#cargate

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Misha Collins - Austin, Texas, August 2024

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#ViceGate: Family Video & Palace Arcade.

the "Family Video" store where Robin & Steve work is meant to:

(1) be an ironic, mocking quip/remark about the common innacurate notion that Stranger Things is a "family show" & how it's going to completely subvert that label in s5;

(2) deliver subtext for bychance, #temptationgate, #vicegate, #sigate, #traffickgate and a bunch of other clustered related gates (see below).

notice:

the neon red 'ADULT' film section in the background (i couldn't find a screenshot) while s4 Steve flirts with a girl as he rents her a movie (Doctor Zhivago: “It’s a double VHS. It’s long. But that’s because it’s filled with action and romance …”), only to find out she already has a 'boyfriend' to watch romantic movies with (loser Mike foreshadowing);

the red car (#cargate), already associated to Chance & secret flings (check @offsidetracked posts); also the music band The Cars that's been so heavily featured in Stranger Things (song 'Moving in Stereo' playing during the Karen-Billy pool scene) and Finn Wolfhard's sus STurn playlist;

the Palace Arcade (entertainment, pleasure, vice; also the shady s2 direct allusions to prostitution/trafficking while Keith tries to bribe Mike into getting him a date with Nancy + Dustin warning that's gonna give a disease to Mike's entire family (AIDS subtext) + Keith tricking Max into entering a small enclosed space with Lucas while saying 'keep it PG');

also the 'Firestarter' poster, a 1984 sci-fi thriller horror film based on a Stephen King novel.

while the movie is described as "A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telepathic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic"--obvious references to "Fireball!", Eleven's telekinesis & Will's possible latent powers...

...there HAS been an effort by the show to associate the concept of "fire" to "passion/arousal/sexuality" as well. in this sense, a 'firestarter' is someone who 'starts a fire', in other words 'ignites a fire' and therefore 'ignites a passion' (#temptationgate).

fires can be hypnotizing, unstable, quick and destructive; exactly what we've been predicting about bychance.

also included in this #ViceGate theory cluster are:

Rink-o-Mania;

the Hawkins' Pool;

the Billy-Karen side fling;

the Billy & Max sibling duo;

Starcourt Mall & the Russian tunnels below;

Hawkins Lab (HNL) itself;

the entire Russian plotline, starting with that Yuri Ismaylov peanut butter-smuggling nut;

Lonnie Byers and his shady buddies, connections & sources of income;

Al Munson (Eddie's father) and his insane Lonnie-coding in the Flight of Icarus book;

a bunch of other plotlines i'm probably not recalling right now;

and the "Vegas" mention by Will in the pizza van.

and trust me, these are absolutely riddled to their CORE with all kinds of subtextual foreshadowing for the s5 Bychance + ViceGate plotline. I'll make a post about those as soon as I'm able to.

"How far is Nina from Vegas? [...] once we save her — El — we should stop on the way back. El* could make us, like, super RICH, and we’d never have to work. We could just play D&D and Nintendo** for the rest of our lives...."

*El = "He" (in spanish) = Chance = men = homosexuality = trauma... **D&D and Nintendo = games, fun, entertainment, chance, vice, risk

-- sly, crafty, streetwise, mischievous, fun-seeking, risk-taking, cheeky, material gworl Will Byers you are SO unironically real and canon. #materialgirlgate #girlsjustwannahavefungate #mikeyouaresocooked #toolameforwill

mike is officially entering his simpy cuck era, i fear. nevertheless he will still have to step in as a white knight and save will from his dangerous hot girl summer

@ven0moir @offsidetracked @o11yradio @eeriesilkworm

[ven0moir]

BYCHANCE HINTS? [ #32, 1 & 4 ]

atp Vecna is showing me things against my will bc my Bychance Pattern Recognition thingamajiggy™ did its thing again and I --

FIRST episode of the FIRST season ( 11 ) & FIRST episode of the FOURTH season ( 14 )

FIRST TIME we see CHANCE + FIRST TIME we see TROY

#32 on a sportsy shirt in both.

If we follow the sequence, the literal next scene is:

S1 NANCY ( aka S5 WILL ) + TIGER ( establishing shot ) + being secretive ( "keep your voice down" ) about DATING a JOCK from the BASKETBALL TEAM.

Bonus; this is also the FIRST time we see the TIGERS SIGN, and it is associated to S1 NANCY ( aka S5 WILL )

I'm scared .......................................... but there's more ..........................

Season ONE episode FOUR ( 14 )

Season FOUR episode ONE ( 41 )

community ( will/billy mentioned ) + hole/loss + school gym = callback/connected scenes.

MIKE vs TROY FALCONS vs TIGERS

But speaking of 14 & 41, out of curiosity, i decided to go grab the scenes that happened around that timestamp in these episodes to see if anything emerged and ...

S1EP4 ( 14 ) aprox/around @ 14:41 ( This scene is about Will )

S4EP1 ( 41 ) aprox/around @ 14:41 ( N/A ) ( Not about Will, but Tigers. In the next screenshot, we see Tiger from Winnie Pooh on Suzie's desk )

.... Really?

CAR + TIGER ....................................................

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#JeffreyDahmerGate: So I guess they really ARE going there after all… 🫠

The Jeffrey Dahmer frame in Stranger Things S4E1 includes:

(1) a background extra in blue, yellow & HOT/FLUORESCENT ORANGE -> Byler/Bychance love triangle (#orangegate #bychance #chancegate),

(2) a car/truck (#cargate),

(3) a concerned psychologist (Mrs. Marsha Kelley), the same one who had that one clock key necklace. (#marshakelleygate #keygate #clockgate)

All of this against the backdrop of Hawkins High School 🐯🏫 no less.

Radioactive Orange = high frequency, high energy, dangerous, toxic, Agent Orange (!!!)

Chance is HEAVILY associated to orange in the show. 🐯🏀🎃🍊 If you want to know more about this, check my #bychance and #orangegate posts.

[ven0moir]

BYCHANCE + CAR ( ft Shawn Levy )

hello and welcome to another episode of ✨What The Hell Is Going On Here ✨ which is slowly becoming my default phrase for this whole mess.

IN-SHOW ASSOCIATIONS so i already touched on the BYCHANCE + CAR associations twice:

Here & Here

I also have these two instances of CHANCE + CAR in the show that I included in the bychance slides.

We also have this LOVELY transition from Mike after he Realized He Got Dumped, into TIGER + CAR shot. In the same episode where we got CHANCES + CHEATER BOYFRIEND, which transition from that into TIGER + CAR once again.

As you can literally see in this very shot, this episode was directed by none other than SHAWN LEVY himself. Which is a great segue into ... ST CONNECTIONS WITH NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM and DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

JED ( aka Chance's name ) X OCTAVIUS ( Queer-coded, enemies to lovers/friends Relationship™ ) + CAR

JACK X LUREEN ( Non Endgame™ ) + FIRST TIME + CAR

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE ( Queer-coded, enemies to lovers/friends Relationship™ ) + CAR

This is already ✨interesting✨ as is, but there's one more thing to add here ....

JACK X ROSE ( Non Endgame™ ) + FIRST TIME + CAR

Talk about Jacks with Doomed Fates, huh?

Needless to say, I think we'll see Bychance and this trope in S5. Why? I think they've been hinting at it. I've talked about the whole S5 Bychance/Byler thing mirroring S1 Stancy/Jancy love triangle before, and 💀💀💀💀...

Do you see what I see? No? Well ... there's a CAR right next to them. In the literal scene before this one, we see another CAR we can connect to Will, because it was his mom/outside his house:

Since we're talking about First Times here, the First Car Associations we make in S4 can also be connected to Will:

Jonathan's car ( Will's brother ) + Pizza Van ( where he confesses ).

There's also this motif of Romantic Pairings Sitting In The Back of Cars, which is broken sometimes, but I think the instances in which is not, are significant. I'll review that and repost soon!

But yeah, there you have it folks ... there's just way too much atp for it all to amount to nothing. But we'll see!

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#metalgate #cargate #designergates #gates #gate #phoenixtmd (at Phoenix/ the Metal Designer) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xcPxbB8Kw/?igshid=1p6auyr5xabib

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#arch #gate #cargate #architectjunior #architecture #for #kids #children #creativity love you Yassin you just did it great!