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Stranger Things  (season 1)

Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown)

Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine)

Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard)

Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo)

Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin)

Will Byers (Noah Schnapp)

Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton)

Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer)

Police Chief Jim Hopper (David Harbour)

Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder)

i want to see lucas and el have a plot together in season 5!! i want more about the inner-workings of their relationship. i think that those two have had tension since season 1.

after all, lucas was the first one to suggest that “maybe el is the monster”. i truly believe that moment (and her subsequently throwing lucas across the junkyard) is what causes her spiral with *someone* or *something* having to be the monster in the story.

plenty of people point out el’s [someone has to be the monster] complex. brenner, henry, mike… i wonder what kind of closure that part of the narrative will receive (will the answer be someone? no one? nothing?).

i want to see el and lucas having a friendship, and bonding over max (and potentially the loss of the rest of the friend group)… i have a feeling this season is going to be pretty bleak/harrowing all of the way through, from the beginning. i’m scared i’m going to have to mourn the gang splitting up.

but i hope that we ultimately get to see some new dynamics with existing characters, rather than them introducing anymore new characters for season 5

El to me is so very much a representation of female rage in an empowering way who also deserves rest. I love her gentle moments. Because she is ANGRY and she is allowed to express it. But it is also so sweet to see her in those soft moments. Where she doesn't have to. The quiet, calm moments when she doesn't have any to express.

She is strong and she is allowed to be strong. But at the end of the day, it's about how she shouldn't have to be.

Thinking about El keeping her powers but laying down her load.

Honestly, thinking about "To you I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it".

im so salty that willel has been barely explored because there must be so many complicated feelings on wills end that id love to see more explicitly played out

like theres this girl who saved your life that you saw in the void once in a daze, then she vanished and is presumed dead. and all your friends talk about her and she seemed so cool and youre so grateful for what she did. then she shows up again a year later and saves your lives again and you get to meet her for real this time, under non life threatening circumstances, and you feel so thankful for what shes done for all of you.

but then your best friend, who youre in love with, starts dating her. and you know shes saved your lives and she seems to make him so happy, but hes spending all his time with her now and, whether you like it or not, that leads to so much bitterness and resent and you wish more than anything that you were her. and you hate yourself for feeling that way because shes done so much for all of you, she doesnt deserve your resentment, she has every right to be with him. but you cant help but look at them and feel a painful, burning jealousy.

and then more things happen. she saves your lives for a third time now, losing her powers and father in the process, and now shes joining you as your sister moving all the way to california. and shes still dating your best friend. she sends him letters and he sends more back, she smiles as she updates you and your family on his life in hawkins. and your heart hurts realizing that you and him never talk anymore, that you have to be told by someone else what hes up to, that you used to be the one to tell your family at dinner what he was doing lately.

you feel like youve lost him to this girl, to this wonderful girl who smiles and waves at people in the hallways despite their glares, who risked her life so many times over to save them, who lost her dad not even three months ago and grew up in a lab and has been hurt by the world so many times over. and you still manage to feel resent towards this amazing, beautiful person. and you feel so, so guilty.

you feel so selfish for feeling this way, for feeling so bitter towards her, when shes helped you so much. when your disappearance is partially what caused a lot of her problems in the first place. and you love her, you really do, and you appreciate every last thing shes done. and yet despite this, the jealousy stays. she deserves all the good things that come to her and yet you cant help but feel bitter over it. youre such a horrible person for feeling this way about her.

you hate these things you feel, and you do everything you can to make up for them. youre as nice as you can be to her, because she deserves it and you love her, and she should have the good things that come to her. you shouldnt be taking that away from her just because of your stupid, selfish jealously. you repay as much of the limitless debt you can to her, for saving your lives and doing so much for them. you do everything you can to show your love and appreciation, and bury the jealously that burns in your heart, but still lay awake at night wracked with guilt. because youll never be her, and you hate that. and a part of you hates her for that. and all you can do about it is cry into your pillow.

i think one of my favorite things about jane/el that i've seen very few people talk about fully is how she loves, how she echoes and collects these part of the people around her even people who aren't in her life anymore, who she loved for just a little while. like her use of "bitchin" she got from kali, her love of eggos from mike making it for her once, her constantly wearing clothes that belong to other people. i don't know i just find it cute that she collects these little trinkets of everyone she loves like a little turtle or something

!!!! STRANGER THINGS SEASON 4 SPOILERS!!!!

omg I love 001 sm omg. "i nEvEr eXpEcTeD tHat" bitch I did. As soon as he brought up 001 I was like "your one." HE'S SO HOT OMG. "i can fix him" dude no I'll take him as he is hell ill join him. His VOICE. HOLY SHIT. I could cream right then and there. Currently scrolling through all of the 365 edits on the 001edit # on insta. Yk what else is 365? A movie. Yk a movie similar to 365? Love. Sooooo Henry do you want to-

Is El a good person is not a question people should be asking, seeing what she went through you should be asking yourself how the hell is she still this good even with all that abuse and trauma being fourteen years old, she went through terrible things in her formative years she should be so much worse. She had to kill people to defend herself and to not be punished, she was isolated for a long period of time, bullied by her peers, kidnapped from her mother... She was forced to live in isolation again even after she gained some happiness with Hopper and then her new dad didn't know how to manage his own trauma so he didn't know how to manage hers obviously, then she had to fight monsters and there is a serial killer that wants to kill her and her friends and then she couldn't save her best friend completely... She didn't know about the outside world until she was 11/12 and didn't even have a name... She was a number... How is she still good and kind most of the time, how does she still have the strength to fight for good and help her friends, how does she still try to trust people with what she experienced? That's the question for me... Of course she's not perfect, of course she gets jealous of her only friend, of course she makes mistakes with other characters and doesn't know the appropriate way to examine her own feelings and have conversations about her relationship, that should be expected and normal even if she was just a 14 years old without the trauma... The answer is yeah she is a good person because she still tries to be even with all the trauma she experienced without any mental health knowledge and even being re traumatized every year since she escaped the lab

Is el in tfs blonde?? I missed that

Sure is!

She and Henry have the same hair color at the end:

She’s also got the same hair color as Jane:

Which is not the same as in-show El:

mistery twins!!

Stranger Things  (season 4)

Imagine being a mileven shipper and being still in denial. Like babe we get it, you love your ship but just try accepting the truth. And stop saying mileven is endgame cuz it’s not. Like maybe you want to be delulu I have nothing against that but stop forcing your ship on others.

the most unrealistic thing in stranger things is that El didn't have like 10 different lesbian secret-admirers. She's the quirky but sweet new girl, felt the need to share the name of the squirrel from her cabin, has a brother who did his project on alan turing and a 'long distance boyfriend' who for a while no one had seen and angela probably said was made up to everybody. how did she not have like 3 different queer girls making heart eyes at her in the background of every shot???? unrealistic.

1x02

el/jane walking into the wheelers living room and her first reaction is to go up to nancy's picture to say "pretty"?? that girl is gay and i truly do believe that.

also super relatable natalia dyer is gorgeous

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