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just know that i fucking hate the duffers & the ending of this bullshit show. it's so horrible, vile, & logically inconsistent that it's hard to even know where to start. boycotting the duffers ALL their projects can fuck off tbh.
will's queerness being used as a plot device in s4, him being mike's relationship therapist & confidant till the very fucking end while there being NOTHING to show this care goes both ways. will byers comes out to a room of 20 people (tf?) and sobs uncontrollably, and when he and mike talk it's just. will saying "i had to do this myself" and mike agrees and mike goes "friends? no, thanks" as a joke because for some reason he can't be fucking vulnerable with his best friend for once. reducing a 3-season love arc to a hallway crush & not even giving the dignity of a ONE ON ONE CONVERSATION or you know... the fucking painting. and mike suddenly stops touching him after he comes out? gang WHAT. their relationship was fundamentally queer (whether they ended up as a couple or not) & by refusing to ever answer byler questions on interviews they deliberately queerbaited. fuck them.
and let's not even get started on jane/el. they specifically made sure EVERY relationship el had was taken away or spoiled this season (hop suddenly projecting his dead daughter & not trusting el again DESPITE THEM ALREADY HAVING DONE THAT ARC; elmax reunion nonexistent??; nothing with her and the rest of the party; mike and her being so fucking incompatible it's LAUGHABLE; kali you were done so dirty why do they hate poc women). ambiguous ending sucks bc she would not want to be alone. she wants a family. i can never rewatch this show knowing how her story ends.
a show meant for outcasts has the girl who is abused and used as an experiment her whole life kill herself. and the queer boy who was abused & kidnapped has his struggles minimised & doesnt get the ONE thing he wants.
"fuck conformity" while they have the most conforming-ass ending in TV history.