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the italian byler voice actors just did the iconic and impossible, get in bylers the bus is going to italy
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Milkvans bullying Bylers, when Mike couldn't even say I Love You to El? And had El, instead of living a life with family and friends, COMMITTING SUICIDE because, instead of a heroic story where an abused girl fights and takes on her abusers, she "is the monster" who has to die? Providing a horrible example to real-life abuse victims who often struggle with continuing the cycle and contemplate self-harm and suicide?
You're embarrassing yourselves Milkvans, trying to bully the other people who were also betrayed by the Duffer Brothers, revealing that you don't give a shit about El and just want to bully anyone you think is weaker than you.
You really are the Troys and Angelas of the world, the scum of the earth.
-teambyler
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so..! to recap !!!!
- we don't know why will was taken specifically
- hopper and joyce just happened to conveniently forget going to school with henry
- the painting lie hasn't been addressed
- we don't know why el recognized will in season 1 without having ever seen him before
- we don't know who opened the door the night will was taken
- mike and will's colors just HAPPEN to be blue and yellow and the cast, crew, and WRITERS THEMSELVES telling us to "pay attention to detail" was deadass just generational queerbait
- after everything, mike STILL couldn't say i love you to eleven
- patty newby is non-existent and creelby just happens to parallel byler for literally no reason 🩷
- will was about to FORGIVE henry.
- the duffers genuinely forgot their OWN MAIN CHARACTERS BIRTHDAY AND AGE MULTIPLE TIMES
- the russian involvement in s3 and s4 was never explained so it was prob just capitalist propaganda except they don't want us to realize that so they gave jonathan an entire anti-capitalist film storyline for the sake of "screwing conformity" i guess
- ohhh but! critiquing society???? fuck that! because they also didn't show us vickie in the epilogue at all, giving her and robin a completely ambiguous ending in which 90% of the fandom believe they broke up off-screen!!!!!!! A+ for representation !!!!!!
- not only that, but will doesn't even have a CONFIRMED epilogue boyfriend. that is full well a cute lil headcanon that MIKE has for him.
- terry ives, lonnie, enzo, max's mom, suzie, argyle, dr kay, the turnbow family, the school counselor with the clock necklace, and dr owens just vanished into thin air, ALONG WITH ALL THE DANGERS OF THE UPSIDE DOWN???? where were the demodogs, the demogorgons, the demobats????
- max's letters were just completely insignificant and had no reason to be mentioned again i guess
- november 6 just happened to be a funny coincidence
- they ALSO happened to forget that nancy had a vision of mike being killed by vecna in s4 bc that boy wasn't even remotely in danger at all while every other wheeler was put through hell
- dr brenner's obsession and fascination with the upside down and abyss stemming from how his father was involved in project rainbow was also not addressed
- not to mention that the dude is literally horrendous at drawing animals but when it comes to the flipping hexcore he's da vinci
- melvalds, the general store, just happens to sell milkshakes
- will adores getting lost in the woods because that's such a fun activity for him
- henry just gave holly her favorite song because he was feeling kind
- they never actually defeated the mind flayer !!!! which is wonderful
- we actually never find out whether or not will lost his powers
- el's water tank in the upside down being completely full although there has literally NEVER been water in the upside down before
- mike is somehow the only one who has ever understood el even though she was 10x happier with max. could they not have just admitted that they made the elmax reunion so incredibly lackluster because they refused to let ANY gay ships win regardless of how much chance they had of being canon?
- the 'lovebirds' parallel between jonathan + steve and mike + eleven??? what was that even for
- all the dick jokes, mike listening the a band called the BUTTHOLE SURFERS, the camera panning to mike 7000 times during will's coming out scene, mike not being able to touch will, all just happened to be fun coincidences
- not only that, but the mike-will-eleven and nancy-jonathan-steve love triangles were resolved by none of the couples working out! wow.
they really just made us wait 3 whole years for something BEYOND mid.
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its been a while since the finale and i think ive hit the depression stage of grief. i’m genuinely tearing up thinking about how cruel they’ve been to will byers and how the epilogue felt like a consolation prize.
they could have written his queer arc without bringing mike into the picture, but they did it anyway without any pay off and ruined their friendship in the process. mike can’t even touch him anymore. they forced will out of the closet after being manipulated by his abuser to do so. they took away his autonomy over and over again and never addressed any of the blatant allegories of CSA. they made will sacrifice his feelings and play couples counsellor for mlvn and mike couldn’t say i love you back to her even in her final moments. they gave him hope in the beginning of s5 only for it to amount to nothing. they made him get over his love for mike because they thought it was realistic. they didn’t even give him a boyfriend at the end, they just had mike wheeler headcanon him having one far away from hawkins.
oh will byers i’ve never seen a character as tragic as you that i’ve related to and i wish you got a better ending. i hope you leave and find your people and be happy.
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thinking about how as an adult I have been able to meet gay children for the first time (there were no out gay children or teenagers in my town when I was growing up that I was aware of) and how i am noticing new types of best friends develop. my favorite is "tween/teenage trans girl and the lesbian/transmasc/nonbinary afab kid who constantly bodyguards her and circles her protectively" i have seen this type of bestfriends many times now and sometimes i tell them and they giggle and go that's us !! and i tell them, we didn't used to be able to be together and now we are. and i am so lucky to be able to see it.
I saw the version of this that you were only able to identify after the fact when I was younger but it's so great that like. kids don't have to be sublimating that shit for a decade or two now???? blows my fuckin mind
@melodycantmiss @stupixx IT'S US !!!!!!!!!!!!
Us when we’re silly :³
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WILL THE SORCERER 💥💫 (Based on The Magician tarot card — under the cut)
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are you guys hearing about this dude working to developing a vaccine for cats that he's hoping would like. theoretically double their lifespans?
turns out i wasn't making that up, his name is Dr. Toru Miyazaki! he also wrote a book called "The Day Cats Live To Be Thirty", so cats are kind of his thing.
apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.
whoa wait i actually read the articles and it's so much cooler than just that!!
dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!
although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!
on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.
furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.
annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D
man just think, not only could our kitties start living longer, healthier lives, but just maybe dialysis will become as rare and obsolete as the iron lung is for people. what a badass Dr. Toru is!