I mark my wheat and I wheat my mark

that fictional woman would not fucking fujo out over her ex boyfriend’s yaoi situation

Craziest piece of fandom amnesia I’ve ever seen might be people demonising Jonathan (and Argyle to a certain degree, but people didn’t really care about him enough to demonise him) for smoking pot while selectively ignoring that Eddie was a drug dealer. And not just that but he was a 20 year old who was happy to sell to high schoolers. Not that that makes him like evil or irredeemable or anything, I’m not passing moral judgement. I just think it’s funny the stuff fandoms cling to and decide to pass moral judgement on and the stuff they’re happy to ignore

Will must be so into carving pumpkins. it's like the only manual ""labor"" he enjoys. and when he was very young he got very sad when they became rotten and had to be thrown away so Joyce made up a story about the pumpkins not being dead but having spirits that just went away after they hung out in the pumpkins for a couple days. she comes up with it on the fly, likely exhausted after work and kind of desperate because she's so worried Will is going to start crying and they need to throw these pumpkins away as they all stink. and for a moment she is worried the natural implications of this (that ghosts are real) will scare Will, but weird baby Will is just happy the pumpkins are alright. he draws their spirits and gives it to Joyce, she is touched and proud and displays it on fridge. everyone who visits finds the drawing so incredibly creepy.

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hi. now that the upside down is gone nancy probably thinks about the fact that if there was any remnant of barb left in there, it’s officially gone now, too. hope everyone has a good evening!

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?