Jelly

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.

😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.

😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.

my rom-com slice of life spin-off

my rom-com slice of life spin-off

Meanwhile here's Milkvan cinematography:

Why are so many of their moments shrouded in darkness? Especially considering that Byler scenes are typically being drenched in light (save for tonally serious moments like the rain fight)

Then we get a lot of Milkvan's "romantic moments" in Season 4 being interrupted by a third party. Their reunion literally has an extra walk past them mid-kiss. They're surrounded by people. It feels like their relationship is a performance they're putting on for the public, rather than this being about a private moment between the two of them.

And then there's all the numerous shots of Will in the middle of Milkvan scenes. They want you to notice Will, to feel his presence, to feel his pain, more than they want you to feel any "love" between Mike and El.

Will is literally "between" them or "behind" Mike (because Mike constantly has Will in the back of his mind). No director would've shot Milkvan's reunion scene in Season 4, much less have their first "I love you," in such an unappealing way without a reason.

He rolled a Natural 20 but the numbers around it are all wrong.

It shouldn’t be 7, 19, 13

It should be 2, 14, and 8

But you know what does have 7, 19, and 13?

A Natural 1.

Mike rolled a natural 1. Vecna is making him think he rolled a 20. They didn’t win. THEY LOST.

MIKE (the entire town??) IS VECNA’D.

CONFORMITYGATE MIGHT BE REAL.

9 years late to the party but i finally watched stranger things ><

(because ofc, byler=7)

Okay byler tumblr. We’ve had four days of (justified) doomposting. NOW, it’s time to do what we do best and bond together.

The Issue: Season 5 Episode 7 is currently sitting at an IMDB rating of 5.4. If you’re unfamiliar with IMDB, generally anything under 6 is BAD, anything over 7 is GOOD. 6 is just kinda average.

The Reason: We all know this episode had some glaring issues, and the coming out was handled poorly. HOWEVER, it is still an openly gay main character on the biggest television series today. THAT’S why this episode is bombing. Not because people see the actual issues. ELON MUSK himself commented on how low the ratings are, claiming it’s because woke ruined Stranger Things.

Operation 7.0: I believe if we band together we can get the 5.4 up to a 7.0, Byler’s number! This sounds ambitious, yes, BUT, there are currently 77k ratings on IMDB and… 312k signatures on the cutgate petition. If even a QUARTER of the people who signed gave a 10 star rating, we’d be sitting COMFORTABLY near a 7.0

For the skeptics: A 7.0 rating on a Stranger Things episode is STILL LOW. Ignoring “The Lost Sister” (sorry Kali), the next lowest episode is 03.01 which is still a 7.8. A goal of 7.0 proves that there WERE issues with the episode, without letting the homophobes win.

The plan of action: Give episode 7 a 10 star rating on IMDB, then either reblog this post, OR tell three of your friends (on tumblr or irls!) to do the same.

The motivation: I am not an artist or an author, but I WILL reblog this post with a fic rec, an edit, or a piece of fan art I like for each decimal point the rating increases. If there are any artists or authors who would like to be of assistance, either with previously posted work, or new snippets, message me!!

it HAS to be a 10

we're at 5.4 now

Link to the episode: https://m.imdb.com/fr/title/tt21912390/