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spamton & tennas tv time ???

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The ol’ jitterbug

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happy pride. drops this on your doorstep like a cat with a dead bird

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The concept of Jonathan and Mike arguing over Will's safety and Jonathan is like: "Dude he's my brother!" And Mike is like: "Well he's my-" --awkward pause-- "my f-friend..." And then Jonathan gives him THE LOOK.

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I cannot stop thinking about Episode 5 of TADC because Ragatha is, however unintentionally, one of the best examples of how isolating and difficult it is to interact with the world as an autistic person I have ever seen. To the point it genuinely makes me sad to think about her. I need to make a post expanding on this at some point but rn just. The way everyone assumes there’s some sinister hidden meaning to everything she does and says but she’s literally just trying to be nice and she doesn’t understand why it’s not working. The way she tries so hard to make connections but it constantly falls flat, she says things that hurt without realising how or why. She follows the rules she’s been taught will make her friends — she’s kind, she’s forgiving, she’s accepting and apologetic when she messes up, but for some reason it’s just not working. She tries to mimic other people, she tries to laugh at past experiences, tries to open up about her past like everyone else is doing, but now everyone’s uncomfortable and looking at her like she’s crazy and she doesn’t get it!! She doesn’t get it!!! Jax is a jerk and he’s mean to everyone but for some reason Pomni likes him and she doesn’t get it, she doesn’t understand! Pomni tells her it’s okay to be a jerk sometimes but Ragatha doesn’t like being mean, she wants to be nice to people, but she does it anyway, she gets mean like Jax and Zooble do but now Pomni’s looking at her like she’s done something wrong but she just did what she asked her to!! She doesn’t get it!! At the end of the episode everyone goes off into their groups and Ragatha is left alone, after having tried so hard to make friends and fit in and make people like her, she’s still alone, and everyone thinks she’s weird and unapproachable and she just has to give up and accept that she is inherently unloveable. Her evil alter ego tells her she’s going to die alone and nobody loves her and the only thing she corrects her on is the fact that they can’t die here. The few that might like her when she’s around don’t miss her when she’s gone, because there’s nothing to miss. Ragatha has spent her whole life systematically stripping away everything that makes her different and unlikeable in order to make herself more palatable to others, and in the process she has made herself a personalitiless blank slate with no unique identity for others to latch onto and appreciate. She has nothing to add to any conversation because she’s too afraid of being disliked to have a memorable personality beyond being generally polite and nice. And just. God. Someone get this girl some noise cancelling headphones and a therapist on speed dial, being this good of a representation of what it’s like to be autistic, especially to be an autistic person with trauma, is not good for the soul. That final shot just destroys me right in the heart. My poor girl.

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✨🏳️‍⚧️ A short pride comic, hope you’re all well 🏳️‍⚧️✨

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big shoutout to trans people that decide to change their last name too. sometimes you’ve just gotta throw the whole name out and start from the beginning.

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What if the twist isn’t that one of the cast members is an NPC. They’re all NPCs.

Because how does their body stay alive? Either they died long ago from dehydration or the actual person they were just took off the headset and moved on. But before that happened, the headset copied their consciousness digitally and that’s who’s in the digital circus.

They can’t leave because they’re programs. Their essence is as tied to the circus as everything else. They’re as NPC as Caine or Gummigoo and all the rest. This is why Caine can make Jax a vegan. He doesn’t abuse his power (too much) because that’s his programming.

So not only are they going to have to deal with the realization that they can’t leave but also the realization that they’re just clones and the real person has been resuming their existence all this time and that person never did find the others they have or will eventually take solace in. Or maybe they’ve gotten a better life since then. Who knows?

The only thing that’s real is their time in the circus which is a mixed bag. But otherwise Gangle’s dreams of being a comic artist? Not hers. Ragatha’s trauma over her mother? Not hers. Zooble’s comfort in bartending? Not hers. This could be relieving or maddening for some, probably both.

What if they figure it out when someone new joins but a glitch creates two of the same person. What if Kaufmo abstracted because he figured this out.

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where would we be without tag wranglers. this links to ‘not canon compliant’. ao3 volunteers i am kissing you on the lips

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“cant two guys just be friends?”

yes!! here’s a list of male friendships in stranger things

- mike and lucas

- mike and dustin

- lucas and dustin

- will and lucas

- will and dustin

- dustin and steve

- dustin and eddie

they are all very positive and healthy male friendships!! are mike and will also friends?? yes but they can be more!! it is not hard to understand!!

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I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHY THIS OCCURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I physically can't read any book but I can gulp down a 500k ao3 ff in a day ( I literally gave my math exams after only reading ao3 fanfics the night before 😔🥀)

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FUCKING DEREK IS MY GOATTT

my personal theory stemming from this picture is that holly's disappearance is for sure going to parallel will's in that she has a friend group that are will, mike, lucas and dustin's age in season 1 and they're trying hard to find her - maybe a certain someone in that group is trying a little too hard to find her.....and mike sees himself in them............and thats what helps him realise all his behaviour in season 1 towards will was romantic

a reach but cmon lets go derekgate

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it's going to be so fucking funny if derek is just following him around in his rainbow shirt the whole time like the ghost of mike wheeler's repressed homosexuality

lightened pic from @ghostlycleric