media consumption

sigh i miss them

more than anything conformity gate is like. the tumblrina's final revenge. "just noise" huh? okay fuck it *mobilizes the entire internet into calling out the 10,000 plot inconsistencies and production errors you left in your $400million slop finale*

btw hearing percy scream “don’t touch her” about luke kneeling down next to annabeth to check her wounds in 2026 was NOT on my bingo card but boy was i gagged

put aside the shipping discourse for a moment and lets talk about how the duffers portray the abused female body as spectacle in this show. that scene where kali was running through rooms and rooms of dying pregnant women? karen fighting through her grievous, near life-threatening injuries to be a mother? the treatment of el/jane's character? over and over this show makes victims of its female characters and makes it 'ok' by having them be strong and fight back. the constant dehumanisation of jane throughout the show and the denial of her autonomy by entrapping her in a relationship the moment that she escaped her prison and gained a scrap of freedom is not by chance. it is a consistent and concentrated effort to keep her in constant pain and clip her wings so that she can never heal and her wounds stay open, just so that we can sit back and entertain ourselves watching her try to fight for her freedom with her supernatural powers without ever giving her real narrative power. the whole operation of el's creation was built off of the exploitation and torture of vulnerable pregnant women by a power-hungry man, but the show never reckons with that legacy. the suffering and abuse of female bodies becomes backdrop, a prop aiding the dark tone and aesthetic of the show rather than a serious narrative theme that jane should be grappling with as a descendant of that legacy. instead, she becomes an continuation of it. her suffering is an extension of her mother's: a tortured woman being controlled and used by men around her in a bid for power, ultimately reduced to a plot device as the narrative succeeds over her.

the fact that Karen fighting one Demogorgon felt more high stakes than the final battle is crazy

finale so bad people are convinced it’s not real 😭

anyway. i’m being completely serious when i say that so many of you should be writing and publishing your own stories. if two mediocre white men can write a half assed story and get critical acclaim, just imagine what you can do

The duffers really said "we didn't get any bitches in highschool and my wife divorced me so we're gonna make that everyone's problem now"

from now on whenever I say I like stranger things, it’s a strictly “I-like-harry-potter-but-fuck-jkr” esque situation. I like the stranger things FANDOM, the FANDOM version of those characters and I think the duffers are the most useless homophobic pricks to walk the earth

the way the two characters who had the most traumatic shit happen to them, a gay boy and a girl who never got to have autonomy, dont even get the happy ending with everything they wanttttt meanwhile everyone else gets what they want is so insane to me 😭😭 wondertwins i need you to kill them all

Think about how EASILY they could have had a quick scene of Robin and Vickie’s date at Enzo’s and then just pan to jopper for their proposal

Goodbye canon Mike and HELLOOO FANON MIKE 😁😁😁 WE HAVE FINALLY BEEN LOOSED FROM OUR SHACKLES 😁😁😁 WE HAVE COMPLETE FREEDOM TO GIVE HIM ANY ENDING WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT CANON CONTINUITY BECAUSE ANYTHING WILL BE BETTER THAN THAT