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You said it was a ghost story. It isn’t. No? It’s a love story. Same thing, really. TJ MIKELOGAN’s HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT day thirteen ↬ horror television template

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Mike only fights back against bullies after they hurt someone he loves, but never for himself.

When he was tripped? When he was pressured to jump off a cliff? he just took it and never fought against it later. He never got back at them for it.

Mike's learned to take it, but he's ashamed of it. Watching back the clip where they trip him, you can notice Mike is trying not to cry. You can hear it in his voice with the way it cracks and shakes, and especially with the noise he makes at the end. He hides how they actually make him feel.

He tries to hide the real reason why he had a mark on a chin from el, afraid she'd think of him as a wastoid/loser. He just wanted one person - just one - to not think of him the way he thinks everyone else does - the way he thinks of himself.

He hides the reason for the bruise from the first girl that's ever shown interest in him. He doesn't tell his parents. (there is zero implication his parents are aware of the bullying until finally when his son is wanted by the whole town s4. karen is right there in front of him to see the scab but we never see acknowledgment from her). There's a good chance nobody but Dustin and El know about the whole cliff thing.

We are explicitly told how Will and El feel about the bullying and hate they've faced in their life, but not Mike. They are hiding him cause LOOK AT HOW HES OUT OF FOCUS IN BOTH OF THESE SCENES!! DURING THESE LINES!!!

MIKE UNDERSTANDS THEM. He knows where they're coming from!! why isn't he just saying that? pride. shame. fear. downplaying his emotions because his parents have taught him what he thinks/feels/does does not matter. not that they insult him.. they just ignore him or things that matter to him. that's enough to make a child feel insignificant.

buddy all you did was slightly open up about feeling not needed and insulted yourself in the process...

karen failing to call it by the actual name implies she doesn't remember details about him -- the things that matter to him. his correction implies it's important to him that she refers to it by its actual name, and this is most likely not the first time he corrects her by the way he says it casually.

the fact mike has zero reaction to any of this implies this is a normal thing for him to hear in his house (another instance in which he doesn't defend himself from insults, because he himself believes it)

His parents do not go to him. They do not intervene and rather wait for him to feel better on his own. Mind you this is a 12-14 year old boy. Why on earth is it all on him to manage alone???

"how is this bad?"

this plays exactly after we get a scene of Joyce not confronting Jonathan - her son - crying in his bedroom. Jonathan is parentified. He doesn't receive the same attention he needs as a child the way Will does because he needed to help provide. Although they're entirely different situations from each other (put down the fucking pitchforks), they both include a parent avoiding emotional connection with a child that's dealing with grief to let them take care of it by themselves. this is a clear parallel that's meant to be noticed.

they continue to just wait for mike to fix it all himself.

Mike feels worthless. He feels like a loser. He feels like he doesn't belong the same way El and Will do. He doesn't feel needed. But he's not gonna say it because he's learnt it doesn't matter. We have all the reasons to believe why he would feel that way.

Instead, during scenes where Will and El talk about bullying making them feel worthless, the director and cinematographer will simply just make sure he's in the background and out of focus, much like he his to his parents. Much like he is to the GA. Much like how it feels to suffer from depression.

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Telling my children this was The Last Supper.

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@maxmayfielddaily max mayfield appreciation week: day 02 favorite dynamic

yeah, i know. the stalkers.

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DANIEL SHARMAN as TROY OTTO Fear The Walking Dead‧ El Matadero

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STEVE HARRINGTON Stranger Things, 4.04 - Dear Billy

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they certainly are standing next to each other!

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stan didn't make it 💔💔

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235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 05. joyce byers and jim hopper - stranger things

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LOKI S01E05 “Journey into Mystery” / LOKI S02E04 “Heart of the TVA”

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"Yeah, see ya later. Alligator. Goddamnit."

Steve Harrington gifs 21/?

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#tiredofstraightpeople

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redrawing one of my favourite 2019 reddie scenes as miniseries reddie (im surprised this hasn't been done sooner)

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i think noho hank is like my favourite character in all of tv? he’s such a sweetheart

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Also, can I just say how much my asexual ass loves that Ed and Stede are friends? That's where so many romantic couples in media lose me. Like yeah, I get that these characters are into each other, fine, but do they like each other? Do they want to spend time together? Do you see them having midnight conversations? This is never an issue with Ed and Stede. These two never stop having conversations, and the conversations are crazy, and they are just so excited to spend time together and they genuinely like each other so much. They love each other, they like each other, they are into each other in all sorts of ways. Just two lovable idiots absolutely made for each other in every single way. 💖