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Not gonna lie. I had to Google who that was, and found out she was one of the moms one Stranger Things who was not played by Winona Ryder. And I don’t know if I’m the right person to answer your question since I only saw the first season of Stranger Things back when there was only one season of it and don’t remember a lot of it apparently.

But feel free to build on this idea!

On Helen Morgendorffer

Rewatching Daria, and I really like Helen’s character. I only remember her as the workaholic mom who was always stressed. But rewatching this and I’m catching a lot I missed with her character, and she seems so much more.

She has a demanding job, and puts a lot of effort into it. Maybe more than is healthy. I’m not denying that.

But even while she is dealing with business she tries her best to listen to both of her daughters. She’ll do paperwork and listen, not catching everything but most stuff.

She sits there while Quinn goes on about the Fashion Club and her high school dramas. She doesn’t seem to care, but she sits there to know what’s going on. She stays on top of what Quinn is doing and who she is with. And when she realizes there is a problem, like and overly touchy-feely substitute teacher, she jumps into action right away.

Daria she treats a little differently, asking direct questions knowing its the only way she’ll get Daria to tell her anything important. She wants Daria to be more involved, but doesn’t force it right away. She asks, then bribes, and only steps it up to actual coercion as a last resort. And even if she wants Daria to be involved, the minute she knows Daria and Jane’s poster is stolen by their principle she jumps in to their defense and threatens the school for forcing Daria and Jane into something they didn’t want.

She has both of her daughter’s backs. And she never tries to play them against each other. She doesn’t seem to expect Daria to act more like Quinn, and vice versa. I don’t think I ever here her seriously ask why one can’t be more like the other. She encourages them to look after each other. 

And it’s not just her kids. Helen looks after Trent and Jane with no hesitation. She lets both of them stay at the Morgnedorffer house without hesitation or asking why they won’t go home. And she’s mostly nice about it. She reminds Trent that if he lives in their house, he has to live with things like a curfew, but it comes from concern more then anything else. And during the hurricane episode she tells Trent to stay with them because she knows he didn’t prepare for the storm and figures Jane’s default would be to come home with Daria and not to her own home. 

And when Jane calls her once, Helen does jump the gun and assume its because Jane was arrested, which is a little extreme. But she doesn’t hang up. She tells Jane she isn’t that type of lawyer, but she is going to get one for her right away. She tells Jane not to say anything, and that Helen was on her way. She does this in a matter of seconds with no hesitation. Wrong of her to jump to conclusions? Yeah. But she was ready to step in for a girl she knows has absentee parents without hesitation.

So Helen Morgendorffer, stressed out workaholic who tries to make it work as both a professional and mom. She fails on occasion and struggles with it, but she tries which is so much more then some of the TV parents out there. Way to go, Helen.

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Sometimes a family is a thief, a magical key, her genius girlfriend, her girlfriend’s boss, and a veteran with PTSD and a bit of a hero streak, all coming together because capitalist monopolies ruined the world and need to be stopped, and that’s wonderful.

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Sancia Grado: The world is a terrible place and you can't trust anyone. That's why I don't need friends, they are useless.

Sancio Grado after 15 minutes with Clef: This is Clef. He is literally a key. But he is also my best friend I would rather let the world burn then let him get hurt.

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So when are we getting Mamma Mia 3: How Could I Resist You? which is Cher and Fernando telling Sophie all about how they first met, and all the flashbacks have Diego Luna playing the younger Fernando?

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Nature’s contouring

Albino raccoon

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Things I’m obsessed with: Billy Porter at the oscars

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this morning NASA abandoned their mars rover Opportunity (aka Oppy) because it (she) got hit by a storm on Mars and it knocked her camera and wheels out and her last words to the team were “my battery is low and it is getting cold”. I know she’s a machine but I’m devastated. Oppy is the one who discovered water on Mars. RIP oppy ily space baby

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Still can’t believe The Good Place got away with naming three characters Doug, and no one seems to care.

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Pitch idea: have  season 4 open like the episode of a true crime series delving into the mysterious disappearances of the soul squad. 

Kamilah would totally fund and or star in the documentary series that delves into the disappearance of her sister, who she was finally reconnecting with. And that means diving into the disappearances of the last group of people her sister was seen with.

Lets face it, Tahani’s disappearance would totally be a true crime special. The near death experience. Her participation as a test subject in a university study. Her engagement to the least fortunate Hemsworth and the engagement’s sudden end. A sudden marriage to a Floridian man named Jason Mendoza. Suddenly appearing in Kamilah’s life to make amends and then buying a ticket to rural Canada? Last known credit card transaction at a bar where there had obviously been some sort of fight?

Then there is the Senegalese professor Chidi Anagonye. Like Tahani he had a very serious relationship, only to break it off suddenly. He was documented with having a mental breakdown in the middle of one of his lectures. And then he befriended his test subjects  to then go globe trotting with them.

Then there are the two Americans, Eleanor Shellstrop and Jason Mendoza. Each with a bit of a criminal past. Both had near death experiences and both ended up in Australia to take part in Prof. Anagonye’s study. According to one of Jason’s friends, Jason told him he, his new wife Tahani, and the man they were with were spies for NASA? And his dad explains that his son has become religious.

Eleanor’s only two friends who agreed to be interviewed were Simone, the neuroscientist who was a part of the study (and Chidi’s former girlfriend), and Eleanor’s sorority sister (who would only be interviewed anonymously). Simone’s story is that after Chidi broke up with her, she continued her study and Eleanor and Chidi just left Australia after Eleanor had a big blow up at Tahani’s engagement party.

And the sorority sister (despite no evidence of Eleanor having ever been in a sorority) said Eleanor showed up out of the blue to catch up and wish her well with her new life. Eleanor was with an older man called Michael, and from security camera footage from several sites, he appears to be the same man who was with Jason and Tahani.

And then there was an unknown woman seen in airport security videos with the group, but no one knows who she is.

 Don’t tell me Kamilah wouldn’t turn this big puddle of weird into an award winning mini-series as she tries to get the public to finally pay attention to her sister and find out what happened to her.

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I’m not ready for the next Marvel movie that won’t feel quite right. When the credits roll, and our hearts will break as we see the title card “In memory of Stan Lee”. The cameo we’ve been waiting for was not in that movie. And there never will be one again.

RIP Stan Lee.

EXCELSIOR!

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Isn’t this the plot of Megamind?

Another trope I forgot to mention that I love are traumatized characters experiencing love for the first time and not knowing how to cope with it. I just eat that shit up

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The Mamma Mia films become even more entertaining when you assume Harry is the same Harry from Kingsmen.

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Bureau of Balance: Year One

What sort of insanity were the early years of the Bureau of Balance? Because it basically sounds like after failing in Wonderland, Lucretia just decided, “Welp, that didn’t work. Guess I gotta start a secret society now and get a cool secret base together for my super secret elite team, two alien fish, and my gnome friend who only knows his own name.”

She just shows up at the Millers with a memory controlling fish, “Whats up? I hear you make elevators. You wanna build a moon base? I’ll even let you make a baby moon base as a test.”

After touring the Miller space labs she makes some aesthetic choices to improve on for her official moon base. Decisions like, less Upsy, more secret aquariums, and space for Magical Costco.

So now she goes out looking for a couple of badasses to work for her. She appoints Davenport as HR. Gets a contract with Costco.

At what stage did she decide to make the tests? Were they there from the get go? Were they initiated after too many people died in pursuit of the artifacts? Was Lucas bored and branched out from Hodge Podge?

Looking back on it, we act like Taako is the  most dramatic. But I’m pretty sure Lucretia wins. She starts a secret cult on a secret moon base complete with a secret symbol, comes up with an elaborate backstory about the artifacts, creates an insane initiation test, hires some pretty crazy people to risk their lives hunting down artifacts, and comes up with some bomb ass outfits and jewelry for herself and rest of the bureau. 

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Why does Tumblr want me to see Isle of Dogs so badly?

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That video with Addam’s family aesthetic where Ariana Grande and Mika basically kill people with magic while singing a cover of Wicked’s ‘Popular’ is something that feels too bizarre to really exist.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that one in possession of upstairs neighbors, must hear marbles rolling across the ceiling.

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This new Fantastic Beasts trailer wants me to believe that Albus Dumbledore owned and wore a bland colored coordinated suit ensemble. 

Albus Dumbledore who wore a purple suit to go incognito when meeting Tom Riddle for the first time. The man whose robes are so outrageous that even Harry “Oblivious as a brick wall” Potter notices them. A guy who thinks that tucking his beard into his belt is peak fashion thank you very much.

This is not a man who would ever wear some neutral colored matching suit on his own volition. He wouldn’t even own something like that. Albus Dumbledore would see something like that on a rack and think it was a distasteful joke.