Reading The Goldfinch Isn't Enough I Need To Become An Alcoholic

Bitches will find a fictional man attractive and then immediately imagine him in situations where he is losing alarming amounts of blood

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 😭

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

Robin’s not the one that introduces the kids to an actual queer community. It’s not Eddie or Jonathan either.

It’s Steve casually saying he was going to a concert in Indianapolis over the weekend and the kids demanding to know what band and if they could come.

Only for the band NOT to be some cookie cutter Tears for Fears wannabe. But it’s instead a small punk band full of very outwardly queer individuals who put on exaggerated costumes and characters for the show and are raising money for charity.

Will stares in awe.

Lucas is a little lost but he has the spirit.

Dustin cries at one of the songs/monologues.

Mike avoids eye contact with anyone.

And the lead singer flirts with Steve a little too long, singing directly in his face.

is this about my oc’s and their band? Well yes.

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.

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to sadomasochistically torture fictional characters

moved in with lesbians and thayre making me watch mha

they are so mean to the green haired boy

i want to get all might pregnant