mcMerryGoRound

she/her 🌈

[mcmerrygoround]

Is this an old photo?

If not the bloopers are coming.

It will probably give us something to theorise on for a while, until the VHS s2 release.

In this one there's A B C side with synchronicity colours

also I saw a possible blooper of the field scene and I'm scared.

EDIT

here it is 👀

I just realised it's the photo Noah published a while ago.

Still. I hate them. They have to stop looking at each other like that if they're not gonna kiss.

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Does anyone recognise the reflection on the VHS poster?

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Why is Millie the only one dressed the same as the photoshoot in Mike's basement?

[mcmerrygoround]

Do we think they'll give us VHS ST seasons until the release date on november/december?

It could be:

July s1

August s2

September s3

October s4

November the real s5

Maybe they'll have more notable differences or glitches each season 👀

[mcmerrygoround]

Bets for the new content release before the fateful day (The Anniversary) When do you think it's gonna happen?

Tomorrow!!

Tomorrow it's gonna happen something but not the release yet

November - December

Next year

Never :(

Voting ended onJul 15

[mcmerrygoround]

Maybe not on purpose but CG certainly opened my eyes to what extent they can manipulate the public through the media.

Literally cast a curse on the entire world with the power of storytelling.

It's scary but it's also giving many of us the tools to look past these lies. It really has the power to be revolutionary, if all goes well.

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I wasn't in the fandom when this came out but I remember people saying that Noah and Finn started filming together s5 a lot earlier than the others.

Did anyone know where it came from? Was it a credible source?

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Not me being triggered every time I see primary colours.

[birdandmoon]

Heat waves.

[misspracticallydelulu]

Wait, wait, hang ON a damn second…

I have a theory about Will’s slightly different painting that @lilialunaa posted here

Original:

What if it’s a corrupted memory? Or…

…a vessel of communication?

Just like in What Dreams May Come:

Plot: Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to save her from Hell.

Before Annie takes her life though, she was a painter. And her work literally painted his afterlife. And they communicate through her art.

When she “destroys” the painting, things start dying in his afterlife:

His afterlife before she destroys the painting:

After: (the leaves literally shrivel & die!! Kind of what appears to happen in Will’s alternative painting) 👀

Annie’s diary entry reminds me of how important Will’s art is to Mike:

Chris talking about his actions sounds like Mike describing himself 😭

And when she was in Hell, she lost her memories to the torment:

Only when he promised he’d stay in Hell with her, she “woke up” and recognised him, saving them both:

Just like Mike’s promise:

And Mike is the only one that Will can remember, and has the power to “wake him up” from a trance:

I think Will is going to communicate through the painting to make Mike “remember” and “wake him up”:

I mean…

It’s uncanny…

(sorry if this connection has been made before!)

[mcmerrygoround]

This picture haunts me.

The look on Nancy's face... I wanna know what he's telling her so badly.

[mcmerrygoround]

Has someone already pointed out the yellow/blue spiral of madness and the conformity baseball bat in Finn's new clip?

Because it's kind of insane.

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Watching The Vampire Lestat and this season is structured in a SIDE A / SIDE B storyline.

Scenes of the trailer seems to be different from the one in the episodes, like they're not showing the full picture yet, and that's very likely because Interview With The Vampire always plays with false memories and lies, until the last moment where the full picture is revealed.

People online say that this season is bad but I don't think it is, it's Lestat's perspective, he's brushing off details that he doesn't wanna think about, so we only see rushed flashbacks about very important moments, but he's gonna drop the persona eventually.

I'm not sure I'd have picked up on it if it weren't for the SIDE A/B theory and metagate.

He also talks to the audience, which is very meta.

[boredwestwow]

Mike is a trans girl theory

Unlike Lucas and Dustin in S1, Mike immediately warms up to a girl who looks like a boy and is clearly different so he can relate to her. He showed her his house happily before he even knew she knew about Will. El's arc in S1 is very much trans coded and in many ways i believe it's analogy for Mike being trans. Mike gives a girl who looks like a boy his clothes,hides her in his closet and then his mom tells him he doesn't have to hide anything from her. Mike knows how to do make up and has sisters clothes in his basement. He gives Pink dress to El and does her make up, projecting what he wishes to be. This is even more obvious when Mike in blue clothes stands behind El in pink dress in the mirror who is experiencing girlhood for the first time. If a girl is experiencing girlhood for the first time,why putting boy behind her? Unless he's experiencing it as well and wishes to look like her. Compare this to him being rude towards Max and immediately disliking her when he meets her. Max who has a beautiful long hair and has all the boys going crazy for her and he wishes he could be her. Meanwhile Max's main song in S4 is running up that hill which is about woman and a man swapping places, queer people for years have been saying this song is trans coded. They knew what they were doing while picking that song

Mike is looking for dart in the gym and finds Max and says to her : "This is the boys room."

Max: "Yeah,so?"

Mike: " So it means you should go home"

Why even speciffically saying she should go home cause it's the "boys room"? What does this have to do with him mentioning her gender now and getting so defensive.

Demogorgon looks like a vagina,the gate looks like vagina and El going through it looks like birth. Mindflayer in S3 as well looks like vagina and in S5 as well. I doubt that monsters look like female genitalia cause of the creator being gay and scared of it. Makes more sense it's trans girl experiencing gender dysphoria and we see her POV through supernatural. Even Vecna doesn't have penis and is connected to the vines like black widow.

And Mike goes to girls toilet at rinkomania looking for El and the girls tell him to get out while they're wearing pink,white and Blue(colors of trans Flag)

S3 focused heavily on gender roles like Nancy's journalist plot, Joyce does it with Hopper as well and Max&El talk about boys being terrible while they're experiencing girlhood. Mike who goes through internalized transphobia and is trying this whole season being this masculine straight dude says "women act on emotions and not logic". Meanwhile Mike says "screw logic" to Dustin in S1. Mike then get's attacked for being too emotional instead of using logic while discussing about El's powers.

S4 again shows how important hair is,they focus on Hopper being shaved while El get's buzzcut again. Meanwhile in S4 Mike has long hair,but at the beginning of S5 the party says they have to blend in and Mike is back to wearing clothes his mother buys (which looks like his dads clothes) and has short hair

Max says Holly is her brother Mike and Holly has tons of parallels with her brother. We see Holly enjoying herself in Creel house, experiencing girlhood,trying on dresses and the first dress we see in the closet is a pink dress that had the same shade as the dress El wore in S1. Why was that so important to show? Her doing this by herself and song about being alone is playing. Almost like that's what little Mike was doing while his family was away,trying on his old sisters clothes and having fun. That's why we see a scene of Mike in S1 getting scared when Karen comes and has to hide his symbol of femininity (El) in the closet. Cause Mike would try on his sisters clothes and immediately had to hide when his mother arrives. Meanwhile while El is alone in the house, wearing Mike's clothes,she goes to Nancy's room and wanting girlhood she was never allowed to experience. She represents Mike in that moment, even if their reasons for not having girlhood are different.

Since we're talking about Pink,this color is so important in the show, especially Pink/blue combination. Nancy in S1 wears light pastel colors, especially Pink and has a light pink room that screams girlhood. Meanwhile Mike's room is blue and dark, almost feels suffocating just like the masculinity that is forced on him,Mike even says "dad you're choking me" while Ted is putting a tie on him. Nancy again wears light pink colors in S5 and Jonathan somehow has to mention he threw her pink sweater cause it was Pink. Why? It was so out of Jonathans character, but i think this was a hint for Will being disappointed that Mike is trans. Vickie is dressed in pink uniform and Robin plays for her "pretty in pink" ,lyrics goes "she loves to be one of the girls"

Mr Whatsit in Stranger things is a man while in Wrinkle of time is a woman and Mike speciffically mentions that(Mike always at the scene of the crime)

In The first shadow Henry looks like he's trying on mothers dress. A vision also appears to him and mindflayer is a woman disguised as Patty who's ripping of her hair. Cast members call mindflayer "Mindy" which is similar to Mike and mindflayer is called Mindy on WSQK as well . Patty also often get's compared to Mike and is meant to be his parallel. Just like Nikki in Tales of 85.

I think femininity is even bigger part of Stranger things than homosexuality,but we confuse those things cause of the AIDS metaphors and Will being bullied for being gay. But even bigger part we see in the show is girlhood,huge focus on Nancy losing her virginity and losing her best friend,El herself experiencing girlhood and being friends with Max. Chrissy who was a first victim and had ED directly parallels Mike,they both have abusive mothers(that's a whole other theory i have,Karen is way worse than people think)and eating disorders. So much food mentions around Mike and him being called a twig cause he's a trans girl struggling with her body. Women in general had bigger roles in the show, the only male role that was big every season is Hopper who's definition of toxic masculinity.

Femininity was always bigger part of the show than homosexuality, whether it's text wise or subtext wise in supernatural form.That's why Mike being trans makes more sense.

[mcmerrygoround]

Spoiler for the new episode of From.

Fatima, the character who in the last season gave birth to one of the monsters (like Will with Dart in S1), has just discovered that she can see through the monsters eyes, like Will's Demo-vision.

aaaand she can control them too.

I love metagate.

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"The Duffers are not smart enough to make something like Conformitygate"

They're not smart enough to make six seasons of a show?

The last one is just a secret, it's not that absurd to think about.

[mcmerrygoround]

They're so byler coded omg.