hello everyone i come bearing very important news (the news is that Ride with Me mira canonically has cowboy boots and a hat)
+link to dremenec's Ride with Me
<=(if you haven't seen it yet WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE! GO!! CLICK ON THE LINK AND LOOK !!! stare at it for an hour with me until the post settles into your bones)
(+their post with wip sketches where you can see the evidence of the hat and boots)
Going back to s1, Mike has always worn his watch on his right arm, while Will has always worn his on his left.
However, this changes in s5, with Will now wearing his watch on his right arm, while Mike wears his on his left.
Now could this just be a plot inconsistency, among the many in s5? Absolutely! And when it comes to coincidences, I'm not one to say that every single thing is intentional, because personally, I do think coincidences do exist.
However, this specific instance would be a pretty odd one considering none of the other characters followed suit in this wardrobe change. Sure, some of them have changed the type of watch they wear over the seasons, but they've never changed which arm they wear it on. Even in the case the Duffers or the crew forgot, Finn and Noah themselves would have remembered which arm they've been wearing their watch on for the last 10 years.
In fact, if you’ll recall the leak for the biking sequence with Mike, Holly and Will in s5, we see on video someone in the crew tasked with collecting their watches one by one the moment that the shoot ended, meaning it wasn't some prop the cast just threw on in their dressing room, it was something the production was making an effort to keep tabs on throughout shooting. Hell, s5 opened with a flashback of Will in s1, where we see him wearing it on his left arm like he always has, only to switch up when we jump forward to the current timeline.
So there has been a consistency across all characters when it comes to watches, up until s5 and with these two characters only.
to me many instances of “this wrestling move looks gay” is only scratching the surface…missing the forest for the trees…you have your face planted in your opponent’s crotch with his body upside down against yours trusting each other fully + moving together as if you’re trying to become one single entity. Dick In Face is only part of this, you’re entering this position that would otherwise be unacceptably intimate because what you are trying to accomplish is in itself very intimate. in the ideal state of a wrestling match you are moving as a unit to protect each other’s and your own body while tricking an external audience into believing you’re hurting each other (more than you actually are). the act of wrestling is “gay sex” but as shorthand for “process of getting so close to someone that you can’t tell where your body begins and theirs ends”. it’s more like a kind of sadomasochist acrobat marriage.
