#00I

[roleplay-abiogenesis2]

(NSFW) Soft Dominant Starters

Hoping to reply to these next Sunday~

"Come sit in my lap, pet."

"How would you like to earn a reward?"

"Why don't you make the two of us some tea?"

"I bet that hurt good, didn't it darling?"

"Sounds like someone's been a good boy/girl today."

"Shh, don't cry. It'll all be over soon. Now keep counting."

"You look so good with your lips stretched around me like that."

"You're such a good girl/boy."

"Open your mouth for me, love."

"Do you want this? Why don't you beg for it, hm?"

"Tell me what you want."

"Don't cover your face, I want to see you."

"What a pretty blush."

"Move your hands to the side, I want to hear your moans."

"That's it, keep cumming."

"Did that hurt, love? Want Daddy/Mommy to make you feel better?"

"Do you want it?"

"Why don't you move your hips for me, hm"

"No need to be so shy, it's just you and me."

"Ooh, I love it when you squeeze around me."

"Lets get you cleaned up."

"I think you deserve a treat."

"I'm very disappointed in you."

"Shh, I'm going to keep you safe."

"You're so beautiful, all spread out like this, just for me."

"Sneaky little one! When did you think of surprising me like this?"

"Why don't you pick out your favorite toy so we can get started."

"I'm so proud of you."

"Bad boy/girl. I thought we talked about not doing this."

[manlykarma]

not my photos !

[ad0rechuu]

۪ ᝰ ۫ MY OH MY ୨୧

based on my oh my by girls' generation

SYNOPSIS. ━━━━━ Yn finds out that her whole relationship has been a bet. To get over her heartache her best friend Sunwoo convinces her to take revenge.

How you might ask? By breaking the culprits heart right back of course!

10jun23 | st. 31/12/23 ━ fn. 01/07/24

pairing. ━━━━━ Best Friend! Kim Sunwoo x Fem! reader (x Choi Yeonjun)

featuring. ━━━━━ the boyz members, kim chaewon, txt members + mentions of other idols

genre. ━━━━━ smau + written: humor/crack / fluff / angst / suggestive / childhood friends to lovers / college au / revenge relationship / relationship based on bet / slight slow burn

warnings. ━━━━━ timestamps/sm numbers/hair colors mean nothing, sexism/slutshaming, crude humor (kys jokes), mentions of & illusions to of food/sex/drugs/alcohol/cheating/mental illness, use of pictures of yn but only for reference, yn is a sone (snsd fan). more thorough warnings in the actual chapters, please let me know if missed something. this story doesn’t describe the idols in real life and is written with a dark skinned poc in mind!

notes. ━━━━━ the taglist is open, send an ask to be added. spam likes are fine but consider reblogging with comments of ur thoughts (not only on my work but on other authors work too! credits to the rightful owners of all the graphics. i’m not a native english speaker! and thank you to @ari-shipping-stuff for being my beta reader / writer <3

( please give this story lots of love & check out my masterlist )

PROFILES. ━━━━━ SONES INCORPORATED ᜊ DA HOMIEZ ᜊ MORE COOL KIDS ᜊ THE PLAYLIST

STEP 1. GET OVER HIM ›

ᝰ CH 000. prologue: THE NEXT BET

ᝰ CH 001. I H8 MEN

ᝰ CH 002. DON’T BREAK UP WITH THAT LOSER

ᝰ CH 003. THE PLAN

ᝰ CH 004. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

ᝰ CH 005. *INSERT EVIL LAUGHTER*

ᝰ CH 006. ANNOYING BRAT FOR SALE

ᝰ CH 007. DON'T WORRY YOUR PRETTY BIG HEAD

ᝰ CH 008. NOT OVER HIM

ᝰ CH 009. CLASSIC SUNWOO-YN-BFF-DATE

ᝰ CH 010. THE NERVE AND THE AUDACITY

STEP 2. MAKE HIM FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU ›

ᝰ CH 011. STEP UP MY GAME

ᝰ CH 012. SASSY CAT EMOJI

ᝰ CH 013. A NIGHT ON THE TOWN W/ YN & WOO

ᝰ CH 014. GOOD NIGHT

ᝰ CH 015. HOBBIES FOR SUNWOO

ᝰ CH 016. GRAND DISCOVERY (YN HAS AN IDEA)

ᝰ CH 017. JUNS UNAPPROACHABLE AND COLD GF

ᝰ CH 018. HANGING OUT WITH MY BFS FRIENDS

ᝰ CH 019. BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF

ᝰ CH 020. DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME

STEP 3. BREAK HIS HEART ›

ᝰ CH 021. CODE ORANGE

ᝰ CH 022. I FUCKED UP

ᝰ CH 023. HITCH IN THE ROAD

ᝰ CH 024. CONSIDER AND MAKE SURE

ᝰ CH 025. WHAT MAKES THE HEART GROW WHAT?

ᝰ CH 026. BALLOON FLOWERS

ᝰ CH 027. REJECTION + ANEURYSM = WENT WELL

ᝰ CH 028. MAKEUP

ᝰ CH 029. BALLOON FLOWERS VERSUS ROSES

ᝰ CH 030. MINE (HIS)

ᝰ CH 00I. epilogue: A PEAK IN SUNYN’S LOVE

ᝰ CH 0II. ASK THEM ANYTHING EVENT

ᝰ AFTER WORD

special thanks (& follow these awesome ppl). ━━━━━ to @yuyusuyu @kodzumo @tocupid @leo-seonghwa @seonghwaddict @felixsramen : i have to give you six an extra special thanks because you all motivated and supported me so much while i was stressing and being annoying, just so you know guys are my motivation! (the other message is also to you all ofc)

and to @yunstarz @nyukyujs @rieuvie @thelargefrye @i-luvsang @cybrsan @gyumibear @pocketjoong @jaehunnyy @nebulousbrainsoup @justhere4kpop @xpixie @atinycafe @brrrkdslek @phantom-webber @a1sh1teruu @starryunho @aestheticsluut @end0rchans @yourfatherlucifer @alixnsuperstxr @girls4cheol @cheollipop @mintgki @aoi-turtle @renstears @42e15 @alixnsuperstxr @mrowwww @hwaightme @paradiqms @starrysvn @tubatu-wari-wari @kitten4sannie @chokchokk @hee0soo @joong-of-gold @armysantiny @evilsailorsenshi @mundayoonimnida @aapplepii @juhakutie : first of all i don’t expect you to read or interact with this fic, you might not even stan the boyz or like this sorta thing but i tagged you all because of one reason and one reason only; to tell you that you all make tumblr such a lovely and inspirational place for me, whenever i see ur accs it brightens my day because i know what great ppl are behind them, i just wanted to say that i think that you are amazing and i want to use this post to thank you! happy new years and i love you everyone (and you who’s reading this)

my oh my © ad0rechuu, 2023. do not copy/repost.

[gremoria411]

Sorry to sound like a “um, actually” guy, but it’s a plot point in 00I that innovades have been around for at least a couple hundred years, since they have to be regularly rotated out of human society before anyone notices that they don’t age. One of the characters in the story, Lars Grise, is an innovade who goes rogue and spends roughly a century killing other innovades before he’s stopped.

The HRL Superhuman institute is essentially the earliest attempt to create innovators via the use of quantum brainwaves (though at the time they’re just looking to create a better soldier), but the only “successes” we know about are Soma Peries and Hallelujah/Allelujah, who are both fairly young, thus implying that the project hasn’t been around long.

[sterlingarcher23]

The power of subtle imagery...

Haven't noticed this until recently, so in regard to other moments, they are mirroring each other.

Ice cream in color code hands - El, left hand, blue hair tie/bracelet and Max right hand, yellow watch respectively

Swapping ice-cream in the opposite hands (heart hands) - crossing blue and yellow while doing this.

Ice-cream again in the color code hands, now high five with heart hands (same moment gives Max the ability to fight back in the mind lair)

You may not even notice it consciously, yet you have seen it nonetheless. It's put in your brain so that one day you go back and be like "Why haven't I seen it?" as the Duffers would say.

And I call them heart hands because on the right side of El's shirt, there's a "blood" stain in shape of a heart - and she places her right hand on Max's chest on the left side.

Again mirroring each other.

Like it happens in this scene - interesting wouldn't you say?

Well, they have their arms up for different reasons, but the idea is to create a reflection point I'd argue since we have these reflections, these mirrors again and again.

The power of mirroring. And you may also heard the phrase: As above so below. Max's reflection and the walkie talkie nearby basically means that her mirror image is El. (like in the poster artwork for the stage plax of Henry that shows Vecna as his shadow but similar to Max's reflection in this scene)

El's heartbeat is reflected by Max's heart monitor - the window in the "This is Max" moment gives us a window from our perspective and a mirror image from El's perspective (we see El through Max and she sees the drawing of Max as her own "reflection") it's like a one way mirror.

And especially the heart connection is made just as subtle as possible yet for all to hear how they meld El's heart beat and the beeping of Max's heart monitor - this is El's heart that is monitored there. Figuratively and literally.

Reflections and mirrors are used many times, the context is what matters.

I mentioned it before - Kubrick did the same, he used shiny objects (polished doors, reflective metall, mirror glass, shiny walls) to mirror the characters and have conversations with themselves (like Jack is actually talking to himself - he looks in the mirror and then Grady is in exactly that spot).

Danny touching is own reflection aka Tony when he touches the door knob. Followed by a brief image of the twins even though they have nothing to do with the room 237 - it's his "twin", his other half Kubrick points to - This is even underlined by the hotel's boss, Ullman, who doesn't describes the Grady girls as twins but says they are 8 and 10 in the film. Kubrick kept the description but he shows something different in what Danny sees. The twins are not the Grady girls. Ullman also says "Charles Grady" but Grady calls himself Delbert (who might be just Jack's shadow/mirror as Jack looks in the mirror and Grady is then placed in front of the mirror)

In the bathroom Danny even has a conversation with Tony. He's talking to his mirror image. Tony is so to speak another personality of Danny and he probably talks to him again in the kitchen with Halloran representing Tony ( he's probably not even "real") - Note how they mirror their gestures.

Just saying that this is not new in the visual language of cinema or TV. - And we have it in the Rainbow Room, we have it with the literal inversions of numbers like 00I - 0II on one side (holding their arms to actually mirroring the numbers) and 011 and 110 on the other, how Max and Vecna mirror each other, and Max and Will having those parallels AND mirrors etc etc etc (putting everything into one post is impossible)

Bonus: the TV screen used as a window. But while they look at us and we at them through our technological looking glass, they do look at what from their perspective?

So, magic mirror on the wall who is fairest One of all?

....oh. 11, I see.

This turned out to be longer than I wanted - it was actually just about the ice-cream swapping moment and how they purposely mirror each other. And that it's so subtle yet directly in front of us, so blatant and yet we also get distracted with stuff - like literally using characters (just saying Will's arm) to distract so that the focus of the audience is somewhere else. At the same time you need litter your clues to subtly and so obviously that you say "They can't mean it literally, can they?" over a show

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

,Hey guys hope you’re OK and keeping well, just get I’m going to be doing an episode on cherries info dump on Spotify,, for the Venus signs on their style using a celebrity example for each please listen, it should be up in a couple of hours, UK time i 9:00I am British summer time.

I really hope you enjoyed the episode we’re gonna go dive into each celebrity and their style and how it’s evolved with their career and everything.

[leflairzone]

Now in color, sticking close to the colors in Ep20 - although a little more saturated. Rewatching it you really notice that 00ies desaturated palette is used quite heavily, despite how colorful my memories of the show was.

[princess-of-the-corner]

"Chloes Sandboy Nightmare had to be either something to do with Audrey, or with the Spider Prank where Mari almost Drowned."

There is my version (TW Dark as f*ck):

00I imagined Chloe's nightmare beginning from her bath (in her private toilet) filling with water extremely fast and when it's full, Nightmare!Marinette (looking like half-rotten corpse of drowning victim) comes out of it, goes to Chloe's sleeping room. When she finds panicked Chloe (who is screaming for "Daddy!" to help her), she grabs her and drags her towards bath full of water "while saying things like 'I am dead, Chloe. It's time for you to join me.'", then throws her into it and attempt to drown her. Only reason why Nightmare!Marinette didn't succeed is that in last moment Miraculous Cure (casted by Ladybug after Sandboy's defeat) undoes everything.

OOF THOUGH

[decibelcoatl]

Monsters of Cassette Beasts and Gender Ratios - A Personal Headcanon (DLC Edition)

Hey, so, remember when I did a full list of gender ratios for every monster in Cassette Beasts, save for the ones from the Pier of the Unknown DLC?

Well, rather than update that list, I decided to make a continuation with just the DLC monsters. You can find the first post here.

Spoilers aside for those who haven't gotten the DLC yet, please note that these are all my own personal opinions, so take it with a grain of salt if you will. Furthermore, because the monsters introduced in the DLC are not numbered in the Bestiary like those from the base game, I decided to letter them instead (e.g. #00A-#00Z, #0AA-#0ZZ, etc.)

Full DLC list under the cut below.

#00A-#00C (Littlered, Scarleteeth, Rosehood): Littlered and Scarleteeth are 25% male and 75% female, while Rosehood is female-only

#00D-#00F (Charlequin, Blunderbusk, Fragliacci): 50% male, 50% female

#00G (Hauntome): Gender unknown

#00H-#00I (Amphare, Lapacitor): 50% male, 50% female

#00J-#00K (Minortom, Majortom): 75% male, 25% female

#00L (Umbrahella): Gender unknown

[cramajoki]

An Endless Road - Part 6

8:00 am, Friday

It was morning again. Still dark though. Odd, it should have some bit of daylight by then. I did check my phone and my car, though either one could’ve been out of whack at the time. 

I know that I was fully rested, and so I drove on through. Hopefully I would see some light or a town soon. 

10:00

I stopped to eat some more of my food and check the time. I had been driving for two hours and it was still dark. Dark this late into the morning. In the summer. Why? Why was it still dark? What’s going on? Did I read the time wrong? Did I sleep through the day? Did I go to sleep earlier than I thought I did? Is there something wrong with my phone? What’s going on?

My mind was racing as fast as my heart. I couldn’t process why anything like this would be happening. Was my mind slipping? Did I get a concussion? Is this what a concussion is like? Am I dreaming? I have to be dreaming right? But I just drove for two hours. Two hours on an empty road. My dreams are a lot of things, but not mundane. 

I couldn’t think straight with everything going on and could hardly control my breathing. What was I doing? I had to do something. Move forward. Drive Onward. Anything. I was sitting there. 

I tried to start my car again. It wouldn’t start. Lovely. Looks like I had to try and walk the rest of the way on foot? As if. I’d wait a little bit before I resorted to that. No point trying to walk to the next town if it’s been taking me this long.

I looked around at the plains surrounding me. Nothing. As usual. That was until I noticed to white blobs in the distance to my left. I squinted my eyes trying to make out whatever it was that I saw. They were coming closer. Wait… they were coming closer. 

It was them! The two girls who tortured me as a kid. I froze in my seat, seeing them walk closer to the street. It had to be my imagination, a dream. A dream where I felt this much anxiety, sweating and crying like this… 

I heard them laugh.

I had to turn the car on and get out of there, but of course it wouldn’t start. So instead I jumped out of the car and ran the other way. 

They laughed. 

There were so many rocks and shrubs in the path that I could barely see. I was stumbling all around, but I had to run. They were just behind me. Ghostly figures. “Get away from me!”

“What’s the matter, can’t take a joke?” They laughed together. 

Soon I came to a large enough bush that I hid behind, hoping they wouldn’t see me. I was shaking where I was, breathing heavily. I had to calm down or else they’d hear me. Slowly I breathed in and out, managing to keep my breathing under control. 

And so I waited. 

Were they gone? 

Then one stuck its head out from around the corner of a bush. “You look so dumb shaking like that!” I backed away screaming, hitting my head against the sharp branch. 

After rubbing my head, the two pulled me into the bush, forcing it to scratch all over my face. I was screaming in pain. I tried to shake them off, but they were just as strong as I remember. 

One of the girls laughed. “Wow. You can’t even break free from us as an adult? What’s wrong with you?”

 I couldn’t help but cry as my face was scratched up by the thorns of the bush. 

Soon they pulled me out of it as they stomped down on my chests, continuing in their giggles. All I could do was lie there in pain, wanting it to stop. 

They dragged me off into the desert, eventually getting to the edge of a short cliff leading to a river. They were going to throw me in. “Don’t do this! What did I ever do to you?”

“You were pathetic, that’s what.” One laughed. “Can’t take a simple joke.”

“Please, I want this to stop.” I begged.

“What a baby.” The girl chortled. 

They threw me in. 

I hit that cold water with a hard splash. It hit my back as if I had just landed on cement. The water poured into my lungs as I struggled to breathe. The currents pushed me to and fro.

[roleplay-abiogenesis2]

send a symbol for a mermaid starter

🐬 my muse is a merperson who just got placed in the aquarium where yours works

🌲 my muse is a merperson that saved yours from drowning, only to deposit them on a deserted island

☁ my muse is a merperson who lives by the seashore near your muse’s house. your muse catches them sitting on the rocks peoplewatching one day

⚓ my muse is a merperson, and yours is a pirate who captures them

💧 my muse is a merperson, and yours is the merperson they are betrothed to marry, to unite their underwater kingdoms

💍 my muse is a merperson, and yours is the human they are betrothed to marry, to unite neighboring land and sea kingdoms

[ad0rechuu]

۪ ★ ۫ MILKY WAY ୨୧

based on milky way by seohyun

SYNOPSIS. ━━━━━ It’s not everyday that your friends childhood friend turns out to be the girl that you literally have a fan account for, but for Seonghwa, San and Mingi it’s become a reality. being able to get close to your bias is great! even if she does have a raging crush on someone else…

6mar23 | st. 09/03/23 ━ fn. 31/08/23

pairing. ━━━━━ college students! fans! park seonghwa, choi san, song mingi x fem! idol! reader (x idol! oc)

featuring. ━━━━━ ateez, kang seulgi (red velvet), fatou samba (black swan), park sujin aka swan (purple kiss), shin yuna (itzy), do hanse (former victon) oc, fem oc

genre. ━━━━━ smau, written, humor/crack, fluff, angst, suggestive, love square, idol/college au, strangers to friends to lovers, really slow burn, pinning, secret identity

warnings. ━━━━━ i’m not a native english speaker so my english might be a little off sometimes ! ! ! timestamps/sm numbers mean nothing, sexism/slutshaming, swearing, mentions of food/sex/serious topic, kys/kms and other questionable jokes, use of pictures for yn but only for reference (only of dark skin poc used), cyber bullying, ssngs, mental illness/anxiety, mentions of alcohol/drugs. small age gaps, more thorough warnings in the actual chapters, let me know if missed smth

notes. ━━━━━ the taglist is closed, spam likes are fine but consider reblogging with comments of ur thoughts (not only on my work but on other authors work too!) credits to the rightful owners of all the graphics n music

PROFILES. ━━━━━ SANRIO TRASH (STAR) ᜊ THE VIRGINITY CORNER (ATEEZ + YNS BBGS) ᜊ EXTRAS

PART 1. PRE TIME SKIP :

★ CH 000. prologue: HONGJOONG HAS FRIENDS?!

★ CH 001. CLONE FANTASY

★ CH 002. THE JASPER TO MY SHERLOCK

★ CH 003. SUS, VERY SUS

★ CH 004. DON’T LEAVE ME TALL FUCK

★ CH 005. EDIBLE SCENTED CANDLE

★ CH 006. MY LITTLE MEOW MEOW

★ CH 007. ONE OF THE GIRLIES

★ CH 008. SHES SO PRECIOUS!!

★ CH 009. IS YN OKAY?

★ CH 010. NO FANBOYING

★ CH 011. INTRODUCTIONS: PART I

★ CH 012. INTRODUCTIONS: PART II

★ CH 013. SUPER COOL AND HOT (RESPECTFULLY)

★ CH 014. AESPA WAS RIGHT

★ CH 015. GODDAMNIT PARK SEONGHWA

★ CH 016. WHAT THE H*CK

★ CH 017. I’M SO HASTAG SRS

★ CH 018. OPERATION: YNGYU

★ CH 019. HE’S UP TO NO GOOD

★ CH 020. PRAISE KINK ERA

★ CH 021. BAES JUST LIKE ME FR

★ CH 022. NVM Y’ALL HE RESPONDED

★ CH 023. TWO HEART EMOJIS

★ CH 024. RPS LEGEND

★ CH 025. KANG POMPOMPURIN

★ CH 026. BEGINNING OF A CHEESY ROMCOM

★ CH 027. WTFDYM

★ CH 028. IMAGINE NOT TALKING

★ CH 029. BLACK LIST SPEED RUN

★ CH 030. AS LONG AS SHE’S HAPPY

( EXTRA. ASK THEM ANYTHING EVENT:: PART i )

PART 2. POST TIME SKIP :

★ CH 031. BOMBASTIC SIDE EYE

★ CH 032. AS HOT AS I EXPECTED

★ CH 033. MY BABIES (AND KIM HONGJOONG)

★ CH 034. EVEN THE YANDERES

★ CH 035. DONGSAENG ZONED

★ CH 036. A STRANGE FEELING

★ CH 037. OLD FRIENDS

★ CH 038. I DON’T THINK I’M OKAY

★ CH 039. MINGI UR A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR

★ CH 040. LOVELY

★ CH 041. STEP BY STEP

★ CH 042. DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT

★ CH 043. OOPS

★ CH 044. WHATDIDIDOTOMYSELF

★ CH 045. LOVE LETTERS TO LEE HYORI

★ CH 046. LOSER DOESN’T EVEN DESCRIBE IT

★ CH 047. IF ONLY SHE KNEW

★ CH 048. LE’ ASTRE

( EXTRA. STAR’S 5TH MINI ALBUM :: LE’ ASTRE )

★ CH 049. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S UNHOLY

★ CH 050. I’M ALRIGHT, I PROMISE

★ CH 051. BUTTERFLIES

★ CH 052. #STAR IS KILLING ME

★ CH 053. OK? OK! OK

★ CH 054. PURSUE HAPPINESS

★ CH 055. WHY DID YOU NEVER TELL ME

★ CH 056. THE TRUTH

★ CH 057. SERA WATANABE

★ CH 058. XD

★ CH 059. MILKY WAY

★ CH 060. LOVE

( EXTRA. ASK THEM ANYTHING EVENT:: PART ii )

ENDING O1.

★ 00i. PERUVIAN LILIES

★ 0ii. THE PRETTIEST

ENDING O2.

★ 00i. WHAT MAKES HIM, HIM

★ 0ii. LOM(OMMY)L



ENDING O3.

★ 00i. FINAL PUZZLE PIECE

★ 0ii. MINE.

★ AFTER WORD.

milky way © ad0rechuu, 2023. do not copy/repost.

[sterlingarcher23]

It was the Zoomer....Him=her

Taking the wheel is an analogy often used in cases of DID - that's why this scene, this line is in that moment in which Max sits behind the wheel. (see down below)

Because it happened before:

The accurate moment is right after the zooming effect, even though Eleven uses both hands, not one - moments earlier in the scene when El pushes him away with one hand the first time it doesn't result in 00I flying through the one way mirror. That's why I replaced this from the original post that inspired this one ( source down below). Technically both psychic blasts are accurate to use, I guess depending on the pov of the character. as I pointed out before and do again in this post, Eleven isn't a name you can use for one specific character - nonetheless this is a clear parallel between Max and Vecna, putting Max in the same place as him (maybe we should call him Edward, Henry's evil twin/alter/variant)

Mirrors

And here the mirror shards are flipped - she is as much of a mirror to him, as he is to her.

That moment here, is also mirroring the same event that took place in the lab - when El "wished" for her other half to appear, and the lights go out (as if she absorbs the energy?). That's how Vecna knows what Max is doing.

Both are clearly visual reflections/mirrors of each other. When he nails Max to the wall, it must have been her who did it in 1979 as they show us them as mirrors by changing the align of the glass shards.

You know: Stop him-- Her.

The silver cat feeds...

And when One kills "he" consumes.

The imagery and dialog makes them equals but also sets them apart, mirrors them.

"And there upon a rainbow is the answer to a neverending story" - like exactly before they are thrown through something and nailed to the wall.

Lie vs untruth (lies are deceptive, not everything that's untrue is a lie, could be a mistake, misunderstanding)

I vs We (the ego vs the team)

00I vs 0II

And the event - it split "Eleven". In two ones. As indicated that Max is One and El too (You are One of the good Ones).

That's the only possible explanation. The girl...in the beginning, that turns around? It (probably) doesn't even look like we think she looks like. What if she actually has red hair - the most likely explanation is that it's perception fuckery, showing us different scenes, even flipped events, not just allude to potential timeline splits but to the perception of two different personalities of the same event. And it's obvious because the older El has a different blood stain on her gown than the two younger versions. (A bit like in Matrix there are different self images of the same person, a real one, the way you see yourself, the residual rest image and, the way others see you)

There's also a whole section I would have integrated here if possible about how Max and Vecna are mirrored in another aspect: it's about werewolves and vampires, like a blood feud, it's about gamers playing an Immortal Game of chess and it's about the "Owl", the wendigo.

Pronouns & Gender ambiguity...

The pronoun game between El and Owens is verbally alluding to this. As much as theres some trans coding with Henry/Edward/Vecna with the emasculation, the association with female black widows, Max is also trans coded. Similar to characters like George (Georgina) Kirrin from the Famous Five is been trans-coded since the very first TV-show from the 70s, almost openly in the 90s show in which a gender swap & confusion happened in a conversation. And George doesn't like it to be called by her birth name, only her father does it. I should write that post I wanted to do last year how media likes to play with gender identity, gender roles and also sexuality.

Remember when Mr Clarke introduced Max to the class? He calls her Maxine, gets corrected by Max and the boys realize the supposed boy is a girl. Like in the dialog with Owens. Who then continues "Stop her and the rest of them". Seriously? On surface level it's just a misunderstanding in a not so great dialog. Or is it done deliberately? To swap pronouns? Yes - so that him=her. Which makes "He" potentially "she".

Vecna also calls her Maxine. But she wants to be called Max. That's a deliberate choice made by someone: choosing a name. - In S4 when Jason wants to "go out" with Lucas, Erica mentions Max by name, that Jason is a step down - two things: 1) to Jason this must sound as if Max is a boy. 2) and Lucas is...gay? Or bisexual? Or pan? It's at least clearly coding. Especially in regards to Max.

Now, does this make Max a boy/transgender, even though there's a very specific graffiti in her mind: No. Because otherwise "There's more to life than stupid boys" wouldn't fit.

But it tells me that she's probably meant as "gender ambiguous", that her character is at least questioning gender roles and definitely been mistaken as a boy at times is important in her character arc. "He" is actually a "she".

Hence Brenner is using what I'd call a gender neutral He - "he" as referring to someone that isn't specified. Brenner doesn't say Henry or uses any name, but "He" and One. And you can see how "She" is mistaken as "He" - by us. Most think that this clunky, almost amateurish exposition (which the audience didn't need as Vecna showed us and said what he does) isn't about "him" but about "her": Max.

And besides some gender ambiguity regarding Max, we had several instances of characters in the show mistake her for a boy aka he. That in itself is all you need to understand why this exposition about "One" was written as a dialog for Brenner who doesn't see these kids as humans, nor as male or female, hence the fact get only numbers, wear the same clothes, have the same haircut. Only as numbers. And that's why "One" isn't necessarily a "he".

Example: "Whosoever holds this hammer if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor." - 2014, Jane Foster took the hammer. "He" wasn't necessarily meant as "only male" but more gender neutral.

The use, in formal English, of he, him or his as a gender-neutral pronoun has traditionally been considered grammatically correct.

The pronoun he can be used to refer to an unspecified person, as in If you see someone in trouble, help him. (See Gender above).

Final words & additional thoughts

(And sorry for the repetitions in my posts) Max is One, as much as she's Eleven when together with El as the script points out because the Duffers do not call El "Eleven" all the time - they make a clear distinction between El and Eleven in the script. So, who is Eleven? It's a number not a name and the script making this distinction between El and Eleven, even indicates that Eleven and Max are interchangeable, like pronouns, through the window scene in which El says "This is Max" - so if "Eleven" is Max, then Max is "Eleven".

Also, in regards to mirrors, this window is like a one way mirror. From El's perspective, she sees herself when drawing Max, since she can't see beyond. For us, the audience, however this is a window through which we see El through Max. It's actually not even subtle.

Mirrors are also used in other instances, like the "pretty" moments but this deserves its own post.

castleclerics had an interesting thought:

But not her "twinner". El's alter. Her other half. The Zoomer. Not timelines, even though the event resulted in different timelines or alike that split them.

And these alters do look differently in her physical versions - that's what alters are: they are different. Different gender, ethnicity, age. Not only is it a setup for what will happen in 5, the fusion through consumption but an explanation for why it has to happen:

"Only by facing all ourselves, the good and the bad, can be become whole" - Bad, according to David Clarke's "Between medieval men" (a study about same sex relations from 2009) it has it's roots in an Middle English term: bæddel. Which means hermaphrodite. "Usually taken to be related to (an unattested Old English root of) Middle English badde (“wicked, wretched, bad”)" - this is likely just a coincidence - but we cannot rule out the possibility that the Duffers did stumble over the Wiktionary entry. - Doing your homework does help with writing fiction, I heard. - That sentence is important because El questions that what if she doesn't want to be whole. And Brenner replies "Then that is a choice. Your choice." And choice is important to her character, it's an integral part of her.

What's in the show is rarely coincidence - yes it happens, mistakes etc, sometimes the "curtains are fucking blue". I would however also argue with a Professor for media science who analyzed "John Adams" that most things in film/tv are deliberat and the Duffers give us yellow curtains in many cases as if they wanted to tell us...what you see are (mostly) no coincidences, I guess. These guys are said to be meticulous. So, actual patterns, repetitions of the same or similar message, seeming mistakes like changing elements as the inscription on a gravestone and a drawing on a piece of paper, dialogs, mirroring scenes etc. are no coincidence. It's fiction. Made up. There's bad fiction and good fiction, they all have however something in common: it's all "artificially" (it's in this word: art) created by their writers based on real life experiences and other fiction. It's not even that new (that's why you can compare it with other works of fiction even if it's not sure if that was an actual inspo) or revolutionary however can be something unique and great, if they don't fail, in the way it's done. - Max as a character is made this way by choice, that she's mistaken as a boy and showing signs of gender ambiguity and trans coding (such as Vecna himself for God sake), most definitely questioning gender roles which goes in a similar direction, is not a mistake but a deliberate choice that leads to the question: Who does Brenner talk about? - The answer is, yes, in parts about Vecna, but to see it as a pure expositional dialog is, as far as I see it, at best short sighted. It's about One. One of the good Ones. It's about Max.

Until you find something that feels like you...

....I mean, at a certain point you don't need imagination that there's more to this sentence. Like the script description "on her heart" - El's actual, physical heart is in Max's chest and El is the beat of this heart. Like I said: Max, Eleven, El....5+6=11.

(There's a whole debate why they changed Millie's height of about 5'3 or 5'4 to 5'6 on the Wiki page and it's amazing that not even there they see the simple math in it. Because there's math everywhere in the show. Like art.)

And Elfen Lied is an inspiration for Eleven. El is therefore Nyu - Max is Lucy/Kaede which means that Max could also have a different name and might be the daughter of someone we all know all to well. - They are alters. And in Stranger Things made physical reality in two different girls. And about taking the wheel...

"Dissociative Identity Disorder Alters Feel Like Being in a Car with Other People:

The car-driving analogy is common when talking about DID and the experience of alters. My therapist would often ask me to make sure I was the one "at the wheel," which can be difficult when you have alters fighting to take control. One person described having alters as all being together, riding in the same car, with each person taking turns driving. Another person described the experience of alters as feeling like being on a bus full of people; sometimes it's loud and scary, while other times it's quiet and calm. It's always an interesting experience."

Post that inspired this one:

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Game release: "Empire of the Ants" [2024] (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)

Tower Five and Microids bring back a classic 00ies animal strategy title with Empire of the Ants. I already covered the original game from 2000 in this GOG release news which was based on the sci-fi novel by Bernard Werber. Despite it being quite an inventive concept, other titles have tried to imitate it, e.g. Empires of the Undergrowth or The Hive. However, Microids seems to deliver the…