Merlene

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[gabe-dasha]

Some part of me likes the idea of Crowley being a higher rank angel than Aziraphale before the Fall, but Aziraphale doesn't remember that (cuz memory fuckery)

And then he like either finds out or remembers or connects the dots on his own and is like "You were an archangel all this time? 😦" and Crowley gets this king-in-beggar's-clothes reveal moment and is like "no, please come on angel, I literally couldn't care less, get up of your knees you idiot"

[merleneish]

Everyone is moving on but im still here 3729276 trillion years ago when season 3 came out, mad about how badly they fucked up polin. It could've been so fucking good.

[witchesonacross]

the concept of a medieval/fantasy stranger things au.

jane as an earl’s daughter who secretly practices magic in the woods with her brother will

will who is a young scholar with a talent for painting

mike as the son of a prominent family who gave up his title to join the ranks as a knight

max as a rebellious thief who steals from passing dignitaries

lucas, her loyal offsider who left left the knighthood to be with her

dustin a carpenters apprentice who dreams of researching the natural world.

and mike and jane are arranged to be married, but they are both in love with someone they can’t have. mike wishing to be with his best friend will, and jane wanting to be with the lowly scientist she met while disguised in their local tavern.

ughh the possibilities

[vampirementality]

they really shouldve just given holly's plotline to mike.

imagine the chaos of the madwheeler duo running rampant in vecnas mind.

imagine them being forced to see each others worst memories and recognising the real reason they butt heads so often is because they just cant stand how similar they really are.

imagine they fight because theyre still in denial about their similarities because theyre both self hating idiots, and/or they have some sort of disagreement, maybe about how to escape or maybe max confronts him about how he's treated el in the past.

imagine that right as tensions are highest, they stumble into another memory and max finds out that mikes big secret is that hes in love with will. and he expects her to berate him. to yell at him, say she just knew there was something wrong with him, but of course she doesn't. she just hugs him and tells him its okay. and he's so caught off guard that he doesn't even react at first, but then piece by piece he just starts to break down and cry into her shoulder, because its such a relief to finally just admit it to someone, and the fact that max, someone who isnt very fond of him on a good day, still accepts him honestly just makes her the perfect person to admit it to.

imagine she opens up to him about how it wasn't the music that saved her at all, it was her connection, her love for lucas, and that if he wants to escape he has to accept the same thing for himself. he has to realize what love really tethers him to this world.

[wis3h3artt]

stop it this woulda been so peak

[wisermoon]

I wish Mike would've heard Will saying "Did the leg slow you down?" to Vecna because I just KNOW that boy would've been blushing, giggling, twirling his hair, flustered, so visibly attracted to Will Byers that everyone in the vicinity would've clocked his gay ass.

[illogical-fallacy]

everybody waiting for january 7th for this surprise episode, meanwhile i'm waiting for january 17th for finn wolfhard to come out for his SNL hosting monologue and completely roast the duffer bros and the ending as part of his stand-up because he has no filter

[moonfruito]

based on a tweet i can't find about max realising that her new bestie is also mike obsessed and she'll never be free

[penguinchick07]

Okay so let's say at least a part of the finale is mike's vecna vision, final battle scene included. Tell me why the mind flayer starts rising and i went "you know what it looks like lowkey??"

It's so funny how Mike's worst fear manifests itself...as this thing...that looks an awful lot like female genitalia...

There's no way they didn't realise what this looks like when creating the design sorry this HAS to be intentional 😭😭

[itsmiahshemakessense]

Robin and Vickies relationship sole use being to uplift a gay man, for him to then empower his “straight” best friends relationship is incredibly insane actually

[saraluckyj]

So I keep seeing things like "it has no plot" or "just sex and no plot" about Heated Rivalry and I don't understand. Like, the romance is the plot. Two closeted idiots meet and have sex and slowly fall in love despite being from extremely different backgrounds and worlds and playing for rival teams is actually quite a lot of plot actually? What are people expecting? Heists? Aliens? Spies? Watching them both navigate their emotions is more exciting to me than most action movies. The sex is just a bonus (and a legitimate emotional storytelling tactic, in book and show).

[merleneish]

Honestly i think you guys are overreacting with the whole "Vickie wasn't in the epilogue" thing... I mean, Will had an epilogue boyfriend! and we all know there's only one gay couple allowed at a time. Or did you guys forget that? (Bc some people misunderstood this is a disclaimer that im being sarcastic<3)

[merleneish]

Why does Mike look like he wants to tell Will he's in love with him but can't this entire season? The micro expressions, finns eyebrow yearning thing, bro just stares at Will like he's the life he could never have in almost every scene they have. He looks like there are two different versions of Mike trapped inside him and every now and then the real Mike escapes and lets a few longing looks slip out, but then he regains consciousness and comes back to being cardboard Mike, like one of those sci fi movies where the main character is trapped in a different dimension in their own body and they see something that reminds them who they were in their original dimension so they break from whatever hypothesis they were in, but only for a moment, then go back in. Genuinely feels like the real Mike is trying to escape lol... kinda like you can't write Mike wheeler without him being in love with Will Byers huh? The Duffers sure did try tho (not very successfully)

[mikewheerlerdefsquad]

Even if #conformitygate is real, I doubt they would give us byler after one of the brothers' comment basically telling Noah to stop doing too much in the bar scene. You can tell they don't like Will. He is just there for diversity and not to really show smth about his story. I wish I was wrong.

[mikeandwill]

every good thing about this show has been because one of the cast members brought it up. not because the duffers thought of it themselves. robin being gay, maya's idea. karen not sleeping with billy because she realizes her family is more important? cara's idea. will being more of a focus and having plot importance in s5, noah's idea. mike and will convo in ep 8? noah's idea. the group all being together at the end so they could wrap together? noah's idea.

there's probably more

[toxicworkplaceyaoi]

it’s really really something to me the way shane deadpan flat-affect autistically autopilot’s his way thru any conversation with a lick of accusation to it, and then the second he’s high on painkillers he’s just “yaaaaay my boyfriend!!!! yyayyayayaaayy :3 yaaaaayy”

[3pigs-png]

all of you are slash joking about stonathan endgame but not me. im slash serious. it may be a crackship to you but theyre a genuine couple to me and i dont play about them. joe keery and charlie heaton did not put their whole asses into this pairing for YEARS just for yall to take it around as a joke. that shit is canon to me ok on this hill i will die.

[this-fine-day]

Steve will never beat the allegations.

And don't even act like all these motherfuckers don't know it's true.