crazy how most of us made friends on here because we were going insane about the same 2 freaks at the same time. like oh you’re up thinking about them too?
you might never had met your mutuals if you weren’t actively losing brain cells over the same thing. but I’m so glad we were both up reblogging and posting like a madman because now we know each other.
Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction
Reblog to give prev the TIME to write their fanfiction
Reblog to give prev the hocus focus to write their fanfiction.
Reblog to give prev the energy to write their fanfiction
Reblog to give prev the executive function to write their fanfiction
I just know Dustin telling all his college friends his brother is picking him up to go camping and won’t shut up about it for at least a week before.
i know we are all invested in the party figuring out where el is but actually, consider this. a grieving jonathan, ever-perceptive to will's every emotion, gets the sense that there's something he's not saying about el. determined to figure it out but reluctant to dredge up something so devastating to will, he enlists the help of one investigative journalist and close friend (?) nancy wheeler to help him find out what will is hiding.
what they discover, is, in fact, evidence that mike has been searching the newspapers of remote towns for strange girls while claiming to be working on his book. but nancy knows that mike doesn't remember the postcard she used to keep on the bulletin board in her room--the same one el always seemed so fascinated by.
cue jonathan & nancy figuring out a non-suspicious military-approved reason to go to rural iceland (and hey, isn't this kind of fun, working together again? sneaking around and making plans? almost like it isn't just trauma that kept us together?)
anyway, they find her, and she's fine--she's okay--and jonathan nearly loses it (because when has anything good ever happened to him?) and nancy realizes, god, she missed this kid more than she thought (and man, is she excited to tell mike she's okay).
el (eleanor, now, for alias reasons) is like, "i can't come back, the government will find me." and investigative journalist nancy wheeler says very sternly that she has fucked over the government before and she will figure out a way to do it again. then jonathan and nancy make out (emotions are high) while el tends to the sheep.
hi people it’s dember. but soon it will not be
Now Jary :)
it’s jary :)
I hope that now that El is free, she will be able to grow her hair out long and colour it when it starts to grey. That now that her body finally belongs to her and her alone, she gets tattoos of butterflies and flowers to represent the members of the party and her family (a blue butterfly for Kali, a tigerlily for Max). That she learns how to sew, and how to play piano, and a hundred other hobbies that she was never able to explore before. That she learns to ride horseback and moves freely through the mountains. That she sits next to the waterfalls and reads her books now that she has the time to do so and remembers how her loved ones used to read to her. That whether she goes by Jane, Eleanor or Elle that it is her choice. That wherever she is, she has found peace.
They actually killed her. They fucking killed Jane Hopper and her sister. Young abused girls who never got to become full-fledged, healed young women.
And they had the gall to self-insert with Mike and say, “Hey guys—imagine an ending where she didn’t die! Imagine an ending where she was finally free after a lifetime of being imprisoned and in hiding!” Oh, but even in this hypothetical “good” ending, her brown sister still dies. Of course.
They very lazily resolved Jane’s fear that she was a monster, and then had her call the next generation of innocent abused children like her “more monsters” which was entirely out of character.
The children who did get their happy ending were “normal” and shoe-horned into the final season.
We talk about the Will Byers humiliation ritual… what about the Jane Hopper humiliation ritual?
After a fight in which her boyfriend triggered memories of her abuser (while too busy focussing on his “relationship” problems with his platonic bestie) he brings her cold eggos and refuses to apologise for not being supportive of her struggles. He makes it about him. He calls her ridiculous. She begs for him to verbalise his affection for her—write it even—and is then thrown into another prison where she is re-traumatised by her abuser, only for said boyfriend to chauffeur her away after days of homoromantic heart to hearts with his best friend.
They had her wear a fucking collar. Her abuser was the one to unlock it. They didn’t even let her remove her own literal and metaphorical shackles.
Mike professes to her while kneeling at a fucking pizza dough freezer as she’s being choked out. No eye contact. No intimacy. Because his gay best friend reminded him to. She never even gets to respond to this monologue in the canon series, because I guess her feelings don’t actually matter.
Even in her final moments before death, her character was reduced to her love story with the boy who found her in the woods and kept her in his basement. And he still couldn’t say “I love you” back for some reason.
She was never free. She went from being trapped in the lab, to being hidden in Mike’s basement, to being hidden in Hopper’s cabin. She got in trouble and yelled at for leaving these confined spaces and doing normal teenage things. The only exception was when she made herself useful to them by using her powers, endangering herself, and often to the point of physical exhaustion.
Her father figure supposedly learned to allow her more freedom at the end of season 3, but he returns to being over-protective, angry and condescending at the beginning of season 5, undoing all character development.
And we’re expected to thank these men for “taking care of her” all these years, when everything she ever accomplished was no thanks to them but to her own merit, her own desire to do good, her own zest for a life and freedom she never got to have.
Was she… really just used as a tool to help Hopper process his daughter’s death? Was she used as plot armour to ensure our characters could survive the supernatural antagonists? Was she used to give Mike Wheeler something to do other than play games in his basement?
I’m going to throw up. Jane Hopper I’m so sorry. Millie Bobby Brown I’m so sorry.
— jackie and wilson by hozier inspired by @storybook-tiles [ID in alt]
