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TL;DR: HNL was studying how to give human subjects electromagnetic, most specifically visible light based, powers in order to bend space-time for their needs.
I’m going to try and condense this as much as I can because considering electromagnetism as a major force in ST (pun intended) opens up so many potential areas of analysis that can only be a brief cover of without turning into multiple essays.
Let’s go over the electromagnetic spectrum:
I hope you might already be recognizing some symbols we see often in Stranger Things, especially if you’ve been following the BTS and some location and set leaks from Season 5.
The electromagnetic spectrum encompasses the different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation - waves of energy that travel at the speed of light (and produce visible light to us at certain frequencies). You’ve probably heard of most of these, including cancer-causing gamma rays and x-rays, the visible light spectrum (the rainbow), microwaves, and radio waves.
In S5, we have the radio station as a main location for the characters. They’re also driving around in the radio station’s van, which has an image of a hawk emitting a rainbow (visible light radiation). Steve’s car also has a massive antenna on top of it. My first thoughts were that the team was trying to keep in contact with Max in hopes of her being able to hear them in her coma, considering she has a radio near her bedside. While that still may be a reason, I think the characters may have come to realize how important electromagnetic fields could be in their fight against Vecna (this where leader of the AV Club also focused on electromagnetic objects Scott Clarke may make his triumphant return).
Now to pivot onto why electromagnetism is so important to the lore of ST:
What the scientists in Hawkins Lab are likely studying is a way for human brains to produce or manipulate certain types of electromagnetic waves through telepathy. Most obviously this is seen by them having the kids try to manipulate and turn on a circle of light bulbs. Our brains actually already produce electromagnetic waves, but at a very slow frequency. The scientists are constantly measuring brain waves while conducting these experiments. We even get full shots of El’s brain waves during NINA, for example. We also see similar shots in S2 while Will is in the HNL.
You can also observe that the Hawkins National Laboratory has absolutely massive satellite dishes on it’s rooftop; ones that do not exist on the real life building but are added in post because they pose some sort of significance. Nudge, it’s because they are transmitting and receiving massive amounts of electromagnetic waves.
Why are they studying electromagnetic waves then?
They are studying electromagnetic waves because they are a method in which time travel can theoretically be achieved - the focus of the Montauk Project in which Stranger Things is based on. The military likely is investigating time travel as another war tactic against Russia.
Let us take a look at the first chapter of the Montauk Project: Experiments in Time book (they are seriously plagiarizing the living hell out of this thing):
Also, did you catch the whole 'attaching a massive antenna on the hood of my car to pick up a secret signal' thing? That's suspiciously similar to the state of Steve's car! Anyway...
The story of Stranger Things starts chronologically, as does Montauk, with the disappearance of the USS Eldridge and Project Rainbow (named after the bending of the visible light spectrum). Brenner’s father was revealed to have captained the boat in TFS, which disappeared for 12 hours into Dimension X and when it came back, the crew was killed or driven mad (except for Brenner Sr). This inspires Brenner to continue onto the Nevada project, and eventually, Hawkins National Lab’s studies. The USS Eldridge / Philadelphia Project conspiracy from real life went as follows:
They were studying electromagnetism, specifically the bending of light, to make objects invisible. This was only the first step in the experiments. Once Henry got involved and came back from his trip to Dimension X with powers, Brenner must have realized he could potentially use human subjects to manipulate electromagnetic fields themselves. Human subjects didn’t require machinery or set up and could bend space-time wherever they pleased, as long as they were able to learn the ability.
The more conspiratiorial side of Theoretical Physics proposes using circulating light beams to warp time-space, creating a wormhole in which one can literally walk through time. This is pop-science, likely not true but interesting for fiction purposes. This method of time travel being used is heavily implied due to the fact that the USS Eldridge was already able to disappear into another dimension by the bending of light.
This is how it worked in the Montauk Project book (absolutely ridiculous how much they took from this honestly):
My guess is that in the Stranger Things universe, they have not yet managed to time travel, only to create portals into this alien Dimension X. Previously, said portals were only made twice by highly advanced technological equipment. El demonstrated that she was able to open a portal all by herself - another step to achieving time travel with singular human subjects. Season five is when we will see the beginning of the time travel plot line, though it like in Montauk is likely already in a loop.
That’s where we get the name for the Rainbow Room, named after this Project Rainbow. The rainbow represents the full spectrum of visible light, and the goals of the project to bend said light into portals and eventually time travel wormholes.
Implications?:
-Well, first of all it seems very obvious by this point that we are going for a time travel plot line, and this is how it will be achieved.
-Will is heavily connected to light in general, the sun, and of course… the rainbow. He is also implied be the one involved in the time travel plot line. This will be very relevant going forward and deserves it’s own post. Potential funniness of defeating Vecna with the power of the rainbow afoot.
-Coma patients are known to have odd, barely detectable brain waves. The kids will be able to communicate with Max in her coma using the electromagnetic spectrum somehow, probably through the radio waves.
-On the farthest end of the spectrum, we have ionizing gamma ray radiation, which is known to cause cancer in humans. Expect Hopper’s daughter Sara to connect to this plot line (and perhaps Sam Owens’ dead son). There is a whole theory on this site already called radiationgate. I have not managed to look into it yet but I think they are probably onto something there. The original al pitch mentions the UD leakage into the real world causing cancer as well.
#stranger things#dr brenner#will byers#max mayfield#byler#<- fuck it intended audience#el hopper#st theory#electromagnetismgate#:)#tagging them for the exposure cause idk who is going to see this#time travel
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woe, guyjohn be upon ye
#guyjohn#the guyjohn archives#help me#my art lol#guy gardner#john stewart#green lantern#EEEEWWWWWWW GET A ROOM#BOOO TOMATO TOMATO TOMATO#if this doesn’t reach the intended audience i will fucking cry#the toothpick panel is LITERALLY like rhat like why was he sitting there like ‘omg ur literally so cool 😋😋’
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I really do feel like tme people think hearing "you have the ability to leverage transmisogyny against transfems and should watch out for this +support them" means "you're inherently evil for that ability and cannot yourself be oppressed" and just want to eschew any responsibility or chance of the first being true.
This is true of a lot of other axis of oppression as well of course, it's just SO egregious among tme trans people right now to feel genuinely offended at the thought that we can cause harm in ways that cannot be leveraged against us. But we can! And it's our responsibility to mitigate that, not transfems responsibility to make you feel better about it.
#transmisogyny#tempted to tag this for the intended audience (fucking asshole transandrodudes) but i dont want transfems i follow to be targeted#personal /
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[Source for this wonderful picture of our favorite fisherman here.]
Calling in two experts for this one: @thefandomeffect-noah and whoever is behind @ask-uncle-fang
And also me, I'll share my expert Fang opinion in the tags as well.
#fang#fang ofmd#ofmd poll#ofmd polls#so heres the rub: Fang is another wonderful and beloved character in OFMD#and Im definitely a multishipper#and OFMD is one of those tv shows that not only is prime real estate for multishipping but also seems to ask the audience to multiship#due to the multiple polycules yknow#like jim/olu/archie/zheng is a canon polycule#we got lucius/pete/fang as a canon polycule with intended lucius/pete/fang/roach polycule#jackie and her 20 husbands#if we got a s3 we maybe could have gotten more [another robbery]#HOWEVER while i DO ship#fang with lucius#fang with roach#fang with ivan#and even fang with ed#i am a fangizzy girlie [gn] and will be a fangizzy girlie [gn] to the day i die#anyway i will be publishing my fang/ivan/izzy/ed fic very soon!#im so excited for you guys to meet my favorite closed quad!!!!!! that i made up in my fucking mind palace
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kind of lame tbh how sakura in the chuunin exams arc is shown to cut off her hair as a symbol for her independence and coming into her own power (since she grew them out in the first place cuz she thought it might make sasuke like her) but then at the end of the story she still ends up being defined solely by her crush on him. like during the war arc kakashi makes it her most defining trait when he thinks to himself abt how team 7 has grown and they each have changed, he says abt sakura that her feelings for sasuke have changed. and in the end, when sasuke and naruto are about to take off to the valley of the end, she again, begs him to be with her. even says that she is pathetic for doing so like .. okay
#posts#i just smtimes wish kishimoto would give her more of a personality#other than just girl who has a crush on some guy 👍#its fine that she has a crush on him but dont make it her sole defining characteristic maybe? lol#and like she's consistently shown to beg for him and cry for him and sasuke tells her to go fuck herself over and over#i think when she says she's pathetic ... thats how the audience is supposed to perceive her as well yknow#that is how kishimoto intends for her to be seen#and that doesnt feel right for me :c#moreover ... it is also i think not debateable really that sakura's crush on sasuke .. it doesnt have that much depth#it doesnt have really any depth#which is fine conceptually i think. not everything has to be super deep and meaningful#but to make it into such a core trait of her as a character .. it just reads as if kishimoto perceives women as shallow#they just have shallow crushes on men no deep/complex relationships tho :) not with anyone thats for the men#u know?#anyways i know im not rlly saying anything new here#naruto is sexist fork found in kitchen#but yeah
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We got our first hate comment 🎉🎉
#I deleted it immediately lmao#But interesting to know we’re getting traction from the (not) intended audience now#I’ll watch out in case anyone else tries to fuck things up#Not culture#not culture post#not a culture post
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Sylvia Legris is a plenty successful poet as is but I do feel that she should have more Tumblr cachet. Like. Locked Tomb girlies look at these bone verses
Details of Articulated Skeletons, c. 1510
Memento marrow. The treacherous thread of the unnamed. The flourish-stripped reunion of broken parts.
The polymathematician (the osteo-horoscopist) plumbs the anonymous bones, the forlorn unspoken-for. Lead white, bianco di piombo, the poisonous orbit. An algebraic
of discrete desecration. Cancellous bone, cortical bone, an innominately rising hip bone. The acrimonious split of the acromion from the scapular spine. Explode the view . . .
Exploit the post-medieval zodiac. A moon-distending thorax; the gibbosity of the humeral head. The anteriorly tilting ascent of the pelvic girdle. False false ribs and the acute
angle of descent of rib one and rib two. Memento mori. Woe betide the Renaissance bonesetter. Bone-beset.
#all of Hideous Hidden is so good but the Midwinter the Cut-Time section is just. i love it SO fucking much#more than i can articulate. you know how it is. read the poetry that's the explanation you get it or you don't#i rank the collections Hideous Hidden > Nerve Squall > Garden Physic > Circuitry of Veins#Nerve Squall you can tell she hasn’t quite hit her style stride yet like she has in Hidden#but i prefer it to Garden Physic just bc aesthetically Garden leans much more heavily on herbalism and the plant organ#than either Nerve Squall or Hidden. and you know me. all organs are good but I prefer the bleeding kind#i am simply not really the intended audience for Circuitry of Veins tho' i do like many bits of it#and i don't have a copy of iridium veins or pneumatic antiphonal yet... but someday...#laurelnose.txt#poetry#(im going to title a MoE fic ‘an algebraic of discrete desecration’ one of these days and itll be about exactly what u might expect)
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Y'know yeah I think Medic and Heavy are gay on purpose. I don't think it's a fanon thing. I think Valve intended them to be queer. Yeah
#Before I got into tf2 my tf2 friend said they didn't think it was intended because of the target audience of the game and I was#'Okay. Idk if I agree but I haven't played the game so whatever' but now that I've played the game. for almost 30 hours now.#I just straight up disagree. Those are the gayest old men in that function and valve knows it#The fandom has been in agreement for fucking years by the looks of it as well. This isn't like a gay fandom thing#TF2#team fortress 2#Red Oktoberfest#medicheavy#android.txt
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okay so I wanted to show @coffee-mage-sans-caffeine some terrible field Beagle stacks, so that they could see how uncomfortable the dogs look, and therefore I went hunting for field rabbit beagle kennels.
I turned up one pet "rare color" breeder and one that turned out to be a breed-specific article from a fucking content mill. Which: Gross. But the third one actually was a field rabbit-hunting beagle breeder, one who had the most good ol' boy [appreciative] blog description of his goals I've seen in a very long time:
Woodpont Beagles are a pack of dual-purpose (show and field bred) hunting hounds located in Southern Ohio, USA. Some of our female lines now stretch back as many as 16 generations, spanning nearly 40 years. Hounds from this kennel have been very successful in the past at field trials and shows, although the primary focus the past 20 years has been on pack work after cottontail rabbit or snowshoe hare.
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Feel free to contact us if this sounds like the type of hound for you. Not everyone likes the same kind of beagle. If your interest is field trials, or showing, you may want to keep looking. If you want good, honest hounds for pack work or gunning, these just may suit you. Puppies occasionally available.
Like, you know that is an old white man with the most rural of backgrounds and interests. His philosophy is fantastic, mind you, the dogs themselves are a blend of conformation and working beagle lines with the goal of maintaining the best of both worlds, if I wanted a beagle or to hunt rabbits I'd be on that man's doorstep in a heartbeat. I'm reading his stuff and I'm watching very carefully, and I see a post title and pre-emptively flinch:
Immediately what pops into my head is QAnon and hideous right-wing politics have invaded all kinds of circles over the years, and look I was starting to really like this guy, his opinions about working hounds are kickass, and oh no he's going to take time out of his day to make it clear he thinks people like me are scum--what does it read--oh no, oh no, what is it gonna say--
Things You Will Not See Here
Hounds with No Show Blood
Hounds with No Field Blood
Hounds in above ground kennels (i.e., raised on wire rather than being reared on the ground. always. no stacking kennels or god forbid runs.) ...
Yeah. Okay. I can live with this. It's a website straight out of 2013 (or 2003) rather than 2023. And oh, what a breath of fresh air the blog is!
#dogs#dogblr#I really do encourage anyone who thinks about working-bred dogs vs show-bred dogs to come and have a look at this#because this is what an awful lot of the best working-bred old-time breeders sound like#and shaking his fingers judgily about wire kennels and stacked kennels so cleaning is easier#but also you note he doesn't frame that as an unthinkable and immoral act of animal cruelty#he frames it as something only a lazy backwards asshole would do#and actually he associates all above ground kennels with the wire floor kennels which are infamous#which further jolts anyone in his audience of beaglers thinking that above ground kennels are a great innovation#into going !! ugh#should distance MYSELF from that!#and if there's some pressing critical reason the kennels are necessary it's a goad to get your dogs--yes even young puppies--out onto groun#as much as humanly possible#then he starts lecturing beaglers on kennel care and shows off his spotless kennels#this is an old fuck who does not give a shit about pet dog sensibilities#but he DOES give a shit about running dogs that are capable of serving their intended purpose#and treating them well and fairly
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people saying "cis and fem presenting women dni" and trying to pretend it's not misogyny.
#'b-but the story is for m-masc nb and c-cis men'#who gives a FUCK dawg#people outside of the intended audience are allowed to view and consume the media#if it had said 'trans/gays/nb dni' everyone would be losing their fucking minds#but fuck women ig
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I don't personally feel like hand-touching would be an inherently sexual thing to Vulcans. I would assume it to be a situationally sexual/romantic thing, like human hugs, or Vulcan mind melds.
On a related note, mind melding is used as a sexual innuendo quite frequently, especially in TOS, though not always so.
(if you rewatch Dagger of the Mind, when it's first introduced... Hoo boy, the innuendo is surprisingly strong)
Anyway that's my take
#ramble#sttos#i know some people want to read into every other hand-to-hand but#i feel like that diminishes the impact of scenes like the one in ST:TMP#just imo#and the one in Wrath of Khan obviously#and obvs theres a difference between like#innuendos intended to be read between two characters and just general innuendos intended by writers to be noticed by the audience#if that makes sense#in other words im not implying that Spock wanted to fuck that guy in dagger of the mind#just that the act of mind melding itself has some parallels to sex that the viewer obviously will notice#star trek was racy like that
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loki series is just like, yeah we're way too homophobic & transphobic to actually explore loki's canonical queerness in any way, but don't worry, we're also going to make all of the hetero ships in this deeply uncomfortable to witness. you're welcome
#loki series#mcu loki#marvel loki#no offense intended to anyone who's into the het ships btw#i have nothing against weird or fucked up ships#i just think it's kind of funny#like 'yeah we can't alienate our family values oriented disney audience'#'anyway that clock wants to fuck kang'
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"Personally if you felted a big fluffy hedge and had some glasses on the ground by it and his twinky limbs sticking out I'd be into it" - @blackswan-wildgeese
Guardian Bingo Fest's bonus prompt for March is 'Take A Leap' and I'm swapping my B5 'fake dating' prompt for this.
Despite several suggestions of various people being yeeted from various places "Professor Shen being yote off that roof" was the one that truly spoke to my permanently unserious soul. And this is why you should have friends that encourage your interest in crafting being used for shitpostesque purposes. I have spent half the time making this cackling to myself and if that's not a sign I made the right decision, I don't know what is.
The design changed and got slightly more complicated because what if Shen Wei had had to commit to his lie so much that we got a very different shot than what we actually got:
Proportions and perspective are definitely way out but oh well. :D
#guardianbingofest#guardian#shen wei#i am so sorry sir#hei pao shi#has never been ungraceful in his life and here i am spreading slanderous lies#zhenhun#hand embroidery#wool felting#needle felting#guardian cdrama#twabbbiih made a thing#i hope you realise i am forcing you to have this when I see you next despite you not being all that into the show btw#dude 'fell' from a FIVE storey building and his glasses didn't even break#the sid were so right to be suspicious of him from the get go#once again i have rambled#im sorry i didn't come through on the arms but fuck me the shoes were hard enough i am NOT fucking with hands when i can't even draw them#i say as i work on a different thing that is specifically hands in great detail...#love yooooou Al <3 <3 <3 hope you like#this was made with the intended audience of 2
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look if you're going to come onto one of my posts and make claims about the ideological background of someone i've reblogged, you better have a thorough fucking works fucking cited at the very goddamn least
i'm a goddamn academic, you fuckwits
#you think i'm just gonna believe you bc you said it? go fuck yourself#i've gotten ten of these messages#i delete them all#give me fucking evidence or shut the fuck up#there. is. no. evidence.#so shut the fuck up!#posts that will not be seen by the intended audience#😒💢#edit:#posts that were seen by the intended audience and it did no good
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Thinking about this scene
#look i know i make jokes about them as a pairing and stuff#but their entire dynamic actually fucks me up so bad#i wish i had the words to express just how not normal i am about them#soichiro being driven to the point that his life literally doesn’t mean anything to him anymore#because he believes that him being alive actively puts his family’s lives at risk since mello is still threatening him for information#I’m really tired i have no idea if what I’ve written here makes sense but holy shiiiitt dude#literally nobody talks about them ever but i’m actually so deranged about them#mello#death note mello#mello death note#mihael keehl#soichiro yagami#soichello#not really intended to be a ship post but anyone who appreciates their dynamic is my target audience ig#death note#also i’m pissed they didn’t include this particular bit of this scene into the anime that would have been so cool
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I think once we, as a (western, could be different for other) society, move past the idea of lip-kissing being restricted for ONLY romantic relationships, and allow it to be something friends can do, we will be able to move forward.
And, by extension, once we as a (western) society recognize that being romantically affiliated doesn’t mean you can just expect your partner to want to do lip-kissing (or other forms of physical contact) just bc you’re romantically attracted to one another, we will be able to move forward.
#is this too much forward thinking for where we currently to are in dismantling amatonormativity???#probably#but I’m an autistic aroace-spec polyam person & I’m tired of pretending this doesn’t bother me!!#definitely why writing is super important to me bc like…#I intend on writing friendships that are EXPLICITELY PLATONIC but they still are chill with kissing on the lips bc it’s like#just another form of platonic affection for them#& I hope by portraying that in media that can (one day) have a broad audience#& as a result teach the next generation of kids that they don’t HAVE to conform to amatnormative conventions of love#fuck that shit#anyway I’m rambling#love#romantic love#platonic love#relationship anarchy#aromantic#asexual#polyamorous#relationship anarchist#amatonormativity#fuck amatonormativity
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