Buggy and Shanks must of been a handful when they were children. I can just think of all the crazy shenanigans that they did. Shanks had to shave Roger’s mustache at least once and Buggy must have been up to many pranks that were harmless and really funny.
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Norma: I’d love to know who called it in.
Courtney: I guess it doesn’t matter.
Norma: Maybe not-.. I don’t suppose either of you have any ideas?
Courtney: No clue.
Oscar: Nope…
Courtney: It could’ve been someone that got away, like Brynn.
Norma: Perhaps. Either way, that’s that! I know you’ve been through a lot to get here, but I think we can safely say it was worth it, don’t you?
Oscar: What did you get on him-.. enough, I hope?
Norma: Now then, that’s not for you to worry about anymore, is it?
Oscar: [sighs] It’s hard to believe it’s over.
Norma: Well, start believing! There’s plenty wrong in this world-.. albeit a little less now, we ought to thank you for that.
Oscar: Hm…
Norma: No fancy lawyer or wad of cash is gonna keep his ass out of prison, don’t worry.
Oscar: Easier said than done.
Norma: C’mon, what’s next?! Surely you have plans now that it’s all over?
Courtney: We’re getting married.
Norma: Nothing as exciting for me I’m afraid, I think I’ll retire.. end things on a high note, right?! When’re you getting hitched?
Courtney: [shrugs] Oscar’s going to surprise me.
Oscar: Soon? I don’t know, finding a cheap venue isn’t easy-.. cheap anything for that matter.
Norma: You gave everything away, didn’t you?
Oscar: [nods] Obviously.
Norma: You’ll figure it out.
Courtney: We have a roof over our head, that’s enough.
Oscar: My parents own this place, we don’t even pay rent-.. yet. I’m working on it.
Norma: A roof is a roof, I’ll let you get some work done though! I just wanted to share the good news with you in person.
Courtney: Thanks for keeping your word.
…
[MUTED CONVERSATION]
Norma: It’s a genuine offer.
Oscar: [snort laughs] Are you serious?
Norma: Of course! Think about it, okay?
[Norma winks at Oscar as she closes the door behind herself, leaving him scratching his head in thought]
Courtney: Your papa has no idea what to do with himself now, bud.
[Robin babbles incoherently]
Courtney: You should tell him that yourself.
Oscar: Who’s telling me what?
Courtney: Nothing-.. what were you two whispering about?
Oscar: Never you mind.
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Buggy: Nothing lasts forever. Change is inedible.
Shanks: *Trying his best not to giggle*
Rayleigh: ...
Rayleigh: Don't you mean 'change is inevitable'?
Buggy: *Who has been using this entire conversation as a setup for the world’s worst magic trick because he thought of it in the middle of the night; spits out coins* No, I do not.
Roger:
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I HATE how Stranger Things season 4 made the conflict between Nancy and Jonathan dishonesty and a love triangle and not a continuation of their more complex conversation/argument in season 3 that was just settled with a simple sorry from Jonathan and nothing from Nancy since she got a pep-talk from her mom instead.
Season 3 spends so much time emphasizing how this small town is dying due to the mall coming in. We’re shown shops closed down and people protesting out in front of the mayors office after losing their jobs. All of Joyce and Hoppers earlier scenes together show us the store she works at is struggling to get by, the sale signs and discount pricing just to get people to come into the store. It’s emphasized again that the Byers/Joyce are struggling later when Hopper reveals Joyce is going to sell the house. It’s implied she’s doing that to escape the history they’ve experienced there (should’ve been a thought after season 1 happened...), but it can also be implied through these other elements that if her store closes down too she’ll be out of work, how will she support her family with no job?
That’s where elements of Jonathan’s story through the season picks up. Because he lands that newspaper internship along with Nancy, taking pictures for the paper. He’s mostly shown in the developing room, alone and just doing his own thing until Nancy comes in and tells him to come along.
Jonathan got a lot of flack from this season because the older men who work at this place are assholes, they’re sexist and awful and look down on Nancy ‘cause she’s a woman and an intern, not a reporter. She hates it but also not enough to quit because she wants to prove herself, and even after she’s told to let it go she doesn’t care even if it leads to getting fired because she’ll just move on to the next thing. She states all this to Jonathan who wants to support Nancy (hence why he goes with her every time) but is also cautious because he doesn’t want to get fired, losing his job while in the background his mom’s work is crumbling would be hard for their family (Jonathan wanting to help out financially is how season 1 started...)
Their entire argument boiled down to the fact that Nancy didn’t feel fully supported or trusted in her intuition that ended up being correct, while Jonathan felt Nancy didn’t consider him in regards to losing work, and therefore money, and how that effects both of them differently. Because Nancy ended up right it was Jonathan who apologized and the matter was over by the end of the season, but Nancy went on to have a whole conversation with her mom where she literally starts it with “maybe he has a point” because he DID have a point. But at no point in the rest of the series do we see them even talk about that argument from either side. But it was actually one worth diving into more?
Because fundamentally that’s at the heart of the issue for Jonathan at the start of season 4. No idea what happened to Jonathan’s dream to go to NYU but based on what we’re give Jonathan and Nancy originally wanted to go to the same school, but it’s the school Nancy wanted to go to, but Jonathan ended up applying for other options, specifically the local CC. Why the local CC? For starters it keeps him close to his family, and secondly community college is cheaper. Do we even think for a second the Byers have any savings for Jonathan to go to college? Do we think he worked long enough at any of his past jobs to earn enough for college? Do we think Joyce makes enough money currently to afford to help him go to college? I think the answer to all of these questions is no. At this point he’d have to get a scholarship to even attend. Did he get one to the college him and Nancy applied to? To any other college? We don’t have that information.
I think the only thinking that was skewed was this idea that if he told her this truth, that he can’t or doesn’t want to attend the school she chose, she would want to attend CC with him and “throw away her dreams” but since they haven’t even talked he doesn’t know what she actually would choose to do. It’s obvious long distance is hard, hell that’s true for real life couples, but college is only 4 years, it’s a matter of whether or not they would make it work, or make different choices. They don’t necessarily have to go to the same school, it’s just better for their relationship, and they don’t necessarily have to break up if they choose different schools, they just have to be willing to work out the details of communication and making time for the other when they can.
But it really boils down to two major things;
1: Jonathan is always going to prioritize his family, the last thing he wants is to abandon his mom and brother (and now sister too) and be a fuck up like his dad. Thanks childhood trauma! And
2. Finances/money/class. The Byers are poor, hell they’re still poor even in s4, Owens gave them that house to protect El, all of the money Hopper had was for El that was put into savings, Joyce went from a single mom of 2 to a single mom of 3! El literally wears clothes she gets from Joyce and Will, and we’ve seen that Joyce even wears clothes Jonathan has worn, so basically they’re a family of hand-me-downs. That has been showcased through all 4 seasons. We see Jonathan needs rides from Argyle ‘cause his car broke down and they couldn’t afford to get it fixed, etc.
These are things Nancy just does not, nor can she truly understand because her family and financial upbringing and circumstances are much better. Her family is so well off her mom has been a stay-at-home mother their entire lives, they live in a two-story house, their family of 5 is well taken care of.
But that’s where I get the most annoyed because she COULD if they just let these two characters TALK to one another about literally anything for the last 2 fucking seasons. But the Duffers refuse, and by the time they might talk in season 5 it’ll be too damn late because the series is over. Robbing them of what could have been an actually interesting display of how two characters in love overcome these types of conflicts based on aspects of each of them that aren’t bad or wrong, just different. Nancy’s not bad because she’s from a wealthier more stable family just as Jonathan isn’t for being poor and from a less stable family. Nancy isn’t wrong for being ambitious, just like Jonathan isn’t wrong to want to support his family. Nancy shouldn’t have to put up with sexist bullshit or be held back, just like Jonathan shouldn’t be disrespected or devalued for prioritizing money when living through poverty.
But no, we got a season of a love triangle instead :) very good, wonderful writing :) just *chef’s kiss*
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Taking aside whether everything we've seen is fully true or not (though I subtly doubt that since the writers have mentioned they will revisit a lot of the previous past scenes in season 2), the way Louis narrates is limiting on its own for both Lestat and Claudia. Omitting entire years' worth of time and only giving Daniel (and us) the barebones information through vital moments still leaves me with a lot of questions regarding Claudia in particular. Because sure, Daniel HAS the diaries, but who's to say they haven't been tampered with more than Louis even lets on? And specifically, when it comes to the 10 years overall after Claudia comes back, we see no diary in Daniel's vicinity. The only time we do see some is at the end of episode 7, of which one contains Lestat's final words, the other is about their trip to Europe after the murder. That leaves us with only Louis as the main source of information for this time period, but Louis isn't above solely giving Daniel scenarios in order to place Claudia or Lestat in specific roles through how he experienced them in the past.
Case in point, episode 6 has no killings from Claudia. We don't see her hunt, not even to go after a man or stalk him, we definitely don't see her kill, despite all episodes before or after that containing some explicit killings with her. I say this because to Louis, Claudia was his nurse/knight/protector/sister during this particular period of time. And even subconsciously, he ends up painting her as such to the point where we also don't even get much information about Claudia and how she even traveled in episode 5? We only get one piece of information about it with the train scene, but we still get absolutely nothing about how: 1) she even came to reading about vampires, 2) how she managed during her 7 years alone, 3) any basic information about her plans beyond her catching a train for going outside of New Orleans, or even about how she learned languages. The only information we even get specifically is regarding her horrible encounter with Bruce, but again, this later ends up serving more as an apparent parallel to Louis' later situation with Lestat than it is even about Claudia, who suffered through an assault.
I would also argue the same thing in regards to the 6 years they spent alone together, as well. Louis wants Daniel to think of Claudia in a better light, he makes her out to be his savior and the only person that seems to want better for him, yet at the same time leaves out any further details about the years they lived with each other (and not with Lestat) in Rue Royale after he recuperated? Why? And this isn't even to argue that Claudia may not have been as perfect, rather that Louis cuts out so much context as to how they were like with each other after she came back that I end up getting only so much information about Claudia solely when it comes to how it affected or was connected to Louis.
Louis is telling the story here, and even with Claudia's diaries (which Daniel now knows Louis has tampered with), we only end up seeing what Louis wants us to see. This is why I hope season 2 changes some of this because I would really like to just know more about Claudia and her own feelings regarding all the later situations with her and Louis.
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Not all who wander are lost - Central Shroud
The Mirror Planks │ Bentbranch │ Gabineaux's Bower │ Everschade
"Our first meeting? Hmm... I was called to heal one of the Wood Wailers posted at Galvanth's Spire. Fairly ordinary case - the man had been mildly injured by some pack of critters, and instead of leaving his partner to guard the road alone it was easier to send one of the cojurers to tend to him.
When it was time to head back to the city, both he and his partner kept warning me of some diremites that had been causing trouble on the road near the West Vein. Diremites weren't really that troublesome, but they were pretty insistent, so I promised them I'd take the detour through the Jadeite Thick to ease their worries a bit.
Walk back home was rather uneventful, but closer to the city gates I could hear some faint groans few yalms off the path. Remembering the diremites, I pushed through the bushes to take a look - and found an beaten up elezen man on the ground.
I healed him and kept him company until his legs felt strong enough to carry him back to the city. Not like I could have hauled the man back to city myself... he was almost twice my height, and had a lot stronger build than me. From his training as a lancer, I learned during our chat. Draevoux Chevalier, he introduced himself. A duskwight who, like me, had left his home to study in Gridania. Unlike most elezen, he was happy to chat about pretty much everything - even the thing that led him to get injured so badly.
Drae, as the man had asked me to call him, had been looking for stronger foes to test his lance on. He had started a fight with a treant sapling, apparently not knowing they were pretty strong despite their generally calm behaviour. Not the brightest idea, but I had to commend his bravery."
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