#not that I don't love joyce

[jonathanbyersphd]

thinking about Jonathan Byers who cried himself to sleep, threw up seeing his little brother's dead body, thought his mom was going through an episode, planned a funeral, confronted his abuser, didn't want to tell his mom about monster hunting because she had been through enough, stole a gun, nearly shot a deer, pulled Nancy out of the upside down, stayed the night with her so she wouldn't be alone, went shopping for a bear trap & a pack of .48s to kill a monster and then wasn't confronted/checked on/ or asked about where he had been or what he had been doing until he was arrested for fighting Steve after he insulted the Byers family.

[share-the-damn-bed]

JOYCE & JONATHAN in stranger things three

[hawkinslibrary]

Joyce Byers Stranger Things 3 Chapter Five: The Flayed | 3.05

[cobra-creampuff]

i do love that everyone is visibly shocked and grieving when buffy dies, sobbing, crying, stumbling, etc, but spike fucking collapses

[tenderjock]

don't let it in with no intention to keep it au, p1

The first time Dawn Summers meets Spike, she's twelve years old and supposed to be in bed, technically.

There's been police at their house all day, and their mom has been worried, calling people and driving around and not letting Dawn go to her friend Kayla's house even though she promised last week that Dawn could sleep over if she got all her homework done. It's not fair. Dawn sits on the end of her bed in her PJs and chews on her nails, which is a gross habit that she had stopped doing, but she just can't help it, she's sorry.

It's because Buffy's in trouble, again, and Willow's in the hospital, and Mr. Giles is missing, and the police said a girl died, too, but they didn't say who it was. Dawn heard the police guy tell Mom that if Buffy turned herself in, everything would be alright, but that's a lie. Buffy's in trouble again, and it's big trouble this time, and Dawn's passed the point where she's smug about her big, know-it-all, annoying sister being the problem child and starting to get really scared.

No one's seen Buffy for, like, more than a day.

So when Dawn hears her sister's voice in the front yard, she goes running downstairs and throws open the door. She stumbles to a stop just inside the doorway.

And stares. Buffy is standing on the porch with their mom and a man Dawn doesn't know. Mom looks tense and drawn; so does Buffy. They both have a set to their shoulders that indicates to Dawn that they are mid-argument, only company is over so they have to be polite about it.

The man is funny. He's short, with an angular face and hair bleached almost as pale as his skin. He's all tattooed and he's got a scar in one eyebrow and a piercing in the other and he's wearing a long, leather trench kinda coat with sort of punk rock clothes - he doesn't look like one of Buffy's friends, Dawn thinks, staring at him.

He's staring back at her, an exaggerated tilt to his head, like a curious dog. His eyes look washed-out and nearly colorless in the orange porchlight, pupils too big. They're focused very intensely on her.

"And who might you be, luv?" he asks. His voice sounds funny, like someone from a movie. Dawn blinks at him.

Before she can respond, Buffy darts between them, snarling. "You don't talk to my sister," she snaps.

"Dawn," Mom says. She walks past the man and Buffy, who are now glaring at each other in the doorway, and takes Dawn's hand. "Let's get you to bed."

"But -" Dawn argues. It's not fair, she thinks, it's really not.

"I guess you're gonna have to come in, Spike," she hears Buffy say like acid.

"I guess that's invitation enough," the man - Spike? - says back.

Dawn wants to stay and see what Buffy is doing with this weird man and what it has to do with the dead girl and Willow and Mr. Giles and the police. Her mom, in her infinite wisdom, ignores her twelve-year-old protests and leads her up the stairs and back to her room. She eavesdrops on the rest of the negotiation - the discussion - the fight - crouched at the top of the banister.

And if Spike, on his way out the front door, glances up, catches her eye, and winks, well ... her mom and Buffy don't have to know.

[thegaybyler]

Hey Joyce, you must be so exhausted from taking care of 3 teenagers 24/7.. You know I would love to adopt them and get them out of your way, for your sake of course ❤ *happily steals Jonathan Will and El*

[mermaidsirennikita]

I just don't think an author should edit the racist (or otherwise problematic) shit they wrote out of an edition of their book, let the other editions go out of print, and not at least leave a note acknowledging that they made the edits because they wrote something problematic and they apologize, but if you're buying this book you should probably know that it had content you may find offensive.

[causeimanartist]

What is your favorite Thursday Murder Club member? Im particularly attached to Ron and Elizabeth.

Oooooooooh tough question because I honestly love them all but if I had to pick - it's between Ibrahim and Joyce!

[crimescrimson]

Chloe Price in Life Is Strange (2015)

[marigoldbaker]

this really reads so easily as joyce's latent bigotry towards her queer daughter coming out in a way that the show will, of course, write off later.

[jonathanbyersphd]

"Jonathan's night to pick?" -> "Hey Bud, I uh, didn't know what you’d like so I got a variety. Take your pick"

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

One of my biggest Stranger Things fandom pet peeves is when people call El, El Byers. As if her father "dies" and then she starts going by her adoptive family's name? It's not even like they officially adopted her. How disrespectful to her relationship with Hopper to try and erase that part of her identity by calling her El Byers. She's El Hopper and she always will be. She may change her name to Wheeler when she gets married but at that point it will be legally changed 😁

[brionysea]

love this shot. it's like mike is inviting them into his mind/game ("alright, wheeler, i think we found your hub") + max and dustin are the ones who step into frame. i am staring at the implications

[bylertruther]

imma keep it real with you guys and tell u the most basic common sense thing ever which i thought everyone knew but apparently not (not said in a mean or condescending way). ahem. it's ok to write a byler fic that only has byler in it. no one is going to stone you or bite you if you don't include the entire party or every other character. it's literally okay 🩷

[thegaybyler]

Nobody touch me.

[biillys]

yes i know we all hate karen here but heres the thing. i got a crush on cara from her part in person of interest and i refuse to let the duffer brothers shitty storylines and fucked up attempts at romance take her character away from me. anyway EYE get to pick and choose what the characters i like would actually do and u know what? she would not do that shit. thanku