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[literallyidontwannadothis]

Joe Keery widening his stance unnaturally to lessen the height difference between him and Gaten and putting Dustin right at heart level on Steve is so important to me actually

Tell me that Dustin isn’t listening Steve’s heartbeat and then apologize because you’re wrong

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Tofind's Symbol

Tofind's symbol is still undecided whether or not it will be mentioned in the writing, but here is the design

[literallyidontwannadothis]

tbh, most unrealistic part of Stranger Things is that they don't reference things that happened in previous seasons more. I choose to believe that they make fun of each other a-la-Lucas and Max singing Never Ending Story at Dustin a lot more than they show:

Dustin: not right now, Lucas-

Lucas: BuT wHy ArE yOu KeEpInG tHiS cUrIoSiTy DoOr CLOSED Dustin??

Steve: I don't care-

Dustin and Robin, simultaneously: I don't CARE about Tina, or Uncle Jack's party-

Steve: I WAS STRESSED OKAY

El: Hop wants to talk to you

Mike: oh is it about my SICK FREAKING GRANDMA

Lucas: I need to tell you something, but it's a secret,

Max: should we go to the arcade

Anyone: Who do you work for?

Steve and Robin in unison: SCOOPS AHOY

Mike: I'm going over to the Byers to study with El and Will

Nancy, innocently: Oh, what's your test on, human ana-

Mike: SHUT UP SHUT UP RIGHT NOW

Dustin: I'm feeling low, I could really use a win

Steve: Aw, I'm sorry buddy, do you want-

Dustin: I'm going to challenge you to a fight

Steve: ... what the hell, dude

AND NOW THE ORANGE MOHAWK, I call bull, real life friends would be all over that: Don't let Mike make any decisions, he wanted to get an orange mohawk last year.

[literallyidontwannadothis]

something something “you die, I die” going from Dustin’s dramatic way of saying that he’s not letting Steve treat him like a little kid/ he’s trying to prove himself to Steve

TO

If you die, I can’t go on living. you’re the most important person in my life, so if you die, it’ll only be because I died protecting you first.

AND THEY BOTH SAID IT TO EACH OTHER

[literallyidontwannadothis]

the fact that even when they're annoyed, not talking, and arguing every two minutes they still trust each other instinctively

*calls Dustin the second something goes wrong*

*needs Dustin to be with him during the crawl*

*goes straight to Steve after the fight*

*looks to Dustin to determine whether it's Hopper or not*

*immediately drives through a fence and three backyards just because Dustin told him to*

*first one to figure out Steve's plan to drive through the gate*

*looks to the other for reassurance*

*looks to Dustin to make sure he's fine*

*are you seeing this shit, man?*

"Somebody who makes him happy, somebody who makes him feel comfortable is Steve... of course the core group of kids are his best friends, but when it comes to how much time they've invested with each other's relationships- with each other, it really is probably the most important person in his life at that moment."

-- Gaten Matarazzo on Dustin and Steve's friendship

[literallyidontwannadothis]

I think Stranger Things’ version of found family tickles me so much because they’re such regular ass people to everyone else. The new girl and her twin brother and their older brother start attending your high school, but if you ask the girl for One ☝️ personal detail about their family she has no idea what you’re talking about. Her brothers claim she’s adopted but both give two completely different dates as to when that happened and how. All of a sudden that popular guy from your English class is calling some freshman his little brother, and when you walk past his car on your way out after school you hear them making life oaths. Maybe you should call the cops. You’ve worked at Hawkins PD for four years, and Chief Jim Hopper started mentioning his daughter again like crazy, so you ask Flo if he’s having a mental breakdown because as far as you know she died years ago, but she just shrugs and says he has another one now what.

They’re living a soap opera drama fantasy horror and everyone else is watching a small group of people slowly lose their minds.

To me it’s one million times funnier to wonder how the hell they explain these sudden deep, life long bonds that to anyone else would look so utterly bizarre to watch form. The Byers move back to Hawkins and there’s one more, but they pretend like she’s always been there. Steve Harrington is having dinner with the Hendersons for the third time this week, maybe his dad had an affair with Mrs Henderson?? Who are these people and why do they know each other? ? 

[literallyidontwannadothis]

Steve being mad at Eddie for making a dumb call and leaving Dustin to deal with the aftermath and then doing the exact same thing by rushing after Nancy and Jonathan. He doesn’t realize that in a way his deep selflessness turned back around to selfishness because he’s seen how Dustin “coped” after Eddie died. He would rather keep him alive then risk losing him because he can’t have that on his conscience, and if he dies then he doesn’t have to deal with it. “You die I die” is so special because Steve finally takes Dustin seriously enough to realize that the way he feels- that losing Dustin would kill him- goes the same for Dustin. He can’t keep shoving people behind himself because he matters to Dustin, someone cares that he keeps trying to get himself killed, and that puts an infinitely harder burden on both of them. They die the other dies, but they have to live in order for the other to live, which is a tall ask.

[literallyidontwannadothis]

don't know why this didn't click for me before, but all the kids are now in junior year instead of sophmore year because of the 18 month time skip. we completely skipped a year of school for them.

in season one, Jonathan and Nancy were in sophmore year. they're a year older than they were when this all started. they're the same age as season one steve.

to add on to that, the real life actors are the same age as Joe, Charlie, and Natalia were when they first started filming. full circled on every front.

man that just hit me. ig don't imagine Will using that against Jonathan when he tries to tell him not to put himself in danger so much, or will asking Joyce why she cares so much when she let Jonathan do so much when he was the same age.

don't wonder if Mike ever feels vulnerable when he realizes how little Nancy actually knew what she was doing when this first started and how much danger they've always been in.

don't picture Steve telling Dustin to stop trying to get himself killed and Dustin snapping back that Steve's been doing exactly that since he was Dustin's age, so it's about Dustin's turn to take a couple blows.

don't think about Lucas trying to keep Erica away from all of this before finally accepting that she feels the same way he did when Will first went missing and she's not just going to sit still and watch

don't imagine robin looking at Nancy, Jonathan, and Steve all acting like soldiers when things start really going to shit and realizing that they weren't that old either when they first had to step up