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I could write a god damn essay on the Wheelers. And I might. I might. I might write a little essay on them and their god damn nuclear family.
How to Save the World—Stranger Things 5
I’ve had some time to sleep on the episode titles and think about them, read theories, etc. and I now believe they might be real.
Hear me out: Stranger Things is all about cycles, parallels, tropes happening over and over again. The Duffers love taking a moment and repeating it in slightly different ways to prove a point. The story started with “The Vanishing of Will Byers” because we needed to place a small, innocent child in the center of our story, something to bring our character together and drive them to action. Well, that child is no longer in danger and our team is ripping apart at the seams. It’s almost like we need something similar to reunite everyone and drive them to action again.
Remember: The Duffers love parallels. Will’s disappearance brought his deeply fractured family together, uniting them for a common cause. It also brought Nancy and Jon together when their families needed them most. Now, the Byers are a united front, ready to tackle any monster that comes their way. They are the glorification of the avant-gard family. Now which family is struggling? The Wheelers. The perfect, All-American Nuclear Family: Mom, Dad, 3 kids, and a picket fence. They look perfect to the outside world, but behind closed doors, they are deeply struggling. They don’t communicate, the parents have no idea what’s happening in their children’s lives, and if they’re not careful, if they don’t come together and form a united front—they’re going to lose everything, potentially causing the end of the world. (Why? I haven’t gotten that far yet!)
Now, how do we inspire them to action? Maybe by taking the child who was born to save their crumbling marriage—the one has seen everything but, up until this point, been too young to contribute. Now, she’ll be the same age Will was when he disappeared and Mike and Will are the same age as Jon and Nancy. The Duffers are trying to illustrate the idea of “The Next Generation.” This evil, this Upside Down dimension is NEVER going to stop until someone from the Wheeler and Byers families breaks the cycle. Children will continue to vanish, the world will continue to crumble, until someone steps up and says ENOUGH. The Wheelers and Byers (parents and children) must step up and face their pasts in order to move forward.
The “Stranger Things” are not only LGBTQ+ matters, they are the skeletons we hide in the closet that literally eat us alive. They are the dark, festering parts of ourselves we don’t let anyone else see. The invisible cancers that slowly and silently kill us. Until we face them head on, until we bring them to the light, they will NEVER die. Stranger Things is about owning your past, facing your fears, and finding the light again.
So yes, Stranger Things will end with Will Byers making it home from Mike Wheeler’s house on November 6, 1983, but not in a time traveling way, in a finally letting go of that scared, pained little boy who thought the world was better off without him. It’s Mike accepting his sexuality and place in his family. His role as a leader. It’s Joyce accepting love from Hopper, who must accept that he is not actually cursed, but that sometimes, bad things happen to good people, even when they think they’re doing the right thing (Vietnam). it’s Karen and Ted falling in love again and fighting to save their family. It’s Eleven discovering that love, not anger, should fuel her powers. It’s mourning your stolen childhood while stepping into the version of yourself that child never got to be. It’s stopping the cycle and creating a better world for the Will Byers and Mike Wheelers and Jane Hoppers of tomorrow. THAT’S how you become a Hero.
still not over TFS Karen literally jumping at the opportunity to kiss Patty. like okay girl i see you. [Lonnie voice] cue the lesbians
Thoughts on "Escape from Camazotz"
Oppressive Suburbia, Conformity, and Season 5 Themes
I've long thought that a major focus of Season 5 will be the contrast between the families of The Wheelers and The Byers, and exploring how non-traditional family environments can be freeing vs the oppressive structure of the nuclear family.
In a Wrinkle In Time, Camazotz is a planet controlled by the big bad of the book, the "IT", who forces the citizens into a conformity that resembles American suburbia. All of the houses the same, the citizens the same, doing the same things at the same time without individual identity. Without anything different. Different means a lot of things, but with Stranger Things dropping different in reference to Will's identity and the presumable themes of this season, it will heavily codify as queerness and how it threatens the cisheterosexual family model.
Henry was raised in the 1950s, a decade still revered by conservatives for it's traditional family dynamics that supposedly were the peak of culture and happiness for all. That was all a lie, of course, and Henry knew so as he shows to Nancy and Eleven during his monologue. The second most conservative decade aside from the 1950s in American society is widely considered to be the 1980s.
The Creels will serve in parallel to The Wheelers; the worst example of what they could become and the damage that this type of family could do to a child that is different in any way. Notice how Vecna selectively shows Nancy visions of The Wheelers dying, but not anyone else she may consider family or friends (like Jonathan).
That is; unless they change their ways and come together as a healthy functioning family facing their traumas, The Wheelers will be toast.
Karen has been moved up to a main character role this season. Ted's actor says the father starts to show up more for Holly (hold that) and realizes he wants to act differently. Holly has been recast. Finn has said Mike goes on a much more personal journey this season, and steps up as a leader.
Oh, also: the catalyst for all of this is that Holly goes missing. The contrast will help show how the Byers (including El and Hopper here) were able to pull together and help solve Will's disappearance, versus how the Wheelers as a closed off nuclear family grapple with Holly's vanishing.
Each of the Byers is in some kind of a non-1950s conformist relationship, but particularly Will (not in one now but we all know he will be). I think El might represent, after she breaks up with Mike, the fear of the unmarried woman being satisfied without a husband. The above shot really emphasizes my point.
I predict that Will will end up coming out to his family rather early on, and we will see all of them immediately accept him with little surprise or push-back. Will is a visible gay man who comes from an open minded non traditional family (divorced, non-married, adoptive) that is willing to have honest conversations.
But this theme will place the most focus on the Wheelers. Mike is the main character of said family and this will particularly focus on his arc, and his acceptance of his queerness in the midst of suburban conformity.
He is not visible, he comes from a Reagan-supporting family who don't communicate with each other. He is not particularly close with his family like Will is. He pushes his feelings down and tries his damn hardest to be normal despite it all. His trauma hasn't really been addressed at all. He is falling back into his usual habits - the one thing he dared to do different (grow his hair long) has gone back to how it was.
It's not all doom and gloom though. This season above all will be a redemption arc of the American nuclear family, how they choose to escape their conformity and learn to be there for each other, thus overpowering Vecna. Not that the Wheelers are going to end this personally.
"Great, more hysteria. Just what we need". "It's the news, now indistinguishable from the tabloids".
Now that they've reposted Karen's hospital files, is there any chance that you would repost the page that mentions Joyce?
You know what. Yeah, whatever the fuck because these were taken by Tate and he’s decided to go all Trump supporter recently so I don’t feel bad about sharing it publicly even though he doesn’t want to - here’s the full original image. Blurry as all hell unfortunately.
STRANGER THINGS PORN LINKS
⇢ ˗ˏˋ 2.1k celebration edition !! ࿐ྂ
VOL. 2 — MEN + WOMEN
includes: steve, eddie, jonathan, billy, 001/peter, jim, enzo/dmitri, robin, nancy, joyce, karen
warning: these are twitter links that contain porn !!
vol. 1 // navigation // masterlist
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ steve harrington
steve fucking you at a party
making steve cum with your boobs
best friend!steve fingering you
sucking steve’s dick at his work
car sex with coworker!steve
*threesome with steve and eddie
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ eddie munson
reverse cowgirl with roommate!eddie
eddie double penetrating you with a dildo
riding eddie while he pounds into you
best friend!eddie eating you out
*threesome with steve and eddie
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ jonathan byers
giving roommate!jonathan a blowjob
69 with jonathan while being high
jonathan fingering you and making you scream
missionary with jonathan in his room
jonathan eating you out in the kitchen
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ billy hargrove
dom!billy spanking you
riding roommate!billy
giving billy a blowjob
billy fucking you against the window
doggystyle + hair pulling with enemy!billy
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 001/peter ballard
thigh riding with best friend!peter
peter fucking you while you’re handcuffed
sub!peter eating you out
peter making you squirt
shower sex with roommate!peter
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ jim hopper
jim fucking you after work
doggystyle with neighbor!jim
jim fucking you with a dildo
thigh fucking with jim
sitting on jim’s face
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ enzo/dmitri antonov
dmitri breeding you full
doggystyle with boss!dmitri
dmitri fucking you while you’re cooking
riding dmitri while he pounds into you
giving dmitri a handjob after work
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ robin buckley
robin fucking you with a strap on
eating classmate!robin out after school
double sided dildo with robin
best friend!robin admiring your body
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ nancy wheeler
eating roommate!nancy out
nancy eating you out at a party
scissoring with best friend!nancy
nancy riding your strap on
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ joyce byers
joyce fucking you with a strap on
making out with joyce in the hot tub
fucking sub!joyce with a strap on
fingering neighbor!joyce until she cums
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ karen wheeler
karen sucking on your tits
fucking karen with a strap on
admiring neighbor!karen’s body
fingering karen until she’s cums
-> vol. 1
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I'm starting to wonder if Karen Wheeler had an affair with Dr. Brenner.
Stranger things 3 spoilers
I don't see anyone talk about this; Billy had a thing for mom's because he only felt happy when he was with his mom, and she left,, , so he seeks validation and affection in other older woman. Just something I noticed about his character
May I please request for a will byers x male! reader where the reader is having a panic attack? How does will react? And what does he do in that kind of situation? :0
Thank you!
THE PLEASE AND THANK YOU OMFG👏👏
I liked writing this one so much too. My brain was literally flooded with ideas as soon as you asked for this!!!!
Anyways please enjoy
Warning this one has four categories to it lmao
I’ve actually got categories and stuff for this one. So many scenarios popped in my head I just have to include them.
WHILE IN PUBLIC (IN A PUBLIC AREA):
When in public Will would probably notice signs of an oncoming panic attack pretty quick.
When a panic attack starts he would immediately get you somewhere as fast as possible. Those places being either:
Isolated
Somewhere you can sit down
Out of the building your in
He would stay with you the entire time
If his friends are around he immediately orders them to find you water and or a snack
He’s not big on PDA but he would still put his hands on yours and rub his thumbs over them
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As you walked through the mall with your friends your brain started feeling fuzzy. The background noise became oddly quiet while peoples words was too loud.
“Love, are you alright?” Will said to you quietly, his eyes filled with concern.
You didn’t turn your head to him immediately and when you did your eyes were wide and watery. Your shoulders moved up and down quickly and your hands were shaking.
Will recognized what was happening and immediately escorted you to the nearest bench to sit down. When one of your friends came over to check on you, Will sent them off to find you food and drink.
He, after getting your consent, grabbed your hands and used his thumbs to smooth over your knuckles in a repetitive pattern. He guided you through simple breathing exercises. In for four, hold for seven, out for eight. Over and over and over again until you calmed down.
He smiled softly at you when you finally came back to him. “Hey baby are you alright? Do you want to leave? We can, I don’t mind I promise.”
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He won’t make you talk if you don’t want to
He will literally leave any event if you need him to
WHILE WITH FRIENDS (AT SOMEONES HOUSE FT. THE PARTY):
He is less likely to notice as fast when at a friends house
When he does notice he doesn’t make a scene, trying not to overwhelm you
Most of Will and your friends (as well as your friends parents) are used to Will’s panic attacks so they all spring into action when they see you.
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“Hey baby are you alright?” Will asks but he sounds distant. You feel tears slide down your cheeks but you aren’t even aware of them enough to wipe them away or blink.
When the others hear Wills words and look towards you they recognize what’s happening.
Mike goes off to find one of his parents as Will sits to your side trying to calm you down, using the all to familiar breathing exercises. His arm goes around your back to rub your shoulder and his other hand if holding yours.
He whispered soft encouragements into your ears along the lines of “hey calm down I’m right here” and “it’s okay. You’re going to be okay.”
When you finally do calm down Dustin hands you the bag of chips he was snacking on and you accept with a grateful smile. When Mike returns with his mom Will calmly explains to her what happened and she offers you a ride home.
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Will would sit close to you, making sure no one else got super close
If it was really bad he would take you home immediately, even volunteering to go get your bike the next day so that you don’t have to ride by yourself
AT THE BYERS HOUSEHOLD (FT. JOYCE AND JOHNATHAN):
If your in the Byers household Joyce would notice first (the woman cares for you so much change my mind)
Will would notice after his mom stared at you for an uncomfortable amount of time
Joyce being the mom she was would grab your hand while Will leaves to find you water.
When Will gets back Johnathan would also be in tow. Probably carrying some type of music track, hoping it’ll calm you down. He tries.
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“Hey honey are you ready to come back to us?” You hear Joyce Byers say softly as your mind clears up. “There he is.” She would say before stepping to the side so Will could kneel in front of you.
In the background you could hear music playing curtesy of Jonathan.
After you’d had a little while to recover, Will offers you his hand gently and asks you “do you want to dance with me?”
You giggle and give him your hand as he pulls you up. His favorite song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” just so happens to play. Also, you assume, curtesy of Johnathan.
The two of you dance together for a long time. A welcome distraction from the thoughts that overwhelmed you previously.
Eventually Joyce decides you can stay the night and you and Will head to bed together where he cuddles you until you fall asleep.
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Will is the KING of distracting you from your thoughts. Change my mind.
WHEN YOU ARE ALONE WITH HIM:
This is assuming you’re in his bed probably
When you’re alone his methods of calming you down gets more physical
He’d probably be sitting where your back is to his chest and you’d be in his lap, his attempt to keep you grounded
He’d place small kisses on whatever exposed skin he could access
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Will held you tightly as you followed his breathing patterns, though unlike you when he held for those seven seconds he placed soft kisses to your skin.
When you came out of it you turned around in his lap, now straddling him. You rested your forehead against his shoulder. Will moved his hand up to your hair and played with it as he hummed softly to you.
You feel your eyes go heavy and before you know it you’re sleeping in your boyfriends arms.
Doing his best not to wake you up. Will lays the two of you down. He doesn’t move to retrieve blankets, not wanting to risk disturbing your peaceful state. Will gives you soft kisses scattered on your face until he himself falls asleep. A soft smile on his face.
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If Joyce or Johnathan found you they’d 100% cover the two of you
No one really talks about it in the morning when the two of you walk out of his room together
THIS WAS BOTH THE MOST FUN YET MOST STRESSFUL THING IVE WRITTEN LITERALLY EVER. I hope you enjoy though <3
Sooo I had another brain rot with alot of people's theory of Eddie being the only one with a light in his bike. So when we find out that the upside down is stuck in the past, and when Robin points out that Nancy would have bikes if u think about it there really only should be 2 bikes uk for Mike and Nancy but there's 4 bikes instead since its the night will goes missing, Eddie is the one riding will's bike the only bike with a freaking light 😭😭. Sorta insinuating that Eddie was going to 'disappear' or die in the last episode, I hate that I'm realizing this now 💀💀
Sexy Billy Yandere.
rewatching season 3 rn and i was thinking. if billy and karen had been a thing, billy would be mike’s dad and max would be mikes aunt 😭 maybe that’s why mike hated her sm at the beginning..
Nancy's storyline is S3 was not about sexism/misogyny
Just to be clear, I'm not insulting Nancy anywhere in here calling her a kid/child I'm just trying to explain the story and the characters takes on everything to explain it. I'm sorry about rambling a bit at the end I may have repeated some things but I was trying to make sure I got everything. But please read everything because it may cover any questions you have.
The men that are making fun of her never make it about her being a woman, its always about her being a child/intern. They laugh at her suggestions because shes an intern who has only worked there for 4 weeks at the most and is trying to make suggestions about how to run the paper, when they spent over 20+ years working there [as Tom says] to get a spot in that room.
Nancy herself never even says or implies that its about her being a woman necessarily. In fact, theres points that contradict that the storyline is about sexism. Like this next subject.
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Nancy's conversation with her mother is what gives it away. If this was about sexism, this is the part where Nancy is with another woman and can speak freely about men/sexism. She doesn't talk about sexism/being a woman ext though. Doesn't even imply it. I always thought this scene was odd because its about her being a kid, not a woman. I thought what a weird way to address the sexism/misogyny topic.
This is the part in the story where Nancy or her mother should be giving a speech about being a woman and how they're just as good as men and overcoming sexism, but that isn't the message being put out. Its all about Nancy being a kid. The advice Karen gives her and helps Nancy overcome her issue is also not about being a woman or fighting misogyny. Its about Nancy being a kid.
"I wanted to be right so badly." "And were you?" "I thought so. But maybe I just…don't want to admit that I'm wrong, because if I'm wrong, then…" "You're what everyone thinks you are." "Just a kid who has no idea what she's doing."
You're what everyone says you are /just a kid who has no idea whats she doing [Confirming the bosses at Hawkins post were making fun of her for that, it had nothing to do with sexism/her being a woman.
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Their insults towards her are never about her being a female, its always about her being a child/an intern. They call her Nancy Drew who is a "TEEN" detective. Nancy Drew often runs into trouble because she doesn't fully know whats doing. Shes very smart, but inexperienced. Again they are commenting about her inexperience. Not about her being a woman.
Bruce says about her forgetting mustard on his sandwich after she makes a suggestion for what to put in the paper. This isn't him being sexist, he is saying about how she can't even manage being an intern and getting that right, so why should they take her suggestions about how to run the paper seriously when shes only worked there for 4 weeks and can't even handle the menial tasks.
We never actually see the men being sexist apart from Bruce. Bruce makes a comment about a womans bust that is clearly sexist, but Bruce is never sexist towards her, nor are the other men. Their issues with her are always about her being a kid/an intern.
Tom clearly wasn't showing favoritism towards the men because he fired both of them even though Jonathan didn't 'cause as much trouble' as Nancy. Nancy did more, but Jonathan was given the same punishment as her.
Nancy was an intern and she was mad that she had to do interns job like get coffee. Men and women interns have to do this. It's not sexism. Interns jobs are to do menial tasks to help the higher ups [like get coffee ext] and learn as they go so they can advance to a higher level within the company.
The only reason Jonathan's job was different is because he had a skill no one else had there. Photography at a newspaper is also a menial task in itself. He was doing a menial task already, it was just different than Nancy's task because he had that skill, she didn't.
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"Can you have one of the other girls get the coffee today." "They're needed at their desks." It is Nancy who makes the suggestion for another girl to do it [not Tom] even though she is the intern working there. Even Tom protests this. Hes not being sexist and is not the one who made the suggestion for another female to do it in the first place. If anything Nancy was being sexist saying have one of the other girls do it. It's not that women get the coffee, its that interns get the coffee and she may have been the only female intern working there. They're a small paper I don't see them having a lot of interns at one time, but if there was maybe shes saying have one of the other interns get it and the other two interns are women. She just refers to them as 'the girls'. I can't see Nancy saying something sexist like that making the suggestion for another woman to get it. I think she is talking specifically about the few interns who work there.
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The "They like you no matter what you do." The bosses like Jonathan [not because hes a man] but because Jonathan comes in, keeps his head low, and does what hes told. Nancy is the opposite she is constantly making suggestions to the bosses how they should be running the paper.
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Even Nancy herself never says its about sexism or implies it. She never says about how she is being treated differently because shes a woman except that one time already covered above. If this was about sexism or her being a woman she would have addressed that, but she never does. In fact, she makes it about her being a child, not a woman as shown above. The bosses also might value Jonathan because he has a skill while Nancy doesn't.
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It's not sexism to expect an intern to do an interns job. Rachel on Friends has to do menial tasks like this as well when shes starting out in fashion. Her bosses weren't sexist, they give you menial tasks like that because you just started the job. You have to work your way to the top starting at the very bottom. This isn't a sexist thing. Its a people thing. Men have to do it too. Everyone, men included need to start out at the bottom and work their way to the top and gain skill and knowledge about the work before they can become a higher up. You can't just rush into the 'managers' office like Nancy did and start making suggestions about how to run the company when you only worked there for 3 weeks.
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Maybe Nancy *thought* that the men were being sexist when they weren't, but even that doesn't add up. Because of what I went over above. Nancy never makes it about her being a woman at all. She understands its about her being a kid and that shes inexperienced and has no skills like Jonathan to give her a leg up. Shes smart, but she doesn't have any particular skills that set her apart from the rest.
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The men never say anything towards her that is about her being a woman/they never say anything sexist. The only reason they're laughing at her suggestions and making fun of her is because shes a child and making suggestions to them the bosses when she just started working there. If Nancy was a man she would have been treated the exact same way. I'll make an example if I were a man and I started working at Walmart as a cashier and only worked there for 3 weeks and I went into a meeting that was meant for the managers and I started making suggestions about how to run the company when I knew nothing about it, they would laugh at me too. It had nothing to do with sexism.
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Im not sure where the fans got this maybe reading too much into certain lines, but Nancy herself doesn't even feel that she was being made fun of for being a woman. She says its about being a kid not a woman.
Karen Wheeler being a good, caring mother is honestly my favorite thing. Like obviously she had her faults but so does every parent, she cares SO much about her children :))))