#stranger things novel

[dorkszn]

just got the runaway max book, already prepared to cry after reading two lines. i love max but max makes me so sad. and i love and hate billy but he makes me so sad too. their dynamic hurts so good.

[this-is-the-truth-0]

Book 👏 Eddie 👏 is 👏 STILL 👏 the 👏 original, 👏 canon, 👏 Eddie because was written with the script before Joseph characterized him, it's exactly how he's supposed to be. Hate the book for this reason is just silly. And is useless you google if the Stranger Things novels are not canon, this book was written by the one who CREATED Eddie. So quit spamming the tag with your bs and get things right before opening your mouth!! There's no need to be so arrogant over a book. Thank you.

[lumax-mayclair]

A Semi Defense of the Hellcheer Crumbs Present in Flight of Icarus from Someone Who Doesn’t Subscribe to Any One Hellcheer Head Canon in Particular (also the same someone who hasn’t finished the whole book yet, but I think I got all the hellcheer parts 😅)

YALL MADE ME BUY THIS BOOK OUT OF SHEER CURIOSITY!

🚨spoilers, duh🚨

Disclaimer: By all means, if you genuinely don’t like the characterization and call backs, that’s completely your prerogative and preference, I simply would like to present an interpretation that some might find interesting or make them hate the book interpretation a little less.

Quick question: Didn’t we basically all decide that Eddie is kind of a dick in the way that he prejudges people and is guilty of assuming people are one dimensional too (like how the jocks do)? So for him to have one minute of exchanged pleasantries with Chrissy four years prior to FOI and then returning to a state of assuming she’s just like the rest of the jocks and labeling her as “uninteresting” in FOI is actually in character for him…??

Though Eddie only recalls their first meeting at the middle school talent show in s4, we learn in FOI that they had one other close encounter in their high school years. The time when freshman Gareth was being bullied by some basketball heads, including a JV Jason Carver, whose girlfriend, Chrissy, is there trying to get them all to leave Gareth alone. It’s in the middle of this encounter, where Chrissy takes the initiative to forcibly remove Tommy H ’s hand from Gareth’s shirt collar that keeps him pinned to some lockers, that Eddie remembers the girl he met on the catwalk before their respective turns in the middle school talent show. The two asked about each other’s parent attendance: Eddie’s lack of and Chrissy’s desire that she had a lack. They agree to cheer for each other if no one else will and later when Eddie seems to witness her mother berating Chrissy’s performance, they exchange quick smiles, before Chrissy’s mother drags her away.

Despite, the pleasantness of this encounter, in present time (FOI), Eddie still has a less than stellar opinion of Chrissy. As he says it “There’s another Chrissy Cunningham. I just hadn’t thought she survived the jump to high school . . . I��d thought the last four years had stamped out any trace of the unsettled, imperfect, approachable Chrissy Cunningham.” Essentially saying, without getting to know her at all and despite the one interaction I did have with her actually being quite pleasant, I doubt that’s really her now. Okay no-labels-Munson 🤨

This narrative or characterization can be tied into s4 when Eddie tells Chrissy he thought she “would be mean and scary”, despite the two previous interactions we now know them to have had. One pleasant and one semi pleasant, which from both encounters, Eddie gets the feeling that maybe Chrissy isnt as flat as he would’ve thought her to be, yet he’s shown to still default to thinking she would be a stone cold diva in every future encounter they have, mostly based off the fact that she’s with the jocks. Judgy much, Eddie??

So how do we jump from FOI Eddie who thinks Chrissy is “just some cutout of a cheerleader” to s4 Eddie, who remembers their interaction in middle school and has an eye for cheerleaders??

I mean… this interaction here is him remembering and placing her as the girl from the talent show, so instead of him remembering in s4, their one interaction from 6 years ago, we now know him to have remembered it here in FOI, 2 years before they meet again in the forest and maybe this remembering and her attempts to stand up for him and Gareth, (Chrissy’s literally an angel 😇♥️) leaves an impression that makes him notice her more over those next 2 years, which would tie into his love of cheerleaders in s4… plus, I think we all know, you can be attracted to people you don’t really like, especially if it’s just physical and you don’t actually know them 💁🏻‍♀️

Regardless, if you truly think this is out of character, that’s cool, but maybe it helps to also keep in mind that there’s still 2 years until we meet him in s4. That’s at least 730 days worth of experiences where he could’ve molded into the person you interpreted him to be 🤷🏻‍♀️

TL;DR: In s4 Eddie prejudged Chrissy to be “mean and scary” even tho they’ve had semi good interactions before. In FOI, we see he’s done the same thing before when he describes Chrissy as “an uninteresting’…’cutout of a cheerleader” even though they had met at the middle school talent show and had a good connection: Eddie’s a judgy asshole 🙃

[str4wb3rry-fire]

give me songs that have robin buckley vibes and tell me why you think they do. i just got the rebel robin book and need more songs for my playlist !!!

[discocandles]

one thing about steve harrington is that he sucks at doing nothing. like he has to be doing something with himself lest the guy waste away. this has led to him being very good at fucking around with things especially when its something relatively quiet. the loudest steve will let himself keep his hands busy while stuck idle is tossing whatever's in his hand to himself and catching it, which usually bodes well for sports practice after coach learned that just because he was moving didnt mean he wasnt paying attention(usually the opposite).

he learned how to flip a pencil around his thumb in middle school and seeing someone in one of the meetings he sat in on doing it. he'll twirl anything he can around in his hand, especially while he was working in the mall. the scoopers were perfect for it. and any way youve seen a drummer/percussionist fiddle with a drumstick, steve knew he had to replicate it.

but even with all this movement and the fact the guy was barely ever not moving, it seemed like no one noticed it ever. a fact that nearly drove eddie insane when they were in high school together. because he did have the reputation of being restless, and in a constant state of movement. and he probably fucked around with random shit less, so how did steve "the hair" harrington not end up with the same reputation? the answer was just that he was way more quiet("and sneaky" -eddie) about it. and if the teacher hated when their students fiddled and futzed he'd be sure to try and keep the movement below his desk.

but it not that he only has to keep his hands busy. no no no, if bored or stuck waiting, and that won't suffice, steve harrington will pick up anything with words just to read it. anything. outdated newspapers, ingredients lists, magazines of any topic. he just mindlessly grabs for whatever and starts fucking reading. Robin could swear under oath to a court that her best friend has read the back of every vhs in family video. hell, she's seen him reading drugstore novels, like the fucking grandma smut and books with cover art of nicely dressed ladies running from a castle. and its her jock best friend reading it, instead of some repressed suburban woman who hates her husband. yes, this information is the bane of robin buckley's exsistance because its not like anyone would believe her.

idk just give me steve being restless but doing it quietly enough that no one really picks up on it.

[artbean]

@eddiemonth day 20: cryptids/folklore

if i die today, it won't be so hard / everything scares me, but never the dark / stay acting brave, but i'm too faint of heart / to pull out the thorn in my side, or: an alternate cover for the upcoming eddie novel (version without text under the cut!)

[gmaybe666]

final update! they're gonna go pick mike up to hang out

[ghost-proofbaby]

a relationship with eddie munson would be a partnership. you obsess over the jurassic park movies, he obsesses over the jurassic park games.

you both know an ungodly amount of random dinosaur fun facts combined.

[disjointed-art]

She’s here!!!!!

I did it! I made a book!!!

Preorders launch April 20th 💕🌸🫁

[beep-beep-robin]

apparently there‘s a robin centered graphic novel coming out on august 9th and i‘ve never been more excited

it‘s #3 in the tales from hawkins series

here‘s the description:

[wheneverfeasible]

You know, one of the main reasons I’m looking forward to the Dustin book is of course more Eddie content. But also we’re also going to get a name for Unnamed Freak. Of course, fandom has given him so many names already, which I’m sure won’t change, and the books may be considered canon but they’re easily ignored as only canon adjacent too.

But I’m still interested to see what name they give Freak, and also what surnames they give the others, though I won’t let go of Gareth’s being Emerson even in death.

And honestly? That’s the best thing about fandom. You can pick and choose what you want to keep and what you don’t. Canon or otherwise, it can so easily be ignored and I think that’s beautiful.

Anyways, Stranger Things: The Dustin Experiment by J.L. D’amato is officially out on October 29 (though some places may have early copies) and I’ve already preordered mine. Still need to finish Suspicious Minds and start some of the others but Dustin’s might get priority because I miss Eddie 😭

[lumax-mayclair]

“You think we want in on that satanic shit?" demands the shrimpy little jock- Jason, I remember, the one who hauled Chrissy away like a sack of dirty laundry.”

Another Chrissy mention 🙃💕

[solarmorrigan]

Suddenly hit with the idea of Steve and Eddie making an attempt at some kind of sexy regency role play because Steve has a soft spot for romances, but for the life of me, I cannot imagine either of them being able to take it seriously

They don't have a whole lot of money to go into costuming, so they end up with cheap outfits from the Halloween aisle in Melvald's, but they figure it's the thought that counts. Eddie absolutely overacts his role; he has never read a regency romance in his life and has no idea what he's doing. He swings wildly between Shakespearean English and some kind of Monty Python impression. Steve wants to be mad at him for not taking it seriously, but he can't stop laughing

They do have fun, but maybe not the kind of fun they'd been anticipating 

[str4wb3rry-fire]

i finished rebel robin, its incredible. 10/10, definitely recommend.

now im gonna read runaway max and i need songs for the playlist im making :) please leave any and all song that remind you of max mayfield!