#vs how don and brenner (both in the play And in the filmed show) have a ton of parallels/connections

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thinking about how patty's mom shows up all weird and vecna-ified in tfs (she gets the weird hand and everything) vs the thing from wayyy back re: vecna/henward's regen healing & its parallels to cancer & how the duffers definitely seem to have pulled from henrietta lacks as inspiration & the idea of the lab testing on henry and his cells the same way they tested on and harvested henrietta's (without consent) vs how that lowkey rubbed me the wrong way for awhile (re: the idea of the duffers taking henrietta lacks' story solely for vecna/henry/brecna/whoever) because a core aspect as to *why* henrietta lacks' cells were harvested and tested on without her consent (as well as all of the medical records being published wihtout consent, and ruling against her family in the supreme court etc etc) was because she was a black woman in the 30s through 40s/very early 50s, and so it just seemed like an odd choice to grab that for a white guy while totally erasing the context of henrietta's story in the process

but now im staring at patty's mom like girl what is up with you are You the real henrietta lacks equivalent here?? are you somehow the reason Why/How vecna has that regen healing??? esp re: the predator post i'm working on & all of the bizarre overlap between the doppelgorgon stuff & the mindflayer stuff & vecna i just hrgrhgrrb. especially with all of the parallels that patty's mom has to terry vs terry who was also tested on by hnl (initially with consent, later without it)...

(also staring at henrietta's cells being used in developing the polio vaccine vs scott's line about the polio vaccine in s3 vs all of the wheelchair references with the creels vs patty's cane at the end of tfs (i know its from her fall from the catwalk but just yk. subtext and Imagery TM) and i just . rghrghrhg)