you should see me in a crown

Like, did you read it orrrrr?

Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.

1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.

or

2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.

- Wool. Sheep need to be sheared or their wool will get excessively large, matted and gross. Its legit just a haircut. Calm down and use wool instead of whatever fake acrylic microplastic shit they have in stores now. Wool is super warm, insulating, and guess what! It grows back! Its a renewable resource and all the sheep want in return is some good pasture and protection from predators.

- Eggs. I’m not talking about storebought eggs. Go to your local farmer’s market. Find someone around with chickens/ducks. These birds produce eggs literally every day and will not stop unless they are molting, brooding, or kept in the dark for most of the day. Like I am not joking when I say you can very easily find someone with poultry and they will beg you to take some eggs. Theres so many. Please. Take some duck eggs. I dont want them. I had 8 laying ducks last year. Thats 8 eggs every day. Thats 2 dozen eggs every THREE DAYS. Thats SO MANY EGGS PLEASE TAKE SOME EGGS

My mum isn't a local farmer but she got chickens as pets and we couldn't keep up with the egg production.

Like.

We were giving away full dozens of eggs either for free or if someone wanted to donate money to buy the chickens treats.

And that was with six chickens.

The only thing you are doing by not buying local eggs is letting food that tastes ten times better than store bought go to waste.

Also, the variety you can get from local honey is WILD and something you will NEVER get in a store like Walmart or Krogers.

You want purple honey? Done. Bright pink? Done. Super gold honey? Done.

Joyce is flipping out, Hopper is desperate, El is trying to keep everyone calm because she can feel Will, he's fine he's just trying to work some stuff out.

Mike is just...not there. He walks around and talks and eats but he's just so deep in his mind about Will that he's like a zombie. He's just visiting his family between nights curled up in Will's sheets at this point and he can't figure out WHY.

And then Will comes back and Mike sees him and immediately rushes over and pulls him into a kiss by his hair. Fingers running through Will's longer, wild hair(that actually is kinda hot), refusing to pull away until they both need air, clinging to Will and pressing their foreheads together to breathe each other's air because it finally CLICKED in Mike's brain and he can't look at Will yet.

He can't look at Will because he finally gets it and he feels horrible but Will is holding his jaw gently and prompting him to open his eyes, so he does.

And Will is grinning like a fiend, gently rubbing his nose against Mike's like he understands and all he says, real soft, is

"You found me."

And Mike says back, even softer

"I'm sorry I took so long."

And Will presses another kiss to Mike's lips and pulls back and says

"Crazy together, right?"

Because Will knows what Mike's really saying and he knows that Mike, for all his bluster and courage, sometimes just needs a hand to hold because he's scared.

Joyce is ecstatic, Jonathan is happy, etc, etc.

Hoper is just fucking furious because "this Wheeler brat just won't stay away from my kids".

And then Will breaks the news that Eddie's alive, that he's being controlled by Vecna and he only escaped because Real Eddie broke through and they REALLY need to go back to save him now.

And then they all head back into the Upside Down to kill Vecna, break the curse and at one point El is down for the count, Steve is being fed on by an unwilling Eddie, Nancy and Hopper are shooting Vecna with as many bullets as they can pump out and NOTHING'S WORKING.

But Will is with them this time and he's DONE with being controlled, done with the Upside Down and done with being afraid and he just grabs his head and screams and the whole scene whites out.

He wakes up in a hospital bed outside of Hawkins, Indiana a few days later and holds Mike's hand as Hopper and Joyce tell him what happens:

He screamed and everything burned.

Vecna disintegrated into ash.

Eddie burned alive in burning blue fire that left him unconscious but alive, Vecna's control being burned out of him like a wound that was cauterized.

Max's eyes glowing like she was possessed as he burned Vecna's influence out of her, too.

And then he collapsed and the whole party began to watch as the Upside Down started to crumble around them. They held each other in fear, positive they were all going to die in the Upside Down.

And then a hand grabbed Nancy's arm, tugging even as she whips around to see Barb's frantic face.

"NANCY, C'MON, YOU NEED TO GO!" she screams and Nancy, confused but still with her wits, follows her as she looks back at the group.

Barb is pulling her along. Chrissy Cunningham is helping Steve lift Eddie from the ground and helping them stumble along. Bob is rushing Joyce and Hopper along behind them even as she watches Billy carry Lucas-who'd been injured in the fight-in his arms with Max running alongside.

Every friend and loved one this group had lost somewhere, somewhen during this trial for the last four years, is helping the party along to safety, shoving them towards the last gate, and Nancy helps Barb hurry everyone through the gate until it's her and Barb and everyone they'd lost.

Nancy begs Barb and the others to come through with them, it's not too late, they can make it.

Barb holds Nancy's face smiling with tears in her eyes and explains that none of them can follow her back.

Barb explains gently that each one of them is long dead and the only thing that was holding them all here was Vecna's power and now they get to go.

Barb warns Nancy that it's not safe on the Right Side and they need to get everyone in the party out of Hawkins as quickly as possible.

Barb tells Nancy that it's okay for her to move on and she really needs to forgive herself because Barb's death wasn't her fault.

Barb shoves Nancy through the gate and vanishes as Nancy sobs but pulls herself up and runs to the party, yelling Barb's warning and rolling into a van and yelling "GO!"

Because Hawkins is collapsing, the ground falls out from beneath their wheels as they drive like mad to avoid it.

Basically, Hawkins pulls a Sunnydale and they make it to edge of the town and watch as it falls into a sinkhole, holding each other.

At the end, it was just the Party, Steve, Nancy, Jonathan, Joyce and Hopper-Eddie and Lucas are in the van being tended to by Max and Robin, because Eddie just pulled a Jesus and Lucas is bemoaning his lost basketball career-and Hopper says something along the lines of

"I don't know how the government is gonna explain this."

Steve shrugs and says in reply

"Well...we've seen stranger things."

Cut to black.

Credits roll. Preferably with video of the characters after the series.

Lucas ends up teaching basketball instead and goes on to become one of the best coaches the NBA's ever seen. He married Max and they have two kids with one on the way. Max is obviously a prominent voice in equality for all and help with escaping domestic abuse. She creates the William Hargrove Foundation in the hopes of helping as many people as she can get out of violent homes.

Hopper and Joyce got married, obviously, but then there's footage of a pregnancy announcement because somehow, someway, Joyce and Hopper made an oopsie baby. It's another girl and El absolutely adores her and volunteers to babysit all the time. Her middle name is Sarah.

El goes on to become a highly decorated intelligence official, letting her hair grow past her waist and keeping it tied tightly away only at work.

Jonathan and Nancy broke up but they're still best friends and own their own newspaper in the town they live in and it sells out everytime it goes to print because Jonathan takes amazing photos and Nancy writes amazing articles and curates nothing less than amazing staff when they get too big for two people.

Robin goes into child psychology and makes leaps and bounds in research and she's so awarded, Steve is beyond proud.

Steve and Eddie end up dating quietly, Eddie playing in Corroded Coffin as they take off into mainstream music but don't get viral. Steve ends up being thier manager because he knows exactly how to corral four overgrown kids correctly and he'll occasionally provide background vocals.

Dustin obviously marries Suzie and they have a hoard of small children and they live on a large farm where they're both awesome at what they do and they have a slightly smaller hoard of pets that just run around friendly but feral on the farm.

Mike and Will eventually end up getting married by Argyle(who is ordained, because he got bored and high one time), even if the law technically doesn't acknowledge it until early in the 21st century. Will is thrilled the first time one of his art pieces is bought by someone and then he starts getting more and more in demand, until D&D commissions him to draw more updated art for their newer manuals.

Mike becomes a great fantasy writer with time and he's eventually tagged by a pair of brothers who read his first novel as kids and grew up to work in the film industry and want to make a show out of the supposed fantasy. They want him to pen the pilot of the show and he does and then he gets a copy in the mail, printed and everything. He pulls it out of the envelope, even as he looks over photos of actors for characters in the show and flips through it before he closes it because Will suddenly came home with their son and he brought dinner. The script flutters and the camera zooms in on the title of the show.

"Stranger Things"

There’s a strange thing about memories—sometimes, they feel like the only thing we have left. I close my eyes, and I can still see my family sitting around the dinner table, laughing at a joke my uncle made. I can still hear my mother calling me to come inside before it gets too late. I can still feel the warm sun on my face as I walked home from school, thinking about my next big dream.

Now, those moments feel like they belong to another life. The streets aren’t the same. The people aren’t the same. And I—I don’t know if I’m the same either. But I hold onto those memories so tightly because they remind me of who I am, of the love I’ve known, of the warmth that still exists somewhere in this world.

If you’re reading this, take a moment to appreciate the little things. Hug your family. Send a message to an old friend. Step outside and take a deep breath of fresh air. 🌿 These are the moments that matter. These are the things that make life beautiful.

No matter where life takes me, I’ll never stop cherishing the love that shaped me. And I hope, wherever you are, you never stop appreciating the love around you too. 💙

And I'm now waiting to be Vetted by @gazavetters 🙏

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