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[frogsdontcry]

Ok, that was a real struggle, especially the ending and I think I want to add a second part!

[rl-isthere]

I can't remember interviews and everything perfectly right now, did the duffers explicitly mentioned plot twists regarding the finale?

Because to me the only real plot twist of season 5 was the UD being a wormhole and that was in volume 2

The finale literally doesn't have a plot twist, at all, and I don't think they suddenly forgot how plot twist work, I mean, do we not remember S4 episode 07. This show is suppose to handle plot twist well

A plot twist would be Eleven finding a way to survive all this, not do what Kali predicted for her

A plot twist would be Will getting with Mike when no ga members believes it

A plot twist would be someone dying during the mind flayer battle, not defeating him under 20mins without much of a struggle

Where is the twist? Sincerely if conformitygate doesn't exist, where is the twist?

[vintagecxctus]

btw they didn’t just kill him in under 20 minutes…they killed him in UNDER 7 minutes. in a 2 hour finale. what are we doing.

[thisbarbieisineffable]

Me, on January 1st in the evening: I'm over my Stranger Things hyperfixation forever, goodbye byler fandom, it was nice while it lasted.

Me, today: *plotting a season 5 rewrite and a post-epilogue fix it fic and an original queer horror novel with a main couple that suspiciously looks and sounds like Mike and Will*

I'm also speedrunning through all stages of grieve on repeat :') Currently back in denial (maybe conformity gate is real or maybe the documentary will show that byler was always the plan but for some reason the duffers are now forced to deny it in interviews and had to cut it out)

[swirlyvie]

[domi--mi]

I will always love them no matter how much they try to assassinate mike

[vintagecxctus]

YES YES YES THANK YOU QUEER ARTISTS I KNOW WEVE BEEN THEOUGH A LOT BUT IVE MISSED YOU GUYS THIS IS GORG!!!!!

[bunnybonesstudio]

Alright, you know what? I have a saying I’ve lived by for a long fucking time:

‘Tragedy inspires creativity.’

And this is a fucking tragedy.

I write Cobra Kai fics but fuck it; it’s all paused. Sorry but THIS takes priority.

I’m going and writing the best fucking fix it fic in the whole god damn world because the CHARACTERS deserve better than this. ALL OF THIS. The ending was so bad on various different levels and lucky for the Duffers, I can write.

Big words from a nobody online, I’m aware, but I will do it. And if at least ONE person reads it and feels liberated than I did my job.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to lock the fuck in and fix a show.

[vintagecxctus]

thank you 🙏🙏

[0ceansoftime]

I’ve started planning my s5 fix-it fic! Aiming to have it be Will Byers-centric, heavy on the horror, with slow burn Byler. I may be disappointed with how the show is going, but that will not dull my love of the characters - in fact, it just fuels it more.

[kidovna]

stranger things, first show in history to introduce the cyrano trope and shoot cyrano right in the head with chekhov’s gun

[byerswheeler]

will byers had his entire childhood ripped away from him and has been tortured both mentally and physically since the day he was taken. if his ending denies him the one thing he’s wanted for most of his life, i fail to see the point of the entire show.

[underthemoony]

what is taking me out is the duffers claiming no one predicted the ending but it was the most obvious ending in existence that has been the most talked about, like that could’ve been an email I fear.

[as-intimidating-as-a-butterfly]

“I mean what did you think, really? That a show about nerds and outcasts was gonna have a well-written queer romance? That, in the end, queer love could help save the world?”

Yeah I guess I did. I really did.

[mikeandwillsweddingofficiant]

“i asked chatgpt” well i asked s5 mike and he didnt say anything he just stood there

[bylerworld]

"screw conformity" yeah and have the bleakest heterosexual couple have the bleakest love story of all time ever and use your only gay main character's feelings to further that bullshit I HAVE TO LAUGH i wish i could spit in the duffer brothers' faces

[homicidal-psycho-jungle-cat]

[your-ivy-grows13]

went right from getting rejected by the love of his life to being his relationship counselor once again! awesome writing

[bylerworld]

the way will's feelings for mike were never directly addressed? the way mike never found out about the painting? the way mike doesn't know will thought of the first time they met when he activated his powers? like what the actual fuck im going to kill myself

[moral-panick]

Literal. Literal queer erasure, I’m losing my fucking mind, what is wrong with them