#stranger things s4 spoilers

[two-red-lungs]

The Kids Are Alright (Eddie Munson)

Your first date with Eddie Munson is fine, as far as first dates go. You get pizza together: meet awkwardly outside the door at 7pm, hands sweaty, exchanging nervous, butterfly-riddled smiles. You eat. He can't stop moving in his seat opposite you, tapping his hands on the sticky enamel tabletop. He looks at you with big brown eyes. Wary, at first, then as the night goes on and it becomes clear this isn't some string-along joke, or a prank, with boyish glee.

But the second date is the one that really shines.

Eddie, in all his intellectual glory, takes you to the Dollar Tree.

It's late, again, and the D in the logo flickers in and out of existence. The air inside smells like cheap plastic, dust, and the urban sprawl of capitalism. This is a place that's usually... dead. A pathetic sort of dead, where dreams come to die, the cashier looks about five seconds from falling asleep, agonizingly boring elevator music plays over tinny speakers, and Hawaiian themed teacups are on sale for ninety-nine cents.

You think god, what the hell are we even doing here? This is hardly a dinner date, or the bowling alley, or makeout point, or any of the usual dates your friends always bragged so cooling about. But then Eddie looks at you over his shoulder, spins on his heel, and throws his arms wide. His outfit jingles.

"Welcome," he says with a glint in his dark eyes, "to the goddamn kingdom of imagination."

You should leave. God knows to anyone else at school this date could sound like a horror story, an uncouth, uncool, unladylike disaster. But there's something in those eyes. Something vibrant and alive and real. So instead of leaving you think, okay. Why not.

Best decision of your life.

He knows this place by heart, every white-tiled aisle under the buzzing fluorescents. And he's funny, too: you didn't expect him to be so funny. As you both slowly amble and push your squeaky-wheeled cart he picks up random shit, talking as he fiddles.

A fuzzy caterpillar cat toy becomes his moustache. He wraps a crinkled paper streamer around his neck like a boa and faints dramatically against some of the shelves. He scurries to the aisle next to you and pretends to walk down a staircase, disappearing from view: when his moppish head pops back up again, his wild hair flounces.

Huh. He smiles like the sun.

Eddie asks about everything possible, and god, under his stoner slang he's whip fucking smart. You crack a joke or a sarcastic reference and he smoothly returns it with equal emphasis, two tennis players on the court.

You check out picture frames. Eddie suggests throwing a little spraypaint on it, a little silver paint to light the edges, some weathering with sandpaper, and suddenly you've got yourself some primo decor.

"You like to paint?" You ask him, standing in the aisle, holding the shitty wooden frame. He's looking over your shoulder. You can feel his body heat, this close.

"I'm a big believer in, uh. Creativity, y'know?" His smile is big, toothy. Still nervous. Like as extroverted as he is, as big as his personality could be, the sting of a scoff or a sneer could still hurt.

You tell him that's cool. Something in his eyes softens.

God, you don't know how many hours you spend in that place, just talking and touching shit and discussing potential DIY projects and cool ideas. You talk comics, and music, and Hawkins social politics. He tells you about Tolkien. You tell him about David Brin. He likes David Murray, you like Siouxie Sioux. You both agree the autumn leaves this time of year make the Hawkins High look like its roof is on fire (and god, if only).

Your cart is full of bullshit you don't really need, bullshit full of promise and potential, and Eddie is letting you ride the cart with your feet on the front bar as he pushes it down the aisle at mach one speed. He splutters behind you, your hair in his mouth. He's laughing.

The total comes to 12 dollars even. The plan for the next date is to turn the kids bathtub toys you bought- ducks and dolls and dolphins- into zombies and mummies and other creatures with the shitty barely-opaque acrylics set you scored.

The sky is black outside, and it's raining. He asks if he'll see you again this week, and you say yeah, duh. The air feels like fireworks- like lightning, like a live wire. You think for a second that he's gonna kiss you.

Eddie pulls out a silver-plastic tiara from under his vest, nicked free of charge from the girl's section, and sets it on your head. It's cheap, pattern-punched plastic with pink plastic gems. It's perfect. He's made you a fairytale.

Munson bows, smiles again- the one that makes his eyes crinkle- and then he's off in his van.

He's so weird. He's so strange. You don't understand him.

You think you really like him.

[practically-an-x-man]

oh my god i'm rewatching Stranger Things from the beginning and i just realized that the song that plays when they resuscitate Will in S1 is the same song as when Eddie dies in S4

[spagetroach]

Just finished season 4 stranger things and....

?????????????

It's so inconsistent??

How would that line up with 008?

Also it totally is catering to the shippers, the brought back tension between Nancy and Steve? Definitely Catering towards the Will x Mike too, and like really, this entire thing felt like catering to the audience, not even the the audience. Catering to the shippers specifically, by making tension and scenes, but not actually DOING anything with it.

Also why did they make Robin be the comedic relief? She should not have been the comedic relief. Though they at least gave her good humor, and nothing awful.

Also, she totally got turned into the diversity character for LGBTQ+ stuff, not saying that she isn't or shouldn't be lesbian, but they totally uses it as a plot twist and I find that annoying. Like where are the other gays? Hello?

In conclusion, I am going to treat Stranger Things Season 4, as we treat the Cursed Child book.

[therainscene]

The Hawkins Tinies (with apologies to Edward Gorey)

[alt-acc-but-its-just-me-again]

this is going on the alt no one looks at- this is too hot of a take

HOT TAKE getting upset over spoilers doesnt make a piece of media shallow or bad or anything, under the guise that the spoilers ruin the whole thing for you and therefore mean the plot twists are the only good part in said media

i dislike spoilers because i enjoy the immersion or “escapism” of it. i love the mystery. i love feeling the world just as the characters do. i love discovering it at my own pace. i love the wonder of experiencing a new world for the first time- second rewatches should be for noticing all the hints and foreshadowing and easter eggs- second rewatches are when i get to feel like god, thats a Treat For Later

but also i totally understand if you Don’t like the suspense and anxiety and enjoy the predictability as comfort but also like- keep that in ur pants!!

getting spoiled for eddies death made me loose any and all emotions i would have felt for that scene. it wasn’t “he sacrificed himself!! oh my god!” it was “he sacrificed himself? i thought that would be later”

getting spoiled for the end of tbomt made me loose so much intrest in the show because it ends in a trope i Really Fucking Hate So Much. but i love the characters still!! i love the world still!! its a great show!! me getting upset over spoilers cant change that!!

its fine if you dont mind spoilers! ill give you spoilers if you want! but i dont want them!! please dont!! consent bro!

on the other hand i hate people who are purposely all like “haha this guy dies i hope you cant watch this show now” and i think They Should All Go To Hell No Matter What

[everbyers]

We could be getting something on Will's birthday

This is just a theory, and I don't have any proper evidence for it, just pure speculation!!

Even though all the dates stuff are announced are random (expect st day), I think that a possibility of getting something like the teaser/trailer or even announcement dates is very possible on Will's birthday. Hear me out:

It's gonna set birthdaygate in stone even further.

Since It's an important announcement, the GA will have the date memorised and will be like "wait, this date is familiar"

It would make sense between the gap of the release and the dates announcement. The days between the dates announcements and releases are around 100-200 days. So, I calculated it.

If I'm right, the earliest release is June 30th and the latest is October 8th.

I personally believe that we are getting the teaser very soon and that we didn't get it because of the elections on st day. Possibly around December/Christmas?

[mskingbean1309]

You can’t convince me that they aren’t bffs that talk about boys at sleepovers

[smellsliketeenangst]

SOBBING AT DUSTIN GETTING EDDIES TATTOO!!!!

These BTS photos are FEEDING me right now

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

How Steve and Eddie accidentally have a baby:

Robin's cousin just had a baby through a turkey baster. Robin and Eddie are hanging out when Robin brings it up.

Eddie: There's no way! It doesn't seem possible.

Robin: Dude, you're carrying around your own turkey baster.

Eddie: Nope. Nope. Nope. No way!

Robin: We have the material. We have an actual turkey baster. Let's test out a theory.

Eddie: And if it does work?

Robin: Then you and Steve get a baby like you've been talking about.

Eddie: You know, maybe Steve is right. Maybe we shouldn't hang out without him.

Robin: Coward.

Eddie: . . .

Robin: . . .

Eddie: *narrows eyes* Do it.

A couple of months later. . .

Eddie greeted Steve with a kiss as soon as he walked into their home and snuggled into his arms, squeezing him tightly.

Eddie: So, how mad would you be if I told you that I got your platonic soulmate pregnant?

[foreverautumn89]

This better be a really bad joke. I'm a real Stonathan shipper and I didn't just make over 150[and counting] Stonathan Analysis posts on this side blog for nothing. And that doesn't even include all the headcanons ext ext on this main blog.

I agree there aren't many Stonathan fans, but saying that any Stonathan fans now a days aren't 'real fans' is bs. I'd say the Stonathan fans that ARE STILL AROUND are the 'real fans' [vs the ones from years ago] because after all these years, they still support the ship meaning that the Stonathan fans still around THEY are the real fans cause they're still here after all this time.

I've been a Stonathan fan since the show came out and I'm still a fan of the ship. Meanwhile all the 'real fans' [according to them] jumped ship A LONG TIME AGO and were only shipping what was popular at the time, meaning they're the ones that are not real fans. Only doing something because its popular at the time is the definition of 'not being a real fan' of it.

I spend months editing/perfecting/and posting the analysis and spent years getting it all together... and writing headcanons, fics, ext ext making all this Stonathan content, analyzing it, reblogging, posting about it non stop and after all that to be told I'm not a 'real fan'....

[fauxblt]

belated halloween post heheh (using @dogsill's the upside down pack)

[apocalyptic-byler]

should we be worried that theres a reference of music near his picture becaussseeeeeee

[upset-to-dead]

If the Umbrella Academy writers wrote season 5 of Stranger Things

Lucas is given the magical power to resurrect Max. She wakes up episode 1 and her being dead has no impact on her character development.

The Russians? What Russians? Oh, there was a US-Russia war that took care of that off screen.

Dustin becomes a comic relief character with no depth. Suzie is mentioned once offhandedly in episode 2 as having vaguely ended their relationship. No elaboration.

Will can fly now.

The kids discover they can defeat Vecna with the power of holding hands.

A third parallel universe called the Sideways-Over is introduced, used as a plot device once, then the show ends with no explanation or real relevancy.

Will has a tearful gay confession then he is sucked into super hell and Mike abandons him to go to homophobic heaven because God wants him to be his Special Angel - wait sorry that's Supernatural AND Good Omens.

Robin's role is written down to Steve's sidekick, Vicky is never mentioned, and she has no development or interactions with any one but Steve.

Mike finally gets with Eleven/Will. Then there's a time skip where he cheats on them with Steve. It's okay, we time skipped so its legal now. Why are you booing? They got trapped in the upside-down for four years, of course they'd fall in love.

[junoisthecoolest]

so bylers canon ig

[milevenstancyendgame]

Guys, I'm gonna flip:

Could this mean that Steve is in the ambulance?😳

Also, is Nancy's hospital disguise (possibly even two disguises, see last post) related to this?

[rissah2real]

tell me that cleanse shit from tua episode 6 wasn’t the mall scene with the mindflayer in stranger things bro. they messed up the szn so bad i almost punched my tv