I’ve Spent Months, Maybe Even A Year With The Same Two Characters Cycling Through Different Fandoms

Oh nothing, I’m just thinking about the fact that Mike Wheeler jumped into the quarry to protect Dustin only to find out a couple days later that his best friend’s corpse was in that water. I wonder if he thought about that after they pulled the fake body out of the water. If things were different they’d both had been at the bottom of the quarry, or they would have found Will’s body faster because they’d be looking for Mike’s.

“crazy together” more like dead together 😭

Robin fully thinks that Dustin is a dog that was sent to obedience school and not a human child that went to summer camp because Steve talks about him like:

Steve, sighing wistfully: I just miss the little guy, you know?

Robin: ?

Steve, right after servicing ice cream to a guy: That’s my mailman. Dustin fuckin’ hates that guy. Goes crazy when he sees him.

Steve: *does not elaborate on Dustin’s long standing feud with the postal service*

Steve: My parents are actually kinda happy that’s he’s gone. They think he’s loud.

Robin, thinking of her neighbor’s dog: Yeah, they’re like that.

Steve: And the jumping, they hate that.

Steve: - bunch of chocolate. Got an upset stomach and threw up.

Robin: They can’t have chocolate.

Steve: Yeah, I know. He’ll throw up!

Steve: Dustin’s coming back next week. I think I’m going to get him a welcome back gift. Got any ideas?

Robin: Something that squeaks?

Boy, walking up to the counter: Hi

Robin: Hi

Boy: I’m Dustin

Robin, internally: *no one can ever know any of my thoughts ever*

Save me Quirkless!Natsuo Todoroki

Quirkless Natsuo SAVE ME

If Mike's love confession was supposed to be a big romantic moment, he would have said it not knowing it would help but it would have been received as empowering her powers.

Instead, he said it knowing it would help, completely undercutting his motivations.

The entire trope that scene is referencing is "you can't die without knowing how much I love you". But that isn't what this was. They made sure to write this to me "I love you, will that help convince you not to die?" which is an entirely different thing.

Mike would have told her of his own volition simply because he was losing her, but because of specifically what Will said in his encouragement, referencing a conversation about how Mike "gives her the courage to fight on", we know that he was motivated to do it by the fact that it would help her fight harder, not out of pure intention for her to at worst, die knowing.

Thought about my oc in a different fandom than usual and oh god please save me PLEASE I SWEAR THEY CAN LEARN TO BE A TEENAGER IN THE 80’S I SWEAR I- *I scream, kicking as I get dragged into a padded room*

nothing can ever hurt me more than

“See Micheal? See what happens?”

“What happens when what?”

“I’m the only one that’s acting normal here, I’m the only one that cares about Will”

The thing is, if Mike had said in any other context ‘My life started November 7th 1983’ it would be understandable.

He could’ve meant that his life started because it was the first time he truly felt loss. Of course that loss being his best friend going missing and leading to a body being found.

It could have meant that his life turned upside down when he found out monsters and powers were real. The night his childhood became a cycle of pain and horror, with him and a gaggle of other children being in charge of saving the world. But his life didn’t start that night in the woods, his life started ‘that night he found El in the woods’. And I know it was supposed to be him professing his love or whatever, but El didn’t start his life. The Upside Down did, and Mike has the two confused.

I know it’s a bit nit picky but I think it’s fun to point out that it feels more like he’s projecting his feelings about the Upside Down onto El. He frames it as El being the catalyst of his life because at the time she symbolized the supernatural things happening in Hawkins and the hope of getting Will back. Because him finding El in the woods introduced the world that had consumed his life for the last 2 and a half years at the time of his monologue.

anyways Byler is canon

going back to the source material only to be violently reminded that the widely accepted fanon ship isn’t actually canon is so strange

it feels like going off to war and keeping a picture of your dear wife on your bedside, only to come home to an empty house and divorce papers on the table. Or worse. You catch her with another man in another ship

my brain ping-ponging between MHA and ST like a dog whose pet owner fakes out throws when playing fetch

Born Sexy Yesterday and Milkvan

Milkvan is specifically mentioned on the "born sexy yesterday" wiki as an example of the harmful trope:

why is that? well using the wiki as a guide....

"A central element of this trope is the female character's ignorance, which allows the male protagonist to adopt a teacher-like role, guiding her in social norms and romantic interactions."

"He instructs her on socially acceptable behavior and guides her in romance and sex, despite lacking any qualifications beyond being the first person she becomes close to, leading her to idolize and fall in love with him."

"This dynamic, frequently described as "mansplaining," stems from deep-seated male insecurities about sex and relationships."

"Meanwhile, the female character, characterized by her naivety, falls for him simply because he exhibits basic human behavior, which she lacks."

"Despite their innocence, these characters often excel in areas like combat or intellect, appealing to heterosexual male audiences."

"While these characters often serve as heroines, their portrayal perpetuates harmful stereotypes about female innocence and male dominance. McIntosh's video highlights the prevalence of the trope in various films, exposing its underlying sexism and paedophilic implications."

"McIntosh argues that the Born Sexy Yesterday trope reveals deep male insecurities regarding sex and relationships, reflecting a desire to control female identities and a fear of female agency."

...yeah i just can't like them 'cause of this

(psst, you should check these out if you haven't already:

the video that started it all

the trope wiki page

i'd highly, highly recommend them).