#barb holland

[sweepy-stringbean]

Nancy & Barb Sadness

reference: X - "how to talk to short people"

#nancy wheeler #nancy wheeler fanart #barb holland #barb holland fanart #nancy and barb feels #the best I can offer today...I could NOT get into any art groove I felt about #stranger things #stranger things fanart #my sketeches #i choose sadness

[hellfire--cult]

excuse me?

Duffer brothers?

what does this mean?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

#bringbackbarb #barbara holland #stranger things #stranger things fandom #barb holland #barb strangerthings #what is this? whats going on? #Youtube

[musicalchaos07]

brb going feral from the implications

#HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SOMEONE HAUNT THE NARRATIVE LIKE BARB HOLLAND??? #y'all see it right??? like I'm not reaching right?? like this feels so incredibly intentional #everyone pray for our final girl tbh because this is sooo #this outfit is going to be what nancy goes to the upside down in mark my words #they're insane for this #stranger things #st 5 #st parallels #nancy wheeler #barb holland #stranger things 5 #you know the stick figure guy bouncing off the walls image me rn

[stevesbipanic]

@steddiemicrofic prompt: edge, WC: 509, rating: T

Eddie arrived home to a quiet house, which wasn't completely unusual for the Harrington home to be quiet but usually Eddie found his boyfriend moving around the kitchen making dinner, softly singing along to the radio.

"Steve?" He called out but was met with more silence. Strange, but Steve could be up in bed, maybe he had a migraine. Eddie checked quickly upstairs but found their bed cold and empty too. He'd seen Steve's car in the driveway so he hadn't left, and Robin didn't have her licence yet so she couldn't have picked him up, plus he'd have left a note.

Eddie went back downstairs checking the loving room hoping maybe Steve had just fallen asleep on the couch. Still, he was nowhere to be found. He went back to the kitchen ready to start calling around hoping maybe Steve was just visiting someone and forgot to leave a note. He was halfway through dialling the Hendersons when a shadow in the backyard caught his eye.

"Oh sweetheart," he mumbled to himself as he hung up the phone. Eddie grabbed a blanket off the couch and opened to sliding door to the back deck. Steve didn't flinch at the sound, eyes staying ahead. Sighing, Eddie wrapped the blanket around Steve's shoulders and joined him sitting at the edge of the pool.

The two boys sat silent for a few moments, Eddie knew better to just wait for Steve to talk, he'd made his presence known and that's what Steve needed right now. He wouldn't always talk, sometimes choosing to simply sit before they went back inside and curled up in bed. Sometimes Steve wanted touch, sometimes he'd just want to know Eddie was there.

Eventually, after what seemed like an eternity, Steve spoke. "It's been five years and I can't look at this pool and not see her." Eddie knew who they were talking about, after all only one girl had drowned in this pool. "She should be at college with, Nance, she should get to have a grave with a body in it, she should be here instead of," Steve choked out a sob instead of finishing that thought. Even though it ripped Eddie's heart to shreds, and wanted nothing more than to tell Steve he's loved and that it's not his fault, he knew Steve didn't want that, he'd said those words a million times before, Steve knew so Eddie waited.

Steve tilted his body until he lent against Eddie's side and Eddie let out a breathe as he was finally allowed to comfort his boy, wrapping his arms around him and holding him tight. He sat there with Steve crying softly in his arms until they slowed to a stop, it was time for bed.

Eddie took his hand leading him back into the house and upstairs, curling him into his chest and reminding him he was there, that he'd always be there.

"I think it's time to move, Steve."

"Do you think she'd forgive me?"

"I know she already has," and that was enough.

#another month another microfic #stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #barb holland #past trauma #grief #dealing with grief #letting go of the past

[goonflower]

nancy wheeler textposts (except they get progressively sadder)

#stranger things #nancy wheeler #character text posts #nancy wheeler core #karen wheeler #barb holland #eldest daughter #nancy and barb #ronance #< target audience #guncy #shes so real

[rusirius967]

The fact that Nancy will never know that Barb's last word was Nancy.

#Nancy Wheeler #Steve harrington #Robin buckley #ronance #byler #platonic stobin #stranger things #stranger things 4 #Nancy Wheeler's bitch era #jonathan byers #mike wheeler #eleven hopper #Maya hawke #natalia dyer #joe keery #finn wolfhard #millie bobby brown #barb holland #barbara holland

[therainscene]

I think I might have figured out what the Mind Flayer really is.

This theory has been percolating in my brain for a while now; it hasn't really finished baking yet but I wanted to get the gist of it down before The First Shadow debuts.

Let’s begin at the Hawkins National Lab, 6th November 1983. For the second time in her young life, El faces terrifying and deeply traumatic circumstances which cause her powers to lash out and rip a gash in the fabric of reality.

Meanwhile, across town, Will is doing what every queer 12 year-old has done and finds an excuse to spend an extra moment alone with his crush.

His little gay heart is as aflutter as the garage lights.

(Strange, that. The lights, I mean -- considering that he's on the other side of town from the lab. Do you suppose the Demogorgon trekked all the way to Mike's house and quietly followed him home again?)

Will heads home, lost in thought as he cycles past the lab. Is he thinking about how sweet his new X-Men #134 is gonna be? Or is he thinking about something even sweeter? The lights flutter again.

And something in front of him notices.

Will has always been noticeable: his clothes, his mannerisms, his interests -- they've always attracted the attentions of bullies. Now something new -- or maybe something that was always there and is only now making itself known -- has attracted the attentions of a monster.

He runs home, he calls for help, but he's alone, there's no escape. He races to the shed and loads a gun like his father taught him -- but it's not in his nature to be violent. He freezes, petrified.

The lights surge as his terror wrestles control of his powers and uses them to puncture an escape route in the fabric of reality.

Why were we so quick to believe that the Demogorgon -- a minion of the guy whose whole thing is his inability to open gates -- was able to open its own temporary portals in S1 and then never again?

Will could plausibly have been responsible for every temporary portal in S1: he’s at the Byers house when the Demogorgon pushes through its walls; he's on the run to Castle Byers when Nancy stumbles across that portal in the woods; and he's plugged in to one of Vecna's vines during the finale -- something we see Vecna plug himself into when he remotely opens gates in S4.

There’s one exception though.

Barb likely slipped through a gate in Steve's pool, but how could Will have opened that one when he was in his bedroom at the time, talking to his mother through the lights?

Let me ask you this: isn't it interesting that of all the injuries Barb could have obtained in her passage to the Upside Down, she got a nosebleed?

I think powers are more common than we’ve been led to believe, and gates are a last-ditch self-defense mechanism for anyone with powers.

This is why the four curse victims’ deaths opened a gate: Vecna pushed them to their breaking point to artificially trigger the self-defense response. Those headaches and nosebleeds weren't caused by Vecna directly, but by their own powers acting up as they inched towards oblivion.

[Shoutout to @givehimthemedicine's underrated powers and blood theory for the idea of Vecna's Curse being the overcharging of his victims' own powers.]

It was already pretty obvious that Vecna's Curse is a metaphor for suicide, and this theory reinforces it: every kid who gets targeted by the horrors of Hawkins for being "different" tries to find some way to escape.

Willel's misfortune is that their powers are considerably more easily manifested than the average person's. Byler tells the story of visible vs invisible queerness, but that's just a reflection of the larger theme at play in the show: the visible and invisible ways kids are othered and abused.

Max's trauma was a quiet thing that came from within and festered until it was almost too late to save her... but Willel's trauma manifests as a giant monster that openly hunts them down.

And I'm being literal when I say the Mind Flayer is a manifestation of their trauma.

We know that Vecna fashioned the Mind Flayer from a cloud of black particles he found in the Upside Down, but where did that cloud come from? The Upside Down is a mysterious enough place that it's easy to assume the Shadow is native to that realm... but what if it isn't?

The Mind Flayer is heavily associated with repression -- Will gradually lost his memories while he was possessed, and El lost her powers when the sliver of Flesh Flayer wormed its way into her leg.

But Will has mysteriously been without powers ever since leaving the Upside Down, and we've seen El lose memories too: her memories of surviving the lab massacre, in which she didn't simply escape by opening up a gate, but by disintegrating her attacker into black particles.

The Mind Flayer doesn't cause repression -- it is repression.

There must have been countless generations worth of traumatized children who took the extra step El did and sent their abusers -- or at least their memories of abuse -- into that hidden realm beyond the gate.

(There's also the possibility that Mr. Time-is-Just-a-Social-Construct is stuck in a time loop of some sort -- maybe the massacre has repeated hundreds of times, and Dimension X is a timeless graveyard of El's attempts to repress her trauma. This would explain why Henry seems to have both disintegrated and survived: we were watching at least two different iterations of the massacre all along.)

Whichever way you slice it, it's a perfect fit: the tool Vecna uses to perpetuate the cycle of abuse isn't some bizarro alien from an alternate dimension, but a direct consequence of the cycle itself.

The Mind Flayer tells us that escape alone doesn't work as a long-term solution: it might help you survive the initial abuse, but if you don't address the effect it had on you...

...it will come back to wreck havok.

[Edit: Click here for post-TFS thoughts on this theory]

#stranger things #will has powers #willel #byler #will byers #el hopper #max mayfield #barb holland #henry creel #mind flayer #analysis

[deancaslover]

Missing them hours

#nancy wheeler #barb holland #stranger things #nancy x barb

[netflixnormalthings]

barb literally died with a bloody hand... have we considered her for kas the bloody handed. a reanimated corpse came back wrong even though she has been a presence in the narrative this whole time. here this time to haunt nancy physically, to have vecna twist her words into saying this is what you did to me

#in which i talk abt things #bancy #barbara holland #barb holland #also thinking of the imagery of holding hands with someone whose hand is bleeding. hm

[darcylightninglewis]

@pscentral event 19 — music (noah kahan's the view between villiages)

#strangerthingsedit #stedit #tvstrangerthings #stranger things #dustin henderson #nancy wheeler #barb holland #billy hargrove #joyce wheeler #bob newby #max mayfield #eddie munson #tusermaddy #usermaria #userdorksinlove #userrobin #usermicu #tvedit #dailystrangerthings #* #i was sad so all you have to be sad #byyyyyyyeee #grief #noah kahan #noah kahan lyrics #usefgif #500

[jackiietaylor]

And you might never come back home, and I may never sleep at night

A HOUSE IN NEBRASKA by Ethel Cain merry christmas bru 🎄@fadeintoyou1993

#userbru #nancywheeleredit #stranger things #strangerthingsedit #nancy wheeler #nancy x barb #barb holland #linds.gif

[wheelerharrington]

season 1 // season 4

#stancy #strangerthingsedit #stedit #stancyedit #steve x nancy #steve harrington #barb holland #s1 #s4 #gifs #edits #by nat #strangersource #strangerthingsdaily #strangerthingsedits #stranger things #dailystrangerthings

[lucassinclaer]

STRANGER THINGS LADIES APPRECIATION WEEK: DAY 7 FREE THEME

Minor characters are brief flickers of light that quickly go extinguished, but shine very brightly when they’re on screen.

#dailystrangerthings #strangerthingsedits #femalescharacters #stladies #stladiesweek #strangerthingsedit #tuserrae #sue sinclair #barb holland #barbara holland #florence #vickie stranger things #becky ives #terry ives #carol perkins #chrissy cunningham #kali prasad #claudia henderson #heather holloway #holly wheeler #i rly tried to do something for each lady for this week (i will get you with an extra set nancy i promise) #and i rewatched s1 and 2 and these women in particular who serve as such an enhancement to the world #just Get Me #*mine #*gifs #*stladiesweek

[xxtinymiseryxx]

#stranger things #eddie munson #steve harrington #robin buckley #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #billy hargrove #argyle #barb holland #chrissy cunningham #Vickie Chandigarh #eden bingham #henry/vecna/one #teens of stranger things

[stevesbipanic]

I like to think that Nancy let her natural curls come through after Barb died because Barb was the only friend she ever let see them. Barb would always tell her how pretty her curls were but her mother always said they looked untidy so she straightened it. She liked when Barb called her pretty, she never told anyone that either. Now Barb is gone but Nancy still feels her love as she makes sure her curls are healthy and bright. Nancy would never see Barb again but every time she looked in the mirror she'd still hear her say how pretty she looked. Nancy just wishes she had told Barb she thought she was pretty too.

#idc that it would orobs be a perm im a natural curly hair nancy truther #stranger things #nancy wheeler #barb holland #headcanons #st headcanons #nancy x barb #bancy #sapphic nancy wheeler

[goonflower]

i hate hate hate how the view of general audiences is that nancy wheeler doesn't care about barb and that her entire character arc boils down to a love triangle and guns. like its just such a fundmental misunderstanding of her character and YET its the most common view of nancy. like pretty much all the questions natalia dyer gets are 'steve or jonathan' bc everyone is CONVINCED that the love triangle is the most important part of nancy's character like are you kidding me? tell me you watched the show with your eyes closed without telling me you watched the show with your eyes closed. it just PISSES ME OFFF

#stranger things #nancy wheeler #natalia dyer #anti love triangle #barb holland #rant #ronance #< target audience #< bc yall get it