#KALI PRASAD

[queenimmadolla]

why do I have to see Murray’s balding ass???? according to the duffers and stranger things writing process, he’s served his purpose—should’ve been gone after S3 if not S2 so why do I have to see him over and over again? why did this fucker get a call so he can keep pointing out the obvious?

they’ll keep the raging z*onist but not Kali (Eleven’s sister character who was meant to just be edgy but brought so much depth to herself AND El, 008, test subject with fucking powers that would be beneficial in taking down Vecna) or Argyle (literal ride or die who got roped into the upside down business, was shot at with his friends, buried a dead body, drove across the country to reunite the group, is linked to the group in multiple ways, played a similar role as Robin’s in ST3 but apparently he doesn’t get to stay).

they’ll keep the ugly, old white guy who is just a companion at this point but not the POCs that go MIA after they’re used to further the plot for a white main character.

[solisevart]

The Briar King 🏰

my piece for the @bylerbigbang with @birdfrenchforbird!

close ups under the cut 💘

[i-am-autistic]

I need people to stop spouting total bullshit and say "It makes sense Argyle isn't in s5 he has a family back home". The fucking government chased his car the entirety of season 5 while shooting at him, he is a literal active government fugitive. It is genuinely bad writing to just have him disappear in s5 like nothing happened and doesn't make sense. He's not going home to his parents or to Utah to bang Eden like nothing happened. S5 also clearly has extra space for another teenager given that Vickie is getting a bigger role. Stop spouting Bullshit. They just don't want him in season 5. Idk why people can't be honest and acknowledge it. Just BTW these are the only two major characters who only showed up for one season and never showed up again and aren't dead.

Wonder why it's just these 2 eh?

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

I can’t really explain what stranger things means to me. A show about outcasts, by outcasts, for outcasts. When you’re different, sometimes you feel like a mistake. But you make me feel like I’m not a mistake at all, like I’m better for being different.

[tellthatbrokebitch]

st text posts pt. xxiv IT’S MY BIRTHDAY BITCHES!!!!!!! 🥰🎉🫶

[will80sbyers]

oh? Kali's coming back?? 🧐

[lucassinclaer-archive]

@stcreators event 06: tropes teens & hero tropes

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

listen i know “‘we want women who [x]’ you guys couldnt even handle [y]” is a meme now but i will never ever forget being a teenager when the second season of stranger things dropped and they introduced a morally-grey badass punk anticapitalist woman of color with SUPERPOWERS who was taking justified revenge on the people who tortured her and her siblings and genuinely loved the people around her and had the most sick-ass style on top of it and then going online and seeing the fanbase proceeding to HATE on her SO much that they declared the Actual Textual Racist the breakout character of the season instead and it’s been literal YEARS since she’s even been MENTIONED so. yeah you guys couldn’t even handle kali

[ffuscous]

We want a good life with a nose for things

[miwiluvv]

If you think about it they would make such a powerful trio

[ivesbot]

thinking about some things from season 4 that were left out and how some of them match up with season 5

many of these things were from SCENES that didn't make it into the season 🤯

like scenes at bradley's where they were filmed at night and nothing shows up in season 4.... Have you seen it? because I haven't

But in s5 Murray appears wearing a supermarket shirt

in addition to the truck that also appears

Now to Lonnie, the actor who plays him was at the table read and so we were expecting to see him during the season but nothing either

But now in s5 we'll have a flashback where will and Jonathan are younger, not that it's confirmed, but for me Lonnie does appear, as does Joyce

Now the main thing (for me at least) There were recordings at Terry Ives' house but there were no scenes of the Ives house.

My guess is, as s4 and s5 were supposed to have been recorded together I think a lot of things from season 4 went into season 5 like the two examples I gave above.

The interesting thing for us is that both Kali and Terry were mentioned in addition to some subtle references, and if all this is a tease of what we're waiting for since they didn't manage to bring them back in season 4 for some reason.

[evilbookworm]

can’t believe it’s been seven years since stranger things 2 😭😭😭

my iconic miwis 😭

[scre6m]

STRANGER THINGS LADIES APPRECIATION WEEK day six: favorite outfits (insp)

[justmy-account]

Stranger Things filming updates from this week

2nd-8th September

Monday 2nd

Tuesday 3rd

Wednesday 4th

Thursday 5th

Friday 6th

Saturday 7th

nothing

Sunday 8th

nothing

Let me know if I missed something!

[erikiara80]

The mean green

I was thinking about the parallel between the Are you real? in 2x07 and 4x09

And these screenshots in one of kaypeace21's posts. The dialogue in the elevator, when Erica says that she will drink the green goo, because you can survive for a while without food, but not without water, raises the question of how Will was able to survive for a week in the UD. But we only realize that in S4, when we see that there is no water in the lake. Imo, not a random location, for many reasons.

All this green is connected to gates/Mind Flayer/One. Then there's Kali's nickname, K, a street name for ketamine. Another one, that was used in the late 60s, was mean green. Even the name of the man Kali wants to kill, Ray Carroll, can be associated with drugs (Alice as a slang for LSD) Same for Kali's power. Making people see or not see what she chooses, reminds of what drugs and mind control do.

"LSD mind control experiments" (Powell in 1x03) "...elaborate experimentations in perusal of mind control" (1x08 newspaper). And Richard Brenner was head of the Narcotic Enforcement Division from 1954-1971, so from the year Henry vanished in Dimension X to the year Will and El were born.

In the article that El reads in the cabin, the line about Brenner's experiments is slightly different, more specific about what they did.

"extensive... into physiology... perception." So, they used drugs to alter people's perception of reality.

There's a lot of green in K's scenes. Even her mask is green.

Kali, "K" (ketamine) and the green toy (mean green) in Terry's memory, one of the many hints that we can't trust what we see (more about that scene here)

Just like we can't trust what we see in Nina. They show both the green toy and the Magic 8 Ball a few times, the massacre happens on September 8, Kali's name is in the crossword in 4x01, and Henry mentions her and Terry, so that memory is probably not what really happened.

Henry asks El to join him. In 3x03, before she looks for Heather in the void, we see more green liquid and Join Us.

Like the green Join Us on the bulletin board behind Will

In 3x06, we see this green bottle, after the conversation about the keys and the gate.

Speaking of keys, there's a big green key at Melvald's, because Will and El are the keys, and getting to Mike is the key, too.

At the end of S3, connection between the lab and "chemical leaks"

EDIT: In @threemanoperation 's post about the mentions of caves and holes, I noticed something:

in this shot, we see Will and El while Hopper mentions being stuck in one place, in a cave, imo a hint that, because of experiments/ drugs/mind control, they're all stuck in a time loop. Interestingly, Lucas' shirt is green. Maybe just a coincidence. Maybe not.

In 2x01, Bob points to a green Halloween bucket. On Halloween, Will almost gets possessed by the Mind Flayer. It's also interesting that Bob's very first line is that he's not a big fan of orange. Orange is associated with Hopper, because of Agent Orange, but orange barrels, cubes, haze are also street names for LSD. I'll make a post about that, too.

The song that plays when El arrives at Terry's house is Green green grass of home. An interesting choice for a mother-daughter reunion. The song is about a man who returns home, to his mama and papa. "It's good to touch the green green grass of home", but then the man wakes up and realizes that it was just a dream (Becky says that Terry is stuck in a dream). He's actually in prison, his parents are dead and he's about to be executed. So, touching the green grass and dreaming that you're home= being drugged and believing/seeing things that are not real?

And you know what? I'm starting to think that even the color of Joyce's car could be a hint. There's a green car in Terry's suspicious memory... It's all connected. They've all been manipulated.

Also, this green soap in Nancy's vision of Henry and Brenner.

And there are probably other things I didn't notice.

@chirpsythismorning