idk here’s both my comfort shows together lol
mike making dustin feel better, saying he has superpowers,
mike defending el when they called her weird, praising her like a superhero
mike calling will a super spy and empowering him
all while he's only felt like a nobody that's not needed in anyone's life
that painting meant way more than will could ever imagine
what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?
would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?
Do people seriously think that a show centered on nerds and social outcasts...
... shows how awful the popular kids can be...
... villainizes anti-gay bullies...
... sides against abusers...
... supports LGBT+ people...
... has interracial romance...
... embraces being different...
... turns an expected hetero romance into a beautiful platonic friendship...
... criticizes moral panic/evangelism...
... makes the "town freak" our hero...
... shows that love can overcome hate...
... and whose characters don't want to recreate the nuclear family...
... do we really think that show will let a suffering, traumatized gay boy's love be the device for a conventional white hetero couple to be the show's "main relationship"?
Has the show even set-up Mike and El, who met through trauma and circumstance while they were children and have repeatedly lied to each other, for a lifelong commitment?
Who's actually delusional?
And who sees this show for what it is? And what it's clearly setting up?
-teambyler
(This is a companion to "How the Duffers have set Will up for a happy ending in Season 5")
"Mike didn't love El at first sight. He treated her terribly."
"Well, he had just met her/didn't know her yet/was upset about Will!"
The analysis I'm working on is really opening my eyes...
I start to think I’m seriously aromantic because why are all my friends are either, in relationships, having crush or being heartbroken, and I’m just… existed. No crush. No love life. Only gay ships, coffee and works. On loops.
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