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Star Wars Kid was a critical juncture of the early web, and we chose the timeline where the web is a tool for mockery and bullying, instead of shutting that behaviour down in 2003 and blacklisting any "comedian" who considered him fodder for jokes.

Regular people can perhaps be understood though not justified for not realising how big the audience was they were mocking someone in front of; talk show hosts have no such excuse.

#this is the lesson i took from #joker 2019 #mocking someone in front of millions goes way beyond #punching down #you're not even punching at that point you're stoni g #early web #star wars kid #we were on the verge of greatness #the first thing millennials wrecked #with help from gen x of course #and maybe even some boomers i can't remember

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One of the greatest moments we lost when Willow wasn't renewed would have been The Gang Confront Sorscha On Her Bullshit.

Like, all of the remaining party members (plus Airk) have something they need to settle with her. She lied to Jade and Elora about their origins. She locked up Boorman. The last time she saw Willow she was having the guards escort him out of Tir Asleen. And then there's her kids...

#willow #it's all sorschas fault #jade claymore #kit tanthalos #willow ulfgood #elora danan #thraxus boorman #airk tanthalos #sorsha tanthalos #this is what they took from you #willow rewatch

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Rewatching Willow and

I hadn't noticed before how much Elora has the same vibes as Princess Anna. Aside from them both being redhead's whose fiancés tried to kill them I mean.

#willow the series #willow #elora danan #princess anna #frozen #you cannot unsee it #both excitable enfps #who found far better men on their quests

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Humans have had dogs so long, it's become ingrained into us that furry creatures with sharp teeth and claws are friend shaped.

#dogs #humans #if not friend why friend shaped #human evolution #its a mutualist relationship #they're our symbionts #humans without dogs just doesnt make sense

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If "Vecna is really Henry Creel's alternate reality twin Edward" and "the Dr Brenner we see in S4 is Richard Brenner" isn't far out enough for you, how about this...

*hits blunt* Will Byers has an alternate reality twin. She goes by the name of El (legally, Jane Hopper).

#hence the parallels between them #they are parallel versions of the same person #memories have been modified to cover this up #will byers #el hopper #willel #stranger things #stranger theories #all will be revealed in s4 #mike subconsciously knows this #but recoils from the truth #the byers subconcously know this too but accept it

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Has anyone gone through the series and catalogued all the ways Will and El parallel each other... Especially when it comes to how Mike feels about them and treats them?

Like, S1 Mike has an outburst where he claims to be the only one who cares about Will; S3 Mike has an outburst where he claims to be the only one who cares about El.

S2 Mike gives a monologue to help Will fight the Mindflayer; S4 Mike gives a monologue to help El fight Vecna.

Really feels like there isn't really much difference in how he feels about these two, hence his desperate need to draw a distinction between Friend Things and Girlfriend Things. The entire "romance" has the feel of Mike going "she's my friend, she's a girl, therefore girlfriend" and behaving in Ways People In Romantic Relationships Behave.

#not even a byler or mlvn thing #it could be that he's not romantically interested in either of them #but because he has this idea that he's supposed to be romantically interested in el things get confusing #pretty sure they're meant to be paralleled #hence henry/vecna having an interest in both of them #willel #will byers #el hopper #mike wheeler #clueless mike

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How Mike is so clueless about romance that he puts Normal Things People Do With Friends, like send letters and hang out with each other one on one, in a special Things You Only Do With Your Girlfriend box.

Like, dude, no-one is going to suspect you have a crush on your best friend just because you wrote him letters, friends have been writing letters to each other for literally thousands of years. Maybe if you sign them "I love you"... but even then, that's something that's not exclusive to romantic relationships...

#mike wheeler #will byers #el hopper #i'm not pro byler i just want mlvn to sink #he should ask his friends for advice #since dustin can actually maintain a long distance relationship #unlike clueless mike here #who just has misremembered scraps of what he thinks romance is to go on

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DiCapriopointing.jpg Hey it's my post (the OP, not that particular response).

This just made me more mad than any ST reddit take ever

WILL AND JONATHAN DON’T OWE EL THEIR TIME!!!!

They are kids. They have their own lives. They have their own school work.

Joyce is the one responsible for El.

Also, I’m sure Will and Jonathan did help El a bit, but El had so many years of school to catch up, so it would not have been possible for her two underaged brothers to get her on top of the class.

Seriously what the hell? People just keep finding any reasons to hate Will and Jonathan.

#its actually owens im most disappointed with #joyce is busy #and the byers arent wealthy #but he could have hired a tutor with the chump change of the resources he has access to

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AU where Bob lives and they move to Maine and he spends an hour each evening helping El catch up on all the education she missed over the years.

#stranger things #stranger things au #el hopper #el byers #el stranger things #bob newby #she missed on a lot of years #someone needs to help her

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What if... Will isn't Twelve, he was supposed to be Twenty? And he had a traumatic experience when he was five because of an attempted child abduction? And his powers are natural, like Henry Creel's... He is, if you will, a *natural* Twenty.

#will byers #twelvegate #stranger things #henry creel #eleven couldn't beat vecna #it needed a natural twenty #i thought it could be twelve plus eight #but whilst that's twenty its not nat #vecna #stranger things dnd #stranger things s5

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I don't believe Vecna is Henry Creel.

This is not the same as Henry Creel not becoming Vecna. I believe Vecna is a composite of Henry, the people he killed in the massacre, and the Mindflayer. He didn't assimilate it -- or rather, he did, but it also assimilated him, creating the being known as Vecna.

And his defeat will involve the part of him that is still Henry remembering who he was.

y’all ever think about how they said “season 5 will explore if there’s any humanity left in vecna”, how jamie said “there was a lot of humanity in henry before he turned into vecna” and how he believes “there’s still humanity” in him, how henry canonically despises humanity and how will byers is literally the embodiment of humanity and is paralleled to pre-vecna henry and his relationship with henry is the focus of the next season and how they said that “maybe there’s something that can bring out henry creel” and-

#yeah i'm convinced now that will wasn't taken at random #he's too much like young henry #sensitive child who likes to draw #he's twins with el because they're both like henry #willel #stranger things #vecna #henry creel #will byers #el hopper

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Do you think the Duffers will take their cue from real life and have Will first come out to his twin sister. :P

#will byers #noah schnapp #stranger things #el hopper #willel #byler

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Will to El: We'll fix it together.

Mike to El: I will fix this.

this is a very important distinction imo, one gives El her independence while still helping her, the other wants to be in control of the dynamic

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Eleven isn't a name, it's a numerical designation from Dr Brenner to distinguish between his experimental subjects.

El, however, El is a name. A name derived from her numerical designation but one that stands on its own as a name. A reclamation of her identity as a person from the man who took it, more powerful for being derived from the number she was assigned to dehumanise her. And one only ever used by people who care about her.

also do people prefer to use hopper or Ives as her last name???

#brenner insists on calling her eleven #and i'm kind of glad about that? #her name does not belong in his mouth #el hopper #el stranger things #legally she may be jane but jane is a baby that was taken as soon as she was born

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It's annoying that we don't get to learn much about what El's interests. What, aside from Eggos, does she like? What does she enjoy doing? Does she have any hobbies?

Anyway I headcanon that Jane Ives -- El if she hadn't been stolen at birth and was allowed to grow up with her mother -- is obsessed with animals, especially squirrels.

#because why not #henry creel had his spiders #jane ives can have her squirrels #i was obsessed with otters and dolphins as a child it's not that unusual #okay maybe amongst neurotypical children... #we should have had less mike and more el and her hobbies in season four #el hopper #jane ives #stranger things #yup this has been added to my list of things i am a fan of #imagine squirrel obsessed twelve year old jane starting at hawkins middle school having just moved to hawkins a month before

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Of course El struggles academically. Before High School, her total education consisted of one (1) [I] year of Middle School. I doubt Brenner made sure she was taught much. Or that Hopper managed effective homeschooling.

Girl needs some one on one tutoring to bring her up to speed on fundamental stuff.

#maybe she could have had it during S2 if Hopper had been willing to tell other people #even restricting it to the ones already in the know im sure its not beyond Nancy's capabilities #el deserved better #el hopper #jim hopper #hopper hate #seriously i do not like this character #there was no way he was up to the care and feeding of a traumatised adolescent girl #even just telling joyce would have made a huge difference #el stranger things #stranger things

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It is sad some people have never had the joy of eating frozen food.

Forever pushing the agenda of Will hearing Mike talk about El being this larger than life girlie in the van scene, when Will (who now lives with El and has probably seen her feral weird girl energy to the fullest cuz siblings) is very much confused since he knows his sister is awkward just like the rest of the Party.

Mike: El's a super hero

Will: She's a super weirdo just like us. I saw her eat eggos out the box, cold from the fridge, no syrup. I was appalled and disgusted