you are all so yaoiful

The scariest thing in Stranger Things wasn’t the demodogs, Vecna, or the unstable reality. It was the women lying unconscious in hospital beds, forced to carry pregnancies to term by the government even if it killed them.

guys isn't it crazy how season 5 was only four episodes long? Isn't that crazy? Crazy? I was crazy once

true✅in real life👆you’re🫵more like😇a sorcerer❤️because‼️your powers✨don’t🚫come from a book 📖 of spells 🪄 they’re INNATE🥰listen👂as far as crazy🤯theories💭go i’ve had crazier😌and➕with eleven in the upside down⬆️⬇️ we really🙂‍↕️need some magic up here😘

König doodle !!!!

Be nice he's new

So difficult to withhold the eyeroll when people say things like, "My body was designed for this" wrt childbirth or whatever, because even if I accept the premise that our bodies were designed, I have to imagine mine was designed with the most basic function of breathing in mind, and yet I had childhood asthma and would have died without intervention so idk if I'm trusting my "designer" with something as physically traumatic and historically deadly as childbirth

"this is a show about outcasts/ the marginalized" and then the only person who dies besides the LITERAL VILLAIN is a suicidal brown woman, the girl who's never a felt a sense of belonging and has been abused since childhood sacrifices herself to end the cycle, the gay boy's struggles were just used to anchor an unhealthy straight ship and the one thing he craved the most wasnt given to him after all he went through, the only canon wlw ship is broken up OFFSCREEN, the black guy's character is just revolved around his relationship and the character who was supposed to be disabled magically isnt wow yeah love the diversity!

THEY FRIDGED MY GIRL, EL!

Duffers saying El was never going to be with the gang in the end , because she "represents the magic of childhood" is just sad. Because , yes, characters can represent something -but writers need to understand they're MORE than just a symbol . They’re also a person/character in the narrative. The fact she also represents the magic of childhood of all things is awfully portrayed since Jane herself never had a real childhood - and because of the writers she doesn’t get an adulthood either .

They also just ignored how they purposely wrote mileven problematically , and instead of letting them break up , or even having El fake her death to find happiness elsewhere (with her sister) . They instead just let mileven kiss (hand wave their issues with an empty speech/ montage) and then immediately kill El off (after they shot Kali ). Also, El says “I love you “ right before she dies … and mike still doesn’t say it back 🙄. She deserved better than that!

What was the point of Hopper’s speech where he says Kali/El shouldn’t have to off themselves, and that they deserve a happy ending (despite life being unfair to them) ? Guess it was pointless. Can’t let El/Kali : the victims of government oppression and abuse ever get a “happy ending”. In fact , both die due to the government . What an uplifting message during these fraught political times. 🙄 This is the opposite of an uplifting message for ab*se survivors: "break the cycle" by offing yourself??????!!!!

El says in reference to Mike’s plan of going somewhere with waterfalls , that : “this isn’t like one of your campaigns ; you don’t get to write the ending”.But then he does just that (he writes HER ending in HIS campaign )! And after 18 months … Will and Mike never get closure or even bring up the painting ? They ignore the cyarno trope all together? Mike even hangs the painting up in his room cause he’s still oblivious and thinks El commissioned it ? Mike falls for the fantasy of El (that Will created) . Just like Mike falls into the fantasy story he created : where El is the mage who is still alive and looking at a waterfall. Did Mike ever really see the real her (or was she just a fantasy to him )? Just like the fantasy characters in his childhood d&d games . Similar to how the duffers claimed El was just a symbol for the “magic of childhood “, ick. Mike is wearing those ugly glasses cause he’s channeling his final form as his oblivious father (who is blind to everything around him) . mike’s worst fears come true : he’s alone, full of regrets, the party drifted apart, and he seemingly never moves on. And it’s implied Will eventually gets a bf who doesn’t have a name , and is on screen for less than 0.5s. . The writers were cowards .

This is why we can’t trust straight dudes to write woman or queer relationships. Even if you believe el survived : then they brought Kali back to kill her friends, torture her , shoot her , and facilitate the white heroine’s happy ending (which is also super gross optics ) . They also chicken-ed out on byler . And said: let’s queerbait and kill the main heroine ( so we don’t have to follow through on breaking up mileven ). Since we’re afraid to follow through on the og plan: let’s just kill her instead (so no one is allowed to ever criticize the main ship ever again) ! I'll never forgot how they compared mileven to ted/karen in multiple seasons . And In s4 made countless parallels of mileven to El/Brenner . El claims Mike always “understood her the most” in s5 , but in s4 she straight up said he doesn’t “understand” her? You can't gaslight us , and claim they were some great love .

I will be doing a more rational breakdown of the Duffers problematic writing choices later (when I’ve calmed down). I actually wrote a whole break down of those issues before the finale just in case so it’ll probably be out soon. And no it’s not just about byler (that’s only 1 bullet point of like a 25 bullet point list). The duffers didn't subvert tropes like we expected them to. They literally tried to bring back old problematic ones.

Glad , I was a pirate for the last season

noah mentioning that lonnie was abusive when on the press tour despite lonnie not being mentioned once in s5 really shows how much better noah understood and cared about will than the duffers did.

dying at this milkvan goodbye comparison to the elmax reunion... why does the bestfriend relationship have more chemistry than the CANON COUPLE 😭😭

bonus: mike not touching el when this is the last time he'll see her (she's literally his gf and is going to commit suicide) (plus he still can't say i love you) vs max being in awe of el after not seeing her for months

the outstretched hand just my lord

actually I lied. the real moment i knew were fucked is when hopper started talking abt jane having a kid. thats when i knew this show wasnt for us in the first place