#ross duffer

[electricalwiseheart]

Everyone say, thank you wikipedia !

THEY REMOVED IT AFTER LIKE 3 OR 4 HOURS

edit (Jan 1):

PUT. IT. BACK.

[zo0eyy]

i don't CARE about ACCEPTANCE, or COMING OUT, queer people are not gonna be able to get representation, if you don't CLOSE THEIR ROMANTIC ARCS

[lmissclouds]

"The answer to that is them finding strength within themselves as opposed to finding strength with someone else. When we were talking about Will, those are the conversations that we have."

- Ross Duffer

"It turns out the whole time, I didn't need music, I just needed you."

- the straight character in his show

[withdevovotion]

actually yk what i cant wait for. the fucking cancelling. "cancel culture sucks" yeah sure! but i want to see the duffers get dragged. i want queerbait to be bought up in each and every interview they ever do. i want this to taint their careers forever. not even just byler, #wheredidvickiego

[dearest-loveliest-elizabeth]

Do you ever think about how the whole show exists because everyone loved Will so much they were willing to do whatever it took to rescue him?

[ladydisdain5]

To those who don't understand why what Stranger Things did is so painful and so harmful to the queer community, or who lack the words to express it themselves:

They showed so much queer pain. From episode one, they were calling Will a f*g. Hopper thought he might've been hate crimed and that's why he went missing. In season 3 even Mike was homophobic toward him, and that was never truly addressed. The scene right after, where Will destroys Castle Byers, his safe spot, with the baseball bat his abusive dad gave him trying to make him man up, yelling fuck as he does? I know that feeling, that fear that I won't be loved, that I will never be accepted, that I will always be other. The pain that comes from that. Everyone queer does. It's like he's taking the bat to my heart, like I can feel the bruises all over my body. In season 4, when he all but confesses his love for Mike, just substituting himself for El, and cries after? I cry with him because I get it, I understand. And I'm mostly accepted by the people around me, the people I care about; I can't imagine how much more people who don't have that acceptance relate to it.

These scenes are cathartic to me. Or at least they were, when all signs pointed to a happy ending. But for all the queer pain they showed, they didn't show queer love. Queer joy. They could have told every queer kid that they're worth it, their stories are worth telling, their love is worth showing, their lives are worth living. That no matter how hard it is now, it will get better. That we can have those epic love stories. That we can defeat monsters, not in spite of who we are, but because of it. But all they gave us was a vague "he and Robin might end up in relationships." Nothing good ever confirmed for the queer characters. So now when I watch those scenes, all I see is never ending pain. And I can't imagine the scars that will leave on people who need that happy ending even more than I do -- especially when the finale is very easily read as romanticizing suicide to escape abuse.

They gave us hope, that suffering is not all there is, that queer people can be happy and joyous and loved and worthy and powerful, and then they ripped it all away and left us with nothing but the pain.

To every queer person reading this: They are wrong. We are all of those things they denied us and more. Don't give up, and don't lose hope.

[uhgo6d]

everything about eleven’s character is misogynistic. she barely escaped her abusers and, within a week, they put her into a relationship when she didn’t even know how to form a sentence or understand what privacy, friends, or a promise were. they never explored her personal interests. she never had the chance to live a normal life or to have a moment where she knew everything was going to end. she talks about feeling like she doesn’t belong anywhere, and in reality, she’s right, she doesn’t belong anywhere. she didn’t even get the chance to see her mother one last time. they gave her a female friendship that helped develop her character beyond the men in her life, and in the last season they don’t even seem close anymore. they had to remove max from her life so mike could be the center and so she could say that he’s the one who understands her the most. she was born out of the born sexy yesterday trope, ex-machina, the madwoman, manic pixie dream girl, and to top it all off, she died as one of the most well known misogynistic tropes, the woman in the refrigerator.

they turned her death into a man’s story. her father, who spent every season crying over his daughter’s death, got over it in a matter of months. her friends don’t even mention her. the duffers really wanted to make it seem like mike is the only one who cares, because this is the story of a straight white man. she was only there to be the magical girl who changes his boring life and takes him on an adventure, only to die afterward, because she isn’t a person, she’s a symbol of the male protagonist’s childhood. even her own creators talk about her as if she were a dog, an alien pet of their self insert character.

the same misogynistic story as always.

[tenthprinceofhell]

okay i’m sorry idc how the show ended or what the writers said, there is literally no heterosexual explanation as to why mike and will’s outfits only swapped their designated colors when they were beefing 💀✋