Cantspellanexitey

I have read Suspicious Minds about Brenner, Terry, and Terry’s cohorts probably 6 times since the finale. That is literally required reading for anything going forward I swear it.

It was the first ST novel EVER, it came out in early 2019. It came out before Season 3!

Let that sink in…

They released a book about Brenner’s work with drugs, ALTERING PEOPLE’S MEMORIES, altering people’s emotional connections to their memories (literally says this is a reason he does this, because it makes them easier to control), and the cohorts from even earlier also see and experience the Upside Down! They don’t GO there but they SEE it.

It might not all be ‘right’, but they literally laid the groundwork for how Seasons 3-5 are going to go. He took her ‘source’ memory of her best AND her worst memories (something they focus HEAVILY on in the show), and makes her repeat them over and over and over until she feels nothing. Terry also comes and goes from the lab, she isn’t there all the time.

Like PLEASE. Please read this book!!

I’m willing to bet soooooooooo much that there is no ACTUAL time travel, time loops, or alternate realities. There are competing narratives at play, there are competing stories.

History is written by the victors. Whoever controls the past controls the present, whoever controls the present controls the future. Brenner is not trying to ACTUALLY go back in time and rewrite events that already happened, he is alternating the narratives that the characters have for themselves & their own histories, as well as the history and story of Hawkins/Hawkins National Lab.

The source material that we’re getting IS good. We declassified 11 files of the lab, we’re getting declassified source tapes. We will have to retrace how we all got here.

Casey’s name is actually Cassius, which means Empty, or Vain. And Casey means Vigilant, watchful, or more importantly, brave.

there’s a scene in RitS, where Cas & August are talking about they’re goals, and Casey mentions he feels like everyone only sees him in relation to sports. Being known really only as “a really good baseball player” instead of who he actually is. He often feels as if he doesn’t put anything out in the world, how all his efforts are in vain. he masks this by being kind, and noticing others and their struggles. He notices the small things in people, even though no one really does the same for him.

a visitor on the biodome!!

This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

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You will be remembered as a hero. ________