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Dear Duffers,

Thank you for the speech. It genuinely helped me in many ways💛

This CG journey has been fun, confusing, emotional, and honestly a completely different kind of learning experience than we ever expected. It came with setbacks too, of course. But in the end, it was always about instincts.

Like you said in the speech, sometimes something just feels off. That’s how Season 5 felt to many of us. Something was missing. The dialogue, the story, the emotional connections, the contradictions, the plot holes, the strange mistakes. Everything was different from the show we fell in love with.

During these six months in CG, we met all the monsters you talked about.

We opened many chests. Some were empty. Some disappointed us. But opening them was still exciting, because sometimes we found small gold coins hidden inside too. Tiny clues, parallels, emotions, or moments that kept us going.

The Will-O’-Wisp tried to trick us many times. We tried to ignore the safe paths and trust our inner voice instead. We followed our instincts, even when people laughed at us for it.

And yes, we lost many people to the Elder Brain along the way. Most people naturally want comfort, conform, certainty, and happy endings. They prefer the safe path. But somehow, fortunately or unfortunately, we kept walking through the paths filled with spikes. Still, we believe we’ll reach something meaningful at the end of this quest.

We trust you. But at the same time, we don’t blindly believe everything you or your party say either, because we also have our own path, our own instincts, and our own understanding of the story.

And we built a wonderful party here too.

It has been fun analyzing things together, discussing theories, finding connections, sharing clues, and going on this strange adventure as a group. So thank you for all the Easter eggs, hints, hidden pushes, and weird little breadcrumbs along the way.

Of course, there’s confusion. Failure. Pressure to conform. Every day people call us delusional or crazy. But we still keep going.

Because we remember that if Joyce didn’t trust the signs, Stranger Things would never exist. If Mike didn’t trust his instincts that his “best friend” was still alive, we would never have gotten the story we love so much.

So we’ll keep waiting for that chest, whatever it turns out to be. A real Season 5, a B-side, a hidden continuation Spinoff, movies, or something else entirely.

Whatever it is, we’re ready.

Thank you for this one-of-a-kind quest.

Crazy Together 🩵💛

I will die but die happily

I’m sure a lot of you have also seen it.

But know here are other comments you don’t see.

A few more I couldn’t fit:

I had dropped my dream of being a veterinarian for exotic animals, now I’m rethinking it

I’ve wanted to be a teacher my entire life and I’ve never wanted it more than now, I’m hopefully starting college in august for it! This mission has inspired me ever since I learned about it

She reignited my dream of being an astronaut. It's basically my reason to live now🥹🥹

she made me focus even more on my studies at computer science (my first year btw) and made me feel less insecure of being not good enough at this area, bc now i can feel that there's nothing that i can't learn studying. she also made me curious about astrophysis, and now i'm wondering if i could have some space at this area even being graduate at computer science. im so obsess with her, bc after watchin' her at space, i feel that im capable at anything that i want <3

I have my thyroid surgery next month for my cancer— I’m ready to face it

I got accepted for a nasa internship the same day they launched🥹

I receive my admission letter for my PhD the day they took off btw

I picked up my pen and started drawing again

"Copy. Moon joy."

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."

“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”

"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon. See you on the other side."

"We just went sci fi.

"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.” (The name of Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife)

"Amaze amaze amaze."

"I said that we do not leave Earth, but we choose it. And that is true."

"Christina has been sleeping head down in the middle of the vehicle, kind of like a bat"

"It's really fun to be floatin' around, it just makes me feel like a little kid."

"Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful."

"'Homo Sapiens' is all of us, no matter where you're from or what you look like. We're all one people."

"We're going to power cycle the toilet from the ground."

"I'm proud to call myself the Space Plumber."

"We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus." (After Mission Control cut off Pink Pony Club early when waking up the crew)

"Copy heart. Copy bracelet." (In response to Wiseman giving his daughters heart hands and showing them the bracelets they made him that he was wearing)

“Welcome back. We are still here. They are in space.”

"Copy. Bubble wrap nominal."

"We have rediscovered the chocolate snacks."

“The truth is, the moon really is its own body in the universe. It's not just a poster in the sky that goes by, it is a real place."

“We will build ships. We will visit again. We will construct science outposts. We will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy.”

"I've seen a lot of new perspectives, but my perspective has not changed because I launched with the perspective that there is enough for all." (After being asked if they had a new view on humankind.)

Want to wake up like an astronaut? Now you can! Check out the Artemis II astronauts' wake-up songs on Spotify.

These songs were chosen by the astronauts for each day of the mission. To end each sleep period aboard Orion, the Mission Control Center at our Johnson Space Center in Houston sends out a special song to the crew. This continues a tradition that reaches back decades to the Gemini VI mission in 1965.

you can see the atmosphere. that halo around the edge, that's my air. the green on the upper right is my aurora. those are my clouds, my sunlight.

like... to most of the others, she's odd and quirky and a lot of people don't understand her or get her humor... except for the 6 foot something dark-haired, blue eyed senior doctor who looks at her like the sun shines out of her ass and goes out of his way to check in on her 4 times in 12 hours and compliments her easily.

if you don’t believe in conformitygate, that’s completely fine, interpretation isn’t compulsory, and no one is demanding you sign a manifesto. but the people who do believe in it aren’t doing anything wrong. they’re engaging critically, creatively, and with a level of care that mirrors actual academic labour. the amount of time, love, and methodological thought poured into those posts makes me love this side of the fandom even more. it’s thoughtful, it’s rigorous, and it’s genuinely joyful to watch unfold.

and some of you really need to just… keep scrolling. if your contribution is going to be hurtful, spiteful, or dismissive, you don’t need to offer it. “uhh just get over it, the duffers just didn’t care at the end” isn’t insightful, it’s not constructive, and it actively shuts down the kind of creative, critical engagement fandom is built on. scrolling is free. silence is free. letting people enjoy their corner of the text is free.

fandom thrives on multiplicity, on divergent readings, on people following threads that excite them. policing that doesn’t make you objective or superior; it just makes the space smaller, meaner, and far less interesting.