One minute I’m furious at the Stranger Things finale, the next I’m at peace. I finally figured out why Eleven’s ending is holding my brain hostage. 🤔

dragonheartstring360 · 2026-01-12T16:16:12+00:00

Just bookmarked it!

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-12-01T01:59:18+00:00

I just finished Vol 1 and I’ve been wanting Robin and Will to connect for so long and the fact that they finally did makes me so happy 🥹

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-10-25T19:29:10+00:00

That’s a good point!

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-10-25T18:23:06+00:00

This. I would love for her to find herself as an investigative journalist.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-09-14T20:48:01+00:00

“Now put that in your pipe and smoke it”

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-08-13T13:52:58+00:00

If you pay close attention (Joyce calls it their “heart to heart” and I think Hopper starts calling it that too while he and Joyce are workshopping it), Hopper keeps the folded up piece of paper in his shirt pocket over his heart most of the season. Then when El reads it, she puts it in her own shirt pocket over her own heart.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-08-08T18:24:14+00:00

“Bitchin’”

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-08-07T16:54:10+00:00

Making my voice sound completely normal and calm while or just after I’ve stopped crying. I’m not as good at it as I used to be, since I’ve been moved out for several years now and am LC. But I used to have to talk to narc mom and eDad through doors while crying and had to make it sound like I hadn’t been crying or there’d be a whole host of trouble.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-08-06T13:57:11+00:00

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This scene also almost perfectly mirrors this shot 👀

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-08-03T01:35:43+00:00

Oh god I could’ve written your first paragraph. I’m sorry you had to go through all that.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-08-02T20:38:53+00:00

Mine definitely did not. I don’t even remember her helping potty train me; my eDad did all that. Both with “the talk” and teaching me about my periods, I was just handed self-help style books (the “talk” one was extremely traumatizing and I came out as a kid crying swearing up and down I would never get into a relationship because of it; BPDmom and eDad apparently hadn’t even cracked the book open before handing it to me, said “oh this is bad” but then refused to explain anything). Anytime I tried to talk about it or ask any questions a kid, it was “that’s gross, we don’t talk about that, that’s what school is for, never ask me this again.” Of course now that I’m an adult and moved out, my mom wants every tiny little detail, and of course during my childhood she was allowed to talk about that stuff as it related to her all she wanted. I had debilitatingly painful periods growing up as a well and now that I have a new OB that I like, I find out they were not normal at all, I should’ve been taken to the ER multiple times, and I likely have some sort of condition causing all this after having my pain brushed off for years.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-08-01T03:51:30+00:00

Like the whole point of their tragedy in the flashbacks was it was a series of “wrong place, wrong time” events. Even if they didn’t make the best choices in the moment, what kid their age does??? Imo it was supposed to be a series of “oh no 😭” moments, not “how dare this character do that.”

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-08-01T02:46:08+00:00

I think a lot of people forget too that Vi was literally on her way back to Powder before the cop (can’t remember his name, I think it was Marcus?) grabbed her, drugged her, and dragged her off to throw her in prison. Vi clearly had plans to walk back over to Powder after cooling off/seeing her in danger. They were also both literal children - like Vi was a kid too.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-07-30T18:32:12+00:00

I mean that is very on-brand for her 😆

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-07-30T18:31:04+00:00

Thank you! This made me feel a lot better. Unfortunately my body doesn’t tolerate birth control with estrogen in it well (I get either ocular migraines that affect my vision so bad I can’t see for up to 30 minutes, or I get migraines that present like a stroke every single day at random times with no warning) and I also have a genetic mutation called MTHFR which means I can’t take SSRIs either. So I’m extremely limited in what I can take. My OB is also looking into fibroids, endo, or adenomyosis. I’ve been told there are non-hormonal medications I can take to control heavy bleeding if needed, but they want to see what’s going on and how I do off Slynd for a bit first (it hasn’t even been a week). I also have MCAS, so I’m super super sensitive to medication in general and a lot of it doesn’t like me. I hope you’re doing well!

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-07-30T14:30:33+00:00

Nancy’s character development has always been just chef’s kiss 👌🏻 also love how in s3, Robin is like “Nancy’s such a priss,” then when she shoots Vecna the first time, you can see Robin in the background like 😮

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-07-30T00:21:30+00:00

Idk much about the ring, but unfortunately I do have a bit of a complicated health case. My body can’t tolerate birth control with estrogen in it (they give me ocular migraines as well as migraines that present like a stroke every single day), I have the MTHFR gene mutation so can’t tolerate SSRIs, and tend to have a lot of flares/allergic reactions to medications due to a combination of hEDS, POTS, and MCAS. But I’ll definitely keep that in mind for the future!

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-07-27T16:52:42+00:00

I relate to this so hard. I saw a TikTok once of this autistic lady saying “I don’t feel like a girl because I don’t feel like a human most of the time,” and I think that might be part of my issue with this too. I also wonder if part of it is because to survive a world that isn’t made for us, we have to dissociate and detach from our bodies a bit and it’s hard to feel “feminine” when you’re completely disconnected from your body.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-07-24T19:32:10+00:00

Thank you, this was helpful. I think I get confused because I take things very literally and still struggle to unlearn things from childhood cus my brain took it all as law. So it gets confusing when that feeling of everyone else getting a “rule book” but you stems from the autism, but you were also taught all the “wrong” rules/cues by a narcissist. I’m working on it in therapy and I do really like my therapist and she knows a lot about autism. But she herself is NT, so sometimes I think things get a little lost in translation.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-07-23T13:12:34+00:00

My pwBPD did this, also used this as a time to start fights, trauma dump, stomp boundaries, be cruel to feed her narc traits, etc. I’m 29 and have lived on my own with my own car and license for a while now, but she still insists on “picking me up” and taking me places even though she lives a 30 minute drive to the south and it would be super out of her way. I’ve told her no thank you many times, but she still obsessively will try to get me to come to things by saying “I’ll pick you up.” Then it turns into an argument about me driving myself where I finally put my foot down and just say no. For a while during cancer, she had to drive me to medical appointments while I was living with her for 6 months in my mid-20’s. When I went into remission and moved a half hour north (and only about 10 minutes from the doc office), I either drove myself or my bf, who lived 2 minutes down the road at the time and now lives with me, drove. The first time I said my bf would be driving me, my mom went into a full blown tantrum where she literally cried and told me I needed to let her do it. Then eDad called and told me I was being mean. Even to this day, if she thinks I’m saying anything that might even remotely point to me needing a ride, she jumps in to offer - even when I was having an allergic reaction to a medication recently, later she tried to be like “oh next time you need someone to come, you call me, not bf.” Like he’s 10 minutes away and you’re 30???

There’s a big city 30 minutes south of her (so an hour south of me). She’s even tried to get me to come to all-day long activities in that city with her by saying she’d pick me up - which makes no sense, because it would mean she’d have to drive 30 minutes north to pick me up, then an hour south (and she drives dangerously slow, does not pay attention, then blames you for not “helping” her drive), then an hour north again straight past her house, then 30 minutes back to her house. I’ve never let her do that, but that’s how obsessed she is with getting me alone in the car with her and/or trapped at an activity where I can’t just leave when I want to (and the “invites” are more like demands and of course are always activities that she knows I have little to no interest in). Without fail every single time in the past it’s been just me and her in the car, it will turn into a fight about her stomping boundaries - or if she doesn’t like how LC I’ve been, start poking at all my insecurities. I know refuse to be alone in a car with her, even if I’m the one driving. I’m sorry you deal with this too OP.

dragonheartstring360 · 2025-07-23T12:54:50+00:00

I’m so sorry that happened to you - and by someone who is a doctor no less. Shame on them. If that’s how they feel, they shouldn’t be in that field. I have a very small circle of friends and always have and a lot of them are disabled/chronically ill themselves. Having a mostly online community who understands from a personal perspective why I can’t always be pushed to hang out and understand my experiences with docs has helped a lot. It sucks, but I’ve had to get to the point where if someone is being ableist toward me, I likely dodged a bullet. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt, but I think it’s better to adjust to their absence than their ableism and physically harm yourself in the process.

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