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[whatnowworld]

Okay so I have more to say about this scene in Stranger Things S5E4

(1)

This scene would've been different if it cut from Mike bumping into Will right to their conversation, implying that Mike was getting Will's attention to talk and/or nudging him to hang back more. But no. Mike bumps into Will and then doesn't look at him until Will turns to question if he meant something by it. It's only after Mike seems not to have been expressing any clear motivation and they walk a few more steps that we then cut to their conversation.

From a watsonian perspective, maybe Mike is naturally drifting towards the larger group, which incidentally brings him closer to Will. Maybe he stumble-steps and the bump is an accident. Or maybe he saw Will looking at Robin and is nudging him to tease him about maybe being into her.

From a doylist perspective, the direction was for Mike to bump into Will. This scene, at minimum, is showing that Will is questioning if Mike has romantic intention behind his touches and is suggesting that there are enough of them for Will to have cause to.

Are we, the audience, reading into Mike bumping into Will just because we want it to mean something? The point is that it was included so that we would wonder if it did, just like Will is

(2)

Joyce is speaking while the bump part is happening. When Mike bumps into Will, she's saying, "Sometimes people need someone to believe in them..."

And as Will turns to look at Mike about the bump and Mike looks back at him, she continues with "...and they can do amazing things."

(This is also right before Mike and Will's conversation wherein Mike suggests Will can take control of the hivemind, which is later realised.)

And that's just sweet (i.e., the reference to Mike believing in Will and Will being able to do amazing things as a result)

(3)

Maybe pushing the bounds of the creatives' intentionality but idc:

Robin's answer to Will about how she knew Vickie was romantically into her was that there were signals -- "Yeah, you know, like a brush of the knee, a bump of the elbow, a shared look. It all just kind of accrued, like a snowball rolling down a hill, until it was obvious."

They're literally walking down a hill in this scene

[wolffyluna]

I watched jan misali’s video about Homestuck a few times, and it’s got me thinking.

I’ve often seen people talk about negative examples of the ways fandoms tend to treat characters differently from canon. The common examples being “why has this random [probably white] [probably male] character with two lines become the fandom darling????” to “this character mentioned french fries once. she has non-potato based examples of her personality!” But people don’t often talk about positive examples?

For context: I only ever got up to the beginning of act 6 of homestuck. I never actually got up to the bit with Mituna in it. My first introduction to him was fandom.

Now, it’s totally possible that the section of fandom I ran into was unusual in it’s level of, uh, good Mituna characterisation/opinions? But he was treated as an actual character, and not a joke. A lot of the time, there was an exploration of how having a TBI sucked, but it was usually [wiggle hands] from the inside view? It was “it must suck for people who have a TBI, how pitiably inspirational,” it was “habing a TBI is, personally, sO INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING.”

So, I don’t know why I was surprised when I found out how Hussie wrote him in canon, but, uh, I was? I had gotten used to the fandom interpretation, and gone “presumably people have fleshed him out a bit more than he was in canon, but he surely wasn’t purely a joke.”

Anyway: even if fandoms some time take really weird interpretations of characters, at least sometimes they take offensive joke characters and turn them into sympathetic characters with personalities and motivations.

[creepyjirachi]

honestly i’m not particularly wild about all the goncharov content for its own sake. but the phenomenon itself is insane and i feel like i’d be missing out if i wasn’t at least archiving a couple posts

[ask-artsy-oncie]

oh im so interested in huey explaining louies gender identity to the fam for him! how does louie identify??

I hc Louie as genderfluid! His ID will range from male to male-aligned nonbinary to agender, but on very few occaisions he'll be feeling female-aligned nonbinary! His pronouns are either he/him or they/them, though his need or care for correcting anyone on them depends largley on the person/situation. As for titles, it also tends to vary (for instance, Ty will swap between using terms to describe him like "boyfriend" or "partner" and "husband" or "spouse") though he consistently considers himself a "businesseprson" and not a "businessman"

(That panel from the comics isn't edited btw)

And, as far as flags go, he prefers the genderqueer flag to the genderfluid one because it has green in it lmao

Louie never really planned on explaining his identity to his family, but Huey noticed him reposting some #relatable memes about being nonbinary on social media and approached him to talk about it. Something along the lines of "have you been scared to tell us?" to which Louie just shrugs and goes "nah, it just takes too long to explain".

Huey, I think, is naturally just fascinated by and interested in learning about different orientations and identities. He likes understanding the world and keeping up with the things we're still figuring out. And I imagine he enjoys knowing words and labels to accurately describe things. So when he manages to convince Louie to explain his identity to him, he absorbs it whole-heartedly. He does some research and learns about genderfluidity and comes to Louie excitedly like "SO I may not know exactly how youre feeling, but I DO have a word for it!!!"

Louie likes knowing there's a one-word way to label exactly how he's feeling, but he's also smart enough to know that just giving most people one word isn't going to accurately convey to them what's going on with him. He COULD explain it, but, eh, he's lazy. So when he decides to come out to his family, he drags Huey with him, clears his throat, and promptly tells everyone that Huey's gonna come out for him. Ah, well, at least it's on-brand for Louie to be too lazy to come out. And so Huey gladly infodumps.

That's about all I have but have this thing I drew, too

[supersadist64]

what if rarepair had a CHILD? and here i am 10/12/20

[yrbutchgf]

i hate tumblr, i just went back into my poetry tag to check out the blog of one of the ppl i reblogged from bc it was a rlly good poem and i wanted to see if they posted anything else like that and it turns out they have an active w*ncest sideblog linked in the description on their main. im done

[theheroofoakvale]

i haven’t made a post like this here yet and i’d like to give people a chance to follow me where they might be more active (if they want to of course) any and all support is always appreciated and welcomed! :D

twitter (i post wips here that i dont tend to post anywhere else)

nsfw twitter (poorly drawn naughty bits. so 18+ only. you understand)

instagram (pretty much the same as here but also a lot of my bull terrier)

[disastergaze]

Omg, I feel you with the "everyone convincingly says Hawks will die" xD Heck, even when I wasn't as emotionally invested in Hawks (e.g. pre-his confrontation with Twice), I wanted him to live just out of spite to everyone else. We can only cross our fingers now, lol.

awww well welcome to the “worrying about hawks” club, anon! i’ve been nervously wringing my hands over his safety since the beginning of the PLF arc so i am beyond ready for him to be outta there and (hopefully) out of commission for a while so i can sleep easy. maybe he can head on over to wherever all might’s been hiding out this whole time. and yes i would like people to stop arguing in favour of his death lmao i can only take so much ;_;