Silliest Goose

Call me Rihn!

[rowan-the-sorcerer]

jane hopper was 16 when she sacrificed her entire life because she believed she couldn’t be free otherwise. the duffers wrote that horrific ending for a scared 16 year old who only ever wanted to be loved, who didn’t want to be a monster.

[howtobecomeadragon]

i am actually very upset about rovickie too. not so much bc i loved their relationship, ofc we didn't see a ton of it. but. the queer relationships were just shot down. why make a crack about overbearing significant others. why not just leave it. why take away all the queer relationships.

[mb-rihn]

maya hawke playing in the background, and my st brainrot, lets rant about my expectations for st s5!!

Stancy

Can we agree that their relationship was never meant to last? Literally every Stancy scene this season was ooc and made me want to puke. The only think I want in their relationship is for them to realize their happier off as friends, and to be happy with their past memories. I want Steve and Nancy to realize that they want each other in their future as someone to rely on, someone who's been there from the start, in different forms and positions.

Mileven

Now, I've never really liked this ship. Sure they're cute, but the fact that Eleven was in a relationship with Mike even before she could properly speak just makes me uncomfortable. El needs to figure out who she truly is, and come to terms with her past and her powers. And Mike? Well,

#MikeWheelerIKnowWhatYouAre

Max Mayfield

Forever angry at the Duffers for hurting my child like this, how could you do this to her.

But I have a lot of expectations for her next season!

I really like the idea of her waking up and being kind of a host for vecna(like will was in s2), but helping in turning the tide around and being an active part of defeating Vecna because do you really believe that Max Mayfield is going to sit there comatose for the entire season?

Elmax

I fully and truly believe that El is going to get Max back and then beat the shit out of Vecna for hurting her gf. Can't wait for El to keep her promise and kill Vecna again!!!

I also want more memories of them, maybe scenes we didn't see, or maybe El wrote Max letters? Also El and Lucas bonding in the hospital as they wait for Max to wake up.

Byler

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[mb-rihn]

Season 5 is here, so lets look back on myself from season 4

Stancy

I'm really happy they gave Nancy the storyline they did, because to me her character was built to have this arc. It was definitely the right decision to not reduce her character to her relationships and marriage. And Steve and Jonathan also got endings that they were very deserving of, and made sense to their characters.

Mileven

I really wish they'd treated El the way they treated Nancy, because I really would have liked it if they removed her from Mike romantically. It makes sense for her character's story for them to take a break, and I will be FOREVER mad at the suffer brothers for treating El's character the way they did. I hope Mike's theory is right, because if after all that shit she went through, El fucking DIED to save everyone? I would actually kill someone. Mileven is definitely not my favorite ship, especially now considering the fact they had absolutely no chemistry this season, UNTIL El straight up died. (and before you tell me it's because I'm a byler fan, even if byler never became canon, I would still hold by the fact that El was full on making out with Mike before she knew how to know what you LIKED. And I seriously doubt a relationship can be built on a bond like that without both of them being offered space to grow into individuals, which was not given to them.)

Max Mayfield

My Shayla! Sadie's acting this season was so good, like kudos to her<333. I loved everything about her arc this season. And Lumax! I love them so much they deserve the world <33. Just a lot of hearts for both of them.

Elmax

The one thing I'm really sad about in relation to Max is Elmax. Like are we going to ignore that El brought Max back from the dead in S4? They had zero interactions this season and I was so disappointed. I feel like when it came to their main characters (El, Will, Mike), the suffer brothers really didn't know what to do with them and their relationships with each other and the other members of the gang. Smh.

Byler

In all honesty, I never expected Byler to be canon. Like sure, I wanted it to be real so badly, but did I really think two straight white men were going to give us a queer love story? NO. BUT. Fanfiction and Non-canon ships have always existed. And as long as any fan picks up a pen, or starts to type out a story, Byler will always be canon to people out there. I do not think we should be going so far as to review-bomb the show, or insult the actors in anyway. And it is insane how many people believed the cutgate theory. Let's agree to call the writing shit, and move on to greener, gayer pastures.

Byler makes a lot of sense in the canon. And just because the suffer brothers are cowards doesn't mean we are. Write that fanfic. Draw that Comic. Fuck, for all I care rewrite season 5 entirely and post it on social media. (But please, for the love of god, don't use AI)

I love being crazy together with you guys. But please don't be hurtful to others, just because the ship isn't canon.

[a-a-a-a-a-deactivated20260420]

“Can’t wait for Noah’s NDA to expire!” or “ Can’t wait for Finn’s NDA to expire” oh boy…I can’t wait for MILLIE’S NDA to expire that girl is MAD MAD

[miwiheroes]

every clip of her talking about el is so weird to me i can tell she isnt saying what shes thinking....

like in old s4 interviews she talks about how el needs to stop centering her life around men but now she's "speaking" about how great her ending is despite her ending literally fridging her character for a man's development hhhhh

[sunsetserenade]

seriously. review bombing a show over alleged LEAKS?? that is fucking vile.

yeah, the volume was weak as hell, especially episode 7. it rightfully deserves the criticism.

but this here—tanking a season’s rating over something that has not been verified—is NOT CRITICISM. it is sensationalism, and therefore it is inherently biased and moot. it will NOT help anything.

I’m 99% sure the scenes in that doc are FINALE SCENES. they line up near perfectly with the plan set up in ep7 that leads us into the finale.

so holy fucking shit, guys, you need to STOP.

this kind of behavior makes us look worse than we already look.

stop spreading that document around. stop treating it like it’s fact.

I understand that this volume made you angry.

this is not the answer. this is extremely rash.

this kind of behavior is the last thing I would have ever expected from this fandom.

[mb-rihn]

maya hawke playing in the background, and my st brainrot, lets rant about my expectations for st s5!!

Stancy

Can we agree that their relationship was never meant to last? Literally every Stancy scene this season was ooc and made me want to puke. The only think I want in their relationship is for them to realize their happier off as friends, and to be happy with their past memories. I want Steve and Nancy to realize that they want each other in their future as someone to rely on, someone who's been there from the start, in different forms and positions.

Mileven

Now, I've never really liked this ship. Sure they're cute, but the fact that Eleven was in a relationship with Mike even before she could properly speak just makes me uncomfortable. El needs to figure out who she truly is, and come to terms with her past and her powers. And Mike? Well,

#MikeWheelerIKnowWhatYouAre

Max Mayfield

Forever angry at the Duffers for hurting my child like this, how could you do this to her.

But I have a lot of expectations for her next season!

I really like the idea of her waking up and being kind of a host for vecna(like will was in s2), but helping in turning the tide around and being an active part of defeating Vecna because do you really believe that Max Mayfield is going to sit there comatose for the entire season?

Elmax

I fully and truly believe that El is going to get Max back and then beat the shit out of Vecna for hurting her gf. Can't wait for El to keep her promise and kill Vecna again!!!

I also want more memories of them, maybe scenes we didn't see, or maybe El wrote Max letters? Also El and Lucas bonding in the hospital as they wait for Max to wake up.

Byler

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[mb-rihn]

ok let’s do a st s5 Byler breakdown (emphasis on breakdown)

The scene where the gang is about to go into the tunnels and Mike compares Will to a sorcerer was such a cute Byler scene and you see Robin clocking them, and I really thought omg they’re actually going to give us Byler this season.

And then, Robin gives us a monologue about Tammy right after. And I lost all my hope.

Because Robin sees Mike as Will’s Tammy, and suddenly Mike goes from being the love of Will’s life to a mere crush in Will’s journey to self acceptance. The coming out scene felt incredibly rushed just to tie up will’s storyline as one of self acceptance. And Mike? He literally gets nothing. Not even a POV.

No explanation on the last four seasons of combined tension and foreshadowing. Nil.

So now we have a two hour finale, absolute butchering of Mike’s character, and a Byler graveyard that I don’t think can be fixed in a single episode.

Thanks Duffer Brothers. Really shouldn’t have trusted you guys to give us an actual happy ending for a character you’ve done nothing but torture for 5 seasons.

[fromevertonow]

This YouTube comment has been on my mind since I finished SOTR so this is what I came up with:

Lucy Gray was the mockingbird, living on the outskirts of district 12 and was there at the wrong time when they were forced to stay there after the Dark Days. They were subjected to the Capitol’s politics despite not being a part of Panem, technically speaking. Lucy Gray became part of the Games and, likewise, the mockingbird became affiliated with the Capitol through the jabberjay’s release into the woods, but it still continued to sing its own song.

Haymitch was the jabberjay, a Capitol tool that did what it had to in order to survive. The Capitol thought they could control them, but they retaliated in the form of rebellion. Haymitch refused to be a piece in their game and tried to end it, and the jabberjay, in the eyes of the Capitol, created a freak of nature that showed the Capitol’s lack of complete control.

Katniss was the mockingjay, a slap in the face of the Capitol, something that was never meant to exist. Together, the song of the mockingbird that lived on for generations and the stubbornness of the jabberjay that refused to die, the mockingjay had the best of both worlds. It was a symbol of rebellion and unity.

[dinoari]

"Your motivating goal cannot be to join Ramy"

[lotus-pear]

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[lotus-pear]

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[nabulsi]

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[somewhereincairparavel]

When I say "defending jason online isn't enough, I need a gun" I'm SO fr i literally left the percy Jackson subreddit community on reddit because I see like atleast 5 comments/posts of people going "jason is so worthless and deserved to die, look! Percy is so much better" atleast 3x times a week.

Don't y'all get fucking bored for posting the same stale ahh shit to get upvotes lmao. The goal is to get internet validation from strangers, and the only way to do that is use Jason (aka one of the most hated characters in pjo) as the punching bag

[ashrayus]

absolutely lost it over this fic by @neuro-psyche so. have this comic o(- (

go read it rn if u also love some Good identity reveal fic!!!!

[apleye]

They’re not allowed to get interviewed anymore

[starspilli]

laundry day

(pls click for better quality!)

[joycrispy]

Awhile ago @ouidamforeman made this post:

This shot through my brain like a chain of firecrackers, so, without derailing the original post, I have some THOUGHTS to add about why this concept is not only hilarious (because it is), but also...

It. It kind of fucks. Severely.

And in a delightfully Pratchett-y way, I'd dare to suggest.

I'll explain:

As inferred above, both Crowley AND Aziraphale have canonical Biblical counterparts. Not by name, no, but by function.

Crowley, of course, is the serpent of Eden.

(note on the serpent of Eden: In Genesis 3:1-15, at least, the serpent is not identified as anything other than a serpent, albeit one that can talk. Later, it will be variously interpreted as a traitorous agent of Hell, as a demon, as a guise of Satan himself, etc. In Good Omens --as a slinky ginger who walks funny)

Lesser known, at least so far as I can tell, is the flaming sword. It, too, appears in Genesis 3, in the very last line:

"So he drove out the man; and placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." --Genesis 3:24, KJV

Thanks to translation ambiguity, there is some debate concerning the nature of the flaming sword --is it a divine weapon given unto one of the Cherubim (if so, why only one)? Or is it an independent entity, which takes the form of a sword (as other angelic beings take the form of wheels and such)? For our purposes, I don't think the distinction matters. The guard at the gate of Eden, whether an angel wielding the sword or an angel who IS the sword, is Aziraphale.

(note on the flaming sword: in some traditions --Eastern Orthodox, for example-- it is held that upon Christ's death and resurrection, the flaming sword gave up it's post and vanished from Eden for good. By these sensibilities, the removal of the sword signifies the redemption and salvation of man.

...Put a pin in that. We're coming back to it.)

So, we have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword, introduced at the beginning and the end (ha) of the very same chapter of Genesis.

But here's the important bit, the bit that's not immediately obvious, the bit that nonetheless encapsulates one of the central themes, if not THE central theme, of Good Omens:

The Sword was never intended to guard Eden while Adam and Eve were still in it.

Do you understand?

The Sword's function was never to protect them. It doesn't even appear until after they've already fallen. No... it was to usher Adam and Eve from the garden, and then keep them out. It was a threat. It was a punishment.

The flaming sword was given to be used against them.

So. Again. We have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword: the inception and the consequence of original sin, personified. They are the one-two punch that launches mankind from paradise, after Hell lures it to destruction and Heaven condemns it for being destroyed. Which is to say that despite being, supposedly, hereditary enemies on two different sides of a celestial cold war, they are actually unified by one purpose, one pivotal role to play in the Divine Plan: completely fucking humanity over.

That's how it's supposed to go. It is written.

...But, in Good Omens, they're not just the Serpent and the Sword.

They're Crowley and Aziraphale.

(author begins to go insane from emotion under the cut)

In Good Omens, humanity is handed it's salvation (pin!) scarcely half an hour after losing it. Instead of looming over God's empty garden, the sword protects a very sad, very scared and very pregnant girl. And no, not because a blameless martyr suffered and died for the privilege, either.

It was just that she'd had such a bad day. And there were vicious animals out there. And Aziraphale worried she would be cold.

...I need to impress upon you how much this is NOT just a matter of being careless with company property. With this one act of kindness, Aziraphale is undermining the whole entire POINT of the expulsion from Eden. God Herself confronts him about it, and he lies. To God.

And the Serpent--

(Crowley, that is, who wonders what's so bad about knowing the difference between good and evil anyway; who thinks that maybe he did a GOOD thing when he tempted Eve with the apple; who objects that God is over-reacting to a first offense; who knows what it is to fall but not what it is to be comforted after the fact...)

--just goes ahead and falls in love with him about it.

As for Crowley --I barely need to explain him, right? People have been making the 'didn't the serpent actually do us a solid?' argument for centuries. But if I'm going to quote one of them, it may as well be the one Neil Gaiman wrote ficlet about:

"If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization." --Robert G. Ingersoll

The first to ask questions.

Even beyond flattering literary interpretation, we know that Crowley is, so often, discreetly running damage control on the machinations of Heaven and Hell. When he can get away with it. Occasionally, when he can't (1827).

And Aziraphale loves him for it, too. Loves him back.

And so this romance plays out over millennia, where they fall in love with each other but also the world, because of each other and because of the world. But it begins in Eden. Where, instead of acting as the first Earthly example of Divine/Diabolical collusion and callousness--

(other examples --the flood; the bet with Satan; the back channels; the exchange of Holy Water and Hellfire; and on and on...)

--they refuse. Without even necessarily knowing they're doing it, they just refuse. Refuse to trivialize human life, and refuse to hate each other.

To write a story about the Serpent and the Sword falling in love is to write a story about transgression.

Not just in the sense that they are a demon and an angel, and it's ~forbidden. That's part of it, yeah, but the greater part of it is that they are THIS demon and angel, in particular. From The Real Bible's Book of Genesis, in the chapter where man falls.

It's the sort of thing you write and laugh. And then you look at it. And you think. And then you frown, and you sit up a little straighter. And you think.

And then you keep writing.

And what emerges hits you like a goddamn truck.

(...A lot of Pratchett reads that way. I believe Gaiman when he says Pratchett would have been happy with the romance, by the way. I really really do).

It's a story about transgression, about love as transgression. They break the rules by loving each other, by loving creation, and by rejecting the hatred and hypocrisy that would have triangulated them as a unified blow against humanity, before humanity had even really got started. And yeah, hell, it's a queer romance too, just to really drive the point home (oh, that!!! THAT!!!)

...I could spend a long time wildly gesturing at this and never be satisfied. Instead of watching me do that (I'll spare you), please look at this gif:

I love this shot so much.

Look at Eve and Crowley moving, at the same time in the same direction, towards their respective wielders of the flaming sword. Adam reaches out and takes her hand; Aziraphale reaches out and covers him with a wing.

You know what a shot like that establishes? Likeness. Commonality. Kinship.

"Our side" was never just Crowley and Aziraphale. Crowley says as much at the end of season 1 ("--all of us against all of them."). From the beginning, "our side" was Crowley, Aziraphale, and every single human being. Lately that's around 8 billion, but once upon a time it was just two other people. Another couple. The primeval mother and father.

But Adam and Eve die, eventually. Humanity grows without them. It's Crowley and Aziraphale who remain, and who protect it. Who...oversee it's upbringing.

Godfathers. Sort of.