If nothing goes right, go left!

If it's raining you'll find me in the puddles. Colourful with a vintage feel. I do have all these theories... Although it does make a lot of sense that I'm the reincarnation of Salvador Dalí. The other artsy blog

[youre-only-gay-once]

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

[purgaytorysupremacy]

if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰

now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.

ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!

people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.

[youre-only-gay-once]

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

[swanishdino]

So me and @astonishing-pryde came to the conclusion that some of the Will Byers finale problems could've been improved by making Kali a boy. Turns out the original concept of Kali WAS a boy, named Roman.

So basically Roman is Eleven's brother instead of sister. He fills the same function as Kali as a character that returns in the finale, as a character who we recognize. He has chemistry with Will, they flirt - Roman survives and is the epilogue boyfriend!

He has cool hair on the longer side, maybe colored hair (maybe punk inspo, maybe prince-inspo!) He should be a character of colour and should be upset in season 5 about them shaving his hair. Because identity and non-conformity around his hair both as a man of colour and as a punk/anarchist. There could be Freddie Mercury vibes as well.

Which would give Will a slightly more meaningful connection with an already established character.

[liarsblade]

I also think that all the "um okay knives out & glass onion were good. Wrap it up now" posts are so funny. You're tripping if you think there's not going to be at least five Benoit Blanc films lol

[liarsblade]

What part of "the detective franchise is back babey" did you not get. There were 14 Poirot films and that's not counting the show which was a standard season for most of its run. 69 Columbo episodes. Like it or hate it you are going to be seeing Benoit Blanc until the day he stops making money and then some.

[udntnome]

He hasn't even been on a train yet for fucks sake

[dragoness-witch]

HE HASN'T EVEN BEEN ON A TRAIN YET!!!!

[swanishdino]

Stranger things spoilers:

My first issue is, where was Robin and Vickie's scene at Enzos?? Joyce and Hopper got theirs.

And if Robin and Vickie had gotten their ending I might have excused the absolute poor choice to end Will's story with a nameless dude at a bar... when he's the most romantic of them all. (I would think it was wrong nontheless but at least there would've been a queer couple getting space in the end)

I was prepared for Byler not to happen but like... they still needed closure as friends. They needed a proper one on one where Mike asks if he was the crush and perhaps says that he had an inkling and that's why he freaked out in California and he's sorry for that. Just friends, but like... actually best friends, fleshed out. Then the coming out scene would have been sort of fine. Now it all just falls flat. Just something they needed to get out of the way.

Or even if Mike's reasons for California kept being just implied, we needed something more. That was so fast and nonchalant?

They built so much around Will and Mike's friendship and did nothing with it at the end.

Why was Mike's most traumatic memory only thinking he lost Eleven that first time and not ALSO seeing his best friend screaming, possessed and in pain in a hospital bed? Seeing his mother mauled almost to death? There were more traumas than just "goodbye Mike". It fell So Flat.

I did like the scene with Mike and Eleven that showed they still loved eachother... I like them together too, but if they were gonna break up Mileven anyway why couldn't they also have given Byler an open to interpretation ending? Like have them have an intimate moment in the basement at the end where they hug or hold hands? And Mike repeat what Hopper said about her wanting him to be happy?

At least play into their friendship here.

Or they could've given Mileven a happy ending. I would've been fine with that.

I would have also enjoyed it if they had introduced a love interest for Will in season 4 which could've made the "Mike was just my Tammy" make a little more sense. Now they just invalidated Will's feelings. Like... once more gay men are incapable of anything past physical attraction and hook up culture??

I also feel like they relied on people knowing the plot of "the first shadow" and you can't do that. You need to explain it in the tv-show too because they are separate medias.

Sidenote: I really did enjoy Dustin doing what Eddie always wanted at his graduation, but I don't think many people even remembered that about Eddie...

I also love that Lumax is standing strong. They are my favourites and feel very natural.

I still like it, I WANT to like it, but there are so many lose threads I don't feel fulfilled. I did like the ending with the DnD session, I just wish we would've had more heart leading up to it. Where was the heart? And why didn't Mike get a happy ending? And why did NO ONE of consequence die? That also feels a little cheap.

Where was even Vickie?

I think they introduced too many characters and couldn't give them all the space they deserved.

After all this time I wish I was fulfilled...

[swanishdino]

Okay so I initially didn't ship Byler, then it grew on me and now I have my first theory. (Still trying to be lowkey because I don't want to be disappointed but I do enjoy a good theory)

My first Byler theory is about that look Mike gives Will in the end of season 5 volume 1:

Basically, the whole of the last episode is wizard of oz themed.

Holly is Dorothy and Max is scarecrow. The whole episode is called "the wizard" and Max is dressed in patchwork clothes. Holly looks like Dorothy.

In the wizard of Oz they all need to find "the wizard" to find different things.

Scarecrow/Max needs her brain to work.

Dorothy/Holly needs to go home.

Will is the wizard, sure, but that's a red herring because he's actually the lion finding his courage at the end. Through the speech Robin gave him about "stop being god damn scared".and finding the power within himself.

So who is the tinman if not Mike? The heart who is terrible with expressing his emotions. He needs to find his heart, and he does - in that very last frame.

[swanishdino]

Motholomew Mothbar-Wingwell the third.

A mothryn mesmer with amnesia from his last traumatic cuckooning.

He's very nervous and has maps on his wings from his "previous life".

[swanishdino]

Yesterday I was at a christmas party and this guy kept looking at me and our eyes would meet across the room but nothing else came of it, and now I crave romance so bad I ache for it.

It's like dipping your finger in the frosting and now the only thing on your mind is cake

[satanstrousers]

[freakoutgirl]

some people are afraid to be cheesy. I live my whole life on the charcuterie board

[binch-i-might-be]

do you ever wonder what it would feel like not to be tired

[swanishdino]

In honour of my 100th chapter. I decided to post these collected images and edits I made for fun of some of the characters. I initially wasn't gonna post any because I highly encourage people to form their own visuals! Maybe people envisioned something completely different (if you happen to read this fic and have your own facleclaim, let me know! That would be fun 😊)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37192165/chapters/92789128

[scorpionlafemme]

They just like the idea of you

[youre-only-gay-once]

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

[purgaytorysupremacy]

if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰

now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.

ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!

people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.

[youre-only-gay-once]

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

[sacred-portal]

[maswartz]

[marsup]

i’m at the point where watching tv shows i haven’t seen before qualifies as being productive

[squareallworthy]

Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?

[squareallworthy]

Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called – wait, I need to go back further.

[squareallworthy]

Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast media – no, wait, that’s not really the start either –

[squareallworthy]

Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh –

[squareallworthy]

– the Agrucultural Revoution, which begain circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting –