i'm still fucking thinking about faulkner silt verses i haven't stopped all day. i just keep intermittently replaying parts of the ep and working my way thru the transcript. just now i was trying to explain to rafi how elated i was about everything that went down during this ep and rafi, horrified, was like "BUT I - I DON'T WANT HIM TO BE SUICIDAL????" and i was like "rafi. listen to me. i cannot express enough how much the suicide attempt was POSITIVE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT."
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when will said it was "strange knowing who it was this whole time" and "he's hurt, he's hurting, but he's still alive" was he not talking about henry? am i insane? did i misinterpret that scene? why are we acting like will is connected to anyone other than henry bro what is Happening 😭
that was henry that shaped the mind flayer into that spider-like form and it was henry that used it to possess will and it was henry's thoughts that will was experiencing against his will and it's henry that he's still feeling because the connection/"vecna's curse" hasn't been broken. they physically extracted the mind flayer from will's body, yes, but his connection to henry was never broken. henry can't exercise complete and total control over people without the mind flayer's power, which is why will has free will over his body but his mind remains connected to henry.
the characters, and by extension the viewers, thought it was the mind flayer behind everything, because they didn't know what season four revealed to us.
henry wanted to control will's mind and body—a complete and entire violation of everything will is. that was Not the mind flayer, and they tell us that more than once. with all love and respect what are some of you on about because you're starting to make me feel like my memory is genuinely broken or something lmao like i thought.... the big reveal was that it's always been henry? they literally say that? eleven, henry, and will all confirm it? the mind flayer was not a separate entity acting alone... thus will has beef with henry most of all because henry's violation of his mind and body is still ongoing... Where Are You Guys Getting Your Information From 😭 hELP
will's rape—because that's what possession is, he never consented to having his mind and body controlled by anyone else—is an important part of stranger things; both to the general plot and will's character. to say that will only has beef with the mind flayer and not henry is reducing what henry did to him and reassigning blame that very much falls on henry's shoulders. henry was controlling the mind flayer and henry is the one still in will's mind. henry used the mind flayer to have control over will. henry and will are connected. the show literally tells us that over and over again. when you decide to needlessly reassign blame, not only are you misunderstanding and misconstruing the plot, but you're also... not understanding what happened to will at all. like, what really happened to him and how that's used in the show.
henry very likely was the one that kidnapped will. henry is the one that will has a psychic connection to. henry is the one that raped will / possessed him if you prefer that term instead and used the mind flayer to do it. henry is the one that will still knows like the back of his hand, because henry is the one that's still in his head. it's not the mind flayer. it's henry. please stop saying that will doesn't have more than enough reason to want to kill his ass. please!!!
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Encanto: a movie that tackles the nuances of generational trauma, shows how easy it is to be caught up in a toxic system (and how toxicity is not always obvious for what it is until it's too late), but also how people can be wrong, and still mean well and genuinely not realize what kind of pain they may or may not have inflicted, etc. A movie that translates the toxic family drama into a palpable, beautiful metaphor of taking accountability and atonement, beginning the healing process and moving forward. It is a film that is designed to spark conversations about the importance of boundaries, mental health, and toxic positivity---
People with zero critical thinking skills: "Abuela is OBVIOUSLY a villain!!!!"
Me: internally screaming 🙃🙃🙃
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kinda crazy how a character will literally take over my body and write the most wonderfully insane things I've ever read. Like you mean to tell me that I came up with this plot point or wrote this beautiful line? No, that was X who literally ripped my pen away and told me what was going to happen.
blackout writing is the best, a surprise every time! i love writing sometimes.
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Sometimes the prank where kids knock on your door and run away becomes your whole life
people come, breaking all these walls, removing all these armours and telling you that you are the sweetest thing, a blessing in disguise, only to leave you like a curse
all people do is disappear and all I do is repent
I have scars in places I did not hurt, I have memories with people who forgot me too soon, and I have a life that I clearly do not want. I have a heart that beats no matter how hard it breaks. I am alive and that is my regret today
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i am severely hyperfixating on my characters and their stories. so if i made a sideblog where i could post about them would any of y'all be interested in that content?
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