This Was Going To Be Made Eventually. If Not By Me Than Anyone Else

This was going to be made eventually. If not by me than anyone else

stranger things if it were british:

mates don't fib

“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.” 

Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon

Thinking about Max today.

Thinking about how she is constantly rejected when we first meet her. How that’s a normal part of her life. How she expects it because she thinks of herself as unlikeable, a “jerk”. It still hurts, clearly, but she isn’t surprised. Her mom doesn’t give a shit, her dad is back in California and we see years later that he indeed vanished on her. Billy tells her constantly how much of a burden she is, a bitch, a piece of shit.

Mike yells at her for just trying to be their friend. Dustin tells her to go home. El pushes past her extended hand.

And then there’s Lucas.

Lucas, who is unflinchingly kind. Who talks to her when she’s so clearly unlikeable, unlovable, and yet he keeps showing up. Lucas who tells her his secrets and even though she doesn’t believe him he keeps trying so she plays along, spends an entire day fortifying a bus in a junk yard for some sort of game she isn’t really understanding.

Lucas who holds her hand when she’s scared. Lucas who musters all of his courage to ask her to dance.

Her happiest moment when Max takes the plunge and kisses him.

Max is so guarded, so sure of her status as the worst person alive, but Lucas never ever lets her feel that way. So when she knows she must, knows she has to punish herself for how unforgivably awful she is, she pushes Lucas away so that he can’t keep seeing the good in her and refusing to let her forget.

Hubble’s view of the Carina Nebula, from the 2007-2009 era I think?

JWST’s view of the same nebula, July 12, 2022