Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them

its wild the degree to which people talk about reading and eating in similar terms - the concept of a "reading diet", of "media consumption", the idea of certain stories as "empty calories" or "fast food" and some as "eating your vegetables", the moralization of both as personal failings, the framing of health with the specter of degeneration if not complied with... the idea that there are things that are sensorily pleasant and that you find yourself craving, and there are things that sustain you, and those are not the same things. the framing of literacy as reading the correct way and taking away the correct meaning from a text. according to nutritional guidelines

@fractalradio you are so right for bringing up 'slop'

i’m such a huge believer in the idea that Will thought Mike returned his feelings before they met El. Maybe he didn’t know he loved Mike yet, or he wasn’t sure if Mike loved him back, but I think he definitely thought they had this unspoken mutual understanding that they both wanted to spend their lives together in whatever way (as seen with what they say in the rain fight).

The "average person has 1 to 10 of will byers' sketches" factoid actually statistical error. The average person has 0. Mike Wheeler who has 10239 of will byers' sketches is an outlier and should not have been counted.