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[actuallyphos]

I’m so confused by Stranger Things being featured for pride month on Netflix like. Huh??? Sure there are gay characters but yall literally queerbaited the audience what

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

they broke up the one queer couple that had off-screen and literally gave no reason for it other than that it would've been "unrealistic" for them to stay together, they only introduced one half of said ship in season four and she got like three minutes of screentime in total in the whole show and no arc or importance outside of that relationship whatsoever, and this relationship (between two girls) was used as a plot device for the shitty excuse of a sexuality arc of the only other queer character (a gay guy) who was pretty much just forced to accept that in order to find love and a sense of belonging he had to move away not only from his hometown but also from all of his friends and family, and also he'd just have to live with the fact that his feelings for his best friend that he had throughout the whole show never got addressed and the issues that came with it never got resolved and his possible future queer joy was left to the imagination even though his queer suffering was highlighted time and time again on-screen and he was basically reduced to it, leading to his character being sidelined in the show that literally started and was supposed to end with him... but whatever.

[90shorrorpaperback]

The queer rep in Stranger Things is what you could have expected to see in a "progressive" show that aired in 1990. A sapphic couple get together towards the end of the show, have extremely limited screen time, and predominantly exist to support a male character's arc.

And a gay guy whose sexuality isn't confirmed until the absolute last minute. Whose storyline ends with some straight people accepting him and a hint that maybe he'll get a boyfriend in the future. Which of course they can't show any development for onscreen, because they might scare the fragile little cishet white men in the audience.

[kosmogrl]

[alt-j-deactivated20171027]

nah I think we should really stop glorifying cigarettes

[dirty-sparkletini-no-olive]

you sound boring.

[psiioniic-miracles]

You sound like you’ve never had the scent of cigarette smoke ingrained in your clothes to the point where people in middle school thought you smoked at eleven because your parents couldn’t be bothered to go outside. You sound like you’ve never had your mother flick cigarette ashes out of the car window and have them fly into your face. You sound like you’ve never been kept up at night by the sound of your dad hacking up a lung because he has to get up for his midnight smoke. You sound like you’ve never had to run into a convenience store to get your mother cigarettes as soon as you turned eighteen and cringed at touching the box because you know they’re not only killers but government sanctioned killers because they can not only tax the shit out of them but ensure people buy more at the cost of young lungs and a once beautiful home now plagued with the smell of smoke and ash. You sound like you’ve never had a great grandmother who stopped smoking 30 years before her death who still got lung cancer and subsequently died. You sound like a Fucking ignoramus. Smoking isn’t Fucking cool, it isn’t fun to glorify, it’s disgusting and makes not only you but your children smell bad. Makes not only you but your children cough, get cancer, get sick.

You sound like a Fucking moron. Smoking isn’t cool. Grow the Fuck up.

[ssentinl]

this is so precious because will probably hasn’t seen mike nerd out about dnd since at least before season 3 (4 or 5 years) and imagine how ecstatic he must have been on the inside. like that’s his mike, his mike is finally coming back

[tmgghn-mw]

Happy Birthday, Mike Wheeler🥳🩵

"So, that only leaves one more option... me?"

[mikewheelerisaqueerler]

so what i'm saying is

[lemonnaises]

and can I add that

[roguemercurywrites]

My favorite shot of the Pocky comic rn 😭 Will finally giving in after years of wanting this and pulling Mike in is everything to me 😭😭😭

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3

[lemonnaises]

William drop dead byers and michael the cure wheeler

[hearteyes-wheeler]

The coming out scene felt like what straight people probably expect a coming out scene to be like, if I'm being honest. Impersonal and almost theatrical

[penandinkprincess]

experiencing Extreme Emotions about shane being a little bit nervous about getting edgy about sharing space with someone with no breaks at the cottage because he truly has NEVER done that before. like, sure, yeah, when he was a kid he shared a house with his parents, but they also 100% let him wander off and have alone time with no questions. and then at 18 he moved out and immediately started living alone. he shares rooms with hayden when they're on the road, but they both have an understanding that sometimes shane wanders off to be by himself or they both just sit in silence doing their own thing.

but he's never spent longer than a few hours with ilya before. he doesn't actually know how sharing a space with him is going to feel. and yeah, he's excited about it, but he also knows himself. with EVERYONE he eventually feels the need to get a break and be alone and reset and what if ilya thinks it's weird or what if he gets insulted and wants to leave or what if-

but then...he doesn't feel the need to escape.

it turns out that being with ilya when they have things in the open is actually really comfortable?? and enjoyable?? and he doesn't feel tense or like there's a timer in the back of his head counting down until he needs to be alone?? it turns out that being with ilya is as comfortable as being by himself?? it might even be MORE comfortable?? holy shit?? that was a possibility the whole time??

[mrmnn]

[teenagers-from-outer-space-1959]

JUST ONE SCENE

[secretlyscrawling]

[secretlyscrawling]

BYLER ART

[ek-cupidon]

i still miss them ughghdhh I HAVE NOT ABANDONED YOU ZACH AND GABE

[aviannabuckley]

₊˚⊹ ᰔ spring into summer by aviannabuckley on ao3 fanart

In the golden kingdom of Istathia, princes are meant to marry for politics, not for love. But when Prince Will is forced into an alliance marriage to end a war, he finds himself torn between the duty he was born into, and the boy who took his heart the moment Will saw him.

Mike was standing there, close enough that Will could feel the warmth of him even through the night air, holding out a single tulip by the stem. Its petals were a deep, velvety crimson and Mike’s fingers were steady, though his smile carried that familiar uncertainty he tried so hard to hide.

“For you,” he murmured.

commissioned by me and created by @kidovna ㅤ♡

[bbluesidess]

colors are fun