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LANCE KERWIN (1960-Died January 24th 2023,at 62). American actor, known primarily for roles in television and film during his childhood and teen years in the 1970s. He played lead roles in the TV series James at 15,and the made-for-TV films The Loneliest Runner and Salem's Lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Kerwin
#Lance Kerwin#American Actors#Actors#Child Actors#Former Child Actors#American Child Actors#James at 15#Notable Deaths in January 2023#Notable Deaths in 2023
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If reincarnation exists then Carlos Oliveira was a golden retriever in a past life and I refuse to hear otherwise.
#carlos oliveira#resident evil 3 remake#re3 remake#golden retriver boyfriend#Jill valentine deserves to have cute respectful golden retriver boyfriend#jill x carlos#how can a man who grew up as a child soilder be so wholesome and optomistic#Brazilian carlos oliveira#valeveira#Forget Che Guevara Carlos Oliveira was the Hottest Communist Gurrilla Soldier#Carlos Oliveria's fluffy hair#resident evil#Resident evil 3#Carlos Oliveira's big heart#himbo#Carlos Oliveira HIMBO#Thank you Jeff Schine (Carlos' RE3 remake voice actor)#Jeff Schine#Umbrella paying off a South American Gov. to stop Carlos from being executed as a guerrilla soldier is the only good thing they ever did#Umbrella saved us from living in a cold cruel Carlos-less world#Carlos Oliveira is Best Boy
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Share your thoughts on Angel's irish accent lolol
😭😭😭 Oh dear. I feel kind of bad for Boreanaz tbh. He was plucked from nothing with no training as an actor and to his extreme credit he was SO GOOD as Angelus. Like to go from one of the weakest actors in the cast to one of the best?? He was absolutely incredible playing an evil character to the point that I wanted him to be evil lol because he was so much fun to watch. And Boreanaz only got better on his own series, which made me go from hating Angel to actually really liking him as a character.
But anyway the accent.... It's bad. I'm not Irish so it's probably not as painful for me as the potentials who have accents that supposedly are more similar to my own, honestly at this point I find Angel's Irish accent so bad that it's funny. It's probably one of the more difficult accents for an American to do, to be fair. And it feels like he tried HARD. :(
Another candidate for worst accent is poor Kendra. I recently saw someone say she likely would have been a better character were it not for the accent (which was forced on the poor actress last minute) and I think that's probably true.
#replies#btvs thoughts#btvs#honestly angel/cordelia also did a lot to make me like angel#and he was soooo cute with baby connor 😭#i hated bangel with the force of three thousand suns as a teen i was a spuffy girlie from the moment they teamed up#now ive gained a new appreciation for bangel as a representation of that overly passionate first romance#which as a teen i didn't have the experience of and i just thought everyone was acting insane and cringey#american actors are generally not very good at accents just because they're not exposed to much variety of accents#which is why i tend 2 b sympathetic. whereas most british actors can do a pretty flawless American accent#even literal child actors like millie bobby brown. pluck any rando off the street in the UK and they'll do u a passable American accent
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(about quest for camelot) i read the books plot summary (the kings damosel) on wikipedia and bro this is NOTHING like the movie, and like i kinda gave up on reading it bc my adhd is acting up but i feel like they just took the setting and made a generic disney princess adjacent girl power 90s movie and then STILL fucked up the girl power part
#why did they rename her kayley of all things#was that someone on the teams daughter or something that sounds like a baby girl child of the 90s name#these characterization decisions have always given me like self insert mary sue vibes except like instead of someone whos super cool and#and good at everything a man just put his daughter into the script the way he actually sees her#which is like arrogant in a cute and naive and innocent way#also it is always funny to me when a the child voice actor is american and the adult voice actor is british/doing a british accent#why#the rest of the cast isnt consistently british either
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Random Fact #6,482
At just 7 years old, Ernest Frederick Morrison was the first black child movie star signed to a long-term contract in 1919
He was paid $10K a year, making him the highest paid black actor in Hollywood at the time.
In today's money, that's roughly around $100,000 -- the kid was makin' bank!
#black history#did you know#random facts#little known fact#random fact#random factoid#random factoids#history facts#child actor#american history#united states
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whenever me and my friend do our horror movie nights i have this habit of looking up the movie once it's over and my GOD i was not expecting the fucking insanity that was the american psycho wikipedia page. babe what the fuck went on with this film.
#spam brain#just like. we hired this one director. she kept insisting that we cast this no name actor as the lead. we said no. she refused to do the#fucking movie without her no name actor. we fired her. we hired another guy. also leonardo dicaprio. they ended up having creative#differences and the guy we wanted sooooo bad (dicaprio) left. gloria steinhem is in part responsible for that. other director left. we#rehire the woman that wouldnt work without her no name lead man. we try to hire like 4 other actors but none of them want to do it. finally#we go okay. okay you can have your no name actor but we're paying him as little as possible. they are both thrilled by this.#also christian bale just STRAIGHT UP SABOTAGED THEIR EFFORTS TO FIND ANYONE THAT WAS NOT HIM???? AT LEAST A LITTLE???#all the other actor thought he sucked. he refused to break character. what even WAS this preproduction#i cant even im obsessed#i literally just spent the entire second movie reading through the wikipedia page im not kidding#but like the second movie was just childs play so fucking whatever#non fandom#American Psycho
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Feud: Bette and Joan
#feud: bette and joan#feud#bette and joan#bette davis#joan crawford#susan sarandon#baby jane hudson#what ever happened to baby jane#us american tv show#north american television#horror cinema#thriller#crying on the mirror#crying#covering face#child actor#decadency#sadness
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
#1940s#actor roddy mcdowall#dir john ford#dp arthur c miller#cat melodrama#american#tears#child#hand#tie#collar#shadow#how green was my valley#how green was my valley 1941
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1092 South Ogden Drive,Miracle Mile,Los Angeles,California,USA 90019 https://goo.gl/maps/kF6deS4eJRp6Qiwy5
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BRAD RENFRO (1982-2008) American Actor,most notably as a child actor. The Client,Apt Pupil,Sleepers etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Renfro
DIED HERE: YES January 15th 2008 Aged 25 Of Accidental drug Overdose https://oddstops.com/location.php?id=221
#Brad Renfro#American Actors#Actors#Celebrity Death Sites#Celebrities Last Homes#drug overdose#miracle mi#Los Angeles#California#USA#Child Actors
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[ID: A Tumblr post by user @/triviallytrue reading: every day star wars fans come on this site and say some version of "star wars would be so good if it was good." End ID]
man. the star wars sequel trilogy could have been so good if they hadn't fucked it up
#insert the marge simpson “its true but he shouldnt say it”#look. star wars has a lot of amazing aspects but since I have not been given creative control these aspects will never be utilized#im so sorry john boyega im so sorry kelly marie tran#thinking about the fact that disney literally stole my brothers. neighbors. and my version of the sequels#except we were all under the age of 10 and it was a musical and ours was infinitely better#we knew a child of han and leia would turn evil but since we had grown up watching atla he had a redemption arc#and because it was about han and leia's SIX children and the tragedy of seeing your baby brother stray from the path#AND IT WAS A MUSICAL!!#the only thing better about d*sneys is that john boyega and kelly marie tran were in it#and that this was one of the first roles where oscar isaac wasnt killed off#but the fact that a latino actor had to BEG to not be killed off or a drug dealer and then they wrote him to have a drug dealing past.....#i hate that so much#also yes our version had central american rep. it had adoption rep (all of han and leias kids were adopted) it had musical rep#and yes we repeated aspects of the plot but we were all under the age of 10. we were 5. 7 and 9. all six of us
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Ohh I didn’t know that Michel'le was the one who was doing the child’s voice on “like that.”
#I’m glad that she’s credited and getting some money off of this huge track man she deserves it#I guess it’s fitting having her sing the eazy duz it sample#rambling#I knew that that was instantly but figured that they had a legit child or sampled the voice from a movie or something lmfao#if you know of her than you’ll know how interesting and great her voice is#she sings regularly but her normal speaking voice does not sound real 😭❤️#similar to how some actors can pull of perfect American accents and then when you hear them speak for the first time they’re English#it’s polarizing as hell lol
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LISA LORING (1958-Died January 28th 2023,at 64,Stroke). American actress. She is best known for her work as a child actress playing Wednesday Addams at six years old on the 1964–1966 sitcom The Addams Family.Upon Loring’ death,John Astin,who played patriarch Gomez Addams,is the last surviving original cast member.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Loring
#Lisa Loring#American Actresses#American Child Actors#Actresses#child actors#The Addams Family#Wednesday Addams#Notable Deaths in January 2023#Notable Deaths in 2023
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Paul Petersen on American Bandstand (1964)
Here is an interview with Actor/Singer Paul Petersen on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The interview deals with the WAIF Organization, the 7th Season of The Donna Reed Show, & more.
#1960s#american bandstand#dick clark#paul petersen#the donna reed show#houseboat#mickey mouse club#child star#teen idol#actor/singer#my dad#she can't find her keys#chained#waif#jane russell#lollipops and roses#wholesome#Youtube
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free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources
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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.
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Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."
Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."
+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)
Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."
Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."
If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."
also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins
Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty.
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Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film
--DOCUMENTARIES--
Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.
Meeting the man
--DEBATES:--
Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )
Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )
Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)
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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.
#james baldwin#motivated by i think people here think it's harder to find resources and read than it actually is. so much stuff online!#motivation nr 2 wtf
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Hazel Chandler was at home taking care of her son when she began flipping through a document that detailed how burning fossil fuels would soon jeopardize the planet.
She can’t quite remember who gave her the report — this was in 1969 — but the moment stands out to her vividly: After reading a list of extreme climate events that would materialize in the coming decades, she looked down at the baby she was nursing, filled with dread.
“‘Oh my God, I’ve got to do something,’” she remembered thinking...
It was one of several such moments throughout Chandler’s life that propelled her into activist spaces — against the Vietnam War, for civil rights and women’s rights, and in support of environmental causes.
She participated in letter-writing campaigns and helped gather others to write to legislators about vital pieces of environmental legislation including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, passed in 1970 and 1972, respectively. At the child care center she worked at, she helped plan celebrations around the first Earth Day in 1970.
Now at 78, after working in child care and health care for most of her life, she’s more engaged than ever. In 2015, she began volunteering with Elder Climate Action, which focuses on activating older people to fight for the environment. She then took a job as a consultant for the Union for Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit science advocacy organization.
More recently, her activism has revolved around her role as the Arizona field coordinator of Moms Clean Air Force, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group. Chandler helps rally volunteers to take action on climate and environmental justice issues, recruiting residents to testify and meet with lawmakers.
Pictured: Hazel Chandler tables at Environment Day at Wesley Bolin Plaza in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona, in January 2024.
Her motivation now is the same as it was decades ago.
“When I look my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren, my children, in the eye, I have to be able to say, ‘I did everything I could to protect you,’” Chandler said. “I have to be able to tell them that I’ve done everything possible within my ability to help move us forward.”
Chandler is part of a largely unrecognized contingent of the climate movement in the United States: the climate grannies.
The most prominent example perhaps, is the actor Jane Fonda. The octogenarian grandmother has been arrested during climate protests a number of times and has her own PAC that funds the campaigns of “climate champions” in local and state elections.
Climate grannies come equipped with decades of activism experience and aim to pressure the government and corporations to curb fossil fuel emissions. As a result they, alongside women of every age group, are turning out in bigger numbers, both at protests and the polls. All of the climate grandmothers The 19th interviewed for this piece noted one unifying theme: concern for their grandchildren’s futures.
According to research conducted by Dana R. Fisher, director for the Center of Environment, Community and Equity at American University, while the mainstream environmental movement has typically been dominated by men, women make up 61 percent of climate activists today. The average age of climate activists was 52 with 24 percent being 69 and older...
A similar trend holds true at the ballot box, according to data collected by the Environmental Voter Project, a nonpartisan organization focused on turning out climate voters in elections.
A report released by the Environmental Voter Project in December that looked at the patterns of registered voters in 18 different states found that after the Gen Z vote, people 65 and older represent the next largest climate voter group, with older women far exceeding older men in their propensity to list climate as their No. 1 reason for voting. The organization defines climate voters as those who are most likely to list climate change, the environment, or clean air and water as their top political priority.
“Grandmothers are now at the vanguard of today’s climate movement,” said Nathaniel Stinnett, founder of the Environmental Voter Project.
“Older people are three times as likely to list climate as a top priority than middle-aged people. On top of that, women in all age groups are more likely to care about climate than men,” he said. “So you put those two things together … and you can safely say that grandma is much more likely to be a climate voter than your middle-aged man.”
In Arizona, where Chandler lives, older climate voters make up 231,000 registered voters in the state. The presidential election in the crucial swing state was decided by just 11,000 votes, Stinnett noted.
“Older climate voters can really throw their weight around in Arizona if they organize and if they make sure that everybody goes to the polls,” he said.
Pictured: Hazel Chandler’s recent activism revolves around her role as the Arizona field coordinator of Moms Clean Air Force, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group.
In some cases, their identities as grandmothers have become an organizing force.
In California, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations formed in 2016, after older women from the Bay Area traveled to be in solidarity with Indigenous grandmothers protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
“When they came back, they decided to form an organization that would continue to mobilize women on behalf of the climate justice movement,” said Nancy Hollander, a member of the group.
1000 Grandmothers — in this case, the term encompasses all older women, not just the literal grandmothers — is rooted at the intersection of social justice and the climate crisis, supporting people of color and Indigenous-led causes in the Bay Area. The organization is divided into various working groups, each with a different focus: elections, bank divestments from fossil fuels, legislative work, nonviolent direct actions, among others...
“There are women in the nonviolent direct action part of the organization who really do feel that elder women — it’s their time to stand up and be counted and to get arrested,” Hollander said. “They consider it a historical responsibility and put themselves out there to protect the more vulnerable.”
But 1000 Grandmothers credits another grandmother activist, Pennie Opal Plant, for helping train their members in nonviolent direct action and for inspiring them to take the lead of Indigenous women in the fight.
Plant, 66 — an enrolled member of the Yaqui of Southern California tribe, and of undocumented Choctaw and Cherokee ancestry — has started various organizations over the years, including Idle No More SF Bay, which she co-founded with a group of Indigenous grandmothers in 2013, first in solidarity with a group formed by First Nations women in Canada to defend treaty rights and to protect the environment from exploitation.
Pictured: Pennie Opal Plant has started various organizations over the years, including Idle No More SF Bay, which she founded in 2013 alongside Indigenous grandmothers.
In 2016, Plant gathered with others in front of Wells Fargo Corporate offices in San Francisco, blocking the road in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, when she realized the advantages she had as an older woman in the fight.
As a police liaison — or a person who aims to defuse tension with law enforcement — she went to speak to an officer who was trying to interrupt the action. When she saw him maneuvering his car over a sidewalk, she stood in front of it, her gray hair flowing. “I opened my arms really wide and was like, are you going to run over a grandmother?”
A new idea was born: The Society of Fearless Grandmothers. Once an in-person training — it now mostly exists online as a Facebook page — it helped teach other grandmothers how to protect the youth at protests.
For Plant, the role of grandmothers in the fight to protect the planet is about a simple Indigenous principle: ensuring the future for the next seven generations.
“What we’re seeing is a shift starting with Indigenous women, that is lifting up the good things that mothers have to share, the good things that women that love children can share, that will help bring back balance in the world,” Plant said...
[Kathleen] Sullivan is one of approximately 70,000 people over the age of 60 who’ve joined Third Act, a group specifically formed to engage people 60 and older to mobilize for climate action across the country.
“This is an act of moral responsibility. It’s an act of care. And It’s an act of reciprocity to the way in which we are cared for by the planet,” Sullivan said. “It’s an act of interconnection to your peers, because there can be great joy and great sense of solidarity with other people around this.”
-via The 19th, January 31, 2024
#climate change#climate activism#climate crisis#climate action#grandmother#older adults#elders#feminism#climate hope#family#intergenerational relationships#grandchildren#climate protest#good news#hope#hopepunk#environment#environmental activism#hope posting#boomers#gen z#age
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Thoughts on "Escape from Camazotz"
Oppressive Suburbia, Conformity, and Season 5 Themes
I've long thought that a major focus of Season 5 will be the contrast between the families of The Wheelers and The Byers, and exploring how non-traditional family environments can be freeing vs the oppressive structure of the nuclear family.
In a Wrinkle In Time, Camazotz is a planet controlled by the big bad of the book, the "IT", who forces the citizens into a conformity that resembles American suburbia. All of the houses the same, the citizens the same, doing the same things at the same time without individual identity. Without anything different. Different means a lot of things, but with Stranger Things dropping different in reference to Will's identity and the presumable themes of this season, it will heavily codify as queerness and how it threatens the cisheterosexual family model.
Henry was raised in the 1950s, a decade still revered by conservatives for it's traditional family dynamics that supposedly were the peak of culture and happiness for all. That was all a lie, of course, and Henry knew so as he shows to Nancy and Eleven during his monologue. The second most conservative decade aside from the 1950s in American society is widely considered to be the 1980s.
The Creels will serve in parallel to The Wheelers; the worst example of what they could become and the damage that this type of family could do to a child that is different in any way. Notice how Vecna selectively shows Nancy visions of The Wheelers dying, but not anyone else she may consider family or friends (like Jonathan).
That is; unless they change their ways and come together as a healthy functioning family facing their traumas, The Wheelers will be toast.
Karen has been moved up to a main character role this season. Ted's actor says the father starts to show up more for Holly (hold that) and realizes he wants to act differently. Holly has been recast. Finn has said Mike goes on a much more personal journey this season, and steps up as a leader.
Oh, also: the catalyst for all of this is that Holly goes missing. The contrast will help show how the Byers (including El and Hopper here) were able to pull together and help solve Will's disappearance, versus how the Wheelers as a closed off nuclear family grapple with Holly's vanishing.
Each of the Byers is in some kind of a non-1950s conformist relationship, but particularly Will (not in one now but we all know he will be). I think El might represent, after she breaks up with Mike, the fear of the unmarried woman being satisfied without a husband. The above shot really emphasizes my point.
I predict that Will will end up coming out to his family rather early on, and we will see all of them immediately accept him with little surprise or push-back. Will is a visible gay man who comes from an open minded non traditional family (divorced, non-married, adoptive) that is willing to have honest conversations.
But this theme will place the most focus on the Wheelers. Mike is the main character of said family and this will particularly focus on his arc, and his acceptance of his queerness in the midst of suburban conformity.
He is not visible, he comes from a Reagan-supporting family who don't communicate with each other. He is not particularly close with his family like Will is. He pushes his feelings down and tries his damn hardest to be normal despite it all. His trauma hasn't really been addressed at all. He is falling back into his usual habits - the one thing he dared to do different (grow his hair long) has gone back to how it was.
It's not all doom and gloom though. This season above all will be a redemption arc of the American nuclear family, how they choose to escape their conformity and learn to be there for each other, thus overpowering Vecna. Not that the Wheelers are going to end this personally.
"Great, more hysteria. Just what we need". "It's the news, now indistinguishable from the tabloids".
#stranger things#mike wheeler#the wheelers#the byers family#byler#will byers#st5 speculation#henry creel#the specificity of this title alone and the themes gives me no doubt that these are all real#i also think this is the episode where byler is canonized and where mike finally escapes conformity#holly wheeler#ted wheeler#karen wheeler#i didnt really mention nancy at all sorry girl#if youre reading this PLEASE search up my username on youtube you will find it SO RELEVANT
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