#jayce hyperfixation

does anyone have the phm score as mp3s? if you are willing to share i will be forever grateful

edit: i did it myself

green light by lorde

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Shakespeare, William. Edited by Roma Gill. Romeo and Juliet. Oxford University Press, 2008.

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5. Martina Radwan, Netflix, 2026. Netflix. 

Stranger Things. Matt and Ross Duffer. Netflix, 2016–2025. Netflix.

(an essay about Jane Hopper and Juliet Capulet - 3.5k words, mostly me ranting about Stranger Things)

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In Romeo and Juliet, love is the driving force for many of the characters. Especially the titular characters, Romeo and Juliet. They both kill themselves because they think the other is dead. At the beginning of the play Juliet seems to be utterly indifferent to love, but when she meets Romeo and falls in love she falls in love with being in love. Though Juliet thinks things through much more than Romeo, she still acts without thinking when it comes to love. The phrase “love makes you crazy” comes to mind when looking at Juliet's actions later in the play. For example, getting married to Romeo only a day after their first meeting, when even then, there was a period of wooing between the meeting and marriage, when it was not an arranged marriage. She loses sight of logic, or is so in love with someone who she met about a week before, that she deems death to be the best course of action. Love is something that is generally built over time and the kind of “love” Juliet and Romeo experience is a lot closer to intense, obsessive infatuation. Their feelings were so aggressive that the loss of the other person was so terrible that they killed themselves alongside them. Ultimately, loss and lack of love or choice is what kills both Jane Hopper and Juliet Capulet.

To lose your ability to choose things for yourself and be left with death as your most viable option is a terrible thing, especially for two teenage girls, both of whom never got to experience all that life had to offer them. Juliet and Jane suffered at the hands of different yet similar forces before their deaths. They suffered a loss of control of their own lives for so long, that it became normal, to not be in control was what was expected. For their final act to be fully in their own hands and by their own choice allowed them to have power and control, despite all the other things that have tried to make them comply and be controlled. Jane and Juliet won the control that should have been theirs the whole time, and used it to choose their own ending, empowering them in a way their creators might not have expected. They make a choice, even if it is influenced by outside factors, they seize the moment to be the change, they may leave their lives behind, but their legacy will be examined and analyzed for many years to come. 

(an essay about Jane Hopper and Juliet Capulet - 3.5k words, mostly me ranting about Stranger Things)

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Both Juliet and Jane have very different language levels because of their environment and what was required of them to make it through life. For example, in Juliet’s time women’s best weapon were their words because of the lack of freedom for them at the time, but Jane’s primary focus was becoming more skilled with her powers and did not really start saying more than a few words at a time until she was twelve or thirteen. After Romeo kills Tybalt as revenge for Mercutio, Juliet says, “To hear [Romeo] nam’d and cannot come to him, / To wreak the love I bore my cousin / Upon his body that hath slaughtered him!” (3.5.100-103). This quote is a prime example of how Juliet uses double-entendres so she can say what she means under the guise of saying something else entirely. She seems to be saying that she wishes she could kill Romeo, but beneath the surface it is possible to see she means she wishes she could see him. This is evident in the first line of the quote where she says just hearing him named when she cannot be with him is bringing her pain like death. In contrast, Jane is not very proficient in language due to the circumstances of her life. All she needed to do for the first twelve years of her life was kill and hurt, which definitely did not require advanced speech. She understood the basics, mostly orders due to how she was told what to do during her years in the lab. She did not even know what a friend was before Mike, Dustin, and Lucas explained what each of them thought. Jane’s power comes from, well, her powers, meanwhile, Juliet’s power comes from her words, but they both gain power and control from being able to make the choice that ends both their lives. Though Romeo and Juliet and Stranger Things are different in many ways, they both have the core theme of love. The theme of love is much more accentuated in both, where love can end up saving or killing, depending on which is being examined. In Stranger Things, Will Byers, Jane’s adoptive brother, is saved and saves people with the power of love. In the second season, he is possessed by the Mind Flayer, an entity made of shadows that controls people’s minds, and the only way to partially free him from its control is Joyce, his mother, Jonathan, his brother, and Mike, his best friend since kindergarten, to share happy memories full of love and care so part of him can be free of the control (Stranger Things, 2x08). Those same memories resurface later in the series, when Mike, Lucas, and Robin are about to be attacked by Demogorgons, monsters from another world, Will uses those memories of love to unlock his own dormant powers and save Mike, Lucas, and then Robin (Stranger Things, 5x04, 1:17:50). These scenes show how important love is in  Stranger Things, or so one would think, but Jane’s story undermines all of that. In her goodbye, she tells Mike she loves him but he does not say it back, had he said it Jane might have been convinced to live, which is why she said goodbye to Mike and not anyone else, because any of the others would have said it back and convinced her to stay. Had she brought Max, Will, Joyce, Hopper, or even Dustin or Lucas into the void to say goodbye, and ended with “I love you,” any of them would have said it back without hesitation. They might have been able to convince her to live so she brought the one person she trusted not to say it back, without Will encouraging him, anyways, because she was determined to die.

(an essay about Jane Hopper and Juliet Capulet - 3.5k words, mostly me ranting about Stranger Things)

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Many of the sentiments she expressed in the first quote are products of either heteronormative writing, because in no way was most of their relationship healthy except when they were friends, and her lack of actual independence and separation from people who are not Mike and Hopper. It takes back all the character growth she had in her sub-plot in the third season with Max and finding her style, and her arc in the fourth season where she finds independence and truly sees all the problems with her and Mike’s relationship. Jane’s tale of experimentation and abuse is a tragedy especially with the way it ended, it seems to tell all the suffering girls out there that the only real way out of abuse is to kill yourself, which is a terrible message to send to millions of people. Her story should have ended with a life full of platonic and familial love where she is able to become her own person. That ending would have portrayed the themes of love and growing up that were so intrinsically built into the first four and a half seasons. Her story became what happens to many women who are suffering abuse and see death as the only way out of the situation. Jane was only sixteen when she died, she was not even an adult, she was a girl who never got to ride a roller coaster. The inherent misogyny of the only main characters who died being female, victims of abuse, and one being a woman of color is very clear when it is examined. Steve Harrington, a popular (within the fandom), white man was saved even though it would have been almost impossible to save him from falling off the tower in real life gets to live because the creators did not want to upset the fans, but Kali, a generally disliked character from the second-lowest rated episode of Stranger Things who is an experimented on woman of color, dies is blatantly misogynistic and racist (IMDb). Admittedly, as bad of a thematic move Jane’s death was, at least she got to choose it. Having it be her choice is very important because in her final moments because at least she had control and power over the situation.

Juliet Capulet is disposable to Friar Lawrence, not important enough to garner his attention. He goes to the Capulet tomb to retrieve her and Romeo, but finds him dead. He tells Juliet, who has just awoken, of his death and then says, “[...] Come, I'll dispose of thee / Among a sisterhood of holy nuns” (5.3.156-157). Friar Lawrence is telling Juliet to come with him so he can “dispose” of her at a nunnery, basically saying she is no longer his problem because their plan failed. This is a reflection of how women were seen at that time, as relatively worthless other than as a wife, so since Juliet’s husband died she was not worth anymore of the friar's time and energy. This is a good example of the misogyny women faced in those times. Juliet has to live with the threat of being thrown to the streets like trash for doing the wrong thing and in the end that is basically what would have happened to her had she not committed suicide. Before Romeo dies, Capulet agrees to have Juliet wed to Paris, but Juliet says she would literally rather die than do such a thing. He responds with “To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, / or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. / Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! / You tallow-face!” (3.5.154-157). Capulet is threatening to throw her out or violently force her to marry Paris if she does not comply with his wishes. To be thrown out was practically a death sentence to women in that era because there was very little work for them. Misogyny ran rampant because laws made women more like objects that were bought and sold than actual people. Juliet is left with three “doors,” door one: take her own life; door two: accept her fate, or comply with her father's wish for her to marry Paris; door three: escape, or go to the nunnery with Friar Lawrence (Stranger Things, 5x03). In the end she chooses to take her own life, much like Jane.