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please post your fursona please :3

Her name is Petra, she's a cat bard with gay dads

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Wait no I also want this. Give your audience what they want Veggie 😠

Ross O’Donovon x Joan of Snark RPF please please please please

I'm blocking you 😆

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Can we at least share the brain cell, I am dissociating 😔

Apparently, I'm feeling a whole hell of a lot better because I went from 'thoughts are hard' yesterday to 'I'm planning out three different events at the same time' today XD

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Stranger Things season 4 Vol. 2 spoilers again

If I see one more person say "well we still have season five, don’t get so upset about it!" in response to someone's criticism or anger towards Vol. 2 I'm going to scream. Yeah, there's one more season planned. And... what, exactly? Am I supposed to ignore the pain and anger and betrayal I feel after these final episodes and spend even more of my time hoping this show I liked will turn out okay? No, fuck that. I waited for this season for years only to be tragically disappointed, I'm not doing that again. I don't care if season five starts and Eddie is alive, Max is uninjured and all our gay ships are canon, I'd still be mad that they did this.

Because even if it is all a big fake out, which I'm fairly sure it isn't, they still spent the entirety of pride month teasing queer ships just to sweep them all aside once it was July and blatantly lied about multiple things to get the queer fans excited. They still used a gay character only to help progress a strait relationship that was unhealthy and honestly uninteresting anyway. They still started Max on a very powerful storyline that clearly represented the struggle of mental illness and finding the strength to survive it through people you love, only to torture and nearly kill her in the end. They still gave us a likeable queer-coded character who became an amazing symbol of nonconformity and unapologetic self expression, only to have him sacrifice himself for NO REASON while everyone still believes he's a monster.

Honestly I don't care what happens in season five anymore. The end of this season was so poorly written and was a complete disservice to the characters I'd grown attached to. Even if everything gets fixed in season five, the damage they did is real right now and we have to sit with it for possibly two more years.

Fuck the Duffer brothers for being cowards and choosing to revert to old tropes and expected, uninteresting "twists" to placate cishet audiences instead of taking risks to create a powerful and ground breaking story for the outcasts they used to suggest the show was for. Fuck them for having the nerve to imply that forced conformity was an underlying theme of the show before blatantly playing into that conformity and forcing their characters into it as well.

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SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS SEASON 4 VOL. 2

Okay I haven’t posted in forever but but I was literally crying this morning over the Stranger Things Finale before I even watched it so here are my two cents:

Why the fuck is the message of season 4 “don’t be honest about who you are or what you’re struggling with or it’ll hurt/kill you no matter what you do?” Because that’s the point this finale seemed to make.

Will started to open up to Mike about his feelings, albeit in a very indirect way, and that just resulted in Mike pursuing El even further. And even after all of that Mike and El still aren’t actually talking and Will has still been demoted from main character and plot catalyst to the sad gay side character that’s sometimes a monster detector??? So I guess Will just has to continue hiding who he is while he watches his sister and friend/crush continue their codependent and ultimately stagnant relationship and he’s once again being tossed aside in favor of a character that was supposed to die season 1. I mean I love El, but come on, they’re treating Will like he’s completely irrelevant now.

Max started coming to terms with her trauma and mental health, started opening up to her friends finally and was rekindling her relationship with Lucas. She was obviously hurting after Billy died and it was even mentioned that she was suicidal, but she fought to stay alive and get back to her friends who she loves. It was such an obvious metaphor of battling mental illness and Max’s character arc in the first part of the season was so amazing to watch. But no, apparently it doesn’t matter if you fight through the struggles of mental illness and seek help from your support group, the trauma monster is just gonna torture and literally break you anyway, sorry.

And Lucas, despite finally standing up to Jason after trying so hard to fit in and be part of his group, got beat up and then watch the girl he clearly loves be mutilated right in front of him and then put into a coma.

I mean even Robin, who’s still understandably deep in the closet, started to open up a tiiiiiiny bit and had hope for her potential relationship with Vickie and then immediately saw her kissing a guy. But the second she gives up on that and steps a bit further back in the closet? Oh, Vickie broke up with him, thanks for not coming out Robin, you get a cookie.

And Eddie. I do not understand how they could kill the one character who was always 100% unapologetically himself the entire time we saw him. He was labeled a freak and later a psychotic devil-worshipping murderer and yet he never changed who he was to please anyone or even lashed out at the people who wanted to hurt him. Not to mention he’s queer-coded as hell and I seriously doubt that was unintentional. I mean if you’re writing a period show and you do research about 80s culture and especially subcultures and outcasted groups for Eddie specifically, why would you give his character a black bandana in his back pocket if you’re not trying to imply that he’s queer? He was always true to who he was, he protected the kids who reminded him of himself when they were lost and being picked on. He was nice to everyone as long as they weren’t an asshole and he ultimately fought to save his friends and all the people who hated him. And what did he get? He got brutally, painfully killed while the entire town still believed he was a monster and no one besides Dustin and his uncle, not even the other people he fought with in the upside down, mourned or even acknowledged him.

It’s so infuriating that Max and Will (and Robin and Lucas to a lesser extent) suffered and were hurt because they were beginning to open up. But Eddie has always been open and nothing was going to make him start pretending to be someone else so he just straight up died. The one person who was always honest and never lied about who he was and they killed him for shock value. Like am I just reading into this too much or does that literally send a message of “if you start to open up you’ll get hurt. And don’t even try to fully be your true self, because look what’ll happen”

And yeah, sometimes life is cruel and you get hurt unjustly for just being who you are. But this is a fictional tv show where children fight off monsters. A show who’s main audience are the very outcasts they’re now sidelining and killing off in favor of more conventionally “typical” characters. I relate to Will, Robin, Max, and Eddie the most out of all these characters and now I’m being made to watch them suffer for all the reasons I relate to them so much.

Mike and El are still in a pretty unhealthy and unbalanced relationship and they’re fine. Jonathan and Nancy are still lying to each other and refusing to communicate and they’re fine. Steve, as much as I love him, is still pining after Nancy without actually directly talking to her (which, sidenote, is just a huge disservice to his otherwise fantastic character arc imo) and yeah he’s hurting seeing her with Jonathan again but he’s ultimately fine. The only people who really suffered are the only ones who have stopped lying about who they are or what they’re struggling with or who never did so in the first place.

How can you write the line “Forced conformity, that’s what’s killing the kids. That’s the real monster” and then punish the handful of characters who are trying to break away from that conformity? Why the hell, in a show that used to be all about outcasts forming relationships and fighting monsters against all the odds not in spite of being different, but because they’re different, are those very characters being hurt and punished for not being like everyone else?

Like, I’m just so fed up and tired. This show is legitimately ruined for me now, and it’s not because a character I liked died or the ship I was rooting for didn’t happen. It’s because I look at these characters I relate to being tormented and hurt for being queer or neurodivergent or having trauma, things that I experience/struggle with myself, and the message I hear is “What you are is wrong and bad things will happen to you because of it. You deserve to hurt because of what you are and you will never be safe or happy.” And that fucking kills me, especially since this was a show I loved so much just yesterday and now I can’t even stand to watch it.

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LISTEN

Pfft I don’t even like sports this is hilarious

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ar2OIaPhOpw

What knowledge I have of most sports comes from my family loving them and me being forced to watch them as a child. I do try to watch the Superbowl, mostly for the halftime show to be honest.

But also I am Tyler in that situation and @bad-luck-clover is Mark

Especially when it was the video explaining football:

Me: Matt Ryan fucked up

Clover: Supermega?

Me: No, honey

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Me: They missed the first down

Clover: What?

Me: They get four tries to make it ten yards and if they fail it's a turnover or they could punt it to try to make the other team go further back

Clover: WHAT

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It's only ten thirty and usually I have to tell you that, you go to bed

W E A R H I M

Go to bed

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...I'll take that as a "yes, I should be concerned"

Hey what is this? Should I be concerned? Because I'm concerned.

grrrr chomping biting violence!

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I hadn't played in so long there were cockroaches in my home and you dragged me back in. You made me relapse. You have ruined me.

I love playing animal crossing XD but I haven’t played in 4 months and I fear what state my islands in lol

I've sent @bad-luck-clover back down the rabbit hole, I'll do the same to you 😂

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please stop treating the word neurodivergent like it means the overlap between autism and adhd

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my gender is picking “woman” on a form but feeling kinda weird about it

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Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

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In an alternate universe where Lichen shows any affection for anyone that isn't her sister, yes that would 100% be her. Her love language is bones and viscera.

Robbie comparing Mads eyes to the darkest pits in the underworld, his blush to the blood of fallen soilders and that his smile is better then any of the crystals in the underworld. JJ just kind of smiles and is super proud.

I love this more than I should Morbid young love 10/10

Also @bad-luck-clover Tell me this isn't Lichen if she were to ever feel affection for someone

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