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Some prospective chapter titles for Chiaroscuro:

That's How You Get Ants

Make Way, Make Room

A Detective or a Pervert

#wip: chiaroscuro

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#Jonathan in a lot of my stories #he’s too busy! #also me irl #I mean not really as I greatly enjoy being bi but the rewards are intrinsic so to speak

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I will say that s4 is very funny in that everyone is treating Nancy like she's in a romcom but Nancy's like no this is a murder-mystery

#robin: hey girlie! want to relitigate your sixteen-month-old breakup with my bestie? #nancy: i just found the mutilated corpse of my managing editor.

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I still want to use my "Eddie sabotages Jason's anti-choice Christian Halloween haunted house (probably by scampering about dressed as a demon and bursting out of something or another)" from Weed College for something else.

#could be a cute hellcheer idea

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✨ MANIFESTING ✨

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#jonathan byers #joyce byers

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WIP Wednesday

From Save the Last Dance for Me (tw: racism):

Lucas gets why Mike and Dustin have doubts about the basketball team. There’s a lot of bullshit that goes with it. Some of his teammates are the same kids who called the Party names and pushed them around in middle school, and now Lucas has to smile back at their stupid, bland faces. Everyone assumes that he’s naturally better at basketball because he’s black, so it’s no big deal if he’s good but the joke of the year if he’s shitty. And, while Jason is a nice-enough guy, his politician smile and cliche-ridden speeches can get under Lucas’s skin.  Yet there’s bullshit that goes with Hellfire Club, too. There’s a whole hierarchy, with Eddie at the top, the other older boys in the middle, and Lucas and Dustin and Mike at the bottom. If Jason acts like he’s running for senator, Eddie pretends to be some kind of evil trickster king. Lucas doesn’t begrudge him the theatrics—he appreciates how he throws the school’s disdain back in its face—but, sometimes, when he sees Jason and Eddie snipe at each other in the cafeteria, he just feels pissed off. You’re fighting over nothing, he wants to scream at them. There are monsters in this town. People have died.  Of course, Lucas suspects that, deep down, he’s just not a team player. 

From Tonight, Tonight, the Highway's Bright (specifically Jonathan's Fast Times at Ridgemont High English journal entry):

Before I moved to Indianapolis, I worked at a movie theater, so I saw a lot of movies, mostly in bits and pieces. That's how I first saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High, in the summer of 1982. I didn't like it much back then. I thought it was gross, and not in a cool way like The Evil Dead. Just loud and annoying. I don't feel that way now. It helps that I actually watched it from beginning to end, like you're supposed to watch a movie, but also I think you sometimes have to experience things before you appreciate a movie or a book or a song. I still don't like Spicoli. I can't laugh at him because I keep wondering what's wrong with him. Weed is good (disclaimer: not that I would know) but it's not that good. I still don't get the big deal about Linda (Phoebe Cates) getting out of the pool. She looks great but it's not real. I don't mean not real because it's a movie. I mean not real because it's all in Brad's head. She's not really looking at him and taking her bikini top off. (Sorry for writing about nudity in English class, by the way. I'm trying to be tasteful about it. But Brett Mason is sitting beside me right now, drawing a woman in a bikini. She's wearing boxing gloves and fighting a giant cockroach. It's very Kafkaesque.) Anyway, I keep thinking about Stacy Hamilton.

From Tomorrow's a Long Way Off:

Something inside of him froze. He thought they’d been in agreement about the trip to Indianapolis: that they needed a second car as soon as he could drive it, and that Lonnie was offering their only chance anytime soon. He thought they’d been in agreement about Will, too: that he had to be shielded from Lonnie’s moronic disdain. Apparently, though, she’d been working alone the whole time. And so had he. “I can’t talk to you,” he said. “I’m going to bed.”

#wip wednesday #does jonathan think that kafkaesque means that there's a big bug? #no but in a sense yes

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I was never gonna be on board with St4ncy, but one of my main objections is that I really feel like the show has actually done a really solid job of communicating “Steve is adrift and lands on getting back together with Nancy as a solution to his problems despite not really knowing who she is or what she wants.” There’s the fact that he did the same thing with Robin in S3 (not picking up that she was a lesbian). There’s the implication that they haven’t spent much time together in the 18 or so months since they broke up (so he has no idea how she’s changed since then). There’s the fact that so much of the ship-teasing is cheerleading from other people (the timing of which suggests that Steve is driven in part by the encouragement of his friends). There’s his focus on what role Nancy played in his personal journey three years previously (not on who she is or what’s happening now). There’s his statement at the beginning of the season that he doesn’t know what he wants. There’s the pie-in-the-sky nature of his love confession to Nancy (talking about a scenario that she has stated she doesn’t want that could only take place in the distant future and involves no consideration of practicalities).

I don’t think he’s wrong to shoot his shot, per se, but he is absolutely living in la la land and he does not know that girl. The only thing that makes me think that they’d ever end up together is that, sometimes, shows are poorly written.

(If they were meant to end up together, I also think there were better ways to set that up. Lloyd/Diane from Say Anything and Nick/Lindsay from Freaks and Geeks are decent models.)

#anti stancy #I’m also a little leery of the fandom’s obsession with the older teens parenting the younger ones #so while I don’t think Steve is wrong to want kids #the fact that he is focused on that at 19-20 when he is otherwise aimless #kind of just makes it seem like he’s lonely #I think if he were a girl people would be like oh honey no

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a study in a fight

#boyfights!!!

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vecna only going after hawkins indiana is so unserious. doofenshmirtz tri-state area type energy.

#textually I think it makes sense #that’s where the holes are #but yes a part of me is going #LOOK WHO COULDN’T HACK IT IN THE BIG CITY #he actually did the same shit in nyc a few years previous #but Bernhard Goetz kind of stole his thunder #Ed Koch had his hands FULL

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Jonathan, letting Will beat him at arm wrestling: Aww dang it you won.

Nancy, slamming Mike's hand down at full force: DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET MICHAEL? DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MESS WITH THE WARRIOR!?

#yes

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Why is ST tiktok insinuating that Jonathan wouldn't kill or die for Nancy when he's already shown that he'd do both in just the s3 hospital scene ALONE like media literacy is DEAD I HATE IT HERE !!!!

#seriously

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I’m thinking about Vecna/Henry, because, while he’s pretty mid to me, I have a few WIPs where I feel compelled to incorporate him, all in very different ways.

#one is pretty straight but I’m gonna change up his MO #one is drive all night which is going to be an interesting translation #and one is Steve’s bad professor bf #who is unethical yes but mostly very annoying

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The problem with Nancy-bashing (aside from the misogyny and the essential wrongness) is that everyone just harps on Steve’s feelings or is super-reductive about the S3 Jancy argument or makes her shallow and boring or pretends like she’d be a Republican. They don’t have the balls to make her turn totally villainous and join forces with Vecna as his evil bride.

#Vecna is Spencer/Grant

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I have a policy (that I just made up, in my head) that I'm not going to write a fic if it would be incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't seen a bunch of stupid fandom discourse. I am often inspired by bad fandom takes, so it's a fine line.

And that's why I'm not writing my grim the-law-is-wrong idea. That, and I don't really want to deal with the double-whammy of "people scandalized by the suggestion that Steve's better qualities might not prevail if he were consistently validated for being prejudiced and callous and vindictive" and "people unable to wrap their heads around a strong anti-carceral stance."

#however i do know the exact nine minor POV characters i would choose #mr. melvald and reed (guy who yells at nancy from car) and nicole #then cynthia and ted and carol #then tommy and ally (nancy's sort-of friend in s1) and holly

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i would kill him with my bare hands if i could

#ugh i am so into the specific ways in which he is awful #i am simultaneously cheering and booing/hissing #lonnie byers

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just some cute s1!jonathan fits <3

#jonathan byers #the boyyyyyy

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Ngl I am reminding myself of the part of How Not to Write a Novel where Mary is informed by Dr. Nefaro that her boyfriend triggered “a fail safe plan to assassinate President Dukakis, should he he have been elected” by using the right combination of coins at the laundromat. But the rules are different for fanfic and also I don’t care.

I’m outlining the next chapter of Drive All Night, and it’s kind of cracking me up because Dr. Brenner is gonna lay some major lore on Jancy, and on some level they’re like…okay…we were literally just trying to make some money and also (heaven willing) bang it out nasty style…but fine.