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holy shit at this whole article but this paragraph in particular

#wow #to read #amazing excerpt #so true #media #article

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Most queer people are happy with any queer representation and all they want is acceptance and equal treatment. To go about their lives without getting homophobic abuse. But there's a small vocal minority who are miserable and want everyone else to be miserable too. They have a victim complex and are covert narcissists. There is nothing they dislike more than seeing queer media do well and become mainstream. They'd much prefer it flop because it feeds their victim mentality. They won't admit that so they'll come up with all kinds of excuses.

Beautiful anon, I forgot this was in my asks!

I'm so sorry, but I just wanted to say that you are 100% right and I've seen that behavior masked with "performative activism" and it is so obvious!

They pretend to be worried about the media and its quality but they are secretly rooting for it to flop so they can relish their misery. It's awful.

#anon #ask #tal-vez-o-quizas #queer people

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i'm seeing a lot of new ppl join tumblr who aren't making any spontaneous semi pathetic, oversharing personal textposts whatsoever and i just want to say you're doing it all wrong... this is not like instagram like meant to be some shiny highlight reel used to make u look good its supposed to be an incriminatingly revealing dark intimate look into your life & inner psyche while simultaneously no one knows who u are or gives a fuck... anyway hope this helps some of u get on the right track

#yes #quotes #important

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I’M CRYING OMG (x)

#HAHAHAHAHA #this is my roman empire lol #i need joe's head turn now please #stonathan agenda #stranger writers #joe keery #charlie heaton

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ϟ Max, S4 ϟ

#😭😭 #max mayfield #st4 fanart

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I really despise the Marvelification of Stranger Things, because all the interviews nowadays are constantly referencing how fast paced and epic and big the finale will be but the reason people fell in love with the show wasn't special effects or long episodes; it was the plot, it was the characters, it was the mystery. Stranger Things 1 may have been a story about a government conspiracy and a monster, but that's not why we stuck around. The show can throw amazing CGI, Russians, a battle within the American army and an apocalypse at the audience with the biggest budget known to man but if they forget to ground it and keep it central, it'll just get lost amongst a plethora of other "epic" blockbusters. We want Steven King, not Avengers.

#agreed #100% #you can have both though #the marvelification plus the story and mystery #if they execute it correctly #st5

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Will and Mike

#st4 fanart #byler

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Give me heterosexual reasoning for why Mike Wheeler wants to be "normal" in season 4 (according to Finn Wolfhard himself). He didn't want that lifestyle in Hawkins, but now that he is in front of his "platonic best pal" in California, he becomes a fabricated, more "normal" version of himself. What are you hiding? I know what you are Michael Wheeler.

#yep #mike wheeler i know what you are

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best s4 moment

#top tier momenct for sure #lol #i live #will byers #st4 #rolling eyes #i love him

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Will solos ur favs

#100% #best meme ever #will byers #st meme

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just rewatched bits of 2x08 again last night and honestly ..byeler is so unbelievably obvious j have no idea how anyone ships anything else tbh. it’s the most obvious point in the season

like first off the entire episode is the tailend of mike with the byers family in a crisis situation. mike being with the byers family for 3 days straight isn’t even questioned or talked about- mike’s love and protectiveness over will is just that commonly known to joyce and jonathan. also pretty sure joyce wouldnt let just anyone hang around when it comes to will (not even just a friend). only the most trusted individuals. she trust mike around will, and knows mike will help (“it’s about the shadow monster, isn’t it?”)

and not only that but mike figures out the entire plan to save hawkins at the end, but it’s not without the involvement of will. an integral piece. everything they do is linked- brain and heart.

they redo the shed, and mike is the only one in there with the byers family trying to get will to resurface. (i include hopper in ‘byers family’ bc him being there makes the point even more obvious bc we all know jopper is going to happen). like joyce, jonathan, hopper and mike? that’s not a coincidence. that was specifically set up with purpose. the future byers family.

do you know what march 22nd is? a date of specific importance to a parents affection

do you remember the day dad left? a traumatic bonding memory between brothers, showing us how close they are in friend and bond.

do you remember the first day that we met? a heartfelt, romantic memory. this isn’t just — hey remember our favorite d&d campaign lol? like the memory a friend would bring up (they’re 14, how deep can they get). but no, the memory the script is giving mike is an intentional emotional cue. mike’s memory is the day he met will. after all of the events of s01, after the turmoil of s02 and after every second this season that mike has spent next to will exhausted and on edge— it was the best thing i’ve ever done. that’s a love story.

also the shot outside after the mindflayer realizes where they are is just jonathan, hopper & mike standing there in panic before they run back in the shed and cut will loose.

again, not a coincidence. the camera settles on them for a good amount of time to give it weight. it could’ve focused on joyce in the shed, it could’ve been just hopper outside gathering intel, it could’ve just been worried jonathan, but instead— it was brother, stepdad and boyfriend. all set up in a line next to each other. the three people most protective of will, and narratively the most important.

like just the back half of that one episode alone is all the proof you need lmao nevermind everything else that goes along w it.

think about this: if mike was in will’s arc only bc the writing didn’t know what to do w him, it would’ve cut him out as soon as everybody reunited at the byer’s house. but it didn’t. mike was in the shed, he was with will until he physically couldn’t be anymore. fw had even said somewhere that will brings mike back to the light, he gives him purpose again and saves him essentially— and mike does this to will too for obvious reasons.

the entire season was about the two of them saving each other.

#brave byelers #wow #our greatest warriors #byler hope #byler #byeler #byler 2018 #st2 analysis

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Ah yes, Milkvan and my other fav romantic dynamic Dustin and *looks at smudged handwriting* Dart?

Giant E.T. figurine by Dart's cage vs. Mike dressing up El like in E.T.

And this is not to dehumanize El, like obviously the entire point of El's arc throughout the entire show is about breaking out of the dynamics that she is put into where she doesn't have agency. But if we compare S1 and S2, we can see that the writers have created this sort of meta situation with the audience becoming a part of Lucas and Dustin's projection of romance onto Mike and El's dynamic—a dynamic that the writers are very much poking fun of in S2 by recreating a bunch of the scenes with Dustin and Dart at the focus.

#yep #st1/st2 parallels #dart #el #season 2 #byler tumblr

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Guess Byler won't perform itself either.

#HAHAHAHA #byler

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happy one year (and 5 days) to the van scene and jonathan's driving prowess

#stunning!!! #woooow #st4 #cali gang #cali crew #byler #video #fan video

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saw someone on instagram point out that all the suspected endgame couples are unconventional love stories for the time period.

joyce and hopper are divorcee's.

max and lucas are in an interracial relationship.

robin and vickie are sapphics.

jonathan and nancy depict the woman taking the lead in the relationship while the man supports her.

it would make so much sense if the final endgame couple would be mike and will.

#beautiful! #Byler hope

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The Great Jonathan Byers Conspiracy

(Or, Jonathan was framed and I'm going to prove it)

So I started a rewatch of the show and I'm on episode two of s1. I get to the part towards the end where Jonathan is taking photos of Nancy. So I think "Okay. This is the part where we see Jonathan take a photo of Nancy topless, right? We see him notice Nancy take her top off and then raise the camera to take another photo, right?"

But that's not what happened

The scene happens as follows. We see Jonathan snap a photo of Nancy— with her shirt on— before the scene cuts inside of Steve's room.

Nancy then removes her top. Nancy and Steve start making out and we cut back to Jonathan who lowers his camera.

This is the part where I expected Jonathan to lift his camera up and start taking more pictures. That's how I remember it happening. But no, we instead see Jonathan focus his attention back to the pool and snap a picture of Barb instead.

So what the hell? Am I being gaslit?

I remember so distinctly a moment where we see Jonathan consciously raise the camera to take another picture of her topless, and yet it's not there. I do still want to clarify however, that the topless photo of Nancy does still exist. We see it clearly in the following episode. So yes, Jonathan did still take a photo of Nancy topless, we just don't see him take it.

But according to a lot of people online, we did see it, the Duffer Brothers just removed it.

I remember hearing about this when it first cropped up, which was partially prompted by the Duffers joking to "George Lucas" Will's birthday in season 2, which they never ended up doing anyway. They also stated on Twitter that no scene had ever been digitally edited, and didn't plan to in the future.

So the Duffers must be lying, right? Otherwise why how would so many people remember seeing that scene? I guess there’s no way to be sure without a DVD or Blu-Ray of the show.

But wait, I have a DVD of season one. I got it for Christmas! But I’m staying at my parents house and I don’t feel like driving three hours just to prove a point. I guess all is lost for the moment.

Unless…

It was at this part of my spiraling that I sent a crazed two minute voice memo at 11:00 at night to my roommate and good friend @lemonsoured filling him in on my conspiracy, and then leaving instructions to go downstairs, locate my season one DVD on the living room shelf, put the DVD into my PS4, go to the end of episode two and take a phone recording of the scene in question.

And lo and behold, the scene of Jonathan taking pictures of Nancy, exactly as it appears on Netflix.

So I am aware that in the video there isn’t much to indicate that this is in fact a recording of the DVD and not a recording of the Netflix version, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. But still, ask any DVD or Blu-Ray owner for what is on their disk, and I can garuntee that they’ll all give the same answer.

Because the shot of Jonathan taking the photo of Nancy never existed. The Duffers aren’t lying. The masses collectively lied to themeselves.

But how did this happen? How did a massive audience full of people, including myself, come to believe that there was a moment of Jonathan consciously taking that photo?

I’ll tell you why. It was a psyop to defame character!

Usually when a new season of Stranger Things rolls around, there comes the flow of comments on twitter saying “Hey, remember when Jonathan took a photo of Nancy changing and now she’s in a relationship with him?” which is usually done in the name of trying to bring down Jonathan and build up Steve.

And I’m not doing this to try to claim that Jonathan is a completely innocent baby who actually did nothing wrong. After all, the topless photo does still exist and as @notmybabies pointed out in the replies of one of posts, Jonathan chose to go through the process of developing it anyway. So he’s not completely off the hook. If the Duffers did want to eradicate Jonathan’s faults, then they would have digitally edited the topless Nancy photo to a different one, something that would have been possible.

But you ever notice how it’s always “Jonathan is a creep” and never “Steve called Nancy a slut and Jonathan a queer?”

I adore Steve, but what I’m trying to see is people seem to try and diminish the depth and complications of both of these characters, and it usually results in fans making Jonathan out to be a sex depraved pervert who has always had it out for Nancy, while Steve is their angel who could do no wrong. Steve couldn’t have had a good redemption arc if there wasn’t a place for him to grow from!

They never want to acknowledge that Jonathan was a lonely kid who made a bad mistake which he apologized for while looking for his brother and that Steve was a different person before he decided to change. Eliminating these character’s depths is eliminating what makes them interesting characters! Neither are completely pure and neither are completely evil!!

So in conclusion:

#fantastic! #Jonathan defense squad #st1 analysis #jonathan byers #stranger things #jancy #byler tumblr

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Jonathan cooking breakfast in S1 & S2

#i love this #i need more Jonathan cooking #st1/st2 parallels #st gifs