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THUNDERBOLTS* dir. Jake Schreier | 2025
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why does this movie have the storyline I thought would be the end of stranger things season 5 did they swap scripts 😭
EXACTLY! Like, HOW? Did David Harbour steal the script and switch it?
(And I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's seeing it. It's all I ever wanted for them to do.🥲)
dumb stonathan doodle
if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.
And by the way it doesn’t matter if you claim your community is “pro” something if the main actual behavior of the group is hating the thing labeled as the enemy of the thing you are “in support” of.
As an example, a lot of groups claim to be “pro-women”, when in reality they are actually anti-trans. Their goal is not to uplift women, it’s to harass and criminalize trans people.
So inspect the groups you’re in. Ignore the name of the movement. What are the people in your group actually DOING?
No major Emmy nominations for season 5...
Why do I feel a weird schadenfreude knowing that season 5 didn't get nominated for a single major Emmy, placing them even further behind than Euphoria...
I know I'm being mean, but did they really think that final season was going to get nominated for best drama series, in its current format?
I think this might be their worst Emmy run ever - I just checked, and every previous season got nominated for best drama series in previous years...
I'm not happy, but I am somewhat satisfied by this. Season 5 receiving the fewest Emmy nods goes along with it also being the worst received critically.
when will I wake up, open Tumblr and read from the destiel meme that Donald Trump is dead... why is it taking so long for that man to go to hell where he belongs
This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.
the bravest human
just read the latest newsletter by V.E. Schwab and she introduced her new villain from "Victorious", the last book in her "Villains" trilogy, which is about people with superpowers.
And this villain’s name is …
Gabriel Gray
…
...
...
And now I'm staring off in the distance wondering if that is a deliberate nod to "Heroes"
OR
if this is a Alucard situation* and she is blissfully unaware
(*in "Darker Shades of Magic" she has a character called Alucard and while writing was totally oblivious that it is Dracula backwards; she just liked the name. And I was reading the trilogy waiting for some form of thematic payoff that never came lmao)
I haven't updated you on my Tomodachi Life Island in a while, but there have been a lot of developments.
Stonathan is now married for 68 days, and they have three little nuggets at this point. At this pace, by the end of September, we should have all the six nuggets I'm aiming for, lol. Ronance and Argyle & Eddie (does this ship have a name?) moved out, so that Stonathan have enough place for all their kids to live under one roof with them.
Since I was busy recently, they're the only ones I really always check in on to make sure that they stay at soulmate level (I'm a bit paranoid because of their almost break up like 45 days ago😅). It's always so cute to see them interact and be totally romantic with each other and just be like 🥰🥰🥰🥰 when they interact, blushing and enjoying their time together.
Jonathan also won a price for his first movie today "The Lion and the Cicada Shell"😂 (Sometimes the weird news they show is spot on!)
Sentryagent is now also married, and they had a son, Jo, and Jo has a crush on Stonathan's son Alex, but Alex has a crush on Immo, who is Lumax' daughter. Immo likes Alex back, but neither has confessed, so I'm curious how this love triangle will develop.
And speaking of love triangle, there was the wildest development with Henderhop.
The last time I gave an update, Henderhop had just broken up, and both were moping and really sad. A while passed, and El fell in love with Nikki, but Nikki was in love with Dustin. Dustin had a crush on Samira, who is one of Stonathan's kids, which already was hilarious.
My goal was to have Samira fall in love with El to make it even more convoluted, but then Dustin fell out of love with Samira and in love with Nikki.
At some point El decided that she wanted to confess to Nikki, and they had this confession cut scene at the restaurant.
At first there was Leslie, who is one of Byler's sons, popping up to be like, "But I'm also in love with Nikki. She should choose me," and then also Dustin popped up to be all, "But it's me who loves Nikki more, and she should be with me."
In the end, Nikki chose Dustin, leaving El to be heartbroken again.
Some time passed. Nikki and Dustin weren't really that happy in their relationship, and I noticed that Dustin and El had this relationship status that they both wanted to reconcile. I actually thought if I said, "Yeah, go and reconcile," it would just have them back to being friends, but once I did do this, Dustin dumped Nikki to be with El again 😂
Anyway, after all this back and forth, Henderhop is now married.🥳
Some other news:
All the couples so far are doing fine, and I'm waiting for Matteo (Argyle's and Eddie's son) and Felix (Byler's oldest son) to have a kid so that we have the first grandparents on the island. They are married for 28 days now, so I think it shouldn't take that long anymore.
Jopper also got married and had a kid who is named Sara after Hopper's daughter.
New Stranger Things characters who moved to the island: Barb, Bob (who fell in love at first sight with John, that guy is a Bob-magnet lol) and Henry.
New MCU characters who moved on the island are Agatha, Billy, and Void.
(There were a lot of kids born in the meantime that I don't remember how many, and some I send away because aside from Stonathan I don't see any reason for them to have more than one or two.)
I consider setting Henry and Void up, since they are so similar in their "sending people into a maze of painful memories" shtick – they can haunt Tumblr Island together!
A lot of characters fought over the past weeks, and it's always so stressful to see the little angry thought bubble and them yelling at each other, but mostly I could fix the relationships. The only people who completely broke up their friendships are Nancy and Nikki and Jonathan and Hopper (I was so pissed at Hopper for cutting his step-son out of his life – the Byers + El & Hopper realized they were related once Jopper got married – that I had him eat banana peel and other disgusting stuff as punishment lol).
Just a reminder of what we have missed.
Now I'm still on the conformitygate bus, aka it may still happen, but honestly I think the impact that byler would have had if it had just become canon in the fifth season of the show as is, and if they hadn't pulled whatever bullshit they are pulling (if they are pulling anything), would have been bigger.
Even if there's something to come and they end up making byler canon, there will always be this tarnish that they were willing to sink the ship (for a while), to hurt queer fans, for a gigantic egomaniacal plot twist.
I think that's the thing that's bothering me so much – since it kind of feels like turning queerness into a spectacle.
Just making byler canon as it is would have been groundbreaking, but framing it in a way that they need a spectacle and a big gotcha moment for the general audience just makes it so as if queerness can't be a normal part of a narrative on a mainstream show.
six months later and I'm still not over the fact that we got the swing set scene but no byler. people who call us delusional for expecting byler watched the swing set scene too, btw! like, imagine watching the swing set scene and thinking, "this will amount to nothing" and being right? st5 really was made for the no thoughts head empty crowd, huh?
I remember seeing them explain that originally there was no memory montage, that Will was just going to remember what Robin said and gain access to his powers. They said they realized it needed something more and then remembered the stuff said in the shed scene in season 2.
Is this really how shows are written? Do people just have random ideas while in the filming process? Were the Duffers always just going off vibes? Is that how we got so much seemingly important symbolism that didn't actually mean anything?
A while ago on Facebook, I saw a video by an author who talked about how shows are written and that it's really just bullshitting. And he was even referring to articles bashing the Stranger Things finale in this video.
There were TV writers beneath the post commenting that he's right and that they often, when they have a cliffhanger and a twist at the end of an episode, don't know what that actually means.
But that feels so weird to me when we're not talking about network TV shows. I’d totally get, if, idk, Supernatural was winging it, considering they had to film like 21-23 episodes every year, but I cannot fathom that the process for a show with eight episodes, a 480 million budget and years of production time could have looked the same.🫠
Curses, foiled again!
The White Lotus, 2025 - Season 3, episode 8 “Amor Fati"
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