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Tired of people applying concepts of gender and gender hierarchy specifically made for cis people to trans people and thinking we're the problem when we point out that it doesn't fit.
#men privileged women not#so various groups will both correctly gender and misgender all trans people#and try to put one in the evil group#and when they're not cisnormative then the answer is yes they are#and try to come up with some theoretical notion why without asking them#notaterftip#not sarcasm#transgender#trans#yes this is about transandrophobia but can be applied to all of us#the same thing is done to justify transmisogyny and ignore nb people#im speaking as someone who's sick of being left behind in feminist discussion but also very aware that most of it excludes trans women too
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i still have A LOT more to post ive been drawing mikurin for years im so doomed lesbians ruined my life
#mikurin#miku x rin#rin x miku#hatsune miku#kagamine rin#vocaloid#art#my art#hear me out on tmasc nb miku#and tfem girlflux rin#THEY'RE TOO CUTE THEY PISS ME OFF
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you get two versions. bc i like you
#honkai star rail#march 7th#hsr firefly#trailblazer#hsr caelus#hsr stelle#dan heng#hsr memes#i feeeeel like this has been done before but i can't find it rn so who knows. oh well#tbh tb can be trans allegory too if they wanted (they're both very nb to me 😳). but i think it's funnier this way
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so here's my honest thoughts on dragon age: the veilguard, after ~40 hours of playing. i finished the main quest after having finished all companion quests and major faction quests. just to clear up what content i saw, i played as an elven transmasc rook who is a member of the lords of fortune. he romanced lucanis (although after finishing the game i'm now leaning towards taash). i don't know what's happening in playthroughs that have a different race, gender identity, romance or faction going on.
full spoilers ahead, i mean it. don't read further if you want to avoid them. i don't want complaining about it in my asks.
oh and also, if you're worried because of a few negative reviews online i can comfort you by saying don't give a fuck about a certain big name youtuber who is very much tied to bethesda franchises giving this a negative review. i'll explain why.
i'm starting off with the things i liked
the game looks really pretty. i was worried it wouldn't feel like thedas anymore (with them trying to "focus on northern thedas only" i thought they'd make a clear cut in environmental design. they do and they don't. it's complicated. i'll elaborate on it when talking about the negative stuff). anyway it does. minrathous feels like kirkwall. treviso enchanted me like the winter palace did. the hossberg wetlands reminded me of the hinterlands and a couple other inquisition maps. arlathan looked like... arlathan. the crossroads were different, but familiar. overall i like the way it looks and feels. it's thedas, with a twist. it's a good one, and gives everything a solid but unique feel.
combat is top tier. if you're a hardcore dragon age player you WILL miss the tactical aspect of it for a bit, but i promise you, once you're used to the way the combat works, you will be lapping that shit up. and once you get to ability combos you'll mourn the control you used to have over your companions in battle a bit less
the MAIN quest and its story. i expected worse, way worse. and for a while the game even had me tricked (harr harr you'll get it in a second) it is Really That Much Worse. but holy shit was it good. i walked away satisfied ngl.
your choices have SOLID weight. there's consequences, good AND bad. i got minrathous blighted, ruled over by venatori, and the leader of the shadow dragons ultimately died because of my decisions. i made those at the beginning and throughout the game. he died at the end. DAVRIN died because i didn't expect what i was saying to have that much weight. i thought i was in the clear. he had hero status. well turns out, your choices can still get your companions killed even if you do everything right. i fucking love him. he shouldn't have made that sacrifice just because i told him to do everything it takes once.
the inquisitor, morrigan and dorian being there, surprisingly. there's also negatives to this though, see below.
speaking of companions dying and the inquisitor playing a bigger role: the final quest feels like me2's suicide mission. i was blown away by it and the fact that i got to see the results of all my efforts playing out in front of me.
bioware are NOT trying to redeem solas. they love him as a character yes, but i wasn't forced to see any good in him. he betrays you. he fucked my rook over twice. he fucked him over right back, for good this time (the veil wasn't torn down, i anchored it by binding him to it, he's doomed to uphold it). but solas really lives up to his name as the trickster elven god. rip to all the people who grew really attached to him over the years.
varric died. if you like him that's probably as hard reading it as it was watching it. varric died and the game lies about it until the very end. when the realisation hits, it hurts. but in the very best way.
the amount of care they put into gender expression and trans identities this time around. (i'll add onto this with negative points as well too).
rook feels very much ingrained in the world of thedas. he doesn't ask questions that expose the player to lore through dialogue as if he's stepped foot into thedas for the first time. those conversations feel very solid and good. i hope other faction players got as much joy out of this as i did.
and the things i didn't like and boy there's a lot unfortunately
the music. let's just get that out of the way holy shit. it doesn't feel like it belongs in this universe. it gets so incredibly sci-fi-y at times you'd think it's taken straight from mass effect andromeda. there's not a single song unique to veilguard that i really enjoyed. it broke my immersion, real bad. hearing a busker play the tavern songs from inquisition on a lute right after i killed some venatori with wobbly bass songs playing in the background is just odd. weird tonal shift. don't like it. it's made for people who like flashy light-weight cinema.
tevinter nights is required reading. the podcasts are required listening exercises. the game is so fast paced, especially at the start, that there's no time to introduce you to characters and how much weight their names carry in-game. i would not have known who half these people are if i hadn't skimmed over tevinter nights. i'd care even less about them than i already did. there is no time to get properly attached to them. people will act as if you're talking to a legend personified and you'll be thinking man goddamn which chapter of tevinter night were they in again and what did they do???
there's a weird mismatch with the animations. you'll have beautifully fluid ones, like emmrich casting spells. and then you'll have rook's face animating in the most unnatural manner that's sorta reminiscent of mass effect andromeda's "my face is tired" addison, when their emotions SHOULD be landing with the player rn instead.
i'm not vibing with the art style. sometimes it works. most of the time it doesn't. at points i felt like i was watching tangled.
that also brings me to some of the dialogue. same issue. i am watching frozen. i am watching tangled. someone on the writer's team really likes the adorkable trope. bellara is its victim.
for all the talk about identity, bioware sure doesn't like theirs. the grey warden armor got a redesign again and it just makes them look like a generic army. i hate it lol
in general, i don't like the armor design. the wardrobe/appearances system is fine, but it's just not helping if all the armors are just... kinda bland or downight bad looking? and don't get me started on the lords of fortune armor. that is orientalism personified.
the world states should have been carried over, full stop. i know they said they didn't because they want to separate what happens in the north from what happens in the south, which... i could have lived with that. but the inquisitor sends you letters that keep you up to date on... the south of thedas. you learn that there's a blight again, that people are standing strong but it's difficult, denerim's fallen, the rulers are taking care of it, orlais is fighting and they're successful for a while, etc etc. what's good bioware. i thought we don't care about the south this time around. why are you feeding me so much boring generic information. if you're not gonna show any of it and just write letters, then carrying the world state over should not have been an issue. i have a game dev background. those few lines of code would not have broken your budget or pushed your engine's limits. fuck right off.
this gripe of mine carries over to all the cameos. as a lord of fortune you have to deal with isabela a lot. it's fun. i missed her. you get to go drinking with her and taash and bellara! also my hawke romanced her. she's not mentioned once. they had the opportunity to put a sentence or two about her in there with not a lot of effort, trust me.
when varric dies, all she has is a single line about it. for gold, for fortune, for varric. she only says it if you interact with her on your way to the final push. that's not mandatory.
morrigan is there. kieran isn't. the old god soul that mythal and then solas absorbed? who cares at this point, the gods are dead now and solas is locked away for eternity. i suppose? why is morrigan there. she feels unneeded. i wish they'd just left her down south, at least that way i wouldn't have had to witness her god awful redesign.
dorian at least feels as if he belongs in this story. the shadow dragons are a crucial part to protecting minrathous. he's also weirdly underutilised. isabela and morrigan had more lines than him in my playthrough.
on the topic of romance: bro that was underwhelming. no, genuinely. you know when romance picked up a bit? after the point of no return. i heard maybe two lines of companion banter about it before that. maybe i missed something which i honestly doubt, but romance did not play much of a role in lucanis's storyline. i saved his grandmother as he wished me to (and if you read tevinter nights you know she was rather abusive and their relationship not the healthiest) and told him to focus on his family. a reunified family my rook wasn't even introduced to as a partner at the end of all that.
really, do not buy this game if you're only in it for the romances. others might be better, lucanis's basically gave me nothing. except for an outing (the second coffee date i had with him, it was getting repetitive) all of it played out once i committed to the final quest. the sex scene was a fade to black. annoyingly right after davrin died. if you're looking for well paced and good spice, pick up something else. the sweet talk and the final goodbye were nice though.
for all the good the ever-presence of gender identity does, it is brought up in such a disruptive manner too. it doesn't even play out naturally if you CHOOSE the lines that are meant to be said. hearing the words trans and non-binary in this setting doesn't feel right, and i'm saying this as a trans guy. i think it could have been handled more gracefully. the amount of times my rook went "i'm a MAN" as if he's about to start drumming on his chest and roaring any second now got super nerve-grating. "i'm so glad you're into me... the me who is trans. remember?" just. tell me one trans person who'd talk like that to a person they've grown close with and are trying to romance. this game doesn't handle sexuality well, so all this hey my body might not look like the way you're expecting it to look talk amounts to nothing anyway. i feel about this the way i feel about krem: this is partial exposition to trans experiences... packaged up for cis consumption. the ONLY exception to that is interacting with taash. holy shit was all of that heartwarming and bro did it feel good and natural to talk to them about theirs and rook's gender.
rivain and nevarra are new locations added by veilguard. they're also incredibly underwhelming, small and constricted maps. rivain is a coastline with a few ruins. the hall of valor is a partial ruin nestled into a cave on a beach, with a fighting pit. isabela is there in her skimpy outfit commentating your pit fights. that's it. i'm sorry if you were looking for a bustling pirate cove or whatever. you're not gonna get it. the nevarran crypts btw are a long ass dungeon crawl. that's it.
speaking of maps. i thought people were being dramatic when they said you're gonna be fighting the same enemies on them again and again. i thought they were figure of speeching it. they're not. you WILL fight the same amount of enemies. in the same spot. every time you reload the map. best to stay on a map and clear out the enemies and do as much questing on that map as you can before leaving, because you WILL have to do it all over again once you return.
the three choices i made for my inquisitor didn't matter lol she didn't have to face solas and therefore couldn't stop him at any cost as she had sworn (maybe because my rook tricked solas into binding himself to the veil, there was also an option to fight him. would she have stepped in? who knows). blackwall wasn't mentioned. and either her using a small amount of her forces in the final fight was the reason the civilians of minrathous fared so well..... or it just didn't matter. ultimately i think she had very little impact on anything
#datv#datv spoilers#dragon age: the veilguard#oh wow i hit a limit typing this#anyway to tie this up a bit: the good and bad to the environmental design being that well-known architecture like minrathous and dwarven#ruins look fire and remind me a lot of the previous games#but newly added locations are very... generic... very bland#i was very excited for rivain. i thought we'd get to see ships. not a bunch of ruins and a fighting pit and that's it#and why did i say to ignore a certain guy's review? bro because he was complaining about taash being ace and that taking up their screentim#and them being too up in your face about their identity. he did all this while she/her'ing them constantly#but my man they're trans. nb. not ace.#y'all need to be careful about bad reviews. they're coming from people who are upset about gender identity being handled as a topic in this#game. meanwhile they have no clue what they're even talking about. i don't think matty knows the difference between ace and trans#and neither do the hundreds of people who are one star rating this game currently#i liked this game. it's not top tier. it's not something i'll sink hours and hours and hours of my life into#it has tonal issues and it's moving away from what made dragon age stand out for me#but i do think that it's a genuinely fun play and people who are very invested in dragon age will squeeze joy out of it wherever they can#i had a hard time warming up to the new characters (taash and lucanis being the exception because they have an older bioware air about them#but solas's and varric's story (and don't get me wrong that's what veilguard is about) is GOOD. that is how bioware used to be.#and i wish they'd given us that energy all over the game. that direness. that grit. serious and mature writing.#that consistency is lacking#and whether you're gonna enjoy this game or not is entirely dependant on what you came here for and how well the game delivers on it#i think their weakest points are ironically the thing they advertised the most: the new companions and their writing#you won't find nuanced and good enemies here (i already reblogged something about this. you can go scroll around a bit and catch up on that#really the only thing that had me super invested and emotional was the main quest.#so make of that what you will. ultimately i was more frustrated with the game than i got enjoyment out of it. i was close to just put it#aside for now... until i went to minrathous to end ghila'nain's and elgar'nan's ritual. that all blew me away. still on a high off of it.#anyway yeah that review got cut short by the character limit maybe i'll add more to it tomorrow but rn... i am heading to bed#thanks for coming to my ted talk. also i'm sorry. zevran REALLY isn't in this.#dragon age
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nameless bard ameno archon au.............
#i feel like he'd be. more stubborn and serious than venti is#in terms of confrontation that is#i imagine that their dynamic is. it was mostly bard who rallied people for the rebellion with his words and music#leading charges with his lyre and music#and venti was an equal in terms of being the bard's beloved friend#but in terms of leading humans? Venti didn't do much. couldn't do much#so it was the nb who was a leader to the humans and rebels while venti was support with his wind#and also got to fool around and play pranks on others while they were focused on nb#leading to barbatos' later 'hey lets play lets play lets play' attitude while everyone else was like#'barbatos do some work'#au archon bard probably Visibly does work and has a more serious demenor about it#vs venti's yeah he keeps tabs on his people but he's playful about it#au where venti and nb are co(?)archons like ei and makoto and just screw around in mondstadt#enjoying their hard earned freedom. is that too much to ask. for them to be happy is that#au where they're alive and together and happy pls#genshin talk#......but can you also imagine au if venti was the one who died like kdlhfslkdfh statues of wisps around the city bc thats#the only form nb knew him as lol
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These boots make me feel powerful because they make me taller. They also make me want to have a sub leashed with a chain crying about how close the spikes are and how cold the metal is while they grind on the toe.
#spicy rambles#boot kink#transmasc nsft#enby nsft#nb nsft#trans nsft#t4t nsft#nsft#queer nsft#peep the Hex Girls jeans btw they came in yesterday and they're a couple sizes too big#spicy rambles in tags
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lesbian on cellphone makes harrowing discovery
#i am just jesting i love you#rattalks#like i love the boys too but they're fictional characters to me it's different#im only attracted to fake men#im even trans masc nb type person myself. its complicated#ratdraws
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people are always ridiculing the idea of exclusively gay people and nonbinary people having *actual conversations* about gender and orientation to work out if they're compatible, as if attraction that is anything less than instinctive, instantaneous and sharply binary makes a mockery of Real Homosexuality. meanwhile cishet people going on multiple full-on *dates* to work out if they're "really into" each other is the most normal thing in the world
#'oh are you going to pull up their carrd before deciding if you think they're hot? lmao virgin loser u just see them and knowww'#well 1. you're talking about attraction to an IDEA of a person not the person themself#how you feel about a person when you know nothing about them does not reflect some Deep Truth of who they are#you literally made that up.#2. you can also misjudge binary people's genders. you can mistake a cis man for a cis woman too#and that doesn't mean you're Secretly Bi OR that he's Basically A Woman it just means you made a mistake#gender isn't fucking magic!!#and it's not actually supporting nb people to be like 'well i can misgender them in my head so i'm p sure that means i'm into them'#does it?#are you comfortable with that nb person being your partner not your boyfriend.#are you comfortable with them being your boyfriend AND your girlfriend.#are you comfortable with the idea that this could change at any time.#you need to actually reflect on these things and allow for the possibility that the answer might be no#and if it is no put aside your entitlement and leave them alone!#god the idea that exclusive sexuality is somehow indicative of exclusionary politics is a plague#not everyone is into nb ppl (or into ALL nb ppl) and that is literally fine!!#'nb people can be gay though :/' not all gay ppl have to be mutually compatible 👍#like. two stones butches aren't compatible either. doesn't mean either of them isn't really gay
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yeag
#50th post apparently yippee!!#get nb people because they're awesome#nb katrina.. we could've live in a perfect world.. I could've had both of my favs non-binary..#have I told you katrina is my favorite bond char in pk2? no? ok now you know#most relatable character in pk2 to me. she's me ok#nb katrina will stay real in my heart#danie in the picture *was* the writer of pk2 fyi#pk2 engel#pk2 katrina#postknight 2#nonbinary#kiswoodles#posting n rambling on here feels like yapping in an empty auditorium n that's okay#I like talking n yapping. whether someone listens or not is their choice but I feel free when I yap#yagh#“what about vaidya?” vaidya too is nonbinary but I just wanted to draw my favs here n at the same time push the nb agenda (? fun fact??)
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They look better than I imagined tbh
#obey me#obey me nightbringer#Belphegor model actually looks cute to me. Satan still feels too stiff but I like it still#I think they're the same models that are on NB. they just have better textures#a bit disapointed that they're going to use their regular outfits. They should have made demon 3d model for then#or at least use the models they gave in the anniversary. they have idolish vibes anyways#but their everyday outfits are going to look too... weird? (idk how to explain) I don't imagine them singing Devil's way in that outfits lo#post0400
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June pt. 11
#Playing EVIL UNDERTALE on the EVIL computer.#This is inspired by the Jeff the killer(TM) jumpscare at the end of geno.#Also the photoshop flowey intro.#I know they're ambiguous (being descibed as androgynous by Toby) but they're NB for me.#This counts for Frisk and as well for The fallen child (they're the one being covered in EVIL water).#Like I said before: lineless is fun. And limiting my pool of colors is too!#I have many thoughts during these 11 days but I'll (hopefuly) share them at day 15...#undertale#utdr
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i'm THIS close to just making my pronouns he/it, or just it/its, bcs istg ppl see "prefers it/it but also ok with he/they" & think it's a good excuse to not call me by my "weird" pronouns
people hardly ever use "he" either, bcs i don't pass
like. it/it's my preferred pronouns. he/they is tolerable but over time i'm just going to get annoyed. wait till they hear abt my super secret neopronouns
#a lot of my close friends/ep do refer to be as he/it with more of an emphasis on “it” so that's nice#but a lot of my more casual relationships just stick with they/them. even if they're also lgbtqia+ or genderqueer#at first i was fine with they/them but now its wayyy too ;; eugh#basically everyone 40+ i meet irl will be disgusted if i wanna be called an it or just stick to they/them#istg they/them are the standard nb pronouns that make *some* allies be more comfortable with nbs. if it's anyth other than th#**they/them they get uncomfortable#every time#the number of people i've had lecture me abt why wanting to be called an “it” is bad should be illegal#once someone referenced a book abt child abuse as the reason they won't call me it#cw child abuse mention#once someone compared it to the treatment of the victims of the holocaust#cw genocide mention#LIKE WHAT#eughhh#they/them is highkey starting to make me dysphoric bcs i know the ppl who exclus call me that#just view me as some vaguely nb-identifying girl#i can't wait to get top surgery !!!#lgbtqia#lgbtqia+#transgender#trans#nonbinary#agender#genderless#genderfree#it/its#he/it#neopronouns
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Hey, CC. Am I valid in my decision to go through OG Obey Me’s story while doing Nightbringer’s daily quests and jobs but ignoring the story? Or should I melt my brain by going through both stories at the same time?
Hey there!
You are definitely valid.
The thing is, it's entirely up to you how you decide to read the story. I think it makes more sense to read OG in its entirety first. And that's what I would normally recommend to people.
The problem is that it takes forever to get through the OG story and a lot of people want to read Nightbringer now, since it's actively updating the main story. (Or will be soon.)
But I say if trying to read them simultaneously would mess with your head (which I totally get because wow NB drives me bonkers even when I'm just reading it by itself, let alone reading it in tandem with OG for the first time), then you should just read OG on its own.
I don't think there's a right or wrong way to play the story. I think you have to decide what makes the most sense for you. And whatever decision you come to in regards to that is valid!
#it's tricky with the double apps and everything too#and there's the chance that they're going to move OG's story into NB#but who knows if or when that'll happen#so it's hard to count on such things#I say just go with what feels right at the moment#you can always change your mind later#obey me#obey me nightbringer#viczen33#misc answers
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Behind every great warrior woman is another woman who is choosing kindness. For now.
#this is about io & laezel#ive been thinking about their dynamic esp since i plan on having them go do the whole revolution thing#also trying to workshop their tag/title/ship name#'calloused hands heavy hearts' is nice but im not sure it quite fits?#silver is a throughline b/c of the silver swords and eilistraee#some of the taglines have clicked immediately and some of them are. not doing that#but ive been thinking about these two w/in the healer x warrior framework#and how their backgrounds affect that#io *knows* how to fight. they're always ready for that possibility (eventuality really) since. you know.#holy war anti-lolth rebellion etc etc#but they were *exclusively* a healer pre-game. they hadn't even really left the baldur's gate area#and also. the importance of both warriors *and* healers during revolutions and rebellions#literally and figuratively#those on the front lines will run out of steam quickly without people supporting & sustaining them#something something kindness is not softness. softness is not weakness. weakness is not a moral wrong#something something a hard stone will grind itself to dust without something to cushion it#both io & lae'zel have calloused hands if for different reasons#one set of skills is not more important than the other. they compliment each other even#'new growth'? maybe? you can't grow a garden w/o both pulling up weeds and carefully tending to it#idk if this makes sense but. i am turning them around in my head#sticking them under a microscope#bg3#bg3 tav#my post#jay rambles#io dein#(im having trouble with their epithet too but that's a ramble for another time)#woman* (nb woman. she's trans femme and her gender shifts around a bit. 'woman' is the cliffnotes version)
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well uh um... yeah. I don't know what this means going forward. I don't know if we're dating or not, because Donnie hasn't said so. But it was... well, nice, to get to.... be intimate with with them.
I'm not gonna pretend I understand the whole gender thing Donnie's got going, something about 'masc' and 'fluid' and all these other terms I'm not familiar with -- but ultimately, it doesn't matter. Donny's a wonderful person and I shared something special with, and that's what matters.
And it's not gay because it's penis and vagina and Donnie told me it wasn't gay and if any of you tried to tease me about he could come out here and tell you to stop it and I told him that was okay I handle it but don't tease me and call me gay and say I have a boyfriend because I'm STRAIGHT and we're not dating yet and if we were he -- they would be my theyfriend and Donnie said it was okay to see them as a girl if that made me more comfortable and also Donny said if any of you pick on me he'll -- she'll -- they'll come and back me up and tell you to stop being haters and I have absolutely no problem with gay people and Freddy Mercury is my favorite singer but I personally am not gay so don't tease about it in the comments because bullying is wrong and ACDC is coming to my house later and you guys aren't invited because you're mean so that's off the table
I'm going through a lot of emotions right now, okay? New emotions and experiences and stuff.
#rp#elijah speaks!#elijah rovak#psychonauts#psychonauts ocs#original characters#ocs#my art#donny duodecker#OOC: Ha! Sorry if Elijah is being problematic right now he's still learning. This is a whole new situation for him lmao#OOC: yeah Donnie's NB their gender identity was stolen in a phishing scam#OOC: First time ever writing an NB character so if I messed anything up I apologize I'm still learning too lol#OOC: I'm glad you guys like Donnie too they're really cute and this arc was fun to write :)
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when they’re both bi 4 bi
#I AM NOT WRONG.#(i also hc jonathan as nb too)#lumax#jancy#stranger things#lucas sinclair#max mayfield#jonathan byers#nancy wheeler#and they're also some of the best characters in the show too <3#stranger things 4#okay these pictures are so cute
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