Merry Elizabeth

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[alwaystiredshark]

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[bibbledoestaxfraud]

real canon tower scene

smooch

[bylerworld]

every time i remember mike never knew about the painting and will's feelings i feel like i lose one year of my life

[longstoryshort-143]

“she’s so me” and it’s Eleanor Vance from haunting of hill house, as if that’s not concerning

[bearwithh]

[anxietyproblem]

[cuntnymeria]

[domi--mi]

i forgor to post here as well as on twt, anyways wonder twins!!!

[directactionforhope]

Not only is having intergenerational friendships literally not creepy, imho it's actually essential. You NEED friends who are older to do things like help you when there's a problem with your taxes, and give you job advice, and relationship advice, and especially if you are part of a marginalized group, and especially if you're part of a marginalized group and don't have contact with a ton of other members of it, you need older friends to show you that there IS a future for you, for people like you, and what it looks like, and the way it doesn't even have to involve turning into your parents

[hiccup-queen]

conversely, you need friends who are younger to help introduce you to new ideas. You need friends who are younger to drag you out to try some adventure because they thought it looked cool. You need younger friends to help you fix problems, because they may have faced something similar in the past! You need younger friends to keep you up to date on slang so that you can embarrass your teenage family members by intentionally misusing it.

Cross-generational friendships are not some weird sin. My best friend is nineteen years older than I am - im closer in age to her children than I am to her. She's still my best fucking friend.

[genderkoolaid]

having friends who are older than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards older people.

having friends who are younger than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards younger people.

you need to be able to see people of all ages as people you live in a community with, people who are similar to how you once were or will be, people you can learn from and people you can teach.

[whatisstevenabt]

Jane and Kali died in a hell dimension created by their abuser. Robin’s only arc this season was propping up Will. She got together and broke up with Vickie offscreen. The only thing mentions for Max in the ending is that she’s still with Lucas. No one looks out for Erica because she’s “tough”. You can’t convince me this show doesn’t hate women.

[swirlyvie]

karen stayed with her deadbeat husband & joyce also reduced to being hoppers wife

[kvothes]

oh someone told me something useful yesterday. she said she’s been thinking about her tbr less as an overwhelming list of books she Must Read and more like she’s cultivating a wine cellar. making a rich collection that will provide the perfect thing when needed. a bottle will get uncorked when the time is right

[mona07]

isn’t it funny how when Dustin had a crush on max they made it clear that the crush is unrequited, and he moved on in the same season, but when a gay character has an unrequited LOVE they have to go with it for 5 total seasons and torture him in every way possible

[shardlily]

„WHAT‘S WRONG WITH YOU!?“

[narrativelogicofbyler]

i’m honestly at the end of my patience with people acting like my professional analysis is some kind of personal attack. I’m not “projecting,” I’m not inventing subtext out of thin air, i’m applying the exact tools i was trained to use. textual analysis, cinematography, blocking, performance study, semiotics. this is literally what my degree is for.

and if we’re talking about evidence, let’s start right at the beginning of season three with that kiss, the one that’s so uncomfortable it borders on unwatchable. he physically takes el’s hands off his face. that is not the body language of a boy in love. that is a character recoiling. that is an actor directed to show discomfort. that is a camera lingering on the wrongness of the moment. it’s a visual cue, a narrative cue, and a performance cue all pointing in the same direction: this relationship is not working for him on a romantic level.

mike was queer coded whether people like it or not. the framing, the lighting, the emotional beats, the way his discomfort is emphasised in scenes with el, these are deliberate choices. they’re not accidents. they’re not “reading too much into it.” they were part of the show’s visual language.

and i’m allowed to say, with confidence, that the text supports mike being gay. the emotional dissonance in his relationship with el is baked into the performances. the way he physically stiffens, the way the camera isolates him, the way he can’t articulate romantic feelings for her no matter how many times the narrative gives him the opportunity, that’s not hetero storytelling. that’s a character struggling with compulsory heterosexuality.

and then there’s the dialogue. when he practically shouts “it’s not my fault you don’t like girls” at will, that’s not just a line. that’s classic projection. that’s a character lashing out because he’s terrified of what he sees in himself. it’s queer subtext breaking the surface.

so when people come at me like i’m committing some moral crime for pointing out what the show was doing, it’s exhausting. if you don’t like my interpretation, that’s fine. disagree. scroll past. curate your own space. but don’t attack me for using the education i literally have a degree in. don’t act like i’m making things up because it makes you uncomfortable.

if my perspective bothers you that much, block me. I’m not disappearing, and i’m not going to stop analysing media through the lens i was trained to use.

[narrativelogicofbyler]

what gets me, genuinely, academically, professionally, is that every single department was speaking the same visual language. cinematography, costuming, set design, sound, direction, even the blocking… they weren’t just doing their own jobs in isolation. they were in conversation with each other. they were building a shared emotional argument, layering meaning through colour, framing, spatial relationships, performance beats, and environmental cues. and that argument was Byler.

you don’t get that kind of cross departmental cohesion by accident. that’s not a happy coincidence or a “fan over reading.” that’s the result of pre production meetings, mood boards, shot lists, costume palettes, location choices, and directorial intent all aligning. that’s coordinated storytelling. that’s a show deciding, on a craft level, to communicate something even when the script refuses to say it out loud.

and then to build all of that, to construct an emotional through‑line across multiple crafts, to let the audience feel the shape of a conclusion forming, only to refuse to resolve it? it’s maddening. it’s like watching a meticulously structured essay that suddenly abandons its final paragraph. all the evidence is there. all the thematic groundwork is there. the emotional logic is there. the show guides you right up to the edge of the conclusion and then just… stops. no synthesis, no payoff, no acknowledgement of the argument it spent an entire season constructing.

from a filmmaking standpoint, it’s not just disappointing, it’s dissonant. because when every department is telling one story and the text refuses to follow through, you’re left with a narrative that feels unfinished on a craft level. it’s not that the audience “imagined” something that wasn’t there. it’s that the show built a cohesive emotional arc and then refused to honour its own internal logic.

[toktopus-art]

i haven't seen season 5 yet but i assume this is what happened right?

[strawberriesandcigarettessss]

The demogorgons finding out they weren’t invited to the coming out party

Edit: they weren’t invited to Vol3 either