#also to the anon who asked me to expand on the barb and tommy compare/contrast thoughts a million years ago

[peter-pantomime]

3, 7, 8, 19 (and 20 if you’re feeling it!) for the ST ask 🥰

3. Favorite scene in the entire series?

It's a tie between Steve bursting into Jonathan's house and Dustin commandeering Steve into helping with Dart, both moments I love for the same reason. My faaaavorite thing in genre fiction is when something happens that completely bucks the conventions and expectations of the genre, and it really feels to me that Steve bursts through the script he was supposed to a part of at the end of s1 into a completely new story, and that kind of transformative self-authorship just makes me giddy. Likewise, at the beginning of s1, you would never expect Steve and Dustin to be the greatest team-up of the show, and Dustin shouting to Steve to come join him similarly feels like Dustin looking across the margins of the page he's on and going uh, yeah, I'm yoinking this guy into the story. I just LOVE it.

7. Favorite couple? (canon or non-canon)

Steddie, obviously. I loooooove that they're both such classic character archetypes on their own and how interestingly they play with the standards of those archetypes, and then when you put them in conversation with each other, all those character elements just play so WELL off each other. I love that the little we have of them to work with is SO powerful, and while of course I would have enjoyed more canon material to play with, I also deeply love that there isn't a lot of constraint from canon and how much freedom and invention that necessitates in fandom works.

8. Favorite weapon/power?

I mean, it's obviously the nail bat, right? Like is there even another choice? (I'm also biased because I made my own for a cosplay and it turned out SO well lol, so that's definitely a part of it. But also its just SO iconic, of course it's the nail bat).

19. Favorite minor character?

listen i'm about to go info-dump all my wayne headcanons in your inbox so thats the ONLY REASON im not sharing them all here because i LOVE HIM, but for these purposes I'm gonna go with Tommy Hagan. I think he provides such a fun chance to explore obsession, jealousy, possessiveness, power fantasies, and toxicity in just a dirty, delicious way, I'm just fascinated by it. It's a character archetype I think of as the Mrs. Danvers, and I feel like that character's relationship with a main character often provides the most fascinating depth and contrast to other relationships in the MCs life. I put Izzy Hands from OFMD and Kavinsky from the Raven Cycle in this category - they all have that sublimated/gothic/noir/Celluloid Closet queer(coding) flavor to them that's just riveting to chew on.

20. Something that you really want to happen in season 5?

I think the psychic energy/ghosts/souls/whatever of the UD's victims (esp Eddie) should be trapped in a dungeon, and the smoke monster/mind flayer should form into a dragon, please and thank you

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#also to the anon who asked me to expand on the barb and tommy compare/contrast thoughts a million years ago #please know i think about you every day #and just havent had time to write the 20 page essay i want on the topic lol #ask meme #stranger things