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[arisveah]

"im faking my autism", i bemoan, whilst mentally reciting the lines of the modded repo level 10 stream as i watch the fourth perspective in 2 days.

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Dead Poets Society, a queer-coded movie from 1989 about conformity. I said, oh I’m sure.

(@bylerfiles @abs-blabs @toivostardust here it is)

Let’s start with

Both take place in a very conservative place (Welton/Hawkins)

It’s set in 1959, same year of the creel murders

A group of friends, who don’t fit in

There’s a club between the friends, innocent, but that is seen as wrong and evil and something that should be stopped.

The truth being, they use the club to read poetry/play a fantasy game

(couldn’t find a good picture of hellfire😔)

Also, everyone blaming Keating and saying he influenced the students and that he basically killed Neil vs everyone blaming Eddie saying he killed Chrissy. Both Neil/Chrissy were lying, Neil is lying to his father (who accuses keating of being responsible for Neil’s death) and Chrissy is lying to Jason about the drugs (hiding the truth, you could say) and Jason holding Eddie responsible.

Then Eddie is killed and everyone remembers him as a murderer and Keating is fired and blamed for everything, but many students still love him. Keating made an impact on several students life, just like Eddie did with Dustin.

And if we’re going with Keating/Eddie then the s5 leaks of Dustin picking up fights with jocks and getting hurt also fit. Charlie almost got spelled for pulling a prank on the principal, cause that’s what he thought Keating meant when he said carpe diem. Knox got beat up by a jock because he kissed Chris’ forehead despite her being asleep and having a bf, because that’s what he thought Keating meant with carpe diem.

But,

In this case, since Eddie is a bit of a hypocrite and we see him fighting with Jason on ep1, maybe it is what he wanted, but it still will lead to Dustin getting hurt and realize it’s not how things should go on.

If the other leaks of the others getting mad at Dustin for putting himself (and themselves) in danger are true, then another similarity, cause the rest of the group is pissed that Charlie signed under the name of “the dead poets society” without asking them, putting them all in danger.

Also, forced conformity is killing the kids vs Neil dying because of forced conformity…

Of course, we also have the “amazing teacher with fun classes who students love and who helps students outside of school” trope with mr Clarke, although I can’t find any more similarities between mr Clarke and mr Keating.

Now to other characters

Todd is quiet, and so is Will

Todd/Will has an artistic talent

Also the only birthday we see (and is mentioned) in dps is Todd’s. Todd gets a desk set for his birthday gifted by his parents. He’s sad cause he already has one and that just shows how his parents don’t even care to remember or even know what he likes. Neil appears and comforts him.

Will’s birthday is… completely different. But we have the similarity of them being the only characters who’s birthday is shown, ig.

You could even say that Todd’s dad calling him $5.98 is similar to Lonnie calling Will homophobic slurs (the insults aren’t similar, but they’re still made with intention to harm)

Personality-wise, Will is more similar to Todd, but I do think he resembles Neil more ("what??? tumblr user "henry-fox-biggest-stan" what do you mean??”). Let me explain.

Both Neil and Will wearing a costume with a silly hat

And Neil being forced to give up acting by his father and Will being forced to stop playing dnd in s3 by Lucas and Mike who don’t want to play. Happens while they both are wearing a costume (tbh, I don’t think this is a dps reference, but who knows)

Both Neil and Will having non-typically masculine interests (theatre, art)

Both of them are afraid of telling the truth (Neil to his father, Will to Mike)

Also, could I say that Will having fun playing dnd before going home and being kidnapped is a parallel to Neil having fun at the play before going home and killing himself?

After all, both were unwilling to go home and were forced to by a parent (Neil’s father/Mike’s mom)

Neil’s death and Will’s kidnapping happen while they both have their (abusive) father’s gun in hand. I mean c’mon.

It also happens at night, when Neil/Will is alone. Neil had to go from his bedroom to his father's office and Will had to go from his house to the shed.

Neil dies from suicide. Will “dies” and people think it was a suicide (or an accident). However, Will comes back.

Also since we’ve established that Mr Perry = Lonnie then we have both Lonnie and Mr Perry guilt tripping Neil/Jonathan with their moms (both moms are also smokers!)

And the Perry’s are poor, just like the Byers’. Neil felt pressure to go to Harvard and become a doctor to be able to support his family financially, which reminds me of Jonathan working night shifts since he was 15 to help financially at home.

Todd/Mike’s grief is shown in more detail than other character’s, denying Neil/Will’s death and leaving the rest of the group, stading in their (now half empty) shared room and looking at his drawings, making us pay more attention to their grief

Todd meeting Neil on his first day at Welton, when he didn’t know anyone and definitely felt scared and filled with anxiety (and, having no friends and parents who don’t care, we know he also felt lonely) vs Mike meeting Will on his first day of kindergarten, when he didn’t know anyone, and felt scared and lonely.

We have Jeff as the golden, perfect child and Todd as his younger brother who cannot live up to him. Reminds me of Nancy (good grades, usually well-behaved —specially if compared with Mike who got caught plagiarizing an essay or writing in the school bathroom) vs Mike. Karen loves all her children tho.

Todd is a writer, a poet. Mike wants to be a writer, and he’s the dm, the narrator, the one creating the stories.

Todd also wears blue a lot, which is Mike’s colour.

Neil/Mike has a passion that he’s forced to give up for conformity

Neil, Todd, Cameron, and ig Knox are not very thrilled about the fact that Charlie is trying to sneak girls into their club. Reminds me of Mike being very against Max joining in s2.

We also have

Neil/Max who helped Todd/El to truly live, who became his/her closest friend and showed him/her the joys of friendship and having fun. Also, Neil/Max who eventually dies/ends up in a coma. But in this universe, Todd gets a chance to save him (El doing her weird cpr on Max)

The focus on Charlie’s empty seat vs the focus on Will’s empty seat (also works with the scene of Nancy looking at Barb’s empty seat)

Chet is on a party with his gf, Chris. Chris ends up falling asleep and Knox kisses her forehead.

Steve is on a party with his gf, Nancy. Nancy is super drunk and after a fight between them, she’s practically falling asleep. Jonathan takes her home to sleep.

(Both involve a sleeping girl with a bf)

You could also say, Chet/Steve throwing a party in his house, Chris/Nancy attending. Knox/Jonathan are there and do something lowkey creepy (Knox kissing an unconscious girl, Jonathan taking photos of Nancy accidentally). Chet/Steve gets mad and Chet beats up Knox and Steve breaks Jonathan’s camera. Both Knox and Jonathan apologize to Chris/Nancy for what they did.

Chris/Nancy ends up being endgame with Knox/Jonathan

Also

Knox/Eddie is threatened by Chet/Jason, because of something involving Chris/Chrissy

Knox/Lucas being in love with Chris/Max. Lucas being called a stalker by Max vs Knox being a stalker. Knox going to Chris’ cheerleader practice to look at her (she doesn’t know he’s there) and following her into her school vs Lucas talking to Max at school and her making references to stalking. Everything about stalking in st tbh

Oh and Knox brings her flowers aswell (which she does NOT appreciate)

A first kiss, that happens while dancing (except, snowball was all conformity, inside school and only dancing in pairs. In dps, the dancing scene is outside of school, outside the oppressive environment, and everyone is dancing with everyone).

(Mileven is technically not a first kiss, but whatever)

(I have a theory of s5 ending with a dance scene like the one in dps, so maybe we’ll get a knox/chris parallel with byler??)

Neil is celebrated by the whole group after he got his big moment in the play (Puck’s final monologue) / Lucas is celebrated by the whole team after he got his big moment in the game (scoring and winning)

Neil’s mood goes down while in the play when he notices that his dad went to see him / Lucas’ mood goes down before the game when he notices that his friends didn’t go to see him

Neil sees his dad after the play, fully bringing his mood down / Lucas sees his friends after the game, fully bringing his mood down

Both Meeks and Pitts and Dustin manage to create a radio that works

I guess you could say war veteran mr perry = war veteran victor creel

Mr Perry wanted to send Neil to military school, just like how Virginia wanted to send Henry to Brenner. Both Neil and Henry rebelled against this, but in different ways. Neil killed himself, Henry killed his family.

Also smth smth the AV club being founded by Bob but we only see the party participating, same to how the dead poets society was founded by Keating but we only see the poets participating.

And since we’re talking about Keating/Bob

Keating encouraging Neil to join the play and this being what kills him (because his father doesn’t approve and is going to punish him severely) vs Bob telling Will stand up to the mf and this being what makes Will get possessed.

Neither Keating nor Bob wanted the outcomes that came out, they both wanted to help, but they fucked up cause they didn’t know the whole truth (Keating thought Neil had told his father and had his permission and Bob had no idea about all the supernatural and just thought it was a normal nightmare).

Ok this one is a joke but I had to add it

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Whatever’s going on with Todd and time vs Mike/Will and time vs all the time lines and time traveling references in st. (Mike always being late, for example)

I don’t think it was a dps reference tho, it’s obviously inspired by time travel media, but I wanted to mention Todd’s time weirdness because no one talks about it

Also

Staring at you, Lonnie Byers.

The duffers: huh… what if we make a show inspired by cult classic media, but we make the main characters who die survive and be happy? (Neil, Frodo, Laura Palmer)

To finish, the main message of stranger things:

[violent-red]

Or alternatively

[heartbreakincident]

nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

[nattousan]

it was not on wheat...

[mossbone]

"I have depression." - character who has been through extensive therapy.

"I feel dead inside all the time and nothing helps!" - character who does like, regular introspective thinking and is aware of the concept of mental health.

"Leave me the fuck alone I'll be fine once I get over my stupid shit." - repressed character.

"It's fine I'm just having an Empty Time. What? Yeah, empty times, you know, when everything is like bzzzzzz in your brain and you don't shower for two weeks. Why, what do you call it?" - ooooughhh now we're talkin

[canni8al]

friend just told me that he and his siblings used to play a game called "abraham lincoln and the slimy slug" wherein one person is abraham lincoln, with a full range of motion, and one person is a slimy slug inside a sleeping bag

and they would fight. and of course abraham lincoln would just beat the absolute shit out of the slimy slug

[dogglegog]

dominant things you can say during sex

i didnt hear what you said

hold on i need to blow my nose

wow

i feel kind of nauseous

is this anything

i don't know

this kind of reminds me of that one song

we can probably ignore that noise if you want to

why is my sock wet

it smells bad in here

that was weird

where are my glasses

ow

this is normal

sorry

just 2 chill people chilling

this is cool

can you say that again

are we good

youre actually naked

[mearchy]

my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

[tastylemonbread]

a lot of artists dont know how to draw bullets and to be real it bothers me a lot. here's my simple guide on bullets

edit: yes i know i used the wrong terminology by now you can stop saying things. also no that crayon isnt a rocket or caseless or some shit believe me when i say that what i saw was depicting a BULLET. shut up

[guiiay]

jinx and isha visit a walmart

[altadoodler-2020-2025]

i hc them as slavic (+ german). you can't change my mind, i've had this hc for years

[aropride]

lovely character. i need him to finally break down sobbing clutching his chest like it'll stop the pain crumpling to the floor begging God to either help him or let him die

[gutterbrat]

hi. fuck ice. here is how you can help families affected by unlawful deportation

edit: and FUCK LAPD. here is how you can help bail out protestors who are in the trenches, facing mass arrests and putting their bodies on the line.

[dubioushonour]

Spin this wheel of ~300 AO3 tags three times.