Btw Will Byers Feels Like A Mistake For Being Gay But Mike Wheeler Makes Him Feel Like He's Not A Mistake

there has to be subtext behind boris singing the song about two kittens to theo after being horrifically beaten at the hands of his father and then proceeding to call his girlfriend a nickname that means kitty cat

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Your phone is why you don't feel sexy

Eros, desire, instinct, eternity

Eros—carnal desire—is an embodied experience, and our phones do a terrific job of getting us out of our bodies and into our heads. In the digital age, we often neglect our bodies entirely, and use them merely as a way to transport our heads to meetings. (The rise of rave culture and physical fitness programs since the 1990s is perhaps evidence that we feel the need to fight against this.) No one feels connected, present, alive, embodied, or sexy when they’re on their phone all day.

And our phones don’t just move us out of our bodies, but they have become something of a second brain, a second body. You don’t have to remember something if you can record it, photograph it, or type it into your notes app. You don’t have to look good in person if you look good on Instagram. Our phones not only hollow out our true selves, but are starting to replace us.

theo likes to think of himself as the successful one between him and boris because he has a ‘real job’ when it’s like. a dying business he ran into the ground through fraud while having no employable skills outside of a niche dead in the ground industry and graduating college with the minimum required 2.0 gpa meanwhile boris has a maybe shady but fully functioning fully staffed multinational enterprise and a laundry list of hoes in different area codes i love you classicism

— Mary Kate Teske

maybe we should all watch the goldfinch and it chapter two again and read some richard siken and the secret history and all wear wool coats and long scarves while listening to the national's terrible love and then we can rediscover some long lost peace

the way i talk about theo decker is indirectly really emotionally vulnerable in a way i fear my friends would recognize so i keep that on a side blog

theres not much i can do but i can carry the umbrella. theres not much i can do but i can listen. theres not much i can do but i can steal you a bag of chips, some cough syrup when youre sick. theres not much i can do but i can put on some music. theres not much i can do but i can teach you a few phrases. theres not much i can do but i can put this dog on your chest and remind you that youre here and not there. theres not much i can do but i can hold you. theres not much i can do but i can kiss you goodbye. theres not much i can do but we can drive around for a while. theres not much i can do but i can walk back into your life after years and years apart and solve the biggest problem in your life

I need y'all to listen to me possessed Will choking Mike to death and Mike tapping out "I love you" in Morse code on his wrist because he can't talk but he can't die without at least some part of Will knowing

it's really such an experience to go from "oh this is really cool wow" to "aw man i like this so much i need to eat glass about it" i cant even pinpoint when it happened