one thing I really like about fandom and fanfiction is seeing how perceptions of characters and headcanons about the story change over time, especially as the media is still coming out.

like in the harry potter fandom I find it so fascinating to read fic from when the books were still coming out. people didn't know who was gonna end up with who or if harry or anyone else was gonna die. seeing what fans wanted to have happen or what they thought was going to happen is so cool, esp when it's something I never would've considered (and sometimes would've even preferred) bc I grew up young enough that most of the books were out by the time I started reading.

which is why I'm so excited by the theories and the fic being written about stranger things right before the last season, seeing all the ways things could go down, all the things people want to happen, before everyone will know exactly what will. Like are fans gonna turn on some character, or change their whole way of thinking about them after the last season? Is there gonna be some big revelation that changes how writers depict them, or depict the setting and the canon universe?

idk so interesting to me, makes me just a little more patient for s5.