stonathan77

stonathan77 on ao3! "I was looking for answers in somebody else, but… I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so goddamn scared. Scared of… who I really was. Once I did that, oh, I felt so free."

[wisehearttruther]

someone on twt said the midleven purple rain kiss was the best kiss in the show 😭😭 just smile and laugh y’all…

[butterflykisses86]

No DNA Test needed, that is Mama...

[stonathan77]

january 12... last chance for the duffer brothers to prove themselves... please dont dissapoint us...

[michaelwheelerbyers]

Behind every gay evil couple

there walks a gayer, and more evil couple

[phantasm-echo]

Coping with the volume 2 trailer by drawing my silly guys totally surviving ueueueueueueue

[karust]

Stranger Things epilogue tweak - Mike the Wise

bonus below

[phantasm-echo]

I am back with more stranger things Spider-Man AU !! introducing (or more like vaguely teasing at the existence of) Doc Vecna/Henry Creel AND also full body designs for Erica and Dustin AND OF COURSE DART!! he means the world to me he is the best dog to ever dog💔

[melliemikey]

the fact that they used robin and vickies relationship to set up byler only to then throw a curveball and not only queerbait the byler fans but also throw rockie out the window??

just yall wait im gonna get em

[ladydisdain5]

The ironic thing about "It's forced conformity. That's what killing the kids!" is that Netflix and the Duffer brothers and Shawn Levy will actually have blood on their hands after refusing to give their queer characters happy endings and romanticizing suicide to escape abuse.

[levanswrites]

none of these four were acting by the way

[stonathan77]

i’m gonna miss it, but they’re defo gonna miss it way more💔

[tashaneva]

nancy pining after robin who is already taken because some lesbian drama makes everything better

[jayhsketch]

got a thing about you and it won't go away,,

[ladydisdain5]

To those who don't understand why what Stranger Things did is so painful and so harmful to the queer community, or who lack the words to express it themselves:

They showed so much queer pain. From episode one, they were calling Will a f*g. Hopper thought he might've been hate crimed and that's why he went missing. In season 3 even Mike was homophobic toward him, and that was never truly addressed. The scene right after, where Will destroys Castle Byers, his safe spot, with the baseball bat his abusive dad gave him trying to make him man up, yelling fuck as he does? I know that feeling, that fear that I won't be loved, that I will never be accepted, that I will always be other. The pain that comes from that. Everyone queer does. It's like he's taking the bat to my heart, like I can feel the bruises all over my body. In season 4, when he all but confesses his love for Mike, just substituting himself for El, and cries after? I cry with him because I get it, I understand. And I'm mostly accepted by the people around me, the people I care about; I can't imagine how much more people who don't have that acceptance relate to it.

These scenes are cathartic to me. Or at least they were, when all signs pointed to a happy ending. But for all the queer pain they showed, they didn't show queer love. Queer joy. They could have told every queer kid that they're worth it, their stories are worth telling, their love is worth showing, their lives are worth living. That no matter how hard it is now, it will get better. That we can have those epic love stories. That we can defeat monsters, not in spite of who we are, but because of it. But all they gave us was a vague "he and Robin might end up in relationships." Nothing good ever confirmed for the queer characters. So now when I watch those scenes, all I see is never ending pain. And I can't imagine the scars that will leave on people who need that happy ending even more than I do -- especially when the finale is very easily read as romanticizing suicide to escape abuse.

They gave us hope, that suffering is not all there is, that queer people can be happy and joyous and loved and worthy and powerful, and then they ripped it all away and left us with nothing but the pain.

To every queer person reading this: They are wrong. We are all of those things they denied us and more. Don't give up, and don't lose hope.

[eddichie]

maybe the real mike pov is the gay awakenings the audience had along the way

[willbyersoffical]

"all roads lead to byler" but the duffers don't know how to drive💔

[jo-mama1111]

art by @ babywillbyers on instagram

so we’re just throwing bricks willy-nilly now? not even bothering to kiss them beforehand?? oh this is sick and twisted.

[karust]

Canon divergence route A: The Paladin