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@staphi
Yeah, so, I wanted to bind a fic illuminated manuscript style, but can't find something enough of a high resolution. My partner has a graphic tablet, and that's basically a mouse, and that's basically easy to use. So i've thinketh and saideth to myself, it can't be that hard to traceth an image, no?
original image
OH THAT SHIT IS EEEEEEASY
what the hell is this?? and how do I do an entire page without my hand cramping?
wtf is this, why is this mature, it's a BOOK, the only tag is "#bookbinding" , there is nothing mature here
do we go slapping "mature content" on everything now?? OH lemme post a photo of a book— sike! MATURE; OH you wanna post a full photo in studio lighting of your dick?! GO AHEAD, no contents warning there, you're free to go and post it and tag it with #flowers so everyone can see it
sooooo I have a book in the press (and 2 more already typesetted (?)/typesat(?) ) but I got this urge to make more books and I don't have enough presses, and all I can do is typeset another book
ummmmmm my printer is gonna hate me; my wallet is gonna hate me
my cat is gonna love me tho' she likes when the paper disappears into the printer
there are ~250ish pages full color
but it's sooooo pretty look at the floweeers
what if we kissed 😳 in a land of myth and a time of magic 😳
would the destiny of a great kingdom, by chance, rest on the shoulders of a young boy? 👉👈
Ode to Insanity
I started to typeset DYMM, this post is for me, to track my sanity slipping away. Look at it like a journal entry. Journal entry No.1.
After trying for 2 weeks (in January 2025) to just download this fic with creator's styles turned on (AND FAILING) I found this incredible nice person on tumblr with a tutorial on how to do that.
GOD BLESS. So - easy right? Download with creator styles - print - bind. NOPE! PDF doesn't like making my life easy, I had to download as an EPUB - and edit in Calibre. Easy right? (I will say this a lot) NOPE!
After debugging the text-bubbles, I found the emails/twitters/instagram posts - and those were not nice to edit. I edited a box, another one just disappeared. I managed to not make any box disappear, now my text-bubbles reverted to some weird, wonky lineart.
Look at it - wtf is that box doing jumping out of frame like that? I didn't even touch it!
And wtf is this email doing??
And then I found the photos... Photos sent in chat. The wonderful authors did something super cool on AO3. If you click on a photo it opens in a new tab in full size, while just reading the texting in the fic you see a preview of the photo. This is cool. Printing it is not so cool.
So I stalked (sorry to the authors and binders I bothered) anyone who posted something remotely close to text-bubble printing/binding and how the photos were edited in a bind.
[I also found out that not many people bound this MONSTER of a fic - understandable i think]
SOOOO - after a quick break (from January to...now July 18th) I am taking this up again.
Another kind binder answered my ask - and I am doing this manualy after all. Fuck html&css, I am not smart enough (yet) for that. What I am smart enough (now) for is doing it in Word. Which we al know Word is shit.
I just finished text-bubbles for 4 (or 3?) chapters. And if we believe Word, then that means 52 pages out of 2600+. I haven't thought yet about chapter-title art, I don't even wanna think about what I will do when getting to the Instagram and twitter posts later in the fic.
Journal entry No.1 finished.
I just realized something. This being word and the text-bubbles are not fixed to the text, they're fixed to the page (if you move the text , down 1 line, the text bubble stays put) I may have to re-do the bubbles.
If I do (and will do) chapter title art and/or add some images across the text, the text will move.
Sooooo.... fuck me, right?!
(Journal entry No.2 - 25 July)
Soo, almost a year later, I haven't worked on this because I gave up and also life happened. Buuuuuut I got Affinity, fuck Word, I learned to do text bubbles, I've typeset another fic in a few days while COMPLETELY ignoring my earthly responsibilities (Dear Your Holiness by @mollymarymarie - I recommend with my whole heart and soul, I almost read it again while typesetting)
So, we have dropcaps, very church-y
cross-y page numbers
doves paragraph separator thingy A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER THINGS, BUT THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE
WE HAVE LEARNED THE ART OF TEXT BUBBLES, HEEELLLL YEAH BROTHA'
now I have to somehow procure special paper (found only in UK; maybe other countries too but I CANNOT FIND IT for the life of me) and get it to eastern europe without exorbitant shipping fees.
More things I found out while typesetting Dear Your Holiness:
Searching for specific fonts, while you have an idea in your head, is haaaaard (a few whole hours were spent on fonts)
Searching for specific pictures, while you have an idea in your head, is also haaaaaaaaaard (more than a few hours spent on just scrolling google images and internet archive)
It is hard not to copy by mistake another typeset. In my time on tumblr I've seen lots of gorgeous binds of this fic (and other fics too!) and it's hard to keep it 100% original. I have gone back and changed some pictures in my typeset because I have seen them used after the fact by other people.
Not typeset related: Remus says "Fuck me," A LOT in this fic.
My sanity got a bit back with Dear Your Holiness, I'm counting my blessings. It will disappear again when I'll restart DYMM.
Next Stop: DYMM text bubbles EXTRAVAGANZA. (Sometime soon, maybe this year, maybe.......)
(Journal entry No.3 - 19 April '26)
I wanted to print on real bible paper, because, ya know, Dear Your Holiness. BUT:
Only one store in UK has it
all online sources are saying that is next to impossible to print on sheets of bible paper on a home printer. You have to have ✨special ink✨ and you have to have ✨tension✨, and you have to print on ✨rolls not sheets✨, and you ✨can't do pictures✨. Soooooo no more bible paper ig.... (:
And I was so clooooose to buying a shit tone of sheets for this.
If anyone knows someone that printed on bible paper with a home printer hit me up :D
(Journal entry No.3.5 - 21 April '26)
Okay, so, this post got derailed.
I want to bind Dear Your Holiness with leather, and thought it would be nice to emboss(de-boss? stamp?) the leather and use gold foil decoration. I don't have any tools for this. I deemed them to expensive to buy.
I was complaining about this to my father, about how expensive they are, about how it would be cheaper to carve the brass myself, but it would take time, and my father, unprompted, bought a CNC.
So now I , apparently, will learn blender, to make tools for blind tooling, to stamp the leather, to bind the book.
This should have been an easy bind. Why am I this way.
Alssooooo I have half a thought to gauffer the edges, using that tutorial with the fancy peacock cover bind from tumblr. And also apply gold foil to the edges.
(Journal entry No.4 - 29 April '26)
Tension is lacking, I forgot about it in the press for 3 days, had to soften the adhesive to round it.
While backing I had to change to another press, it was slipping from the first one. By mistake I've hit the centre signatures while hammering at the shoulders.
Now it's in the press waiting to be sanded (I suspect a few days for each edge, gold foil included)
[I think I'm gonna do another DYH, I can do better than this]
I will gauffer the edges over the gold foil (will tag my inspiration when it's done) and will stamp the leather.
I have ordered brass round and square bars, I am currently learning blender, and learning about the ins and outs of hobby cnc'ing to make my own tools.
Pros: first tools I want are 2D so I can get away with only UGS.
Semi-pros: I want a full alphabet set in multiple fonts....... it's 2D, yes; it's a lot of pieces, also yes
Cons: I want (in the future) to make bas-relief book covers from either wood or thick cardstock. Maybe covered in leather, maybe not. If it's wood I think a nice lacquer to not get the wood dirty it's enough. That means gitting gud in blender.
(Journal No 5 - May 3rd)
[This started as a typesetting post, it got derailed. And I suspect it will get more derailed. Sorry about that]
Ode to Insanity
I started to typeset DYMM, this post is for me, to track my sanity slipping away. Look at it like a journal entry. Journal entry No.1.
After trying for 2 weeks (in January 2025) to just download this fic with creator's styles turned on (AND FAILING) I found this incredible nice person on tumblr with a tutorial on how to do that.
GOD BLESS. So - easy right? Download with creator styles - print - bind. NOPE! PDF doesn't like making my life easy, I had to download as an EPUB - and edit in Calibre. Easy right? (I will say this a lot) NOPE!
After debugging the text-bubbles, I found the emails/twitters/instagram posts - and those were not nice to edit. I edited a box, another one just disappeared. I managed to not make any box disappear, now my text-bubbles reverted to some weird, wonky lineart.
Look at it - wtf is that box doing jumping out of frame like that? I didn't even touch it!
And wtf is this email doing??
And then I found the photos... Photos sent in chat. The wonderful authors did something super cool on AO3. If you click on a photo it opens in a new tab in full size, while just reading the texting in the fic you see a preview of the photo. This is cool. Printing it is not so cool.
So I stalked (sorry to the authors and binders I bothered) anyone who posted something remotely close to text-bubble printing/binding and how the photos were edited in a bind.
[I also found out that not many people bound this MONSTER of a fic - understandable i think]
SOOOO - after a quick break (from January to...now July 18th) I am taking this up again.
Another kind binder answered my ask - and I am doing this manualy after all. Fuck html&css, I am not smart enough (yet) for that. What I am smart enough (now) for is doing it in Word. Which we al know Word is shit.
I just finished text-bubbles for 4 (or 3?) chapters. And if we believe Word, then that means 52 pages out of 2600+. I haven't thought yet about chapter-title art, I don't even wanna think about what I will do when getting to the Instagram and twitter posts later in the fic.
Journal entry No.1 finished.
I just realized something. This being word and the text-bubbles are not fixed to the text, they're fixed to the page (if you move the text , down 1 line, the text bubble stays put) I may have to re-do the bubbles.
If I do (and will do) chapter title art and/or add some images across the text, the text will move.
Sooooo.... fuck me, right?!
(Journal entry No.2 - 25 July)
Soo, almost a year later, I haven't worked on this because I gave up and also life happened. Buuuuuut I got Affinity, fuck Word, I learned to do text bubbles, I've typeset another fic in a few days while COMPLETELY ignoring my earthly responsibilities (Dear Your Holiness by @mollymarymarie - I recommend with my whole heart and soul, I almost read it again while typesetting)
So, we have dropcaps, very church-y
cross-y page numbers
doves paragraph separator thingy A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER THINGS, BUT THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE
WE HAVE LEARNED THE ART OF TEXT BUBBLES, HEEELLLL YEAH BROTHA'
now I have to somehow procure special paper (found only in UK; maybe other countries too but I CANNOT FIND IT for the life of me) and get it to eastern europe without exorbitant shipping fees.
More things I found out while typesetting Dear Your Holiness:
Searching for specific fonts, while you have an idea in your head, is haaaaard (a few whole hours were spent on fonts)
Searching for specific pictures, while you have an idea in your head, is also haaaaaaaaaard (more than a few hours spent on just scrolling google images and internet archive)
It is hard not to copy by mistake another typeset. In my time on tumblr I've seen lots of gorgeous binds of this fic (and other fics too!) and it's hard to keep it 100% original. I have gone back and changed some pictures in my typeset because I have seen them used after the fact by other people.
Not typeset related: Remus says "Fuck me," A LOT in this fic.
My sanity got a bit back with Dear Your Holiness, I'm counting my blessings. It will disappear again when I'll restart DYMM.
Next Stop: DYMM text bubbles EXTRAVAGANZA. (Sometime soon, maybe this year, maybe.......)
(Journal entry No.3 - 19 April '26)
I wanted to print on real bible paper, because, ya know, Dear Your Holiness. BUT:
Only one store in UK has it
all online sources are saying that is next to impossible to print on sheets of bible paper on a home printer. You have to have ✨special ink✨ and you have to have ✨tension✨, and you have to print on ✨rolls not sheets✨, and you ✨can't do pictures✨. Soooooo no more bible paper ig.... (:
And I was so clooooose to buying a shit tone of sheets for this.
If anyone knows someone that printed on bible paper with a home printer hit me up :D
(Journal entry No.3.5 - 21 April '26)
Okay, so, this post got derailed.
I want to bind Dear Your Holiness with leather, and thought it would be nice to emboss(de-boss? stamp?) the leather and use gold foil decoration. I don't have any tools for this. I deemed them to expensive to buy.
I was complaining about this to my father, about how expensive they are, about how it would be cheaper to carve the brass myself, but it would take time, and my father, unprompted, bought a CNC.
So now I , apparently, will learn blender, to make tools for blind tooling, to stamp the leather, to bind the book.
This should have been an easy bind. Why am I this way.
Alssooooo I have half a thought to gauffer the edges, using that tutorial with the fancy peacock cover bind from tumblr. And also apply gold foil to the edges.
(Journal entry No.4 - 29 April '26)
Ode to Insanity
I started to typeset DYMM, this post is for me, to track my sanity slipping away. Look at it like a journal entry. Journal entry No.1.
After trying for 2 weeks (in January 2025) to just download this fic with creator's styles turned on (AND FAILING) I found this incredible nice person on tumblr with a tutorial on how to do that.
GOD BLESS. So - easy right? Download with creator styles - print - bind. NOPE! PDF doesn't like making my life easy, I had to download as an EPUB - and edit in Calibre. Easy right? (I will say this a lot) NOPE!
After debugging the text-bubbles, I found the emails/twitters/instagram posts - and those were not nice to edit. I edited a box, another one just disappeared. I managed to not make any box disappear, now my text-bubbles reverted to some weird, wonky lineart.
Look at it - wtf is that box doing jumping out of frame like that? I didn't even touch it!
And wtf is this email doing??
And then I found the photos... Photos sent in chat. The wonderful authors did something super cool on AO3. If you click on a photo it opens in a new tab in full size, while just reading the texting in the fic you see a preview of the photo. This is cool. Printing it is not so cool.
So I stalked (sorry to the authors and binders I bothered) anyone who posted something remotely close to text-bubble printing/binding and how the photos were edited in a bind.
[I also found out that not many people bound this MONSTER of a fic - understandable i think]
SOOOO - after a quick break (from January to...now July 18th) I am taking this up again.
Another kind binder answered my ask - and I am doing this manualy after all. Fuck html&css, I am not smart enough (yet) for that. What I am smart enough (now) for is doing it in Word. Which we al know Word is shit.
I just finished text-bubbles for 4 (or 3?) chapters. And if we believe Word, then that means 52 pages out of 2600+. I haven't thought yet about chapter-title art, I don't even wanna think about what I will do when getting to the Instagram and twitter posts later in the fic.
Journal entry No.1 finished.
I just realized something. This being word and the text-bubbles are not fixed to the text, they're fixed to the page (if you move the text , down 1 line, the text bubble stays put) I may have to re-do the bubbles.
If I do (and will do) chapter title art and/or add some images across the text, the text will move.
Sooooo.... fuck me, right?!
(Journal entry No.2 - 25 July)
Soo, almost a year later, I haven't worked on this because I gave up and also life happened. Buuuuuut I got Affinity, fuck Word, I learned to do text bubbles, I've typeset another fic in a few days while COMPLETELY ignoring my earthly responsibilities (Dear Your Holiness by @mollymarymarie - I recommend with my whole heart and soul, I almost read it again while typesetting)
So, we have dropcaps, very church-y
cross-y page numbers
doves paragraph separator thingy A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER THINGS, BUT THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE
WE HAVE LEARNED THE ART OF TEXT BUBBLES, HEEELLLL YEAH BROTHA'
now I have to somehow procure special paper (found only in UK; maybe other countries too but I CANNOT FIND IT for the life of me) and get it to eastern europe without exorbitant shipping fees.
More things I found out while typesetting Dear Your Holiness:
Searching for specific fonts, while you have an idea in your head, is haaaaard (a few whole hours were spent on fonts)
Searching for specific pictures, while you have an idea in your head, is also haaaaaaaaaard (more than a few hours spent on just scrolling google images and internet archive)
It is hard not to copy by mistake another typeset. In my time on tumblr I've seen lots of gorgeous binds of this fic (and other fics too!) and it's hard to keep it 100% original. I have gone back and changed some pictures in my typeset because I have seen them used after the fact by other people.
Not typeset related: Remus says "Fuck me," A LOT in this fic.
My sanity got a bit back with Dear Your Holiness, I'm counting my blessings. It will disappear again when I'll restart DYMM.
Next Stop: DYMM text bubbles EXTRAVAGANZA. (Sometime soon, maybe this year, maybe.......)
(Journal entry No.3 - 19 April '26)
I wanted to print on real bible paper, because, ya know, Dear Your Holiness. BUT:
Only one store in UK has it
all online sources are saying that is next to impossible to print on sheets of bible paper on a home printer. You have to have ✨special ink✨ and you have to have ✨tension✨, and you have to print on ✨rolls not sheets✨, and you ✨can't do pictures✨. Soooooo no more bible paper ig.... (:
And I was so clooooose to buying a shit tone of sheets for this.
If anyone knows someone that printed on bible paper with a home printer hit me up :D
(Journal entry No.3.5 - 21 April '26)
I just found out after 1 year of owning my printer that it does double sided printing. Ya know how much I've printed this past year????? Ya know how much time I would've saved???
Ode to Insanity
I started to typeset DYMM, this post is for me, to track my sanity slipping away. Look at it like a journal entry. Journal entry No.1.
After trying for 2 weeks (in January 2025) to just download this fic with creator's styles turned on (AND FAILING) I found this incredible nice person on tumblr with a tutorial on how to do that.
GOD BLESS. So - easy right? Download with creator styles - print - bind. NOPE! PDF doesn't like making my life easy, I had to download as an EPUB - and edit in Calibre. Easy right? (I will say this a lot) NOPE!
After debugging the text-bubbles, I found the emails/twitters/instagram posts - and those were not nice to edit. I edited a box, another one just disappeared. I managed to not make any box disappear, now my text-bubbles reverted to some weird, wonky lineart.
Look at it - wtf is that box doing jumping out of frame like that? I didn't even touch it!
And wtf is this email doing??
And then I found the photos... Photos sent in chat. The wonderful authors did something super cool on AO3. If you click on a photo it opens in a new tab in full size, while just reading the texting in the fic you see a preview of the photo. This is cool. Printing it is not so cool.
So I stalked (sorry to the authors and binders I bothered) anyone who posted something remotely close to text-bubble printing/binding and how the photos were edited in a bind.
[I also found out that not many people bound this MONSTER of a fic - understandable i think]
SOOOO - after a quick break (from January to...now July 18th) I am taking this up again.
Another kind binder answered my ask - and I am doing this manualy after all. Fuck html&css, I am not smart enough (yet) for that. What I am smart enough (now) for is doing it in Word. Which we al know Word is shit.
I just finished text-bubbles for 4 (or 3?) chapters. And if we believe Word, then that means 52 pages out of 2600+. I haven't thought yet about chapter-title art, I don't even wanna think about what I will do when getting to the Instagram and twitter posts later in the fic.
Journal entry No.1 finished.
I just realized something. This being word and the text-bubbles are not fixed to the text, they're fixed to the page (if you move the text , down 1 line, the text bubble stays put) I may have to re-do the bubbles.
If I do (and will do) chapter title art and/or add some images across the text, the text will move.
Sooooo.... fuck me, right?!
(Journal entry No.2 - 25 July)
Soo, almost a year later, I haven't worked on this because I gave up and also life happened. Buuuuuut I got Affinity, fuck Word, I learned to do text bubbles, I've typeset another fic in a few days while COMPLETELY ignoring my earthly responsibilities (Dear Your Holiness by @mollymarymarie - I recommend with my whole heart and soul, I almost read it again while typesetting)
So, we have dropcaps, very church-y
cross-y page numbers
doves paragraph separator thingy A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER THINGS, BUT THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE
WE HAVE LEARNED THE ART OF TEXT BUBBLES, HEEELLLL YEAH BROTHA'
now I have to somehow procure special paper (found only in UK; maybe other countries too but I CANNOT FIND IT for the life of me) and get it to eastern europe without exorbitant shipping fees.
More things I found out while typesetting Dear Your Holiness:
Searching for specific fonts, while you have an idea in your head, is haaaaard (a few whole hours were spent on fonts)
Searching for specific pictures, while you have an idea in your head, is also haaaaaaaaaard (more than a few hours spent on just scrolling google images and internet archive)
It is hard not to copy by mistake another typeset. In my time on tumblr I've seen lots of gorgeous binds of this fic (and other fics too!) and it's hard to keep it 100% original. I have gone back and changed some pictures in my typeset because I have seen them used after the fact by other people.
Not typeset related: Remus says "Fuck me," A LOT in this fic.
My sanity got a bit back with Dear Your Holiness, I'm counting my blessings. It will disappear again when I'll restart DYMM.
Next Stop: DYMM text bubbles EXTRAVAGANZA. (Sometime soon, maybe this year, maybe.......)
(Journal entry No.3 - 19 April '26)
god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies
to everyone in the notes saying this is mean or rude or a callout, this post was autobiographical. we're in this together. take my paw
yeah, um, HOW do you stop reading the fic while typesetting the fic? asking for a friend
Game theory; everyone has one blue noun and one red noun, even if they do not know what they are yet
Wide awake in my bed while my cat has the zooms at 3am
House of Leaves for her (It's $5 more expensive)
House of Leaves during June (it's $15 more expensive)
werewise: werewolf mike and witch will, using spells and potions to make the transition easier and less painful... dating rumors bc will's the only who knows and they're always bad at lying ab their activities on the full moon. the party thinks they're hooking up- esp since mike's clothes are all dingey and ripped up afterwards.
umm, you mean byler wolfstar variant?!
Every animal evolves into crabs
Every ship evolves into wolfstar
very interesting👀
AND BACK ON THE BUS WE GO
okay just for shits and giggles
it’s the superbowl. let’s say 3rd quarter. ad break comes on. it’s the duffers.
they take their seats in directors chairs.
duffer 1 (idk their names or who’s who): well. *laughs* seems like the cat is out of the bag.
duffer 2: no point in drawing this out any further.
duffer 1: when we started stranger things we had no idea it would grow into what it is today. 5 seasons, almost 10 years, and millions of fans.
duffer 2: we want to say thank you for sticking with us. and we’re asking you to stick around one more time.
duffer 1: you may already know what’s coming. but we guarantee none of you have the full picture yet.
duffer 2: but you will soon.
duffer 1: season 5, volume 4, episodes 9, 10, 11, and 12 are coming to netflix february 14th.
duffer 2: better cancel your valentine’s day plans!
duffer 1: and if i hear one more thing about how i needed to ruin everyone else’s special day because of my divorce, you won’t be getting it at all.
duffer 2: without further ado, the volume 4 trailer drops now.
screen goes black.
“Mike! Wake up! Mike!”
picture opens on Max. she’s on her skateboard but only her face is in frame. she’s picking up speed until suddenly, she pitches forward as her board hits a rock. her face goes out of frame as she falls, camera cuts to show her down on the pavement. she groans, lifts her hands to inspect the cuts, but there’s nothing there. theme music fades in as her face shows her confusion.
camera cuts to a different max scene. she’s talking to lucas.
“does it sometimes feel like…i don’t know. like it’s not really over?”
“max. we won. i know you weren’t there with us in the upside down at the end, but joyce chopped off vecnas head. with an axe. it’s hard to get deader than that.”
max looks away. “well you know what they say. cut one head off and two more will grow in its place.”
camera cuts to joyce in hopper’s cabin. she’s straightening up and comes across the picture from will’s graduation day. it didn’t come out right despite jonathan’s adjustment and will’s face is cast in heavy shadow. she sits down on the bed to stare at it.
hopper knocks on the doorframe, startling her.
“it’s just me.”
“yeah.” her voice is troubled. hopper comes to sit next to her. he takes the picture from her hands to examine it. “do you ever think…”
hopper looks at her. there’s a significant pause and he says “as little as possible.”
she smiles but it’s weighed down by worry. “no. not my hopper.”
camera cuts to holly. she is standing in front of the middle school as other kids walk past her. she is deep in thought and doesn’t move until the warning bell sounds. someone calls for her and this snaps her out of it. the scene flickers slightly to show the upside down as she walks through the doors.
in mr. clarke’s class, she leans over to debbie and says “we need to talk. tell the others. meet me after lunch by the bleachers.”
they gather at recess. holly stands on the first row, putting her above the others. she counts. “we’re missing someone.” everyone looks around but no one speaks. “there are only 11 of us. there should be 12. who’s not here?” no one can come up with an answer and they all stay silent. “this isn’t right.”
cut to a ringing phone. mrs wheeler answers. “hello, wheeler residence.” no one replies, but there is the sound of heavy breathing on the other end. “hello, who is this?” breathing continues. in a sudden fearful voice “mike?”
theme music is back
title card: the trance
cuts to an action montage. mike running (looks like vecnas mindspace woods). nancy running (different direction/time of day). jonathan’s hands shaking as he loads a gun. steve twirling a spear in one hand and stancing up. joyce locking doors and shuttering windows. the lights flickering around max. will’s arms outstretched and his eyes white. el’s hands curling into fists.
nancy and jonathan embrace. robin leans her head against steve’s shoulder. lucas and max intertwine hands. holly restrings holly the heroic on her necklace. joyce kneels at hoppers side. el faces off against henry. will crosses the room and grabs mike’s face in his hands.
title card: conduit
cuts to vecna, alive and well. he moves seamlessly from the abyss to the upside down to hawkins. now missing children, chrissy, fred, and patrick make appearances in his mindscape. camera pans out to show the shadow of the mindflayer hovering over the town as vecna transitions between settings. ends in hawkins as monsters (demogorgons, demobats, etc.) emerge from gates. shorter sequence than previous.
title card: collision course
fades to black. “do you want to be friends?” “the demogorgon. it got me.” “crazy together, right?” “it’s not my fault you don’t like girls!” “we’re friends. friends!” “a real life, honest to god, sorcerer. you did it. you really did it.”
mike’s eyes open.
title card: the paladin and the cleric
