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Look at him

Did you know that: Jesus Christ is truly present, body, blood, soul, and divinity in the Eucharist?!

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Worf and Jesus both need to meet Kim Dokja

This man really be making dying his whole personality

Why have “lord and savior who died for our sins” when you can have “traumatized man who dies for his own stupidity”

Did you know that: Jesus Christ is truly present, body, blood, soul, and divinity in the Eucharist?!

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Hi! For anyone who was severely dissatisfied by season four of Stranger Things:

I will be rewriting the entire thing on ao3. All of season four will be included. It’s going to be a big project and I’m still in the planning stages now, but I will be releasing the first chapter in about two weeks.

It’s mostly character driven. There will be Byler. Many platonic friendships that I felt hadn’t been done justice this season will be explored.

Would anyone like to be tagged?

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That's it. That's their friendship.

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robin and will when they officially meet each other

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will leaving hawkins thinking he’s the only gay person around only to come back to the fruit farm

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Socialist Nancy, Communist Robin, and Anarchist Eddie love to have political debates in front of Steve, who doesn’t know who the U.S. president is.

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The Stranger Things fandom be like:

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Maybe the real stranger thing was the heterosexuality we lost along the way

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This is the best post abt this I have seen so far omg

I can’t stop thinking about the way that when Robin hears Nancy’s name in Season 3 she rolls her eyes and calls her a priss, but then not five minutes later she runs into Nancy in the flesh who’s apparently in the thick of the insane situation Robin has become unwittingly wrapped up in. Her makeup is smudged and her hair is messy and she’s terse with Robin and all Robin can do is utter a flustered reply while giving her this look:

And then shortly afterwards Robin watches as Nancy plants herself in front of a station wagon full of kids and shoots at an oncoming speeding car with a pistol, fully ready to sacrifice herself to protect them. That night at the Star Court Mall changes everything Robin thought about this dainty, pretty, prissy girl who turns out to be a certified badass with nerves of steel. 

After this, Robin is smitten. She volunteers to go with Nancy the moment an opportunity presents itself. When they’re waiting in the library, she assumes that Nancy has some genius trick up her sleeve because since Star Court she’s built up an idea of who she is in her mind: brilliant and brave and tenacious. Robin is so desperate for Nancy to like her that she loses all pretense of sardonic aloofness that we see around other characters and the words start spilling out, exactly as she described when venting to Steve about how she behaves around girls she’s crushing on. 

Robin is self-conscious and apologetic about how she comes across to Nancy, she repeatedly tries to diffuse the underlying tension between them in any way that she can, and is particularly keen to emphasise the platonic nature of her friendship with Steve. Despite barely knowing Nancy, she starts using the nickname “Nance” right away. There’s a sincere and earnest effort to win Nancy’s approval and affection; Robin needs it more than she even realises.

And the thing is, it works. Nancy starts off cool and irritable and exasperated (which, one should point out, may be in no small part because she’d been up all night looking for her friend who she just found brutally murdered - cut her some slack folks!), but after those two hours with Robin in the library, she realises that she’s remarkably bright and creatively minded and complements her own logical way of thinking so well. You can see the journey she undergoes in that short period of time written on her face: bemusement and impatience soon give way to respect and the dawning realisation that she’s met her intellectual match, someone with the same insatiable curiosity and a whole new way of seeing the world to show her. 

Nancy has so many emotional walls built up from years of repression and trauma, especially surrounding having and losing friends (not to mention, potentially, her own repressed queerness), but Robin despite her insecurities over her lack of filter and tendency to ramble and her other personal quirks manages to steal in past those defences. After that first encounter together, Nancy wants Robin by her side at all times. Even though she knows Steve, Dustin, Lucas and Max so much better, she picks Robin to come with her to Pennhurst, she asks Robin to explore the Creel House with her, she has Robin ride shotgun with her in her car. They stick together as a pair at every turn. 

This is so, so important: Nancy grows to like and care about Robin because of her being totally and utterly herself. The Robin whose mouth moves faster than her brain, the Robin who is relentlessly inquisitive and goofy and clumsy, the Robin who is at her most overtly neurodivergent around her. And Robin is slowly but surely finding confidence in herself and courage through that relationship, she’s taking risks she never would have before, and learning that her perceived flaws are actually strengths. When talking to Warden Hatch at Pennhurst with Nancy, it’s her runaway way with words that saves them and leaves Nancy incredibly impressed. The unmasked, unfiltered, beautiful gay disaster Robin Buckley is the person Nancy comes to admire and develops a deep fondness for. 

It’s been said many times before, but Robin and Nancy complete each other. As we’ve just established, Nancy quickly becomes a source of reassurance, inspiration and affirmation for Robin. And Robin is someone who can keep up with Nancy’s laser-focused fixations and faced-paced thinking, who can challenge her to consider things she never would have otherwise. She also encourages Nancy to be more honest with herself and makes her feel at ease at a time when she’s more lost than ever. Robin is always carefully reading Nancy and respects her opinions and feelings; she’s the friend and confidant Nancy has been missing in her life all this time since losing Barb.

When they’re talking in the woods, it’s not what Robin says about Steve or Jonathan that Nancy latches onto. What truly takes her aback is the realisation that Robin considers them to be friends, and both quietly, bashfully blush and smile to themselves at that confirmation. However adrift Nancy might be from her complex feelings over Jonathan and Steve or her unhealed emotional scars, she’s found an anchor in someone. However insecure Robin might feel about herself, she’s found a girl who she doesn’t have to pretend with.

And then we come to perhaps the most revealing scene of the season so far: when Eddie, Steve, Nancy and Robin are on the boat over Lover’s Lake. The parallels to Tammy Thompson are evident as Robin stares at Nancy who can’t pull her eyes away from Steve, and the way in which the camera focuses on the two characters in the frame imparts so much more than Robin simply being happy for the rekindled feelings of her friends. Her longing expression breaking into a soft smile and the bowing of her head feels like the sad acceptance of something she believes to be unattainable for her. 

Nancy demonstrates her trademark reckless abandon to protect the people she loves when she dives in to rescue Steve without hesitation after he’s pulled under, but Robin’s reaction is gut-wrenching as she cries out Nancy’s name and reaches for her. And then Robin, who beneath her snarky facade is far more scared than she likes to let on, pushes down those fears and without wasting a second moves to go after her with a sense of resigned determination. The framing of this scene, the dialogue and Maya Hawke’s performance make it clear that Robin is willingly following Nancy Wheeler into hell. As Eddie says, that’s as sure a sign of true love as these cynical eyes have ever seen. 

Regardless of whether the romantic subtext is intentional or this relationship is supposed to remain strictly platonic, Nancy and Robin’s blossoming friendship is a very special one. Having swiftly dismantled their presumptions about one another, they’ve found true synergy, inspiring and pushing each other to be the best versions of themselves. In spite, or rather because of their differences, the two are slowly but surely forging a profound bond that is already one of the most charming and memorable on the show to date, and with any luck, we’ll get some meaningful and moving payoffs to their arcs together in Vol 2. Perhaps, through each other, Nancy and Robin will finally find the closure, catharsis and connection they’ve been yearning for. 

Thanks so much to @meanlesbianrobin for providing the accompanying screenshots! 

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OMG NUMBER ONE IS GELLERT GRINDELWALD AND HE IS HOTTTT

them cheekbones

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Why are there so many new characters on st4??? I don’t care abt any of them??? Stop throwing new random people at me!!!?!!?

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Joyce and Hopper should have stayed friends.

I hate the romanticization of every close friendship in any piece of media. Joyce and Hopper’s feelings for each other seemed completely forced and thoroughly unnecessary. The whole thing was an excuse to manufacture conflict between them in season three despite the fact that their side plot would have been just as interesting without Hopper’s ooc mood swings. Besides, they were and still are in a place in their lives where they need a best friend more than they need a romantic relationship. The whole Russia storyline would have been just as meaningful if they were friends.

(To be fair, I will now completely discredit myself by saying that I’m arospec. I don’t know what I’m talking abt lolll)

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Nancy and Robin’s very obvious chemistry aside, why are the Duffer brothers trying to push Nancy and Steve? How is this adding to the story, or frankly benefitting any part of the show? Steve spent the entirety of season three moving on from Nancy and Nancy is on her own path that doesn’t and shouldn’t involve Steve. I fully support them being friends, but they’ve moved too far past each other to get back together, not to mention the fact that Joe Kerry and Natalia Dyer don’t have nearly as much chemistry with each other as they do with other cast members. This ship just makes me angry.

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Unpopular opinion: I don’t like Eddie Munson.

I understand why Mike and Lucas and Dustin would like him. He’s a very charismatic, older guy who shares their nerdy interests. It completely makes sense that they’d be attracted to his presence. I just don’t understand why so many fans like him. I don’t see his appeal outside of what the party thinks of him within the story. At all. He’s just another chaotic good dude I don’t uNdErStAnD

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PLEASE tell me someone finds it as heartbreaking as I do that Steve and Dustin’s friendship was completely sidelined this season. Their dynamic was the most engaging part of season two and one of the only things that kept me interested in season three. They had so much chemistry together, and they genuinely cared for each other while still having playful relationship. And then in season four they just… ignore it??? I understand that there are more important plot elements, and that Steve is naturally growing tired of being the babysitter as he watches everyone around him grow up. But without their friendship I almost completely lost interest in the show. The warmth in their relationship is completely gone, they’ve gone from lighthearted teasing to snippy comments, and they have almost no real screen time together. Because so many people seemed to love Steve and Dustin before, I expected to see more outraged or at least saddened fans, but no one agrees with me and I swear I am about to explode -