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✧ zoe ✧

@asserting-my-dominance

✧ to love me is to suffer me ✧ art, byler, marauders, wolfstar, the lot. she/her.

IM CRASHING TF OUT BRO

I used to listen to Scott street by phoebe bridges and think ‘hmm this would be a great song for an au where will and mike don’t get together and see each other again after years of not talking. Lucky that’ll never happen 🥰’

And then I forgot about it until it came on today and I was sitting on a plane trying not to cry. PLEASE everyone go listen to it now. (I think of it from Will’s POV after he returns from art school in another city and catches up with mike after not talking to him for ages)

like the bicycle bells in the background. ‘Anyway don’t be a stranger’. ‘Do you feel ashamed when you hear my name’. It’s perfect. Go listen now.

Finale so ass I’m seriously pondering trying to write fanfiction for the first time despite the fact that I barely ever write and hate the product whenever I do

#listen I’m very inspired by last kiss by taylor swift#a last kiss inspired mike pov fic would go hard#‘so I’ll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes’#Mike wearing the clothes will left behind from the Byers’ time living at the wheelers as he sorts through relics of his childhood with will#‘All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss’#mike not knowing what to do now that will is moving on outside of Hawkins#‘You’re name forever the name on my lips’#Mike unable to date again because he’s only ever looking for will in any person he meets#‘So I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep’#Mike going from growing up being around will all the time to getting updates every now and then via letter with photos of wills new life#‘And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe’#The letters become scarcer and more detached as will tries to move on leaving mike terrified that he is no longer loved and needed#‘And I’ll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are’#Mike finding out abt how will is honestly doing from Lucas and Dustin bc will can’t be open with mike anymore#‘Hope it’s nice where you are’#Mike trying to act as normal and happy for will because he knows he missed his chance and has no right to want anything from will anymore#bruh the angst potential#I’m so swamped with schoolwork but lowkey I want to do it#byler#stranger things#st5#st5 spoilers#will byers#mike wheeler#byler fanfic#byler fic

the mistreatment of the women this season was appalling

el: after a life of being controlled by men, she is still with the boy who was controlling and didn’t understand her (and then she said that he was the ONLY person to ever understand her), planned to kill herself, which her father tried to prevent by telling her to picture her future kids, and then killed herself. Oh plus her last scene actually alive is with the boyfriend who was one of the controlling men in her life. Her whole arc centres around men. Oh also her one female friendship which was the beginning of her finding independence was completely erased.

max: her projected dream future is focussed solely on her relationship with Lucas.

kali: had no purpose beyond being a plot device. Was brought back just to tell el to kill herself and then die.

pregnant women: never addressed again. Treated only as vessels.

robin: conformed to traditional femininity in terms of appearance.

Vickie: no plot relevance beyond her relationship with Robin, erased from the epilogue

Karen: I don’t know if people will agree with me on this but it bothered me a bit that the only time she showed strength was when her kids were being threatened. I just feel like the duffers see women and motherhood as inseparable.

Literally never write anything again

(there’s heaps more so let me know what I missed)

tagging @urm0onagedaydream for the list of fucked up things about s5

also adding some stuff from the comments:

  • Joyce reduced to hopper’s love interest and will’s mum. Written to completely ignore her other son. Treated as dumb and paranoid when she was literally the one to figure out the lights and stuff in s1
  • nancy reduced to her relationships and a girl with a gun. Her abandonment of her education felt unrealistic especially for a woman in that time. She didn’t get to use her intelligence and journalistic abilities at all.
  • karen shown in an unhappy relationship with no resolution. I personally believe that is also a sign of conformity - she married the man she dated in highschool (I think? Correct me if I’m wrong), settled down and had kids. There was a lot of hints towards the fact that Karen was a strong and brave woman but was being controlled by her marriage and conformist life. I think that’s very realistic, especially for the time period, but the fact that this was never fixed or resolved bugs me.
  • max’s disability being magically fixed - she sustained no lasting injuries bc god forbid you commit to having representation for any minorities and social outcasts beyond white cishet nerdy men

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