#it’s on brand for Mike 💀

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike thinks Michael is dumb as hell

[kidovna]

reality

[silverusso]

I don't like how CK handled Mike Barnes. I've seen the first part of s6 CK kinda disappointed, I know it's not finished but that's how I feel 😔

Because they did fuck all with him. They couldn't even give us a throw away line about his marriage status. Mike does seem to be wearing a ring, so I guess we're just meant to infer that they're still together. They also didn't address the issue of the stolen rembrandt which is kind of a huge deal actually, because that thing is worth millions. But I guess since he was in a workshop, we're again just meant to infer that he someway somehow was able to rebuild his furniture store.

Then he regressed for no reason. The bullshit 'reason' we're given is that ever since getting back into karate he's been "itching for a fight" but all that means is that his sudden attitude problem was a plot device to manufacture forced beef between him and Johnny, who if anything should have the complete opposite of a beef, considering Mike literally saved Johnny's life last season. And furthermore, it was used to justify Johnny's win over him. Because Johnny's Miyagi-do now and The Good Sensei just looking out for his student and Mike is the big meanie who makes fun of Miyagi-do and specifically kata! You know, the thing Daniel used to beat him in kk3. Say sike right the fuck now because that's Johnny's brand of nonsense, not Mike's. Interesting how Johnny can call everyone pussies and there's no consequences but Mike has to be humbled for calling Johnny a creampuff.🤔

And to make it worse: Mike was just trying to do the goddamn job he was called there to do. Despite Devon's annoying whining, Mike did not intentionally set out to ignore or disregard her. It was quite literally Johnny's fault by getting in Mike's face and distracting him right at the worst moment lmao. What Mike says to Johnny later about her being bottom of his list is because now Johnny is even showing up after hours to interrupt his work over this random child. Just doing the absolute most for every other kid he comes into contact with except his own.💀

Getting kicked through his own merchandise, however, seems to work as a magical cure-all for Mike's woes. By the end of the episode he's all fine! We don't need to see him again! Because trust me, I really don't think we'll be seeing him again. I suspect he's not going to be in the next part and it'll be a small miracle if he makes even a cameo appearance in the last part of the season.

[send-me-a-puffalope]

hiiii there do u think vanessa will become vanny eventually if the movies follow the og timeline of the games? love ur blog btw!

I wanna believe that they’re not gonna bring in Vanessa, a modern FNAF character, into the OG FNAF movie if they weren’t planning on using her for Vanny right?? Like I feel like that’s the most iconic part of her character (also cause there’s like. no other part of her character 🧍me and Steel Wool have beef)

I don’t think the FNAF movies will be following the OG timeline of the games solely because well. *gestures to Vanessa being in the FNAF 1 movie*. I wouldn’t know how they would do the Pizzaplex in 2035 with the current Vanessa 💀💀💀 also just like. I feel like it would be repetitive as a character arc to have Vanessa fall under a Glitchtrap virus or just her father’s control again as Vanny. Not after she kind of went through that whole arc already in FNAF 1.

In my head, I can see them doing Vanny as a sort of ‘Vanessa reclaiming the rabbit persona’ as her own (kind of like the Vanny ending of HW2…. depending on how you interpret that ending) and using it in a revenge fueled hunt to rid everything the Afton name has stained (the victims in the animatronics and pizzerias and the Fazbear brand as a whole)

My biggest fear is that they’re just gonna use Vanessa as an exposition machine to introduce Mike and Abby to the next pizzeria location and have her do jackshit. Or fridge her. I want an exploration of her trauma and the Vanessa William dynamic!!! I need to see how fucked up the situation is in 4k on a cinemark XD screen!!!!!!

(also HWAUGHHH WAHGHHHH GHHHHHGGGHGR TY!!! i got cursed with FNAF autism instead of being good at math and science autism)

[starleska]

saw the bubble bass post and. if it comforts in any way i’ve been hyperfixating HARD on mr humberfloop from the cat in the hat 2003 movie so i understand your pain

'saw the bubble bass post' sent such a cold chill down my spine i think i may have a stroke. thank you 😂💖 oh my god MR HUMBERFLOOB!!!!!!!

no no darling you are so right for this, he's kinda...🥴💖 who doesn't love an ultra-fancy hypochondriac? besides, that man is ensuring he ain't getting COVID - he was just ahead of the curve 💀 firing back with the mortifying ordeal of knowing that at any moment, i could well develop a fixation on the actual Cat in the Hat as portrayed by Mike Myers. if Austin Powers got me, so could he. and my friends remind me of this relentlessly. is there a specific brand of brain bleach i can buy to prevent this from happening-

[jopper-lovechild]

things that exist in my stranger things self-insert universe because my mind is an expansive universe:

- dustin goes to harvard for 2 years until one of his science professors challenges him that there’s no way otherworldly planes exist so dustin starts talking about the upside down and even brings evidence of the upside down and the literal CIA has to show up at his dorm room and force him to leave the college with a boatload of hush money (he drives back to hawkins in a brand new porsche and claudia loses her mind)

- eddie is borderline asexual simply because he does not give a FUCK. like he has sex with his partner if they want but it doesn’t consume him because there’s much more important things to focus on like hyper-analyzing every single metallica song that was ever created

- max is a raging bisexual and has an amicable breakup with lucas sometime in high school. they remain best friends <3

- lucas actually becomes a single dad! he went to ucla to play basketball and knocked up a girl his senior year by accident but she wanted nothing to do with the baby and dumped her onto lucas

- mike and el stay together because they’re trauma-bonded but also because they love each other. will goes to an art school in Indianapolis and moves to europe after graduation, never to be seen again (because i don’t want to think about noah schnapp ever again)

- we came up with this before the screenplay but dustin’s dad is from hawkins and his mom is from new jersey. they met because his dad went to college out there and they both ended up moving back to hawkins after his dad graduated. but then his dad was drafted into the vietnam war and died a month before nixon signed the paris peace treaty which is why claudia is a single-mom

- most of the parents grew up in hawkins together and the real reason ted wheeler is so annoyed at mike’s friends is because he hated their parents growing up and all they do is remind ted of his childhood 💀

- i’ve been dabbling with lucas x dustin and chrissy x robin, not sure yet

- two of our sonas are dating eddie and steve so we made them each have a daughter in the future so we can steddie-ify them lol

[lexiloos-currentobsession]

Screaming into the void about my season 3 favs

Mabel

-SAY NOTHING, YOU UNDERSTAND? GET A LAWYER!

Witness

-I geeked out over the camera pan out from Mike on his stakeout to the Los Pollos Hermanos sign

-Also screamed at the TV watching out of focus Gus casually sweeping in the background while Jimmy is in the restaurant

-Hey who’s got your back? ME that’s who

-There’s a moment Jimmy and Kim lock eyes across their office and smile, they are truly happy and all is right in their world

-Kim asks Jimmy for a dollar so that she’s officially his lawyer. This man really gets all his best ideas from her.

-Fun foreshadow/call back: the art in Jimmy’s office is lady liberty

-Howard’s little hop to look over the fence💀

-Jimmy threatens to burn Chuck’s house to the ground… yikes

Sunk Cost

-Jimmy had red string wrapped around Marco’s ring bc it’s too big for his finger. BCS writers really think of everything and then make it symbolic.

-Bill Oakley replying “you moron” when Jimmy says he’ll be representing himself cracked me up

Sabrosito

-Be honest, on first watch did it click for y’all that Gus wanted Hector to demand Gus transport all the product??? That one took me a sec

Chicanery

-Chuck’s 512 - 521 address mix up explanation to Rebecca in the flashback almost makes it seem like Chuck inadvertently gave Jimmy the idea to do the 1216 - 1261 swap all those years later

-We get to hear “I DID IT FOR KIM” again AND we get to watch Kim hear it!!!

-HUEL REVEAL 😤

-The absolute betrayal of Jimmy telling Rebecca about Chuck’s condition after we see him go to such lengths to keep it from her in the flashback… not saying Chuck didn’t deserve it but damn. Feel like this gets overlooked compared to the rest of the episode

Off Brand

-Where are your notes let’s spread em out roll around on them and see what happens

-I thought you were president of the drama club or something? …i’m treasurer

-We get our first commercial starring Saul! (Saul Goodman productions)

-Saul Goodman, that guy has a lot of energy

Expenses

-Jimmy’s emotional breakdown act in the insurance office really had me for a sec. Spoilers but very same vibe as his breakdown to the mall security guy in season 6

Slip

-In the opener flashback Jimmy retrieves the band aid tin from the ceiling in his parents old store that we later see Gene still has!

-Mike searching for the body of the Good Samaritan gutted me

-This condition to me is as real as that chair, it’s as real as this house, it’s as real as you, but what if it’s not? What if it’s all in my head? And if that’s true, if it’s not real, then what have I done?

-We see Slippin Jimmy in action and it’s as wonderful as I imagined

-Who would have thought Nacho practicing close up magic would be such a vibey scene? The YouTube comments on the track validate me.

-Jimmy strumming smoke on the water, that man is up to no good

-Buddy this is the land of the free and the home of the law suit

Fall

-Howard is SUCH a dick to Jimmy in the parking garage HOLY SHIT

-What Jimmy does to Irene is unspeakable so we’re not speaking on it

-Kim’s car accident sacres the fuck out of me every time

Lantern

-Chuck really looks Jimmy in the face and tells him he’s going to hurt everyone around him because he can’t help it and to stop apologizing and accept and embrace it 😦

-Jimmy makes things right for mrs Landry to his own detriment

[run-down-that-dream]

Stop draggin my heart around 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 music really is magic that just engulfs you. Surreal. And what songs do you like playing on guitar and bass?

I play guitar, and I've got a similar experience with harmonica. It's a surprisingly loud instrument. What other songs would you like to master on harmonica?

That exists? Gotta start looking for that

Welp, I've completely missed that then. I've only seen that one drawing (wasn't it posted on facebook?) where the Heartbreakers are depicted as birds. And that drawing 🤌🏻 how do people have such creativity??

Yeah, Tom's quite obvious, isn't he xd

Well, Benmont does have a striking resemblance to a seagull, aye 😂

Howie and Ron, perfect.

"Stan the giraffe" I cannot ✋🏻😭 Imagine a giraffe going "howdy" and a crazy drum solo starts to play

Can only imagine you going around with him and showing him off to everyone. Well, I can only imagine your profile pic, but that would be on brand for him as well. You wouldn't pamper him too much, would you 😂

Never figured the other Heartbreakers besides Mike and Ben, who I also had the same idea as you, but the rest that you mentioned sound very much spot on.

Definitely didn't ask for scientific purposes :)

Asked a friend once what they remind her of solely based on looks and her judgement was... interesting.

You got Tom the elk, Benmont the beaver and Ron the fox squirrel. She called both Howie and Stan "monkeys, those two" which left everyone wounded and two dead. But let's pretend she called them that because they are crafty, they know how to play a song. And at last, your beloved✨️

Mike the sunfish

Hopefully you are able to recover from this

I love playing u get me high on bass!!!!!!!! (the one on hypnotic eye) it's actually tom's line - he's sooooo underrated as a bass player. it's too good and too fun to play

and for guitar, walls is so good on my 12 string. more tom petty 😂 I've also figured out a stripped down a day in the life which is also pretty fun when I'm in a beatles mood (I have been again lol sometimes it just hits me)

idk if there's anything specific I want to learn on harmonica. maybe I should have known better by the beatles I'd mostly like to use it on songs I've written my influenced by bob dylan is showing oops

I don't think I've seen the heartbreakers as birds lol?? idk what I was thinking of, I haven't found it again. maybe it was a fever dream or something 💀

I was thinking ben would be like a raven or something but seagull is too good 😭 I love that

I can't with sunfish lmao?????? what did you show her?????? it's because he's got that really unique aquarius energy right..?

[saintheavenn]

💀🔥💀🔥💀🔥💀

[miiiwu]

these r pretty common here but i love transmasc mike and vyvyan (i think mike would be more like stealth binary trans), transfemme genderfluid rick (tho transmasc rick is also fun), neil being like. plantgender/otherkin nonbinary and the secret fifth roommate being a complete agender enigma with no discernible agab are fun.

i tend to enjoy depictions that r more period + character/voice accurate though so i don't think they would use that exact terminology for it. but basically none of these bozos r cis

i love the idea of Vyv doing diyhrt and possibly his own top surgery (and maybe bottom surgery but he'd probably put like. dynamite in his penis or some shit so maybe he shouldn't be trusted w that kind of power lmao)

i feel like these r all pretty typical stuff other ppl have already said tho, so there's more original (and unhinged) stuff under the read more im so sorry lmao

uhmmmm ok more original stuff uhh i think rick has a brat taming kink/thing where he acts super annoying bc he subconsciously wants to get smacked around bc of some psychological shit about being a pampered upper middle class only child who nobody likes lol. maybe its actually a deep seated self loathing. he thought once he got to university ppl would like him and he'd become super popular, but it turns out he really is just annoying. its not that his peers from childhood were ignorant to his super deep intellectual ideas or whatever lol. i dunno im not a psychologist.

also i think he is both intimidated by and attracted to vyv (not projecting At All)

vyvyan grew up poor without a father figure (that we know of) and with a spiteful alcoholic mother so seeing rick take his parents + other privileges for granted makes him want to kick his ass. i love the idea that vyv and mike r childhood friends also, and mike sort of Was like a father in some ways despite being (presumably?) the same age as vyv. it explains why he’s the only flatmate vyv doesn’t physically hurt and makes it kinda cute when he calls him michael. 2 me

also i think vyv and rick have autism but their specific brands of autism clash with each other (one needs quiet, the other needs constant noise,, that sort of thing) and it drives them both crazy

and i think all 4 of them have some form of ADHD or other disorder that effects executive function bc that's the only way i can see them letting the house get that dirty 💀💀💀

also i think vyv absolutely gets off on humiliating rick but i don’t think he even realizes he’s getting off on it if u know what i mean (he'd never admit it to himself, bc that's 'girly' and gay!!!). like with the virgin sign (and presumably making him wear a t-shirt later too), its meant as typical vyv torment but also um. that whole incident was just gay sex. what do you mean you two shook the bed so hard it fell thru the ceiling um hello???

also i think all four flatmates of some flavor of gay/bi but have comphet/pretend to like girls way more than they rlly do. their masculinity (and by extension heterosexuality) is a performance. especially mike’s. tho tbf everything about mike is a performance. the cool person persona is fake as hell. obvs some of it is related to the implication that he’s somewhat involved in shady dealings (where tf did he get that gun, why was he the one to suggest robbing the bank, he literally tried to sell a nuke, paying off the dean of the college etc). And you know what? I'm starting to suspect Michael “Mike” The Cool Person isn't even his real name.

(also i think the fakeness of his cool guy persona is super interesting from a trans perspective)

neil is treated as the overworked unappreciated housewife/mother, while mikes the father everyone seeks the approval of, with vyv being the violent brother and rick being the socially conscious sister whose pigtails he tugs on (the bart and lisa of the flat lol) they’re basically the Nuclear Family in the form of 4 university students which i guess isn’t even headcanons anymore im just stating the actual intent of the show but im in too deep now and the gender politics of the young ones is interesting 2 me. despite featuring very few women characters i think lise mayer gave the scripts some Sauce.

neil consistently is forced into the traditional/stereotypical role of a woman in a lot of ways (including vyv oggling him in ricks dress) and as a result of this treatment (as well as probably an actual case of major depressive disorder imo) he repeatedly attempts suicide and/or threatens to do so as a cry for help. some of his attempts are so poorly executed it rlly does seem more like an ignored cry for help.

he's passive aggressive as hell, believes ridiculous stuff causes cancer and absolutely would fall for a pyramid scheme. just like a real mum! (feels so weird to type mum when you're american 😭 i feel like those ppl in 2012 who were like weebs for britain. teaboos💀)

neil to me is that one thing moms/mums sometimes do where they r all "omg I'm the only person who does anything in this house" while doing dishes and when u ask if they want help they say no but r like. sighing and sad about it. like perhaps they would like help but don't want to admit it or realize they could have asked this whole time but didn't and now feel embarrassed or ashamed by not realizing this sooner (not that the other guys would ever willingly help with cleaning). honestly i think neil likes wallowing in misery a little. idk

the line where he says he might as well be their mums and they reply that they at least *like* their mums, i don't buy that shit. Vyv has a strained relationship w his at best and you cannot convince me rick doesn't yell at his mum constantly. and mike for all we know could've been created in a government lab for all we know about his family+upbringing. i think they likely all love their mothers but i don't think they 'like' or respect them, and for this, neil really is the mum of the group no matter what the other 3 say >:3

there's probably more gender role stuff a way smarter and more qualified person could go into but that's all i have on that lol

ok back to regularly scheduled horny rivyan psychoanalysis

i think vyvyan's desire to become a doctor is partially rooted in his enjoyment of torturing small rodents (ie. SPG), and to him people are like. Big Rodents. and part of why he targets rick so often is because he reminds him of one (he is my precious rat boy). I've said this before somewhere but rick is like a prey animal to me.

uhmmm also i think if vyv came out as trans to rick he'd be super ignorant but outwardly go “oh yea transsexuality is so anarchic, right on! I dabble in a bit of transvesticism myself…” but he just really really really wants 2 know whats in vyvs pants 😭

and just wait until he does some reading and finds out about tdick and bottom surgery options. he'd probably keep avoiding eye contact but doing his gay little coquette shimmy every time they r in the same room and try to """subtly""" bring it up to him when he thinks mike and neil aren't listening lol

like “gulps is that your p-p-p-p-pussy vyvyan….” behavior.

i think some of vyv's aggression towards rick is just like. why dont i have a penis right now. i need 2 jackhammer this obnoxious twink somehow (oh no i'm projecting onto vyvyan i need to stop before this gets out of hand)

uh ok ok this isn't a headcanon but I'm obsessed with that one scene in Flood where they r all holding down neil to kill and eat him and he asks for a last cigarette and mike gets one for himself and rick instinctively lights it for him. Also in Cash when Mike and Vyv use Rick as a sofa um anyways um uhhh vyv phalloplasty/penis star tattoos/piercings goodnight everypony

what’re your favourite the young ones headcanons ? i need moreeeee

[kidovna]

hi! What are your predictions for stranger things 5? Who do you think could die? Really love your art, it’s really inspiring!

hi! i think a perfect ending would be no one dying but i think the stakes are at the highest they’ve ever been, so if i had to narrow it down, i’d say nancy or jonathan.

i don’t think will, el, max or hopper will die. not only have all four of them already “died” in the show, but will and el especially have lost their childhoods to the UD, it would be a horrible ending to kill either of them. and i do think the duffers were honest about not wanting to kill characters off for shock value.

jonathan’s death is a possibility only because will has not lost someone close to him the way the rest of the party has. lucas lost max, dustin lost eddie, mike lost el, max lost billy and el lost hopper. but otherwise i think he’s safe.

nancy however,,, the way they’ve cornered her narratively makes me believe that she could be in danger. one of the wheelers is going to be in grave danger, and though vecna showed nancy a vision of karen, mike, and holly dying, ultimately i think it’s going to be nancy herself who dies saving one of them. they’re gonna have to figure out the stoncy love triangle one way or the other and i feel like it’s very possible for them to simply make steve and jonathan friends in the aftermath because of the grief they’re both experiencing.

this is going to sound silly, but i don’t think robin and steve are dying because they’ve got gay character and fan favourite character immunity. (OR steve might die for this exact reason. like iron man in endgame 💀)

i absolutely do not want to ever think about joyce, mike, dustin, lucas or erica dying so i’m just gonna pretend like that’s not even an option.

i think it’ll be really funny if they introduce linda hamilton’s character, make people empathise with her and then kill her. make her the only character that dies 😭 it’ll be on brand for the show and the best outcome

i ended up talking only about characters death,,, my general prediction is that will is vecna’s sleeper agent and he’s going to have powers! you can read more of my theory here!

[saintheavenn]

🦇@🦇@💀

[pilvimarja]

1. 80s bullies were a special brand of SAVAGE 💀

2. Oh Will 🥺💔

3. Mike continues to be completely oblivious and so clueless. He is such a perfect, realistic depiction of a Teenage Boy 😬

Happy Stranger Things season 4 day to those who celebrate!!! 🥳🥳🥳