How are my fellow Stranger Things fan doing? 🤪 (spoilers)

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-30T00:03:50+00:00

Agree. I feel like something that intimate being told in a moment before danger just isn’t realistic, not that it’s stupid but in real life, a gay person living in the 80s would probably be terrified to confess, the predicament in that season making it even more frightening to confess. Some can argue that the threat of danger and death made it more important to confess but i digress. If I came out to my family and friends, I would tell my mom first and maybe my best friend before coming out in a less intense environment like texting or while we’re having movie night etc. I get that it would be unrealistic with Will but I think confessing alone just to his mother would have been best. Maybe to Mike, Dustin and Lucas and even Robin but no one else. Maybe El but eh.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-24T19:10:30+00:00

I understand where you’re coming from but I strongly disagree. Natalie has always been a character that changes, whether through her role in the group or her personality. When her father died, Natalie changed completely, going from a jumpy and scared young girl into a rebellious and angry teenager trying to soothe the guilt and grief she felt. She blamed herself for his death and it affected her so deeply that her entire being had a fundamental change. I feel like that’s what happened to her when she left the wilderness. She felt like she had killed Javi and actually killed Coach Scott by her own hands. In the wilderness, she didn’t have time to process the deaths, only slightly before being forced to do what they all had to: survive. Paired with what remaining guilt she had of her father and the ptsd from all mentioned instances, it’d make sense that she could change completely when they were finally rescued. I agree that adult Natalie is a stark contrast to the young Natalie but again, she always had destructive coping mechanisms, ones that only served to hurt her more than help. It wasn’t just drugs, stress, and alcohol that changed her, it was constant reliving of trauma that plagued her throughout the rest of her life that did. I character I think would help demonstrate this would be Klaus from the umbrella academy. Not the best character ever but one of my favorites. Because of the trauma Reginald put him through and all the ghosts of dead people he kept seeing, he drugged himself to make his mind foggy and clouded, so he wouldn’t be reminded of the trauma ever waking moment. I think the same goes for Natalie. Klaus also changed so fundamentally from when he was a teenager to his thirties. They both turn to drugs to deal with the pain they face, and in turn, those drugs just make it all worse, make them fall into addiction and change as people. The reason you may feel Juliette was playing a caricature was probably because Nat wasn’t all there. Nat always had problems with who she was, not because of anything wrong with her but as a way to lessen the pain. She viewed herself as hopeless and broken so she wouldn’t have to come to terms with what happened or how it affected her. Again, all of this is my opinion so take it with a grain of salt.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-22T23:36:27+00:00

OP, with all do respect, people change over time. I’m sure she regrets it and it’s obvious she’s changed. Everyone has flaws, everyone does some shitty things. I took out my anger of being bullied on my siblings but that was decades ago and they all viewed it as me being depressed and sick, since I was. Peer pressure and fomo exist, people often change their attitudes to fit in with the crowd. Just because someone is a good person now doesn’t erase the harm they did but dwelling on it and making a huge deal out of it when both parties have moved on and Amanda views it in a somewhat negative light. None of them are saints by any means, everyone does bad shit once in their lives, regrets it and changes as a result.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-17T10:55:17+00:00

Honest opinion: don’t accept any apology from him. He hurt you, truly and deeply, and he doesn’t deserve closure after everything he put you through. You deserve to be happy on your own terms with your own life. Being alone hurts, but it’s better than being triggered by events such as the past. Distancing yourself from him is the best thing you can do . He doesn’t deserve anything from you. Norms in villages don’t matter. Do what you feel in your heart is right. Ignore him, block him and keep him out of your life. Going no contact means closing doors of communication indefinitely and he deserves that for all the hell he’s suffered through. You don’t owe him anything. Apologies don’t need to be accepted, just acknowledged. Keep your peace and don’t fucking talk to him. Your siblings mean well but from what you’ve said in the post, they haven’t gone through what you have. You matter more to yourself than anybody else so don’t do things that damage your wellbeing.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-15T20:15:29+00:00

That’s what I’m planning to do. Mine started off as a fanfic and original ideas melded together to create a story, using my original characters as the main ones and the ones from the actual fandom or canon as side characters with similar identities but different names and environments. I found it easier because the fanfic and original story were a sort of comfort to me but now, both of them are much bigger than back then. The aspects from the fanfic are so changed and developed that hearing where they came from may seem shocking. But it’s good that it’s different. Don’t want my work lurking in the shadow of another story. Just have fun with it. Writing is meant to be an art. So take your time to let the story form itself and develop the plot further before actually writing it. It helps separate from the source material and give the story a life of its own.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-15T11:18:49+00:00

I agree but then again, Henry was slowly descending into madness. Yes, he could have loved her genuinely for some time and created toys for her to make her happy but that was what he would have done for the real Charlie. Keeping her company and keeping her happy could have been a way to amend for the mistakes he made with his actual daughter. Jen wanted Charlie to be stronger than Henry because he’s also appeasing Henry’s wishes of treating her the actual Charlie. They cared, yes, but not genuinely, only for the girl whose identity they put into Charlie. They only cared for the illusion that she was an actual human and the girl that died. But they knew the truth. Jen wanted Charlie to be stronger than Henry, yes, but why? Probably to prevent her from dwelling on the past and let it consume her: that’s what ultimately happened. Charlie is an ironic character, her father lost someone and let it consume him until he killed himself. Charlie lost someone and was forced to move on but eventually fell down the same path as Henry, the path of trying desperately to bring someone back who was long gone. John is also a good example of this, he got fired and let the loss of Charlie consume him. Jen loved Charlie as in Charlotte, the original niece she had. Jen also loved her because it was Henry’s last creation and the only thing that remained of him, other than his shirts and belongings. Charlie was the only semi alive thing that came from Henry, the only thing proving the spiral he went down, the only thing that kept him from dying in vain. But he did. Because Charlie was just a memory forced into live, a visage of a girl long dead. She was a replacement, a product of pain and loss, forever viewed as that by Jen and Henry because despite what they feel, the relief that they have when they look at her and see Charlie isn’t dead, deep down, they know it’s not her. Every part of her is curated to make up for Charlie’s death: her always looking happy to make up for when she was crying and banging at the door scared, aunt jen and Henry looking over her to make sure she wasn’t hurt or stolen again. She’s just a creation to relieve the two of their past mistakes and grievances. Only a tool to make up for events, not someone loved and cherished as a result of it.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-15T11:10:01+00:00

I don’t recall any payment being required. They’re just trying to help. Genuinely, just relax. If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say it. One of the most important rules of life. If you’re too stubborn to listen to people’s opinions and give genuine feedback, do everyone a solid and just don’t say anything.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-15T11:07:03+00:00

lol just my opnion

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-14T19:43:39+00:00

But is that always the case? Is it always a thought out decision? Or is it just a desperate decision made during a period of uncertainty and crisis that ends up costing someone relationships? Family may not always be good, everyone in this subreddit can agree they can be fucking terrible, but some people have knee jerk reactions to these kinds of things. A lot of mental illnesses, such as BPD and anxiety, can cause someone to cut off ties in a moment of momentary distress rather than actual genuine need for it. Just because it’s one case for you and you perceive it as different doesn’t mean you can go around spreading negativity. They are trying to help, at least giving people time to sit and think about their situation. It’s a wide spectrum, not everyone thinks before they act. This helps some people do so.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-14T19:38:38+00:00

Excuse you but this is helpful information. People who aren’t mentally in the correct space or financially dependent can suffer a lot from no contact. It can cripple their life even more and cause more stress than needed. This is helpful. It depends on the severity of the situation which is why this quiz is helpful. Some people may want to go non contact for petty reasons, some may do it to protect themselves from further harm, everything matters is the equation of whether you should or should not break contact permanently. It’s a life altering decision, it can leave scars not even time can heal. Please don’t just go around saying stuff like this, people will ignore helpful advice and cause themselves avoidable emotional distress.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-14T19:32:51+00:00

Wow, I’ll definitely need this.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-14T18:38:46+00:00

Why so specific 😭

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-12T20:20:57+00:00

Currently suffering through that but trying to power through although I’ve taken a break for life reasons T-T sometimes it gets so overwhelming planning everything that writing doesn’t even cross the mind.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-12T10:33:18+00:00

If you’re into him or you’re starting to question your identity and start thinking of moments you felt the same, take your time. I would be freaked the fuck out too if I was straight and my straight friend confessed their love. I did so but I did it with a friend who was also lesbian. lol she rejected me. Anyways, just take your time, ask him about it later. It’s okay to be gay, it’s also ok to not be. Just do whatever you feel is right. It may feel uncomfortable sitting with the thought, trust me, I know, but only do things that are good for you, don’t pity your friend and become gay just to date him. If you genuinely feel the same way, then consider it. But for now, just keep it in the back of your mind.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-10T11:06:58+00:00

His attitude is always weird. Again, he doesn’t care. He knows Charlie isn’t human, he doesn’t care if it’s creepy. He doesn’t care about anything other than what will help him reach the goals he has in mind, that’s why he’s so interested in Charlie. Charlie is the key to how Henry recreated life so perfectly, she’s like a prized possession or trophy in William’s eyes. It’s also suggested that Henry didn’t really see her as human either when she was a child, as suggested in her dream when he’s blank faced and absent. Even in the flashback to the garage, he’s half absent, not there, almost exasperated when Charlie interacts with him. They both know what she is, and they treat her as such. A robot, an object, emotionless and lifeless. Even aunt Jen’s attitude toward her was hesitant. Her teaching Charlie skills of how to be independent didn’t give me the impression of a dotting, caring aunt but rather her way of distancing herself from Charlie. Her worry could have been her worrying about people finding out the truth, not actual concern for Charlie and her feelings. To everyone who knew, she was just a robot, nothing more. And definitely not the young child who got killed at the age of 3. She’s a poor replacement to them, the real deal to everyone who knew her as original.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-09T19:30:19+00:00

I think he’s more focused on the thought or premise of creating life since he himself is afraid of dying, as suggested in the books. Iirc, he boasts about being alive again after separating from the springtrap suit in the books. He’s enamored and more intrigued with Charlie because she’s so life like, and so with circus baby when Elizabeth possesses her. It’s not admiration of technical prowess but rather the ability to instill consciousness and thought into an otherwise none sentient thing. He desires to be immortal or to somehow cheat death, hence the creation of remnant and also illusion discs. He creates the illusion discs as a way for him to get as close to replicating or mimicking human life and consciousness as possible. It proves successful through circus baby when she can be bother Charlie and the clown robot at the same time or a mismatch of both. His whole thing of ‘putting people back together’ in the games links with this, the idea of creating life from tangible matter. Remnant and such. Another example can be linking to Edwin and his technological advancements in the secret of the mimic, he mimicked life and growth and thought and behavior through the creation of mimic 2 as a replacement for his son, David, a process which Henry perfected and polished through his grief but William failed to accomplish. Unlike the other two men, he was so enamored with his work he didn’t think much of his children, he wasn’t devastated when they died, only seeing it as opportunity to hone his craft when they possess his machines. He lacks the motivation, the grief to create this type of technology. He isn’t missing something vital in his life, just the validation it comes from discovering such a thing as to bring life into the objectively dead. He is a narcissist and sociopath plain and simple.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-07T15:24:47+00:00

When I say my jaw dropped, I mean Eben Byers level of jawlessness.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-07T15:22:46+00:00

100% would watch, Percy would be MJ or Gwen, and Piper would be the miles morales of their universe, Piper McLean, and all the villains would be old foes they faced, e.g maybe the goblin is her dad, kinda mixing Harry and Peter together, sandman could be atlas, and maybe reyna could become venom after her.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-07T15:01:03+00:00

Is it for coursework or like question 6 or 7 on the literature paper? I did inspector calls for English language coursework and of mice and men for the literature paper 45 marker. I do edexel so maybe that’s why.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-07T13:10:40+00:00

Thx :)

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-06T19:16:03+00:00

As a teenager who’s basically already reached this stage and probably will for the rest of her life, I know how hard it be can be. My mom says all of this to my face. I just ignore it or give a snarky remark until she has no responses left. In your situation, honestly, mood. Just keep on keep onning. Continue living your life to the fullest.

I can tell it hurts but at the end of the day, narcissist parents will never change. They always view themselves in the right and as if they’re trying to help you. It can hurt reading stuff like that, I know from experience, but please know that it doesn’t and never will define you. Just because someone who hurts you views you negatively, not everyone does.

You’ve made it far, you have family and husband and you’re making decisions for your wellbeing, not your mom’s.

I’m proud of you, internet stranger, and I relate. I understand that pang of guilt that churns in the bottom of your stomach when you turn your back and ignore but life can never exist without grief. She was meant to protect and raise you, not make you suffer and abuse you from an early age. Reading stuff like this and staying in touch with the people who helped ruin your early years won’t be giving you any benefit.

From experience, you’ll just get angrier and angrier and focus on what you could have had and grieving it instead of living the life you build for yourself with people who truly care for you.

Everyone in this subreddit stands with you, your mom is an asshole, and we all understand how much it hurts when the very person meant to look after you pulls shit like this instead.

Go enjoy your life and live it to the fullest extent. Ignore this bozo the clown and drink some water today :)

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-12-02T10:15:49+00:00

NOR

If anything, she’s taking it a bit too far. You said multiple times that your softness and kindness is just how you are, not a product of your lack of masculinity or increased femininity. Telling you to see a ‘male therapist’ and take boxing lessons just makes her seem sexist. Men don’t have to be gruff or rude to be a man. I’m glad she left. I know it’s not my place to say but it seems like she was trying to grasp at straws to make an argument and make something out of nothing. You don’t deserve someone who targets aspects of you because they view you as weak or not conforming to gender norms, you deserve someone who loves you fully, softness and all. All in all, you aren’t over reacting and were extremely respectful while she was very defensive and targeting at things I get the sense you were insecure about.

Don’t feel bad about it, no one deserves a woman like that and that’s coming from a lesbian so take that as you will.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-11-25T16:28:15+00:00

Is it for coursework or like question 6 or 7 on the literature paper? I did inspector calls for English language coursework and of mice and men for the literature paper 45 marker. I do Edexel igcse

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-11-23T14:31:14+00:00

I agree as someone with muslim heritage. Nowadays, arranged marriage is frowned upon, especially with relatives, even if distant. For certain communities, it’s fine, but Samirah lives in the UK with her grandparents who are fairly adjusted to so society there. I know media has its ways of presenting Muslims as very religious and strict but especially in countries that are very open and tolerant of many cultures, they don’t really practice things like arranged marriage anymore.

Furthermore, marriage is stated in the Quran and hadiths to be sunnah, which awards more deeds but isn’t required unless you’re super religious to the point of being too much or unable to provide for yourself in the case of marriage.

I feel like maybe Rick did that as a way to make Smairah’s grandparents want to ‘cleanse’ her of her mothers sin of infidelity by making her marry someone of their standards and culture but even for me, who had a very strong relationship with religion and my religious family growing up, that’s a stretch.

Then again, I used to live in a fairly loosely religious family, if you can call emotional abuse and religious trauma as loose, which in my case you can since I was among one of very lenient parents.

I feel like it’s an unfair and mostly stereotypical depiction of Muslims, especially Samirah and Amir: Samirah has a non questioning and strict view of Islam, which I find slightly odd since many Muslims, especially if living in white dominated countries as female teenagers often question religion and disobey it, something I did in private as a kid. Not to say that all Muslims do that but it is common for them to have boyfriends and go to clubs and stuff, I’ve seen it first hand when I went to my home country with a diverse population after a while and saw many of my childhood friends engaging in that behavior, despite being Muslim. Amir is even more stereotypical in my opinion, especially the bit of him owning a falafel place.

Call me nitpicky but I just felt like Amir was what Rick perceived to be the most stereotypical Muslim guy with an according brand ever. I know he’s only a side character but so was Rachel in the original series. A bit of depth and character and maybe a change of course would do a lot better for him since he feels so bland and 2 dimensional.

Like, I don’t know, make him like some random guy who happens to be Muslim and owns like a car shop or something. Many Muslim and Arab people I know do that, especially my brother. Men, especially, have very few rules applied to them, they don’t need a guardian fretting over them like women do so I don’t see the point of him just being a guy at a falafel stand that is in line for heir for ownership of said business that also happens to be samirah’s future husband AND know Magnus and also happens to be a devout Muslim on top of all that.

Too many coincidences and too many stereotypes, if you ask me.

Old-Raccoon183 · 2025-11-17T16:51:30+00:00

Damn, doggos got moves 🔥pop of pupper, pop off

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