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If multiple characters have the same native language but have also lived in the same non-native country for a long time, you can throw in a couple of nouns from the non-native language when they’re speaking their native language to each other (not always)

Make characters use inflection of native language with verbs of target language. Have them use this new creation when they’re speaking their native language as well (not always)

If you want to show it in your writing, make characters randomly pronounce words in the target language with a thick accent from their native language.

If your story includes a setting at an educational institution, have teachers mispronounce the names of your characters. Over and over again. No matter how easy the names are.

As everyone else has said already, make characters forget words from any language they speak (also native). One of my friends who speaks three languages once forgot a word in all of them and tried to explain it to me in Portuguese when that’s exactly the one language of her three languages I don’t understand 😭

Make characters mishear words/phrases/expressions. A friend of mine misheard “gist” as “jizz” and just went around using the phrase “getting the jizz of it” for months before she told me how strange she thinks that phrase is and I corrected her 💀

Make characters randomly use filler words from native language

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“I’ll just rest my eyes” is the biggest lie you’re going straight to snorkmimimi land

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what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

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Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things ↳ 1x05. The Flea and the Acrobat

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no cheating by looking but who do you think your Spotify top artist is gonna be this year 👀

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the thing about 10 pm is that 10 pm is basically midnight if you're not careful

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It's a little surprising that the "Monday's child is fair of face" nursery rhyme never caught on as an arbitrary personality-assigner in the same way astrology did. It makes the same amount of sense.

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I'm right here. Ok? I'm here.

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The Reagan adminstration's infamous response to AIDS informed the writing of Stranger Things

One of the show’s most significant, and often overlooked, narrative threads is the AIDS crisis. It's never mentioned directly — it's subtextual.

While this perspective on the series isn’t new, it’s still one many find uncomfortable or inaccessible. But it shouldn’t be. The show’s connection to the AIDS crisis is neither niche nor optional; it’s key to grasping the full weight of its themes.

SOMETHING EVIL IS SPREADING

THERE HAVE BEEN UNEXPLAINED DEATHS

IT'S LIKE A DISEASE

OR SOME KIND OF VIRUS

THEY CALL IT "GAY PLAGUE"

At first, it appears that mostly young and otherwise healthy gay men are affected.

It’s possible Billy was a closeted bisexual. Even if that wasn’t the writers’ intention, they deliberately draw a parallel between Will and Billy — two young men (sharing the same birth name) who are abused for being perceived as queer, and who both become infected with a mysterious “virus.” Billy’s susceptibility to the Mind Flayer can also be read as tied to his sexual activity; he’s infected while on his way to an illicit sexual encounter. It's why Billy's death is so polarizing among viewers: it's framed as both karmic and tragic. You're meant to feel that tension and grapple with it. What does that moral tension reveal about how AIDS was perceived in conservative 1980s America? And no, this isn’t “Billy apologia” — his abusive and racist behavior is intentional, designed to make us recognize him as immoral, and framed in a way that aligns with contemporary sensibilities.

AT FIRST, IT'S DISMISSED BY PEOPLE IN POWER

The authorities are intially dismissive regarding both Will’s disappearance and the diseased pumpkins — and later become in over their heads when deaths begin occurring en masse. All of these instances are related to the “disease” aka the Upside Down. The Reagan adminstration was also dismissive of the emergence of the disease, refusing to directly acknowledge it or make a statement in 1982.

EVENTUALLY THEY START LOOKING INTO IT

A year after Will is found, Hopper is now less dismissive of strange happenings in Hawkins — he urges Dr. Owens to look into the diseased pumpkins. Will now also attends regular check-ups to monitor the "disease" aka Upside Down related symptoms. Almost a year after AIDS was first mentioned in a press conference, Reagan's press secretary Larry Speakes finally claims they are allocating funds to researching the disease, though he is still mostly dismissive and making light of the situation.

BUT IT'S STILL TREATED AS A JOKE

Like Mike, journalist Lester Kinsolving is disturbed that this crisis is being looked upon as a joke. In 1983, Larry Speakes makes his infamous homophobic joke about "fairies" referencing the AIDS crisis - he directs this to Kinsolving. That is the same year Troy makes his own homophobic joke about "fairies" making light of Will's apparent death.

GAY SEX IS THE PUNCHLINE (AND THE BLAME)

Troy suggests that Will wasn’t killed by a murderer or hate-crimed, but by another “queer.” Troy's father frames Will’s death as the result of an encounter with a gay man —perhaps even while “cruising.” In this warped view, such an act wouldn’t register as violence against a child, because Will’s queerness is conflated with hypersexuality and perversion. His death is reframed as humiliating and “karmic” from a homophobic perspective. This mirrors the sentiment of the reporter who baited the White House into commenting on cruising. Such rhetoric perpetuated three of the most harmful anti-gay beliefs during the AIDS crisis: 1) Gay men were inherently promiscuous. 2) Gay men were predatory toward young boys. 3) Gay men were solely to blame for the epidemic.

THE PATIENTS ARE REFERRED TO AS WALKING CORPSES

Will is nick-named "Zombie Boy" — a walking dead. Protestors of the ACT UP coalition begin performing "die-ins" — a form of protest in which they feign death.

BECAUSE IT'S BEYOND A CURE

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is found to be an effective treatment — but it's not a cure. Testing began in 1985, but it wasn't until 1987 that the first antiretroviral drug became FDA approved. Will uses literal art as his own form of therapy — with a "The Cure" poster framed beside him.

In 1988, an article on the use of music therapy for AIDS patients is published in the medical journal Music Therapy Perspectives.

Of course, it cannot “treat” AIDS. Rather, it is used to provide psychological comfort to terminal patients, assisting them with the process of accepting illness and death. Music is able to provide comfort to Max and ward off Vecna — but only temporarily.

NOW, IT'S KILLING THE KIDS

Vecna begins targeting teenagers from Hawkins High. Both Chrissy and Fred display interest in the opposite sex: Chrissy is dating Jason, and Fred has a crush on Nancy. Patrick's sexuality is unknown. In 1985, a child with AIDS attends school in Queens. Parents protest chanting, “Two, four, six, eight, no AIDS in any grades!” In a 1985 article written by journalist Evan Thomas he states, "Now children and heterosexuals are seen as vulnerable."

SO IT MUST BE DIVINE PUNISHMENT

We're lead back to Jason's impromptu sermon: this popular straight, white, and WASPy blonde teen (a poster boy for all-American conformity) invokes the bible to rally the townspeople into a mass hysteria. The Upside Down (and Vecna) is branching out into Hawkins — it's not only The Party and those they closely associate with that are affected anymore. AIDS is now understood as an epidemic which can affect everyone, not just homosexuals and intravenous drug users ("freaks" and outcasts). Hence, a moral panic ensues.

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THE ANCIENT SCRIPTURE

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Anyone else fuck with individual songs? Who is the artist? I dunno. What album is it from? Shut up. What year was it released? *tim allen grunt* What's the title of the track? Fuck you. But it goes like this: *poorly memorized chorus*

I love that song. Do not ask me anything about it.

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they hate when me and twin are serving

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“I hate Mike” bro look at him. His dinosaur is named Rory because he roars.

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A display from a smalltown second hand bookstore. What has been found in books.