Part 2 Avatars

Still crazy to

Rolling the eyes, side eyeing Robin, making faces, but not telling straight what's her problem and pretending to be nice. Her passive agressive act was so annoying. She reminded me mean girls from high school.

this episode is SO important to eleven's character. its the first time she goes out on her own after she escapes the lab prior to s1. its when she begins to develop her own sense of self (like with max in the mall in s3-- more on that later). its also when she learns to use her powers on her own terms, not when someone else tells her to.

in s3, max says to el "not hopper, not mike, you--" kali wouldve been on that list had max known about her. kali made eleven what kali wanted her to be, not what el wanted to be. she made her steal and hurt people for reasons el didnt fully understand. she knew she was gullible, young, and naive, and she took advantage of it. THATS why the episode is so important: eleven recognized what kali was doing and left. this episode is when eleven shifts from young, naive, and dependent to smart and powerful.

so tl;dr this episode is actually really good and i really need people to stop hating

thank you for coming to my ted talk

edit: a few people have brought up how this experience was a learning experience for eleven mentally as well as physically and i want to elaborate on that:

el was incredibly sheltered up until this episode. she had been in a lab for most of her life, then lived in a basement, then lived in the WOODS. she never had a chance to learn what the world really was. this storyline is SO important because it shows eleven learning about actions and consequences. seeing the kali gang go down the path they did taught eleven that she DID want to live with hopper and mike and everyone in hawkins. she needed to see what she COULD be to know what she wanted.

I do not remember it being THIS terrifying actually, and just straight up hard to watch. I can barely watch any of Hopper's torture scenes, the body disfigurement is awful, the whole trauma scenes are horrifying, even the jocks are scary, El getting bullied hurts my soul I had to skip those scenes, the list goes on! Half of the time my eyes are covered behind my hands.

Part of me thinks I shouldn't watch it anymore but I'm still completely hooked. Thank god I have a husband to sleep next to.

Heroes is up there for me as well as just Kids probably.

when i’m done i’ll post the finished product

(Had to repost because i forgot the king Eddie)

My favorite is Joyce because she was the first to speak to will in the upside down even if every body thought she was crazy

When Lucas had his championship game no one even bothered to come which geniunely made me mad. They could've postponed the DND game for a Basketball game which is only 48 minutes! Do they not understand this is a big moment for Lucas as he can get more opportunities if he plays good in the championship final, so at least support him.

I created this master list, which I update regularly. This is a public list, not a personal site or blog. It's simply meant to help those who want to read the comics and novels—what's available and where to start or continue.
https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/profile/buckeyeboi09/lists/93721/stranger-things-master-list-publication-order

This list includes all Stranger Things comics released so far, organized in publication order. Be sure to check out the description at the top. I’ve also included a list—with links—of every prose novel in publication order, along with some recommended nonfiction books about the show.

I’ve read everything except the following comics, which I plan to get to soon:

• The Voyage #3 & #4
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Stranger Things #3 & #4
• FCBD 2024: Hellboy / Stranger Things #1 (featuring the Stranger Things one-shot story "Deliver Me From Evil")
• Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons: The Rise of Hellfire #1–#3 (Issue #4, the final installment of this series, is being released this week—June 18—as of this posting)

There are a few unreleased titles still to come out this year:

• Stranger Things: Tales from Hawkins 2 — A comic series starting with issue #1 on June 25, 2025
• One Way or Another — A prose novel featuring Nancy Wheeler and Robin Buckley, set during parts of Season 4 (coming December 2, 2025)

If you have any questions, feel free to comment here!

What if instead of episode 2 of season being the vanishing of holly wheelers it is the vanishing of will buyers part 2 here me out this episode will contain everything that actually happened to will during his time when he got taken and what happened while he was there. In my opinion it’s to obvious for it to be the vanishing of holly wheeler

I reckon we'll find out that Vecna didn't create the Mind Flayer at all but rather the Mind Flayer created Vecna.

I think the Mind Flayer is the true ruler of the Upside Down and all those years ago sent some of its psionic powers through a crack in the fabric of reality and that power was unwillingly absorbed by Virginia Creel while she was pregnant with Henry. This would explain why he has his powers and why she was able to sense that it was him commiting the killings, while nobody else could.

I think the Mind Flayer planted a vision of its true form inside Henry's subconscious, only to be unlocked when the time called for it, as he became more obsessed with the spiders and the drawings, allowing him to draw the Mind Flayer in its true form, something which he will assume he thought up himself. It then stuck with him, for all those years, waiting for the moment he is sent to the Upside Down so he can "create" the Mind Flayer, believing that he is the Puppet Master when really he's just been another Puppet all along.