faith

trueform cas with a ring of stars around his forehead and you think it's part of his halo but it's actually puncture wounds from his lobotomy sessions with naomi

mike wheeler trapped in Vecna’s mind having to jump off the quarry to get to another memory.

"mikes gonna hear good luck babe in 40 years and lose his mind" "mikes gonna hear conan gray in 40 years and go crazy" mike is gonna watch dead poets society like a week after will leaves hawkins and in a fit of insanity is going to fly to new york and show up at his door unannounced like the messy gay disaster that he is

the steve and dustin arc was really well done in my opinion - we get dustin being an ass to steve for a good thirty something minutes before we hit a breaking point where neither of them can do it anymore and dustin swings and steve doesn't fight back. he throws dustin off, sure, but he doesn't throw a punch, doesn't initiate anything, and we know he's not someone who backs down from a fight. he calls "henderson," "henderson," until he hits a point where he's more worried than angry and switches to "dustin" and then we don't get a resolution there. we get dustin stewing and steve frustrated and nothing gets fixed right away. and then! we get dustin being open with his feelings and we get a touching moment and then we get to see them afterwards. we get to see steve not only accept dustin's apology but to apologize for his own actions as well. we get to see them call each other their best friends - a title we know dustin has sometimes had issues with in the past, a title we know dustin has never really felt like he had. and it's so well done and i'm so glad that the writing for both of their characters did them justice

Not enough noise about Lucas’ pleading to keep Kate Bush playing despite the demos coming in. Not enough noise about his little anguished face in that moment. Not enough noise about them all deciding okay. for Max.

btw lucas being the first out of the party to say will won't lose him and his face didn't change at all when will said he doesn't like girls. still s tier friend no notes lucas sinclair you will always be famous.

nancy being a journalist, mike a storyteller and holly a reader is so important to me actually

I will still not stand any Mike Wheeler slander. That boy was not at fault his writers are. I know I would joke and make fun of him, but I genuinely feel so sad at seeing where his character left off. Since the duffers decided to leave his character so open-ended and bleak, I’m choosing to believe that he IS that awkward and repressed gay boy who fell in love with his best friend. You were never a bad kid baby, you just had bad writers 💔

i am going to miss steve harrington & dustin henderson for the rest of my life

honestly, I think Nancy living, not ending up with Steve or Jonathan, getting a gay ass haircut, and living in the same state as Robin is the best we were gonna get