when the things be strange

brainrot sideblog | certified jonathan byers observer | THEY TOOK MY FUCKING WIFE

[lunar-years]

the whole “jonathan is useless” narrative is so tired. especially after the finale

if it hadn't been for his clever let's order a pizza plan half the party would've been dead in California and Max would also be dead because El wouldn't have been around to save her sooooo. need i say more?

[yourstrullyme]

i know i should probably just write it but i really want a post-canon fic that treats kali as the great fucking character she was, adresses her traumas head on, recognizes her relaitionship to el/jane and how it isn't just for el/jane's benefit but for kali's, too, i mean. she had no one. she left the lab and got herself a gang but she was alone in her powers. then el/jane came along. someone to look out for, to protect, but also someone who understood. who knew so much of her already, and who loved her from the get-go. then s5 comes along and i just wish she'd been given peace. a life with her sister, maybe even getting to meet and befriend the party like, i bet robin and jonathan would've instantly connected. will, too, and max. imagine max teaching kali to ride a skateboard, jonathan lending her his stereo and headphones while the two of them and robin compare music. steve and nancy being a bit more awkward at the begining because kali's crass and honest and challenging but then also nancy loving the challenge, and the two of them seeing in each other a part of themselves - protectors in the sense of putting their lives on the line and doing the difficult thing is their thing. steve lending kali his car and kali absolutely scaring the shit out of him the same way max does in s2. they laugh about it later, but steve's still weary about kali driving. her and hopper getting to talk - actually talk. seeing how they're kind of the same, but also sososo different. joyce. joyce embracing this second daughter. fourth child in her family. even if she's already over 18 and cannot technically be adopted or doesn't need joyce to adopt her. joyce just does, because she sees the pain in her eyes and it reminds her too much of el/jane not to.

i just want kali to have her piece. to get to be happy, too. be with el/jane. to have friends who understand, friends who care. she's just as much a victim of the government as el/jane is, maybe even more considering el/jane got out and wasn't recaptured to be drained of her blood like kali was. i mean, cmon. let her be.

[karust]

Influences ♥

[kristpeace]

🛹

[koldefingre]

[jonathanbyersphd]

Ooh, Sienna, would've been cute

[heavencasteel420]

“I’m so glad Jonathan and Steve let Nancy go and let her be her own person!”

Well! Personally! I wish the writers had given her the agency to make an actual decision about her relationship of three years instead of sulking and scowling at her boyfriend until he intuited that she wanted him to end the relationship for her! And the agency to have some kind of reaction to Steve’s behavior of eighteen months! They truly did reduce her to being at the center of a love triangle as they never have before this season, and none of you notice because they made her single at the eleventh hour!

[beif0ngs]

Stranger Things ✗ The Party

First vs. Last appearance

[alltheanswers]

3x02 / 5x03

[jonathanbyersphd]

It's cool that we never got a scene where they like acknowledged the fact that Jonathan was parentified... That was fun

[jonathanbyersphd]

Hey guys whatever you do don't think about Terry Ives sitting up waiting for her baby girl to come home

[willel]

They really gave us 0% of Jonathan and Joyce scenes for the final season.

They really did not care about the Byers, the "weirdest" and "freakiest" family of the entire show. (and yes, I'm including El in that)

[upside-down-low]

it kills me that kali just never stood a chance both as a person in their world and as a character in the show, like going through all of these pieces together:

as a person within the st universe

she was abducted as a child by brenner to a completely different country, after her mother had also been experimented on

she spent nearly a decade being abused in the lab, including being electrocuted by a cattle prod by a grown adult

the new family she was with before finding her gang couldnt help her the way she needed to be helped

she not only had to lose her found family gang (offscreen), she had to watch them die and then she had to be subjected to experimentation and abuse AGAIN

her blood gets stolen from her to be used for the projects and her blood ended up poisoning the pregnant women in the lab

it got so bad for her to the point where the only ending she saw for herself was suicide and she was up against a grown man who, despite being el’s guardian, couldnt specifically understand el in the way that she did

then when kali did die, the only person left who could understand her and mourn her also died shortly after

as a character for the show

she gets associated as part of the ‘low points’ of s2/the series + negatively as being part of the spin-off allegations around s2

she’ll be one of the first parts to erase if you ask a random person/the ga what they would change about the show

before s5, we get one episode with her and then some. we had the whole series to get to know el, a whole season + a canon play to get to know henry, we had one episode to know her and an ambiguously canon novel that 80% of the people watching the show are not gonna be reading

they set her up so dirty that she’s made to look like a traitor just for the ga to easily want her to die atp forgetting the canon abuse she went through to even understand her character’s reasoning

she’s been utilized in the show and poorly received in such a way that she just isnt mourned like chrissy or benny, who had even less screentime and less interaction with el

racism

[ravennanightingale23]

If all three of them are dead (Henry, Kali, Jane) I keep imagining their souls being someplace happy and warm and free from all the abuse and manipulation they all equally suffered throughout their lives and can finally be at peace together like real siblings.

Let me know if anyone else imagines something like this as well despite it not actually being canon in the real show 💜

[nanathecannibal]

People hate (or at least hated) Kali because she's not like Jane. She doesn't mirror a perfect victim. She's not innocent or naive and she's not always kind or forgiving or vulnerable. While Jane chooses to forgive and move on she let's rage and hate build up inside of her making her almost cruel, a murderer. She hunts and kills the men responsible for her suffering, she does everything in her power to keep her freedom. It wasn't something that came natural for her she had to earn it. And after years of fighting she gives up. She gives up after watching all her loved ones die in front of her eyes, after being turned into a lab experiment again, after being so close to escaping only to be caught again, after seeing that her blood is only good for causing suffering and pain, after realizing she will never have the life that she wants, she will never be free. The only way for the cycle to end? She decides it has to be suicide. She gets hated by everyone and their mothers for having a natrual trauma response after of all the shit she's been through. Because she was so devastated she thought that by making Jane come with her, it would save them, both of them would finally be free of this. Maybe in her last moments, with her sister by her side, she wouldn't be alone like she was all this time.

[upside-down-low]

oh so this is why you dont check instagram threads for anything st-related that’s meaningful

[skysmadness]

"we could both be magic users, wouldn't that be cool?"