My Favorite Thing About Will Byers Is That He Is Sensitive And Traumatized, But He's Also Snarky And

Friendly reminder that Will Byers biked home from his best friend Mike’s house one night only to be run off the road by a monster, chased through the woods, fled to his shed and gripped a gun with shaky hands to defend himself, only for all of that to be for nothing, and taken to a strange, dark world with no one else around where he had to fend off and hide from other monsters. A friendly reminder that he survived an entire week there by sheer willpower, something no one else has ever done before. A friendly reminder that he did all of that while looking like this.

Hey, do y’all remember how Tencent said they were developing faceID AI to identify people in riots, and then they suddenly created an AI art generator to turn your selfies into anime?

Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?

Do y’all remember how, on Twitter, Elon started a tirade against artists who ask for credit when their art is reposted, and he suddenly he created one of the first big art AI programs?

Do y’all remember how AI destroyed the field of freelance translation, despite the inferiority of the machine translations, because companies didn’t care about the quality of the translations? They just wanted it done for free?

Do y’all know how companies will see a lot of money going into a New Tech Thing (like, say, AI art apps) and will jump to try and implement that New Tech Thing into their tech? For example, how it felt like every big company and celebrity had an NFT to sell?

Just wondering.

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cop shows are like "dammit! we would have caught babyeater mike by now if people didn't have rights,"

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i think i hear a fly coming. ill use my nasty tongue to glomp it out of the air

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People can't understand why Will freezes in s4 when watching El get bullied cuz the show never cuts to Will's trauma as its happening, but they understand crystal clear why El freezes up after hitting Angela cuz the show splices her Brenner trauma in between Mike's accusatory tone being thrown at her.

They're so quick to forget that Will was kidnapped and possessed so he's probably gonna go into shock when faced with bullies who trigger that freeze response. And it's only cuz the show doesn't remind us with flashbacks that Will went and is still going through it. But El's trauma gets visually addressed all the time compared to Will and she's not seen as a crybaby when she's triggered.

We still don't know what Will had to do in s1 to survive for a week in the UD cuz it's never visually shown like how El meets One and how she was othered even in the lab by the other kids. All of Will's trauma besides s2 possession is implicitly offscreen/word of mouth while El's is explicitly expressed onscreen. People sympathized with Will in s2 cuz they saw his pain blatantly, but once s3/4 happened, amnesia hit cuz Will isn't fighting for his life as hard anymore so his reactions are viewed as childish/annoying instead of after effects of being targeted twice.

Compared to El; GA sees her witness bad men kill the 1st person to help her, see her remember she has a sister in Kali and that her mother tried to save her from the rainbow room once, see El feel horrible that Hopper's "dead" and wonder if she killed those kids in s4. We never got to see Will's reaction to finding out Bob died, which was a father figure to him too like Hopper to El. We never see Will's reaction to being a pawn in killing those soldiers.

For s5 I'm glad it's Will-centric cuz last time in s2 when Will was the focus, people cared for him and understood he was a boy who needed comfort.

I think the thing that drives me the most batshit about the medical fatphobia conversation is that the burden of proof feels so exactly backwards. Just from an obvious best practices standpoint???

Things like intentional malnourishment, intentionally incapacitating vital organs through surgery, denial of potentially lifesaving medical care until those things are done, etc.

Those are all pretty extreme. The kinds of things it feels like a “first do no harm” system should have a lot of solid evidence for before recommending or implementing them.

But they’re so bog standard and accepted and everyone from doctors to your own family will look at you like you’re a flat-earther when you suggest maybe we shouldn’t be defaulting to that.

wait so you're telling me that the no-fly list is NOT public information even though it has THOUSANDS of names? and people arent notified when they get put on it??? im sorry what? thats so fucking ridiculous thats literally a government blacklist. do you guys know how bad that is. (and white libs wanna use it for gun control? yeah absolutely make it easier for the feds to racially profile and disarm poc, see how that goes).

EDIT: several people have mentioned that its. 1.4 million people. so uhm. what the fuck guys

They’re dating I saw the movie already /j