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Say what you what about any of the following seasons, but season 1 of Stranger Things stands up with the best seasons of all time. Eleven was immediately one of the most iconic characters in ages. The hyper-referentiality felt so fresh and heartbreakingly nostalgic. The slow building tension was exceptionally paced. Do y’all realize we didn’t even see the monster for most of the season???

But then there’s the Will storyline, which even then was such a solid allegory for queer childhood. Despite his supportive friendships and his loving mom and brother, Will is trapped in the darkest of realities alone, fighting for his life by hiding. He hides from the monsters (government funded monsters) that have already taken others. He knows what it is to be terrorized from the teachers and kids at school, from a violent and hateful father. But, how long can he last down there by himself, not even realizing people are trying to reach him, trying to let him know they are on his side, that they’re fighting this together, that he isn’t alone??? And ugh! The poetic cinema as his friends find the body in the quarry pool just at the moment his mother thinks she’s finally broken through. He starts speaking to her from the other side, flickering colorful lights from his darkness. And his mother and brother are giddy and running to tell the others as the police sirens flash down the road towards them to tell Joyce that her child is dead. And the strings of Peter Gabriel’s Heroes cover start to swell and he sings “Though nothing will drive us away/We can be heroes just for one day/Ah, we can be us just for one day.”

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Mike talking to everyone else vs. Mike talking to Will

Only the softest voice for his best boi

Stranger Things 3, Chapter 6 | E Pluribus Unum

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Hey...you okay?

Suzie, Do You Copy? Chapter One | Stranger Things 3

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A Brief History of Pining Over Your Best Friend by Will Byers

S3  |  S2

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“It’s not my fault you don’t like girls.”

The Case of the Missing Lifeguard, Chapter Three | Stranger Things 3

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“Welcome to my world.”

The Flayed, Chapter Five | Stranger Things 3

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A Will Byers Freakout

WHAT’S GONNA HAPPEN TO MY BOY THIS SEASON?

HE’S GONNA BE ALL ALONE BECAUSE MIKE AND EL AND THEN LUCAS AND MAX AND THEN DUSTIN AND STEVE AND POOR WILL IS ON THE SIDELINES OF FRIENDSHIP PER USUAL

AND WHAT’S UP WITH THESE?!?!

WHAT ON EARTH LIKE TWO TRACKLIST SONGS DEDICATED TO OUR BOY?

A) WHY THE USE OF THE FULL NAME? WILLIAM? WHO’S CALLING HIM WILLIAM? DOES LONNIE COME BACK? IS THIS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY?

B) WHO’S DESTROYING THE CASTLE AND WHY? CASTLE BYERS IS A SYMBOL OF SAFETY AND COMORT FOR WILL SO WHY ARE THEY DESTROYING IT?

LET’S ALSO NOT FORGET THIS

WHY IS WILL THE ONLY ONE DRESSED UP AND IF MIKE’S SPEECH IS DIRECTED AT WILL THEN WILL THIS BE A PAINFUL™️ SCENE?!

HOW IS WILL’S CHARACTER GONNA DEVELOP THIS SEASON IF HE’S BEING THIRD WHEELED BY ALL HIS FRIENDS? WHY DID THE DUFFERS PICK THIS AS THE TIME TO DESTROY CASTLE BYERS?!

And what about

AND ALL THE OTHER WAYS THEY ALLUDE TO HIS SEXUALITY IN SUBTLE WAYS? IS THAT GONNA COME UP?!

WHAT’S IN STORE FOR WILL BYERS THIS SEASON BECAUSE THIS

HAS ME REALLY FREAKING CURIOUS.

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Folks let me talk about Crowley and sunglasses, because I have a lot of emotions about when he wears them and when he doesn’t, and Hiding versus Being Seen.

We’re introduced to the concept of Crowley wearing glasses even before we’re introduced to Crowley, by Hastur: “If you ask me he’s been up here too long. Gone native. Enjoying himself too much. Wearing sunglasses even when he doesn’t need them.”

Honestly Crowley’s whole introduction is a fantastic; we learn so much about his character in a tiny amount of time. The fact that he’s late, the Queen playing as the Bentley approaches, the “Hi, guys” in response to Hastur and Ligur’s “Hail Satan”. I like this intro much better than the one originally scripted with the rats at the phone company, but I digress.

Crowley wears sunglasses when he doesn’t need them. Specifically, he still wears them around the demons, and when he’s in hell.

You know where Crowley doesn’t wear glasses? At home.

We never once see him wearing glasses in his flat, except for when he knows Hastur and Ligur are coming. That’s an emotional kick to the gut for me. Here’s one of the only places Crowley’s comfortable enough to be sans glasses, and when he knows it’s going to be invaded he prepares not just physically with the holy water, but by putting up that emotional barrier in a place where he wasn’t supposed to need it.

An argument could be made that Crowley actually never needs glasses. We’re shown that it’s well within the angels’ and demons’ powers to pass unnoticed by humans. Crowley and Aziraphale waltz out of the manor in the middle of a police raid, and going unnoticed by the police takes so little effort that they can keep up a conversation while they stroll through. Even an unimaginative demon like Hastur apparently doesn’t have trouble with the humans losing it over his demonic eyes. The humans in the scene at Megiddo are acting like “this guy is a little weird” and not “holy shit his entire eyeballs are black jelly”

That means that Crowley’s glasses are a choice, just like Aziraphale’s softness. Sure, he could arrange matters so that nobody ever noticed his eyes, but he doesn’t want to. Crowley wants acceptance, and he wants to belong, and he’s never, ever had that. He didn’t fit in before the Fall in Heaven, he doesn’t fit in with the demons in Hell. With the glasses, and with the Bentley and his plants and with the barely-bad-enough-to-be-evil nuisance temptations, he’s choosing Earth. This is where he wants to fit in, perhaps not with the humans, but amongst them.

Even after Crowley is at his absolute lowest, when he thinks Aziraphale’s dead and he’s on his way to drink until the world ends, he takes the time to put a new pair on when the old ones are damaged. He needs that emotional crutch right now, even with everything about to turn into a pile of puddling goo he’s not ready for the world to see his eyes.

Which is why I swore out loud when Hastur forcibly takes them off.

It’s about the worst thing that Hastur could have done. Rather than leading with a physical threat, his first act is to strip away Crowley’s emotional defences. It’s a great writing choice because god it made me hate Hastur, even more than all the physical violence we see him do.

It’s also the moment that Crowley really truly gets his shit together, and focuses all of his considerable imagination on getting to Tadfield and Aziraphale to help save the world. He’s wielding the terrifyingly unimaginable power of someone who’s hit rock bottom and realised it literally could not get any worse than this. He doesn’t put another pair of glasses on after discorporating Hastur, and he spends the majority of the airbase sequence without them.

He puts them back on again, I think, at the moment that he really lets himself hope. When he thinks ‘shit, there may be a real chance that we get through this to a future that I don’t want to lose’.

The vulnerability is back, and he needs Adam to trust him. In Crowley’s mind being accepted by a human means he needs to have his eyes hidden. Someone give the demon a hug, please.

Interestingly, there’s only one time in the whole series that we see Crowley willingly choose to take his glasses off around another person. Only one person he’ll take down that barrier for, and even then he’s drunk before he does it.

Dear God/Satan/Someone that makes my heart ache. Crowley’s chosen Earth, but he’s also chosen Aziraphale. He’s been looking for somewhere to belong his entire existence, and it’s with the angel that he finally feels it.

When the dust settles and the world is saved and they finally have space to be themselves unguarded, I like to imagine Crowley takes off the glasses when it’s just the two of them; the idea of being known doesn’t scare him quite so much anymore.  

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9 years on, and we're finally back where we started. I don't even use tumblr that much anymore, and all the friends I've made here in the original DC fandom have all de-activated their accounts, but I hope they're all out there celebrating Tim, Kon, Bart and Cassie's reunion.

I colored it! :D Click through to see it on devart!!! I <3 you guys, all 3 of my followers lololol

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What did Yoonbum hide in the basket???

This was the catalyst of Sangwoo's descent from redemption. Will it ever be revealed??? If Bum hadn't been so bad at surprises, many things could have been avoided :( we're still missing this huge piece of information

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Tim said “Not without Conner” and then Kon just returned?

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IT’S BEEN TOO LONG DC FAM. WELCOME HOME.

Ok DC let the boyfriends reunite now that they’re 1000x as hot

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Suddenly reminiscing on this amazing 10 year old fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12631818/chapters/28782225

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He did THAT. I’m not even gonna pretend I’m not crying.

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“Do you remember the first day we met?”

The Mind Flayer, Chapter Eight | Stranger Things 2

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the character development we truly need.

genuinely… is he okay

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“It’s connected!”

“Ye-yes! It-a-and then-that-and...”

“...”

“...sorry.”

Dirk breaks.

The House Within a House, S2E4