#i prefer a thousand time nancy becoming single than her with steve

[frenchkanna1808]

Went to Reddit saw some ... very interesting take

The post was talking about the fate that you think this character will have in season 5. 1)A third of the post concerning will was about his haircut 2)The other third was all about will moving on from mike and “growing up” and realizing mike will never love him 3)And the last third was all about how will would die in season 5 and hating on him  4)Everyone i mean everyone was talking about how Jonathan would die and with that Nancy wouldn’t have to choose between him and Steve

1)Will bowl cut jokes are not funny anymore and the reason you keep bringing up his hair his because you’re an unimaginative mindless mob who is only capable of mocking a 15 years old because he’s gay. It’s not only not funny but also offensive i would say, because labeling a ptsd abused traumatized child journey as “that gay dude with a bowl cut”, you’re reducing him to a one dimensional character. It’s diminishing and ableist. 

2)Will.is. never. gonna. get. a. boyfriend. other. than. mike. Stop lying to yourself. Either Mike and will become cannon or Milkshake endgame and will is single and depressed. There no alternative. The only reason you want will to have a boyfriend is so that you don’t feel to much pity and guilt of robbing him of his one and only true love since childhood. You are not a fan of will if you want him to be depressed and in a terrible relationship with mike, you’re just lying to yourself. Also the term of him “Growing up” rub me the wrong way, you think that will love for mike is “not mature”, “childish”,”infantile” cause it’s not. Macarena is childish, infantile and not mature as a relationship. Will love for mike , is beautiful and complex. Either you’re projecting  (like mike) or you are implying that mlm love is childish.

3) Okay the Will would die theory is pretty popular but i don’t get it, Will is currently the only gay character in stranger things. The worst mistake the duffers would do is to kill the only mlm character that they have. The backlash their gonna get is immense and the fandom will tear itself apart. Most of season 4 was all about making the GA root for will happiness and understand his struggle. It would be like a knife in the back, it would be again “the bury the gays trope”. And Will would become probably the most tragic character in TV history in my eyes. The Will hate is one of the most ridiculous shit in the fandom, Will never did anything wrong, he’s a creative kind soul, all he ever did was loving his first friend, the first person that made him feel like he was normal. You don’t have any reason to hate will except if you’re homophobic or toxic ass My mother aborted me stan. Will want the best for eleven and mike, he is currently the only mileven fan in the series, so you should be thankful, without him you wouldn’t have got that stupid ass monologue. Or maybe... Just maybe the reason you hate him... Is because you know deep in your heart... That mileven is bones and you’re scared that will finishes with mike. Also why the Noah acting hate, he’s  one of the most wonderful actor in the series, so stop it, it’s idiotic.

4) Do you not realize how reducing it is to say that Nancy, Jonathan's girlfriend, isn’t capable of making her own choice and that when Jonathan “will die”, she will jump inside Steve arms and realize he was the man of her life. Not only will Nancy will never be able to accomplish her dreams of becoming a journalist with Steve, but do you think that after Barb and Jonathan death, she is gonna move on and be capable of living like nothing happened. Jonathan love her so much and she does too. Also reducing her character to the girl who gotta choose between two men is stupid. Either she stays with Jonathan or she become and independent, there no way she would be with Steve. Also what is it with the Jonathan hate, No the Byers hate in general. Jonathan is a abused young adult from a poor family who had to around 7 to 9 years old take care of his brother. He has every rights to kinda fall the deep end. In season 4 he completely left his passions, his hobbies, his dreams and his relationship with Nancy in the bin. He deserve just like any character to be happy and get up. But all the GA thinks is that he became a drug consumers for fun. Buuuut no he deserve to die so that a character can die and stancy become cannon. Also the Byers deserve to never be happy and Joyce after living with an alcoholic father who abused her kids, losing her lover better lose her son. Like the Byers are gonna fall the deep end. But it’s starting to be a pattern

So my final take: I can’t wait from when Will keep his bowl cut and kisses his boyfriend mike wheeler on the swings they met. Can’t wait from when Noah get an award for his acting and kills it in season 5. Can’t wait from when Steve and El become independent girlboss/boyboss. And i can’t wait that compared to what you wish the Byers-hopper live happily with the people they loves.

[scoopsahoy]

i just read ur fic about getting pregnant with steve and was wondering if u could write one about the reader and steve struggling for a few years to get pregnant, and she has an emotional breakdown one night bc she doesn't feel like enough for him because it's been pushed on her that women's only jobs are to have kids and shes like "i cant even do that so how am i supposed to please you" and he comforts her and makes her feel better

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You sat on the toilet seat with your leg bouncing, anxiously waiting for the pregnancy test results to show up. This had become a new norm for you: getting pregnancy tests and anxiously awaiting the results. And you were sick of it.

It took a toll on you. Getting a negative result every single month for four years straight was stressful mentally and physically. You’d had a migraine for at least three and a half years, and no medicine helped. You were always nauseous and sick, which your gynecologist said was normal in your situation. You were always tired and sad, which affected your job and your relationship with Steve.

You knew he was just as tired of it as you were, and you knew he was probably exhausted from having to care for you all the time.

It had also taken a toll on your sex life. At this point, you two only had sex to reproduce. You rarely finished and always denied his offers to help you. You would always flip yourself upside down afterward to help the sperm enter your uterus.

You’d both been to the doctor multiple times to see which one of you was fertile. Steve was one hundred percent fertile, while you had less of a chance of getting pregnant that you should’ve had.

You’d been to multiple IVF appointments as well. It wasn’t Steve’s favorite thing in the world to go into a room alone and masturbate to porn to provide sperm samples.

At this point, he didn’t enjoy looking at other women to get off, so you had taken pictures of yourself to give him.

The first few times it was awkward for him afterward, but you assured him there was nothing uncomfortable about it.

You’d probably spent over ten thousand dollars on it, and it was heartbreaking each time it didn’t work.

At the end of the five minutes, you grabbed the test out of the sink, feeling a pain in your heart at the single line.

You tossed it back into the sink as you stood up, feeling tears slide down your face. Your back hit the wall and you slid down until you felt yourself land on your ass.

You pulled your knees into your chest, propped your elbows on them, and put your hands into your palms.

You couldn’t help but sob. You and Steve had been trying for four years to conceive. And, despite everything mentioned, none of it worked. This was one of your last straws, a wave of sadness washing over you.

You both desperately wanted kids, preferably two or three. But at this point, you’d be lucky to even have one.

Steve made it clear that in the end, if you couldn’t have children of your own, he’d be perfectly okay with adopting, or just not having any. And you agreed.

However, you had the longing to create your own child. Everything from the pregnancy, to giving birth, to raising that child from the moment they came out, until the moment they could care for themselves. You wanted that more than anything, but you’d be happy to adopt if you were infertile.

But sitting on the bathroom floor knowing that every effort you made — propping yourself upside down after sex, aforementioned IVF treatments, tracking your cycles, staying healthy, etc. — didn’t work, made your heart hurt.

You wondered if you were good enough for Steve, if you could really give him what he wanted. If he was genuinely happy with trying to have kids for years on end and being unsuccessful. You wondered if that was what he wanted, if he was still happy with you.

Your sobs filled the bathroom, making you glad Dustin wasn’t there.

Dustin was your younger brother, and currently, he was at the arcade. He knew about your struggle to have kids, and he usually tried to help, whether it was with the foods you ate, or getting you vitamins, making sure your mom didn’t keep her alcohol where you could get to it, etc.

You thought it was sweet how much he wanted a niece or nephew, always talking about babysitting them and allowing them into the party.

You always made sure he was gone when you took pregnancy tests. You loved him, but comfort wasn’t his strong suit. Sometimes it would work just because of the effort, but sometimes it would make you feel worse. So, you figured the easiest way to avoid that was to make sure he wasn’t there.

The rest of the party was also anticipating you getting pregnant. Max, Eleven, and Nancy all said they would help her with girl things like periods, dating, and other things boys didn’t understand.

And Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Will, and Jonathan all said they would indoctrinate him/her into their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.

It made you cry the first time you found out how excited they were to have a new member of the family.

But you hated making them wait. Dustin and Robin were the only ones who knew how long you’d been trying, so the rest of them kept jokingly bugging you about them getting a new DnD member.

When Steve got home from work, he found you crying on the bathroom floor. He looked in the sink, seeing another negative test.

He sat on the toilet seat, placing his hands on your knees. He didn’t say anything, he let you talk at your own pace.

“Negative again,” you said, your voice stuffy.

He nodded. “I know.”

“What the hell is wrong with me?”

“Hey, look at me.”

You pulled your hands from your face, revealing your eyes bloodshot and puffy, your skin soaked in tears.

He stood up and held his hands out for you to take. You pulled yourself up and he cupped your face. He wiped your cheeks with his thumbs, before grabbing a dry cloth and cleaning your face completely.

“Come here,” he said, pulling you into a deep hug. You cried into his chest, leaving tear stains on his shirt. He gently pulled you to the bedroom a few seconds later. You sat against the headboard, resting your elbows on your knees. He sat across from you, only a few feet away.

He gripped your hands as you continued crying. It was silent for a few minutes before he continued the conversation.

“There’s nothing wrong with you.”

“Then why can’t I get pregnant?”

“You know that’s not your fault.”

“Is it enough for you? Am I enough for you?”

He furrowed his brows. “What are you talking about?”

“If I can’t give you a kid. If I can’t get pregnant, despite everything we’ve done, despite every effort we’ve made... will I be enough? Won’t you want more?”

“Don’t. Don’t even think like that. Don’t say that. Of course, you’ll still be enough for me.”

You softly shook your head. “I don’t believe that.”

“Why not?”

“Because you said that all you want in life is children. You want at least one son and one daughter. And you want to name one of them Dustin, and one of them Robin. And you’ve told me that you want to have a hundred grandkids so you can spoil all of them. And if I can’t give that to you-”

“Stop. Stop talking.” He gripped your hands tighter. “I don’t care. If you can’t give me that, that’s okay. More than anything, I want you. I want you, even if we don’t have a hundred grandkids.”

You felt more tears fall down your face, hitting your legs. He tilted your chin up to look at him.

“Why?” you asked.

“‘Why’ what?”

“Why wouldn’t you want someone who could give you that?”

“Because I don’t want just anybody. I want you. I’d live a thousand lifetimes without kids if it meant I got to be with you.”

“But you want a family.”

“Baby,” he chuckled. “We’re already a family. You and me, we are a family. We don’t need a child to be a family. Hell, we can adopt a dog or a cat if we wanted to. And that would still make us as much of a family as people with kids.”

“But we both want kids. I want kids. I want to be pregnant, I want to give birth, I want to hold the baby after they come out. I want to celebrate their first steps, their first words, their first birthday. I want to do that.” He didn’t say anything. “How am I supposed to please you if I can’t even get pregnant?” you mumbled.

He furrowed his brows. “What?”

“I mean, we’ve always been taught that in marriages, in order to be a good wife and please your husband, you should have kids.”

“Who the hell taught you that?”

You raised your eyebrows. “School, my family, everyone. I’ve grown up hearing that in order to be a good wife to my husband, I have to give him kids and that’s how we’re supposed to please you.”

He shook his head. “I’ve never been taught to only expect kids from my wife. They’ve been feeding you that bullshit?” You nodded. “For how long?”

“All my life.”

“I’ve grown up learning from my mom that, even if I don’t have kids with the person I marry, I should find someone that I can’t live without. That’s you.”

“Steve-”

“Y/N, you don’t have to bear a child to please me. I am so madly, deeply, stupidly in love with you. There is nothing you can do to make me not love you. You hear me?” You didn’t reply. “Why do you think I proposed to you and married you?”

“You wanted to start a family, but not outside of marriage. Isn’t that why every guy gets married?”

“Nope. Not even close. I mean, that’s a factor, but do you know the real reason I married you?” You still didn’t answer. “I married you to be with you,” he said as he poked you lightly on the chest. “I married you so I could spend the rest of my life with you. Obviously, I do want a family, but, like I said, I’d go a million years without kids if it meant I got to be with you.”

You were only crying harder now. “Steve-”

“I am so fucking in love with you, Y/N. Do you want to know how long it took me to get that ring-” He pointed to your engagement ring on your finger, which was joined by your wedding band, “after we started dating?” You shook your head. “Three days.”

Your eyes got wide. “What?”

“Yep. Three days into our relationship, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. You know why I didn’t propose sooner?” You shook your head again. “We weren’t eighteen. That was the only thing holding me back. I had to wait two years to propose to you because we had to wait until we were adults.”

You looked down at your ring. “They let you buy an engagement ring at sixteen?” you chuckled.

“I guess so. I got it, didn’t I?”

You smiled. “I love you,” you whispered.

“I love you, too.” You squeezed his hands.

“Tell you what. Why don’t we take a break from trying? I mean, we’re only twenty-three. We have time. I know it’s stressing you out. Your head always hurts and you’re always sick. Let’s just wait a little while.”

You nodded. “That would actually be really nice.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. Maybe we can have sex just to have sex, not to make a baby.”

“Absolutely.”

You looked at him and he gave you a small smile.

“I don’t deserve you,” you said, your voice cracking.

“I think I’m the one that doesn’t deserve you.”

You laughed softly. “And if we can’t have our own kids, we can adopt,” you said.

“Absolutely.”

“Take a kid or two out of the system.”

“Absolutely,” he repeated.

You got on your knees and hugged him, the two of you squeezing each other tightly.

“Did I mention that I love you?” he asked.

“Yeah.”

“Are you sure? Because I do.”

“I’m sure,” you giggled. “I love you, too.”

When you pulled away, he looked at you. “Don’t blame yourself, baby. Seriously. It’s not your fault.”

“I know.”

“Okay.”

You pulled him in for one last kiss before heading to the kitchen to start dinner.

—

You, Steve, Dustin, Mike, Lucas, Max, and Robin all sat in your dining room. For dinner, you made chicken burritos. The kids were all joking around and talking about the arcade when you decided to get their attention.

“So, me and Steve talked today,” you said, clearing your throat. They all looked at you. “I think... we’re gonna stop trying to have a kid for a little while.”

“What?” Lucas asked. “Why?”

“We’ve been trying for four years. I mean, we’ve done IVF-”

“What’s IVF?” Mike asked.

“In vitro. It’s artificial insemination.”

“We’ve done that about six times,” Steve said. “And it hasn’t worked.”

“Nothing we’ve done has worked. So, for now, we’re gonna take a break. I mean, it takes a toll on us.”

They nodded. “Okay. Whenever you get pregnant, that just means we can have someone else to play games with and invite to the arcade,” Lucas said. “Even if we’re older.”

Steve rested his hand on your thigh.

—

Laying in bed and being Steve’s little spoon as he slept caused you to start thinking again.

You didn’t realize it before, but you were more okay with waiting than you thought you would be. Sure, you’d be slightly older when you were pregnant — if you wound up pregnant at all — but you were fine with it.

Knowing that you were with someone like Steve, who didn’t care if you couldn’t have kids, was a relief. You knew you married the right person, and you knew your kids would be right about you two being soulmates.

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HARD Summer Music Festival- August 5-6, 2017

HARD Summer Music Festival (HSMF) will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this summer. HSMF will bring thousands together to celebrate the end of festival season at The Speedway in Fontana, Southern California on August 5-6. Boasting an amazing lineup and many new surprises, you know HARD will be bringing the heat for it’s 10 edition.

The Lineup

HSMF has a history of bringing huge names to the August festival, and the 10th annual event is no exception. The lineup features some of the most sought after electronic music acts, as well as some of the hottest rap artists in the game. Headlining this year is DJ Snake, Justice, Rae Sremmurd, Zeds Dead, Snoop Dogg, Dog Blood, Bassnectar, and Migos! In addition to this years headliners, I am looking forward to sets from Doctor P, Vincent, Jai Wolf, What So Not, Baauer, Brillz, Ekali, and Lookas.

This years lineup also features more female talent than any past lineup, including vocalists and rappers Charli XCX, Tinashe, Uffie and Tink, as well as producers and DJs Anna Lunoe, Nina Las Vegas, JPhlip, Kim Ann Foxman, Ellen Allien, Gina Turner, Nancy Whang, Masha, Sita Abellan, Heather b2b Collette, Louisahh, Kittens, J Worra, Uniiqu3, Cray, Jubilee, GG Magree, Qrion, Whipped Cream, and Deux Twins.

  Saturday, August 5

DJ Snake / Justice DJ Set / Rae Sremmurd / Zeds Dead Tchami / Cashmere Cat / Skepta / Ty Dolla $ign / Malaa / A-Trak / Mobb Deep / Yehme2 / Doctor P / Anna Lunoe / Kayzo / E-40 / Brodinski / Charli XCX / Mercer / Busy P / AC Slater / Nina Las Vegas / Wax Motif / Soul Clap / Ellen Allien / Wiwek / Chris Lake / Chris Lorenzo / Amine Edge & Dance / Drezo / Mustdie! / Saymyname / Problem / Uffie / Egyptian Lover / Ghetts / Gina Turner / Nick Monaco / Vincent / Uncle Jxmi / Dj Heather B2B Collette / Doc Martin / Sita Abellan / Oshi / Josh Pan / Mad Zach / GG Magree / Cray / Jubilee / Oski / Qrion / Phlegmatic Dogs / Nukid / Masha / Whipped Cream

Sunday, August 6

Snoop Dogg Performing Doggystyle / Dog Blood / Bassnectar / Migos Jai Wolf / Snakehips / Claude Vonstroke / What So Not / Baauer / Kill The Noise / JME / Mike Will Made It / Destructo / 12th Planet / Tinashe / Madeintyo / Brillz / Party Favor / Shiba San / MK / Ekali / Giraffage / Jackmaster / Jimmy Edga / J. Phlip / Floating Points (DJ Set) /  Motez Kim Ann Foxman / Whethan / Thugfucker / Kap G / LA Leakers / Graves / 4B / 24HRS / Dave / AJ Tracey / London On Da Track / Nancy Whang / Louisahhh / Tink / Walker & Royce / Hotel Garuda / Christian Martin / Madam X  / Kittens /  J. Worra / Lookas / Uniiqu3 Volac / Brohug / LDRU / Colby J / Deux Twins

HARD Drops 2017 Trailer – GRL PWR

Last year’s HARD SUMMER music festival only featured five female performers. This year’s edition–set for August 5 & 6 in Southern California–features 25.  Today (May 2), HARD Events has released its annual trailer which takes a satirical, consciousness-raising, pro-women  look at how supergroup GRL PWR gets on the bill.  It’s DJ Snake, Claude VonStroke, What So Not, Party Favor and Kayzo as never seen before.

Super sleaze agent Harvey says to his clients–“Sex sells, not music!”–as he adjusts their anatomy to fit HARD‘s founder and festival mastermind Gary Richards’ request for more female talent.   Longtime collaborator director Agata Alexander-who has entertained HARD fans with her smart, edgy video concepts (including pairing HARD performers as canines and putting together the legendary ‘Strawberry Gang‘) leaps into the timely discussion of how women are perceived in entertainment.  The piece culminates with epic festival footage set to Cray’s “Infinity Signs”. View the 2017 Trailer Below:

Director Agata Alexander shares her thoughts on putting together this year’s HARD SUMMER trailer:

“There was no way I could do a trailer for this years’ HARD SUMMER without touching on something meaningful.

  I spoke to Gary (Richards) about getting more females on the lineup. He, his team at HARD and I started to put together lists of women we could get for the show but it felt so predictable– a token gesture to have one or two big female headliners. Why did we have such a hard time figuring out who to get other than that? Why were all the new artists being pushed onto Gary from different managements men? Gary started digging deeper and I really respect him for this. He called me and was like ‘Yo, I’m finding so many dope chicks I’ve never even heard of. This is so cool.’  So that became our purpose. Giving the female underdogs a chance which brought us Madam X, Kittens, GG Magree, Cray, Jubilee, J.Worra, Uniqqu3 and others.

  I decided that I wanted powerful male artists to do something crazy to make a point. It’s important for men to step forward and support women as loud as they can. We need that. Whenever a female voices her opinion about stuff like this, everyone points at her and says ‘she is a bit too much, perhaps one of those ‘crazy feminists… definitely not getting laid.’ I didn’t want to expose the female artists to this type of stuff in comment sections. I figured let’s turn the table and put the men through the ringer. It catches your attention as the absurdity of the situation becomes more clear and it’s important that the fans of these men look at the video and hopefully understand what’s wrong with our world.

  Why did I put boobs on them? Cause tits automatically make you a sexualized commodity in this world and I found it humorous that the manager in the video felt that boobs is enough and all you really need. I respect these guys so much for being in this video and going all out. They showed up to that set without a complaint in support of women. In the end of the day it’s just boobs, everyone loves ’em, many of us have ’em. What’s the big fuss?” 

Adds Anna Lunoe, who makes a cameo as a video director:

“Talking about being a woman in the electronic space in any capacity is tricky, multifaceted, tiresome and after so many years I just prefer to avoid the topic and get on with the job! I have known Agata for a few years now and she has a way of portraying things with the right amount of comedy, creativity and I trusted that she would get it right.  If anyone understands the plight of being a minority in their industry its her. I’m a big believer in referencing to the absurdity of society in comedy and that itself being a great catalyst for cultural awareness & change – also, her script was just very funny even on paper!” 

Kittens

Ticket Information

2-Day General Admission Passes- $129 Single Day GA Passes- $89 2 Day VIP- $309     //     Single Day VIP- $159

VIP Tickets includes:

Exclusive Fast-Track Entry into the Festival (Skip GA Line) Exclusive Hospitality areas adjacent to multiple stages with expanded bar options, upgraded semi-exclusive restrooms, plush couches, and direct views of performances

Purchase your HARD Summer Tickets Here

About HARD Summer Fest

The very first HARD on New Year’s Eve in 2007 featured Justice, 2 Live Crew, Steve Aoki and Peaches and its eclecticism would in many ways shape the festival’s diversity to this day. The HARD stage has played host to everyone from Ice Cube, The Weeknd, A$AP Mob, Pharrell and Future to Giorgio Moroder, Die Antwoord and The Chemical Brothers. Moreover, the brand has continually evolved. HARD has delivered an unforgettable experience to millions of music fans over the years and augmented the mainstream rise of many leaders in the electronic music genre including deadmau5, Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Justice and many more.

An easy drive from downtown Los Angeles, The Speedway in Fontana boasts an expanded foot print reaching over 500 acres and convenient parking. Enhancements to this year’s festival experience include more shaded areas, doubling entry and exit points, expanded camping and increased mobility overall around the festival grounds.  Stay tuned for more details.

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HARD Summer Music Festival Returns for 10th Annual Event August 5-6, 2017 HARD Summer Music Festival- August 5-6, 2017 HARD Summer Music Festival (HSMF) will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this summer.