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If we go too fast, I'm afraid you could become lost in the darkness. And if you are lost... so are we all.

happy birthday to the one and only stav @heroesbyler !!!!!!

sorry it took me so long but this one's for you 🤍

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Height gap romance except the shorter one is frequently depicted in situations where they are contextually taller. The taller one sitting while the shorter one looms over them. Both of them lying in bed with the taller one’s head pressed to the shorter one’s chest. The shorter one straddling the taller one’s lap and leaning down for a kiss. The taller one on their knees as the shorter one tilts their head up. Please, it makes me go feral

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yall who've been over the footage even more than me - have you ever noticed any of the other lab kids talking to each other in the Rainbow Room? do you think talking is discouraged in there? like is "intellectual" / silent / individual play encouraged or is it some consequence of the fuckery that nobody except El One and Brenner hardly ever speaks in there apart from the bullying scene

Ten saying 'okay' to Brenner and then answering his next question via eight ball. son what is that. use your words. why don't you kids talk

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Trick of the Light — Chapter 1: Electric Angels

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I teach El lessons in futility on company time.

AKA: I finally got around to putting my 4.07 massacre rewrite on AO3.

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I've been Noticing Shit ™ for 18 months and 2 weeks now...So I want to revisit this one:

(Ah yes, the dark ages when I still believed in continuity errors)

Because genuinely...what the fuck was this about:

Thinking back on Stav's post about the Void showing alternate timelines...we're still in the same timeline, right? Or did we switch? A lil' switcharoo?

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Why is no one talking about the Byler and Elmax parallel?

I'm guessing it's either:

A. They think that to compare Byler to Elmax would mean that Byler is platonic

B. They'd rather die than admit there could be a romantic vibe to the Elmax nosebleed wiping scene

Listen, even if Elmax is only platonic, I don't think it means that Byler is platonic if they have a scene mirroring Elmax's. At the end of the day, Byler ARE best friends, and their romance grew from that friendship.

Either way, Will and El both had someone truly care for them on a deeper level than their other friends. Mike for Will and Max for El. Someone who sees and loves them for who they really are.

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STRANGER THINGS 2 Chapter Six: The Spy

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"they hurt you" / lab zapping and sa coding

so the sa-coding of the lab electrical punishments has been discussed but I just wanted to do a quick side post on the fact that we never actually see El get zapped.

but it's not like that's something they don't wanna show onscreen - we see it with One, Eight, Ten and Terry. but when it comes to El, we keep seeing it almost happen:

I'm about to post a big analysis about El lab csa subtext (how much is allegory and how much is subtext we can talk later) but I was like ok, they keep showing this NOT happening to El, so is that a strike against the idea? does this indicate that she lives under threat but hasn't actually had anything happen yet?

well, we know that various forms of zapping are very connected to the word "hurt"

then there's this. which like we've all said, can't just be about One getting zapped. it's far too weighty. besides, her knowing about the zapping isn't some Hail Mary revelation to pull out in this moment because they already talked about it earlier.

and El saying she and One are alike also tends to imply, but isn't a concrete statement, that she actually has been "hurt".

so has she? (I have a more support for it in my big post unfortunately. but right now I'm just addressing the hurt/electricity thing specifically)

yes she has, according to El's own dialogue in 2x7. when El says "I've killed," they provide the following two flashbacks:

2 quick observations.

I get that they're going for very snappy (ha) editing here, but they show only the neck-snap guy, and that was the guy who brandished the stun gun at her. they don't show wall-slam guy

in the brain melt clip, interestingly they DON'T show Connie. they do have time for a close up, but they choose MP dude instead.

and then we get this:

that clip of the orderlies dragging little El is the only one they put as support for "they hurt me."

she doesn't say they were going to - she says they did. so I am forced to conclude that El has, at some point prior to this lab scene, actually been zapped (so, "zapped").

but I have more questions.

if the orderly brandishing a stun gun constitutes "hurting" her, doesn't having a bunch of guns pointed at her count even more? El's so traumatized by seeing Connie shoot Benny, that she does that finger-gun thing with Mike - and yet that's not the greater thing to flash back to?

ah but now let me complicate it further - that clip is NOT of the orderlies she killed.

the killing happens in the cat version, seen in 1x3. the one they put here is from the 1x2 version, where El just gets locked in the cell and cries. it's not even the same two guys. the threat of a zap is still there because both have stun guns, but nothing really happens this time. they give her a rough shove into the cell, but that's it.

so the "hurt" being referred to is something which applies to even the non-stun-gun-brandishing orderlies. so beneath the surface, it's not about the actual guns / stun guns, or mere threat of harm, at all. this is something that has happened but which they declined to show.

idk, the fact they focused on the MP instead of Connie, even though she's the main antagonist of that scene; and on the stun-gun orderly instead of her actual first kill... like. did you just wanna lean in the more male/phallic direction both times? is that it?

because you already know how Choices are made with practically every stun gun / controller shot. and like. the imagery of stun guns hanging off the orderlies' belts is. rather.

hey. don't.

and just to round things off - idk what the current consensus is about the origin of those two phonecalls Joyce gets in s1 but there's just something about....

smth smth the thing about how Joyce's dialogue on the phone matches up with her conversation with Brenner in that one scene... ah yes this scene

idk man 😑🔫

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question. in El's birth memory she sees Brenner's and Terry's faces but before that, the very first thing that comes momentarily into sorta-focus is... what is this?

here's the clearest frame:

since there's direct light/shadow this has to be "outside" but I can't recognize it

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question. in El's birth memory she sees Brenner's and Terry's faces but before that, the very first thing that comes momentarily into sorta-focus is... what is this?

here's the clearest frame:

since there's direct light/shadow this has to be "outside" but I can't recognize it

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this just proves to me that the rest of st tumblr is about 1 year behind the unholycule when it comes to analysis

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stranger faves screenshot game

need to know who's been your single favorite character at any given point in Stranger Things using screenshots of the exact moment that person first became your fave.

this is not a ranking or a top list! this is for your #1 spot only and who it has belonged to over the years. start with whoever first stood out from the ensemble to you and add a new pic every time someone surpassed them as your new favorite. last pic is your current fave.

I probably already know who your faves are but I wanna know what exact frame of film did it for you.

mine: Joyce lying to Karen. I felt that in my bones -> baby Eleven becomes my legal daughter. hello 911 I'm having chest pains from needing to hug a fictional character -> Max lies to her counselor. hey I identify with this character more suddenly, good things must be coming her way this season! (tagging some friends but if you see this you're invited) @bananananurr @elmaxjunkie @heroesbyler @aemiron-main @elevenmayfieldz @fantasticdragonglitter @reikunrei @gshepgf @rogueddie @sacchrineskies @henrysglock

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35 year old Max Mayfield would be introduced to Wii Sports and nothing would ever be the same again

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Slaps any scene of the wheelers ever : this bad boy can fit so many one references in it. It's even in the goddamn camera lmao