we dont talk enough about how winona rider was literally the face of stranger things back when season one was released. she was the thing that got most people watching and got this show to the level of fame that it became eventually with her amazing performances in the first season. then the fifth season came along and reduced her down to someone who makes quirky one-liners, someone whose arc is literally just "learning to not be an overbearing mother to her son", and someone who just becomes a cop's wife at the end. apparently the original ending for joyce wasn't to use the axe to chop vecna's head off, and winona had to suggest it to be her.

justice for joyce actually, justice for all female characters on this show.

the doctors are calling them allergic to personal space

Conformitygate except it's groundhog day. Put Mike Wheeler in the timeloop

we are all going to look at my favorite pictures.

We ‘lost’ byler because in the ten years since this show started America has dropped fascism and two white men who thought nonconformity (of any kind) was a fun idea didn’t actually want to rock the boat when it actually required them to stand on business—which meant dropping any and all ‘controversial’ plotlines across the board, and (poorly) softening their decisions for the sake of maintaining their access to money.

There. Fixed it for you.

Got possessed and this appeared idk. Don’t think I’ll ever be able to recreate this

oh to love stranger things (the concept) but to hate Stranger Things™

How the big “announcement” is gonna go down tmr if conformitygate isn’t canon

Claim yours now!!

I have been on this damn boat for too goddamn long!!!!!

the way that he was genuinely confused about what happened here

someone on tiktok said it best, they BROKE all their own rules of storytelling, all the rules that were established in canon got destroyed, and that's such an enormous betrayal of your fan base it's heartbreaking

Remember when the very first song on Mike Wheeler's Official Spotify playlist was an internationally known Gay Anthem specifically and unambiguously about being gay in a small town, and then for some reason they deleted the playlist right after they shot the final season. Funny huh.

s2 miwi meet epilogue byler