#virtual strangers

[ffb6c1lover]

yes all the themes of all of us strangers but also "if you could hear me crying why didn't you come into my room" and "how come no one found me" coexisting and not in the way we think, like the way adam is implying that he would have done better, he would not have ignored the cries for help and actually done something, but in reality when it came to harry crying for help it barely even registered not because he didn't want to help but because he was too stuck in his own private bubble of pain to notice harry's

#there was so much stuff #and in the last scene where it is clear that adam is holding onto harry's memory and harry looks hazy until adam touches him #which virtually means that everytime adam holds that memory it's like the pain is new and fresh and right. there. #and when he's holding harry and harry is in the exact position he was when he died like AAAAAHHHHH #all of us strangers #🌙

[elowmojo]

- HAIR METAL BILLY-

#cyberpunk 2077 #billy hargrove #stranger things #vp #virtual photography #male v #au #hair metal #Glam Metal

[penny00dreadful]

Happy @subeddieweek everyone. Who doesn’t love a bit of manhandling?

#oops #nearly forgot to post this #too busy tending to my virtual crops #steddie #stranger things #eddie munson #steve harrington #steve x eddie #penny00dreadful #eddie x steve #steddie fanart #steve harrington fanart #eddie munson fanart #sub eddie week

[h-i-raeth]

Feels like there needs to be more fics where Corroded Coffin is successful but not fucking. Rockstar levels successful. Successful as in they're well known within their niche and not at all outside of it. Successful as in their early albums are coveted but you're not going to stumble onto them on any mainstream radio station. Successful as in they're doing enough shows on a fairly active circuit that they can quit their day jobs but they can't buy a house off of the profits.

#stranger things #eddie munson #corroded coffin #unfortunately I do not know enough about niche metal bands of the 80s or the minutiae of 'making it' as a moderately popular band #to write this fic #so I can't fill this need #but I do feel very strongly about it #is this opinion heavily influenced by being a fan of filk? : yes. Yes it is. #listen it's just. there are levels of success outside of 'virtually unknown (except by locals)' & 'mainstream celebrity'. y'know?

[chandralia]

absolutely obsessed with the class being set up in a VR simulation that temporarily erases their memory, and watching bkdk fall for each other in every scenario…

#like without fail they just gravitate towards one another #their spawn points could be halfway across this virtual world and they WILL STILL find each other #even if they’re strangers #like the class gets split into groups and the students/teachers outside watching are just in shock at how many times this keeps happening #and OKAY WHEN BKDK AREN’T IN THE SAME GROUP like one of them is a watcher #the one in the simulation STILL manages to vaguely bring up/reference the other somehow #even abstractly in passing conversation or mumbling just SOMETHING that has the watchers going: #’even with his memories erased he still thinks about someone that doesn’t exist in his world’ #bkdk brainrot #bkdk #dkbk #bakudeku #dekubaku #:’)

[perfectlyfamouscowboy]

RIP Eddie Munson, you would have loved Beat Saber 😭

#eddie munson #steve harrington #steddie #stranger things #imagine Steve getting Eddie it for Christmas and its all he wants to do #Steve comes home from work and Eddie is having his virtual enrichment time in his closure l

[bylrlve]

To add to yesterday’s observations about Will and how his feelings for Mike are being hammered home, there’s an insane sequence in the VR game - Chapter 4, the good stuff is from 50:00 onwards. To put it concisely: Vecna tauntingly asks Will how to get to each of his friends, then tries to get into each of their heads by targeting their weaknesses. He uses Dustin’s friendship insecurity, but Dustin ignores him because he’s watching TV lmao. He uses Lucas’s desire to succeed, and tries to tell him that his friends are holding him back. However, Lucas is on a drive-in movie date with Max. he uses Mike’s guilt over losing El at the end of s1, and Mike doesn’t even seem to register Vecna’s presence in his mind. Why? Bc he’s too busy playing D&D with the boys, trying to get his Nana impression on-point. Two dice are rolled, one red and one rainbow, and those visually wipe away the Vecna part.

Vecna then returns to taunting Will, saying awful things about how he’s alone, his friends hate him, he’s going to rip him apart. Will’s nose starts bleeding heavily. Mike? Mike springs into action, grabs Nancy’s old white shirt, and physically wipes the blood off, getting super close to Will. His actions and words contradict what Will is being told by Vecna in that moment

I want to note something I haven’t personally seen observed. In this play through, anyway, it goes Dustin, Lucas -> Mike. Before Lucas and Mike, Vecna asks mockingly how to get into their minds. The nosebleed happens right after he tries and fails to get to Mike. We’re then treated to a full 90 seconds of Mike getting right up in Will’s face, tenderly wiping his face clean and asking if he’s okay, serving as the ‘light’, to quote Max, that drags Will from the darkness that is Vecna, that disproves everything Vecna says.

Is the implication that Vecna uses those tactics because that’s what Will thinks his friends’ big Achilles Heels are? What does that say for Mileven? I’d love insight from someone who’s played it.

Oh, and Mileven was low-key/high-key shaded in the Elmax section.

@will80sbyers has posts with screenshots of the full quotes.

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It’s very interesting that mileven is barely an afterthought, and treated very coldly and impersonally. To get to Mike, Vecna says, and I quote “more of that game. He’s distracted. You’ll never find her, Mike. The greatest person you’ve known forever is gone because you didn’t try harder. And now you’ll never know what could have been-” only for it to cut to Mike still talking about the particulars of his Nana impression. ‘Greatest person’, ‘cool’, ‘different’, ‘amazing’, only for any guilt re: her to not move him at all. Did I mention the consultant was Paul Dichter, story editor on 108 and every s2 and 3 ep, and main writer of Will the Wise and Dear Billy?

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#byler #stranger things virtual reality #stranger things vr #el and mike #mike wheeler #will byers #el hopper #Elmax

[questionablequeeries]

The funniest thing the Duffers ever did was make Eddie try to get Steve and Nancy together, thereby making him seem even gayer for Steve. Seriously, the guy’s whole speech is about how Nancy dove into the lake after Steve, how beautiful a display of love it was, how Eddie would have never done that…except he did. Eddie dove, too, and his was arguably more impressive. After all, he barely knew Steve outside of school, he didn’t share the romantic ‘love’ of Nancy or the platonic love of Robin, and he had no idea what he was diving down into, just that there was a gate to another world and that the man he was swimming after had been dragged down by an unseen force. And yeah, you can make the argument that he was scared of the cops or being alone, but arguably he knew he’d be safer with either option than going through that gate after Steve. So yes, our cynical eyes really did see a true declaration of love, but it wasn’t Nancy’s.

#also having Eddie try to play #matchmaker with virtual strangers #is wild duffers #stranger things #Eddie Munson #Steve harrington #Nancy wheeler #Steddie

[nocturnalazure]

#ts3 #sims 3 #sims 3 story #sims stories #tteot story #laurie golzine #erik zay #gloria deville #laurie being so raw in front of a virtual stranger just shows how much he's still in a state of shock at seeing erik like this #gloria is still fixated on trying to understand if he's erik's boss #she hasn't fully registered the rest yet #also: hello clipping #it was difficult to find the right angles for this shoot #laurie arc

[kedreeva]

I just want everyone to see this. Nancy has no better idea what he is talking about than Steve. Right here her face goes from "what the fuck" to "Oh! Oh, that meant we're leaving!" but she instantly follows without argument or questioning because Yes! Yes! They're gonna get shit done! Getting shit done is Nancy's jam! She may not understand what shit just yet but she's in. And I love her for that.

#nancy wheeler #stranger things #eddie munson #my gifs #I just love her face here #I want to shake her actress' virtual hand for this #and all the beautiful expressions she gave such life to #if you can get me to notice a face #you've done something amazing

[alanisart]

Happy Stranger Things day!

#nostalgia #stranger things #stranger things fanart #stranger things day #eleven stranger things #tamagotchi #vpet #virtual pet #80s aesthetic #strangerthingsday

[mango-pineapple02]

Honestly.

I kind of am tired of how Sky is leaning towards near gacha like games without the gacha aspect.

I'm in a timezone where most of the 'friends' I make are never online or if they never really want to warp to me to hang out no matter how many times I go to them.

Everything is just cosmetics cosmetics IAP etc. I was nigh desperate to complete Season of AURORA because I knew I wanted the cosmetics but literally 3 days in I hadn't opened the app again until the concert came, and even then I've only come online for that concert once, and never again.

I realised that for other cosmetics I really really wanted in the past and got them after saving up in game- I haven't worn them since.

Everything is just getting so expensive and they're really pushing FOMO with the AURORA season I think at least since the cosmetics will never be returning again.

The prices keep hiking and for casual players your stuck with bland, bland cosmetics. Nobody wants to play with me so it gets boring, since everyone is speeding to get their candles I haven't had fun stranger interactions the entire year where I used to have lovely interactions with other strangers nigh daily. I feel so alone in Sky.

So yeah. If only it weren't so focused on pushing cosmetics with IAP prices or making the prices so ridiculous you can only get it with grinding for candles daily, I would've probably not have gotten burnt out as I am.

I've been in Sky since 2019, but I can't recognise the game anymore that I used to love.

#skycotl #sky children of the light #that sky game #skyblr #sky cotl #seriously since they got rid of the honk to see where other players are feature #i feel so alone in game #nobody takes time to interact with strangers #and the high prices just disourage me #also I have decided not to get anything from AURORA no matter how much I want it because its just virtual cosmetics

[elowmojo]

-SEE YOU IN THE UPSIDE DOWN-

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#cyberpunk 2077 #virtual photography #stranger things #billy hargrove #vp #male v #Upside Down

[octopusoptimusprime]

i’m a firm believer that lucas and mike are best friends by the way and sometimes i get very sad about them

#no bc in s1/2 they were just stupid little kids arguing over will and dnd and playing arcade games together #and now it’s. ‘has it ever occurred to you that we don’t want to be popular’/mike missing his games/them having virtually 0 interactions #i’m a mike gets vecnaed in s5 and lucas goes absolutely feral screaming because that’s his best fucking friend damnit #truther #platonic wheelclair #lucas and mike are best friends #lucas and mike #lucas sinclair #mike wheeler #mike gets vecna'd #finn wolfhard #caleb mclaughlin #st5 #stranger things #stranger things 5

[raayllum]

For the good of the world

But to Runaan and those like your parents, love is rooted in all families, all creatures... Souls like that feel called to protect everyone as fiercely as those they hold dear. Each time Runaan leaves, it is with the weight of knowing that he may not come back. That to fulfil his duty, he may need to sacrifice everything, himself, and all that we have here. 

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#tdp rayla #rayla #really is the embodiment of doing anything for a stranger when she shouldn't and doing nothing when she should #while she leaves her friends out to dry lmao #rayla: i will front politically #callum every time: but i want the personal goddammit!! #arc 1 #arc 2 #through the moon #multi #parallels #characterization #like she's by far the most globally minded which given the emphasis the silvergrove puts on communal action #makes perfect sense #tag ramble #ez & cal are both more individual centred (which is what the magma titan sorely needed holy shit) #but for ez that grows to encompass his kingdom #meanwhile callum 'inner circle' is like 'yeah im crown prince. And?' #which gets funnier & funnier the longer u think about it #with callum himself (as always) virtually always being her exception #if it is to keep him safe bc like they're Mutually Equally Insane about each other and i Love it #now im thinking about rayla refusing to sacrifice callum's life as an act of self love in a way and mm. Yeah

[shallowseeker]

important reminder: in season 14, cas’s innocuous lil: “it’s so good to hear your voice,” got dean winchester tongue-tied and embarrassed

#dean has heard this from others #never did he get so weird about it #it’s a normal thing to say to your friends #or ppl you’ve not heard from in awhile #i say it to virtual strangers tbh #but dean got cute and flustered when cas said it #even though shit was hitting the fan in his life #when cas is nice dean gets awk it’s sooo cute #dean only gets flustered when—