Honestly this sounds ridiculous but sometimes I think the constant bowl cut jokes that the ga and reddit make about Will are basically them just coping and seething at the idea of Will being an actually important character. It’s like every time they only choose to focus on how silly they think his haircut is, they progressively devalue his character and take him less and less seriously. And it kinda seems like they’re just trying to convince themselves that Will could not possibly be important to the narrative, could not possibly be explored in a deep and significant way-not because they correctly understand the story but because they really do not want a gay male character to be focused on in “their” show. The amount of attention Will and his sexuality get already is probably too much for some of them.
Because stranger things is so mainstream, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people just subconsciously view it as a “normal people show” even though it started as a show about/for outcasts. Thus, the more focus that’s given to a gay male character, the more it becomes a “gay show,” and if their “normal show” starts becoming a “gay show,” it will make a part of the audience feel duped and “forced” into confronting a subject that makes them uncomfortable: homosexuality (and its associated struggles). And a lot of these people would be especially angry at this development because they can’t even comprehend that competent, male creators might willingly tell a story about a gay boy, so they end up assuming that the creators must have been pressured to force the story into taking a turn for the gay, or that they’ve been brainwashed by the woke agenda-after all, they couldn’t just be progressive people who sat down and simply decided naturally that they wanted to explore homosexuality as a major theme in a sci-fi horror show from the start. That’s not even allowed, right? Gay stuff should be contained and quarantined in gay-specific genres like a disease, right?
Anyway, I just think it’s maybe not a coincidence that I see way less “reducing Will to his haircut” behavior from people who are invested in the complexity and humanity of his character compared to the people who clearly want him to stay small and hidden, out of sight and out of mind.
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yoshiki has the same energy as the girl at the beginning of a horror movie who gets murdered within the first ten minutes to tease how scary the big bad is. I mean, c’mon, he just saw a bunch of ghosts hours before and his first thought upon hearing a knock in the dead of night is “huh i wonder who it could it be?”
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It takes constant fucking with whenever i boot into world tour. and giving myself cool glowing orange eyes makes me scary as shit. but i think ive finally reached a point where my SF6 Avatar looks Good
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Wing when u draw yourself u look exactly like Belos it's
i was going to prove you wrong and then i remembered that when thanks to them came out the storyplay Philip was dressed exactly like I always dress
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happy ldov to lesbians who are also weird guys 👍
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i really do think it incredibly funny that netflix went to adapt soc/sab and saw kaz “traumatised and emotionally closed off gang leader with a terrible haircut” brekker and went “yep we know exactly how to do that one” and gave him the tommy shelby cut.
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