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(this is the only post im going to make about Good Omens)
media literacy is DEAD and the Good Omens fandom proves it!!!
what do you MEAN the show ends is such a beautiful and heartfelt way thats consistent with the themes of the show and characterization of the main characters, showing how love can transcend existence and the main characters love for humanity and each other was the strongest thing that DEFIED GOD AND MADE HER CHANGE HER MIND, EXPLICITLY SHOWS all the characters got reincarnated and found happiness in the new universe and ARE THEMSELVES... and the whole fandom hates it because "Aziraphale and Crowley died and didn't even kiss".
“He'd come to the Foxhole Court every inch a lie, but his friends made him into someone real.”
I’m not gonna lie it’s borderline embarrassing how long I’ve worked on this that I’ve spend 2 days tryna figure out how to caption it to make it less embarrassing but oh well. It also made me realise the banner says exy ncaa instead of ncaa exy but at this point that’s none of my business
Short of being inside Nora’s head here is a (mostly) (I think) biblically accurate and to scale model of the Foxhole Court and Nora I have a several questions.
Also rendered so many images of this I had like 50 cameras in the scene would y’all care if I just did a photo dump.
God I have so many things to say about working on this I had to restart like 8 times it was a mess but if I start I won't be able to stop Imao though if anyone's interested in a breakdown of all the sections and materials I would be more than happy to make a post yapping about it.
Viewport renders below
in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD
instead ask:
is it SINCERE
was it CATHARTIC
was it FUN TO MAKE
is it MADE BY ME
and don't forget to stay silly
Problematic writing choices of the Duffers:
This post will be focusing on problematic tropes (more so than the many plot holes).Prior to this, I thought some of these writing choices were intentional subtext and symbolism for a greater plot point (and that these tropes would later be subverted) . This wasn't the case. I'm mentioning these tropes now: for people to grasp why we shouldn't reward the Duffers in their future projects. And how normalizing these tropes (in main stream shows) will negatively impact future story telling for the worse.
Fridging trope: El embodies this as her death is used as a catalyst for various male character's development in the finale. The Duffers saying El was never going to be with the gang in the end , because she "represents the magic of childhood" for the boys is just sad. Because yes-characters can represent something, but writers need to understand they're MORE than just a symbol of something (they're also a person/character in the narrative). The fact she also represents the magic of childhood of all things is awfully portrayed since Jane herself never even had a real childhood - and because of the writers , she's also deprived of an adulthood .
In s5, bringing back Kali (one of the only brown girls in the show) to essentially just make her suffer and die. They brought her back: k*lled her found family , had her tortured by the gov again, and then she's shot by the gov. God forbid, a brown girl shoots her white oppressors (the writers have to k*ll her the same way she offed her abusers). Kali targeting her ab*sers was portrayed as morally questionable/nuanced in the show. But white Jim & Nancy mowing down random soldiers with bullets, or El killing a bunch of American/soviet soldiers was just to make them look 'bad ass'. The audience never has to question their morality for doing so- only Kali's. If you believe's mike's theory: that would mean they just used Kali to save and give the white heroine a happy ending (which is gross optics in and of itself).
If you believe that El died along with Kali (this is also problematic). They couldn't let El/Kali : the victims of government oppression and abuse get a "happy ending" . In fact both die due to the government ...what an uplifting message during these fraught political times. Remember Hopper’s speech where the whole point was Kali/El shouldn’t have to off themselves since they deserve a happy ending (despite life being unfair to them constantly)? What was the point? Idk , if you don't die , off yourself if life has been cruel.Killing El / kali to stop the "cycle " isn’t empowering at all. It’s a harmful message to ab*se survivors!!!
Thorough, as always.

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hey, if conformitygate isn't real tomorrow I am letting everyone know this right now.
PUT. THIS. IN. YOUR. POCKET.
This idea is GENIUS, and I know how many ao3 authors are like mid-late teens-early adults, but this idea is genuinely amazing and could be a REAL thing in a piece of film/media that one of you guys make in the near future. Because now you know how to write a good series. Don't let anything stop you, we know how that went (cough cough volume 2)
This is your sign (whether conformitygate/9th episode is real or not) to take inspiration FROM conformitygate. Like I said, this idea Is genius. Like- I cant even explain how crazy it is. Think about it, gaslighting EVERYBODY the finale came out? it premiered in THEATRES. Then, BOOM. REAL FINALE, YOU'RE IN A FAKE REALITY. WAKE UP. Do you guys understand how smart that is? not just in an intellectual and compelling narrative way, but in a marketing way as well.
make it happen!! make a fake finale!!! make that slow-burn queer romance!! make everything YOU wish you saw in media when you needed it most!!
the duffers calling bylers just "noise" that they have to tune out ----> bylers on twitter coming up with a theory based on the massive amounts of plot holes and conformity messaging in the finale that has become so large there are multiple news articles being written about its evidence and everybody's talking abt it online.
proud of us..????
The Duffers purposefully weaponized our analytical skills against us in order to queer bait us (while the straight ga didn't even notice , and the Duffers gaslit us in their post finale interviews ).
So I'm very proud of bylers using their analytical skills to point out: the production flaws, plot holes, pointless easter eggs, and how the show ironically ended in conformity. All while the bylers craft a more cohesive story than the Duffers by using easter-eggs, dialogue, parallels, and d&d lore mentioned within their show .
It's KARMA. It hits the Duffers in their egos: as the bylers tear their whole story a part. And the conformity videos get millions of views (and are reported in various articles). The Duffers were short-sighted since most theorist/analyzers in the fandom were byler. A lot of us analyzed more than just byler (but the entire show). We're not just noise they can tune out . Even if the bylers are probably wrong-the Duffers are the ones who look bad in the long run . And I think that's beautiful.
this doom reaction im seeing —especially on twitter— is kinda bothering me a bit, and this is 100% bc i kinda mourned byler when vol.2 dropped. seeing the last chapter did bum me ngl (i felt a whole ass hole in my chest it was Crazy), but at the end of the day, i lost every tiny little bit of respect i had for the duffers a week ago.
and by me losing respect for them, i lost respect for their work, entirely. i am not taking ANYTHING (that doesn't benefit me, lmao) they've done as canon, my brain is cemented into thinking that my own ideas of the characters are correct.
that's how y'all will break free, the only good thing they did was give a shit ending, and that really gave us the power to do thousands of rewrites, and fix its, or alternate universes. i would rather read everything y'all could write over and over than watch canon.
it is painful seeing how bad they ended it, especially for the care and love we have to these characters. but a bad ending is good for fandoms (a great example is the hunger games, the ending is perfect, and that's why there aren't as many fics, people are happy and there's not much to do when almost everything you wanted is done)
and with this crazy ambiguous ending, plus all the plot holes, it's basically free reign to own all the characters back. they are yours now, you can headcanon them however you want to. there's no bigger show of hatred than ignoring what the duffers are trying to force down our throats. make everyone gay, make an abo au, fuck it, now they are al ponys if y'all want to
im already sniffing every single fic like it's cocaine, i know these characters better, because i paid attention, and because i definitely care more about them
be shameless, use the duffers "hard work" and pick it apart, choose only what you like and ignore the rest, it doesn't matter, the writers don't deserve your compassion. you know every single character better than they ever could.
dude this is literally me
im telling yall to get creative!! its not over
So, the lesson here is that if you are different and deal with any kind of disability, and your life will be more difficult due to that difference or disability, you should probably just die. Be grateful for the men in your life who kept you trapped like a little bird before your untimely death. That was just because they loved you so much! (Jane).
Also, if you are emotionally repressed and self-involved, and use fantasy roleplay as a means to escape your clearly unresolved mental health issues, you should continue to self-isolate and sabotage your relationships. For uh... reasons. (Mike).
And if you're gay, you need to learn that not everyone is gay like you! Some people are straight, silly! But hey, after being abused and orally assaulted, you will eventually meet a nice guy in a bar. Just don't gay kiss in public! Ew! (Will).
These are our outcasts and freaks, dawg. This is our show that said forced conformity was killing the kids.
look at what we built together bylers. Look at the AMAZING shit we made. We’re artists. Keep going, make something better. Make beautiful, queer stories. Don’t forget the shit they pulled. Make something better.

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Wow do you outcasts feel empowered or what
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The Triad: why the three waterfalls and three doors foreshadow Jane's independence arc.
(And Mike's acceptance of truth and reality...) 🚪
Kali is entirely pessimistic, resigned to a life of complete misery and pain. She doesn't see a future at all, hence why she believes the only escape is death. On the contrary, Mike frames the future as something idyllic and free from pain, struggle, or conflict. Complete and utter peace and rest. It might sound nice at first, but what he's basically describing is a kind of after-life, like heaven itself or Tolkien's Valinor. (In fact, it's a pretty direct reference to Tolkien, as Valinor was a faraway land that Frodo ventured to because his spiritual wounds were too great to bear — he'd seen too much). That's not only unrealistic, it's also foreboding. The after-life is not living. Therefore, Mike's current solution is true fantasy escapism, which is really just avoidance and inaction. If Mike's vision was the truest option, it wouldn't have been introduced to us in the first episode, which is supposed to show us in which ways our characters need to grow.
The Duffer's teased that Jane must choose who is "right" between them, framing these as her only two options, but I don't think viewers should despair just yet. I think they are indeed being tongue-in-cheek, here. Because Kali is wrong, and so is Mike. How do we know this?
The three waterfalls. Three doors. Not two.
Jane has always had the option of choosing herself, making her own decisions, and following her instinct.
I think Jane will instinctively realise that the truth lies somewhere in between: it's not hopeless, and she does have a future, but that future won't be easy, nor idyllic.
Jane is going to choose life, and in choosing life she also chooses reality. She chooses struggle and pain. She chooses to have bad days. She chooses hard work, and sacrifice, and everything that makes life feel kind of shitty. Because that's what living is, and it's not perfect. Mike's vision is sweet but misguided, and in sense, slightly invalidating. Jane's life will never be easy, and it shouldn't need to be in order to be worth living — this is a reflection of Mike's own limited and complicated relationship with accepting reality. He'll realise this, but Jane has realised this first.
The first door is taking one's own life, something Max and Hopper have considered, and now Kali and Jane.
The second door is to "accept your fate", which to me, reads as complacency and inaction, and the willingness to let others guide you and make decisions for you — because fate is not chosen, it's assigned to you. When fate comes into the equation, individual autonomy and decion-making goes to the wayside.
Jane already rejected this door when she spoke with Mike in the cabin, while sitting atop a tub with a built-in door.
The third door is to "escape", and as we see in Holly and Max's escape from Camazotz, this does not mean escaping to a beautifully idyllic paradise.
It means escaping to the real world. Max even hesitates to describe this third door, because she knows it's the most difficult.
The real world is hard and imperfect, but it's better than a lie. It's better than Camazotz, better than Vecna's reshaped world, better than Valinor, or the made up village with three waterfalls.
Just as giving up and losing all hope is not the answer, fantasy escapism is a tool, not the solution.
We know this because Will's painting speech didn't inspire Mike because it referred to their campaigns, it inspired him because it was about how Will saw Mike's role in the real world. ("That's what you do.")
And even Holly's Holly the Heroic figurine is framed as her tether to the real world. This metaphor is not about fantasy or fiction, it's about reality and truth.
As Mike already put it in season 4, Jane's story isn't about fate or destiny; it's about "dumb luck", aka taking chances, and embracing chaos and unpredictability.
Like Mike's campaigns, fate is a fantasy concept, but this story is about navigating the real world and accepting truth.
This calls back to Stranger Things' repetitive and ongoing metaphor and imagery surrounding doors, gateways, and barriers. 🚪
Jane has frequently been placed in confined spaces that limit her freedom and mobility; Brenner's lab and solitary confinement, Mike's basement and closet, Hopper's cabin.
Mike and Hopper's intentions were far more noble than Brenner's — safety, security, protection from outside forces — but they still frame Jane as "something" which needs to be hidden and locked away.
This is no way to live, and neither Hopper nor Mike can offer Jane a concrete answer to the questionable blank slate that is her future. This doesn't work for Jane. She's a pragmatist.
"When is soon?" "Soon is when… it's not dangerous anymore." "When?" "… I don't know." "On day 500?" "I don't know." "On day 600?" "I don't know!" "Day 700? On day 800?"
Jane isn't going to choose Mike and Hopper's door, and she's not going to choose Kali's either (though Kali may change her mind and join her), she'll be choosing the third door — making her escape from confinement, secrecy, and the hidden state, and into the real world.
Just as she has already done.
In this metaphor surrounding doors and triads, Mike is at a standstill, meaning he must also pick a door.
These three options before him (death, complacency, and escape) were foreshadowed in season 4, through the placement of his M.C Escher print Relativity — beneath the "one-way" sign, and beside the closet door.
In my analysis It's All Relative, I point out how this likely refers to the concept of relativity — when something gains its meaning or significance in being compared to, or understood in relation to, something else.
Therefore, this print and the one way sign gains its significance when understood in relation to Mike's closet door. 🚪
But the three directions, three centres of gravity, and therefore three realities depicted in the print are also diametrically opposed to the idea of there only being "one way".
We already know which door Mike has chosen previously, and which one he refuses to open. Mike has chosen to confine himself in fantasy escapism — a coping mechanism for his complacency, inaction, and fear. Therefore, Mike is trapped behind the second door.
🚪 Will already chose the third and most difficult door, when he came out in episode 7, accepting that Vecna's visions of his loved ones distancing themselves from him might become reality. In any case, Will chooses truth and authenticity.
🚪 Jane is also likely to choose this door, representing her complete acceptance of reality, including the fact that freedom and liberation means embracing chaos, imperfection, and instability, over fate, predetermination, and control.
🚪 Mike will possibly be the last to choose his door, and for his sake, I hope it is the third. Mike's acceptance of reality is about facing the truth, and therefore, himself — as represented through the mirror in his closet door.
Can I just say the treatment of byler as a plot twist gives me a bad taste in my mouth. What is so shocking about queerness that you consider it a twist? Why is it shocking for queer people to find reciprocated love? The tight box they’ve kept around Will’s sexuality and romance is frustrating. It’s the same box they keep the monsters and alternate dimensions in.
If your cast has to sound borderline homophobic to preserve your secret, maybe that’s a sign it shouldn’t be one. It should’ve been a slow burn. Your supposed “anthem for outcasts and minorities” is letting homophobes run rampant for the sake of a twist. Yes, said homophobes will be forced to watch a gay romance happen in a few days, but only after years of queer love being treated as a wild “theory.”
I don’t get doubt over these interviews, but the fact that they upload these articles right before the episodes drop to spur doubt over a queer ship is just gross to me.
reminder that they have each other now

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both your hands in the holes of my sweater (i was sleeping) tgc @bylerw
i actually fucking hate mentioning IT and the person i’m talking to goes “oh the movie with the clown??” like. yeah. i fucking guess. IT IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT CHARACTER IN THE WHOLE FILM. IT’S FOUND FAMILY. IT’S BOYS IN LOVE IN THE 80s. IT’S BREAKING THE CYCLE. IT’S A GIRL BEING ONE OF THE BOYS. but i guess the stupid fucking dancing clown was also there. wasting everybody’s FUCKING TIME and killing RICHIE TOZIER’S BOYFRIEND