#felinegate

and coca-cola once again makes an appearance… interesting how there’s only one coke can and it’s on will’s tray but technically it’s also right in between mike and will. and it looks like dustin has a juice or milk carton and i’m assuming the drink lucas has is a dr. pepper

holly’s walls decorated in flowers, meanwhile mike gave el flowers that she’s actually disappointed about because it says “from:mike” and season 4 ends with el touching the same type of flowers but they’re dead. not to mention, in el’s letter to mike she mentions that she likes the flowers in california, but she returns to hawkins and now the flowers there are dead.

also flowers have been used as easter eggs before. look at how the flowers look like demogorgons from these stills

and as you see there’s a rainbow in erica’s room just like holly has rainbows in her room and in the still of lucas, mike, and el there’s a rainbow heart all the way to the far left on the wall lol… like do we even need to go into details about the symbolism of rainbows?? they’re EVERYWHERE in stranger things. i swear i wrote a post about the usage of rainbows and what they symbolize to el, but i can’t find it. but basically what i said in it was how it’s interesting el would put a rainbow on the letter to mike or have rainbows in her room when technically rainbows have a negative connotation for her because of the rainbow room at the lab. this is the only post of mine i can find where i talk about rainbows. but let’s look at the fact BOTH el and holly have multicolored hearts in their rooms. (also!! el has little pink flowers on her shirt)

here’s screenshots of the article explaining it

what i also find interesting is that the image used for the black cat bar is basically the same type of cat as the cat clock in mrs. driscoll’s house in stranger things??

and we know that “the week is long. the silver cat feeds when blue meets yellow in the west. a trip to china sounds nice if you tread lightly.” it’s already been decoded that “the week is long” = spring break, “the silver cat feeds” = vecna/mindflayer, “blue meets yellow in the west” = mike going to california, and “a trip to china” has been said it’s another way of saying “digging a hole to china” because that phrase is used when a hole that has been dug so deep, it seems like you could go to the other side of the world . so “a trip to china” = the upside down.