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the things I would do to have the water dancing scene in step up 3 in better quality are unspeakable (yeah I’m rewatching it)

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the way adam sevani and step up 3 just shaped my entire personality and influenced my life and way of being is crazy. if it weren’t for that movie I don’t think I would’ve ever started dancing and I’m honestly so glad I did

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Here's to the people who weren't abused by their parents, but whose parents sucked anyways. Here's to people whose parents fucked up raising you out of ignorance and not malice. Here's to the kids whose parents didn't know what to do with you so they did nothing at all. Here's to people whose parents are getting better and growing as people but still hurt you. Here's to every mean comment that wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't come from your mom; here's to awkward family dinners because you're all trying to forget;

here's to you, survivor of a thousand 'not as bad as it could have been' hurts. I see you. You aren't alone.

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that moment when the mental breakdown is so big not even music can solve your problems

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Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3

Thunder. Enter the three Witches.

FIRST WITCH:

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girls live in a world where they are forced to work and there is no time to read every second of the day and a beverage does not cost one dollar. and they wonder why we’re insane

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i have a soft spot in my heart for people who notice the little things

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museum dates where she stares at the shit and i stare at her

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okay i will start the conversation. every main female character with longevity on stranger things has some aspect to them that makes them Not Like Other Girls. eleven is obvious but doesn't inherently have an issue if the rest of the girls weren't framed in such ways. look at nancy, barb an outcast disapproves of her getting dressed up for her boyfriend. her having sex with steve is framed as a negative which indirectly "causes" barb's death. her sexuality as a normal teenage girl is punished and shamed. and sure, her being literally slutshamed on screen is condemned by the characters but narratively? it's still kinda supported. she is only seen as on the right path when she is heavily distanced from girlhood. her feminine youth is poked fun at in s4 in a way that frames all her girly things and dresses as cringey and foolish now. going so far as to put robin in an outfit that is very clearly ridiculous and doesn't even look like something nancy would wear.

also of note that nancy having consensual sex with her boyfriend is somehow framed worse than jonathan taking explicit photos of her without her consent. he is even rewarded for it in the end by getting a new camera and eventually getting nancy.

joyce is one i don't think people consider. but she is always dressed down, she doesn't get to be as well groomed. she is looked down on by the rest of the women who are then framed as frivolous and too wrapped up in being housewives to be competent enough to take proper care of their children. all the mothers are in this are unfair caricatures of being unable to discipline their kids or know what is going on. they just sit at home wringing their hands, clueless about their children's lives and just some big incompetent punchline. or you have mrs wheeler who is constantly treated like shit by her husband and children. then objectified and turned into some weird predatory thing towards billy for no reason.

max of course who i love and adore. but is another example of being framed as more worthy and cool because she's a tomboy. i love her exactly how she is. but it still has that air of she's only cool because she rejects girly things and only wants to do the "boy" things. they do the whole bit of el being jealous and shit. which some of this is rectified in s3 but it's still weird??

chrissy even irks me because you have this feminine cheerleader who serves no purpose except to kickstart eddie's narrative. which ends up being kind of pointless in the end because he just gets killed off in a way that doesn't even do anything for the overall plot. i think if i remember correctly some girl got killed to kick off billy's mind flayer arc in s3 too? there is this whole thing of like teenage girlhood being sacrificed each season.

ngl even eleven's bully kinda made me feel weird. the way they're contrasted, where they have el back in like dumpy clothes. she's dressed in an unflattering way and very clearly Not Girly. to then have her bully be a hyper feminine girly girl who is properly primped and preened and all in pink. like i know this stuff isn't even That Deep. it's mostly some cishet white nerdy men's internal biases showing. it's like alskjdf there are more pressing issues in the show. it just kinda makes me feel weird when i look at it all together? anyway there it is

robin is different bc she's a lesbian i give her a pass she gets to have the not like other girls arc. duffer bros get to keep this one

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say it. out loud

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Are your love languages really physical touch and acts of service or are you actually a touch starved people pleaser?

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anywhere but here

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Hey (with the intentions of)

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I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'M NOT CRYING I'M NOT CRYING I'M NOT-