We were seeing Will’s unreliable perspective.
will on his tiptoes to hug mike 😭💔
I think the funniest part of the coming out scene is when Will says he doesn't like girls and Mike has a full body reaction and Lucas is about to look into the camera like he's on the office.
Like that is the face of man whose been knowing this shit for a while. He was NOT at all surprised.
