#mention of hollis

[chaiichait]

Jude in TCP was something else. Imagine poisoning yourself on the daily, still doing physically challenging missions while balancing the mental load of being bullied and harboring a secret life, sleep depriving yourself and STILL attending daily family dinners and classes.

#girl really had no life #no wonder she passed out everytime her head hit something #i havent even mentioned the homework #or the taryn business #AND LOCKE #SHE KINDA HAD A FULL TIME BF AT THE TIME :/// #I HAVENT EVEN MENTIONED MADOC'S STRATEGY AND SWORD LESSONS #the folk of the air #tfota #jude #jude duarte #the cruel prince #cardan greenbriar #cardan #the wicked king #jurdan #holly blacj #holly black #queen of nothing #the queen of nothing

[conflictofthemind]

Thoughts on "Escape from Camazotz"

Oppressive Suburbia, Conformity, and Season 5 Themes

I've long thought that a major focus of Season 5 will be the contrast between the families of The Wheelers and The Byers, and exploring how non-traditional family environments can be freeing vs the oppressive structure of the nuclear family.

In a Wrinkle In Time, Camazotz is a planet controlled by the big bad of the book, the "IT", who forces the citizens into a conformity that resembles American suburbia. All of the houses the same, the citizens the same, doing the same things at the same time without individual identity. Without anything different. Different means a lot of things, but with Stranger Things dropping different in reference to Will's identity and the presumable themes of this season, it will heavily codify as queerness and how it threatens the cisheterosexual family model.

Henry was raised in the 1950s, a decade still revered by conservatives for it's traditional family dynamics that supposedly were the peak of culture and happiness for all. That was all a lie, of course, and Henry knew so as he shows to Nancy and Eleven during his monologue. The second most conservative decade aside from the 1950s in American society is widely considered to be the 1980s.

The Creels will serve in parallel to The Wheelers; the worst example of what they could become and the damage that this type of family could do to a child that is different in any way. Notice how Vecna selectively shows Nancy visions of The Wheelers dying, but not anyone else she may consider family or friends (like Jonathan).

That is; unless they change their ways and come together as a healthy functioning family facing their traumas, The Wheelers will be toast.

Karen has been moved up to a main character role this season. Ted's actor says the father starts to show up more for Holly (hold that) and realizes he wants to act differently. Holly has been recast. Finn has said Mike goes on a much more personal journey this season, and steps up as a leader.

Oh, also: the catalyst for all of this is that Holly goes missing. The contrast will help show how the Byers (including El and Hopper here) were able to pull together and help solve Will's disappearance, versus how the Wheelers as a closed off nuclear family grapple with Holly's vanishing.

Each of the Byers is in some kind of a non-1950s conformist relationship, but particularly Will (not in one now but we all know he will be). I think El might represent, after she breaks up with Mike, the fear of the unmarried woman being satisfied without a husband. The above shot really emphasizes my point.

I predict that Will will end up coming out to his family rather early on, and we will see all of them immediately accept him with little surprise or push-back. Will is a visible gay man who comes from an open minded non traditional family (divorced, non-married, adoptive) that is willing to have honest conversations.

But this theme will place the most focus on the Wheelers. Mike is the main character of said family and this will particularly focus on his arc, and his acceptance of his queerness in the midst of suburban conformity.

He is not visible, he comes from a Reagan-supporting family who don't communicate with each other. He is not particularly close with his family like Will is. He pushes his feelings down and tries his damn hardest to be normal despite it all. His trauma hasn't really been addressed at all. He is falling back into his usual habits - the one thing he dared to do different (grow his hair long) has gone back to how it was.

It's not all doom and gloom though. This season above all will be a redemption arc of the American nuclear family, how they choose to escape their conformity and learn to be there for each other, thus overpowering Vecna. Not that the Wheelers are going to end this personally.

"Great, more hysteria. Just what we need". "It's the news, now indistinguishable from the tabloids".

#stranger things #mike wheeler #the wheelers #the byers family #byler #will byers #st5 speculation #henry creel #the specificity of this title alone and the themes gives me no doubt that these are all real #i also think this is the episode where byler is canonized and where mike finally escapes conformity #holly wheeler #ted wheeler #karen wheeler #i didnt really mention nancy at all sorry girl #if youre reading this PLEASE search up my username on youtube you will find it SO RELEVANT

[af-answers]

I think that Artemis II and Butler will find a lot of cool rocks on mars :)

Artemis: Yes, many "cool rocks." Alloys and minerals, exotic elements left behind by asteroids-- yes, many years of scientific discoveries to uncover here.

Butler: To uncover on Earth. On Earth, right, Artemis

Artemis: *waves him off distractedly*

Butler: Off the top of my head? Trees, natural sunlight, rivers, porcelain teapots, Juliet, gravity....

Artemis: Open flames. Oh, and my brothers. Holly too, of course, though she calls so often it's hard to miss her.

Butler: Tell her that, I'm sure the calls will stop.

Artemis: .... No.

#artemis fowl #domovoi butler #in space #holly short mention #juliet butler mention

[babycharmander]

[ID: The "missing the point" meme. On the left is a screenshot from the end of Psychonauts 2, showing a closeup of Raz saying "Big deal. Everyone's got something like you." On the right is a person staring at the screenshot and saying, "WOW!! Raz can turn into Maligula!" An arrow pointing from the screenshot and over the person's head reads "Everyone has the capacity to commit atrocities." /end ID]

#razputin aquato #psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts 2 spoilers #I mean folks can have their fun with the whole 'razigula' thing but I think it's largely missing the point #it's not that all psychics have a superpowered evil form #it's that everyone has the capacity to commit truly heinous acts #as multiple characters have done #yes Lucy turned into Maligula and murdered tons of people #but Ford also messed with her and Augustus's minds #Raz messed with Hollis's mind #Hollis messed with Dr. Potts's mind #Oleander kidnapped children and hypnotized Boyd and tried to kill Loboto #there's so many examples you can pull from--none of the characters I mentioned are 'evil' people #but they committed horrific acts #I'm not saying to not make razigula AUs or whatever it is you want to do #just please don't miss the big point the game's trying to make here because it's so so SO important

[viivdle]

I stand before Cardan, and he looks mortifying in his beauty. He carelessly slumps down on the sofa in his chambers, blissfully unaware of my anxiety. Or, worse, blissfully aware.

“I ought to be mad at you,” he says, and I almost flinch at the sound.

“As I said, I didn’t kill my husband, Your Majesty,” my voice shakes, and I hold onto the hope he will think I am holding back tears.

“Yes, that would be correct. Your husband is sitting in front of you, well and alive. Is he not?”

viivdle productive era??

my ~1900w jurdan fanfic heaven and hell were words to me is out now!!

i tried something different with this one, hopefully it was a good something different

this fic is for @annamatix who i have the pleasure to call my friend. i hope this is just the right amount of "romancy"

happy ramadan<33

#if anyone is curious i will try to explain in the tags about what is and isn't in the fic #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #jurdan #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the folk of the air #tfota #holly black #jurdan fanfic #jurdan fic #ao3 writer #ao3 fic #holly blacj #the court of shadows #<3 #tfota fanfic #short story #no kissing #no direct curse words #there is some violence (mention of her mother's death) #however not in great detail #anna said these are the lines she won't cross #however i just want to state it again for others who may have other boundaries #there is no kissing or anything of THAT matter

[starrynightsxo]

okay but HOW was Holly Black able to make a poem from Charlotte Mew, a poet from the 19th and 20th Century, work SO INCREDIBLY well in a story of faerie fiction???

#hats off to her #special mention to charlotte mew #rip #charlotte mew #poetry #the changeling #holly black #the cruel prince #books #bookish #booklr #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #tfota #cardan #jude #the folk of the air #the folk of air #jurdan #judecardan #jude x cardan #cardan x jude #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the stolen heir #stolen (🤭🤭) from the stolen heir #the prisoners throne #tsh #tpt #photo by me :)

[gay-for-zoya]

SIX OF CROWS SIX OF CROWS MENTIONED AHHH

#the reappearance of rachel price #i can't believe it was mentioned in the book omg #six of crows #holly jackson #leigh bardugo

[hisnamesdylan]

”You won’t stick around too long,sweetheart. Not when you find out what he’s really like.”

— Quill Kipps

Lucy: proceeds to not stick around because she did in fact find out what he’s really like (reckless with a death wish bound to get himself killed, especially if it means protecting her).

#lockwood and co #save lockwood and co #lucy carlyle #anthony lockwood #quill kipps #the hollow boy #spoilers #she comes back #but not before hurting me emotionally #she didn’t just leave lockwood #and george #and lockwood and co in general #she left me too #jonathan stroud #why #the creeping shadow #george cubbins #george karim #holly munro #lockwood & co #i have feelings about this #bestie you can’t protect someone by leaving #this hurt #tw mentions of death

[chaoscradle]

Totally wrote an essay in @booksandpaperss (hope it’s okay to tag you!) post and I wanted to make it into an actual post so here I am!

The Wheelers are so incredibly mischaracterized by a lot of people, to the point where sometimes it’s not even the same character anymore. The only exception is Holly, and that’s because we haven’t seen much of her.

I see Karen characterized mainly as a completely emotionally neglectful and dismissive mom who is fully conservative and very much traditional.

Karen isn’t a good mom, but we see her reach out to both Mike and Nancy in s1 and Nancy again in s3. In addition, yes, we see the Wheelers with a conservative sign on the lawn, but we do know that Karen isn’t fully traditional. She urges Nancy to follow the story in season 3 despite the misogyny, and she makes it very clear that that isn’t her line of thinking. She’s not the best parent, but she’s not an asshole either.

Ted is emotionally distant and definitely not a good father. He’s never shown to really connect with Mike or Nancy, instead we really only see them interact negatively with each other. This doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about his kids though- he’s shown to be asleep with Holly in season 3, and he does contribute to disciplining Mike and Nancy (although not well at all, he really only made things worse).

Nancy has two characterizations I see that sit wrong with me, the first being her as a prize to win and a slut, the second being heartless.

Nancy is very independent and doesn’t need a man in her life to function, and seeing her as a prize is incredibly sexist. As for being called a slut, she had sex with Steve because she thought that was what she was meant to do, and she cheated with Jonathan because she loved him and made the mistake of not waiting. The characters are flawed and make mistakes, it’s what makes them interesting and realistic. On top of that, many characters are forgiven for their mistakes, but Nancy is constantly being held to hers.

The second characterization I mentioned was heartless. She’s sometimes characterized as not caring about anyone else’s feelings at all, incredibly argumentative and void of any of Nancy’s real personality. Yes, Nancy is independent and a badass, but she cares for other people. She’s stubborn but also kind.

She’s more than The Girl In A Love Triangle, and she’s also more than The Girl With A Gun.

Mike is heavily misunderstood due to some not understanding his arc, as well as us not being able to see from his pov the past few seasons. He’s interpreted as a whiny, moody brat who doesn’t care about anyone except for El. He’s a shitty boyfriend too, for pretty much no reason other than his parents not really loving each other.

Mike is, in fact, a shitty boyfriend to El. He can’t say “I love you” to her face. He can’t even write it. Believe it or not, it’s because he doesn’t love her. He struggled with conformity and internalized homophobia, causing him to have repressed his feelings for Will and trying to force himself to love El instead.

Mike is kind of a whiny, moody brat, but so many people treat it as his only trait. They forget that he’s a leader, a planner, someone the Party looks to when they’re in trouble, etc. They’re far from his only traits. Mike also struggles with his mental health, and it’s something very overlooked by the GA. He canonly has depression and PTSD, and we see signs of it throughout all the seasons, even in season 1. A lot of his withdrawing behavior and acting out in season 2 and 4 is perceived as him being bratty and a bad friend, when in reality it’s his mental health. In season 3 when he was “written badly”, he was affected by his internalized homophobia and external pressures to be normal, causing him to spend most of his time kissing El.

Mike also cares about his friends. A lot. He fights every season for them, he’s been dubbed “The Heart”, he jumped off a cliff for one. Again, his mental health, internalized homophobia, and conformity caused him to struggle with himself and consequentially pull away from his friends and lash out at them.

#I have no idea if any of this makes sense #or if it’s organized absolutely awfully #really sorry if it is but I kinda just threw my thoughts onto my phone #stranger things #karen wheeler #ted wheeler #nancy wheeler #mike wheeler #byler #jancy #< both target audiences #anti stancy #anti mileven #anti milkvan #byler tumblr #holly wheeler #< shes mentioned like once

[my-life-a-reading-list]

-The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black

#who mentioned hyacinthe honey 😂 #the folk of the air #the prisoner's throne #spoilers #oak greenbriar #tiernan #hyacinth #holly black

[judesidepiece]

Idk what is going to happen in the Prisoner's Throne between Jurdan and Suren, but if they don't end up accepting her into their cute growing Duarte/Greenbriar found family, I think that would really be a shame because all things considered, Wren has so much to relate with both Jude ad Cardan on a personal level. Like they would vibe together, i just know it. They just need to give each other a chance :(

#wren relating with cardan's desire to be loved and not be alone anymore #and her relating with jude on wanting to belong and no longer be powerless #and their shared affection for oak ofc #AND NOT TO MENTION THAT FAMILY PORTRAIT WOULD EAT?? #tho that one quote from jude is making me second guess hmmmm #is oak going ot have to choose between his fam and wren I AM SO SCARED FOR THIS BOOK AND SO EXCITEDDD #jurdan #tfota #holly black #jude x cardan #htkoelths #qon #tcp #twk #queen of nothing #the stolen heir #the prisoner's throne

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

Season 5 is going to come along. Ted is going to nearly kill himself trying to save his family, Karen's going to fall for him all over again when she realizes he hasn't been holding her back. . .it's all on her and her own insecurities. . .that our worst enemy is ourselves. Neither one of them has to be a bad guy, just both of them realizing that neither one of them hadn't really tried. Cause really Ted hadn't done anything wrong except provide for the family and tried to deal with his autistic burnout. Karen and Ted are their own people. They're not Stancy or Jancy. They're just two people who married young and who just stopped trying. Talking to each other is two-way street, but they're both afraid because they don't want it to be over. I think if they both wanted to end it, they would have. I think Karen gets frustrated with Ted because she doesn't know how to communicate her feelings, and that's how she's similar with Nancy and Mike. Ted gets a lot more hate when it was Karen lusting after Billy and I think if it was the other way around, if Ted was lusting after a seventeen year old girl, you'd be frying his ass. No, instead of that, Karen gets called a girl boss or praised for it. I think I would like Karen a lot more if it wasn't for that little stain on her character.

#stranger things #ted wheeler #karen wheeler #nancy wheeler #mike wheeler #holly wheeler #brief mention of #stancy #jancy #the wheelers #rueleigh's thoughts #rueleigh rambles

[dantes-southeesimo]

~ B e t i l l a & H o l l y ~ [Rayman LOG 2023]

~ These two that I haven't posted here for some reason

Originally posted on my twitter!

#illustration #vector illustration #vector art #ibispaint edit #ibispaint art #rayman #rayman fanart #betilla #betilla the fairy #holly luya #art style #twitter mention #southeedraws #southeeworks

[petrenocka]

What kinds of star convergence is this?

#comments sya that the vid is already up on nebula and doesn't mention james but still holly hell the timing #philosophy tube #hbomberguy

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

i just read the original Carmilla novella and my three take aways are:

it literally cannot be overstated how explicitly sapphic it is straight up like it's not even subtext

shockingly the Carmilla series is an astoundingly accurate adaptation

more vampire novels should utilize the vampire rule that a vampire can only use names that are anagrams of their original name

#im.... losing my mind over these dykes #like its VERY SO SAPPHIC #they KISS #Camilla says they should get MARRIED #carmilla #Laura hollis #vampire #like it's way too good of an adaptation #down to like they mention Camilla has a cup of hot chocolate for breakfast and in the show she eats chocolate cereal

[archerons-arrow]

HOLLY. why the fuck are you listening to Rains of Castamere???? That song has CONNOTATIONS, HOLLY.

... Holly. Holly, what are you planning. *shakes computer monitor* Ma'am, I love you, but listen... nothing GOOD comes from scenes associated with this musical composition, okay. So... why don't we just pause the song--maybe DELETE IT from our playlist/library--and step away. Go for a lovely walk. Commune with nature. Remember that the readers are just as feral as the Fae and don't provoke them. Okay, the last item is negotiable.

I am begging you to not to whatever scene this is. The vibes are off.

Tell you what. Let's compromise. ... You do whatever you want--you just don't harm/kill/separate Cardan and/or Jude. You can still be dramatic. Oak and Suren can do... whatever it is that mess is. But let's not get carried away and go whole hog on the GoT/Castamere angle. So like, torture HALF of the main couples involved and leave everyone else unmaimed?

How are we feeling about that? ... HOLLY PLS.

#tfota #holly black #book of elfhame #the cruel prince #the stolen heir #i am triggered by this song #nothing good comes from its mention or presence #ifkyk #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #prince oak #queen suren #screaming crying throwing up #*pterodactyl screech of death*