so, unfortunately my interest in stranger things has been decreasing, mostly due to a diminishing hope that season 5 will really bring the story home.
from now on, any and all stranger things content i like and create can be found on my general tv & movie blog @danburys
if you'd still like to follow me, you can find me on there!!
i'm such a deeply unserious person (guy who's upset about possibly labeling will a sorcerer after establishing him as a wizard in s3)
not to be a gatekeeper, but a sorcerer is not a wizard
the only good thing about the byers move to california was that they hung a photo of jonathan and nancy In Love on the fridge
this isn't what s5 is gonna be about but in my head, where lucas is The main character there is a scene where the usual defender, the ranger, the wannabe action hero lucas sinclair is put in supernatural peril when he tries to save someone else and the vibe changes, the framing goes to a place where characters of your choice rally around him in a subtle parallel to season 2 and also to show lucas as someone uniquely vulnerable among the characters.
stranger things, if you don't get your shit together and learn how to light characters of color
i hope s5 is only winona ryder
i think lucas' parallels to nancy are so compelling, bc nancy wasn't cool and she just wanted to experience something and she didn't even notice the slide into harmful conformity and then later, lucas does it with a twist, not a boy but a sport, and he actively seeks the conforming.
but both start out in that unpopular place and then there's a girl and she gets into trouble and they each blame themselves for that moment where they were just teenagers. where they were young.
a lo-oong way off from posting bc i wanna get a headstart on some editing, but i'm trying to do a gif series of parallels - both within the show as well as (potentially) outside media, so if there are any parallels dear to you, feel free to drop 'em in the replies
one thing lucas sinclair will never do is grow out of his habit of cheating at board games
it will never not take me out that nancy literally bats her eyelashes at her mother and calls her mommy to get what she wants and then when she doesn't, she's instantly sooo indignant and all like "oh because ONE kid has been disappeared???" i love you, teenage girl
here's the thing: even if nancy had done everything wrong in her relationship with steve, even if she'd been in the absolute wrong, i would still be exactly where i am now, a fan of hers.
it's like you people have never had one of your girl friends tell you a story where she was 100% in the wrong and gone, "nah, what else were you supposed to do??"
see, the problem is i'm not over the byers or the sinclairs or even any of the other dynamics, it's just that... it's so rare, in a vast fandom, to find the people who engage with the medium in a way that compels me. and that can always be such an isolating experience.
anyway, there's no point to this post except to say: hey. if you're feeling that way, too, cheers and interests have a way of coming back to you and if you create for a fandom, you can just do it in your little bubble and ignore everything else.
made myself mad about lover's lake gate again. if you even care.
i truly and genuinely think that lucas had at least one very deep existential crisis over liking rom coms
okay fine so these select pictures maybe... jonathan fans how are we feeling?????
when max or mike combine their powers of glaring with lucas' and dustin's powers of looking defeated by someone else's stupidity it's kinda lethal, ngl
pov the worst teens are judging you
