You can call me Eerie 👁️ (I promise I'm not scary).
I focus my writing on visual storytelling, queer subtext, character psychology, and symbolism, through a Byler-centric lens.
🕸️ THE WEB OF TIME THEORY MASTERPOST 🕸️
My overarching theory on the supernatural mechanics and metaphorical meaning of Stranger Things. → If the canon finale disproves this theory, I'll still keep this as is because I'm proud of it, and I think there's some good stuff in there. :)
Index of theories, analyses, and other tidbits below the cut!
🌈QUEER-FOCUSSED ANALYSES🌈
🔺 It's All Relative → Mike's Escher print as queer-coded set dressing, triangles, and the matter of perspective in queer politics and representation.
📡 How Obvious? → How Stranger Things uses authorial intrusion and queer-coded signalling to gesture toward Mike and Will's romantic arc.
🚪 Stranger Things and Doors → How Stranger Things uses recurring door imagery and metaphor to communicate that Mike is closeted, and needs to open the door.
😈 Exposing Mike's Slutty Demon Poster → A playful breakdown of Mike's demon poster through the lens of homoerotic power fantasy, adolescent shame, and secrecy in season 4.
🔮 Byler is Narrative Destiny → "Decoding" the narrative of Byler through colour psychology and Jungian archetypes.
🩸 The AIDs crisis informed the writing of Stranger Things → The AIDs allegory, broken down very simply and visually.
🕷️SUPERNATURAL THEORIES🕷️
🧠 Will's partialism and stalled ceremorphosis → Why Will is part human, part mind flayer, and Vecna might be acting as a double agent.
🔌 Vecna and Will need to be "connected" → Possible foreshadowing that Vecna intends to "plug into" Will.
🕸️ Stranger Things' Web of Time → The Mind Flayer as a time-weaving extradimensional god, using Will and Vecna to restructure reality and seed a new hive-mind colony.
👥 Mind Flayer vs. Shadow Monster → The Shadow Monster is a manifestation of Mike's shadow, representing forced conformity and self-hatred.
🚀 Vecna is building a Nautiloid and Will is the transponder → The Mind Flayer is building a vessel to transport children through space-time to establish a colony, with Vecna and Will acting as its transponder. Queer love is the force that disrupts the Grand Design.
✨MISCELLANEOUS POSTS✨
🌳 It's In The (Family) Trees → A detailed exploration of Will's hinted intrafamilial abuse trauma through visual narrative and environmental symbolism.
⚾ Is Henry's cave a "trauma dump"? → Speculating about the potentional connections between Henry's cave, fathers and baseball fields, and Jung's concept of the Shadow.
🍽️ Murray's subliminal messages at the dinner table → Byler has already been "murrayed" and he handled it with discretion.
☁️ I miss clouds. I miss you. & Cloudbusting → This Kate Bush parallel provides a metaphor for Mike and Will's "orgone energy" and pent up emotions.
👬 How Will's CSA-coding recontextualizes Byler → An alternative explanation for the Will Voice™, Mike's complex comphet, and the nuances of navigating queer love with healing trauma.
