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Stranger Things 7 Day Challenge:  Day 1 - A scene that surprised you: Steve trying to making things right

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i just want you to know that anytime you post, i'm blowing you kisses bc all of your opinions are continually so correct

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Goddddd yeah, it’s so niche but I love anything that explores Joyce and Hopper not really giving a shit about Steve. Steve is my special boy and he wants to be independent so bad, he doesn’t need them. (Tho I do love some fun angst where he thought they at least liked him and find out they are neutral at BEST with him)

yes, me too!! i think it's the most realistic bc they've never spent much time with him they're not even monster fighting co-workers they're like co-workers in law.

i've also never really been a fan of found family content that's extremely nuclear family with it. i dislike how much of fanon joyce is centered around her being the perfect mother who is inherently caring and wonderful to every child in her presence. i think thats misogynistic and demeaning, and ignores some of her less than perfect moments as a mom. i think it took a lot for hopper to open himself up to el and, while he's grown as a person, i don't see him doing that again anytime soon unless he had to (e.g. getting together with joyce and blending families). i think parenting a random 19yr old would be ridiculous to him.

i also just don't think steve wants or needs pseudoparents. he just wants people who care. so having a jopper who don't really give a fuck about him and steve being fine with that because he has his friends is delicious to me <3 like he's got his own shit going on y'know? i would honestly loveeee more fics that explore why steve feels like he doesn't need them!

also yes. i love putting steve in the torture vortex. i love steve angst i want him throwing up, dying, and hit by a car 9 times out of 10. but also i love a steve who will walk away from people who don't care/aren't good for him which that concept is perfect for

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ok i’m nice now

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ted wheeler

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hey, I was just at "things got better" island and everyone there is talking about how excited they are to meet you

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me when i love outing and being obnoxious and forcing people to work on my time and not their own i guess

every fic about a (typically queer) couple getting “murrayed” 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽

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every fic about a (typically queer) couple getting “murrayed” 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽

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They could never make me like Murray. Like why was he so involved in Jonathan and Nancy fucking??? Why was he encouraging Nancy to cheat on Steve?? My most special boy 😔 and more importantly, why did Murray get to survive season 2 but Bob Newby didn’t 😭 Bob was the only member of the Byers family that I cared about. Out of all the secondary characters that the Duffers have stupidly killed off, Murray is the one I want dead 🥰

yes!!!!

he’s annoying, creepy, and obnoxious. i don’t care about his dynamic with joyce. i’ve never found him funny so he doesn’t even work as comic relief to me. absolute toilet of a character. i hope he explodes into a billion tiny pieces.

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I hate fics where Hopper has “adopted” Steve. Like he probably doesn’t have great parents since we know nothing them, and fans want to give Steve the worst on screen dad?? Hopper doesn’t deserve Steve. El deserves him as a brother, but Hopper doesn’t deserve him as a son. If any adult in the know cared about Steve, there would have been serious in universe consequences for Billy beating the shit out of him

to me, it’s not about hopper “deserving” steve bc honestly idrc about all that (and i’d actually go for a failed family dynamic fic) but i do understand where you’re coming from 💜

what i dislike is that it’s in almost every fic but it’s rarely good. idk when it was decided that everyone agrees with this hc but i’m just never convinced.

like why would hopper care about this random kid? why would steve rely on hopper if he’s so avoidant and independent (as he’s typically characterised)? why do they choose to mean something to each other? no one is answering these questions, or they’re not answering them in an interesting way.

i understand people go straight to an established found family dynamic because it’s what they like and what most people want to read. (that’s fair! i’m the odd one out!) however, that often results in little to no work being put in to build a believable relationship and it’s frustrating! i want people to make me care <3

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and then we kill murray again 💜

s5 wishlist:

murray fucking dies

jonathan fucking dies

will fucking dies

joyce fucking dies

hopper fucking dies

murray fucking dies again!!!!!!!!!!!

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My ideal extras from season 5 would be Murray dying 🥰🥰 hate that man

i want you

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s5 wishlist:

murray fucking dies

jonathan fucking dies

will fucking dies

joyce fucking dies

hopper fucking dies

murray fucking dies again!!!!!!!!!!!

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murray bauman KILL YOURSELF

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he is SO UGLY im so scared

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"i want to kill it."

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i hate that being emotionally unavailable is so associated with masculinity. which is why i must stay emotionally unavailable. for feminism.