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shifthours · 2 years

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OK why I think byler would help Mike's character let's go

SO we all know Mike was a great friend (tho a bit of a hothead) in s1 and s2 but then suddenly in s3 and s4 he's kind of an asshole (conviently when he starts dating el)

So right there it's alr a clear connection that milkvan isn't good 4 him bcs?? A relationship isn't healthy if u feel the need 2 detach from all your friends and give nobody else attention except each other...

BUT ANYWAYD I think byler s5 would change SO MANY THINGS 4 mike LIKE 1. HES WELL KNOWN 2 BE NOT THAT GOOD AT FIGHTING RIGHT okay well hear me out will is good at fighting and they have a moment where he teaches him (kind of like that jancy moment where Jon and nancy swapped the gun and bat 2 find out which 1 was better 4 them) and WE KNOW that will brings the bravery out of him (ex he litr goes 2 all means 2 save will despite knowing there's monsters and ppl dying and things) a bravery that was sort of snuffed out in the fact that Mike didn't really have 2 do anything after they found el, he just kind of was like 🤯 el use ur powers and she did so he doesn't rly have 2 do any of that anymore BUT WITH ELEVEN GROWING INTO INDEPENDENCE I think it wld be so nice 2 see a scene of him also learning 2 take care of himself and I think the best one 2 teach him that wld be will (showing him how 2 load a gun nd aim nd shit)

2. He wld finally be able 2 open up abt how he was feeling more often

In the show we've seen like.MANY many times that Mike opens up 2 will more often and more genuinely than he does 2 any1 else (including el)

If byler ends up being real I think it wld be so much more healthy for Mike bcs he would be lying all the time which is like the main msg of their group (friends don't lie!!!!)

3. Again I think we would get better insight 2 mike as a person for the first time since s2, his thoguhts his wants, needs, motivations, everything. Again when has he ever had a truly honest dialogue with eleven about how he feels (and don't tell me the stupid superhero speech bcs that was trash), he never has not really. He never tells el the complexities of his emotions but rather dumbs it down 2 😟 sowwy I was angy and that's it

But with will they really deeply talk abt things and admit things 2 each other that they don't talk 2 any1 else abt and having a connection like that be one of the main focuses in the show wld totally let us see into mikes thoughts and therefore him as a character so much better

4. HE CLD INTERACT W HIS FRIENDS IN A NORMAL WAY AGAIN one thing that irked me so bad w milkvan is they are insanely clingy 2 thr point of being unhealthy

Even though Mike and will have one or two moments in s4, this like?? Unhealthy obsessed attitude is still present (in mike at least, el seems 2 be getting over it), all he talks abt is el, he hardly even mentions anyone else at all despite seeing will for the first time in a year (u think he wld talk abt the party more?? b4 el got kidnapped I mean)

BUT ANYWASY yeah s3 was also rly bad w that where he wld just abandon his friends 4 her ALL THE TIME and there's a point where like.you really aren't a good friend if all u do is ditch them 24/7 and they all call him out 4 it.

BUT when el's out of the picture he seems to have no problem hanging out w the party (ex. When hopper told mike 2 stay away from el or else, and mike immediately starting hanging out w lucas and will again?? Yeah)

so I think byler wld make him a better friend as well

OK I think that is all the points I wanted 2 hit I feel like I'm missing one but ill just come back later and add on if I rmbr 😟??? BUT ANAYWAYS YEAH byler real

#st4 #stranger things 4 #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #st5

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evakuality · 3 years

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Druck s5, episode 8 - belated thoughts

Well, poor Nora is really struggling with this whole business of trying to act like everything’s fine, isn’t she? And Josh. I mean, he’s trying to help but he’s just a young kid so his thoughts are obviously ‘this helps me so it will help her too’ rather than what she actually needs. It’s good that he knows there’s stuff going on with her, but this attempt to help her is so awkward and cringey. It’s a real shame the doctor didn’t help her because now she has some odd things in her head about what’s wrong and thinks that sheer will and acting the way she always has will help her. But it’s obvious that it’s getting worse and that she’s not feeling well at all.

I do still really love all these visually metaphoric ways of showing how disconnected and out of focus Nora is. We’ve stopped getting as much ‘boxed in’ Nora and started getting a lot more of these ‘behind glass/foggy/out of focus shots. Even when it’s not the ones designed to show her in the middle of the episodes, there’s still this ever-present sense of how this is. Even when she’s ‘okay’ she’s really really not okay. And I guess that’s the point of this clip - that she wants to connect but can’t. Even in a time when things should be feeling ‘normal’ for her, she’s incapable of breaking out of the way she feels. And it’s actually quite chilling to see the warm, almost approving motherly look Zoe gives her when she asks to drink. Zoe!! I know you’re also a young kid, but this is Nora! She’s been so adamant about not drinking that you should perhaps try to find out why she’s changing her tune here. This isn’t good! This is no way to try to feel something again, and the way she knocked that back is really concerning.

‘I wasn’t focused enough’ - interesting way to tell the truth while obfuscating what she really means. Literally she wasn’t focused/concentrating. But of course the girls will not get the real meaning out of this. I understand Ava here, too. I haven’t seen any social media but I assume since she knows about the drinking and hanging out with Kieu My that it was posted somewhere. So of course it looks bad. Nora is trying very hard to keep herself together but she’s trying in all sorts of destructive ways. Again, like Zoe, there should perhaps be some questions about WHY Nora has suddenly changed her tune. But this anger is so understandable given the way Nora has been acting with them vs what was (presumably) put on social media. All these people (Josh, Zoe, Fatou, Mailin and Ava) have noticed that things aren’t quite normal with Nora but none of them has hit quite onto what’s really happening. Which makes sense. Nora is very practised at putting on a face and she is still trying very hard to do so here.

This whole little series of shots while they’re walking is really interesting. @sun-undone said in her series of videos about s3 (which you should all definitely watch!) that when Matteo and Sara were shown walking together the shots were framed in a way to cut Sara out of the frame often, showing the disconnect between the two of them. And we have the same thing here, though for a different reason. Nora feels disconnected and aloof from Josh and so when they’re walking he’s trying to make these connections right down to the things he’s saying (that class is bad without her, effectively that he’s finding space for her in his life) and she’s just ... cut off from it. Literally in most parts of this. He’s cut off or even out of shot for a lot of this walk. She’s still really in denial about all this, isn’t she? Josh is concerned enough to look up therapists for her to try to help her make sense of it all, and keeps trying to make those connections and she just pulls right back. And I get that it’s really tough for her rn, but this isolation while she tries to hold herself together while saying she doesn’t need therapy is quite difficult. The way he pushes to try to talk to her is well intentioned but it obviously pushes her too far (tbh I think she was looking for an excuse), but what’s really interesting is how she moves from ‘I don’t feel anything’ (the literal truth) to ‘I don’t feel anything for you’ (also the truth but a very very small part of it, and designed to push him away so she can go back to denial)

And we go straight back to the drinking (and to wearing makeup, showing a ‘face’ that once again isn’t her real one). Zoe starts off enabling Nora’s drinking with the way she slides right along with the ‘this isn’t as disgusting as I always thought’ comments, but even Zoe has noticed that things aren’t quite where they should be with Nora and asks her about it. But interestingly, she knows when Kiki calls that Nora drinking will set Kiki off so she tries to lie about it. Of course, Nora seems to be already drunk and so she’s not hiding it super well. But again we see that for this group, lying about what’s going on is such second nature that they all fall into it. But Nora’s feelings here are quite interesting - she quite literally wants to be told that the things she’s feeling (having feelings one minutes, none the next) is normal because she doesn’t want to have to go to therapy. I don’t know for sure, but I suspect there’s some feelings there around becoming just like her mother and trying hard to avoid that. But watching this slow motion train wreck with Fatou is super hard. Nora’s so hyper and not herself and she’s not used to drinking so she’s just spilling everything and really just burning some bridges hardcore for herself. I guess at least Zoe has finally properly woken up to the fact that this is reallllly not good and Nora is realllly not doing so well. That whole last bit is really hard to watch, but at least Zoe found her and they definitely all know there’s something wrong now. But it’s super hard to see her say she’s just like her mother when she’[s tried so hard for so long not to be. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - this family dynamic is probably the most interesting part of this season for me. I’m interested to see where things go from here.

#for the anon who wanted to see some more thoughts #but I'm not going to put it in the tag #not that they ever showed up anayway

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speedygal · 7 years

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You know that moment when you are writing a fic as a reward for completing and writing another fanfiction but it is going so slow but getting so long and it's gradually getting the point but you intend to give it long ass scenes that tidy up everything and anything. Getting to the point is difficult. Doing it right, anayway.

And it's annoying because WHEN AM I GOING TO GET TO THIS?

I MUST GET TO THE POINT THAT IS STATED IN THE TITLE SOMEWHAT R MAYBE I DON'T KNOW. GRRR. THIS IS A REWARD AND I LIKE IT AND IT'S. . . DIFFERENT. HAS A DIFFERENT FLAIR TO IT. like it has a original fic kind of feel. And making up a civilization to go with the one chaptered fic that's probably going to be somehwere about 10k to 15k if this precision of writing goes slow? AND GETTING TO THE POINT. LIKE DEAR PRIMUS, YOU COULD BE WRITING A NEW KIND OF CLICHE BUT IT'S GOOD AND ITS ORIGINAL AND IT'S NEW AND IT COULD BE A PRECEDENT FOR ANY PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO WANTS TO WRITE THAT KIND OF FIC. AND I HAVE TO WRITE SCENES ON THE WHIM BY WRITING THEM IN THE SEARCH ENGINE SO I DON'T GET SO PICKY AT IT IN THE WHITE BOX MODE AND THINK ITS TOO SHORT. I GET ALL THAT I NEED OUT RIGHT THERE AND THEN, JUST LIKE I AM DOING IT RIGHT NOW IN THE SEARCH ENGINE, AND IT'S--OH MY PRIMUS, I LOVE YOU.GET TO THE POINT! I WANT TO FINISH YOU. THIS WAS INTEDED TO BE SHORT BUT IT'S ESCAPED THE POINT. PERHAPS IT IS STILL SHORT SINCE IT IS NOT GOING TO BE 50K. . . . WHICH I HOPE IT IS NOT GOING TO BE. I HOPE. I REALLY DO.

URGGGH.

GET. TO. THE POINT. WILL I EVER GET TO IT. EVENTUALLY YES.

AND I HAVE TO TAKE SHORT BREAKS BY GOING TO TUMBLR AND BROWSING FOR ANYTHING NEW TO DSTRACT ME BUT I GET IT CHOPPED DOWN 1K BY 1K, A DAY A DAY.. AND IT WILL BE COMPLETED THIS MONTH.

Oh. the reward you ask?

It's 'will the real Leonard McCoy please stand up?'

. It's a reunion spones prime fic.

For completing what ails you makes you stronger.

I have to show how they get reunited together.

I have to.

The chain of events that leads to their moment.

I HAVE TO SHOW THE SEQUWNCE OF EVENTS/

DAMN IT

I CAN’T BELIEVE I AM DOING THIS TO MYSELF.

*Headdesk*

#being a writer #writing

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pervasivethrenody · 5 years

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McShep Sims 3: PROUDLY PRO-UNICORN

I love that the game can still surprise me. Look, it’s a protest, I guess? What are we protesting?

Unicorns, apparently.

So...does that mean John isn’t welcome here? :(

(You can find and tame and ride unicorns in this game. I am absolutely getting him one.)

Unicorns, votive candles, or sparkly curtains? ¿Por qué no los tres??

Now is a good time to mention I came across a Reddit post yesterday briefly discussing how the producers had considered making John Teyla’s biological babydaddy--

ANAYWAY, it was a post by an official show producer whom I don’t feel it’s necessary or appropriate to name. And one of the replies was something like, yeah, that would have been a bad decision! The background sexual tension was just so much more interesting!

Girl, let me tell you a thing: John Sheppard had more sexual tension with Todd the Wraith than with all of the women he ever laid eyes on. He really, truly, objectively did.

Give a think on that, will you?

It is to laugh. Heartily

“Please clap.”

...

Just when I thought the fun was over: Bonus round! More agitators show up.

This whole thing is shamelessly OOC because I have the feeling Rodney thinks picket protests are a well-meaning but complete waste of time. But I don’t care. Entertainment has arrived in my pathetic, boring life, and that’s all that matters right now.

AND THIS HAPPENED.