#jayce hyperfixation

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my current variation of moods:

a. the d*ffers are fucking stupid and are bad writers

b. they did great before, so the inconsistencies must be intentional and conformitygate is going to happen!

(my light flickered while typing intentional so conformitygate is real)

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mike wheeler is a loser for will byers in any universe

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i'm waiting for it, that green light, i want it

green light by lorde

great gatsby/1920s socialite byler save me

they are natsby

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love that boreo's coming back in full force after the travesty that was the end of stranger things

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WISHBONE DELUXE AND THE GREAT DIVIDE ON THE SAME DAY

aka byler coded albums of the year

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rewatching miwi flashback

this is healing my heart

HOW WERE THEY NOT CANON???

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DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY DO NOT BRING UP TAMMY

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To Lose and Gain Choice (part 2/5)

(an essay about Jane Hopper and Juliet Capulet - 3.5k words, mostly me ranting about Stranger Things)

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Jane is able to make one last choice for herself. During Season 5 of Stranger Things the military has been looking for Jane to use her blood to create more children with powers. She is pushed by Kali, a fellow child who was experimented on to give powers, to kill herself with her so they can end the cycle once and for all. Before she kills herself, Jane uses her powers to pull Mike into the void so they can have a private goodbye. She and Mike say, “‘Mike, I need you to help them understand my choice.’ ‘But I don’t. I don’t understand.’ ‘I know. But you will, one day you will. You understand me. Better than anyone. You always have. From the day we met.’” Then the scene flashes back to a clip of Mike first seeing Jane in the woods. “‘You’ve seen me.’” A clip of Mike introducing himself to Jane proceeds to play. “‘The real me.’” Then a collage of different moments featuring Jane and Mike begin, starting with a clip of Jane in Mike’s sister’s dress, wig, and make up, this particular shot feels very funny because she is saying that he sees the “real” her and a clip of her in a costume/dressed up as someone else is what the creators chose. It then moves on to a clip of Mike kissing Jane when they were twelve after she asked if he would be like her brother, which shows how she barely understood the concept of having friends before Mike kissed her without consent. A clip of Mike and Jane at the Snow Ball when they were thirteen, a clip of them in Jane’s room when Mike starts singing in the middle of them making out but Jane does not like it. Their faces take up most of the screen during a clip of them reuniting with Will standing in the background, waiting to hug Jane. Lastly, a clip with Mike saying “I love you” to Jane only after Will called him the heart and likely thought about Will’s feelings that were disguised as Jane’s in a painting he gave Mike that he said was from Jane (Cyrano trope) with a worried Will in the background of a moment that should have been intimately their own. “‘Please don’t leave me, El. Please don’t do this.’ ‘I will always be with you. I love you.’” Mike does not respond to Jane’s proclamation of love and simply begins making out with her instead of telling her he loves her in her last moments, this parallels the arc they had in the fourth season where Jane calls out Mike for not even being able to write that he loves her and how at the end of the third season she tells him she loves him but he just stands there and seems to contemplate life. “‘Goodbye, Mike.’ [Jane kills herself]” (Stranger Things, 5x08, 1:18:15). In the previous season she has sentiments about Mike that are the complete opposite of what she says at the end of her life, “I do not belong [...] anywhere. [...] Everyone looks at me like I’m a monster” (Stranger Things, 4x03, 17:32). Jane is saying goodbye to her boyfriend, Mike, telling him he always understood her and saw the “real” her, despite the accompanying video clips from previous seasons to be sending the opposite message. She also talks about feeling like everyone sees her as a monster, even Mike, who has stated many times that he views her as a superhero, calling her “Superman” (Stranger Things, 4x08). To start, Jane’s statement that Mike has always understood her best is untrue and she believes it because he was the first person her age to show her basic human decency and some kindness, he was her first friend. Although even then, he still yells at her when she said that Will was alive but they see a body that was pulled out of the quarry that looks like him, because in the first season he makes it pretty clear that he cares much more about finding Will, who he is looking for the night they meet. Once they clearly are dating each other they are toxic to each other and their friends. When they are only around each other Mike becomes a bad friend and Jane stops remembering she has choices outside what Mike and her father like, as aforementioned above.

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