#this is about stranger things yes

[unicyclehippo]

did you have to have learner plates in the 1980s or is that a new thing

#this is about stranger things yes

[sourstiless]

to be perfectly honest, i’m real tired of mainstream media trying to make people sympathize with racist, abusive little white boys, forcing poc to sit and watch people who look like them be brutalized by said character while yt people sit and eat up their dumb little sob stories. and then we’re just expected to be okay with it because it’s “realistic for its time”, and when we complain about it we’re “overreacting”

i don’t give a fuck if it’s “realistic” y’all’s show deals with 15 year olds with superpowers and inter dimensional monsters and supernatural beings on an episodic basis. nothing about that screams “realistic” to me, so why does realism suddenly become so fucking important when it comes to mistreating marginalized communities.

#this is about stranger things yes #i should have known trusting two cishet white guys was a bad idea #the last time i did that they mixed a hell of a lot of asian and indigenous cultures as if they were one in the same #and went “omg we’re so progressive !!!!” #i’m so tired of people acting like realism is necessary in shows that deal with like fucking zombies #and a fleshy mf who looks like jim carrey’s grinch #“realism” is just a shitty excuse to silence marginalized communities when it comes to shows like this #stranger things

[myosotisa]

some of y'all have seriously forgotten that Eddie is an absolute loser who doodles dragons on every single piece of paper he can get his hands on

#like yes he is also metal #and wears alt clothing #but most importantly he is a dungeons and dragons nerd who would rules lawyer you #he does lil dances in the lunch room while yelling about his anti manifesto #some of yall saw the rings and the ability to hotwire a car and decided to make him a cool guy #he is not #stranger things #eddie munson

[super-nova5045]

"everyone being gay in the 80s is unrealistic" babes not only do they have interdimensional monsters and telekinesis but they also have songs from 1995 playing in 1983 and 1986 but pop off ig

#yes this is about When It's Cold I'd Like to Die #that anachronism caught me WAYYY off guard #byler #steddie #ronance #elmax #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #eleven stranger things #max mayfield #lucas sinclair #dustin henderson #steve harrington #eddie munson #robin buckley #nancy wheeler

[hychlorions]

(looks at the time) ooh... the bitching hour

#klapollo #klavier gavin #apollo justice #ace attorney #.png #was about to just caption this with 'bitching' but 1) this is funnier 2) i think stranger things has ruined that #KEITH HARING DOG BE UPON YE #i feel bad i've mostly posted sketches this past year but again i'm still doing thesis lol #next term though i only have one class and it's an elective =w= maybe i can open comms then #including some experimental ones. like low poly creachers hehehehhe

[bi-booklover]

repeat after me.

QUEER CHARACTERS ARE NOT PLOT DEVICES FOR STRAIGHT CHARACTERS.

#yes this is about wills gay painting somehow being about m*leven #and also about robin and vickie being the exact same person #queer people deserve rich complex relationships we are not looking for mirrors!!! #ronance was right there #byler was handed to them on a glass plate and they smashed it #was the plot everything i wanted? absolutely #but dear god what happened to my comfort characters #(oh also extremely gay coded steddie but lets not touch that for now it hurts) #stranger things #stranger things 4 #st4 #st4 spoilers #stranger things 4 spoilers #volume two spoilers #ronance #steddie #byler #robin buckley #nancy wheeler #mike wheeler #will byers #steve harrington #eddie munson

[steviesbicrisis]

All these two lovesick homosexuals did was go for a walk in a monster-infested forest for 5 minutes, share clothes and one very wrong hetero-dating advice for my brain to stop functioning for 14 months and still counting.

#this is my roman empire #how often do you think about Steddie? #answer: yes #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #steve and eddie #steve x eddie

[inklessletter]

Hey babe, remember this? Well-

Is this shit recording yet?

#stranger things #steddie #art #fanart #steddie art #steve harrington #eddie munson #old camera effect #yes #you are thinking correctly #they are about to make a sex tape #inklessletter #trust the process 2.0

[dreamofbecoming]

listen i know we all love steve “completely ignorant of queer culture to the point that bisexuality is a surprise” harrington being roasted and educated in turns by robin and eddie, yadda yadda, good stuff. i read “they made a horror version of rocky?” in a fic recently and cackled. also a big fan of “he knew he was bi from the start and just never talked about it” as a trope, love it excellent well done

but what about steve who realizes after starcourt that the most important person in his life now has this thing that’s a major part of her life that he knows nothing about, and what if he fucks it up? what if he says something ignorant or rude by accident, and hurts her? what if he loses her because he didn’t know the right thing to say? what if he can’t keep her safe because he doesn’t know what to look out for? absolutely fucking not, this steve says

and listen she’d never say anything, because she can tell that he can tell how much she likes teasing him and teaching him things, so he plays dumb, and she thinks it’s very sweet. but she notices when the zines she keeps under her bed that she buys at that one secret bookshop in indy when she can sneak away on family trips start going missing, always one at a time, and replaced in a few days with another disappearing. and she finds the new ones he must have gone to buy the weekend she was at her aunt’s house hidden in the back of his closet when she goes to steal one of his sweaters. and she notices when he slips more of her queerer movie recommendations into his personal take home pile rather than the movie night stack when he thinks she’s not looking.

she doesn’t notice when he drives to indianapolis after she tries to explain to him why she can’t just ask out a cute girl, tries to impress on him the fear attached to every moment of attraction that he simply has never had to feel, but later she finds a crumpled receipt from a diner in one of his jacket pockets when she’s looking for his keys, and the address is across the street from the bar the gorgeous woman at the bookstore told her about, the one she memorized the address of but hasn’t worked up the guts to think about visiting, and she knows he must have gone looking for a place like that, must have been trying to understand, must have been scoping it out to make sure it was somewhere she could feel safe, after she told him she never had.

so when eddie nearly pops a blood vessel when they clock each other and she mentions that steve is the only person she’s ever come out to before, her hackles come up. because she gets it, she does, he’s only known king steve until recently, so it makes sense that he would be afraid, be concerned for her safety.

but steve is her person, and no one- no one- has ever made her feel as protected or as cared for as he does. no one has ever tried as hard to understand her, no one has ever put so much work into making her feel safe and seen and loved. and she thinks maybe even if no one else ever does, that’s ok. because she has steve, and more importantly steve has her, and that means no one gets to question his ally credentials in her presence without a dressing down to remember, no matter how well they mean or how recently they helped save the world.

(and maybe she’s not as surprised as she could be when he figures out bisexuality all on his own, because she’s been reading all the same pamphlets he has, after all. and she’s seen the way he looks at eddie, i mean come on. maybe no one else has noticed, but then, nobody knows steve harrington like she does.)

#stranger things #steve harrington #robin buckley #platonic stobin #steddie #(if you squint) #this got away from me #i just really love love giving steve a bit more credit yk? #like yes he’s very stupid and he has a history of being self absorbed #and we love that about him #he’s very flawed and that makes him interesting #but i really feel like one of his defining traits is his need to be useful to the people he loves #combine that with his abandonment issues and i really feel like he would be scared of fucking up and losing robin #and yeah he would play dumb like he does with dustin and d&d #but i don’t believe he knows nothing about d&d after all this time and i don’t believe he would let himself know nothing about queer culture #i’m just so so attached to the idea of steve who knows that teasing him for being dumb is his friends’ love language with him #so he pretends to be dumber than he is so they have chances to explain things to him #also stobin sharing clothes is so so so important to me just putting that out there #anyway i just think they’re neat #my writing

[fluffyfangirl]

*comes running like a mad woman, drops this and leaves*

#Will Byers #Robin Buckley #Stranger Things #Byler #Rovicky #Stranger Things Fanart #T H E M ON A SET #Also FINALLY WILL #and he is wearing GREEN #FluffyFangirlArt #My friend asked me if we wanted to play minecraft today and I said yes #IMMEDIATELY remembering that I wanted to sketch something bc BTS photos dropped and we finally got WILL #smh i managed this just right before leaving for playing minecraft #you are an important person if I leave my hyperfixation sketches to game with you #<3 #(I will stop now or else I will continue to scream about them)

[bethhiraeth]

Are you a ‘here’s a 10k word essay breaking down every prop, glance and scene that these two have ever been in, including lighting, music choices and obscure and potentially delusional references to forgotten films and historical events’ shipper, or a ‘JUST LOOK AT THEM!’ shipper?

#Yes this was about byler #I love y’all but every one of you falls into one of these #byler #stranger things #Also applies to #wenclair #elmax #Lumax #ao3 #destiel #what other ones are there #johnlock

[cringengl]

Underrated bitchy Will Byers moment: when a lady calls the party 'exterminators'

I love him sm😭😭😭

#ft lucas in the background looking like he's about to sneeze #yes will is kind honest and generous but he's also a bit judgemental and sometimes his honesty is brutal and that's ok xx #will byers #stranger things #byler #< target audience #1k+ #cntp

[38across]

steve harrington + ✋

#steve harrington #joe keery #stranger things #yes this is the gifset i need everyone to see no i don't wanna talk about it ! #38*

[hazmatazz]

some of my favorites from this post so far:

#stranger things #byler #steve harrington #el hopper #will byers #mike wheeler #max mayfield #nancy wheeler #babble #YES i know this has been talked about before. i don't care

[lazylittledragon]

Not trying to be rude or anything but you shouldn't use the word 'manic' or 'manic period' etc. unless you actually have manic/depressive episodes because it downplays how severe those disorders can actually be. They're just words but unlearning harmful terminology like that can help destigmatise mental illness and I would hope youi would want to do that.

yeah it's almost like i used those words specifically because i DO understand how severe they are

#ramble #what's that post about how some people only see ideologies and concepts and not human beings #yes we should stop throwing terminology around like nothing but also #that is not the biggest problem neurodivergent people have right now #and also you're asking me to disclose my conditions to strangers so you can decide how i'm allowed to speak #also this isn't the point but i don't know anybody who uses the word 'manic' to describe their symptoms unless they have FELT IT #because it's. so specific and you do not use it unless you know what it means #for me a manic phase doesn't mean just a little energy buzz it feels like i'm on fire #anyway please don't waste your time sending me things like this because i don't like it #go after etsy shops who sell ocd merchandise not people talking about their own struggles

[runninguplenorahills]

Actually the moment Gaten Matarazzo confirmed that Mike is in love with Will

I will never get over this lmaoo

#byler #okay but imagine the fucking cafeteria scene #the duffers be like #CUT! OKAY. FINN CAN YOU LEAN IN JUST A LITTLE MORE INTO JOSEPH? YES JUST LIKE THAT! #AND GATEN YOU GOTTA LEAN A BIT FURTHER AWAY FOR THE CONTRAST. YES! PERFECT! #NOW LET’S TRY THAT AGAIN! #lmaooo #mike wheeler is gay and naturally the whole main cast knows #this is about how some people used to argue that no one knows about mike being in love with will #not even finn?? and i’m like????? #guys #they were there when the scenes were shot💀 #everyone fucking knows #stranger things #gaten matarazzo