juno/june 🌟🐞

- (above) quote from the WSQK

‘Venus Flytrap’

—> We know that Stranger Things uses flying as a way of representing queerness/acceptance of your queerness. (e.g. Robins speech, the flyswatter when Will destroys Castle Byers etc).

A flyTRAP is TRAPPING/stopping this acceptance‼️

—> now, Venus is the Roman Goddess of love and the counterpart to Aphrodite (the Greek Goddess of Love), and who the planet was named after!

In simpler terms

fly = accepting your queerness

flytrap = preventing this acceptance (or using it to TRAP someone)

venus = love (combined with flying, is queer love)

Therefore…

a Venus Flytrap = preventing/inhibiting a queer love

but it’s an ‘OVERLY FRIENDLY Venus Flytrap’

—> AKA, somebody who inhibits/prevents a queer love that LOOKS FRIENDLY, enter the Robin Buckley traitor theory!!

‘Took a liking to a nosy child’s pinky’

—> there are two connections we can make here, nosy child’s & pinky.

I’ll start with the ‘nosy child’

—> in S5E1 Robin uses this phrase (above) when talking about her date, with Vickie, it is QUEER LOVE, the Venus Fly(trap), and the people wondering who it was with, ‘don’t be so nosy, kids’.

So who’s the ‘nosy child’?

Well, WILL was the one who was ‘nosy’ about their relationship, he was the one who saw the kiss and was asking Robin about it!

‘Nosy child’s pinky’

—> ‘the ‘Venus flytrap’ took a liking to a nosy childs pinky’

pinky = pinky promise

TRANSLATION —> the ‘Venus flytrap’ took a liking to a nosy childs promise.

Now, if the ‘nosy child’ really is Will, then there’s only one scene (THAT I CAN RECALL!) where Will directly makes a promise

Now, if you watch the video of the scene I added above, you can hear how OMINOUS the music becomes EXACTLY as Robin runs out and looks at them‼️‼️ (Similar to the vessels scene with Will in the tunnels at the beginning of the episode)

This is also the scene right before the scene where Mike reaches for Wills hand a snaps it back (Venus Flytrap???)

ALTERNATIVELY Ok super super quickly, there’s also the possibility that the nosy child is Mike? Which would make sense if the speculations that Mike was jealous of Robin are true!

CONCLUSION

‘There was only one mishap where an overly friendly Venus Flytrap took a liking to a nosy child’s pinky”

🔁🔁🔁🔁

‘Somebody who looks friendly but actually inhibits a queer love/uses it to trap someone took a liking to a promise someone made because they can somehow use it to their advantage.’

SUMMARY

fly = accepting your queerness

flytrap = preventing this acceptance (or using it to TRAP someone)

venus = love (combined with flying, is queer love)

overly friendly (venus flytrap) = the person who is preventing the queer love acts/looks nice and friendly, but isn’t

nosy child’s pinky = a (queer?) child’s promise

The elevator is some kind of metaphor for a wormhole/a tesseract.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while but I’ve been kinda putting it to the side since there’s still sooo many gaps, but I swear I’m on the right track😭. PLEASEEE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS!!!

QUICK TWO THINGS/INTRO

(1)

—> For starters, you cannottt look at this video below and tell me it’s not supposed to look like a wormhole.

(2)

—> then comes this twt post below from the Stranger Writers in 2019, they made a series of posts about Will in this format, other things they used were ‘Will the Artist’, ‘Will the Forgotten’ etc (as a play on Will the Wise yk?) and i was like ‘Will the elevator’?? That’s so weird? UNTIL THIS!

—> soo, does it mean that Will is the bridge? He is/created the UD? That he is the one trapped in the elevator?

DESIGN

—> inside there are TWO clocks displaying different times

—> There are ONLY Kaufman Shoes & Imperial Palace boxes, these are the two that relate to the part of the Russian code ‘a trip to China sounds nice, if you tread lightly’

(extra note, interesting that Eyernal Sunshine of a spotless mind was written by Charles KAUFMAN!)

DIALOGUE

ALOT of the dialogue said in this elevator is sooo cryptic, so imma go through them all in dotpoints with what I think each hidden meaning could be.

> (1) “Redirect ur stream” - Robin Buckley

—> 10000% positive this is meant to refer to ‘timestreams’, this is also right before they escape the elevator, and reminds me of when Robin told Mike to ‘pick the right record’, picking the right record (choice) = redirecting the timestream/getting to the right timeline to win!

> (2) the elevator that drops you ‘halfway to hell’. - Steve Harrington

—> Halfway to hell, obviously relevant to S4 and S5. We know by now that wherever they are in the epilogue of ‘The Rightside Up’ is being referred to as ‘hell’ or a ‘prison’ (for example, Jonathan in this same episode saying ‘hell, man’, or the sign that says welcome to HELL above a crossed out Hawkins and so so much more!)

—> HOWEVER, regarding the ‘halfway’, this could mean many things, I’ll list SOME of the ideas I have on possibilities 🤷‍♀️. For starters, wherever they end up in S5E8 does not look like you’re stereotypical hell yk? Or maybe they’re only halfway there, it looks bad, but there’s worse to come? (It also reminds me of ‘halfway happy’ S2 Hopper and El!)

> (3) ‘we all die my strange little child friend, it’s just a matter of how and when’ - Robin Buckley

—> Robin says this to Dustin, the character that’s been associated a lot with time travel, directly infront of a clock, and right before the convo Steve jokingly refers to Dustin as his dad (idk exactly who all this foreshadowing applies to yet, but I know damn well one of the characters is a parent/child to another character because of some time fuckery 😭)

—> When, obviously ‘when’ refers to what time it happens, I think this means somebody (possibly Dustin?) will end up going back and dying (hopefully only temporarily!) in the past. I also think it could possibly be something to do with the kid that went missing in 1923.

(4) “You/I look like you’re/im surfing!” - Steve Harrington & Robin Buckley

—> imo I think this is connected to radiowaves, Robin and Steve are, afterall the ones who run the WSQK, a radio station in S5. In S5 there’s also beach (aka waves) imagery, (from stickers in the background).

—> Also I think that it could be relevant to microwaves (as in the electromagnetic radiation lolol) AND the cosmic microwave background, (as referenced in the WSQK).

—> (this also reminds me of the guy yelling “wipeout!” When El fell in S4 at the roller rink, more surfing lingo, Robin also says this in S3)

THE (ELECTRONIC) LOCK

There is ALOT and I mean ALOTTTT of key, lock and door imagery in S3, and it’s only in S3. (Which I’m assuming is because they have been ‘locked away’ in S3, I do 100% believe that they’ve all been flayed since then/in some kind of time loop, I talk about that here. I also think that it could be because they never actually closed the gate in this season, at least, not the only one, ALSO DEFINITELY TO DO WITH CLOSETS/COMING OUT YK?)

—> The ONE time we get an ‘electronic lock’ is in the elevator. They can’t get out because it won’t operate without a keycard, because it is an ELECTRIC lock. (Electricity is what represents love/romance in ST, remember Steve and Dustin’s conversation from season 2!)

—> are friends electric Michael? And who’s the elevator apparently according to the post above? Will, sooo Will is freed with electricity? LOVEEEEE 🥹🥹

(extra note before moving on) I think it’s possible that these four characters (Erica, Robin, Steve, & Dustin) could occasionally be stand-ins for other characters for part of the time. (For example, the theory that Mike = Karen, Karen slipping on water and hitting her arm, Mike slipping on water and hitting his arm etc, if you can think of any times in the elevator characters have been parraleled to characters outside, lemme know!)

THINGS I AM STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT

‘What you think Petey the Mall cop is gonna rappel down here and save you?’

‘Uncle jacks party and basically that whole interaction, including the ‘slit your throat’ etc, (I have thoughts I will hopefully post later).

‘Looking at you roast beef’ (+ the meaning Dustin’s shirt itself).

‘Give up on ur creepy dream already’ from Steve, obviously to do with dreams/dreams worlds/trance, but there’s gotta be a deeper meaning.

Ok now call me crazy, but this design on top of the elevator (photo above) is supposed to be something, I briefly looked into the Chinese alphabet (a trip to China sounds nice) but didn’t find anything, lemme know if you have any ideas!

(same section as above but needa talk more lol)

ok now lastly THE MEANING OF THAT FUCKING WATER CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ERICA AND ROBIN UGHHH ITS HAUNTING ME, LIKE I KNOW I KNOWWWWW ITS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING 😭

—> ESPECIALLY after these quadrillion million posts above ‘drinking water’ from the ST writers on twt in 2019. (you can see what I mean here, or just go to Stranger Writers twt and search water!).

in show, at the end of S4, in the background quietly we hear Dustin saying ‘H20’ as he hands out water to people who lost their homes, so specific!! (Especially since in S3 there’s an equation in Murray’s home 9.5 x 11 which equals 104.5, the angle of H20 that makes a FUCKING TETRAHEDRAL OHMYGODDD).

At the end of S4, Nancy turns that tap at Hopper old house, the water runs and she says ‘see, still works!”’ (My point is that water is emphasised ALOT in the S4 finale 😭).

Then obviously there’s the whole ‘why is water in the UD in S5???’ And Will and Mike sharing a bottle of water!

LASTLY, it’s the fact that this green liquid thingy that Erica and Robin argue about is the thing that holds the door open long enough for all of them to escape! WAHT DOES IT MEANNNNN UGHSHSHDIAJND

Edit - @walkablepurse50 has an AMAZINGGGG analysis on some things that relate to this post (and a lot of other ones too!) and has answered a lot of things go check out there account‼️‼️‼️

OKKKK that’s all for now‼️‼️‼️ There’s are also things written on the boxes in the elevator that I have a lot of ideas on the meanings of them could be, (I’ll post at some point about it 😭)

just a something I found that could be interesting! Lemme know your thoughts!

IN SHOW

A lot of things pointed to “January 7th’.

7 is an important number in Stranger Things, it’s mentioned constantly, most notable of course is “it was a 7, the demigorgan, it got me.”

So you can see, even in the show 1/7, 117, 27 etc is EVERYWHERE (the fact there’s either 11 or 2 imo is because of the two Ones, Henry & Edward)

CYCLIC NUMBERS

Basically, a cyclic number is a number that keeps repeating itself. The most famous cyclic number is 142857 a VERY unique number, you get this number from 1/7.

e.g

1/7 = 0.142857143

2/7= 0.28571428

3/7 =0.428571429

4/7 =0.0.571428571

5/7=0.714285714

6/7=0.857142857

7/7=1

So, you can see the number 142857 repeating, the interesting thing I’m talking about is what happened when you times this number.

142857 x 1=142,857

142857 x 2 =285,714

142857 x 3=428,571

142857x4=571,428

142857 x 5 =714,285

142857 x 6=857,142

But then we get to x 7

142857 x 7 = 999,999

you get 6 nines, 69, also the number of the score when Lucas won the game and the other won their DND campaign in S4E1! 69, literally a 9 ‘rewinded’ is 6.

No matter what, this pattern will repeat, for example 142857142857142857 x 3 would get you the same repeating numbers or 142857142857142857142857 x 5 would as well.

But EVERY single time if you were to times this sequence by 7, you will get a number with ONLY 9s in it, which is what makes it so special, these numbers are INCREDIBLY rare.

This is also not the 1st time I’ve noticed this in Stranger Things, in S3, when Max and El walk into Billy’s room, we can see a dart board.

One of the darts is placed on the line directly between 8 and 11, 11/8=1.375 (the golden angles first 4 digits 137.5, the golden angle of a sunflower = SPIRALS)

But the other dart is placed perfectly on the line in the middle of 9 and 14, 9/14=0.64285714, there’s this cyclic number again!

Ok I hope that all made sense!! not sure what this could all mean 🤷‍♀️, especially if it was symbolic of timeloops and stuff omg I’m tireddd I needa go to sleep 😭

(EXTRA NOTE)

CASTLE PERILOUS & DUSTIN HENDERSON

(I’m probably going to rewrite this at some point because I think it’s a bit choppy, but I hope it’s making sense 😭)

PART 1

QUCK THING (eddie & the yoyo)

ok rq before i get into the actual big part of this post, heres some more proof of something being off with Eddie!

01 - my first point is to do with yoyo's. In this scene below with Eddie (AS WE SEE HIM IN THE REFLECTION OF A MIRROR!!!) Theres a very clearly, 100% emphasised yoyo.

Theres one other character we see with a yoyo, Argyle. For starters, he uses the yoyo here just as he talks about The Nothing, (the evil entity from The Neverending Story that represents broken dreams, 'people who have no hope are east to control', representive of the Mindflayer and/or Tharizdun in Stranger Things) So with this yo-yo, they just connected Eddie with The Nothing.

duh Next, is when Argyle gets a call from one of the agents with the Byers for pizza. He's swinging a yo-yo, with a big clock behind him at 4 o'clock (4 kills/deaths by Vecna). With a big plant behind his head

ok now we can move on!

SCENE ANALYSIS

There’s this scene in Stranger Things S4E6 The Dive where Eddie steals a radio, he steals it from a construction sign which always felt weird to me because like, it would’ve been so so much easier just to do somebody’s house? Like they had to get damn machinery for this, and what was the point of this dialogue? they put in all this effort into it.

“Hey Eric, I’m taking 5.”

“You just took 5!”

“Yeah well tell Milo to take it easy on the onions next time.”

*truck with 50000 clearly showing on it passes by, also taking 5 but just took 5 has gotta mean something I’ll try figure that out later lolol”

AT FIRST THIS MAY SOUND LIKE A STRETCH BUT HEAR ME OUT!

This guy going to bathroom in a PORTApotty

“tell Milo take it easy on the ONIONS next time” (ok at first this might sound like a stretch but hear me out)

—> This is Castle Perilious and known for its quote ‘distinctive onion dome’ (easy on the onions)

—> There was portal in it was used between Orcus and Zhengyl to communicate (portable bathroom)

—> it housed a massive throne room (throne also used for toilet 😭)

So technically, Eddie is able to communicate to the others because the guy who ate onions and left his radio going to the portable bathroom/‘throne’

AM I MAKING SENSE???

AND THEN the literal very next scene is the Hawkins group driving, the first line is said by Robin. “Not to be wimp but can I sit in the car cos this is gonna totally and royally (throne) suck” literally immediently connected the idea of the portapotty = throne room.

(I analysed the rest of this scene in relation to this theory in part 1)

THE WITCH-KING ZHENGYI

Castle Perilous is the castle of the Witch-king Zhengyi, one of Orcus’ followers/worshipers. Castle Perilous was used by the Witch-King to contact Orcus. And who picks up the radio when Eddie contacts them with the stolen walkie from before? Dustin. (Dustin also tries to contact the older teens in E7, from a ‘throne’ room with a bunch of spirals behind him!!!)

This is where the whole Dustin and Henry are related theory that you might of heard of comes in!

—> So, there is TONS of imagery of these onion domes buildings. Technically, they’re Russian, onion shaped domes are predominant in Russian architecture, and this season there is literally a whole storyline involving Russia, so I get it might seem like that’s why they’re relevant, HOWEVER this imagery is nowhere in the Russian storyline, it is always to do with Eddie and DUSTIN (/ the Hawkins storyline)

Here are some examples below of this imagery ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

These buildings are in Eddies box of drugs (which actually has an upside-down V on it mind you!)

When Eddie tells Mike and Dustin to search for a player for their campaign, they go to people designing a set for a play and one of these buildings is clearly being painted in the background

The same buildings are in the room during Eddie’s campaign, (THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND‼️ Eddie is hosting a campaign, where HE is the Dungeon master, in a room that is a set for a PLAY)

They even appear in a newspapers, the same scene we first get a mention of EDWARD.

ANOTHER BIG EXAMPLE

—> This is a crazy asf moment, Dustin is in the Creel House, it’s super eery. the shot starts with a cat (the silver cat feeds?) and then it focuses onto Dustin as we see him enter the room in the reflection of a mirror. One of these onion dome structures is in the background behind him! ⬇️

REMEMBER THIS DIALOGUE?

‘what say Eddie the Banished?” Dustin asks.

“I say you’re asking me to follow you into Mordor…which, if I’m totally straight with you, I think is a really bad idea…but uh, the Shire, the Shire is burning…so Mordor it is” Eddie agrees.

Here’s the first thing that stuck out to me, the Witch-King in LOTR. He serves Sauron the Dark Lord, also known as The Necromancer, like Orcus!!!

(there seems to be ALOTTTT of LOTR references/parralels, so I’m going to do more research into them since I don’t know much about LOTR, but if you do and can think of anything else, let me know!

AND I WAS TRYNA LOOK INTO LOTR REFERENCES AND TY TO THIS RANDOM REDDIT POST FROM LITERALLY 1 DAY AGO BECAUSE WDYM SAM & FRODO TO MORDOR MARCH 22ND? WHAT?

March 22nd is also the day that in Edward Creels timeline, that his family’s bodies are found, so they’re connecting Eddie to this date. THE DATE CONNECTED WITH HENRY & EDWARD CREEL!!!

(UPDATE) ok this is literally the quickets update ive ever done, I just found this post FROM @aemiron-main that talks about the lines above! (ITS GREAT YOU SHOULD READ IT!!!) I'll quickly summarise some points

⬆️ Eddies use of the word 'straight' feels very intentional, he uses it when talking about venturing to Mordor (a place VERY reminiscent of Hell), Mike also says this word when hes talking about finding the Nina project, the Lab, specifically 'straight down' AKA, Hell. Henry even calls the lab Hell, further connecting Eddie to Henry/Edward Creel and the lab!

(ok, moving on)

now if Edward and Henry are the same person from different timelines, and Henderon = son of Henry, then he is also son of Edward in another timeline righttt???

—> In this scene below, Dustin is calling Steve from school, from a payphone with a very big 'E.T. phone home' on it! He's calling Steve who is playing with a slinky (wormhole, time) infront of a massive family video sign (also, OF COURSE the godamn clock is at 1:17)

'youre just jealous because i have another older male friend' - Dustin says, to me, that sounds like it could be referencing a 'father'. Henderson, son of Henry, technically would be son of Edward too!

(above) Theres even the godamn sugar dna infront of Dustin when Eddies talking to him 😭 (I talk about how sugar = DNA in this post)

EXTRA NOTES

—> I have noticed onions imagery around Max too, (the two lamps are onion shaped) and in S4E1 it zooms up on her fridge for a couple seconds, there’s an onion (and also a stick of butter with AA on it!)

—> I know you remember this scene 💀. Well actuallyyyyy, yk what it reminds me of? 4 stains, 4 deaths/kills? The two stains at the bottom are closer (Chrissy who died in the trailer park & Fred who died next to it) and the two other are further (Max & Patrick)

Ok so I highkey think i might of figured out the Russian Code from Season 3.

The week is long.

The silver cat feeds.

When blue meets yellow in the west.

(I will talk about a trip to China sounds nice, If you tread lightly in another post, I think it’s referring to something else!)

THE WEEK IS LONG

Super quickly because this is the smallest analysis. Chrissy dies on the 21st, the gates are opened on the 27th.

21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27

7 days, the week is long, cool ok. The next parts are the important ones.

THE SILVER CAT FEEDS

The Russian code has been translated to ‘the silver cat feeds’. Well, I don’t think that this means what we think it does, I think that ‘feeds’ means feeds as in feeding something else.

AKA the ‘silver cat’ is not feeding on something for itself, it’s feeding Hawkins, feeding Hawkins with the particles. Hear me outttt.

Starting with this whole scene, it has some insane foreshadowing.

—> ‘I call it a weeder, get it man? Like a feeder?’ Argyle says. And what do they smoke? Purple Palm Tree Delight!!! We’ve established atp that Purple and Palm Trees = being deceived or lying. (e.g. purple rain, purple prismatic spray, the palm tree directly behind Tina, the twin palm trees on Maxs purple outfit, Tammy’s name meaning palm etc, you get it)

—> Now if you go back and watch this scene, guess what EVERYBODY in the classroom is building? Houses, Jonathan is even building one above. They’re building a town, a town to feed Purple Palm Treey Delight to, the Particles.

—> Additionally, a feeder is what you would use to feed farm animals, or cattle. It’s what you would use to feed SHEEP (I’ll talk about this later)

—> This scene gets even fucking crazier, above, standing right next to Argyle and Jonathan is basically a Mike Wheeler knockoff istg, and the sign he’s sitting RIGHT BENEATH goes like this ⬇️

‘If you don’t have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it OVER’

—> it’s not even just that, right next to this sign is literally a Trojan Horse, ‘wait for the horse’

—> theres also a sign on the yellow cabinet with a big ‘COMPLY’, Camazotz, the land of forced conformity. (The ‘glasses are required in this area’ is also interesting to me because of the significance glasses has in A Wrinkle in Time)

(extra things below)

—> I could actually go on about this scene for ages but I’m gonna move on for now I hope you get my point 😭

WHEN BLUE MEETS YELLOW IN THE WEST

Remember the very first thing drawn in season 4? It’s a sun, one Brenner draws after it shows him getting ready in the morning. (side note, the foreshadowing in that scene is INSANEEEE.)

When blue meets yellow in the west, the WEST. When blue (the sky) and yellow (the sun) meet in the WEST PEOPLEEE THE WEST‼️‼️ What happens in the west?. The sun sets. THAT ISNT GOOD BRO? (extra note rq, im also thinking of @ode_to_icarus’s Will Byers Sungod/Pelor theory!)

Let’s go over some things referenced in Stranger Things real quick ⬇️

01 - A WRINKLE IN TIME

—> Meg defeats IT, a giant, evil, disembodied brain forcing conformity on everybody with the power of love.

02 - RAINBOW BRITE

—> Rainbow Brite (also even beneath the Wrinkle in Time book in this shot!) Rainbow Brite was the story of a ‘wisp’ who went to a dark and colourless planet under the control of the King of Shadows. Wisp wins by literally using the power of rainbows light and love.

03 - A NEVERENDING STORY

—> In a Neverending Story there is a darkness called 'The Nothing' that destroys everything it touches.

AND THEN OFC THERES THE SONG, the lyrics say that the answer to a ‘never ending story’ is what follows ⬇️

1. ‘Rhymes that keep their secrets, will unfold behind the clouds, and there upon a RAINBOW’ rainbow pretty self explanatory 💀, but also ‘clouds’ I MISS THE CLOUDS I MISS YOU.

2. ‘Hidden in the lines, written on the pages’ THATS LETTERGATE BRORROOR LETTER GATE

04 - MY LITTLE PONY

—> Specifically when it was talked about in the scene with Erica and Dustin. They talk about a Rainbow of Darkness that the antagonist wanted to use to bring ETERNAL NIGHT, and how the ponies defeated this with a Rainbow of Light. @cara-ti-amo also pointed out how the thing they use for this is literally a heart, ‘you’re the heart’

—> and also, after they say this, the fan stops spinning!!! Tharizdun loses.

—> Ok so, clearly they’ve been foreshadowing something to do with light and love being the end to Stranger Things, and like I said before the blue and yellow meeting in the west would mean that the sun is setting, that light is lost, that THEY LOST‼️‼️

—> Even take a look above at the last shots of Season 4, the smoke coming out and completely shielding the sun. Heck, they practically got the entire town of Hawkins together for the shot below of the PARTICLES raining over them, (they literally look like CATTLE) the same particles they talk about all the godamn time in S5.

—> these shots above are literally showing it to us, the particles falling over a town where sunlight/light (aka-> hope, good, love etc) is being completely shielded by evil (darkness, shadows). The silver cat feeding them.

AND WHEN DOES THIS HAPPEN?

This is something I noticed, i didn’t think to much about it AT FIRST but I do now.

—> when the clock hands ‘meet in the west’ the angle is 270°, this is where 9 o’clock would be.

270° 9 o’clock

—> the episode where all this happens, the particles, Vecna telling El ‘you and your friends have already lost’ and where Vecna succeeds in putting the X on Hawkins, is episode 9 of S4. And the specific day that Vecna breaks into Hawkins is the 27th of March.

—> and according to Jonathan’s watch, it’s 9pm

—> Vecna breaks into Hawkins on the 27th at 9pm.

—> basically, Vecna wins with his big X on Hawkins on the 27th, at 9pm. The Silver cat feeds when blue meets yellow in the west, 270°, 9 = 27th 9pm when the sun is gone, they can begin being fed the Particles, the Purple Palm Tree Delight, like with Argyles Weeder/Feeder.

FORESHADOWING, LOVERS LAKE & bylering out rq 🤫

—> Another thing I’ve noticed is the only character we get a solid time of death is, is Patrick (I talk about how suspicious his death is here) Thanks to Eddie’s watch, we know that he dies at EXACTLY 9:27pm.

—> Which, if you remember, was the exact same same time, in the Creel House when Dustin, Robin, Steve, Lucas, Max and Nancy were standing in a circle holding their flashlights up, which they all exploded, they literally lost all light when Patrick died at LOVERS LAKE at 9:27PM.

(I’m about to byler out so hard rn be prepared)

—> So, in the photo above where I showed Jonathan’s watch proves that the X gates over Hawkins opens at 9pm on the 27th, but in that exact photo, where they show it the clearest, is when Mike is about to start his monologue to El.

What happens between Blue (Mike) and Yellow (Will) in the West (27th, 9pm) lets the Silver Cat feed, makes them lose.

Remember what I said before? About Patrick’s death?

—> At 9:27PM Patrick McKinney dies at LOVERS LAKE, the same time all the lights shatter and everything goes dark, they lose light.

—> At 9pm on the 27th, Wills heart breaks, El knows Mike was lying to her, Mike knows he was lying, Mike and Will likely lost hope of ever being together, Will heard Mike say when he was missing was the ‘best day’ of Mikes life, ITS SO MESSY 😭. So, at this time, there was a death of love ):, they lost light, they lost.

(extra note, Patrick’s initials are PM, if you flip and switch these it’s WB, Will Byers 💔)

BUT FEAR NOT OK BECAUSE THIS CAN BE FIXED‼️‼️

so obviously ⬇️

Light = Love Darkness = Hate

The last time we see the Cali Crew before the lights exploding scene and Patrick’s Death at Lovers Lake, at 9:27PM is the one where they pull out a map and start talking about finding Suzie at Salt Lake City.

—> The thing I’m focusing on here is when Will sings ‘turn arounddddd look at what you seeeee’ from the Never Ending Story (Then Argyle says that that story scared him when he was younger, and that the Nothing is some proper existential shit, being queer would of been scary when you were younger, The Nothing (internalised homophobia) would DEFINETLY be some 'existential shit')

We know that turning around = 180°

—> So now, they’ve lost, and if they lose when the sun sets in the West at 270°, and darkness wins over light, and there’s been SO MUCH foreshadowing of love being the only way they can win…

West = 270° = where the sun sets and light is lost = where darkness wins, AKA THE 27th X ON HAWKINS

—> Then to win, Michael Wheeler has admit he’s in love with Will, to turn around (180°) and look at what he sees and 180° from 270°, is East, where the SUN RISES! :)

He has to do it over, and pick the RIGHT RECORD this time, east. CAN LOVE DEFEAT FEAR??? YESSSSSS

PART 2

(DISCLAIMER 🚨🚨🚨- some parts of this relate to a theory that Eddie is inspired off Orcus in DND, @ode_to_icarus on twt was the one who figured this out NOT me!!! But I look into Orcus and for hints in the show and this is everything i found!)

(Theres sooo many more connections with Orcus & Eddie but I wont list them all, this post is more focused on things ive found to proving Eddie is not who he says he is rather than on Orcus, i do reccomend looking into Orcus more yourself)

COSTUME & SET DESIGN

—> ⬆️ He’s literally holding that damn honeycomb box (that makes up a beehive) up to the audience which is actually insane??? We know by now Stranger Things uses bee/honey/honeycomb imagery for the hivemind and characters apart of it (e.g. Mrs Driscoll calls Nancy honey 3 times, later we find out she’s apart of the hivemind) Eddie is apart of the hivemind and they literally we’re screaming it in our faces.

—> ⬆️ Not only does Eddie’s LEFT sleeve (arm) have THREE chains on it, but one of the rings on his LEFT hand is a cross, with four skulls (kills, deaths) on each corner, literally what Vecna did with his LEFT hand, four kills and a cross in the middle, over Hawkins.

—> ⬆️ Eddie’s bandana he always has with him, chains again, four skulls on each corner and a cross in the middle just like Hawkins (the skull in the middle at the library likely is to do with Will) When Eddie wears this bandana around his head the two bones also are positioned to look like two horns, (Orcus)

—> ⬆️ Remember this scene? People edited it tons, but what nobody actually paid attention to was the can Eddie was throwing things into, the camera focused on it before focusing on Eddie. “Get a set of 4 tumblers featuring some of today’s Favourite Characters. FREE WITH PROOFS OF PURCHASE” (there are also paddles behind him, remember this for later!)

01 • ‘4 Tumblers featuring some of today’s favourite characters’ = 4 kills featuring some of the show’s favourite characters

02• ‘Free with proofs of purchase’ = using these deaths to FREE something (Tharizdunnnn)

And then ofc there’s the two pairs of eyes on the cup, interesting how there’s TWO, and the sauce looks like blood going into only one of them. (welllll, Eddie’s real name IS Edward…yeah…)

It’s even more interesting when you pair those eyes with this above, (istg those eyes on the bathroom walls and on Robins jacket are the same). Theres ALOT to unpack on the right image, for starters, Eddie in the background looking creepy asf duh. Then also theres three things 'looking' at or 'watching' Nancy other than Eddie, the eyes watching on perfume bottle, the Max-like sunglasses facing her, and the teddy bear bottle facing her. (the hat looks a lot like Vickys too) ill go over this all later.

—> ⬆️ Lastly, they chose Eddie to stay hideout at a boathouse with a ton of paddles, (there’s even paddles directly behind him when he’s throwing things into the can above) When Eddie is ‘escaping’, the boat he takes motor doesn’t work and he uses one paddle. JUST LIKE CHARON, In Greek Mythology, Charon is the one that transports souls to the UNDERWORLD to Hades on his boat, which he uses one paddle on. (Eddie also uses one paddle on the boat in the next episode)

IMPORTANT ok stop and ask yourself this, WHY would Eddie go out on the boat, he went out into the middle of the lake? Where they would CLEARLY be able to see him? that genuinely makes NO sense, unlessssss that was where he wanted Patrick to go. (remember the tunnels go AROUND Lovers Lake!) Patrick dies in the lake right where Eddie led him too on his boat with one paddle. Patrick is guided by Charon and taken to the ‘underworld’ to Hades, to Vecna. Eddie is literally in Charons boat, leading Patrick to the ‘underworld’, to Vecna.

—> ⬆️ actually now this is lastly rq 😭 two of Eddie’s tattoos, first is the PUPPETMASTER, and the next is the Wyvern, a mythical creature with two wings and a barbed tail with a venomous stinger, just like Orcus. (Eddie also has a pin with ‘wasp’ on it, another creature with a venomous sticker)

DIALOGUE

—> ⬆️ So like I said before, remember the song Eddies plays in the UD? Master of Puppets? And remember how he dedicates it to Chrissy “Chrissy, this is for you”. Well this is an INSANE song to dedicate to her when the some of lyrics literally include “dedicated to how I’m killing you” and “I will help you die”

—> ⬆️ “this is, uh, my castle”, a line said by Eddie in the background as he and Chrissy enter his (spiral decorated chain filled) trailer. According to Orcus’s lore, anybody who entered his lair would be subject to ‘mental onslaught’, lets think about it.

CHRISSY > first death, Chrissy, we first see her experience a vision in the bathroom, RIGHT AFTER MAX was there. The next one we see is when she’s in the forest with EDDIE. Max and Eddie are literally neighbours, Max’s house is 56, Eddie’s is 53, the difference is THREE. Then, when Chrissy enters Eddie’s trailer, she dies

FRED > The first time we see Fred have a vision is when he enters the trailer park, again, where Eddie (and Max) live. He also dies there.

PATRICK > Dies in the middle of Lovers Lake after following Eddie out there who was in his little Charon boat, literally leading him to the underworld. Eddie had been staying at Reefer Ricks next to the lake for a while now too!

NANCY > Nancy has a vision literally at Eddies trailer, it begins with her thinking she’s going into Eddie’s trailer and then ending up falling into a black void. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND‼️‼️

—> Should we maybe not be here? They say with Eddies trailer in the back, the one with literal spirals on it. (Extra note, the TV reminds me of the TVs in Murray’s house, who else do we think is a traitorrrr?)

—> Now remember when Robin says she can't stand to see those ‘doe' EYES of Eddie's break again she really can't, random chocie of words? BUTTT In the scene before (like literally right before, it cuts directly to this) we see a digger with the word Deere on it (Deer=a doe!). So these scenes just compared Eddie with a digger. Orcus is legit called the lord/prince of the dead/undead bro he has necromancy powers!?!? GRAVEDIGGING‼️‼️‼️

—> Then Steve says ‘at least he can drink himself into feeling better’ and holds up Miller beers 6 pack. (side note, this is also the same beer eddie asked for because he wanted something cold!!! COLD). 'Drink himself into feeling better' Orcus only feels satisfaction when he drinks blood of living. The beer is Miller, a miller is used to grind grain which is crazy because Orcus's followers would grind bones into grains to eat.

(wait another thing rq, remember suzies house foreshadowing stuff and the kid choking/dying and foreshadowing eddies death? It literally had the mini duffer kid filming it, as in like, it was an act, the girl was acting like she was dying but got up perfectly fine? After the other kid filming it ended the scene!)

(the top part of this post relates to the U.S.S. Eldridge and bottom half The Bell!)

SOME CONTEXT FIRST

—> The Philadelphia Experiment or ‘Project Rainbow’ is the theory that in the fall of 1943 an experiment was conducted to attempt to make a U.S Navy transporter, the U.S.S. Eldridge invisible to hide from the Germans during the war. Instead, the ship completed vanished from thin air and was teleported from Philadelphia in a ‘flash of green light’.

—> in Stranger Things canon, the U.S.S Eldridge was captained by Captain Brenner, Martin Brenners father. And instead of making the ship invisible, they were momentarily transported to The Abyss where most of the crew were attacked and killed by Demogorgans.

—> This relates alot to the movie The Philadelphia Experiment (1984). In this movie when the Philadelphia Experiment occurs two sailors are transported from 1943 to 1984. This is because in 1984 this experiment was being conducted again, which caused a wormhole between two points in time. But in 1984, their experiment caused them to lose an entire town in time.

(above, Hawkins vs the town lost in time in 1984 TPE)

STARCOURT MALL

—> This is only my very first point, maybe you think it is a stretch, maybe you don’t but, I do believe they intentionally chose this mall because of its shape resembling the hull of a ship. It’s even got a rainbow like pattern at the entrance.

—> Next is the fact it’s literally called Starcourt Mall, we’ve already established by now that all the Stranger Things space & Star imagery is to do with the Abyss, like for example this line below from Steve (in SEASON 3 mind you)

(Left) the two sailors in the Philadelphia Experiment falling through a wormhole. + their sailor uniform

(Right) what Steve and Robin see in S3E7 (after they are talking about BTTF), which is CLEARLY meant to look like a wormhole. + Steves sailor uniform.

—> this falling through a wormhole scene also reminds me ALOT of the scene where Scoops Troop is falling down an elevator (ill talk about this soon because i believe that the elevator is a metaphor for S5 and is foreshadowing how they'll win)

S5E8 END CREDITS & DND

—> And then in the S5E8 end credits, Starcourt Mall is referred to as the “Court of Stars” and it has a very interesting description.

—> For starters, in the highlighted red, it’s talking about rainbows (remember it’s also called project Rainbow!!!) and an ‘unreal glow’, the USS Eldridge was said to dissapear in a ‘green glow’

—> And then highlighted in the blue, “unmistakeable the U.S.S—“ and it cuts off with B, obviously meant to say U.S.S Butterscotch, icecream talked about in Season 3. Yet below it starts talking about decommissioned galleons (ships from Spain?) and sea voyages, it really just feels like we’re meant to be relating this to a real ship, the U.S.S Eldridge?

—> “refreshing frozen citrus” is referring to Orange Julius, a store at the mall. Julius, who created the Julian calendar that we use today, and El just exploded it…(this makes more sense in the part right below this, frozen)

—> The Court of Stars in DND, what they call Starcourt Mall in the credits, clearly inspired Starcourt Mall, what’s interesting is the fact that ‘time does not pass’ in the Court of Stars, (its a never ending storyyyyy, Hoppers letter talking about pressing pause, the end credits with Starcourt mall using the word ‘frozen’, El exploding the Orange Julius, the calender?)

DIE GLOCKE (THE BELL)

This all brings me to the Die Glocke or the ‘Nazi Bell’ which I think, well I’m almost positive has been used in conjunction with The U.S.S. Eldridge as inspiration for Star Court Mall.

The Bell has many names such as The Die Glocke, The Wonder Weapon, The Anti-gravity machine, Project Chronos and more. It was rumoured to a weapon or machine of some kinda from the 1940s, and was it was believed to of been some kind of time-machine, anti-gravity machine, or something that could rip a hole through the space-time continuum.

—> The Bell, would require enormous amounts of electricity to operate, would rotate at high speed in opposite directions, a glowing blue light, required a radioactive liquid as propulsion.

—> its so called ‘true’ aim ‘reach an energetic level capable of generating a torsion field with the aim of deforming space-time, of curving it to the point of creating a tunnel that would allow to travel through it to other places and other times’

SOUND FAMILIAR???

Additionally, remember this conversation below from the season before? "If the Nazis were from another dimension, totally." because in this one its the Russians who created it!

There’s even a lot of bell imagery in S3, for example, Erica ringing the bell at Scoops Ahoy, and then Mike ringing it at the beginning. Also the fact Robin calls Steve ‘dingus’!!!

(I find Mike ringing the bell (time travel device) scene super interesting because as Mike does, Robin calls out “hey dingus your children are here!” Given the fact Steve calls Dustin his dad twice and the whole BTTF plot being about going back in time to your parents, Steve crawling backwards and him mentioning 6 nuggets and it being brought up again in S5, seems like something will happen with that??? Steve also says “seriously, again???” And Mike sarcastically rings the bell once more, time loop theory?)

—> One thing I have also noticed though is SO FAR the only time we see/hear bells is with the Scoops Troop and with Hopper, Joyce, Murray and Alexei, the ones involved in the Russian plot line. El, Max, Nancy group etc (Griswold Family) all knock on doors! Unless they’re at Starcourt Mall (e.g. Mike S3E1).

SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN?

Remember this scene? Max and El are shopping at the mall, they explode a group of girls ‘Orange Julius’s”, which has been bugging me for SO LONG BECAUSE I KNEW IT MEANT SOMETHING.

—> An Orange Julius. Julius, as in Julius Caeser, the creator of the Julian Calender. EXCEPT for the Russian Orthodoxs, they use the Julian Calender still, which is why Christmas for them is on January 7th (jumpscare). The world used the Julian Calender for most of history, to due to the timeline of it being off!!! the innacuravcy was eleven minutes! EL EXPLODED IT AND THEN RUNS AWAY INFRONT OF THIS MASSIVE TACOBELL SIGN (the drinks in this scene are hella emphasised too!)

—> many countries now use the Gregorian Calender, the name of the Russian trying to kill Hopper and Joyce? It’s Grigori.

(1) To summarise, El exploded on Orange Julius then runs away with Max infront of a massive tacoBELL. sign. she explodes (disrupts) the Julian Calender

(2) then, later in the season, Grigori is killed as he’s pushed into the machine (The Bell), destroying the Gregorian Calender.

Then we're back with the Bell imagery in S5, specifically I wanna talk about this BELL Tower scene below. Theyre waiting for the burn, Mike counts down to 'boom' (yet another explosion at a bell tower!).

This scene above CLEARLY shows there are TWO people, its very emphasised. It also shows one lighter being lit before the next, AKA the Julian Calender Timeline disrupted first (Orange Julius & El) and then the next, the Gregorian Timeline (Gregori and the Bell/Russian machine)

(extra, above clearly shows a bell behind Steve and Dustin as Murray says ‘it’ll catch fire’)

CONCLUSION

—> something happened with the explosion of the Russians device (The Bell) in S3, it literally destroyed Grigori, the Gregorian Calender, I think a time loop of some sorts was created, that Hawkins was somehow lost in time.

—> Neverending story plays right before the explosion.

—> Starcourt Mall parraleled to the U.S.S. Eldridge that got lost in time.

—> Time does not move in the “Court of Stars” according to DND, Hopper talks about pressing pause in his letter.

—> the S5E8 end credits calling the Orange Julius’s ‘frozen’

—> One timeline was destroyed before the other.

(EXTRA 1 - Also bro, I just rewatched the S3E1 beginning when the Russians first use their machine, they SLOMO those people in the room getting electrocuted, it’s so so gruesome they show their melted bodies like hello I don’t remember that? There’s NO WAY hopper could of survived that genuinely, they showed us that to make us realise that)

AKA Max and El are related/share DNA theory 🍒🍓

(also apart of Max, Sara, Kali, El connected)

not 100% neccasary but for more context/info these posts relate

> Max halves, twos & parralels

> Max Mayfield & Michael Myers parralels

ALEXEI AND HOPPERS SLUSHIE DEBATE

I always thought this scene was weirdly emphasised, and now I know why!!! (also WSQK talks about this!)

In this scene Alexei and Hopper are arguing about slushies. Alexei wanted a cherry slushie and Hopper got him a strawberry slushie, Alexei notices this and demands for his cherry slushie, this is what kickstarts this argument.

—> for starts, if you know literally anything about DNA then you’ll know that it is made up of a SUGAR PHOSPHATE BACKBONE‼️ (extra note, the WSQK also refers to DNA as sugar)

—> Hopper argues, he doesn’t understand why Alexei cares, “it’s sugar on ice, it’s all the godamn same” and Murray translates “Sugar on ice. No difference.”

—> Basically he is saying that the Cherry Slurpee and the Strawberry Slurpee is the same, all it is is sugar on ice. AKA the Cherry Slurpee and the Strawberry Slurpee are the same the same, there’s no different in their DNA.

—> so who are the Cherry and Strawberry slurpees? They are Max and El. This will make sense when I explain it below.

STARCOURT MALL

Theres is only one character in ST that has been associated with strawberries, and that’s El, (take a look at her shirt in this scene when she is talking about Hopper to the class! She also eats strawberry icecream in S1)

So, sugar on ice is DNA, what else is ‘sugar on ice?’ ICECREAM! Remember the Starcourt mall scene where El and Max are getting icecream? Well l'm about to analyse the fuck out of this scene, it tells us EVERYTHING.

—> We begin with El ordering vanilla icecream with sprinkles and EXTRA WHIPPED cream, and Max ordering STRAWBERRY. And where does Max Mayfield live? Well, she lives on CHERRY lane. (so let's stop and think about it for a second, Max from Cherry Lane has strawberry icecream or ‘sugar on ice’ or DNA and El has icecream with extra whipped cream)

—> in the scene directly after this, Max asks El if she wants to trade their icecreams (ice creams=sugar on ice=dna), and so, Max (Cherry), gives El her strawberry icecream. And El gives Max her icecream with EXTRA WHIPPED cream. I need you guys to listen to me RIGHTTT NOW this whole scene was just a metaphor for sharing (whipping, mixing) DNA bro😭

—> The scene continues, DIRECTLY after they switch icecreams, the camera pans to Mike, Lucas and Will as Max and El notice them with their bikes, where they appear to be having a conversation about SPLITTING. Which is INSANE because Remember the DNA replication diagrams in Brenners office I showed before? The zipper/unzipping of the DNA??? Yeah, that's also referred to as DNA SPLITTING, (holy shit the dialogue hints go SO deep!?!?)

—> Max then immediately walks forward, "isn't this a nice surprise?” Then, Mike starts talking about how the only had he only has "like $3.50", which is insane choice of numbers, 3, 5, these numbers are VERY important in DNA Replication, in DNA splitting. (these numbers are also ALWAYS associated with Max, remember this!)

—> then ofc, El dumps Mike, and ‘Cold as Ice’ starts playing, (sugar on ice) and Max and El get onto bus number 8537.

(extra rq, we are MEANT to notice that Max=Cherry, she says it twice this season AND when El went to find Max they literally meet on Cherry Lane on the literal road)

SEASON 4 MICROBIOLOGY

This is the scene where El is remotely going to Maxs mind to help her against Henry, if you look in the back there’s 5 pizza posters above her.

Those are bacterial colonies, well at least, they’re 100% supposed to look like them, and DONTTTT EVEN TRY TO TELL ME THEYRE NOT, when I image searched the pizzas literally all that came up was bacterial colonies 😭. and if you still don’t believe me the next part will probably convince you. (definitely take a look at the info of them in the photo too!)

Remember this scene that I was talking about before? Where El is wearing a strawberry shirt? I’m gonna go over it now.

—> For starters for this entire sequence the lyrics to California dreaming are playing, specifically, the lyrics that each repeat themselves twice, remember this.

—> El gets hit in the face by a spitball, it’s common knowledge that spit/saliva is one of the easiest and most common ways to get a DNA sample, this spitball comes from a red straw from a guy sitting directly infront of a poster of the Wright Brothers, remember this too!

—> Lastly, look closely and you’ll notice throughout this entire sequence there’s a guy in the back holding a red poster, facing it directly to the camera in a way that is clearly meant to emphasis it to the audience. This is a poster of Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, one of the first microbiologist, and as I quote literally from the part of the poster he is holding up, he is commonly referred to as ‘the father of microbiology’.

BUT THENNNNNNN HE SHOWS UP AGAIN

Here he is, his name clearly intentionally in the shot, the same shot as the guy wearing. A shirt with a dna pattern on it.

Ok, I rest my case microbiology is important.

But there’s still more to this scene, STAY WITH ME HEREEE‼️‼️ Watch this shot after the class of El walking out, the Wright Brothers are back again, clearly, were meant to see this poster, she holds it directly up to the camera just like the guy with the ‘Father of Microbiology’ did. (out of EVERYBODY in that classroom they chose the girl with the poster about famous siblings to come out, THAT IS INTENTIONAL, if they didn’t want us to notice it then they would’ve had El Storm out of the classroom first, she was upset that would of made way more sense!)

Then of course, we probably all know this scene it’s iconic, it cuts to Max, (AT EXACTLY 50:30 TO GO‼️) who is listening to her favourite song. The lyrics in this scene go ‘make a deal with god and get him to swap our places, tell me we both matter, don’t we?”

(extra note: Max is also wearing a green scrunchie in this scene, remember in S3 where Max gives El her green scrunchie in the end like how El gets Sara’s blue hairtie??? I dunno…and the WSQK talked about scrunchies, specifically repeating the word twice so YES the scrunchies are important don’t tell me I’m looking too much into them!)

Ok I’m nearly done I swear, this one might be my favourite proof. Continuing on with this scene, Max is going to see Ms Kelley.

Remember what I said about Max and Cherries? I also said it was interesting that they chose Cherry as the name of her road, because Cherrys are almost always depicted as this 🍒 (two halves of a whole, I explain more in this post if you want more context) Well, Max gets too Ms Kelleys office, and Ms Kelley is a fruit bowl, look at this right now bro omg.

That’s literally a godamn cherry with the other half missing like hello??? 😭 (AND it’s above a pear (pair) literally a missing part of a pair)

(+ Sara, Kali & El)

not 100% necessary but OTHER PARTS TO READ TO UNDERSTAND BETTER‼️

—> Max Mayfield & Michael Myers

—> WSQK hint

—> More Max & El parralel stuff

COSTUME DESIGNS

Max is almost always wearing something with a mirrored design on it, (she’s also practically ALWAYS wearing her hair equally over her shoulders)

⬆️ Season 2 outfits when she is first introduced, all of them have a zipper halfway down and either one or two lines running down her sleeves.

Maxs backpack also has these two identical symbols on the back, one with this black strap thingy on it. But this makes more sense when you realise that one of the stickers on her skateboard is a yinyang sticker (definitions above) it’s all about the balance between two sides, between two halves of a whole. (this sticker is on Maxs skateboard, her main hobby, balancing on a board)

SEASON 3

This season Max and El’s relationship is introduced. The famous ‘material girl’ mall scene happens (which has some insane dialogue I analysed the scene here)

Here’s some things I noticed about their outfits this season.

—> one of the outfits El wears is these straps, emphasised by her pulling on them, these straps are striped, and the same colours as the stripes on Maxs shirt just rearranged.

—> next are these outfits, once again El is wearing two straps, Maxs shirt has two drawstrings along with a logo of two palm trees.

—> then ofc their green and yellow scrunchies/hair ties. Green and yellow, two halves of a whole, blue. Aka the colour of Els two straps she’s wearing in this scene AND the colour of Saras blue hairtie.

—> I won’t add all their outfits but again, their outfits in S3E8, Max has her hair in two plaits, and El is wearing two straps again, this time in an X shape.

⬆️ These raincoat outfits are SO intentional and you cannot tell me otherwise. (Makes especially more sense if you read my Max-El Cherry-Strawberry analysis). Max is wearing a yellow raincoat and El is wearing a red one, but Max has red on the inside of hers…

Even their outfits beneath this do the same thing!!! Max is wearing white shirt, her colour is flipped showing blue, and El is wearing a blue shirt.

SEASON 4

In season 4 (and 5) Max is wearing braids alot still, she’s also wearing her headphones around her neck with two wires on each side, and when she’s not e.g. Billy’s scene, she’s got two stripes on either sleeve.

And then, also in this scene, she’s wearing a blue scrunchie now???

‼️THE SCRUNCHIES ARE IMPORTANT ‼️

Once (maybe more actually) on the WSQK, it was either Vance or Mindy talked about scrunchies, they were complimenting a girl scrunchie, they repeat their sentence TWICE

“She’s got a cool scrunchie” then they say a couple more sentences about something else “anyways, yeah she’s got a cool scrunchie”

Cool scrunchie x2!!!

DIALOGUE

—> then ofc we have what Max & Mr Clarke say when she is first introduced. Mr Clarke introduced her as Maxine, to which Max quickly snaps back ‘it’s just Max’, half her name

—> Then in the second episode, we learn from Max as she’s dressed as Michael Myers, that she lives on Cherry Lane, (already a parralel with Michael.M). Interesting that it was Cherry that they chose her street name to be, since Cherrys are almost always depicted as this 🍒, two halves of a whole.

—> this above is interesting, first Mikes dialogue obviously and then remember what I was saying about the yinyang thing? The balance? El makes her lose her balance in this scene 🤷‍♀️ (theres also what looks to be half of 3 X’s in where El is watching from, and an X like shape with two arrows coming out of it above!)

—> in the Halloween scene, Dustin and Lucas are having an argument over whether 3 Musketeers is good or not, here’s how it goes

“If I get another 3 Musketeers I’m gonna kms” - Lucas

“what’s wrong with 3 Musketeers?” - Dustin

“what’s wrong with 3 Musketeers?” - Lucas (repeats)

“no one likes 3 Musketeers” - Mike

“yeah it’s just nougat” - Will

”woahhh just nougat!? Just nougat? It is top 3 for me” Dustin

“Top 3!?” - Lucas

“Top 3!” - Dustin (repeats)

Then (at exactly 22:08) MAX shows up dressed as Michael Myers and jump scares the boys???. (They’re arguing over whether 3 Musketeers, or 3M, MMM, MadMax Mayfield is good or not…oh and the 3’s iykyk 😞)

—> Lastly something small, when Max and Lucas first go to the old junkyard, when Dustin & Steve are pouring out the bait/meat for Dart, Lucas calls out with “I said medium well!”

NUMBERS

There’s some specific numbers I’ve noticed Max constantly associated with, 2 obviously, but also 3, 5 and 8. (specifically 35 together!)

Season 2, Maxs score is 751300, and her locked number is 53, which is next to locker number 88?!? Is that normal bro?

Season 3, the bus that El and Max get on is bus number 8537, right after the scene where Mike says he only has $3.50, and then later the draw that Max opens has a magazine that costs $3.50

Season 4, theres this hella emphasised grave right next to Billy’s in this scene.

Casey R Cole was born on April 28 1950 (4/28, again, halves) and died on July 20th 1980

1950 - 1980 - 30 years

April 28th - July 20th - 2 months & 22 days (or 83 days)

The difference between these two dates is 30 years, 2 months and 20 days.

3222

As for who Casey R Cole is I’m not sure, but it is interesting that if you look at it like an anagram you can get Creel out of it. Or you can get Aces Y Creole??? (Idk, I’ll look into maybe other characters or famous people it could relate to 🤷‍♀️)

Update: Aces Y Creole in Spanish is Aces and Creole, aces are obviously important in ST we know that by now, wasn’t thinking toooo much of it until I remembered when Dustin told Mike he had a C in spanish, dunno could mean something?

REALLY QUICKLY LASTLY I WANNA ADD MY THEORY WITH THESE ROSES/FLOWERS‼️‼️‼️

These flowers are in S1 & S2 in Wills house, plus these brooms and DONT FORGOT the dial and the WSQK changing colours, the grey/white and red!!! (I think these colours represent changes in the timeline, and I also think that this is inspired by the War of the Roses, Henry and Edward, sound familiar?)

Well these white & red flowers are also on Maxs hairclip at the end of S2 at the snowball, above her braid.

The same braid we see her mother doing beforehand to the lyrics “is a swell time”

TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS ⬇️

—> The Back to the Future school dance parralels with the Snowball

Part 4 of Sara, El & Max, Cloned theory.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

There are WAYYYY more similarities between Michael Myers and Max Mayfield than I originally realised. I gotta quickly clarify I’ve never watched these movies before but I probably will soon for more context!

(Also, I’ve noticed quite a lot of parralels but I haven’t seen anybody else point any of them before? I did a quick search online but didn’t find anything. So these are all things I noticed myself and I’m very sorry if somebody has already talked about them 😭 )

⬆️ MAX MAYFIELD DRESSED AS MICHAEL MYERS IN SEASON 2

The very first thing I wanna point out, and I’m actually so shocked I’ve never seen anybody mention it but, the Halloween Franchise (that Michael Myers is from) is literally famous for having alternate timelines…

(Each timeline has been named something different, e.g. the 4-6 timeline, the H20 timeline etc).

Remember, this is the SAME season as we get a like from Nancy ‘timelines wrong’

FOR STARTERS

—> Max Mayfield is clearly meant to parralel Michael Myers. Here are some simple parralels. For starters, obviously, their initials are both MM.

—> Max Mayfield lives on Cherry Lane (which I talked about in my previous post) and Michael Myers lives on Lampkin Lane.

—> Max Mayfield fell into a coma and Michael Myers also fell into a coma.

—> Max Mayfield was introduced in the Halloween centric season, she first appeared in her costume on Halloween, Michael Myers is from the Halloween franchise.

CURSES

Now, Michael Myers is under the Curse of the Thorn. Oh, thorn? As in the one’s most commonly associated with Roses? Rose thorns?

We all know in S4, Max is put under a curse, they use that word specifically multiple times, Vecnas Curse. And we all know this door on the Creel House has a rose, one that’s extremely emphasised. ADDITIONALLY, even at the end of S2, Max is wearing a hairclip with TWO roses on it!

—> Simply, Michael Myers is under the Curse of the Thorn. Max Mayfield is under the curse of the Rose.

—> Additionally, remember I said both Max Mayfield and Michael Myers fell into a coma? This is in the Thorn Timeline

FAMILY

First, I’ll start with siblings. I ended my last post with this, which is crazy considering everything that I was talking about.

So Michael Myers has a ‘Lost Sister’, Laurie Strode. But, he also has another sibling, an older sibling named Judith Myers. Just like how Max has an older sibling Billy.

Judith Myers is dead, Michael Myers stabbed her IN THE CHEST. The exact same way Billy Hargrove died, he was impaled through the chest. (disclaimer before I go on with this section I do NOT think that Max is a murderer, this is NOT Max slander or hate in the slightest I promise, I’m just pointing out parralels!)

Max Mayfield feels the guilt for her older siblings death who was stabbed through the chest, while Michael Myers killed his older sibling by stabbing her through the chest.

Now as for Laurie Strode, the one that was revealed to actually be Michael Myers sister and a main protagonist of the Halloween Franchise.. However, she is not Michaels sister in every timeline.

Here’s Laurie Strode with one of the other main protagonists, Samuel Loomis.

Look familiar?

Another parralel between Laurie Strode and El is that, Laurie fakes her death and goes into hiding in California, El goes into hiding in California.

Now for parents

This might get a little complicated but bear with me ok?

—> Michael Myers father is called either Donald or Peter, the names are used interchangeably between timelines.

—> in canon, Max Mayfield fathers name is Sam

—> BILLY Loomis’ from Screams last name was a reference to Samuel Loomis from the Halloween Franchise inspired

Now, Remember in S4 when the military invade Sam Owen’s house? They’re taking a box and Sam’s wife runs after them ‘Those are Peters old school projects’

Peter Ballard is Henrys fake name, so who is Peter to the Owen’s family???

Additionally, I noticed something else very interesting, there’s this pillow right next to Owen’s in the scene above where Peters school projects are mentioned, a rose, with a smaller one stemming from it, (yeah that actually 100% has to mean something 🤷‍♀️)

My final point for this post is this DIRECT parralel on the staircase between Owens and Hopper, practically the exact same angle and staircase railing. In this scene with Hopper, he’s mourning his daughter Sara.

So, why is Owens being directly paralleled to this scene? Did Owens also lose a daughter/child and clone them? Is Owens responsible for cloning Sara and El? What’s happening hereeeee???

Part 3 of my Sara & El cloned theory.

(Now Sara, El and MAX cloned theory)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 4

So, after reading that imma direct our attention their costume/set designs there’s a couple things! that stuck out to me. (This is a much shorter post for now, im gonna start editing my other two so they make more sense and ill likely be adding more to this one!)

THE SCRUNCHIES & RAINCOATS

These two raincoats, Max is wearing a yellow one with RED on the inside, and El is wearing a fully red one. (hopefully) you’ve read everything I said about Max and Cherries and El and Strawberries so this will make sense. Maxs DNA (the red) creating El??? That or it’s simple Max is the same as El on the inside. Somethings going on here.

Now look at these scrunchies.

Obviously, Max clearly has a green one, and El has a yellow one, and then, at the end of S3, Max has given El the green one, like she gave her the strawberry icecream. If you mix blue and yellow together you get green. Remember Saras hair elastic I was talking about before, how DNA is elastic? The one that ALSO ended up with El. Yeah that one, It’s blue. Sara and El are both parts of Max.

(extra note, one time Mindy was talking on the WSQK and she repeats this line TWICE ‘she has a cool scrunchie’)

Speaking of two halves of a whole, this is Maxs skateboard design in S2…

And now remember Maxs address? The street she lives on? Cherry Lane. Not only are Cherrys typically depicted like this 🍒, again, two halves of a whole. But she lives at 4819 Cherry Lane.

When you translate 4819 into letters you get DHAI, which in Hindi, translates to 2 and a half.

And if you’re thinking that a translation from Hindi is really random it’s really not‼️‼️‼️

—> Kali on Brenners crossword 54 down is ‘wife of Shiva’, a deity in Hinduism.

—> Kalis last name is Prasad, a hindi term for an offering to a deity.

—> I’m gonna be looking into this more but there’s also a Hindu deity called Sara La Kali.

—> And lastly Krishna, who I believe Kali was inspired by, a major deity in Himduism and the eighth avatar of Vishnu, graffiti in Kalis home also shows the letters KRI directly behind her as she says “I just…feel…whole now.”

(also don’t forget how many time Max is pictured with butterflies, the illusion we see Kali show in S2E7)

MAX MAYFIELDS FIRST INTRODUCTION

More on season 2, in this scene, we meet Max Mayfield for the first ever time (besides her name on Digdug, which I’ll talk about later)

This scene is CRAZY when you look into it. For starters, the big ‘News from Space’ directly behind her as she walks in is insane??? The USS Eldridge? The Abyss? Whatwhattt

Then we’ve got the other poster behind her. ‘Extra! Extra!! First woman walks in space!!!’ This obviously means something imo because it’s weird asf wording lmao.

- Extra (one !) Sara??

- Extra (two !!) El & Max?

- First Woman Walks in Space (three !!!) El, Max & Sara?

Then ofc there’s the congrats with TWO !! And an underline that looks like DNA unzipping/splitting oh my godddd

Maxs outfit in this scene is also a zip up, with the zipper undone halfway down, just like everyyyy single diagram lf DNA unzipping/splitting in DNA replication, (and theres TWO lines running along her sleeves).

Finally for this section, it’s how Mr Clarke introduced Max to the class, he calls her Maxine to which Max immediately counteracts with “It’s just Max” Max, HALF OF HER NAME, Maxine without the INE.

TO FINISH (for now)

I have another post on this, it relates to Michael Myers and Max Mayfield, I’ll tell you my first point on this before I finish the full thing.

So, we remember that Max Mayfield dresses up as Michael Myers for Halloween in season 2??? Yeah…

Picked up a ham radio for 5 bucks - Mindy Flare

> for 5 bucks Bucks = Buckley. 5 = Robin (5 letters)

> then, theres here’s only one ham radio we see in Stranger Things, and that’s Cerebro, Dustin’s Ham Radio, the one he contacts Suzie to get Plack’s Constant in in S3

Ham radio = Cerebro 5 bucks = Robin Buckley

Mindy is saying that she used Cerebro for Robin Buckley. Which makes even more sense when you look what Cerebro actually is, what Dustin named his ham radio after. ⬇️

And the hints get even deeper in the show, because the book that Suzie is reading in 3x08 when Dustin contacts her for Plancks Constant is ‘Wizard of Earthsea’

here’s the plot

Insane book to choose, and it’s clearly emphasised by the way Suzie is holding it! 'accidentally releasing a shadow monster into the world' sounds veryyy familiar‼️‼️‼️

My last point on this book —> Ged, the wizard that releases the Shadow Monster in this story, has a nickname. Sparrowhawk. (thats two different kinds of birds!) Robin, Robins name, is also a kind of bird! Sparrow, Hawk, Robin.

(Alot of this related to pinballgate! I DID NOT CREATE THIS THEORY ITS FROM @bylerslabyrinth on twt!!!! but I’ll give a quick summary here for context for the rest of the post).

PINBALLGATE

⬇️ how it started, (MINDMAP BELOW FROM @bylerslabyrinth ON TWT‼️‼️‼️)

This fourth volume is the ONLY book lf the series that contains TIMETRAVEL, (keep this in mind!)

And then look at this PINBALL machine in the WSQK S5 right behind Mike, the symbols look alotttt like rewind symbols!! (@bylerslabyrinth)

The Rewind at 9 ⬆️

Now these are two things I noticed, the pinball machine mention in BTTF, and the WSQK hint, “the pin to my b—uhm, never we go way back.” we go way back (in time), this is gonna make more sense as you read this post!

THE REWIND AT 9

The rewind at 9 goes SO MUCH deeper than I originally thought, everything points to 9 being about “rewinding”, take a look at this

⬆️ So, to recap.

> Brenners crossword from 4x01 foreshadows things in episodes (eg, the word Kali is in 54 Kali comes back in 5x04!!!) I’ve done ALOT of analysis on this crossword, after you should definitely check it out here 🙏 But we’re focusing on 59 right now, where the word ETIOLOGICAL is, the study of the CAUSES AND ORIGINS OF WHY THINGS ARE THE WAY THEY ARE‼️‼️‼️. Why was Will Byers taken? How was the UD created etc. They have to go back in time to figure this out, and according to the Kitty and Meg WSQK hint, they’re gonna have to go back to the LIBRARY, where Vecna first took Will in S1, 1983

> comparing this with Robins Spotify broadcasts, of course, the ninth broadcast begins with “we’re throwing it way back this morning!” Which is just fucking insaneeee omg, they’re throwing us way back in time with the Rewind at 9!

> And then there's the movie that Robin references in her 9th broadcast, 7 Days Leave. Who do we know that went on a '7 Day Leave'? Will Byers, he went missing for 7 days. The numbers she says lead you to a specific scene, a man asking a woman a question, "you mean about the WILL? You knew all about it?" she then answers with “well of course”.

⬆️ remember S1, how El pointed to Will in the photo…how she looked at the library when they passed it??? Who opened the Byers door…

While on the topic of Robins broadcasts, part of it pre-S5 vol 2 was to find a hidden code within it, the code led you to a clip of vol2, (it was the scene Derek and the other kids woke up in the field)

The code you needed for this was 7653559775, when adding them together gets you this.

7+6+5+3+5+5+9+7+7+5‎ = 59

IT LITERALLY EVERYWHERE???

NIKKI BAXTER & TALES FROM 85

⬆️ there’s two things to unpack here

> first is the clear word PINBALL in the shot from the trailer, posted by the officials Stranger Things insta account on the NINTH of February.

> Second, @bylerslabyrinth on TWT pointed out how one of Nikki’s earrings is literally a pinball, and THENNN I noticed how her other ear, has FOUR earrings on it. The fourth volumes of the Pinball books, the missing fourth one, the only one that contains time-travel.

Next, Nikki’s name.

Alot of people have pointed out how suspicious it is, like especially her last name, Baxter. X a lie? And then, if you add an I where the X is, you get BAITER. “Which one of us is bait? I am” a quote from Nancy in 5x08 posted by the Stranger Things TWT account a day or so after 5x08 released.

But, I decided to look into the numerology of her name, and yeah, this is highkey insane.

So, the 2 ways we can convert Nikkis name into numbers are 549

Sound familiar? Let's reverse it, rewind it, 945

WSQK, 94.5

The rewind at 9, volume 4, season 5.

Oh and when is this show set to release, yes, the day New Coke was released, 23rd of April. 04/23, but alsooooo

PART 1 (AKA the WSQK hint decode!)

PART 3 (Max and El set/costume designs)

PART 4 (Max Mayfield & Michael Myers)

Ok so, right off the bat I’ve gotta quickly include what I found on Brenners Crossword that relates to this.

Idc what anybodyyyyyy says, that CLEARLY says Sara but its backwards/upside down, there's literally an erased R and an arc to make an A. PLUS it connected with ANNE, in flashbacks we see Hopper reading ANNE of Green Gables to Sara‼️‼️‼️

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On the topic of Anne of Green Gables, it’s super interesting that of all the books they chose Sara to be associated with (flashbacks show Hopper reading it to Sara) they chose this one.

This book is about an ELEVEN year old orphan, longing for a home/family, which already parallels El, but even more so when you look at the story of Jane Eyre, who I believe El’s character (Jane Ives) was modeled off/inspired by, (I realised this when I was looking at the books on the shelves in Maxs cave S5, the story of Jane Eyre is in one of them!).

⬆️ Many people have compared the stories of Jane Eyre and Anne of Green Gables!

(also extra note @cara-ti-amo just pointed out to me that in S2E7 when El goes to find Kali, Orange Mohawk guys calls her SHIRLEY. He was referring to Shirley Temple, but ALSOOOO ANNE SHIRLEY of Green Gables!!!)

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Now I’m gonna talk about the BLUE HAIRTIE, you probably know the one.

It’s the one that Sara Hopper originally wore before she lost her hair, and that El started wearing as her hair GREW BACK.

in season 1 there's a shot that clearly emphasises the hairtie, this is the same season we see Sara with clown pajamas and Hopper looking at the clowns in Els unused room at Terry Ives house.

More so, a hairtie is also called a hair ELASTIC in many places, DNA is well-known to be highly ELASTIC. Another commonly used name for a hairtie is a hair BAND, in genetic research, chromosome BANDING is used and a welldefined "line" of DNA on a gel is called a BAND.

(Extra note, look at the shape they use in diagrams of DNA cloning, looks alottt like a hairtie)

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Ok so lastly, my favourite point, (the actors of Diane and Sara Hopper had extremely small roles, remember this!!!)

The name of Sara's actor in S1 is literally ELLE Graham, the same season they nickname Jane/ Eleven, EL. And then, the actor of Sara in S5 is Tilly JEAN Moris, JANE !!

But it gets crazier??? The actor of Diane Hopper, Sara's mother, is Jerri Tubbs, same season we learn Els mothers name is Terry Ives, switch the JT, you get TERRI.

Yes, I know this sounds crazy, but cmon, not only do both actors of Sara share names with El, but even Saras mothers actors name mimics Els mothers???? Like, that can't be a coincidence!!!

(And again, these actors had minuscule roles!!! Like legit less than 10 seconds, they could EASILY choose actors with names specific names if they wanted to for this role).

Sara Hopper Clone Theory part 1

PART 2 PART 3 PART 4

From the NYE WSQK Hawkins Update ⬇️

⬆️ (Zipper in DNA replication refers to the unzipping of the DNA, also called the splitting of DNA)

Hawkins is home to one of the best bakers! Marlene Squires

> Hawkins is home to Hawkins National Lab. AKA, Hawkins is home to one of the best scientists able to clone people, bake up copies.

> Marlene Squires, Squires. What is a Squire? A squire is ‘a young nobleman aspiring to become a knight, acting as an attendant to a knight before becoming a knight himself.’ Marlene has been cloning others before she attempts to clone herself.

> so who is Marlene Squires? Marlene sounds a lot like a feminine version of Martin…Marlene = Martin. Martin Brenner. Whos basically a new feminine version of Brenner in S5 of Stranger Things? DR KAY.

> the theory is that Dr Kay is a clone of Dr Martin Brenner. Remember what Kali said in S5? That there was ALWAYS going to be more Dr Kays? Yes, because she can just be cloned.

Sugar Rush Squires!

> If you know literally anything about DNA/RNA, then you’d know that it is made up of a SUGAR PHOSPHATE BACKBONE‼️‼️‼️

She won The Golden Whisk Award for her innovative dessert creation, the strawberry swirl surprise!!!

> Marlene creates something ‘innovative’, called the Strawberry Swirl Surprise. There’s oneeeee character that I’ve seen before associated with strawberrys, and that’s El, take a look at her shirt in this scene when she is talking about Hopper to the class.

> she is a ‘creation’ an innovative creation, a ‘swirl’ of DNA. (+ note the guy with a DNA like pattern on his shirt in this scene!)

> but it goes WAYYYY deeper than that, remember this conversation between Hopper, Joyce, Murray and Alexei?

> They didn’t have cherry, so Hopper got strawberry, now Hopper doesn’t have Sara, now he’s got El. Hopper gets angry saying it doesn’t matter, it’s ’the same’ all it is is SUGAR ON ICE, remember what I said about Sugar Rush Squires and DNA sugar?? ‘It’s the godamn same, Sugar on Ice, no difference.’ Sara and El are of the same, the DNAs, no difference.

> ok, so what else is ‘sugar on ice’?, ICECREAM OF COURSE!!!

> Remember the Starcourt mall scene where El and Max are getting icecream? Well I’m about to analyse the fuck out of this scene, it tells us EVERYTHING we need to know, this whole WSQK segment is basically about it. We begin with El ordering vanilla icecream with sprinkles and EXTRA WHIPPED cream, and Max ordering STRAWBERRY. And where does Max Mayfield live? Well, she lives on CHERRY lane. (so let’s stop and think about it for a second, Max from Cherry lane has strawberry icecream or ‘sugar on ice’ or DNA and El has icecream with extra whipped cream)

> in the scene directly after this, Max asks El if she wants to swap their icecreams, and so, Max (Cherry), gives El her strawberry icecream, while El hands her the icecream with extra whipped cream. Remember what Marlene wins for this creation? A golden WHISK, a whisk is used for WHIPPING, whipping DNA together, to create a Strawberry Swirl SURPISE

> The scene continues, DIRECTLY after they switch icecreams, the camera pans to Mike, Lucas and Will as Max and El notice them with their bikes, where they appear to be having a conversation about SPLITTING. Remember the DNA replication diagrams in Brenners office I showed before? The zipper/unzipping of the DNA??? Yeah, that’s also referred to as DNA SPLITTING, (holy shit the dialogue hints to SO deep???)

> Max then immediately walks forward, “isn’t this a nice surprise?, Strawberry Swirl SURPRISE. Then, Mike starts talking about how the only had he only has “like $3.50”, which is insane choice of numbers, 3, 5, these numbers are VERY important in DNA Replication, in DNA splitting.

> and then of course, to end this scene, El dumps Mike, El and Max get onto a bus and ‘as cold as ICE’ starts playing, sugar on ice 🤷‍♀️

(I’ll be going into how Max Mayfield related to all of this soon in other posts, but we’re clearly meant to notice that Max lives on CHERRY LANE, keep this in mind!)

Making homemade waffles and fresh donuts from scratch

> Marlene Squire impressed the judges by making ‘homemade waffles’ we’ve established by now that waffles/eggos in the WSQK represent El for obvious reasons. Martin Brenner impressed the other scientists by creating El Hopper.

> so, fresh donuts? Who is that? Well, there’s only one character we’ve seen with donuts in Stranger Things, and that’s Jim Hopper. Fresh donuts = a newer donut = a younger donut. A younger/newer Jim Hopper, AKA SARA HOPPER

> Marlene Squires receives a golden whisk for this, whisk = whipping, extra whipped cream, mixing DNA together, WHIPPING DNA together, but specifically a GOLDEN whisk…right…Fibonacci spiral? Sunflower? 3 to the left 4 to the right ok…

There’s a scene in episode 1 of Stranger Things season 4 where it shows someone completing a crossword, we find out that that person is Dr Brenner. The scene is long and the crossword is VERY emphasised, so I’ve been looking into it and I’ve found a lot of EXTREMELY interesting stuff.

There’s three specific things that I’ve found, I’ll make 1 part for each of them, this is part 2.

PART 1

02 - UD/CROSSWORD LINEUP

You seriously have to stick with me very closely for this one, but I PROMISE it makes so much sense, so please please please just hear me out rn.

The word LAB sits at the very centre of the crossword, (specifically the letter A!) on 33 DOWN. We now know from season 5, that the Lab is in the very centre of the Upside Down. Also notice that the black squares on the crossword are perfectly mirrored, just like how the UD is a mirror of the Real World.

Sooo, I lined up the crossword to match the lines of Dustins map, and yes believe me I know at first it seems like such a stretch, but again, remember, the lab is at the very centre of BOTH. The crossword represents the UD.

(notice the lab at 33 down at the centre, 33 = Tharizdun imagery!!!)

I’ll start with the simpler thing that I found, these lines all adding up to THREE A’S , which we have seen AND heard of before‼️ the WSQK talks about someone named AAA + this sign in S4. (I WILL GO OVER THE YELLOW PARTS AFTER THIS THEY ARE VERY VERY IMPORTANT TOO!)

⬆️ Additionally, this is the scene that Dustin figure out the lab is in the centre of the UD, the ace card (A) is super emphasised.

Ok, so now for the rest of the things that line up, this actually blew my mind, the line across crosses through two significant things, right at the edge of the crossword, one on each side of the line (bridge). E & W.

The W is on the 7, it is the beginning of the word WHEAT. Will Byers, it was a 7.

The E is at the ending of the word SONE, which is 34 across. El Hopper, 3 to the left, 4 to the right.

Wheat and Sone

Wheatsone

THE WHEATSTONE BRIDGE

Begining with W and ending with E, like the line on the crossword begins with W and ends with E.

Ok cool so, what is the Wheatstone Bridge and why could it be relevant?

The Wheatstone Bridge is an electrical circuit that consists of two sides of the bridge, and FOUR resistors that make up a diamond shape.

The fact that this concept was introduced via the crossword in SEASON FOUR where Vecna needs an unexplained FOUR kills to open up the gate(bridge) into Hawkins makes me believe that these four resistors are somehow supposed to be representing the four kills

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⬆️ please read especially the red text!!! The 90 degree angle really does line up so well with the A‼️

But the connections don’t stop there, if we look closer at the letters surrounding the W7 and the 34E, things get even more interesting.

We can connect the W & E to Will and El like I said before, and we can connect the A to the ace imagery, so what about the I & the R?

In the crossword the 'I' I am talking about is the beginning of 9 down, the word INR. And the 'R' I am talking about is the ending of 29 across, INNERER. Just like the W being the begining of Wheat and E being the ending of Sone. So there's already a connection there. + the words are similar.

I & R are important letters in the Wheatstone Bridge. The letter 'R' represents the Resistors, whilst the letter 'I' represents the ELECTRIC current.

So El (E) has the R, the Resistor, and Will (W) has the I, the electric current, WHICH CREATES LIGHT (Pelor!)

⬆️ OH AND SO WHAT DO YOU FUCKING KNOW ONCE AGAIN WERE BACK WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS 😭

I have already done some analysis’s on Steve’s use of the word ‘electricity’ to describe romantic feelings and how electromagnetic fields could play into all of this, I’ll put them below, but I’m specifically paying attention to how when it’s first brought up Dustin literally brings up electromagnetic fields, crazy as fuck omg.

Now, if we follow the line from the bottom left corner of the crossword to the top right, it goes from M to F.

Magnetic Fields, Mindflayer, Medium Frequency, M marks the spot - I think that it could EASILY mean any of these, if not all of these

Ok, now for the final connection I’ve made with the UD-Crossword Line Up, which makes me once again 100% believe that none of this is a coincidence, and that’s the number of the two words W7 & 34E belong to.

6 across and 27 down.

6 = November the 6th, the day Will Byers went missing.

27 - 27th of March, the day Max Mayfield died for a minute and her conscious went ‘missing’, El couldn’t find her in the void.

Additionally, come S4, here’s some Wheatstone Bridge Imagery I’ve noticed, all from SEASON FOUR!

There’s a scene in episode 1 of Stranger Things season 4 where it shows someone completing a crossword, we find out that that person is Dr Brenner. The scene is long and the crossword is VERY emphasised, so I’ve been looking into it and I’ve found a lot of EXTREMELY interesting stuff.

There’s three specific things that I’ve found, I’ll make 1 part for each of them, this is part 1.

PART 2

01 - EPISODE NUMBER FORESHADOWING/WORDS

So this all started when I decided to look deeper into Brenners crossword, I knew the word Kalis(Kali) was on there but I only just realised that on the crossword "Kalis" is 54 down, in season 5 episode 4 of stranger things, Kali comes back in the upsideDOWN.

So obviously I started to look at the numbers that would correlate to different episodes of season 5 and I found some VERY interesting stuff for the words 58 & 59.

CPU, CAM & Etiological

(I compiled the meanings of these in the pics below)

An extra thing I noticed, the description for 58 down CAM(azotz) in the crossword contains the world Wheel, AKA Wheeler, a Wheeler in Camazotz (also reminds me of the song Wheel in the Sky on the WSQK vinyl, I have an analysis on that too!) ⬇️

⬆️ I’ve also looked into the one directly below 58, Tillermans Beverage.

Here is the definition for a Tillerman.

A person who steers a boat. A VESSEL. A person who CONTROLS A VESSEL!

Now what about the beverage part? What is a Tillermans beverage? It’s tea. This if from an old poem from 1970, ‘Tea for the Tillerman.’ A couple lines from this poem are VERY interesting. ⬇️

“Wine for the woman who made the rain come”

This line is easily the most interesting to me, (it also immediately made me think of the song on the WSQK vinyl, Here Comes the Rain Again by Eurythmics).

Who do we see with wine in Stranger Things S5? Karen Wheeler! ⬇️

Who is Karen Wheelers son? Who did she make? Mike Wheeler THE RAIN 🌧️

(Karen is also even drinking wine in S3 in the bath as she reads the book HEART OF THUNDER!, Mike the Heart, Thunderstorm, rain!)

Mike is the rain (blue) while Will is constantly framed in the light, he is the sun ☀️ (yellow). (read @ode_to_icarus Will Byers is the Avatar of Light Pelor/Sungod theory on twt!!! It’s AMAZING!) Even the line above the rain one in this poem is “steak for the SUN”

What do sun & rain make? A rainbow oooooooo 😈

Another line from the poem is even “while the sinners sin” Is it a sin? ):

SARA HOPPER APPEARS IN THE CROSSWORD

another thing in this crossword I’ve literally only JUST noticed is this, look, idc what you say, that CLEARLY says Sara but its backwards/upside down, there’s literally an erased R and an arc to make an A. PLUS it connected with ANNE, in flashbacks we see Hopper reading ANNE of Green Gables to Sara‼️‼️‼️ there were already theories going around of something to do with Sara and cloning, take a look at what RNAS are, the word above the SARA

Then ofc, there’s the fact that Brenner LITERALLY HAS THIS STUFF IN HIS NOTES IN S5??? ⬇️

Finally, thanks somebody who pointed this out to me on twt! The last word of the crossword is Shams.

shams is defined as. ‘falsely presenting something as the truth’, aka I think this either means that the "final episode" was a sham, or, with the word being connected to Kalis, perhaps it's saying that Kali is falsely presenting something as the truth?