non-lgbt neurotypicals after a successful day of telling neurodivergent queer people that their headcanons are secretly ableist and anti-lgbtq
riley inside out 2 is already the most relatable protagonist in the history of cinema as i really understand the experience of having new emotions surrounding cool women introduced to me by maya hawke
important edit: FORGOT TO MENTION!!! i am boycotting disney atm so please do not watch this film legally!
ROBIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
"i spy a familiar face in patient room 110"
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Dustin is to Steddie as Max is to Ronance
Ronance and Willel breadcrumbs!! Also Joyce in the center!!
Just remembered that Natalia Dyer, Maya Hawke, Charlie Heaton and Joe Keery have a group chat where they send each other Ronance memes
Being a fan of Stranger Things means knowing that there are way too many characters now but also not wanting to get rid of any of them because you love them all dearly.
I'm so sick of the Ronance tag on ao3. Half of it is Steddie fics. Then once you filter those out, 1.1K of it is That One Writer (you know the one). Then once you filter those out, you are left with a ton of incorrectly tagged anonymous (just in case you wanted to mute the author) short fics that are either by AI or blatantly plagiarized from Steddie authors with the names and pronouns changed. So you then filter out fics under 1K words, burying ficlets by real authors. And it's so exhausting because I'm struggling to find new fic, not because they're not being written, but because of how the Ronance tag is just spam and men.
I'm rewatching S4 and am feeling INSANE every time Robin and Nancy look at each other
How are they so gay? Why did we let them get away with this?
WHY DON'T WE TALK ABOUT THIS MORE?
Part two of the official Robin comic (edition #3 of Stranger Things: Tales from Hawkins). Part 1 is linked here!
could you please post screenshots of the robin comic?? rly want to read it but can’t buy it rn haha
No worries! I'll upload it in two parts (I can only have ten pictures per post) so here's part one of Robin's official comic as part of the Tales from Hawkins comic series and I'll link part two:
Highlights of the new Robin comic!
A commentary on hiding parts of your identity to fit in (which I relate to on both a lesbian and autistic level), using the imagery of an egg never getting to crack into the beautiful rainbow world that chick belongs in. I think this applies to Will and Mike very much too from a queer perspective, but also to a lot of the characters who are outcasts for some reason or another so feel like they cannot ever truly be themselves:
Them officially confirming that Steve was the reason Robin was able to come out of her shell and stop maintaining the mask she'd used as a defence mechanism for years:
Robin's lesbian angsty crush over Tammy:
Robin's fear of rejection and homophobia from the people of Hawkins, but also the fear that they're correct and that there's something wrong with her for being gay:
I have the whole thing screenshotted if someone wants me to post it (send me an ask if you do) or you can buy it digitally.
"It's about wanting to escape. About knowing that living in a small town... you'll always be wearing a mask. It's about the fear that no one will ever see the actual you. That's you'll always be trapped here. Never get to just... Live. It's like Herman Hesse said 'if the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg...he will die without being born.'"
- Robin in Stranger Things: Tales from Hawkins
I cannot write fic and yet tonight I badly want to read a Ronance D.E.B.S. AU to the extent where I may just make it myself
the people in your ask box giving their reasons for not liking ronance is like. yes, you do you, but they are literally proving your point because what is it about a random f/f ship existing that makes people wanna argue against it ??? but yeah the anti ronance tag is truly a wild place.
This response is quite long, hence the read more! I kinda got off track and it goes into a discussion of canon vs headcanon and speaks a bit about Byler too.
If I were to be generous to Ronance antis, I think a lot of people are frustrated that there is a new canon bisexual character who's been introduced to the show but a lot of the fandom are ignoring her for a headcanon. And in general, members of this fandom and Ronance shippers are quite harsh against Rovickie and I don't think they'd be as harsh if it was an m/f pairing. Because it's the only canon gay pairing so far (I know it hasn't happened yet but it clearly will), people are expecting it to be this perfect romance like Jopper or Lumax but in eight minutes of screen time which is just impossible.