#vecna lives

[mikewheelerinadress]

me looking at conformitygate truthers because y’all believed in art and meaningful stories until the bitter end and that deserves some respect.

[paladin-and-sorcerer]

My friends (who are normal): yeah the finale was okay! The happy ending was nice. I prefer season 3 and 4 though.

Me: SOMETHING is UP with that damn MIKE WHEELER I just can’t prove it yet

[oldschoolfrp]

Cultists of Vecna gather in a secret lair, including The Hand, The Eye, and the quasi-lich Halmadar the Cruel who claims to be Vecna himself (Ken Frank, AD&D 2e adventure WGA4: Vecna Lives! by David “Zeb” Cook, TSR, 1990)

[metapirateclock]

The only real reason I still believe in the conformity gate is that they basically didn't allow Mike to be the leader he was destined to be. Do u really want me to accept the s5 ending when THE HEART OF THE PARTY is by far the most depressed guy around, monotonous, silent. Come on, tell me this isnt at least, anticlimatic??

Conformity gate is real. I know its is. Its not a "fan theory" but rather a leak from inside Netflix to hype it up.

Its just a matter of time. Of revisiting his own Camazotz. Travel throughout his own memories. Break the wall. His deep repressed feelings.

But when?

"The storyteller keeps telling stories" is such a depressing line. It is literally surrendering, living off memories of the past, alone, accepting everything passively.

Without heart we'd fall apart. Well then they lost the battle. But I dont think its over. Stranger Things is the only show nowadays that I can say is big enough to create something huge. There are too many coincidences here that doesnt match up. They only make sense if you keep CG as a possibility. I dont know bout you guys but i dont believe in coincidences. But in love defeating fear? I believe.

[just-the-gatekeeper]

Imagine Vecna granting Mike Wheeler a choice:

to hand over the world to Vecna and be granted a happy life in a different dimension with Will and his friends.

or

The chance to try to kill Vecna — at the cost of losing Will to the hive mind and, potentially, all his friends who die trying to defeat it.

Happy Saturday!

Did the Duffers give us the blue pill?

[redhheaad]

VECNA LIVES

newest arrivals on Amazon!!!

what do you think about it? 🤔

[monsterkill--er]

Chessgate is for real ya'll... Queen Max ♕

When Max wakes up from her coma/trance, there are these two interesting details. One is the red crate above her head in the frame, which Robin used as a metaphor for Vecna's mind (in the same episode). The other is the red book under the boombox. On the spine, it says "Speed Queen." Speed, as in, Max's self-titled role in D&D, "Zoomer." And Queen, as in, the Red Queen, Alice's chess opponent, who if the party save, it would be "Checkmate" or "Endgame" to defeating Vecna (or to losing). The red book signifying her color. I made another post explaining chessgate and the show's Through The Looking-Glass connection.

Further proof is the idea that Max is present in the final D&D game, despite not being interested in playing beforehand. This is significant as the Red Queen is there at Alice's finale banquet before she "wakes up." Keep in mind, the Red Queen in the book is not the Queen of Hearts like the 2010 film. Instead, she is Alice's strict, bossy tutor who teaches her how to "go backwards" to win, like how Max teaches Holly to travel through Vecna's mind. The character turns out to be a black kitten in the book after Alice wakes, and Max's binder is black (with a cat on it?). Both Holly and Mike represent Alice ("you are your brother").

At the end of the book, it's not certain that once Alice captured the Red Queen, won the game, and woke up, if she actually had woken up or if she and the reader were a part of the Red King's dream the entire time. Just like how we the audience are not sure if Mike's in Vecna's mind or if the epilogue is all a part of his curse (the red crate when Max wakes up signifies the former).

[saritagiovanna]

I was watching a video about conformitygate literally shot up in bed and was shouting HOLD ON A SECOND!! I know I've read this before about people's watches NOT showing time. That's what tipped some people off to the finale being off...and like a dream. Here's Mike's watch, no time.

Here's Will's watch in this pretend future...no time.

But EVEN BEFORE the finale, here's JONATHAN'S watch with NO TIME.

So again, HOW LONG have we been watching Mike (and maybe others) STUCK in Vecna's mindscape? How long have they been unknowingly stuck in Camazotz? Also, Jonathan is holding Will's back of neck where he normally senses when something is off. What does it mean?