Making a lesbian character say weird ooc dick jokes constantly
Appropriating the rainbow symbol from queer culture only to proceed on doing torture porn on the gay character that they created and give him the first slow burn rejection in the world
Main gay character can't even kiss his fake epilogue boyfriend made up by his real future husband (after he gets fustigated 50 times)
They didn't even bother to cast an epilogue boyfriend actor with actual chemistry with Will so they don't even look like boyfriends
Only bisexual character in the show disappeared with no explanations after making her the focus of multiple romantic moments with Robin and was also introduced with zero purpose outside of being a romantic interest in the first place
Mike Wheeler's closet blown into pieces while they were well aware of Byler being the biggest ship in the show, and he doesn't even say I love you to his girlfriend who he treated like shit for no reason other than random drama
Using the feelings of a queer character to resolve the problem of a straight relationship that is doomed anyway in the finale, then diminishing the depth of queer love while propping love born by A TRAUMA BOND between Mike and El that suddenly always "understand each other" when they do not in the previous seasons multiple times... Then keeping the queerbait at maximum level until the last moment possible by never doing anything more than platonic between the straights until the finale
its not all so bad
You've heard of multi-shipper now get ready for multi-headcanoner: where multiple interpretations of the same character coexist in your head and they are all great.
Don’t think for a second that Stranger Things having a whole plot point of women being forced to carry babies to term by the government and then unceremoniously killing every single one of them off along with one of their only poc female characters AND the main female character who were both also abused and treated as nothing more than lab experiments by said government isn’t the Duffers making it clear who they side with in this political climate. It was not an accident and they are not this stupid. Do not give them the benefit of the doubt. What they have written is completely irresponsible and they cannot be allowed to continue having a platform without us resisting it.
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i wish we could have seen will playing in hellfire so he and mike could have both been pcs. there’s no way you could stop them from flirting in character and eddie would sooo lean into it. eddie would invent the only one bed trope
eddie would put them into Situations and you cannot take that away from me
eddie would create forced proximity and fucking fake dating scenarios icl
“wheeler you and byers have to um…. you need to pretend to be husbands to trick the guards into letting you in”
will: “what no thats crazy um”
mike: “ugh FINEEE”
yall gotta be nicer about m/f bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life
gonna add onto this you all gotta stop acting like m/f is just cishet when bisexual people exist and straight trans people exist.
last add on alot of m/f ships of poc or white/poc ship are constantly downplayed for bland white m/m or f/f ships
and sometimes a m/f ship is just fun
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Been years since S4 so maybe now people can actually answer normally- did anyone outside of punk/rock subcultures pick up on Eddie being very obviously queer coded? He was using hankie code and gave Steve his battle vest.
Like for some reason I very clearly remember people insisting that the black handkerchief in his back pocket in the 1980s was just a weird coincidence. So.
oh yeah! i thought that was a very well-known thing hahaha im not in the steddie or eddie part of the fandom at all, like its not my thing tbh but i believe he’s queercoded. i dont know if it’s intentional or not, but i really think he was gay and now the show’s over im just going to believe whatever the f i want about the characters so
also is it a coincidence that the duffers seem to LOVE queer pain and they recently came out saying that they were never going to let eddie live or have a happy life even if he did live???? bam there’s ur answer
stares at you yearningly mike wheeler style
Local 8 year olds roleplay gay marriage decades before it's legalized!!!!!
he'll never get away from the sound
"You're aromantic? But you have a partner."
Well you're annoying and still have friends, so maybe improbable connections happen sometimes.
this specific shot is actually INSANE
this is the type of greed they talk about in the bible
He used to want an orange mohawk btw
‘a desperate cleric slamming every healing spell so hard to bring someone back to life, that the ground is forced to grow plants and flowers around the body’
‘decades later, guarded by a forest of roses and thorns, lies a corpse refusing to rot’ 🌼