*Turns the weans against ye*

mark my words: antis will bitch about us connecting this movie with cg, while Shawn basically IS the one who’s just started it

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit

What dat mean?

We have two options:

A) they were lying about their use of ChatGPT in the documentary, and people were in on the gag ...or

B) the documentary maker, the cast, everyone involved were completely unaware, and were, in fact, befuddled and confused by the Duffers' weird behaviour.

Point B doesn't really hold for me, if you consider how positively the cast members have been describing the Duffers over the years. Point B also implies that the documentary maker didn't do her job properly - if, in fact, I caught the showrunners I was making a whole ass documentary about 'accidentally' letting it slip that they're using AI, and then providing NO commentary on that in the documentary itself, that would be either incompetence, bias or silencing from Netflix. In other words, documentary = bad.

All that to say - Option A seems more plausible to me than Option B, because we would be implying that almost everyone, collectively lost their integrity and their brain.

and somehow flew under the radar? link here

But we're also encouraged by what audiences are responding to right now across TV and film he can't mean conformitygate...can he? probably the biggest audience whiplash since...ever...

People always say Will is weak or people should take care of him differently. When you’re different, people often treat you with extra care, but sometimes that care can feel suffocating. Joyce always did that with Will, trying to protect him from everything after what happened. But Mike was the only one who didn’t treat him like he was fragile. That was a big part of Will’s storyline in S2. But in the show itself, Will is actually one of the strongest characters.

He questions things. He’s sassy. In S2, after everything he went through, he still always put others first, even while carrying so much pain. In S3, after all that trauma, when they found out about the Meat Flayer, he was completely confident. He even told Lucas that he didn’t care about the campaign anymore because they had much more important things to do.

Will was always ready to do whatever was needed. That sacrificing, sensitive mentality is part of his character, but that doesn’t make him weak. It makes him a good human being. When a real problem comes, he’s brave. That little 12-year-old kid pointed a gun at the Demogorgon before any of this happened. He never backs away from anything. His experiences made him stronger and braver.

HE WAS STRONG BEFORE THE POWERS, AND HE IS STRONG AFTER GETTING THE POWERS.

A person can be sensitive and still be brave, strong, and courageous. That’s who Will Byers is.

I love you a lot, Will Byers. And thank you, Noah 🩵💛

commission for @velnna, who asked for a portrait of Kostya from his comic The Under Garden! thank you for commissioning me 💜