Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via lunamonchtuna)

love when the duffers talked abt how s5 was going to explore brenner and henry and the lab and then. It didnt

MAJOR SPOILER

i feel like i already need to rewatch the finale because why the hell did hopper seem completely fine after his entire arc being his daughter dying and then him finding el and becoming her dad and doing everything in his power not to lose her

Well.

No one will ever convince me this is the ending they had planned when they wrote season four.

They set up a clear problem for Steve at the beginning of that season: "You go on, like, a million dates, and you have no idea what you want." They have a whole season of build up, of intimate moments and third party encouragement, culminating in Steve's admitting he does know what he wants. The same thing he's always wanted. Nancy.

And then they just have him realise, off-screen, that actually, things with Nancy wouldn't work out after all. And end him in the exact place he was two seasons earlier.

I mean, from a writing perspective, that's just indefensible. They really did get scared by all the people online who just want him to be a babysitter.

And not even letting him and Nancy have a conversation about it, after eighteen months? Really rewarding Nancy's avoidant behaviour there. It makes her look cruel, and for what? Keeping the audience in suspense over a love triangle a large portion of them hated? I think we were probably the only ones who appreciated it, because we thought they were actually setting up something worthwhile.

They could have at least drawn a parallel between Nancy's saving Holly and failing to save Barb like they did with Hopper and Will/Sarah in season one. Just to give her some form of closure beyond revenge (which we've already established, doesn't work).

Don't even get me started on the styling in the epilogue.

I really wanted better for Eleven, too. But if they were going to do that for her ending, why not give her more powerful character moments with the rest of the cast in the lead up? She was so isolated all season, even her reunion with Max felt so underwhelming.

On a positive note, at least they didn't try to redeem Henry Creel. I was dreading that they might.

when will successful shows realize that just because youve gained the budget to be able to go big does not mean you HAVE to go big. sometimes all you need is paint and christmas lights.

damn we got 2024 tomorrow

damn we got 2025 tomorrow

damn we got 2026 tomorrow

'Shadows'. Olga Kvasha. 2009.

Mr. Remus ‘Moony’ Lupin

Sex is when im in your head and youre in mine

will byers i am so proud of how far you’ve come

✨sorcerer✨

apparently people are shitting on Tarquin for "not trusting feyre and rhysand" (lmao RHYSAND????) and like 😩 but he DID trust them and then they literally betrayed his trust and stole from him. I fear that was How they stole from him in the first place. they got his trust first and then BETRAYED it. feysand is the worst

People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

it literally could use a little clouds if i had to be honest