#logorrhea

i.e. The realization that people of the past had lives just as real, full, and human as you. They laughed, gossiped, had breakdowns, and made dick jokes (seriously. so much of ancient graffiti consists of dick jokes)

From 'Chronos' meaning 'measured, ticking, quantitative time' and;

acritochromacy means colour-blindness

aculeate has 2 meanings, 1. an insect having a stinger (aculeata being the subgroup for specifically stinging bugs), and 2. something being prickly, also relating to bugs I believe. I will admit I fuckin looked into it and found a bunch of articles on pathology relating to stings surrounding the cases of bugs like wasps, bees, ants and sawflies; now I’m just getting the feeling of bugs crawling on me but it’s fine... let’s power through this... the stings gave people allergic reactions btw back in 1987. ...weirdly enough I’m still looking into these articles (THE BUGS ARE GETTING WORSE) and I found out that back in 1995 there was a study to evaluate if purposefully STINGING patients with venom — WHO WERE ALLERGIC TO VENOM, — would be useful or not because they refused venom immunotherapy. it sounds insane but the patients ended up fine? the stings were “well tolerated” after two to three years. I guess it was just to see if they could build up an intolerance to venom without the immunotherapy.

adhocracy has to do with a government and/or organization being unstructured and informal, yet flexible.

adonise has branches but they all end up in the same place. it just means to improve the appearance of either yourself or someone else, this word is usually for men I believe because it relates to Adonis (Who was a man in Greek Mythology who was loved by Aphrodite and Persephone, very handsome.)

wearish means for something to be tasteless.

tabefaction means flesh wasting away by disease. 

theftuous means someone who tends to commit theft.

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“Rewatching Stranger Things 3 with my sister (who’s still on the first...”

it feels like they really wanted people to bask in the irony of having the communists build a base under an american mall and that wasn't...all that great

It makes less sense the more times you watch it.  At one point Erica estimates it took the Scoops Troop three hours to walk from the elevator room to the secret mad science headquarters.  She didn’t seem to be using hyperbole, either, because she was doing a calculation to try to prove a point to Dustin (and succeeded only in proving she was a nerd).  Why on earth would they build the two so far apart?  If the big evil whirring machine needed to be at that particular location to target a weak point in the membrane between worlds, couldn’t they have found a handier site to build the mall on, especially with Mayor Kline finagling the real estate for them?  Digging a tunnel that long and large and installing that much stuff along its walls and ceiling would have been a huge job, and as I objected merely to the depth of the elevator shaft, what did they do with all the spoil to clear it out without being noticed?  Then to compound the inconvenience and inefficiency, even at top golf-cart speed it would take at least an hour, maybe a couple, to reach the elevator and then the same to bring the new supply of glowing green goo jars back to mad science HQ.  What a hassle.

And everything was entirely too spiffy and shiny!  Of course it’s the kind of thing anxious Cold War Americans might have imagined the Russians had the resources to do, but these days we know they really didn’t, so what’s the point of depicting it that way in a show being made now that until now presented the world the characters live in as (allowing for Demogorgons and telekinetic little girls) pretty ordinary and realistic?

to summarise

What I enjoyed about Stranger Things 3:

ALL THE FRIENDSHIPS THERE WAS SO MUCH FRIENDSHIP

Nancy’s summery dresses

The popping rainbow summer colours generally, it’s so nice that it’s not ALWAYS fall in Hawkins

Eleven’s new BSC-worthy wardrobe (although was Hopper giving her an allowance that she couldn’t spend on anything out in the woods?  How did she pay for three or four new outfits all at once?  Did she take her saved allowance with her to see Max, and why would she, when the shopping trip was unplanned?  When did she buy all of the outfits and accessories, since on her only visit to the mall that we saw it looks like she just bought the black-and-neon romper and carried her old jeans and shirt out in the shopping bag?  Did Max buy them for her?  How much money does Max carry on an impromptu shopping trip?  Why would Max buy a funky new wardrobe for a girl she’s only just making friends with?  Would not “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” have been an even more appropriate song for the shopping montage than “Material Girl,” with the lyrics “Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I wanna be the one to walk in the sun” and “The phone rings in the middle of the night, my father yells ‘What you gonna do with your life?’  Oh Daddy dear, you know you’re still number one, but girls, they wanna have fun” reflecting both Mike and Hopper’s overprotectiveness and possessiveness of her and the more open, sunshiny, fun world Max is introducing her to?  Plus Cyndi Lauper did a song for The Goonies, a clear influence on Stranger Things, and I just really loved Cyndi Lauper as a kid in the 80s, she spelled her name Cyndi instead of Cindy and had crosshatches shaved into the side of her hair like Archie, it blew my mind)

The fact that Steve and Robin both wore sailor suits for almost the entire story

Robin generally

Steve generally

“You can’t spell America without Erica”

I shot my bolt when I went off on that fugue about Eleven’s clothes, I’m tired now.

The Neverending Story duet

The part where Will’s friends leave the house while he is setting up his D&D game and he bleats “Guys!  I’m still here!” and I went HA! but also aww.

Billy is so extremely dead.  I wouldn’t mind if Dacre Montgomery reappeared for flashbacks, visions, dreams and nightmares, but stay dead, Billy.

What I did not enjoy:

Hopper being angry and mean and rude and drunk and using torture without any apparent compunction and breathing like a water buffalo and did I say being rude because he was very rude to Joyce and she needs and deserves a man who is respectful and kind to her all the time not just when things are going well!  Joyce Byers is a lovely person and very brave and long overdue for some good fortune!  I am shouty!

Assorted improbabilities re: both the USSR and thirteen-year-old girls’ budgets and the walking distances as detailed above